All hallows/Page1

This chapter contains spanking of physically under-age children. It also contains some adult themes, and worse than that it contains descriptions based on a relatively accurate pagan Celebration, as held by the Irish, Scottish, some English and a lot of old old school religious folk.

If you have objections to any of this then please don't read

The Following story takes place on the night of Halloween in Sledge2071's Rejuve Universe fiction.

All Hallows - A chill was in the air as the sun began setting over town, as was a lot of laugher and giggles and joy. Out of houses all down the street of district 14 music could be heard, along with cohorting and celebration and party. It was the night of Halloween, All Hallows. A day for many, penny or parent, voluntaris and kindern alike to celebrate. However it was not just for this day. Not just for joy.

Not everyone agreed with the festivities.

Leaving their house early, on the edge of sunset three lone figures walked the long walk. Two of them tall, and dressed in black, the one on the left would have looked like a funeral director had he not been more muscle then wirey. The woman on his side, wearing a thin black bodysuit that showed off ample curves but draped in a black cape. The two older figures walked past creatures of the night, ghost and ghoul, aliens, monsters and the occasional fairies, angels and lawyers. It was officially glove night. For any of the young children going about in their costumes, this was the only night where the markings on their hands were allowed to be covered. For those who were out to enjoy themselves children would not be judged by their status - everybody would get candy and everyone could have fun, one child however was not there to take part in this. Draped in a black robes like a ghost painted in negative, the small figure accompanied by her dark and silent guardians was in a harness serving as a control to make sure the child underneath could not get away. Not that she wanted to.

"Do we have to walk?" the figure was whining from underneath a devils mask. "Cant we take the hover car?" The mask was of painted wood, hand decorated and had flames and fake horns and attached underneath tentacle-like streamers simulating a beard. The smaller figure looked up at the plain white porcelain masks set over the faces of the guardians accompanying her. While the outside of the mask was bland, making her guardians faces look identical the insides were perfectly moulded to fit the faces of their wearer, meaning that the mask would sit on perfectly without any strings or means of holding it in place.

Through the eye-holes the man could be seen to roll his eyes. "There are too many people on the streets, driving wouldn't be right!" "But hover cars FLY!" The small figure continued. "Rinnita Jane, we are walking. Not flying! Only witches fly on all hallows!" Rinni made a face. "I thought I ..." She decided to hold her tongue. "I heard Nina is going to be at this. I think I told you about Nina - I knew her during my first two cycles. I think the fact that we have similar crimes is why she got All Hallows as an SPD." the robed Rinni declared. "I think it will be nice to catch up with some of the hard case pennies, although I cant say I'm going to enjoy being on the receiving end of my victims."

Frowning, Rinnita fell silent as the trio walked the streets, trying to dodge the volley of over-excited children. It was a hard thing at one point, the mother Masane seeing a pair of children throwing toilet paper over a tree. "Some Traditions!" she was snarling, her husband stepping in to stop her. There were other officers who would be along shortly - despite the cracking down on laws it was known that some still treated All Hallows as a trick night. The errent children would be stopped soon enough.

Approaching the park that had been set aside, the fences keeping those not taking part outside could not hide the glow shining from amongst the trees. Those who were not part of the Hallows Traditions were not usually meant to watch, not that Masane didn't doubt some would be trying to watch anyhow but for those not involved most would have mistaken the gathering for just another garden party - like many parties that were being housed all over town right that moment.

"Rinni!" the little girl looked around as they were ushered through the gate by one of the demonic hosts. As soon as she entered the area the smell of food, alcohol and bustle of noise assaulted her senses as a grim courtyard filled with dark and solemn figures spoke loudly. Three small black robed figures like herself were rushing towards her - the only thing indicating who the children were was the mask as each mask was different and home made, most of them based on known demons or gods in various mythologies. At first glance Rinni's feet attempted to make her flee - the sinister masks glowing with the large bonfire behind them as though honestly coming out of the fires of hell. At that point however Rinnita's common sense kicked her in the rump.

