Holidays with the Titans
Disclaimers, I still own nothing except my creative genius.
Hello all you readers out there. Here's my comedic sequel to "New Guy Naga."
Overview: Have you ever wondered how the Titans would celebrate holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas; well here's one of the thousands of answers on this site. The holidays will be even more interesting with Naga living in the Tower.
If this is the first of my stories that you've read, read my other story "New Guy Naga," so you'll understand.
Chapter 1: Tricks for treats
Date: October 30th 2012.
Time: 4:30 pm
The cool, crisp afternoon air blows through Jump City, pulling the golden leaves off of the half-bare trees.
Pumpkins adorn the porches of every house on every street; each with a menacing face carved into it. Decorations of bats, snakes, skeletons, and spiders are found on each window, bench and roof.
Today was the day before Hallow's Eve, or as it's more commonly known: Halloween.
The streets were lined with people dressing up their houses for the big night tomorrow; and on a little island with a giant T-shaped building, six people were extra busy.
These six were the Teen Titans: Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, and their newest member, Naga.
Inside and out the heroes were frantically preparing their home for the celebration.
Starfire and Beast Boy flew around the building, placing fake spider webs across the surface.
Inside, Robin and Raven covered the walls with, 'all work and no play make Jack a dull boy," as well as, 'redrum,' in paint that would glow neon colors when the lights went off.
Cyborg was outfitting the tower with special effects that would make amusement parks look like kiddie rides.
On the shore Naga was giving his own personal touches. Using his geomancing, he willed the earth to take the form of hands rising out of the ground, like zombies trying to pull you into their graves. He also created statues out of stone, that took the shape of men and women in greco-roman togas, with gladiators about to strike them down with swords and spears; they were positioned with their hands in the air, looking in pain. He placed one opposite of another, forming a walkway to the front door.
Weeks earlier, he questioned why the tower would need to be decorated, as they lived on an island in the middle of a bay. Robin explained that on Halloween, boats would ferry people to and from Titan's Tower.
In the common room, Robin was sending out e-mails to the Titan teams and Honoraries, for their anual Halloween costume party.
"Tell me again, why do we need costumes? We already look like freaks and monsters," Naga said as they convened in the living room.
"Because it's fun, you get to be something you usually aren't," Beast Boy told him as he bounced up and down on the couch.
"Beast Boy, you're everything, you turn into animals. How is putting on a costume fun?" Raven questioned. The shapeshifter just rolled his eyes.
"Yo Raven, why are you wearing your costume? The party isn't 'til tomorrow," Cyborg said.
"Ha ha," Raven said sarcastically.
"And besides, who isn't into getting free candy?"
"Though I do like treats, I've grown more into tricks," Naga said as a sly smile played on his face.
This 'Halloween,' is the best idea you humans ever came up with, Airheart gleefully said.
If that's true, then humanity is even more pathetic than I thought, Inferno said.
"So friends, what manner of horrifying creatures have you chosen to go as?"
"Well I wanted to wait until tomorrow, but I guess I could give you a preview." The shapeshifter turned into a cheetah and dashed out to his room. A few minutes later, a green and yellow tornado started spinning around the room.
As the twister stopped they saw that it was the missing shapeshifter. When the others got a good look, they saw that he was now wearing a yellow zoot suit with a matching hat.
"Sssmokin'," he said.
"What're you supposed to be?" Cyborg asked.
"The Mask, obviously."
"Good call, a green faced loonatic with homicidal tendencies," Naga said sarcastically.
"Well what's your costume smart guy."
"That will have to wait for tomorrow, no exceptions."
Naga walked out of the room, but not before giving an unpleasent chuckle.
Date: October 31st, Hallows' Eve
Time: 6:50 pm
If it weren't Halloween, you would've thought that the tower was in disrepair. The windows were cracked and shattered, and most of the lights were dead with only two or three flickering on and off.
Though because it's Halloween, everyone knew that it was merely effects. The dead lights were really one-way mirrors that had been given cracks and holes.
In the living room, each of the Titans sat in their costumes.
Beast Boy sat with one leg over the other in his Mask zoot suit.
Robin and Starfire were dressed as Frankenstein and his bride.
Raven, who wanted to show that she could be creative on Halloween, was dressed as Freddy Kreuger with everything from the hat to the clawed glove.
Cyborg modified his holo-ring to make him look like the Terminator.
"Dude, where's Naga. All the good candy's going to be gone soon," Beast Boy complained.
"Does anyone even know what he's dressing up as?" Robin asked. All of them shook their heads.
As if the universe were answering his question, Naga stepped into the common room dressed in a black robe with a piece of cloth tied around the waist, and a hood that obscured his entire face. The sleeves of the robe were wide and draped over his arms.
