AN: Here's the first chapter to my Halloween fic. Just to let you know, the character Scott (mentioned in the last chapter of Secrets of the Past) is a graduated Thunder Ninja and a friend of Hunter and Blake.

Fear

The preparations for the Halloween party took longer than expected. With all the tricks the ninja's played on each other, it was a surprise that any food and drink were ready and any decorations were put up.

It took a while to decide where to hold the party. The guys wanted to use the girl's house while the girls wanted to use the guy's apartment. After a while, Scott, a friend of Hunter and Blake came to their rescue.

His mother worked in Real Estate and knew of a house that was very hard to sell due to its location and to the story about its previous owner. She allowed Scott to use the house for the party as long as they didn't demolish it with their antics.

Shane laughed when Kapri screamed when a spider crawled along the wall in front of her as she was putting up a picture of a pumpkin lantern.

"It's not funny Shane." Kapri jumped down from the chair and started to scratch her arm. To her, it felt like the spider was crawling on her.

"Yes it is. It's just a little spider." Shane's body jerked and shook as he laughed. He caught the look Tori gave him and immediately stopped.

"Hey Shane, I thought you were…" Dustin began.

Shane turned to his friend abruptly. "No."

"But I'm sure you…"

"Dustin."

"Fine. But I know you don't like spiders." Dustin finally finished.

Kapri stopped scratching her arm to laugh at Shane. "Big baby."

"What did you just say?"

"Biiiiiiiig baby."

Shane walked towards her only to be stopped by Blake.

"Listen, bro. I didn't come back during my break to hear you two at each others throats."

Shane walked away and continued what he was doing as Kapri did the same, but not without mocking him behind his back.

Tori simply shook her head at the two. There weren't many times when Shane and Kapri got on with each other. During classes they respected each other, but in their free time it didn't take long for them to start bickering. This time it wasn't entirely their fault since Dustin helped them along.

Blake sighed and walked back over to help Tori. "When will they learn to get along?"

"Soon I hope." Tori tucked some strands of hair behind her ears. "When is Hunter getting back?"

"I don't know. He said that he just arrived at the airport when he called me about 20 minutes ago. He's going to pick up some more drinks before getting back here."

Tori nodded and continued her work. She was looking forward to the party. It was a break away from work and more time to spend with Blake. As she looked up at the ceiling of the house's living room she couldn't shake the eerie feeling she received. Putting it down to the stories she heard, she mentallypushed the feeling away.