A/N: Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the first in a series of Halloween one-shots that will star the Arclight brothers, the Kamishiro twins, the Tenjo brothers, and the Tsukumo siblings. I already have several requests for each from different authors and I hope everyone enjoys this first one (not a request). No flames.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal or any of the characters, Shin Yoshida does.
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Thomas Arclight lived with his older brother, Christopher, and his younger brother, Michael, and their father in a large house on the outskirts of Heartland City.
Often times when Thomas's school let out, Byron was still at work, and Chris was walking Michael home for their school, so the middle Arclight brother was often alone when he came home, but Chris and Micheal usually came home maybe ten or fifteen minutes later, half an hour at the latest.
When Thomas came home this particular afternoon, he noticed that the lights were on, despite it being only three o'clock and still light outside.
"Chris?" the red-and-yellow-haired child called out.
He then heard a voice coming from upstairs call "Yes?"
"Chris?" Thomas tried again.
"Yes?" the voice called again.
At first the nine-year-old Arclight thought that his brother was calling him, but then he felt uneasy. But, he tried to push the uneasiness he felt away as he climbed the stairs.
Once he'd reached the top floor, he called his older brother's name once again.
"Yes?"
The voice was coming from the first room on the left. That was the guest room but it was rarely, if ever, used.
Thomas swallowed hard. He felt uneasy but he wanted to see his brother, to know that nothing was wrong.
Just as the scarlet-eyed Arclight child prepared to open the door, he heard the front door open.
"Thomas? Are you home yet?" he heard Michael call out.
"Thomas," he heard Chris.
Hearing the voices of his older and younger brother made Thomas's heartbeat slow and he felt instantly better. He turned and went back down the stairs.
He decided he had just been paranoid. After all, there was no way anyone could have gotten into the house.
Right?
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So, how was it? Let me know.
I'll be updating every day of this month.
Next chapter: A request from BlueButterflyRose: Quinton never seems frightened of anything. So Quattro and Trey make a bet to see who can scare him.
Until then.