"Nina!" She declared reaching out as the black robes merged together in a mass of dark twisting cloth. "Yes Yes! Your Rinni! I can tell cause you still have your pigtails and their making your robe go all funny around your head!" Rinni had to laugh at that. "Well I'd know your whiny voice anywhere!" the redhead snapped back, pulling her hood down. In the grotto they didn't have to be completely covered up, but everyone was still expected to keep their masks on as best as possible. "Who are the others!" One of the masks lifted itself to reveal a boy underneath. "Brody!" the boy under the mask said. "Don't know if you remember me, I think we met at a conference once or twice! I'm a Hard Timer now too, only just got promoted!" he explains. Rinni nodded. The other boy lifted his mask too. "Augustus?" Rinni looked at the younger boy. "Why are you here, you didn't exactly murder anyone!" The Dog-eared boy made a face and looked at the throng of celebrating adults. "No, but I've took a lot of people to emergency rejuve." he shrugged. "You both know, you've been in the system for some time. Forced rejuve is only a step below death." Rinni nodded and made an apologetic face.

"I guess your both friend of Nina's!" he shrugged in response. "Most of the people here are rapists or murderers or stuff!" the boy responded. "But then you know how the prayers work?" "Yeah, I know." Rinni waded her way through the collection of pennitata. The adults were already on the drink and looking over the buffet table at the side of the garden it seamed there was going to be decent food too! Most of it was luxurious, deep fried or sweet but there wasn't candy, it was mostly good wholesome home-cooked foods and that was a refreshing sight to the red headed penny. Lifting up her mask she picked out and began nomming on a pie - noticing that a number of the other children were already gathered and having food.

All hallows was not a fancy celebration, in fact compared to most SPD's it could be accused of being laid back. Fiddling with her robes Rinni had to partially pull them off to fetch out a piece of paper, revealing the lack of clothes underneath. She branded it in front of the other children. "I have." Rinni gulped down a glass of fizzy aid. "Sixteen people on my list." The redhead stated, "Including my old family. How did you lot go." Brody sighed. "Now as many, I know that if we're not serious about writing out our lists they just go worse on us but I didn't have that many people, just a more severe crime." The boy complained. Nina nodded. "That's the part about this that bothers me, they have to use our paddles on us but there's no rule as to how many strokes." The pennies looked at each other glumly. This wasn't going to be a happy evening.

The sun was finally down. All Hallows was started officially and fully. While outside people partied and sought candy and sweets, around them the black clothed and sombre white faced figures gleamed in the firelight, talking and to each other and ate and drunk animatedly. It was a balancing act. Every time a Penny approached one of the adults they lowered their mask, as was tradition. On this, All Hallows there were no names. Just Spectres of the night.

Looking Around Rinni noticed some of the other pennies starting their process, in total there were at least 30 parents here and about 18 to 20 children and already some of the youths were starting to approach adults at random as the night began. To her left a couple of spankings were starting up and Rinni sighed. "I suppose we should get started." Nina stated the obvious, and the others nodded, each of them subconsciously looking around for their parents. The first spanking traditionally was always the worst.

Touching their fingers together as the children parted ways Rinnita looked around for her mother. Masane in her body suite and cape wouldn't exactly be hard to pick out, a few others had chosen body suits or tight fitting clothes but not one of them had a rack on them like her mother did. Spotting her dispite the black and whether clothing and identical masks the redhead raised her hood again and approached her.

"Mother?" "Yes?" Rinni took a breath and gulped. "Mother Agnas, I... I'm sry." she frowned and looked at the ground. The first spanking was always the hardest. "I know your living out on a colony now, I also knw you... Ya got that letter." Rinnita snuffed. "Your little gal hurt peeple and... And I'm sry." Masane was watching the little redhead carefully. This wasn't the first time the redhead had been to a Halloween but it was her first time attending as a proper penni. In her fourth cycle, only her second cycle as a full Hard Time, Rinnita had clearly come a long way in a short time. Her broken circle cycles had been short hard and severe and this Halloween would be a hard night for her.

