A/N: Hello everyone! Now we return where we left off with an all new update of Howl-O-Ween! Where we last left off, Nick and Judy left Eli to go to a Howl-O-Ween Party held by his "Girlfriend" Lyla at her house while investigating another murder with Jack and Walter, and they realize that Michael is after Eli as revenge against Laurie for being the sole survivor of his killing spree back in 1978. Russel's foster mother, Mrs. Spitz was also attacked by Michael, but she's alright. Now, Michael is still on the loose, even after being shot in the stomach with a rifle by Mr. Spitz. Now, we return! Enjoy!
Russel, Roger, and Erik had just arrived at his house. All three of them had a large amount of candy in their pillow cases over the course of twenty-five houses they visited while trick or treating, and also had glow-stick necklaces and bracelets they had gotten while at the dance. Without a doubt, the three had a really fun time.
"Your dance moves were without a doubt the highlight of the whole dance, dude" Roger said to Erik.
"I didn't even know you could dance like that" Russel said in agreement.
"Well, I've had some practice by watching the 'Step-Up' movies" Erik told them.
"Just like how you learned lightsaber fighting moves from the Star Wars movies, Roger" Russel added in a joking manner, causing Roger to roll his eyes and groan at the joke, while Erik laughed out loud.
"At least learning sword fighting techniques like that are useful" said Roger while he watched Russel unlock the door with his house key and the three friends went inside. To their surprise, nobody was in the house but them. Russel would have thought Ethan would have called out his name and come running to him like he usually did when he got home, but it was just silence.
"Huh, that's weird" Russel whispered while walking into the kitchen and seeing Ethan's candy bag on the dining table.
"Well, that's Ethan's candy bag. They've gotta be home" said Russel to his friends. He remembered texting his foster mother when he arrived at the dance, and when he was heading home, but she didn't respond to either of those texts. Russel thought it was because they were asleep, but he would have heard their snoring coming from down the hall.
"Try calling your mom" Erik suggested. Russel then pulled out his phone and dialed Mrs. Spitz' number and put it up to his ear. A ringtone came from the master bedroom and Russel ran up and saw that it was empty, but her phone was sitting on the nightstand on her side of the bed. Russel then hung the phone up and then ran back down to Roger and Erik to see looks of confusion and slight horror on their faces.
"She's not up the... guys, what's wrong?" asked Russel. Erik pointed down at the kitchen floor to see drops of blood next to one of the chairs next to the table where the candy sat. Russel then touched it with his index finger to see it was still wet.
"It's fresh" Russel said, now he started to feel anxious and scared.
"What happened? Did somebody die?" asked Roger. Russel's phone began to ring again, and he saw on the caller ID that it was Mr. Spitz calling him.
"H-Hello?" he asked nervously.
"Russel? Where are you right now?" asked Mr. Spitz.
"I just got home, Roger and Erik are with me. Where's mom? Why'd she leave her phone at home? Why is there blood on the kitchen floor?" the human boy asked nervously, bombarding his foster father with endless questions out of fear.
"Your mother was attacked, she's at the hospital with me. Ethan's with us too. Listen to me, I need you to get out of the house right now and come to the hospital ASAP. I'll explain everything when you get there, but please just get out of the house" said Mr. Spitz, sounding like he was in a panic. Russel was now confused and getting even more afraid at the same time.
"What is it? Why do I have to leave the house?" asked Russel. All three friends saw a human hand holding a knife punch through the glass window portion of the front door, causing Russel to drop his phone to the carpet and scream in terror. The entire door was busted down and into the house came Michael Myers, with a large bullet-hole on the front of his coveralls, with blood surrounding it slightly.
(Start playing 'Ray's Goodbye' from the new Halloween movie score as you read this next part)
"Guys, run!" Russel shouted before running back to the master bedroom with Michael walking after them. Russel didn't bother looking behind him, neither did Roger nor Erik. Roger and Russel managed to get into the master bedroom safely, but they noticed Erik tripped on the rug and landed flat on his belly. Michael then lashed his knife out at Erik, and created a cut on his tail.
