October 11th, 2012

On a peaceful day in October, just 3 weeks before Halloween. A football flies through the air and Aviva quickly caught it and then threw it back to Koki as she caught it as they were playing a game of catch.

"Nothing like a game of catch on a beautiful fall day." Koki said and then throws the ball back.

"You said it!" Aviva said and caught the ball. "It's a good break from inventing too!"

And she throws the ball back, but the football flew through the air of being thrown a little hard.

"Hey!" Koki said and runs after it.

Koki ran as she tries to catch it, and then the football hits the ground and bounced behind a bush.

"Oops. A little too much mustard on that one." Aviva said.

"Ya think?" Koki said approaching the bush.

Then suddenly, the bush shook as she stopped.

"Huh?" Koki frowned.

Then suddenly a ghost shot out from behind and let out a loud screech.

"DDDAAHHHH!" Koki screamed.

Koki quickly backed away and then trips over a rock, and then strangely the ghost started laughing in a familiar way.

"Wait a minute." Koki said recognizing that laugh.

Then the ghost reached an arm out and pulled off a white bed sheet revealing Martin laughing. And Amber poked her head from the bush and made a growl that almost sounded like laughing.

"Got ya, good!" Martin laughed.

"That wasn't funny, Martin!" Koki said annoyed. "You nearly scared the daylights out of me!"

For being the oldest of the team, Martin does have the behavior of a 5 year old.

"Oh, come on!" Martin said. "Where's your sense of fun. Halloween is almost here."

"It's still not for another 3 weeks, Martin." Koki said.

"Nothing wrong with getting a spook-on." Martin said.

"Try to save it for Halloween, all ya?" Koki said. "And you better hope you don't get "I told you so" later on."


Soon, they were in the HQ room.

"So, what should we do for Halloween this year?" Martin wondered.

"There should is a lot of possibilities and ideas." Jimmy said.

"Hmm. We stay have 3 weeks till Halloween." Chris said. "I'm should we'll think of something."

"Meantime, we can try to work out what our costumes will be this year." Martin said.

Next to Christmas, Halloween is the 2nd most popular holiday. In fact, different countries around the world have different traditions they have been doing even before Halloween was long before a holiday. And is also sometimes called Hallow's Eve.

In Ancient Egypt, Egyptians would do a ceremony as families would actually have bodies of past relatives in a way to make their spirits present. Mexico has a similar tradition, on November 1st has they had be doing for centuries, families would lay out pictures of past family members and flower pedals on the streets leading around towns from gravesites. As a way for their relatives to cross from the Land of the Dead. Which is way they call it Day of the Dead.

Halloween is famous for people, even in the United States.

On Halloween, people can dress up as any kind of character. Like famous movie characters of superheroes, adventurers and even monsters, and many more.


October 15, 2012

4 days later, the Wild Kratts went out to collect some Halloween candy, except Aviva who stayed behind to watch Amber.

At the moment, she was at her station trying to decide to dress for Halloween while Amber was busy playing with a chew toy.

"Hmm. What to be?" Aviva wondered. "Fairy princess? Movie character?"

Then loud squeaking was heard as Amber chewed on her toy.

"Hey, Amber, could you keep it down, please?" Aviva turned to her. "I'm trying to think."

Amber shook her toy, but then slipped out from her mouth and flew through the air and hits a button on the electron table. And then a holographic image of Toothless appeared.

Aviva glanced over to her momentarily, and then noticed how she was watching the hologram.

Toothless is a black dragon that looked like the dragon version of a Black Panther which is called a Night Fury. A dragon from DreamWorks film, How To Train Your Dragon that could out 2 years ago. And recently just had a TV series.

Aviva watched as Amber onto the table and circled the holographic dragon, even swatting her hand at it.

Then suddenly an idea rang in Aviva's head.

"Hmm." Aviva pondered.


Later that night, everyone was asleep minus Aviva as she was down at the garage putting her idea together.

She looked over a photo of both Amber and Toothless to see if she can surprise her with a costume of her own.

Over the next few hours, Aviva worked work any black materials she could find.


The next day, while Amber was busy playing with a chew toy in the HQ room. Aviva brought the others down to the garage to show Amber's own costume.

"Oh, ho. Impressive, Aviva." Martin said. "Amber is sure to love it."

"Let's just hope she doesn't tear it up." Koki said.

"I think Amber might look good in black." Jimmy said.

"Okay, okay." Chris said. "Now that we got Amber's costume, we still need to figure out ours."

"Hmm, you're fight." Martin said. "Good thing we have time still, Halloween is still 15 days away."


October 20th, 2012

With 11 days till Halloween, the Wild Kratts was still working out what to be. At the moment, Chris and Jimmy entered the HQ room as Chris was going through some of his Power Discs.

"Hmm, lion, cheetah, spider..." Chris said looking through his discs. "So many choices, and little time."

"You're telling me." Jimmy said agreeing with him. "I'm still working on what costume I'll do."

Suddenly, a trash bin shot open as a figure with a Freddy mask of Friday the 13th yelled as Jimmy let out a girlish scream and jumped into Chris' arms. And then the figure removed the mask revealing it was Martin as he laughed.

"HA, HA!" Martin laughed.

"That was not funny!" Jimmy said glaring at him as Chris set him down. "I thought my whole life flashed before me."

"Oh, lighten up." Martin said.

Jimmy shook his head and walks.

Martin chuckled and brought his mask down and lowers down into the trash bin.


