It was a dark night the streets were filled with people in costume going around Vale. It was Halloween and everyone enjoy the fact they could masquerade as someone else for one night. On this night everyone was equal including human and faunus since they dress up as different people and with the right costume you couldn't tell the different between them. This was the night that everyone could enjoy themselves as someone else and most importantly enjoy the treats that were given out.
"Oh I can't wait to get some candy. Maybe we can get enough for the whole year!" Ruby was excited for this night. She was always able to get the most candy with her semblance helping her speed around Vale. This year she was dressed in black robe hiding her cape under the cloak, she had a white mask that made her look like death. She was now the grimm reaper and with Crescent Rose she was completely in costume though she had to change the blade so that it was harmless to people and unloaded it.
"Ok Ruby but don't get too excited you have to go at our speed and not you hyper speed you always do. We have to stick together incase Roman decide to do something this Halloween." Weiss warned as she finished getting dressed in her costume. She had put on a black eye mask, with a black flat brimmed hat and a black cape. She decided to dress as Zorro since he was from a higher class and used a rapier as his weapon.
"Oh come on Weiss. It's Halloween what kind of villain attack on Halloween? Yang was dressed as a cheerleader her hair in twin tails and wearing a mini skirt and a matching uniform that read 'Beacon' across the chest. She had the pompom to complete the costume but lest them on the bed.
"Weiss has a point. Even if it's a holiday we shouldn't let our guard down. The white Fang may strike and we need to be ready." Blake said while readying Gambol Shroud to her back. She was dressed as a cat. It was the simplest and with it she could get rid of her bow and not be discovered as a faunus while she walked around.
"Ok everyone ready let's go! 'Ruby ran to the door opening ready to begin the hunt for sweets. As she opened to door she found that a large suit of armor blocking her exit. "What the?" Ruby looked at the suit quizzically inspecting it to see if there was indication to who it was. The armor moved with a jolt surprising Ruby and the rest of team jumped back in surprise.
"Happy Halloween." The voice of Jaune was heard echoing within the suit. "So what are you planning to do tonight?' Jaune asked while removing his helmet to be able to see better since the eye slot made things a bit harder to see.
"Oh were going trick or treating." Ruby answered holding a large sack that was going to hold all the candy that they collected tonight.
"That cool. Me and everyone else is going to this party later why don't you come by later?" Jaune put back on his helmet and walked to his dorm wear he met Pyrrha dressed as a dead bride while Ren and Nora were dressed in black leather coat wearing all black including black glasses. "Come on Ren let's go." Nora announced without her usually bubbly personality and instead with a slightly serious demeanor that was rare seen in her. Team JNPR followed Nora lead and waved goodbye to team RWBY.
"Ruby instead of going trick or treating why don't we go to that party?" Yang asked grabbing her pompoms and walking into the hallway.
"I would much rather go to this party than do something as childish are asking stranger for candy. " Weiss as she moves into the hallway with the others looking for direction to the party that the blonde had mentioned.
"I have no problem doing either but I want to go to this party as well." Blake agreed with Weiss and Yang and stood next to them as Ruby looked distraught that her teams rather go to a party than get free candy.
"Come on guys it free candy." Ruby whined to her teammates.
"Ruby you can get candy any day." Weiss sighed as she recalled all the time Ruby somehow got a huge amount of candy somehow and without explanation. There was even a time she got a huge amount of cakes for somewhere. When someone asked her she just said' I found them.' Since there was never any new of burglary anywhere they went with it.
"Yeah Ruby we should go to this party it sounds fun." Yang agreed with the heiress as she was already walking to the party. "Come on guys let's roll."
"Come on Ruby this will be fun." Blake insisted she followed the blonde cheerleader and the daughter of Zorro. With a sigh Ruby threw the large bag now full of broken dreams and followed her teammates to them to their destination.
It the party was in an abandoned warehouse at the edge of Vale. It was abandoned because of a fire that was the result of fireworks accident. Only one person had died in the fire it was said that he curse those who dared enter this place soon it was just forgotten until now. The exterior was broken the whole building was burned to a black char but the interior was amazing. There a giant glowing pumpkin in the middle of the ceiling. There are speakers in the front with a DJ wearing a giant skull head with a sombrero. If there was a trace of damage no one could find it the only thing that weren't fixed were the windows which were still broken. It was either that they overlooked it so that gave it a haunted exterior by leaving them broken.
