On Halloween Night

On Halloween Night is the first book in the On Day/Night Miniseries. It stars Miles, Cody, and Jacob, three teenage boys camping out in an old, abandoned mansion in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Halloween night, the scariest night of the year.

Plot: Miles, Cody, and Jacob are camping in an old abandoned manison, when suddenly, while Jacob is entering the attic, where they're camping out, he falls into a portal. Miles calls his best friend, a twelve year old girl named Quinn, in to help them, and the three of them explore the mansion, looking for Jacob. They look in various rooms, including a library, between the ceiling and the roof, a gallery, and a strange room full of notes, one of which is dated the day before Halloween that year, meaning that the house is still very much inhabited. They soon come across a bedroom, where Cody accidentally activates an elevator to take them to the third floor, where they meet Max, a skeleton, and Glenda, a Halloween witch. Jacob is there too, and it turns out that they didn't want to harm him, but warn him and have him warm them that an evil demon is possessinf the whole house, and if he isn't removed by sunrise, everyone in the house will be possessed as well. They then get separated by a branch of the demon that overheard them, and eventually get back together, except for Quinn, who, while crossing an unsteady part of the third level, fell through the floor and into the basement, where she met Sam, a ghost running the security in the mansion. While they were lost, they all contemplated, and when they were reunited, they came up with a plan. They planned to lure the demon out of the house using his own ego, then trap him in a dead-end sewer drain, all the while making an army, made up of the monsters of the house that are fighting the branches of the demon, to reinforce it. The plan then initiates, with Miles and Jacob setting a trap, Glenda and Max luring the demon out, Cody getting an army, and Quinn and Sam investigated security. While Cody was doing his part, he met Pamaosi, a horse (who, unbeknowst to him, was actually a genie who's magic was temporarily restricted by the demon) with the head of a woman, who helped him rally up an army. All parts of the plan worked well, until the demon saw their plan right through and tricked them by getting them all in one spot, then enclosing them in a vortex, except for Quinn, Cody, Sam, and Pamaosi. Pamaosi knew somewhat how to destroy it, having dealt with a similar situation before: drive something bigger and stringer than it through it, which would in turn cause it to burst. Quinn then went to her house, down the street, with everyone following, to retrieve her father, a pilot. She figured it would be big enough. Her father reluctantly agreed, and they drove to the airport in his car. They got into a small passenger plane, and drove it back to the house, but by the time they did, it was too late, andthe vortex was too big. All it did was turn it inside out, which made it grow at a faster rate. Cody then had an idea of what to use next: a crane, which she spotted at a construction site in the distance. They then got into the car againand raced over there, where Cody and Quinn climbed up the ladder of the crane. It was locked from the inside, but Quinn noticed that the manager left his ID card in the crane, and from it she read that the manager was Rob Parker, and he lived on 1226 Daisy Drive. They then headed over there, where Cody investigated the upstairs and Quinn investigated the downstairs. While upstairs, Cody unknowing entered the bedroom of his classmate, Rachel Parker, who woke upon his entering. Cody convinced Rachel that he was there to help with a school project, but was six hours late (he was actually two days an six hours later). Relating it to their project, Cody convinced her to steal her father's key and come with them, then confessed it to her on the way to the construction site. Rachel didn't fully understand, and dismissed it. They soon got to the construction site, powered up the crane, and drove it to their house and right through the vortex. While passing by a window, Quinn jumped out and ran towards the center of the house, which a 'backwards rainbow puzzle', as she called it, pointed to the demon's heart, crushing it the only other way to kill the demon other than getting him to leave. She found it and crushed it just as Cody desroyed the vortex. Quinn jumped out of the window and landed in her father's arms. Everything turned out great in the end, everyone went home as the sun rose, all on Halloween night.