Before anyone could speak, Naga held his right arm out to the side. Out of his robe flew pieces of stone and earth. The fragments flew around their master, before settling in his hand, and taking the form of a giant ornate scythe with a serated blade and a stone snake curled on the handle.
"What do ya' think?" he asked as he held the scythe over his shoulder
"Ominous," Beast Boy said.
"Cool," Raven added, though still keeping a straight face.
While Robin and Star stayed at the tower to make sure everything would be ready, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Naga left with pillow sacks to collect their hoard, with Raven tagging along to make sure they didn't do anything too stupid, though they would.
By the time their bags were half full, the party was due to begin, so Beast Boy had a mischievous idea on how to get more candy. When he walked up to a house, he rang the bell, but before the residence could answer, the changeling transformed into a towering Sasquatch.
When he held out his bag for the man who answered, the guy nervously put in a single piece. Beast Boy shook the bag. The guy put in one more piece. This time Beast Boy shook the bag even harder. The man nervously put the entire candy supply, bowl included, into the bigfoot's loot bag, and carefully shut the door. Inside, you could hear a 'thud,' as the resident fell unconscious.
"Dudes did you see me? I scared the pants off that guy, and got us a free bowl!"
"Not bad, but I think I can do better," Naga said.
"Lead the way," Cyborg challenged.
Naga led them to a house that seemed to be having their own costume party.
"Watch and learn kids, watch and learn," he said as he pulled his hood up to obscure his face, and grabbing his scythe.
A few minutes after he knocked on the door, a kid dressed as a mummy answered. Though he reeked of beer, he was still mostly sober.
At first, he just thought Naga was some guy in a really good costume. However, to add to the outfit, Naga used his pyrokinetic abilities to create an outline of a scroll with fiery words that read, "soul for repossession."
The toilet paper wrapped kid stared at the burning text, and naturally, threw the candy bucket he was holding, into the air, and slammed the door shut. Naga caught the sweets in his bag. When his victim looked through the curtains, Naga changed the words on his fire scroll to, "payment made."
A schadenfreude at his best, I am so proud, Airheart said.
You could have scarred that young man to death, Marina scolded.
If this doesn't get 'em, then the boos definitely will, Sub-Terror commented.
"Dude, you are pure evil!" Beast Boy said in reverence.
"You do know that was childishly immature right?" Raven said.
"Say what you want, but all I know is that I'm not gonna sleep for the next month."
I love this guy! Rude said as she was on her back laughing.
Putting them in a dark dome, Raven took them back to the Tower where Robin and Starfire were almost done with the preperations.
Looking around, most of the living room was dark, the lights toned down to near-darkness.
"Friends, has your trick and/or treating gone well."
"You tell us," Naga said as he and Beast Boy held up their candy bags which were near bursting.
"That's just what we need, our most animalistic members hopped up on sugar," Raven complained.
"Don't worry Rae, soon they'll just crash after the sugar rush wears off," Cyborg said as Naga and Beast Boy started inhaling their candy.
"Cyborg, do you have the yearly dentist payments," Robin said as he stepped down from a ladder.
"I think were goin' to need twice what we usually pay the guy." They looked on in horror, as both of the shapeshifters started growling at each other over a Reese's cup.
"What's up with those two?"
All of them jumped when they saw Kid Flash and Jinx standing behind them.
"How did you two get in here?!"
"I just vibrated our molecules through the door."
"Yeah, I don't wanna do that again," Jinx said as she tried to soothe her headache.
Jinx was dressed as an Egyptian priestess, while KF looked like a gladiator.
"Next time, just use the doorbell."
Pretty soon more and more people started coming.
Soon the Tower was packed with heroes dressed as every kind of freak and mutant imaginable.
For some reason, Cyborg felt it necessary to install a mechanical bull in the living room.
"That, was, AWESOME!" Naga said after the machine threw him off its back. The sugar rush was starting to kick in, for him and Beast Boy.
"I think you might want to sit down." Cyborg lead the twitching Naga over to the sofa, though he wouldn't stop jittering.
"Cyborg, have you seen Beast Boy?"
"I think he's somewhere in the training room."
The changeling in question, was busy entertaining a group of assembled Titans in front of an explosion proof barrier. Behind him were innumerable bottles of Diet Cola with Mentos hanging over them.
"Kole, are you taping this?"
"One minute; okay, it's recording."
Beast Boy pulled a rope, releasing the candies into the soda bottles.
A low rumbling started, followed by an explosion of soda.
As the heroes cheered at the sticky destruction, they held the changeling in the air and chanted, "Beast Boy! Beast Boy!" Though he knew that he would have to clean this up, this was his moment of glory.