A few hours later, Chris returned to the HQ after doing something and saw the same trash bin Martin was hiding. He went over to it, and opens it as Martin was still it in.

"Martin, how long have you been in there?" Chris asked.

"All day." Martin said.

"I admire your dedication." Chris said.

Then an automatic door was opening as Aviva and Amber came into the room.

"Oh, hey. Here comes, Aviva." Chris said. "Get her for me, I could use a pick-me-up."

Martin snickered as he lowered his mask as Chris closed the lid.

"Hey, Aviva!" Chris called out. "Come over here for a second."

Aviva then went over to him.

"What is it?" Aviva asked.

Suddenly, Martin shot out from the trash bin yelling as Aviva screamed, and then suddenly she punches Martin right in the face. And Martin dropped back into the trash bin.

"Oh!" Chris cringed.

"Martin?!" Aviva said bewildered calming her nerves down.

"What the heck, girl?" Martin said getting up holding his nose in pain.

"I thought Freddy was about to chop my head off!" Aviva said. "You know I don't do horror films!"

"Ohh, I think you broke my nose." Martin said.

Amber then shook her head.


October 31st, 2012

11 days later, and after Martin's nose has healed, it was finally Halloween. At the moment, Jimmy and Koki went out to get some more Halloween candy. As they had the idea to leave a bowl of candy out for Trick-or-Treaters, while they were out handing some candy as well.

While, Chris, Martin and Aviva were ready to show Amber her costume.

"Boy, this is gonna be great." Chris said.

"Also a first." Martin said. "Amber will be the very first dinosaur to go for Halloween."

"Yeah, we but gotta get her costume on, though." Aviva said.

They then turn to Amber was busy eating.

"So, how should we do this?" Chris asked.

"Might be tricky to figure it out." Martin said. "Most dogs and cats don't like having things on them."

Amber soon finishes her meal and then turns to them as they waved to her.

Amber then cocked her curiously wondering what they were what up to.


Later towards sunset, everyone was almost ready as they were about to head out.

"There, everything is ready." Aviva said.

"Sure is." Koki said.

Aviva was dressed as a fairy princess with a tiara, and in a lavender purple jacket and violent stripes on the sleeves, and with wings. Koki as a cat with a headband with cat ears, orange shirt and shoes.

Even Amber was finally in a costume. As Toothless the Night Fury, with a small headset with the ear flaps, a small black vest with wings, and even a small piece of plastic in the form of a Night Fury tail held by a strap on her tail, which took Aviva 10 times to finally get it on her and stay.

"Let the party begin." Jimmy said.

"Jimmy, what are you supposed to be?" Aviva asked.

Jimmy's costume wasn't exactly truly a costume, all he had was a beanbag tied around him with ropes, along with a Hulk mask.

"The best costume ever: Relaxo Jimmy!" Jimmy said and sat down on the beanbag.

"Wow, that's a stretch." Koki said sarcastically.

Amber cocked her head in confusion.

"Say's the 2 girls with the same outfit but in different colors." Jimmy remarked. "You're just jealou-AHH!" He suddenly screamed.

Jimmy then jumps in the air, and then lands on the floor hiding under the beanbag.

Aviva, Koki and Amber looked back as coming from the dark hall was 2 sets of eyes. And then entering into the light was Chris in the Raccoon Power Suit, and Martin with Black Jaguar Power.

And then they started laughing.

"Excellent costumes, guys." Koki said.

"What!?" Jimmy said and got up. "Hey!?"

"Thanks!" Chris said. "The sneaky, clever raccoon is a perfect costume."

"Same with Jaguar Power." Martin said. "As well as the black version. I bet I could sneak up on someone at night, and surprise them."

They then laughed.

"Okay, who's ready for some Halloween fun?" Chris asked.

They then cheered as they then headed outside.


3 hours later, they all returned to the Tortuga after having a great time.

"Boy, what a night." Chris said.

"Yep, and lots of fun." Aviva said.

"Can't wait for next year." Martin said.

"So, any ideas how we should end Halloween?" Koki asked.

"How about... watching a Halloween movie?" Aviva suggested.

"Great idea." Martin said.

"Anyone up for... Hocus Pocus?" Aviva suggested.

"ME!" Everyone said in unison.

"Sure is a great Halloween film." Martin said. "And funny."

Soon, they begin to grab some snacks and settled in as the big screen begin to play 1993 film, Hocus Pocus. A great way to finish Halloween.


Author's Note:

The trash-can prank was something I saw in Black-ish episode, The Prank King.

I thought a Toothless costume would be perfect for Amber. Since both are intelligent and curious, and I can easily tell that Night Furies might actually have complex brains comparable to higher mammals.

Also, if you're a fan or inspired by famous naturalist, David Attenborough, a new documentary is on Netflix called David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. As it shows his entire career of his travels, and how much the world has changed in his life. And how the natural world, is slowly dying.

I think the saddest moment I saw was when the Walruses in an area of northeastern Russia fell from 260 foot cliffs either in a desperate attempt to get to the water to feed, or accidentally slipped or pushed off. All due, to a warming planet. I mean, I knew the Arctic sea ice is slowly disappearing, but I didn't it would this bad. And worse, the natural world has only 35% remaining.

And that the Arctic ice could disappear completely by 2040, in 20 years time. And that the 6th Mass Extinction could finally happen by 2100.

But Attenborough also said that it's still not too late to save it. If we do something now.

1 last thing, the date thing is something I saw in TV series, Lego Jurassic World: Legends of Isla Nublar.

And lastly, Happy Halloween!