La Muerte sighed in boredom as she watched her city from the window. There was so much trash in her beautiful realm, and the Shantytown is extremely disgraceful to her power! The Forgotten are almas too! No one should be living in that sorrowful place!

She adored the vintage style of the road, it's classic, but there wasn't much space for the cars or any vehicles to go through, and the trolleys seriously needed some fixing.

La Muerte turned to her calendar, Día de Los Muertos is tomorrow, 70% of the dead will be out of the realm! She would have plenty of time!

She smiles, and rushes out of her room to the radio room, preparing the mic, and connects it to all radio services.

"To All citizens in the Land of the Dead. This is an announcement from Almighty La Muerte." She starts, "Tomorrow will be 2018 Día de Los Muertos, and the Marigold Bridge will be ready for you all, and since I didn't have any familia to reunite with," her voice was bitter at the ending part before she brushed it off, and smiles, "It's a good time for me to finally reconstruct the Santa Cecilia section off the Land of the Dead!".

However, all the citizens would be certainly pissed off by the fact that she announced it only one day before Día de Los Muertos. What excuse should I give them? She quickly turned to the window.

"Like get rid of all the trash, improve The Shanty Town, add more roads for the vehicles, and obviously change the trolley's wires for everyone's safety." she exaggerated the last part, and then took a deep breath, "The renovation will be held during the reunion time. So I highly recommend everyone with a living family to not stay at home! if you don't have any family to return to or you live in the Shantytown you are welcome to join me at the castle."

I hope that's enough for them, she thought, why didn't I come up with this idea faster, so I could tell them at least a month earlier!?

"So happy early Día de Los Muertos to you all!"


November 1, 2018

The Dead Rivera met Pepita outside, and got on her back one by one. Héctor looked down at the city as they were flying their way to the Flower Bridge.

"But I don't have family!" a man shouts at the police that are trying to evict every house in the Land of the Dead "Where am I supposed to go huh?".

Héctor shook his head.

"You are welcome to join the Sinparientes and Shanty Folks at La Muerte's Castle, sir." Another officer spoke to the nearby neighbor.

The people who weren't crossing the bridge followed the officers to the Castle, some of them were still confused, but following anyway.

"I wish announced it's faster," Héctor sighed.

"It's indignante that they announce it only a day before Día de Los Muertos," Imelda agreed. "But at least after this renovation, the forgotten won't be living in poverty anymore."

And she's right, the old souls should live their last moment peacefully, not in the wreckage of joy he went through for 96 years.


The Deads gathered around the scanner line, it was horrifyingly crowded that some scanners actually broke.

"Let go of me! You tontos!" a man screamed from the criminals line.

"Ernesto?" Héctor's gasped in horror.

"They are letting him cross?" Imelda questioned in disgust.

Coco held her Papá's hand tight. The police officers would cross along with the criminals but could she really trust them? That cabrón had killed her Papá once! and Miguel twice too! What will stop him from doing it again!?

"Next."

Coco moved to stand in front of the scanner.

*Ding Ding*

And Día de Los Muertos has begun. Miguel has grown so much since the last time she saw him! The Riveras had a very great moment until the sunrise was coming in a few hours. It's time to go home.

The dead Riveras made their way to the bridge, and found a huge chunk of crowd at the entrance. There was something that looked like a very large fabric covering the entire Santa Cecilia section of the Land of the Dead.

"Is this normal? Héctor asked his wife.

"No," Imelda shook her head, and turned to a woman nearby, "Do you know what's going on? seora."

"There is an invisible barrier on the bridge," she replied, "No one is able to cross.".

"Qué!?" Héctor panicked.

Is this Ernesto doing? Coco thought as some skeletons around them started to glow, and then suddenly her Papá disappeared with a Golden Puffs! Both Coco and Imelda screamed in shock, trying to hold on to every trace or sparkles that's left, but nothing helped, and then suddenly, it happened to the matriarch.

Everyone started to disappear one by one, the twins, Rosita, Victoria, and Julio. Coco stared at the emptiness of the graveyard in shock, and as she was about to scream… she was blinded by a flash of Golden Lights...


Thank you for reading the first chapter of my fanfic!

Almas = Souls

Sinparientes = no relatives

indignante = outrageous

And "Tontos" for Ernesto obviously means fools xD

I'm so sorry my Spanish is horrible, I just got a teaching book a day before I start writing this xD I'll try my best to learn more as I write this fic.