Author's Note: I spent the last few weeks planning, writing and finishing up two other Descendants stories, that I put my other stories on the back burner. This one has gone almost two months without updating and I feel bad about that. So, to make up for it, I'm going to upload this chapter today, and the second part of it tomorrow morning. This chapter, and part two of it, were fun to write because Halloween is my favorite holiday and I hope that shows, and I also hope you all like what I did here.

Please enjoy...

Halloween - Part 1

One week before Halloween...

If ever there was a holiday was tailor made for the Isle of the Lost, it was Halloween. A holiday where you were expected to be greedy and conniving and mean. The children on the Isle were especially bad on that day. Halloween, and sometimes the day before and the day after, were spent committing increased acts of mischief and vandalism. Mal was particularly famous for leaving the Isle spray painted from end to end. Jay was known for making entire bags of stale candy disappear from the smaller Isle kids. Evie was a fan of dressing up. And Carlos was famous for saying, "Who needs one day? I practically live with a demon every day of my life."

But now the four VKs were curious to see just how Auradon handled what was hands down their favorite holiday.

"So, Ben, just what does the kingdom do on the best night of the year?" Mal asked her boyfriend as they walked through the aisles of a costume shop.

"Best night of the year?" he chuckled as he looked at her surprised.

"Island full of villains. Holiday dedicated to mischief and candy. It might as well be called Isle Christmas," she smiled.

Ben laughed as he looked at one of the costumes on the rack, a firefighter's costume. He pulled it out for Mal's opinion.

"A man in uniform does look good, but," she answered, trailing off at the end.

"What?"

"Seems a little too good," she told him critically.

He looked at her with a smile and a raised eyebrow. "You do realize who you're dating, right?" he joked.

"Of course I do," she told him, "but this is the one holiday guaranteed to let me have a little bit of the Isle here on Auradon."

"It comes with girl's costume," Ben tried, pulling out the female firefighters costume. It was a black mini dress with yellow safety trim on the short sleeves and across the waist probably meant to serve as belt. She looked at how small and low cut it was and cringed in her own mind.

"It's nice. Does it come in adult size?" she asked sarcastically.

"Not a fan of this are you?"

"Your mother would kill me if I wore that, and she'd be totally justified. Evie wouldn't even wear that," she replied. Then she thought about it and relented. "At least on Halloween. That looks more like a 'for Doug and only Doug' kind of look."

"I didn't need to know that," he said. Mal smiled while wagging her eyebrows at her boyfriend.

"Look, apparently you want to do a couple costume, and I think you need to go bad for one night. So," she said, a gleefully wicked smile gracing her lips, "how about letting me pick the costumes?"

Ben looked at suspiciously.

"What?" Mal asked. "I promise they'll be fun, and I won't have to feel like stripper," she argued while wrapping her arms around his neck shoulders. She placed a small kiss on his lips. "So, how about it?"

Ben smiled. This should be fun, he thought.

"I still don't think this a good idea," Carlos said to Jane.

"It's a great idea," Jane told him from Mal's bed.

"I should also mention that I think this is gonna end badly."

"Carlos, stop complaining and listen to your girlfriend," Evie scolded him as she kneeled next to him, a tape measure running down his leg. "And stop moving, it's making hard to get a good measurement."

"I thought you knew my size," Carlos complained.

"I used to, but you've gotten a few inches taller, so I need to do this."

"Oh, sorry," Carlos said.

"No problem," Evie said. "Besides, I'm sure Jane's likes having a tall man," she added with a smile and wink to Jane.

Jane nodded despite a slight blush. "Taller than me at least. And besides, your height helps the costume," Jane said.

"I still can't believe what you're doing," Evie said as she wrote down a number on a pad.

"Do you think it's a bad idea? I can come up with something else?" Jane asked in a moment of self-doubt.

Evie laughed. "No, like you said it's a great idea. Do you need me to do your hair?" she asked hopefully, really wanting to do a makeover on the young half fairy.

"No, I'm gonna use a spell, thank you though."

Evie nodded. "What about him?" she asked in reference to Carlos.

"I'm getting him a wig. He won't let me use magic on him," Jane lamented.

