My Own Science (Dr Stone Senku x reader)

Christmas flavored Halloween

"Guys! It's Halloween!" you exclaimed with a huge smile. "The second best time of the year!"
Gen chuckled.

To celebrate the end of spooky season, you gathered everyone in a big circle, around a large campfire, as soon as it began to get dark. You were standing in the middle, beside the fire.
"So," Ruri said. "Halloween is a time where we scare each-other for fun?"
"Yep!" you nodded. "It's story time!"
Suika clapped her hands, soon followed by the cheers of everyone else.

"What story will you tell?" Senku asked.
"I was thinking maybe Frankenstein." you looked back at him.
"Kukuku seriously?" he smiled mockingly. "If you're going to scare them, tell them something actually scary."
"Well, I figured a concept such as you-know-what would be enough." you said, not wanting to spoil anyone.
"Oh please~ (Y/n)-chan!" Gen waved his hand. "You and I both know that the scariest stories are the ones that happened in real life."
You sighed. You know where this is going. And it is his favorite holiday, best let him have that one.
"Alright, be my guest."

He smiled and stood up, you swapped places. He looked around at his audience, enjoying this moment. Then he slowly took a branches as a torch, brought it close to his face from underneath, with an evil-looking smirk.
"This is the real life tale of the Axeman of New-Orleans!"
The kids flinched, he chuckled and threw the torch back into the fire, creating a disturbance in the flames. You smiled, what a dramatic story teller he was.

"In around two years, between 1918 and 1919, he became the most feared man in the town. He always attacked people in their sleep, bashed their head in and slit their throats with axes and razors he would find in their house."
"Why didn't they just throw away their axes?" Senku, sitting next to you, whispered.
"I don't know man, people are stupid." you chuckled.

"He attacked 12 times and killed 6 people. They never caught him, they had no clue, no leads. And one day, a journal received a letter from him. Quote!" he said and opened his arms, getting into it. "They have never caught me and they never will. They have never seen me, for I am invisible. I am not a human being. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call The Axeman!"
"I'm just imagine him twirling his mustache as he writes his letter." you whispered, making you and Senku chuckle.

Despite the two of you not taking this seriously, most of Gen's audience was hooked. And he was relishing the look of their faces as he kept going.
"And he mocked the police and made it clear that he could be much much worse." he changed in his stand, showing that he was getting into character. "Undoubtedly, you Orleanians think of me as a horrible murderer, which I am, but I could be much worse if I wanted to." he paused for dramatic reasons. "At will I could slay thousands of your best citizens, for I am in close relationship with the angel of death."

"B-But they stopped him right?!" Suika exclaimed.
"Of course they did!" Magma said, his arms crossed. "Such a drama queen, it had to get to his head and he became so overconfident that he got cau-!"
"They never caught him." Gen said, making Magma flinch. "Following one fateful night, there was three more attacks, and then he stopped and disappeared."
"One fateful night...?" Suika gripped Ruri's arm (who was sitting next to her).

"In that same letter, he threatened the entire town. Quote! Now, to be exact, at 12:45 o'clock, on next Tuesday night, I am going to pass over New Orleans. In my infinite mercy, I am going to make a little proposition to the people. Here it is: I am very fond of jazz music and I swear by all the devils in the nether regions, that every person shall be spared in whose house a jazz band is in full swing at the time I just mentioned. If everyone has a jazz band going, well then, so much the better for the people. One thing is certain, and that is some of those persons who do not jazz it (if there be any) will get the axe."

You covered your mouth as you tried not to laugh. Senku smiled, knowing the reason why you were getting the giggles.
"Jazz it." you said under your breath.
"Quickly we gotta jazz it." he whispered.
You wheezed and pressed your forehead on his shoulder, just dying. He leaned a bit closer.
"If we don't jazz it right now, things are gonna go to shit."
You wheezed again. Without looking, you gave him a couple of sloppy slaps on the cheek, pushing his face away. He chuckled.

"They...They didn't believe him though, right?" Magma said, playing it tough.
"That Tuesday night," Gen said, ignoring him. "records were playing and the local jazz clubs were overbooked. Musicians even created a musical piece for the occasion called 'Don't Scare Me Papa' or 'The Axeman's Jazz'. No one was killed that night."

The story now over, Gen took one last look at his audience. They were on the edge of their seat, he was satisfied by that reaction. Now was the time to hit them where it counts. A smirk slowly formed on his face as he spoke.
"Though, some say he's still out there. Waiting for his dear music to rise from the stone."

"(Y/N)~!!!"
"Ah!" you sat straight, suddenly surrounded by the people from the village. "Sorry, I stopped listening, what happened?"
"Play the Axeman jazz please!" the kids exclaimed in a panic.
"Huh? But the others don't know it, we need time to rehearse."
"We can just play what we already know!" Soyuz exclaimed, determined. "We don't even have to get paid this time!"
"You guys okay with tha-?"
"YES!"
"Hahah-alright! To the venue everyone!" you stood up.

Despite the obvious fear the majority of the people was expressing, they became comfortable as soon as the music started.
"Don't look so tense!" you laughed, seeing the musicians' hands shaking before playing. "You won't play well if you don't relax."
In the end, everyone had fun in this improvised party.

For this piece, you weren't needed, so you came down to chat with Senku.
"Did they really never caught him though?" you asked.
"There are some theories, but they never got any closure." he explained. "One of them says he's gotten killed."
"Really? How?"

"There was this woman, whose husband got killed by the Axeman while she survived the attack. She re-married, though he disappeared some time later. Then she got into a fight with this one guy who was an actual suspect in the Axeman case. They had a business relationship before, but she broke it off before her marriage. So he visited her, demanded 500 dollars, and threatened her. Saying he'll kill her like he killed her husband." he paused. "And then she shot him."
You laughed.
"I mean, yeah! Good for her!"

"(Y/n)-chan~!" Gen walked up to you both, waving enthusiastically. "My oh my! What a turn of event!"
"It sure was, it was fun though!" you smiled. "The Axeman, walking through on Halloween night, looking for anyone who doesn't play jazz."
"Sounds like Christmas." Senku said.
"Yeah! I had that same thought!" you added.
"Wait, wha?" Gen's smile twitched, not liking *that* turn of event.

"You know what that means Gen?!" your smiled widen.
"No." he lied.
"You made a Christmas Halloween!" you exclaimed.
It was like Gen's enthusiasm was transferred to you. Senku chuckled.
"Thank you Gen!" you said, taking his hand in yours and shaking it, though he didn't put any force into his arm, so it looked like a spaghetti.
"No~!" he whined.

"You did it." Senku placed a hand on his dropped shoulder. "Congrats."
"No~!!!"
"You saved Christmas!" you said.
The three of you laughed.
"Next year we'll give Magma an axe and a creepy cloack." you said, quieter so nobody else would hear you.
"We'll give him a beard too." Senku smiled.
"The Axeman does not have a beard!" Gen frowned.
"Oh how would you know?!" you said, smiling.
"Yeah, were you there maybe?" Senku added.

And so, the night continued, with you and Senku teasing Gen. Though Senku didn't forget to hit you one more time with that stupid joke when you were called on stage.
"Quickly (Y/n), go jazz it before it's too late!"
"Shut the fuck up dude!" you wheezed.
'Yep, they're dating.' Yuzuriha and Nikki thought as they looked at you two.