Ashley and Red werenât at all unfamiliar with traveling to different worlds. The Demon Realms, the Paranormal Trade and Merchant Square, that disgustingly sweet Ice Cream Land...dimensional travel was something the pair was fairly familiar with, certainly among Diamond Cityâs residents. Even so, the arrival in Halloweentown felt particularly dizzying. The hard impact of her feet against the ground made Ashley stumble a bit, and Red was unlucky enough to hit the dirt and roll a couple feet.
âMmmrrrph...â Red pulled his face up, spitting out a bit of the ground heâd accidentally chewed up. A quick couple shakes of his head and he was able to get up to the ground, surveying the scenery as Ashley was. Skewed, stony architecture, a full moon shining through the clouds in a pitch black sky...this was the place alright. A foreign land that was so familiar, the very site from which the only holiday Ashley had celebrated for so long originated.
âTh-they sure go all in on the aesthetics here, huh?â Red commented before his head turned to the ground. A quick look down to his hands and body...exactly the same as before.  âHuh, go figure. I guess Iâm already a kinda Halloween creature. Pretty weird how this place works, huh Ash-â
The imp suddenly jumped back in the air, catching himself with a quick flap of his wings to remain aloft. âA-Ashley! Youâre...youâre...!â
It was the rules of the invitation. All who would accept would arrive and be changed, transfigured into a form befitting a native resident of Halloweentown- the only way to really be accepted and guaranteed safety. And as Red looked upon Ashley, whose eyes were on her own form, he would find that his best friend...
Was also exactly as she had been when they had departed.
âYouâre fine!â he finished, flapping on over to her with a smile.  âI dunno whether itâs the magic of this place or something else that changed everyone else, but it must think you didnât need to be changed! You fit right in here!â
Even as he spoke, Ashley parsed what he was saying. She was human... plenty of other humans had turned up here and been transformed, by the looks of it. But she wasnât simply human, was she? She was a witch. A witch who loved Halloween. A witch who had been prepared to travel to the home town of her favorite holiday and become like one of the locals. A witch who had just been told that she was already witchy enough to fit right into Halloweentown, exactly as she did in Diamond City.
And as this thought came to her mind, so, too, did a smile spread across her face.
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