The Xenton Chronicles: Halloween Nightmare: The Xenton Chronicles, #1.5

By W.M. Calloway

It's a grudge match! Superheroes Vs. Demons. Demons Vs. Superheroes Halloween is rapidly approaching and something strange is happening in the city of Beach Shores. A witch begins to wreak havoc, but who is she and what is she looking for? Of course, only our heroes have the power to stop her. To further complicate things, a boy appears claiming to be the son of a Demon from Hell, but can he truly be trusted? Griflore is still unaccounted for, putting our heroes on edge. With all this strangeness happening around them, the Xenton can only conclude that something big will be going down Halloween Night. 

An interlude story set in the Jenshia Star; our heroes are just now getting use to saving the city from Griflore. After a cataclysmic battle with the Xenton, Griflore has gone into hiding, leaving Dye and his siblings, Jason and Sam, to wonder if he will ever return. However, fighting super-villains are one thing; fighting demons head on is another. Can our heroes stop another catastrophe before it even happens, or will the fires of Hell consume the world? This ten chapter novella will throw you back to the beginning of the Xenton Chronicles as our heroes take on a different, more powerful foe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: W.M. Calloway
• Release date: Oct 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781386296522

Book preview

A Few Weeks Ago....

The aftermath of Griflore’s rampage through the city was slowly being erased. The villain had given no mercy to the three lonely Xenton who stood in his way that night. The three combatants carried on the fight against the fiend as the villain ruthlessly attacked the heroes. Then like a flash, a powerless but brave youth stood up to take on the brute. Without powers of his own, Dye stepped in to save the life of another. Fed up with the interference, Griflore took the young boy’s life, awakening the powers deep with Sam and Jason, the Xenton of the Skies and the Xenton of the Waters. Together the two brothers waged war against the villain, breaking the menace piece by piece.

Meanwhile, a beaten Arayan, feeling the guilt of taking the young hero’s powers, scurried over the torn asphalt to Dye’s bloody and lifeless body. Making up his mind, he returned the powers to the rightful owner and Dye was able to yet again breathe the air of the living.

As the battle raged on, the Xenton of the Waters and Skies used their new found power against the notorious Griflore. The brothers gained the upper hand against the evil warrior, exposing a valuable weakness to use against their foe. Knowing that he couldn’t win against the Xenton in their Spirit Life-Force forms, the villain fled to recover. Since then, the villain has not been seen...

Halloween Nightmare

Chapter 1

It was a week before Halloween. The city was slowly cleaning up what was left of the destruction left by Griflore and the two Xenton, Sam and Jason. The City of Beach Shores was grateful to have the two heroes stand against such power. The brothers, including Dye, whose powers were returned by Arayan, were on edge as the purple armored fiend had not been seen for weeks. The trio had no clue what the villain was up to, so they had no choice but to return to their everyday lives and hope that Griflore gave up his crusade.

Dye was less than thirty minutes away from school being out for the weekend. His anxiety was causing his leg to bounce. That weekend was the kick-off of the annual Harvest Festival that took place down by the pier. For the past week, Dye looked forward to the festival; he took detours home just so he could pass the pier to see it being decorated in harvest décor. He looked up at the clock and waited for the minute hand to move thirty minutes past the top of the hour, but the more he looked the more frozen in time he felt. History class was, in his opinion, his most boring class. Why did it have to be at the end of the day on a Friday? Not to mention the teacher and his monotone voice had put half the class asleep. Dye did his best to stay awake, letting the left side of his face rest in the palm of his left hand while his elbow grew tired of supporting his cranium.

Looking down at the floor, Dye saw a loose piece of newspaper. On the side that was facing up there was a headline that read "Superheroes in Beach Shores?" Dye bent over his desk and picked up the loose article, making certain the teacher didn’t see his move; Dye proceeded to read the article.

Are there superheroes living among us in Beach Shore’s City? For the past two months there have been sightings of armor clad warriors all over the city. Who are these heroes and where did they come from? The speculations range from a group of armored crime fighters to aliens who have arrived here from another planet have taken the social media world by storm. These heroes first appeared at the beginning of September when an apartment complex suddenly erupted in flames. A golden hero emerged from nowhere with incredible speed and rescued two children who were trapped in the building." Dye grinned. "Later on, an off shore oil tanker exploded, leaving workers to perish. That is until a blue armored hero hauled the oversized boat to safety, putting out the fire and saving everyone on board. Moments afterwards, a commercial airline was saved by a white armored, angelic hero after the plane began experiencing engine problems. Both the plane and the passengers were safely landed at the nearest airport and just like the rest that hero vanished as well.

Now just recently, a devastating attack on the city has left Beach Shore’s wondering if these heroes are friend or foe. Eyewitnesses say that the one responsible for the mayhem just weeks ago was a purple armored being similar to the ones who have been spotted all over the city. We have yet to confirm if the trio has any relations to this being, but witnesses do say that the trio of heroes responsible for the heroic acts was seen fighting the enemy. Since that attack weeks ago, neither the purple armored foe nor the three heroes have been seen. Have they left our city to resume their conflict elsewhere? Or are they waiting to reveal themselves to us when the time is right? 

Dye folded the paper and placed his oversized history book on top of it. He looked towards the window and saw the construction cranes in Downtown Beach Shores. "Where are you?" he thought to himself, thinking about the purple fiend who impaled him with a sword, briefly ending his life. Dye rubbed the spot over his heart where the weapon penetrated him, almost feeling that lost pain again. Suddenly, Dye’s wandering mind was interrupted by the sudden mention of the word project by his teacher.

Project? Dye questioned while the rest of the class moaned.

You will be in pairs and will write a three to five page paper on the Salem Witch Trials and what prompted the movement. This is something that should make this Halloween fun.

Dye looked at his nerdy professor with his bowtie, overlapping mustache, belly high pants and tucked in shirt and thought This is his idea of fun?

This paper will be due a week from today.

On Halloween? Dye said as the class moaned some more.

Yes, Theodore, on Halloween. I seem to find that fitting, don’t you?

But Mr. Dawson, nobody is going to have time to do that paper; the Harvest Festival is this weekend. The class