The Curse of King Ghoul

The Curse of King Ghoul is an upcoming two-part Halloween Special that is based on the Sonic Boom Legends series. While most of the episodes in the series have been written by it's creator, FixersChannel, this Halloween Special will be written by grimlock1997, creator of Shift the Hedgehog, with FixersChannel being credited as Creative Consultant.

It also marks the first fan-made episode for the series.

Chapter One in Part One of the story was published onto DeviantArt on Saturday 24th October, 2020, in the UK and US, while it was released on Sunday 25th October, 2020, in Australia.

The rest of the story has yet to be written and published.

Synopsis
While the people of Legends Village are busy making preparations for a big Halloween party that will be thrown in the centre of town, Shift is incredibly nervous about asking his crush, Sienna the Porcupine, to be his date for the party. But when Sienna, along with a few other villagers, mysteriously disappear the night before Halloween, Shift and the remaining villagers set out on a search party to find them.

But they soon discover that there is more trick than treat when ghosts enter the picture...

Characters

 * Shift the Hedgehog
 * Sienna the Porcupine
 * Emily the Bunny
 * Fixer the Fox
 * Alkira the Arctic Fox
 * Erik the Okapi
 * Lucas the Tiger
 * Dawn the Rabbit
 * Wake the Hawk
 * Forge the Bear
 * Sophia the Sun Bear
 * Quayla the Grizzly Bear
 * Alley the Hedgehog
 * Knave the Hedgehog
 * Maniac the Hedgehog
 * Keiran the Wolf
 * Mel the Fox
 * King Ghoul
 * Ghouling Ghosts
 * Ensham the Arctic Fox (Mentioned)
 * Arkus the Ancient (Mentioned)
 * Cinda the Cat (Mentioned)
 * Molly the Cat (Mentioned)
 * Micky the Wolf (Mentioned)
 * Crystal the Wolf (Indirectly Mentioned)

Locations

 * Forgone Island
 * Legends Village
 * Forgone Forest
 * Ancient Cavern Ruins

Chapter One
The episode begins at night time in an unknown part of the Forgone Island jungle zone, before the sounds of people screaming in fright are heard coming from within an unknown location. Five ghostly characters are then seen flying away from the area and they head to a sandy cavern caves zone, where they meet up with their leader, King Ghoul, who is king of the 'Ghouling Ghosts', which are what the smaller ghosts are called. After giving his orders for the Ghouling Ghosts to find five new people to possess and bring back to his cave, King Ghoul watches as his minions fly away to accomplish his deed, before letting out a mad cackle into the night.

Over in Legends Village, the townspeople are busy setting up decorations and laying out treats for an upcoming Halloween party that will be on October 31st. As Alkira and Sophia are walking around the town checking off items on a clipboard, Knave and Lucas are wrapping up paper plates full of food in clingfilm, while Maniac is setting out big glass bowls for the drinks. Alkira tells Sophia that Fixer is in charge of collecting candy for the party, since Forge had forgotten to get any candy the previous year, and that Sophia had to give out pumpkin pies to everybody, much to their chagrin.

Alkira begins teasing Sophia about Forge being her 'future husband', and this causes Sophia to start panicking and blushing, making her believe that Alkira is spreading rumours around the town, although the fox girl giddily denies it, but she does believe that there is more to Sophia and Forge than meets the eye. She promises to keep the subject just between herself and Sophia, something the sun bear hopes is truthful. When they pass the library, a few sprinkles of silvery glitter explode from inside the building, which is soon followed by Dawn shouting out Wake's name in anger, revealing that the hawk has once again pranked her with a glitter bomb, with Mel asking Wake about how much glitter he fills in his bombs.

While Alkira and Sophia head off for another part of the town, Shift and Erik are busy setting out plastic cups out onto a table, although while Erik is busy doing some cup-stacking, Shift is deep in thought about something, and not paying attention to his best friend's cup-stacking record. When Erik tries to call Shift, he believes that he is ignoring him, so he blows up a brown paper bag and pops it, causing Shift to jump in fright, and getting annoyed by his best friend popping a bag near his ear. After the two get into a brief argument, they soon apologise to each other and make up, before Erik asks Shift about what's on his mind.

Shift explains that he has been thinking about a 'certain somebody' in his mind, although Erik immediately knows that the hedgehog is thinking about Sienna. Surprised, Shift questions Erik on why he thinks that the hedgehog likes her, to which the okapi reminds him of the quest they went on together with Knave to search for the Ruby Rose, when they actually found the red Chaos Gem instead. Knowing just exactly what is on the hedgehog's mind, Erik encourages him to tell him, promising not to tell anyone, not even Knave.

