International Ione Day [Event]

It was Halloween! This was by far Ione’s favorite holiday. Well, after international Ione day which took place on the 30th of February and was sadly never celebrated. Not even by Ione. But that was okay, because now Ione had been invited to a house! She had never actually been invited into someone else’s house before, maybe she would make a friend while there. Perhaps they’d even let her move in. Ione didn’t need her own room or anything, she would be happy just setting up her cardboard box in a corner somewhere.

For now she had left her box in a nearby alley. It would be rude to bring it before getting permission to move in. Before her was a big house that definitely had plenty of extra space for an Ione, and even had lots of neat decorations like skulls and bats! Bats were like flying rats, and briefly she wondered if they tasted the same… wait now was not the time to think of dinner! Barely able to contain her excitement, she strode up to the house's entrance where some friendly ghosts directed her to a room. She couldn’t wait to see what was inside.

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Inside this room were… more rooms! Wondering if she had misremembered walking into the house, she turned to find the door she remembered going through closed behind her. Well, at least Ione wasn’t crazy. As she wandered the rooms, she found some really big spiders (they looked like crabs! Maybe she could boil them…), some neat portraits that followed her as she walked past them, and some guys dressed in funny clothes!

“Hi!” she called waving to the funny looking people, being as friendly as she could. “Would you like to be friends?”

The other people did not respond, instead shuffling around in a weird manner. Confused by their lack of response, Ione looked around to see if someone else was in the room causing them to be too nervous to talk. Sadly she still only saw the cobwebs, paintings, and… ooo masks! Maybe they didn’t want to talk to her because she didn’t have something on her face like they did. Picking up one of the masks, Ione put it on only to watch in dismay as the funny people suddenly fled the room in fright leaving an open door behind.

Why had they run from Ione? Sure most people ran from Ione, but this time she hadn’t accidently destroyed their house or broken one of their bones or anything! She was so distraught by their running from her that dark thoughts began to invade her mind. Like stealing a peanut from the grocery store. Just one though, because more than that would be far too evil, even for Ione. Or she might gasp cross the street without looking both ways! This was not like her at all, she never thought of doing such awful things! The shock of them running clearly had been just too great.

And now the room was spinning because she was so upset. Wait, no, the room was actually spinning. Or at least Ione’s head was, which was basically the same thing. A few moments of spiraling through the air later, her head hit the ground with an “ow.” Opening her eyes, she saw her headless body standing above her, which broke the spell and immediately returned her head to its proper place. It did not stop her from wobbling around in dizziness from the fall though.

“I hate when that happens,” she groaned to herself, holding her head in both hands as if to make the spinning stop. She then made her way to the door the clowns had left open, not even noticing that the mask lay on the ground where her head had landed. Time to see what was in the next room.

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Inside this room was… an entire mansion? Surrounded by trees? Now Ione was really confused, how could there be an entire mansion inside of another mansion? Moving closer to the mansion, Ione noticed that the trees were strange. In fact they were made of cardboard. Her eyes widened in realization, so this was where cardboard boxes came from! Normal wood came from normal trees, while cardboard boxes came from cardboard trees. Finally one of life’s great mysteries had been solved, all thanks to this house in a house.

Pleased that she now knew the origins of her home, Ione made her way up to the mansion, which was decidedly smaller than the first one she had entered. This made sense, otherwise it wouldn’t be able to fit inside! On the porch was a cart, with arrows pointing to it. Clearly she was supposed to get inside, so she ran up to it with an “Ooo!” and flopped into the seat. Inside was a label showing how to buckle up the safety harness, which she did. Then she waited… only for nothing to happen. Confused, she looked back to the instructions and saw that all her limbs needed to be inside the cart.

Looking around outside the cart, she finally spotted where her foot had come off and melted into a puddle as she had flopped down. Now that it had been seen, the foot popped back to her leg causing the cart to suddenly jerk forward into motion. As she rolled down the tracks, cardboard creatures began popping out yelling “boo!” and stuff. Ione found all of this terribly exciting, as she now knew that animals and ghosts could be cardboard too! How had she never known of so many things running around the world that were made of cardboard. She could only guess they ate the cardboard trees which was why they were also cardboard, like how she ate grass and was much less cardboardy.

