Chapter ten
Chris's haunted house disaster
Two days after Chris's birthday, Chris and Wyatt were in the park discussing their plans for their Halloween hunted house at the manor. Two ninth grade boys and one ninth grade girl were eavesdropping on their conversation. One of the boys laughed causing Wyatt and Chris to look up at them.
"You two are planning the lamest hunted house ever" boy 1 said
"What do you expect, they're just little kids" girl said.
"Hey! Our hunted house is going to be awesome jerk" Chris stood up.
"Alright we don't we make a bet, we'll come to your hunted house, if we get scared we'll let you join our group, if not you have to eat slugs in front of all our friends" boy 2 stated.
"You're on, see you at 1432 pine lane on Halloween at seven" Chris agreed.
The high schoolers laughed as they walked away. Chris was confident but Wyatt was unsure about the bet. He was going to be in high school the following year. Eating slugs was not a good start on impressing high schoolers he would be attending school with.
"Chris think about this" Wyatt said
"There's nothing to think about. You don't mess with the Halliwell brothers" Chris replied slamming his fist on the pick nick table.
Back at home Prue was snuggling with Andy, Payton, Preston and Paris while watching a movie. Passion woke up from her nap and decided she wanted to join them. She came into her orbing powers and orbed onto her mother's lap. Her family got excited and cheered for her, receiving a power was as big as learning to walk or talking for the first time.
That's when Chris got home at the same time as the others who had been out at the jungle gym. They had just dropped off Piper and Wyatt at work. Paige orbed down the book of shadows which singled Phoebe there was charmed work to be done.
"Ran into some demons plotting on attacking on Halloween" Paige explained and Prue added "Don't want them as guests to Wyatt and Chris's Haunted house."
As the flipped through the pages Makenzie was fussing to be held. She didn't like being ignored, so she orbed the book of Shadows to her in the play pen. Everyone knew it was her since she was the only baby in there.
"Aww my baby girl has her first power…but that was very notty Makenzie" Paige praised and scolded.
Early on Halloween Chris had just finished setting up the haunted house. It wasn't even supper yet when Mikey arrived to test out the haunted house. At the end wasn't impressed and had a suggestion.
"For children this is really good, but not impressive for High schoolers" Mikey informed
"What do suggest?"
"Are there any magical beings that could come to deliver a few scares?"
"I'm on it."
Chris orbed to the scare club in the magic realm. This place had zombies and mummies for party uses. Chris picked out three zombies and mummies hoping this would be enough. Luckily Mikey gave his approval.
"Chris, who are your friends" Christy asked after Mikey had left.
"Well uh" Chris tried to explain knowing his parents would never allow this.
"Hide them in my room" Christy instructed.
Right after supper Wyatt and Chris were in their room putting the finishing touches on their Frankenstein and Devil costumes. Melinda, P.J., Tamora and Kat walked in hoping to get an invite to the party.
"Yea right, there's no way you are coming" Chris rejected
"Why not, we see worse every week" Tamora stated.
"High schoolers don't want to hang out with little babies" Chris snapped.
"Look Melinda this means a lot to our brother" Wyatt said gently.
The girls left the room and stood outside the closed door. Kat wanted to show them a power she had just gotten that no one knew she had yet. One minute you saw her and the next you didn't, then she reappeared.
"It's called cloaking, and it's our in to the party" Kat explained.
"You have fun, I'm not going to sneak in to a place I'm not invited" P.J. decided walking away.
At six thirty everyone left the manor to go trick or treating except Wyatt and Chris. Wyatt knew he should send the zombies and mummies back, but he went against his better judgment and let them stay. The doorbell rang at seven and a group of ninth graders, including the ones from the park, came in.
Ten minutes later, Kat, Melinda, Tamora and PJ orbed in under Kat's cloaking power. They were amazed watching how the big kids acted. They soon got bored though because they couldn't do anything without having to be visible. So then orbed out and continued trick or treating.
Everything went well until a demon shimmered in. The demon attacked Wyatt and Chris who both orbed out of the way forgetting they were in front of mortals. Then a blue light came from the play pen as Aria orbed in. That's when the rest of the family came in through orbing or beaming. Piper used her power to blow up the demon.
"Stay the hell away from us, the bet is done" one of ninth graders said scared out of his pants as he and his friends ran off. Chris looked at his parents for an explanation.
"Opps we missed one" Paige told him.
"Aria stay with mommy" Piper told her daughter as she picked her up from the play pen.
"Sorry boys I know this meant a lot to you" Piper apologised.
"What are you sorry for, did you see the looks on their faces…that was AWSOME" Chris stated.
(Sorry it's so short)