"Gah! My tail!" Erik screamed in pain. Russel then grabbed the lamp from Mr. Spitz' side of the bed and threw it at Michael, which broke to pieces the minute it made impact on the very center of his face and sent him back a bit. Russel then picked Erik up into his arms and ran back into the master bedroom before shutting and locking the door behind him.
"You alright?" asked Russel.
"I-I think he slit my tail open" said Erik clutching his bleeding tail and letting out tears of pain.
"Guys, t-that's the drunk dude from yesterday" Roger said, slightly out of breath from running.
"That's not a drunk dude though, Roger. That's the REAL Michael Myers" Russel said before he heard the door being banged on, so hard that wood chips flew off the soft surface of it.
"W-What are we gonna do?" Erik asked, still crying. Russel then opened up the master bedroom window and took down the drapes before tying the two of them together and then tying one end to the end frame of the king-sized bed in the center of the room.
"Roger, you carry Erik as we climb down" Russel instructed, taking the injured otter into Roger's arms before staring back at the door and saw that a giant hole had been busted out, revealing Michael's masked face to them. Roger then ran over to their 'escape rope' and climbed down, leaving Russel the only one in the room. He watched as Michael kept trying to bash the door down with his feet, and by butting his head against the door itself. Russel then ran over to the curtain rope and climbed down out of the house.
"Help!" Somebody! Help us!" Russel screamed while trying to catch the attention of any animals in the neighborhood that could still be awake. He turned his head back to see Michael coming out of the front door and still walking towards them attempting to catch up. Michael then felt something pierce his shoulder, and he stopped and looked down to see a tranquilizer dart.
(You can stop playing the song now)
Michael pulled the dart out of his shoulder with the one hand that had two fingers missing and stared down at it before tossing it into the bushes. His ears picked up some whispering before turning his head over to where it was coming from. It was Madge Honey Badger, holding the tranquilizer dart rifle, as well as Edwin Shellison watching in awe of the murderous Shape.
"Incredible" Edwin whispered.
"Tranquilizers have no affect on it" said Honey Badger. Michael just stood in front of them breathing heavily under his mask. Edwin then slowly approached Michael in an attempt to speak with him.
"Good evening. I am Dr. Edwin Shellison. That must make you, Michael Myers, correct?" he asked. Michael didn't respond and just kept staring through the black lifeless eye-holes of his mask.
"We are mammals of science, and you are what we consider a genetic breakthrough. You have an incredible healing factor, nothing can strike you down or kill you" said Edwin. Madge then put the gun down and walked up right next to the armadillo.
"Please, let us study you. Show us that humans like you are capable of so much more than the animals of Zootopia have been lead to believe" said the badger. Michael only grabbed Edwin by his throat and pinned him against a tree. Edwin choked and gasped underneath Michael's hard grip before he saw him raise his knife up.
"N-No! Please!" Edwin begged before feeling the sharp pain of the knife penetrating his chest and pinning him against the tall oak tree. Edwin took his last dying breath and stopped struggling and his entire body went limp, and eyes rolling to the back of his head as he died. Dr. Honey Badger then gasped and her eyes widened in horror as she saw the lifeless body of the mad scientist armadillo, being held against a tree by only a knife right in the center of his body.
"O-Oh my God!" she screamed before Michael turned his head towards her and walked over to her. She attempted to run away but she felt Michael grab her ankle and pull her back down to the grassy ground. Michael then grabbed her by her lower jaw and the back of her head, twisting it in a counter-clockwise motion until her head was facing backwards. Michael then left her to die before taking his knife out of Edwin's chest and letting his body fall back down onto the sidewalk and walk away.
Three mammals in their youths, most likely elementary school years stood in front of a house with a realtor's sign hanging right next to the front steps of the porch, right across the street from where Lyla's house was. One was a wolf, another was a red panda, and the third was a hyena pup.
"Come on, Donnie, do it!" the hyena said, pushing the red panda up to the front of the house.
"B-But everybody in school says that this house is haunted" said Donnie.
"Aw, what's wrong? You afraid? You want your blankie?" asked the wolf, causing him and the hyena to giggle at Donnie's cowardice. Hearing that insult, Donnie then gave them the stink-eye and walked up to the front of the door. Once he was on the porch, and only three inches away from it, he turned his head back to the hyena and wolf.
