Part 2: A Halloween Special!
Hanna's Halloween adventure continues...
Another week closer to Halloween!
Personally, I love Halloween. I hope this series is helping people to get into the spooky spirit. 🎃
Here’s the full Princess Hanna series:
Also, I wanted to take a moment to send a massive thank you to those who have pledged support to Story Whale. It is deeply appreciated and makes me excited for the future. Would love to one day write bonus posts for paid subscribers. Make no mistake, Story Whale is still very much not monetising for the time being.
Anyway, thank you!
Now, please enjoy today’s new chapter!
There was Carrie in her new toilet paper mummy costume and Michael in his green paint zombie costume. Next was Hanna.
“So dragons dress up as things that are scary for Halloween, right?” Carrie asked Michael.
“Yep, the spookier the better,” said Michael.
“My idea for Hanna works then!” said Carrie. “A scarecrow!”
“You’re kidding…” said Hanna.
Michael was confused.
“What’s a scarecrow?”
“You use scarecrows to scare away birds from a farm,” said Carrie. “It’s like a dragon that you make out of straw and put out in the middle of your crops. The birds are terrified of them.”
“And so am I,” said Hanna.
“I love it!” said Michael. “How do we do it?”
“First thing we need is a straw hat,” said Carrie.
They went back to Michael’s house and his dad fortunately had a broad-brimmed straw hat that would work perfectly. Next on the list was the hay… and lots of it.
Michael had an aunty who ran a farm just outside of Scale City. They quickly made their way there, Michael and Carrie buzzing with excitement. Hanna, not so much… the Halloween spirit not quite grabbing her just yet.
Flying out of the city to the farm, it was a hot sunny day. Loose little bits of the toilet paper covering Carrie flip-flapped in the wind as she flew.
They made it to Michael’s auntie’s farm. It was a nice farm with a family of cows and horses chewing grass in the paddock. Michael led the way straight to the barn.
They opened the barn and went inside. There was the big pile of hay they needed. Except there was an issue…
“How are we going to get the hay to stick to Hanna?” Michael asked.
Michael and Carrie thought it over. Hanna, however, would have been more than happy for the plan to fail anyway.
“Honey!” said Carrie suddenly. “Do you have any honey?”
Michael lit up. He ran into the house and looked through the pantry for some honey. He found a jar of it and rushed back to the barn.
Michael handed the jar of honey to Hanna who just looked at it.
“Yuck!” said Hanna. “No way!”
Carrie pulled a sad puppy dog face.
“Please, Hanna,” she said.
Hanna rolled her eyes. She instantly knew she was going to cave.
Carrie and Michael had to fight hard to hold back their laughter as Hanna poured the jar of honey over her own head. There were tears of joy in Carrie’s eyes. Hanna wasn’t looking quite as happy. She looked like a very upset dragon.
Once Hanna was properly covered from head to toe in honey, it was time for the next step. She put down the jar of honey and turned to face the pile of hay. She took a big breath and then she jumped into the hay. She rolled around and burrowed her way into the hay like a squirrel in a pile of leaves. Hanna was the type of dragon who believed in the old saying, if you’re going to do something then you had better properly go for it. And she was sure going for it, burrowing deep. As she rolled around, her tail or foot would occasionally pop out from the hay.
Finally, the squirming stopped and Hanna’s head popped out from the pile of hay like a gopher popping up its head from a burrow. She looked like the saddest scarecrow in the whole world.
Now Michael and Carrie were really being tested, having to do everything in their power to keep from laughing.
Carrie stepped forward with the straw hat and placed it on Hanna’s head. Hanna really looked the part now. Carrie’s idea had worked perfectly.
A big frown on Hanna’s face, Carrie and Michael couldn’t hold it in any longer and finally burst out cackling. Even Hanna saw the funny side as a little half-smile slipped through her frown.
“Well look at you three!”
It was Michael’s auntie who had just walked into the barn.
“You all look fantastic!” she said.
“This is my auntie Mary,” said Michael. “Auntie Mary, this is Hanna and Carrie.”
“I love your costumes,” she said.
She then noticed the empty jar of honey on the ground.
“Is that my honey?”
*
It was still a while until the sun began to set and the true Halloween festivities kicked off.
It turned out that Michael’s auntie Mary had a pumpkin patch on her farm. She told the three young dragons that they could take a pumpkin each for carving.
Michael, Hanna and Carrie went straight to the pumpkin patch and picked out their pumpkins. They then took their pumpkins and sat down in the farm paddock with the cows and the horses.
Michael showed Hanna and Carrie how to scoop out the middle of the pumpkin. The cows were hanging around nearby for the scraps.
Using their claws, they started to carve their pumpkins into faces.
Covered in green paint that was getting dryer by the second, Michael couldn’t help but start to feel itchy.
Wrapped up in toilet paper, Carrie was in a similar boat of building discomfort. She was starting to feel hot under all of those layers of toilet paper.
And Hanna was the most uncomfortable of all, covered in hay and honey, scratching and itching already.
Michael gave his pumpkin a giant grin. Carrie gave her pumpkin cheeky eyes. Hanna gave her pumpkin sharp shark teeth and a scary expression.
While they were on the farm, Michael’s auntie made them some pumpkin pie.
Eventually, as time went on, the sky became pumpkin-y too.
It was Halloween time.