Rose found herself in a pumpkin field, surround by well,... pumpkins. As she waked around the pumpkins turned into menacing jack-'o-lanterns. Vines came out and pulled Rose down. She started to panic and fight back and then she woke up.
Rose then went to school. It was a rainy Halloween morning and she dressed up as Morbius, the living vampire. Scottie was dressed up as a cat and Oliver was dressed up as a belly dancer. Miss Winterborne had a less than inventive librarian costume. They had an uneventful day at school and prepared to have a fun Halloween.
The gang decided to go to a party at the Copper. On the way there, Rose saw a scarecrow with a pumpkin head and it reminded her of her dream, which Miss Winterborne. thought may be a prophetic dream. They arrived at the party and it was awesome. Everyone was there including Cherub, Nail, and Children of the Night. Cherub and Nail were dressed like an angel and devil respectively. Rose danced with Cherub while Nail watched from the side and flirted with women to make her jealous. Scottie danced with some girls and Oliver drank his tea. Then suddenly Cherub collapsed after yelling that something bad was coming.
Nail carried Cherub to an office in the back and helped wake him up. Cherub mumbled something about the Pumpkin King. Nail told Rose he had heard a legend about the Pumpkin King before. Something about scarecrows coming to life on a rainy Halloween. Rose called Miss Winterborne and got her to start researching. She asked for Oliver to go back to the dungeon to help her. Rose and Scottie went on patrol while Nail took care of Cherub after promising he wouldn't harm him.

Rose and Scottie soon encounter a swarm of zombies and fight their way through. Oliver also ran into some zombies and thought that discretion was the better part of valor. After defeating the zombies, Rose remembered the dream about a pumpkin patch and they headed to the patch that was set up in town. As soon as they entered the patch they were trapped by a mystical barrier. Scottie immediately became terrified. They found themselves surrounded by jack-'o-lanterns. Scottie is pulled away by vines and Rose tried to save him but if she held too hard he would be ripped apart. She was about to go after him, but sensed something behind her. It was the scarecrow, the Pumpkin King.
Rose attacked the Pumpkin King but none of her attacks were phasing him. She managed to knock him off his feat and throw him a few times, but she wasn't able to damage him. She looked around. She saw a barn and not much else. She decided to go after Scottie.
Meanwhile, Miss Winterborne told Oliver about the Pumpkin King. He could only be killed by trapping his spirit in his corporeal form and then destroying it. The Pumpkin King had faced a slayer hundreds of years ago. She defeated him the first Halloween, but he returned the next year and killed her. They knew they had to make sure he was truly destroyed or he would come back.
Rose freed Scottie from the vines, just in time for the scarecrow to attack them. He slashed Rose's back with his claws. Oliver and Miss Winterborne get past the magic barrier and she is immediately terrified. They are also being followed by zombies. The watcher ran away screaming. Rose and Scottie hear her. Rose started to run to her. Scottie tried to throw one of the pumpkins at the Pumpkin King and it didn't work out well for him. The pumpkin halted in mid air and flew after Scottie. He smashed it with a punch.
The gang got together. They decided that Rose would hold off the zombies, Scottie would protect Miss Winterborne, and Oliver would confront the scarecrow. Oliver cast a spell to bind him into his corporeal form. Then he set the Pumpkin King on fire with another spell. This hurt him but the rain put the fire out. The Lord of Halloween slashed Oliver and knocked him out. Rose saw him take of with Oliver. Scottie figured out a plan and had everyone head to the barn.
Rose managed to rescue Oliver and wake him up. They then drew the scarecrow into the barn. Scottie took the gasoline from a tractor and spread it around the barn. Rose hacked at the villain with her axe which Miss Winterborne brought along with other weapons. Scottie tried to pin the Pumpkin King with the tractor, but he missed. Oliver cast a spell to make the scarecrow root into the ground holding him in place. Rose set the Pumpkin King on fire with a lighter and stick that were in Miss Winterborne's bag. Unfortunately, that set the whole barn on fire. Rose, Scottie, and Oliver made it out okay, but Miss Winterborne was trapped. Rose went back for into the flaming barn for her. The Slayer got her out, but not before she was badly burned. They rushed her to the hospital.
The doctors got Miss Winterborne stabilized but she was in a coma. Oliver cast a spell on her and healed much of her wounds but she didn't wake up. Rose called a number Miss Winterborne had given her and she told the British man on the phone what had happened. He told her that someone would be sent right away.
This plot was taken from a Buffy novel and the Great Pumpkin...



