"Well go ahead! Knock already!" the hyena told him. Donnie then looked back at the door and started to sweat down his forehead before swallowing a lump in his throat. Just as he was about to knock, a voice caught the attention of all three youths.
"Hey! Hey Donnie! Get your ass away from there!" the voice said coming from the bushes. All three of the kids screamed 'Ghosts!' in unison before running away in the opposite direction of the house. Out of the bushes came Nick, who was holding back a laugh at what he just did. Suddenly, he felt his ear being tugged on by Judy.
"Ah! Ah! Ow! Ow! Easy there, Carrots!" Nick pleaded with the rabbit who had his ear in a death grip.
"Nick, we know that Michael Myers is going after Eli and is most likely going to be coming to this party, and you're in the bushes playing pranks on kids?" Judy asked before letting his ear go. Nick rubbed his paw on his ear, wincing slightly at how much it hurt while Judy was tugging and holding on to it.
"Give me a break, Judy. It's Howl-O-Ween, everyone's entitled to one good scare. Ow, hurts worse than having your ear pierced" said Nick as he kept on rubbing his ear. Judy then gave a sad sigh and her ears drooped before looking down to her feet.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nick... I know you're always trying to see the brighter side of things, and find humor in some morbid situations, it's one of the things I admire about you. But, I wish you'd take this a little more seriously and joke around a little less tonight. Especially since our kit is being targeted by a psycho in a mask" Judy said sadly. He had to admit that his partner/girlfriend had a point.
"Judy, I know it doesn't seem like I'm being serious about this whole situation, but honestly... I'm terrified" said the fox, which caught Judy by surprise.
"Terrified? Really?" she asked, slightly taken aback by the fact that her own partner, who was the most laid back and carefree mammal in Zootopia was actually scared underneath his happy and joking exterior.
"Uh-huh. After I found out that it was ACTUALLY Michael Myers that killed Bellwether, Grizolli, and even Delgato... I felt like, like my heart just stopped beating. The thought of losing my own son to that... that... that murderer, it goes through my mind every second. I'm just as scared of Michael getting to Eli as you are, Judy" Nick told her, tears now glistening in his eyes and one of them managing to escape and run down his face. He felt Judy's paw wipe the tear away.
"Nick, I-I-I didn't even realize that you felt that way. That all this time you just hiding how scared you were" she said in a gentle whisper-like tone.
"Every time I see another one of Michael's victims like we did back at that other house, I keep picturing Eli lying in a puddle of his own blood with that son of a bandicoot standing over him holding a bloody knife. Judy, I can't let that picture become reality, I need to kill him for the sake of my own kit's safety" Nick said with tears now falling freely down his face and now collapsed on his knees. Judy had never seen Nick so broken and scared before, out of the fear of losing the one other person that meant the world to him. Judy then got down on her knees and helped Nick back up before taking out a handkerchief out of her back pocket and wiped away his tears before placing it up to his nose.
"C'mon, blow" Judy instructed, and Nick did so.
"There you go" she said before putting her handkerchief back into her pocket and then looked into his emerald green eyes.
"Now listen, Michael is NOT going to get Eli. We're going to make sure that we kill Michael PERMANENTLY, so that nobody has to live in fear of him anymore. Not even our kit" Judy said to him before pulling him into a passionate loving kiss, which Nick returned happily, and making his tail wag slightly as well.
"Wilde, Hopps, this is Cruz, do you read?" a voice called out on the radio. Judy then broke the kiss apart and then took it off her belt.
"Go for Hopps" Judy replied.
"We've spotted him. Myers is coming up to the party" said Walter through the radio. Nick and Judy turned their heads across the street and watched from behind a parked car that Michael walked up to the front of Lyla's house, and stood right in front of the mailbox, staring up at the house as the song 'Thriller' blasted through the closed windows.
"What's he doing?" Nick asked.
"He's just... standing there. I don't know what he's staring at though" said Judy before she noticed Eli dancing with Lyla and Isaac through the window of the house. The very same window that Michael was looking through and began to slowly walk up to the front porch.
"Cruz, Savage, this is Hopps. Nick and I are going in. We'll handle this ourselves, I need you outside the perimeter just in case Michael tries getting away" instructed Judy.