Rinni sniffed. "I know you got the letter." she sniffed. "I wish I knew what, I mean. I haven't heard a word from you. You've been living out there and I wonder. If you still love me!" Closing her eyes Masane couldn't take it any longer, reached out and simply hugged her daughter. It probably wasn't the best response - Rinnita was too honest a child for her own good.

"Your not supposed to comfort." The red head was sobbing. "I want her to comfort me but your not supposed to." "Hun, I know. It's okay, It's okay. Give me your paddle!" Rinnita sniffed and nodded, trying to get back on track. "Mumma Agnus, please punish me. I did wrong, I hurt people. I shamed you. Please, I deserve a good hard spanking."

Masane took Rinni's little paddle reverently, it was a responsibility. Each adult here, faceless and ghostly around the gas-run bonfire held the will of the parents, victims and friends lost or gone and as her mother Masane knew about Rinni's past and was expected to give her the worst punishment. Masane lowered her daughters demon mask. "Child mine. The child within, the demon without. We fear only that which we cannot control!" She caressed her daughters face for a moment. "I hate what you did not who you are, I punish the demon not the child." The sobbing girl behind her mask nodded and approached her mothers left side, hoisting up the robes to reveal her bared bottom. Placed across the ghastly lap the spanking began, there was no fixed number of strokes. Masane focused on the rump in front of her and simply began striking over and over until Rinnita was a solid ball of tears and her rump a solid ball of pain, afterwards she was let up and allowed to leave.

The pennies had easily six hours, there wasn't any rush. Sniffing and returning to the table where other red bottomed ghouls sat or stood quietly with food and soda, she watched the other youths around them. Nina it seamed was already past her responsibility to any parents, had she chosen to include any. Standing in front of a young man, short and wearing simple black full length pants, long sleeves with the collars up, Nina was almost cowering but not shirking from her responsibility.

"Lisa..." she addressed an older woman, least she was pretty sure it was a woman, she seamed to be. "I think it was Lisa. I wish I could remember the reports clearer." she snorts a derisive snort. "I cant even remember the name of my victim." she says, "Most of them for that matter." "Just go with Lisa for now." The woman under the mask explained. ""Okay, Lisa. I, I don't know where you are now. I do know I ruined your life, you were only 6 and I took advantage of you." Nina slumped inside her robe, unaware of Rinnita listening close by. The redhead remembered vaguely what Nina's crimes had been, and had been surprised when she'd learned that Nina was a Lesbian, guilty of forcing herself on young girls.

"I ruined your life!" Nina was explaining, "You trusted me and I abused that trust!" Rinni turned away, drifting as she finished a little pastry thing with what seamed to be prawn paste or something inside. She was mentally looking for her first victim, but trying to wait till her bottom was less sore. "I hated men, I treated people I knew like sh.... Very Badly." Augustus was saying to an older man. Rinni blinked on the realisation that the small dog-boy had approached her father - one of the biggest and strongest men there to receive his punishment. "I had not excuse for what I did to you and while I know your still alive somewhere as a child, it doesn't excuse my picking that fight or busting your skull wide open." Rinnita moved on.

Most of her spankings would be coming from men too, it was boys she had hurt. Seven of them had testified, but she had raped more and had included them in her list. No doubt her father would pass their names to corrections but it wasn't important. Picking a smaller looking man, one who mightn't spank as hard as what her father would, Rinni polished off her snack and, wincing, slowly and with a shivering voice walked over to face the soul of one of her victims. "Mich..." she said, and began the four step, sniffing and crying slightly as she apologised for her crime and asked him to punish her. Again, there was no count. These parents were representing souls, each spanking was up to the person and up to how well each child confessed and whether they showed remorse or not. As Rinni's own paddle was taken to her rump for the second time she was grateful for only one thing - that the mask covering her face stopped the other children from seeing how hard she cried and the balls of tears and snot running down her face.

