A/N: Hi! Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been busy celebrating Christmas and New Years'. Tonight, I'm updating my Halloween story first and then my Christmas fic. Here are my shout – outs:

Jyessie Abbey McMahon Hardy, Animal Luvr 4 Life and taker43 for being the most recent 3 people to review this story.

Jyessie Abbey McMahon Hardy and taker43 for reviewing "A Perfect Hardy Christmas."

Fearless Hardy, Jyessie Abbey McMahon Hardy and SBMFanatic for putting APHC on Story Alert.

Well, that is it for the shout outs for now. Enjoy!

Chapter 7: The First Sign of Trouble

Location: Stamford Dance Hall

Time: 9:15 PM ET

In the dance hall, everybody at the party was dancing the night away. The song they were dancing to was "Piece of Me" by Britney Spears. Glen was pretty surprised to see Mark on the dance floor with his daughter, considering his friend wasn't even a dancer.

"Mark? Why are you dancing? Especially to a pop song by the ex – wife of a hip hop artist?" Glen teased.

"Glen, come on dude. Britney has given us some good music every once in a while. Besides, Gracie likes Britney's music. Right honey?" Mark asked.

"Yeah Uncle Glen. So pipe down and let me dance. Please," said Gracie.

"Okay. Sorry!"

This only caused Mark and Gracie to laugh.

"Hmm. You know what this party really needs?" Jillian asked.

"No Jill. What?" Melina wondered.

"It needs… me to sing karaoke!" Jillian cried out.

"Oh God Jillian! No! Please!" everybody else shouted, preparing to cover his or her ears.

However, it was too late. Jillian was already starting to sing along with Britney:

I'm Mrs. Lifestyles of the rich and famous

(You want a piece of me)

I'm Mrs. Oh my God that Britney's Shameless

(You want a piece of me)

I'm Mrs. Extra! Extra! This just in

(You want a piece of me)

I'm Mrs. she's too big now she's too thin

(You want a piece of me)

Of course, she was singing the song very poorly and off – key like she always did on Monday Night Raw.

"Oh my fuckin' God! This woman is awful!" Shawn cried out, his hands over his ears.

"I know! I'm lucky not to have to be a part of the Raw roster anymore," said Triple H.

"Hunter, please shut up," Dave, Glen, Shawn and Phil said at once.

"He's just being honest you guys," Matt pointed out.

"So leave him alone!" shouted Jeff.

"Yeah," said Beth, standing up for her boyfriend.

However, the worst was yet to come. The chorus was playing for the second time. Since he was dressed like Kevin Federline, John Morrison took the floor next to Jillian and sang along with her! He sounded better than Jillian, but only a little bit. All of a sudden, the lights started to flicker back and forth eerily.

"What was that?" Miz asked.

"The lights must've flickered. Is there a storm outside or something?" Adam wondered.

"No Adam. It's actually fine outside," Michelle pointed out.

"Oh well. It's not that bad. Let's keep partying!" Maria cried out.

They did for a while until the lights flickered yet again.

"Daddy, I'm scared," Gracie said.

"Aw sweetie. It's okay. Daddy's right here," Mark said, picking his daughter up.

A few hours later…

Since the lights hadn't flickered in a while, everybody was dancing to the final slow song of the night, "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. Just after the song was over, the lights flickered so bad that they finally went out! Then there was an eerie clear blue mist in the air.

"Get… out… now," an eerie booming voice cried in the hall.

Everybody did as the voice said, as they didn't want to make the owner of the voice angry. Once everybody was outside, Gracie looked at her dad and whimpered, "Daddy? What are we gonna do now?"

"I don't know honey. It's okay. You're okay. Nobody's going to hurt you or any of us," said Mark, trying to sound soothing and caressing his daughter's back. That was something he would have to think about. Who was trying to make their Halloween night miserable, and why?

A/N: Well, there's the chapter. Lyrics for "Piece of Me" by Britney Spears used without permission. Again, I do not own anything.

~Jen