"Roger that" Jack responded on the walkie before Nick and Judy pulled out their service pistols and began running up to Lyla's house just as Michael walked in through the front door.
(Start playing 'Not Meant for Me' by Wayne Static as you read this next part)
As Michael entered Lyla's house, the song had changed from 'Thriller' to a rock song that sounded like it was from a soundtrack to a vampire heavy metal movie (which it actually is) and looked all around the party, his intentions were clear, find the son of Laurie Strode, and kill him to take revenge on her. He began pacing all around the house, and even caught a few glances and glares from the attendees. Some of them even whispered amongst each other that he looked creepy.
"What's up with his face?" asked a silver fox wearing a Fred costume from 'Pig Hero 6'.
"Is that a mask?" asked a tiger dressed as one of Gazelle's backup dancers. Michael turned his head and sent the two animals who were whispering about him to jump slightly and fall back onto the floor. He stared at them for a few seconds before walking away. He then spotted Eli dancing with Isaac and Kimi and just watched them, waiting for the boy to see him.
"Hey!" he heard a voice shout. Michael looked to his left to see Lyla holding a glass of punch in her hoof while giving Michael an angry look.
"I thought I told you to leave. You're giving everybody here the creeps" she told him. Michael just shifted his body towards her and just stared down at her.
"You've gotta be deaf or something. Or is this a joke? Please tell me this is a joke? Did somebody put you up to this?" Lyla asked, wanting a response from the shape, but nothing came from Michael. Lyla then put her punch back on the snack table next to a gigantic black plastic bowl of jelly beans before she walked up to him.
"If this is a joke, it's not very funny. And that mask looks like you fished it out of a dumpster" Lyla said, mocking his old and aged William Shatner mask. Michael still did nothing as the young zebra attempted to get a reaction or response from him. Michael then pulled out his knife from behind his back, which still had Edwin's blood on it and some of it dripped from the stainless steel blade, onto the hardwood oak floor. Lyla stared at the knife for a minute but looked back up at him.
"Really? You're that desperate to scare someone that you take a plastic knife and use metallic spray paint to make it look real? You're trying way too hard, you know that?" Lyla said before touching the blade, some blood now on her hoof.
"I know this is just corn syrup. Same stuff they use for blood in every scary movie ever made" Lyla said before tasting the blood, expecting it to taste sweet like corn syrup, but instead tasted like iron. Lyla's face went pale and she spat it out, realizing it actually was blood and then looked back at the knife, realizing it was a real weapon covered in the blood of an animal he just murdered. She looked back up at Michael frightened out of her mind, she wanted to run but she felt him grab her by the throat and raise her up in the air and toss her across the room.
"Ahhhhh!" Lyla shouted as she was tossed, and landed on the stereo where all the music was coming from, and the song stopped playing.
(You can stop playing the song now)
Everyone's eyes were now fixed on Michael, who turned his head from the pre-teen Zebra to Eli. Eli was now backing away slowly as Michael approached him, breathing coming from under his mask. Now Eli went from shocked, to purely afraid, it was the REAL Michael Myers, not some hallucination brought up from fear, it was actually him. Lyla managed to get up from the bits of the broken stereo and shouted.
"ELI, RUN!" she screamed as she saw Michael getting ready to stab Eli by raising his knife up above his head. Eli shut his eyes tight, preparing for a slow, painful, sharp death at the hands of the man who attempted to kill his mother forty years ago, but he heard the front door broken down.
"ZPD! Freeze!" a voice shouted. Eli, Michael, and everyone else saw that it was Nick and Judy, holding their guns up.
"Step away from the human boy!" Nick shouted, his gun aimed directly for the area in between Michael's eyes. Michael lowered his knife, but still kept it tightly gripped in his hand while he stared back at Nick and Judy.
"Michael Myers, you are under arrested for the murder of over thirteen mammals. You are also under arrest for the attempted murder of a minor, and assaulting a minor. Drop the knife, and put your hands in the air where I can see them!" Judy demanded. But Michael did not honor the rabbit cop's demands and began walking towards Nick and Judy.
"Mom! Dad! Run!" said Eli, trying to get his parents to see reason and run away.