Finally giving in, Shift confesses that he really likes Sienna, and that he finds her to be the most beautiful and talented girl that he ever met, and mentions that she kissed him on the cheek when they were at the library, before he also mentions that he wants to ask Sienna out to the Halloween party as his date. Erik, at first, simply nods about this, but when he realises what his best friend has said, he is about to yell out in surprise, before Shift hastily puts a hand over his mouth to silence him. After putting a mint in his mouth to get rid of the taste of Shift's glove on his mouth, Erik questions why the hedgehog hasn't asked Sienna out yet, to which his best friend simply explains that he is nervous about Sienna saying no to him and possibly rejecting him.

Although he understands that his best friend has a little bit of stage fright, Erik reassures Shift that he doesn't know if Sienna will reject him until he asks her out first. After Shift explains to Erik about the time he managed to prevent Sienna from leaving Legends Village due to Emily reminding her of her old life as a celebrity, Erik tells him that he is sure that Sienna really likes him enough to say yes to his invitation to the party. Shift is not sure, but Erik persuades him otherwise, before the two are suddenly approached by an excited Emily, who has been sent by Sienna to bring Shift to see her over at Emily's House, because she has something that she wants to give to him.

Shift is left blushing deeply by this request, but he is encouraged by Erik to go and see her, saying that it may be important. After thinking about it for a few seconds, Shift agrees and tells Emily to take him over to her house. While Emily runs off ahead in an excited state, Erik whispers to Shift to remind him about asking Sienna out to the Halloween party, although Shift can only blush in response as he runs off to catch up with Emily, while Erik goes back to doing his cup-stacking game.

Meanwhile, over in the market area, Fixer and Forge are both collecting candy for the party in a heavy basket, although Forge is less than enthusiastic about it, since he is in a grumpy mood. As the two collect the candy, Fixer explains to the grumpy bear about why he asked for his help, with the three reasons being that he cannot carry the heavy basket on his own, he can also sometimes forget about certain candies, even if they were already put into the basket, and he even reminds Forge about the previous year's Halloween party where Sophia had to give everyone pumpkin pies due to the bear forgetting about the candy, although Forge, who defends himself by saying he didn't mean to forget about the candy, doesn't find any interest in Halloween itself, and his negative opinions and self-centred comments get Fixer a little annoyed.

Deciding to figure out why Forge is moody, Fixer asks about what is on his mind, although Forge is not at all interested, at least until the subject of Sophia is brought up, and the time that Forge and Maniac rescued her from Ensham when she was kidnapped by him. While Forge does admit that rescuing Sophia and fighting against Ensham is a memory that he will always remember, the bear is caught off guard when Fixer suggests about him asking Sophia out to the Halloween party. Unaware to the two, Quayla is shopping for coffee beans in a wicker basket next to them.

Shocked by the idea, Forge accidently drop the heavy candy basket onto Quayla's foot, causing her to yell in pain and clutch her foot, leading to Forge and Fixer to sheepishly apologise. The commotion draws the attention of Alkira and Sophia, much to the boys' nervousness, thinking that they will be getting into trouble. After they explain about the situation to the accident of dropping the basket on Quayla's foot, Sophia lets them off, much to their relief, although Sophia gives them a gentle warning about them being more careful in future. With all of the candy for the Halloween party collected, Fixer and Forge, who embarrasses himself in front of Sophia, head off to give the candy to Knave and Lucas for them to put it into a big bowl.

Alkira wraps Quayla's injured foot with some sports tape acting as a bandage. Quayla, who still feels annoyed by Forge dropping the basket on her foot, begins to question about what distracted him enough to do that, though the answer soon comes when she and Alkira look at Sophia, making them realise that Forge was thinking about her. The two girls begin to geek out about the thought of Sophia and Forge dancing and sharing a kiss during the Halloween party, although their delightful thoughts cause a blushing Sophia to run off when they're not looking.

Alley soon arrives in the market and asks about why Quayla's foot is in a bandage, to which the grizzly bear replies that it's a bit of a long story.

Back with Emily and Shift, the two have finally reached the bunny's house, although the hedgehog has ran out of breath from trying to catch up with her. Emily knocks the door, which is soon answered by her boyfriend, Kieran, who addresses Shift politely and informs him that Sienna is waiting for him in the living room.

