Author's Note: This story was written in Round Robin format with four authors participating. We started writing shortly before Halloween and only recently finished, hence the reason we are posting a Halloween tale in December. Also know that any details on the Kelly family that were not established by canon come from Book 'em Again's fanon. Thanks for reading and we hope you enjoy this story; we certainly had a lot of fun writing it.

Halloween Tricks

By: Book 'em Again, honu59, kopiella, and Tanith2011

Chapter One:

It was the day before Halloween and excitement was in the air but there were two young boys who were not thrilled with their prospects for the upcoming holiday.

"Trick or treating is for babies," Thomas Kelly stated with all the certainty of a nine year old.

"Tell me about it," added the eleven year old Gabriel Kelly. "The candy is nice but Halloween is supposed to be scary. Ghosts, vampires, haunted houses that's what makes Halloween fun."

Thomas' face lit up. "You think we will find a ghost if we went looking?"

"Of course. It's Halloween. There should be lots of ghosts but Mom and Dad would never let us go look."

"Who says we have to tell them?"

Gabriel considered his brother's point carefully before asking, "Where would we look?"

Thomas' lower lip jutted out as he thought over his answer. "A haunted house?"

Suddenly the two boys looked at each other as they both called out at the same time, "The old house on Umi Road."

"Nobody has lived there for forever," Gabriel said excitingly.

"It has to be haunted," Thomas agreed.

Gabriel slapped his brother on his back. "Tomorrow night we'll check it out."

"Can I come?"

Gabriel and Thomas turned around suddenly and much to their dismay they saw their sister Amy. The boys met each other's eyes as they both held back a groan. The last person they wanted tagging along on their grand adventure was their seven year old sister.

"No way, Amy," Thomas replied, "this is too scary for girls."

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Fine. But I'm telling Mom and Dad that you're planning on sneaking out after dark on Halloween."

"Don't!" Gabriel shouted.

"You can't stop me."

"Fine. You can come if you promise not to tell Mom or Dad."

Amy calmed down but she still looked suspicious. "What about Thomas?"

After receiving a stern look from his older brother, Thomas gritted his teeth and said, "You can come. I only meant that it is too scary for most girls not for you."

"Deal."

"Okay, here's the plan," Gabriel announced. "We go trick or treating like normal but when Mom and Dad inspect the candy we sneak out and head to the haunted house."

Amy nodded and Thomas declared, "This is going to be the best Halloween ever!"

A cold voice spoke to the people gathered in the room, "Does everyone understand the plan?"

Three figures nodded their assent and the speaker continued, "We strike tomorrow night while the fuzz has their hands full chasing after teenagers pulling Halloween pranks. Our rendezvous is the abandoned house on Umi Road. Any questions?"

When no one spoke up the meeting ended as those gathered went their separate ways to finish their preparations for tomorrow night.

It was going to be a Halloween to remember.