Prompt 10 - costume

"You look stunning, pet. Tha costume really suits you."

"You think so?"

Draconius turned around. The dragon tail that peeked out from below the hem of her dress was dragging on the floor. She wasn't used to having a tail, and wondered why she had let her husband transfigure parts of her body instead of just dressing up in a regular costume.

The three of them were going to a Halloween party. And although Scabior didn't want to dress up as anything, he delighted in helping his wife with her costume. However, when Draconius said she wanted a realistic dragon costume, this wasn't exactly what she had in mind.

"My back itches," Draconius complained, reaching around and trying to scratch the space below her wings. "Are you sure this was a good idea?"

"Of course it's a good idea," said Scabior, smiling as he scratched his wife's back for her. "We'll win the costume contest for sure, love. Now, where's my little girl?"

"Right here, daddy!"

Melody came down the stairs, dressed in the costume her mother made for her.

Scabior's mouth opened in shock when he saw what she was going as. "A pink unicorn? You dressed 'er as a pink unicorn?"

"She likes it," said Draconius. "And she looks adorable in her cute little outfit."

Melody was wearing a pink dress, with a tail made of yarn that had been attached to the back of her dress with a sticking charm. Her mother had also used a sticking charm to attach a small paper cone to the center of her forehead, and had used a spell that temporarily changed her daughter's hair color, turning her unruly mass of thick brown hair into a flowing mane of pink waves.

"I thought both of you were going as dragons," said Scabior, sounding a little disappointed. "I would 'ave liked to 'ave seen you dress up as mummy an baby dragons."

Draconius picked up her daughter and said, "Are you mummy's little dragon?"

"I'm a baby unicorn," said Melody. "Baaaa!"

Draconius burst out laughing. "No, sweetie. Sheep go baa . Horses nay."

"What sound do unicorns make, mummy?"

"I don't know. But I know how to find out." And with that Draconius started tickling Melody's tummy.

Scabior couldn't help but smile as he watched them. He loved his wife, and his daughter was adorable no matter what she was dressed as.