[h3][center][b][i]The[/i][/b] Pumpkin King![/center][/h3]
[color=orangered]"Normally, I'd like to keep my scaring in the name of fun, but even I know when to stop being scary!"[/color] Jack snickered to himself, taking a single bow before the entire area went dark, but only for a brief moment. As soon as the darkness came, it left, and Jack's Halloween fire roared back up once again, only much stronger than it had been before! There wasn't as much fire in the area as there had been before, but there was a considerable amount of light radiating from the King and all around the entirety of the group, surrounding them (and the shadows) with an illuminating warmth. Whatever sweet spots that were around had been erased, and the entire area was practically being baked in light. 

Jack himself hadn't changed, save his head being one large flaming pumpkin lantern, and his hands wielding two notable things. A torch in his left, and a bat-boomerang in his right. He brought both up, torch between his head and the boomerang, before he exhaled a fiery breath onto the boomerang, setting it alight in his hand. He clutched it tightly, then threw it as hard as he could, the rang easily cleaving through several shadows near the ghastly gaggle of grim grubs, Lock, Shock, and Barrel as well as this new weird horse before it returned to Jack's hand, extinguished and covered in shadow residue. Yuck.

That being said, the numbers of the shadows began to die down as they all started to retreat, though a few stayed to grow stronger regardless. [color=orangered]"I believe they're regrouping for one final assault! Let's make them fear the day they messed with us!"[/color]

Zero, meanwhile, was cowering behind the bathtub babies before the sudden flash of a boomerang appeared in his vision, realizing that he might've been safer than he had thought compared to the shadows that were assaulting the group. Though, Zero clearly wasn't as fast as the large horse that was in the area, so maybe... just maybe, Zero could help the horse out. The dog 'jumped' onto the back and head of the horse, sitting on top of the mighty steed and staying near his head. His body wasn't opaque, so the horse could reasonably see through him, and what made it better was that Zero's bright nose was still glowing bright. If that horse was going to defend, maybe he could use his head to see the benefits in what he could do, literally and metaphorically.