When Shift enters the house, he finds Sienna sitting on the couch, holding a box on her lap which is for the hedgehog, who begins to think that the porcupine girl is a lot more prettier than he remembered when he last saw her. Sienna offers Shift a seat next to her, who accepts, and then briefly gets mesmerised by the porcupine's beautiful eyes and appearance before he snaps out of it. Shift asks Sienna about why she wanted to see him, to which the porcupine girl explains that she wanted to give a little something that she hopes he'll like, before handing him the box and encourages him to open it. Once Shift has opened the box, the hedgehog becomes very surprised by what he finds: A pair of new shoes that look like his own, but with built in ion cels, which he mistakes as big holes, although Sienna quickly says that they are actually hovershoes, which further surprises him.

Sienna then explains about how she got the hovershoes made.

''When she was out shopping with Emily in the village one day, Sienna overheard a conversation between Fixer and Shift, with the former turning down the latter's request for a pair of hovershoes. Feeling sorry for Shift, Sienna decided on the next day to get him a pair of hovershoes specially made for him, by contacting a female wolf from overseas who works as a scientist, and placed an order for some hovershoes to be made for her. Although it did cost her a lot of money and a couple of weeks for her to wait, the wolf scientist, after testing the hovershoes herself whilst working on them, eventually completed them and sent them to Sienna. ''

After Sienna finishes her story, a very grateful and excited Shift gives her a very big hug, which surprises her, before she eventually returns it, and it's a moment that makes Emily say to Kieran about how sweet Sienna is to Shift, which her boyfriend agrees to before they begin sharing a few nuzzles and kisses together.

The acquisition of his brand new hovershoes brings a lot of happiness to Shift, something that he hasn't experienced since the U.T incident several months prior. Thanking Sienna again and giving her a kiss on the cheek in gratitude, Shift happily rushes out of Emily's House with his new shoes. As he leaves, Sienna has forgotten to ask him about something important and tires to call him back, but Shit has already disappeared into the night time village.

Disappointed, Sienna sits back down on the couch, revealing that she wanted to ask Shift out to the Halloween party, although Emily and Kieran reassure her that she has already made him happy by giving him the new hovershoes, and this makes her feel a little better. Sienna then decides that when the next day comes round, she will try and get Shift to be alone with her and then ask him out to the party then. Emily enthusiastically cheers for Sienna's plan, stating that Shift will say yes to her asking him to the party, since he really likes her.

Both Sienna and Emily share a hug together. Outside of town, unaware to any of the villagers, the five Ghouling Ghosts are silently approaching the town, giggling quietly as they approach the back of the village, their presence going on unnoticed by anyone.

Part Two
Coming soon!

Deleted Scenes
During the story's production, several scenes that were originally written for the chapters were either shortened down or deleted due to the word limitations on DeviantArt being no more than 10,000 words long, and this prevented some written scenes from being included into the story, and they ended up being cut out.

Although the scenes in the chapters were cut out, they can be found on a separate link down below.

Part One
In Chapter One, there are three scenes which didn't make the final cut of the chapter due to the limited number of words being allowed on the literature post.

Deleted Scenes in Chapter One
Link: https://www.deviantart.com/grimlock1997/art/SBL-Halloween-Special-Deleted-Scenes-in-CH-1-859183392
 * King Ghoul and his Ghouling Ghosts originally had translated dialogue for their Ghoulinease language.
 * Alley originally had more dialogue in the market scene, where she would offer to look after Quayla for a little while, acting as a temporary nurse.
 * While knocking the door to her home, Emily asks Shift if he is going to ask out Sienna to the Halloween party, making him blush.

Trivia

 * This is the first Halloween themed episode for the series.


 * This is the first episode in the series not to be written by FixersChannel. It is instead written by grimlock1997, the creator and owner of Shift the Hedgehog. The episode itself is a fan made episode, and it doesn't coincide with the main Legends timeline. FixersChannel, however, is credited as Creative Consultant for the story.


 * Shift's crush on Sienna, which he gained in Rose to the Occasion, will become one of the main plot focuses of the episode.
 * First episode to feature ghosts as the main antagonists.
 * King Ghoul is based on the character King Boo from the Super Mario video game series.
 * The episode takes place between Rose to the Occasion and The Last Date.
 * Emily was originally going to call to Sienna from upstairs in her house, before the scene was changed to Sienna waiting for Shift downstairs in the living room.