"This is really nice." Weiss surprised that an abandoned place can be decorated so nicely. When she decorated for Beacon's dance it took her a while but this was done in one night she was impressed.
"Oh look there's Jaune." Yang pointed to the dancing knight in the middle of the dance floor. Even with armor on Jaune still knew how to dance in style. "Damn that kid can dance." A voice from behind them said. Everyone turned to see that is was Sun dressed as a pirate. "So who is it anyway?" Sun questioned wondering who would try to dance in a full suit of armor.
"It's just Jaune believe it or not." Blake answered the pirate question. She continued to look around to see that Neptune was dressed a Poseidon. He was talking to girls from another academy instead of dancing because he can't actually dance.
"How can he dance in that thing?" Sun surprised that he would be able to move so well in armor and not be exhausted already.
" Ok everybody let's dance!" Yang was about to rush to the dance floor until the lights went out. Something let out a horrid shriek like someone was burned on fire. The light soon returned everyone was looking around to see if anything had changed. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. That was until started screaming and floating in the air.
"Jaune!" Everyone screamed as they watched him flying in the air lifted up by some force. Weiss looked around for propulsion dust nothing he was flying in midair in pain by something unseen. "Make it stop! Make it stop!" He screamed hoping that his pleas would be answered but they weren't. Soon his head started spin around his body and soon his limbs followed. No one could move watching this horror that was unfolding before their eyes. Then he exploded in a fountain of blood body falling to the ground limb scattered everywhere. The lights went out again everyone screamed in terror hoping they weren't next to suffer the same fate. There was soon a booming laughter in the dark people thinking is the ghost of the dead. The light came back on .
"So how's everyone Halloween?" The DJ asked the audience. Everyone looked at him like he was a mad man.
Yang was about to kill him until she saw Pyrrha laughing." Happy Halloween everyone? She and the DJ shouted. The DJ removed his head to reveal that is was Jaune. Everyone looked at the suit part to see that everyone thing was fake on the inside.
"Sorry for the scare everyone but this just had to happen." Jaune said coming down for the DJ booth. He and Pyrrha had this idea at the beginning of the month and decided that this was the best night to do it. When Jaune made it to team RWBY he saw a mix of emotion Weiss was angry that he had pulled such a prank on them, Yang was impressed that he would do something like this, Ruby was happy to see that he was safe and Blake was curious of how they made the armor float without the use of dust and any visible magnets. Weiss was the first to speak.
"How could you do this? You almost gave us all heart attacks!" She was fuming that he would do something like that to everyone. Weiss understood that pranks were pulled on this day but to horrify everyone into thing that you have been killed by a ghost in a nightmarish fashion was going a bit too far. Though a small part of her was also relieved that he was okay.
"That was probably the best Halloween prank I've seen yet. What did you use for the inside of the armor?" Yang questioned thinking to do the same prank but to her father or maybe the instructors instead.
"Oh nothing just some red dye and some left over ballistic gel for the training room." Pyrrha explained as she walked over to Jaune. She was going to leave out the part about her semblance and that she used it to move the armor.
After some questions, dancing and Nora and Ren acting out a scene from a movie everyone left." Ok this was pretty fun night. "Ruby said feeling better that she had fun with everyone tonight. She really wanted to get some candy at least. The soon reached the dorm and changed to the pajamas. Ruby was the last one to get dressed by the time she was done the others were sleeping in their beds. Ruby touched the leg of the bed noticing there was a small 'W' on the leg of her bed. Ruby wondered what the 'W' could stand for until she looked down at Weiss." Just for that you don't get any candy." Ruby thought reaching under her pillow to find a huge amount of candy. "No one can stop me from getting candy on Halloween." Ruby snickered into her pillow as she enjoyed a candy bar in all its glory.
"What happened to my candy?" Jaune looked around the room in search of his beloved candy. He had collected some before she had went to the party and now it is gone. "Why me? " Jaune questioned as he got ready for bed unknowing that his candy was just next door in the hands of a thief." Trick or treat Jaune." Ruby smiled just as she fell asleep.
HAppy Halloween. PLease review good or bad. This will change in the next chapter in to a real horror and will be changed to M after. Thanks for reading