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Bambi was excited as she stared out her window at the full moon. This was going to be the best Halloween ever! Finally her mom was allowing her to go trick or treating alone with her friends! She was 15 after all! It’s about time!

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She glanced over at her closet and chuckled to herself. This is the perfect costume! It is going to scare everyone. At least mom is letting me pick out my own costume too. Finally I get to be Little Red Riding Bunny my way! None of this cutesy stuff any more. Espresso and Basil Brianberry aren’t going to know what hit them when they show up.

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“Bambi! Dinner!”

“Awww, mom! Do I have to have dinner? I’m going to get so much good stuff tonight…”

“Yes, Bambi. Now sit down and eat your veggies like a good girl.”

A heaping plate of steamed vegetables were presented in front pf Bambi much to her dismay.

DING DONG

“Yay! Espresso and Basil Brianberry are here! Let me get in costume and answer the door!”

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“Hey guys! How goes it! Wait a second, where are your costumes?”

The 2 friends stood at Bambi’s door.

“I’m going as a big black void.” Replied Espresso.

“Teehee!” giggled Basil Brianberry. “I’m going as the bane of my teacher’s existence.”

“You guys are so lazy!” sighed Bambi. “Let’s go get candy!”

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“Do you see that in the distance? The weird shimmery light thing?”

“I wonder what it is…”

The group approached it not knowing and suddenly…

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POOF!
“Where are we?!?!”

“Look at the sky! It’s dancing!” exclaimed Basil Brianberry

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“Is anyone else feeling a little cold?” asked Espresso.

“Well if you had worn a costume you would have been fine.” Replied Bambi. “Let’s go explore this place it looks kind of neat. I think I see something in the distance.”

“Sounds better than standing here. I swear I can hear the sky.” Said Basil Brianberry

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The friends carefully climbed over the snow and ice.

“Look! In the distance! In the water…or I think it is in the water still. I think I see a ship! A real ocean going ship!” Bambi was giddy. “We so need to check this out!”

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As they got closer things got a little spookier. There were piles of bones around and it appeared as if this ship had been abandoned.

“I am not so certain about this Bambi. This looks a little creepy.”

“What are you, a chicken? I thought you were a big black void?”

“Fine! But if anything happens I am holding you responsible!”

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Being bunnies Bambi and Espresso were able to make their way onto this ship to start exploring quite readily. This left poor Basil Brianberry to find their own way to scramble aboard the wreck.

“Do you really think this is safe Bambi?” asked Basil Brianberry.

“Of course! This ship is long abandoned. Let’s have some fun.”

“But it looks so easy to get hurt. It could fall apart at any moment!” stated Espresso.

“WHO GOES THERE?” boomed a bold voice.

“WHA?!?!” they all stuttered.

Out waddled the strangest penguin they had all ever seen.

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“Who are you?

“What are you?

“We are sorry we thought this place was abandoned!”

The three friends were talking over one another in fear seeing this newfound critter appear. They did not know what to make of it.

Part penguin. Part skeleton. 100% frightening.

“Are you all here to be my friends?”

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“What?!? You don’t want to eat us?” asked a dumbfounded Espresso.

“Me? Eat you? Gosh no! I prefer fish and krill when I can get it but the weather here is so tempermental it can be tough some seasons. Hence why I am so thin.”

The friends looked at the newcomer dumbfoundedly…

“I’m joshing with you….really I am but a figment of your imagination, a ghost, a skeleton, a spirit! A random being if you might.”

The friends looked at one another.

“Ack! You all look too nice. Look don’t worry. I have not had a meal in years. You are safe. What do you say we go explore this area and meet some of my friends since you are here and you can tell me how you even came to be here. I’m Skelly by the way.”

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With Skelly leading the way the friends headed back into the cold.

“Skelly, can I ask where we even are?” asked Bambi.

“You are all in Antarctica silly! It has just turned to spring here so it is warming up a bit but I’m still chilled to my bones.”

“Can I ask what is up with that creepy sky? I swear I can even hear it!” exclaimed Basil Brianberry.

“Easy. That is just the aurora australis. The southern lights. Some pets do claim they can hear them. The sun is having lots of flares and coronal mass ejections lately as it is in a very active period of its cycle so the sky here has been quite the canvas for us all. Just look at that beauty.”

They all stopped and looked up at the dancing sky.

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The friends carried on walking over snow and ice with Skelly along the water’s edge.

“So can I ask how you all arrived here and did not even know where you were?”

“Well back home it is Halloween,” replied Bambi. “Hence why I am dressed as such. We were headed out trick or treating to get all kinds of candy. My mom only serves me veggies. ICK! In front of us was this shimmery cloud that we approached…”

“And it sucked us in!” cried Basil Brianberry.

“All of a sudden we were standing on an icy water’s edge with a creepy sky above us and nobody around!” added Espresso.

“Was it a full moon?” asked Skelly.

“How did you know?”

“I always thought it was a myth but perhaps not. I’ve heard that on full moons a portal opens in the northern hemisphere to try to trap more pets here in the south to feed the monsters.”

“MONSTERS?!?!”

“I’ve never seen one but this is the legend of the Southern Polar Gateway. It must have caught the 3 of you.”