The night continued like this, the children gathering together at the tables as they watched their parents teeter on the edge of drunkenness. Most of them were holding back but the voices and the discussions were getting louder and the fire-lit spectres discussed the children who had approached them already. By the time she was halfway through her list Rinni guessed she'd already had over 500 strokes, she avoided sitting and simply lay on the grass with her rump exposed to the cool night air as the children quietly cried and talked.

"It's nearly ten.." One of the children was saying. "I hear that if we don't finish our lists before the midnight hour they just form a line and let each of the adults here give you twenty." "I've not seen that happen." Rinnita replied to the grass beneath her. "Do you know anyone who tried it?" The redhead tried to think. "Actually no, not even when I was an adult when I attended All Hallows. But then," "I know." Augustus interjected. "SPD. Normal limits don't apply." Rinnita lifted her mask and rested it on the back of her head, the streamers making her look like a black squid, this earned a few snickers from observers but she ignored it. One thing was becoming obvious now - as well as the pennies with their masks there were other children here. Voluntaris, Medicalos - they had been watching the spankings and the pennies instead of being made to take part. You could tell them cause they were the only children by this time of night who were still upright and hadn't been reduced to tears. Rinni wondered who they were but knew she didn't have time.

Getting up Rinni grabbed the hand that she thought belonged to Nina. "Come on, we should finish our victims list just in case." She envied the ones who'd already made it through the list of people to beg punishments from. Once their rumps calmed down they would get to relax for the rest of the evening.

With sighs and grumbles, other spectral children got up and sought out another victim to be punished by. As the midnight hour drew on. Everyone was weary and coffee and vathuria were being handed out to wake people up a little. Some of the adults and even children were snoozing quietly in a corner of the yard, and the bonfire was being stoked, taking the low flames higher and higher.

Five minutes before midnight, as other parties and people were starting to wrap up their Halloween celebrations, the host of this small All Hallows gathering spoke up, the first loud voice during the night that hadn't been a crying or squealing child. The sound of a properly loud voice caught everyone off guard. And all the pennies were lucky. They had crossed every name off their list.

"Gather around, Gather around. It's time for the burning!"

Adults and children were snapped awake, everyone gathering around the fire as they tried to regather their wits. "One at a time, children first!" the host declared, explaining even though everyone knew the drill. "Place your letters, prayers and lists in the fire so that they may find their ways through the smoke at the fire to those were lost." Rinnita lifted her mask, stepping forwards first, other children hot on her heals. Her list of names was stained, with the sweat from her spankings, her tears, her pain. The pain and suffering that was her message to her family and her victims, a message of her heart and that she was atoning for her crimes against them. Folding it and tossing it into the fire she watched it as the flames slowly consumed her crime then stepped aside to allow others through.

The bell, the city bell, ancient and atoning that rang so rarely in the town began to chime, the ancient asula tune of forgetting as letters from adults and children alike were submitted to the fire.

Chime..... Chime..... Chime.... Chime..... It started counting the final strokes till midnight. This was One only two times the bell was allowed on this late; All Hallows and New Years.

As the last stroke counted off the host spoke up again. "The door to the neither-world has closed." he Announced. "It's time to PARTY!"

Rinnita grinned and adults all over the courtyard threw off the black and sombre robes and placed aside their pale masks to reveal bright clothes. Voices rose, music was turned on, people laughed and cheered and there were even party poppers being let off. The party that followed the Wake of the Dead would last as late into the morning as people could stand, and by the time they bedded half of the adults would be legless. Thank goodness for auto drive. Pennies who wanted to throw off their robes could, the voluntaris and other classes had party clothes underneath, only the pennies would have to go naked with their spanking on display. Everyone would enjoy themselves.

This was her Halloween. Now the actual party would begin.