Chapter one: Dusk
Halloween. The most wicked time of the year. A day when monsters and ghouls come out among the people who dress like them. Rune hated Halloween. Always did. She didn't get the whole point of it. Still, it amused her to see her friends in funny costumes.
Skipper was a police man, Marlene was a witch, Heart was Juliet, Ace was a joker, Private was Robin, Trixy was a head angel, Snow was an "angel-in-training", and Rico was a psycho killer (...of course). Rodger was dressed like a mummy, Ally, of course, was dressed like a psychic, Max was a pirate, Angelica was a ninja along with Rain, Sunfall had dressed like a lion and even Peppy wore a belt with a squirt gun and said he was an outlaw. Night only had a military hat on and the lemurs Tyler was Romeo, Mort was Dracula and Maurice was a cave man.
"Ma? You're not dressing out?" Chip asked. He was dressed a Death a carried a scythe three times too big for him.
Rune sighed and glanced over at the costume Kowalski picked for her, and then looked at Chip. It wasn't fair for her to ruin his spirits. "Of course, Chip. Haven't you ever heard of the curse?"
Chip tilted his head. "Curse?"
"Rune," Kowalski, who was dressed as Einstein, said, "Curses are nothing more than myths and superstition."
The female lemur ignored him. Kowalski didn't know that telling "curses" on Halloween had been a tradition with her and Steve a long time ago. "But curses are real," Rune told her son, "Once, long, long ago, there was a werewolf named Zeron-"
"Werewolf?" Chip squeaked, his eyes wide as he thought of Night.
"Ya know... Werewolves...," Rune dragged on. Then she relieved that Chip was naive and stupid when it came to monsters. "They are not friendly like Scotty and night. They are normal by dady, but by night, they become wild and vicious."
Chip's tail twitched, indicating he understood.
"Anyways," Rune continued, "Zeron loved Halloween. He was able to walk among the normals without being detected. But, Zeron have people who didn't wear a costume, so whenever he spots someone, man or beast, who doesn't' war a costume, he bites them! Thus, that sed person would turn into a were...thing!" Rune ended with putting her hands in the air.
"oh noes!" Chip shouted.
"It's not all bad," Rune assured, "It only last one night on a Halloween night when the moon is full."
"But the moon's full tonight!" Chip said in a wailed. "And neither Julien nor Scot is wearing a costume!"
Rune turned and put her costume, a white dress and head band, on then turned to Chip. "Well, let's hope they don't get bitten," replied the Greek goddess.
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"There!" Tyler shouted after putting the final touches on Mort's costume; fake blood trailing from his mouth.
Mort giggled. "Yay! I like blood!"
Tyler gave the mouse lemur a weird look. "Cute and Creepy, Mort... Way to keep up the image..." He then turned to the two older lemurs. "Dad, aren't you gonna get in costume?"
Julien laughed. "I am already, son! I am going as the greatest and most handsome King of all; me!"
Tyler rolled his eyes. "The whole point of Halloween is to be something of someone different, Dad."
"Tyler~!" Heart's voice rang.
The young ring-tailed lemur looked to his left and saw Heart and all his friends' heads popping over the wall.
"Ya ready to go?" Heart asked, a smile spreading across her face.
Tyler turned away from her for a second so that he could slow his beating heart. Maybe going as a pair wasn't such a good thing. Tyler knew it would be an awkward night. He grabbed Mort and headed off. "Bye, Dad, Maurice!" he shouted.
"We better go meet our group too," Maurice suggested already walking off.
Julien followed, his hand brushing against a hedge. Suddenly, he heard growling and felt pain. "Owch!!!" Julien shouted.
"What? What?!" Maurice shouted.
"Something BIT me!"
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A/N: DUH DUH DU!!!!! So yeah... Here's chap one of my Halloween special. Awwww! Isn't that cute? Heart and Tyler are dressed as Romeo and Juliet! ^w^ So, what will happen next? Find out soon! ;P