The Brave Souls of Herrings Peak

It was a dark and scary night, and the full moon hung in the night sky. A bunch of trick or treating children go to this old haunted house, and the door was wide open, so the kids go inside and the door closed shut behind them. Now they were all alone in the haunted house, or were they?  The kids walked through the haunted house, and they came to a big door. They were about to open it, when they heard a knock on the other side. They ran the other direction and heard a noise coming from upstairs. The noise went, "squeak squeak squeak!" Flo took a deep breath and looked at Mo, saying, "What was that?" Before Mo could answer they heard the noise again. "Squeak squeak squeak," went the noise. Zo said, "It must be a bat, bats go squeak squeak squeak." Bo said, "Or it could be the squeaking of an itty bitty little mouse." Then they heard another scary sound. It went, "Whoosh!" "It must be a ghost!" said Flo. Bo said, "Or it could be an empty trick or treat bag blowing across the courtyard." The smallest children hid behind the biggest vase, but another noise got closer and closer, "Tap, tap, tap." "It must be a witch!" said Zo. "It's her pointy shoes," said Mo. Bo said, "Or it could be somebody dressed as a tap dancer with tapping shoes." The biggest kids were the bravest so they went upstairs to investigate the squeaking, whooshing and tapping. Bo was the youngest of the big kids, but he was also the bravest, so he was the leader. They searched here and there and up and down and hither and yon, but they couldn't find any bats, ghosts, or witches. When the big kids went downstairs, the other children were gone. Bo remembered that there were 32 children. There were 8 big kids and 24 little kids, so he figured the little kids were small enough to squeeze their way out of the house, but that thought was proved wrong when they heard the squeaking, whooshing, and tapping all at the same time. Bo decided to find out where it was coming from. Bo found the door the kids had previously found when the front door had just shut and they were walking through the haunted house. Bo opened it, despite the fact that there was knocking on the other side earlier. When he got inside he found the most ordinary sight he's ever seen in such an extraordinary place. It was a janitor's closet with brooms and mops and all kinds of cleaning stuff, but he found a door with a lock at the very back of the closet. Bo started searching for a key, and found one near the sponges on one of the shelves in the closet. He out the key in the lock and opened the door. He found the most beautiful place in his life. The rivers were pink, the grass was purple, the sky was yellow and the clouds were orange. The trees were lollipops and the flowers were donuts. All the houses were shaped like shoes and buttons and teacups. And he didn't find any sign of living species until he saw a little mini tornado of many colors go by, so he ran after it and hid behind every tree he could find, from one to the next, and so on. The little tornado turned out to be a tall, colorful and mismatched humanoid princess ballerina, but she didn't notice Bo was there. Bo slowly went up to her, but before he could, the spun around and away in a flash. Bo quickly followed her, hiding from each tree like last time. Finally, Bo caught up to the princess and asked who she was and why she was there.The tall figure turned around and Bo was shocked to see that it was someone she's never seen before. Bo stumbled into a magical world inside the janitor's closet. The princess explained that he was in a place for lost and forgotten dolls, where they got new life and purpose.

Bo explored the for hours, meeting all kinds of creatures. He found a giant talking doll with blue hair and a red dress, a singing mermaid, and a dancing gingerbread maid. He also found a giant ballerina made of candy and a castle made of gumdrops. It was a magical place and Bo had the best time of his life.

12 hours later, Bo said to the princess that he had to go, and thanked her for showing him this wonderful world. Then, the princess stopped her and begged him not go leave, because she explained she wasn't the only princess ballerina. After she said that, many other tall girls with mismatched patterns and stripes danced around Bo, laughing and giggling like eerie little girls. Bo then got a tiny bit scared on the inside, even though he was considered the bravest kid in town back at home. trapped inside the dolls. She told Bo that if he stayed and played with them, they could all find a new friend. Bo fell in a trance and decided to stay with the princesses, feeling like he had a moral obligation to do so. All the rest is history.