"I barely let Evie cut it," Carlos told his girlfriend. Jane looked over at Evie, who nodded in agreement.

"Jay's even worse," Evie revealed.

"Can I sit down now?" Carlos interrupted. Both girls told him yes. "So how long do you think it'll take you make the costume?"

"Hopefully not too long, but remember, I'm gonna have to work on this while Mal's not here so I don't spoil anything."

"Cool," Jane thought.

"Are you sure you don't want me to make your outfit?"

Jane got a positively evil smile on her face and shook her head.

"Okay you have definitely been spending too much time with Big Sis," Evie said, her own smile matching Jane's.

This is really going to blow up on us, Carlos thought.

"You made your own costume Evie, why can't you just make mine?" Doug asked from inside the dressing room.

"And mine," Jay groaned from inside his dressing room. "I mean you made Audrey's."

"Because I'm also making Jane's and Carlos'," she responded from her chair outside in the store's waiting area. "Four people in one week is hard enough even for me."

"So stop complaining and try on what we got you," Audrey added from her own chair.

Evie and Audrey had brought Doug and Jay to the same costume shop that Mal and Ben had been to a few days earlier. Mal had told Evie about how many costumes they had, even this close to Halloween, and Evie had decided that it was the perfect place to do some shopping and give herself a little bit of a break. Audrey, while having her costume ready, still hadn't been able to convince Jay to wear a matching one, or any kind of costume. She figured if they went with Evie and Doug, Evie could help her make Jay at least wear something.

"Thanks again for helping me," Audrey said to Evie.

"No problem," Evie told her. "Believe it or not, this is my first Halloween with people who aren't just me and my mother."

Audrey looked at Evie in confusion. Evie then started telling her about the banishment from Mal's mother from when she was six to just after she turned sixteen.

"And yet you and Mal are friends?"

Evie nodded. "We think the bonding happened over a mutual fear of disappointing our mother's," Evie said.

Audrey hated the sound of that. Not the bonding part, but of the fear part. Growing up she'd never believed she could do anything that would disappoint her mother to point that she needed to be afraid of it. Sure, there were the occasional moments when she'd gone too far with her own vanity, but she was trying to fix that. And because of it, her mother was practically glowing with happiness over it. She said it was Audrey finally growing up.

Audrey was about to offer her sympathies when the boys reluctantly came out. Both her and Evie smiled, and then started giggling at the sight of their boyfriends.

"What do you think?" Doug asked in slight embarrassment.

Evie had picked out a knight costume for him. And despite it looking way to generic, she thanked goodness that it was miles away from looking like he was just wearing a carbon copy of Jane's mascot costume. The costume consisted of black pants with plastic shin guards painted in metallic silver and a gray shirt that was designed to look like chain mail. Over that was total blue tunic that had an embroidered shield on it with a generic looking lion in its center. She opted to not make him wear the fake chain mail helmet, deciding that she could make a crown for him to wear instead.

"I'm thinking this is a good look on you," she told him, a big appreciative smile on her face.

"He does pull it off," Audrey agreed. "But not like my man does," she commented as she looked Jay over.

She'd chosen for Jay a Zorro costume, mostly because it seemed the least likely costume he'd seem embarrassed in. As she looked him over in the black pants, matching lose fitting black shirt, and black cape she had only one thought: I am one lucky girl.

"I feel ridiculous," Jay grumbled.

"You look awesome," Audrey told him.

"Yeah, you do," Evie concurred.

"Why didn't you put on the mask?" Doug asked.

"Yeah, and the hat," Audrey said.

"Be lucky I was even willing to put on the cape," Jay said. Audrey giggled but went up and kissed him on the lips.

"And I am thankful you did. I get you don't like dressing up, but please wear this, for me," she pleaded, making her voice higher at the end. Jay was about to say no when she tilted her head and started looking at him with that puppy dog pout of hers. One look at those big brown eyes and he knew he was gonna crack.

"Fine, for you, Foxy," he relented.

"Yay," Audrey celebrated, kissing him on the cheek. This year's palace party is gonna awesome, she thought in anticipation.