The Starlit Festival

The Starlit Festival...

Chapter One
The Starlight Festival was beginning.. Something was wrong. Clocks were ticking faster. The ghost stories were seeming to come true.. What was happening?

Applecider was happily prancing down the streets of the Starlight Festival. It seemed to be very peaceful. Not as many animals were out at last time.. Why was it? He shook away the thought.

"Hey, Apple!" Said his friend jumping in front of him.

Applecider looked down to see Jack holding a watermelon hollowed out with a star carved into it.

"Did you carve your watermelon? I can help!"

He shook his head. "Jack, it's the Starlight Festival it's too late to carve a watermelon!"

Jack scoffed at his reply as though it made no sense.

"You can always carve a watermelon! Besides you said that this year you were making a Greely standing by a star!"

Applecider flattened his ears stubbornly.

"Why do all arctic wolves act this way? They're all so lazy!" Jack hopped away.

''Dumb rabbit.. ''He scolded Jack in his mind.

He continued to walk down the streets looking at all the fun costumes that seemed to inhabit this place. There was a Greely, Apollo, a bunny dressed up as a monkey, a lavender costume.., a giant star costume... There were too many to count. He smiled ecstatically. There was way better costumes than last year! He started to feel bad he hadn't dressed up, but he tried to brighten himself up by playing catch the rabbit. Jack was in there trying to catch his friend Lilly. ''Hmmph, I'm not going in there! ''Applecider turned away sassily and tried to follow out the path. It seemed to wind out forever.. Didn't he see that tree covered in streamers already? Things were starting to get a little weird..

"Hey," said Lilly and Jack passing by.

Jack smiled at him. ''Strange.. Jack doesn't usually drop the arguments. ''

Applecider watched in confusion trying to think of why this is... Maybe he just forgot? Jack really does have a bad memory, but it isn't just him to forget an argument that happened literally like two seconds ago. [[File:Wolfpixel_by_ailour-dbf6coh.gif|thumb|left|92px|Applecider's look

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The sounds of bells chimed nearby as the same house he walked by a minute ago's bells were being blown gently in the wind giving off their pleasant chime.

Apple sighed as he couldn't figure out ''why. ''He really wanted to know what was happening. It could all just be a dream? He tried raking his claws on his leg to find out.

Ouch!

Not a dream...

This was all so very confusing. If it wasn't a dream... What was happening? He had lingered on this subject for too long, he had to start searching for clues. But he wasn't a detective, he wasn't good at really ''anything! ''How could he actually find any clues without any skills. He needed skill in order to even find a single clue.

Suddenly he heard screaming as the carved watermelon's lights blew out as gusts of wind blew by. the sky turned to a jet black colour with pale, purple clouds.

He felt the sudden instinct to run away... It was what you felt when phantoms were near.

''No! Phantoms were kept away in the portal Greely made centries ago! They couldn't have escaped.. But Greely is so mysterious, what if he was really bad? No! Greely is an alpha, he is NOT bad!''

Why was this happening in the beginning of the two week long Starlit Festival? Surely, nothing is wrong. But if nothing was wrogn why were there terrified screams of jammers echoing from Jamaa's statue of the alphas which were sculpted later on around Mira...

Greely kept the portal to the phantom's world from underneath Mira's stone talons.

"Oh, no..."

Applecider whispered as he realized phantoms really were here. Wait... If they are here then why isn't he running? Why was he spending so much time thinking about this, now the phantoms might by right by his tail!

He began to run as fast as he could. Not running.. Sprinting. He felt the nice crisp breeze within his fur as he ran about, the instinct to run away darted from his legs to his back. The phantoms were right behind him and if he looked behind himself he might just die..

Since the age of when Mira stood alone phantoms had evolved with more types to kill jammers. There were three different types since. Applecider darted into a bush as luckily the phantoms with their terrible eyesight trampled right by him chasing... Jack!
 * 1) The death stare - The death stare phantoms are one of the deadliest. They gave birth to the myth of medusa as if you look into their eye you will become paralyzed. As you are paralyzed it gives the phantom enough time to eat you whole. They are a pale purple with millions of tangles of wispy arms just above their eye.
 * 2) Satan - Named after Satan himself, this particular phantom is known for their strength and cleverness. They are the brain of all phantoms as they come up with master plans to do whatever phantoms are planning to do these days.
 * 3) Youtube - This phantom created Youtube which many Jammers use and is frowned upon by the alphas although Greely encourages it. This phantom is in the unusual shape of a triangle and has no useful powers other than controlling youtube... It is unknown if they control electricity.