Eventually the cart returned to the front porch… only to keep going! Despite Ione being pretty sure she was just going around again, the cardboard things had been replaced by stuff made of cloth. Was there an entire kingdom of cloth animals!? As she studied them and racked her brain trying to understand these new revelations about the world, she once again returned to the front porch and, once again, started back down the tracks. This time all the ghosts and animals looked real, which was not interesting to Ione. She had already seen normal animals. By the time the trip ended and she was back to the front porch, she was bored. So she unbuckled the harness, which caused the cart to stop. Leaving the mansion behind, Ione went to find the next room.

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It took her a while to find the door hidden among the cardboard trees, but eventually she found it. Walking through, she was greeted by a room much smaller than the previous two. There were no fancy decorations, but that didn’t matter. It was full of all the funny dressed people from before! Though their makeup was a bit different from before as their mouths were full of pointy teeth. They all turned to face her as she entered, and this time none of them looked scared. Maybe it hadn’t been Ione that had scared them off, and this time they would be friends with her!

“Hi hi!” she called with an exaggerated wave. “It’s Ione again! Can we be friends this time?”

In response, one of the clowns walked up to her with a knife in one hand and something else in the other. She thought it was a bit weird to be carrying around a knife, it seemed dangerous. Though since he wasn’t running, she figured that made it okay. Running with it would be scary! What if he stabbed himself? Then he couldn't be her friend. Dead people didn’t make good friends, she had discovered. If he was only kind of dead, that was okay. Kind of dead people made good listeners.

What was Ione doing again? Oh, yes, making friends! Her new funny clothes friend person seemed to be looking at her expectantly. What was it that he wanted? Ione was not always the best at reading emotions, but she could tell the longer he waited the more annoyed he looked. That was bad! He might stop being her friend, and that would make Ione very sad. Desperately she spun around while waving her arms around while trying to figure out what funny friend wanted.

While she moved around, Ione suddenly lost her balance. Oh, no. Her feet were still firmly planted on the ground, it wasn’t her balance she had lost but rather her torso. As her back hit the ground, she let out a small grunt, but since the fall was much shorter it didn’t actually hurt this time. Ione didn’t have time for her body to be difficult, what if her clothes person got too annoyed and left? Forcing her head up, she looked at her body to break the magic and bring her back to one piece. Blinking, she saw that her friend was holding out a piece of candy for her. Not only that but the other funny clothes people were also holding out candy for her. Her hands now full of candy, they split up revealing another door. Smiling widely, she made her way to the door while they applauded her trick. Today was the bestest day ever, not only had she made a bunch of friends, they had given her candy!

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When Ione stepped through the next door, she was in the middle of stuffing her mouth full of the candy. This was her first meal today after all, and they smelled too good to wait. Plus, some bad person might try to take them from her. Looking up from her candy feast, she saw what appeared to be a hallway. The decorations matched the first room, though there were no giant spiders or paintings or friend people. Too bad, she would have liked more candy. The best part was there were different types of candy in the handful she had been given. Some were chocolate, some were hard candies, and some were taffy. The hard candies she saved for last, since she could not swallow them quickly.

Seeing nothing else to do, she began to make her way down the hallway while sucking on the hard candies. For the first time she noticed how old everything in the mansion looked, with torn drapes and worn rugs. Despite this, it was not dusty at all. She appreciated this, because sneezing was annoying. The last time she coughed, her lungs popped out. Suffocating was on Ione’s list of “things that I do not like.” There were 2076 items on that list, however that was not important right now.

Walking through the hallway, she approached an open door to the side. From inside stepped a cute little black cat. “Awwwww,” she cooed, “would you like to be friends kitty?”

Hearing her voice, the cat turned to face her revealing one green eye and one blue eye. Seeing this, Ione let out a shriek and took a step back in fear. The cat titled its head to the side as it regarded her, then trotted off through another door. Pressing her back against the wall, Ione slid down the hallway doing her best to keep far away from the door that the cat had gone through. At the end of the hallway was a large sign that said “EXIT.”

Exiting was exactly what she wanted to do right now, lest the cat reappear and maul her. Unfortunately she never made it to the door, before being stopped at least. A man approached from the side, a cheery smile on his face. “I hope you enjoyed our haunted house,” he said in a friendly tone. “If you have time could you tell us what your favorite part was?”

“Eeeeeeeeeee!” Ione screamed in terror as she turned and saw the man had one blue and one brown eye. Immediately she pushed open the exit door, and flesh outside to the streets. That man had not been a friend person, he had been a mismatched person. Her enemy. Once she was safely outside, she turned to look at the house sadly. It seemed she would not be able to live here after all, as it had a villain inside. She could only hope her funny friends would be able to get out safely. Wishing for their safety, Ione made her way back to the alley where she had left her house.

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