This is a story I wrote combining Rainbow Brite with Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death".

The Masque of the Gray Murk

      The Gray Murk was a major problem all across Rainbow Land. If you caught it, you would become very sad, depressed, and gloomy. The gloom would slowly creep over you until you were so sad that you would never leave your house. The color would leave your eyes, and your face would turn extremely pale.

            Despite this, however, Rainbow Brite was happy. She, her friends the color kids, her horse Starlite, and her sprite Twink all lived their happy lives in the color palace. Its doors were closed and locked, so that nothing bad or scary could get in. Completely off their minds was the “Gray Murk”.

            After about a week of being closed in, they were all bored, so they decided to have a party. They all were pretty, cheerful costumes, and they played lots of games together.

            I should mention the odd fact that whenever the moon changed phases, at the exact time of the phase change everyone would stop the party for exactly ten seconds. They didn’t seem to know they were doing it, nor did they mention to each other anything about it. Rather, it just happened.

            I should also mention the rooms of the color palace in which their party was held in. They each were themed based on a different color, including the decorations and the paint on the walls. There was one room for each of the seven colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), plus one. The eighth room was themed of three colors rather than one. Since those three colors were black, brown, and gray, no one ever went in there.