Disclaimer : I do not own Charmed or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These characters are all great works done by their creators. And it will stay that way :p I own nothing and am only writing this story to see how this two worlds will mesh.
Chapter One
The shop was in a state of pandemonium as kids chattered loudly and busy mothers try to fit their children with the large variety of costumes that were on the shelves and tables. Halloween night will be coming in a few hours time, and there was a rush for last minute costumes. And the good costumes were all in danger of going out soon, which is one of the reasons why Paige Matthews was going against the flow of the crowd, dragging her two 5 year old cousins behind her.
"At last!" Paige gave a sigh of relief as they reached the fairy tale section, where the costumes of various fairy tale creatures were piled up on the table.
Ginny Matthews grabbed a fairy wand from the table and gave an excited squeak. "I want to be a fairy." She pointed to the pink fairy costume in the middle of the pile. Paige dug it out and checked the price tag, twenty dollars. Paige nodded as she passed it to Ginny. Uncle Ben had passed her fifty dollars to pay for the Halloween costumes so they are still within budget.
Paige laughed as Ginny held the frilly pink dress to her shoulder and twirled around in what limited space they had. Her twin brother ducked out of her way and whine at Paige. "Can we get my costume now?" Nash said tugging at her jeans.
"Ok what do you want?" Paige asked. Ginny seemed taken with the fairy costume judging by the happy grin on her face. So after they had picked Nash's costume for the night, they will have to trudge through the crowd to get to the long queue at the cashier. It was a task which Paige is not looking forward to.
Nash grabbed hold of her hand and led her to another table. A batman, robin and superman costumes later they at last find a costume which was acceptable to him. "Spiderman." Nash grinned, holding up the mini spandex Spiderman suit.
"Thank God." Paige muttered under her breath. She was getting slightly claustrophobic from the entire crowd squeezing and pushing. Not to add to the fact that she had to keep a constant eye on the twins in case they ran off into the crowd, and was becoming seriously taxing to her nerves. "Let's go pay up now." Paige said, herding the two children towards the counter.
"What about your costume Paige?" Ginny piped up. Paige groaned she had forgotten about it. Uncle Ben had given her explicit instructions that she was also to get a costume for herself and not come back empty handed. She was the one taking the twins treat or treating tonight and Uncle Ben had insisted that he also pay for her costume and to go enjoy herself tonight.
Paige looked around the crowded shop and noticed that the queue at the cashier had become shorter. If she took her time searching for her costume, she would probably be standing at the end of a long queue again. Quickly Paige snatched a pair of black gloves from the nearest table, looked at the price tag and did a quick mental calculation. Great they were within budget. She had a leather jacket somewhere in her suitcase, perhaps she will go with the biker look tonight. Paige grinned, her uncle and aunt will be shocked but they did say to enjoy herself.
"Come, I've got my costume, let's go pay up and go home to get ready for tonight." Paige said as they began the trek through the crowd. Someone jostled her from her left and she turned around to see a black haired young man.
"Oh I'm sorry." The young man apologized, turning back to his two girl friends.
"It's ok." Paige said, leading her charges towards the counter.
She did not notice the words x-men tagged to the inner linings of the gloves.
"Close call there Xander, you nearly balled her over." Buffy chided. In her hands was a fancy eighteen century dress. She had managed to strike a bargain with the proprietor of the shop and they agreed on a price she could afford. Now the girls were helping Xander search for an appropriate costume or prop.
"So what are you going as Xander?" Willow asked as she clutched a packet of ghost sheet in her hands.
"Well, I'm thinking of going as a light saber guy this year." Xander said with a chuckled, he fumbled at the toy swords laid out on the table. After sometime of pondering, he picked up a pure white sword that does not look too childish.
"That doesn't look much like a light saber." Buffy said dubiously.
"Well beggars can't be choosers." Xander said turning around. He paused as he saw someone familiar near the entrance. "Hey isn't that Owen Thurman, the one that dated you last time?"
Buffy turned around and gave a grimace as she saw the handsome young man in the distance. "Yeah that's him. It's so awkward, especially since I'm the one that dumped him. How about we hang out here a while until he goes away?"
"I've no problem with that," Willow said. "But look at that sword he's carrying to the counter. Isn't that the highlander prop we saw on display at the shop window?"
"Yeah and it costs a bomb." Xander said with envy. "Rich kids are so lucky."
Buffy sighed. "Well as long as he does not look this direction, I don't care if he's rich or not." She looked at the long queue at the cashier, its going to be a long day. "Come on, let's discuss what time we shall meet at my house."
Ethan gave a breath of relief as he sent the last of his customers out of his shop. Night was closing in and the time of preparation for the spell he was going to cast needs to be precise. A spell of pure Chaos, to turn everyone into their costumes and let the residents of Sunnydale know the real meaning of horror.
He stepped into the back of his shop and looked upon the statue of Janus, God of Chaos.
"Time to cast the spell and for Chaos to roam free." He chuckled.
Halloween night in Sunnydale sure is packed with small kids and teenagers, Paige thought as she led her two charges house to house treat or tricking.
"Mrs Davis gave me toothbrush." Nash said as he and Ginny stared forlornly at the Donald Duck and Minny Mouse toothbrushes in their hands. Paige stifled a laugh and pushed them next door. "Maybe we'll have better luck here." She said, knocking on the door.
An old lady opened the door with a bowl of candy and smiled at the twins in delight. "My my, a fairy and Spiderman has come visit me. What would you like?" the lady asked, offering the bowl to them. "But only take five each." She said.
Paige smiled and looked out the street, they still had a few more houses to hit before going home. The streets were filled with groups of kids and high school volunteers who were taking care of them, so Paige was not really too worried about walking home in the dark. But Uncle Ben had set a curfew of ten o'clock for the twins before he and Aunt Millie had set off for their own Halloween party, so Paige had to bring the twins home before then.
The children got their candy and thank the old lady. As they walked down the porch back to the main street, a wave of dizziness and dread hit Paige. Paige collapsed onto the ground as her legs gave up from beneath her.
"Paige, Auntie Paige, are you all right?" Ginny asked worriedly. Both she and Nash looked ready to cry.
Paige lifted her suddenly heavy head and tried to croak out words of reassurance from her dry lips. Her heart was thumping heavily in her chest and she could sense a heavy pressure building up around her. Oh god, Paige thought panting heavily as she tried to find words to reassure the frightened children. Am I having a heart attack? She tried to push herself up but everything was so heavy. Then she saw it, or rather, she sensed it, a wave of darkness was swamping over the streets. Panic filled her as something within her screamed in pain. "Run!" Paige cried. "Get out of here!" She said weakly.
Ginny started sobbing while Nash continued tugging at her trying to get her to stand up. "Aunt Paige! Aunt Paige!" he cried.
Then the wave hit them and Paige only saw darkness.