"Eli, don't worry. We've got this taken care of!" Judy said, her body slowly shaking with her finger still on the pistol of her gun.
"She gave you an order, Michael! Put the knife down and remove the mask!" Nick shouted. The closer he got, the more Nick was enticed to pull the trigger and end him for good.
"Any ideas, Nick?" asked Judy.
"Just one. SHOOT TO KILL!" Nick screamed before pulling the trigger and shot Michael on the left side of his face. The bullet took off a large portion of the latex, revealing his dead, pale and lifeless left eye before he fell backwards onto the floor. Eli then ran and jumped over Michael's body before he hugged Judy.
"It's alright, honey. He can't hurt you anymore" said Judy as she hugged him back. Nick still stared at the body before seeing Michael's fingers twitch, and his ears drooped and pupils shrank at the sight.
"Um... carrots? I think the bullet just grazed him" said Nick. Judy then looked back to see Michael sitting up like a zombie rising from it's grave and staring directly back at them. Judy's ears drooped and her pupils shrank just like Nick's did before they raised them back up and pointed their guns at Michael just as he started to stand up again.
(Start playing 'The Shape Lurks' by John Carpenter from the original Halloween soundtrack as you read this next portion of the story)
Judy then pulled her radio off her belt and spoke into it.
"Cruz, this is Hopps. Get Eli out of here, now!" said the rabbit before she shot Michael again, this time below his ribcage, but it did nothing to stop him.
"Eli, get out of here now. There's an officer waiting outside" Nick told his kit before shooting Michael again, this time, right below his throat, but it still did nothing.
"I'm not leaving you guys!" Eli said.
"We'll be fine. Just do as your father says! Get out of here!" Judy said, not taking her eyes off Michael as he slowly continued to approach the two of them. Eli then ran out the door and into the arms of Walter, who told him to sit in his patrol cruiser before running inside with a pistol in his hand. Jack followed closely behind him with his own gun. They arrived to see the party now in chaos, everybody screaming in horror and leaving through the back door or the windows of the house.
"Don't move, Michael!" Walter shouted, which drew the boogieman's attention to the Latino human and began walking towards him. Walter then fired two bullets at Michael's shoulder in an attempt to make him drop his knife, but it didn't work. Jack then ran inside the building and grabbed the bowl of jelly beans and tossed it at Michael's head. The jellybeans hit the floor of the living room the minute the bowl hit the side of Michael's face.
"Hey Myers! Over here!" Jack shouted before shooting him in the back just right on his shoulder blade. Michael then turned to face Jack and began walking towards the hare. Before he could get a chance to stab Jack, he felt himself pinned down by a larger animal, it was Fangmeyer, who had just arrived with Wolford as backup. The two were now in their officer uniforms instead of their costumes.
"Stay down Michael, I will not hesitate to shoot you" Fangmeyer said before she felt Michael knee her right in the stomach and forced her off of him. Michael then lashed his knife at her, and managed to swiftly deliver a cut underneath her eye. The tigress screamed and fell down onto the coffee table, breaking it to bits as she placed her paw where Michael had cut her.
"Nadine!" Wolford shouted before he shot two tranquilizer darts at Michael. Both darts hit him right on the neck, but he didn't feel drowsy or woozy, instead, he just pulled them out and walked towards the wolf who had just fired them. Judy then realizing nothing was working and decided it would be best to retreat.
"It's not working! We need to fall back! Now!" Judy shouted before running over to Lyla, who was still watching from where Michael had tossed her and helped her out the door. Wolford, Cruz, Fangmeyer, Nick, and Savage followed right behind her. All of them got into their respective cars and drove to the hospital, away from Lyla's house.
(You can stop playing the song now)
A/N: And there is chapter seven! Looks like Michael almost got to Russel, but not before injuring Erik as they were escaping. He did manage to kill Edwin and Madge Honey Badger though, their lust for knowledge of humans got the better of them and lead to their deaths (That's what you get for trying to tame the Boogieman!) and Lyla was injured as well, and Eli would have been dead if his adopted parents and their friends hadn't shown up to confront him. But what are they gonna do now that they know that pretty much NOTHING can destroy Michael? Find out in the next update. Please review, thanks!
