Chapter summary: Supernatural things happen :O


Oh yeah. It was all coming together.

Titans Tower loomed over the entrance to Jump City Harbor like an exceptionally large, broad-shouldered Vampire King just waiting for some foolish mortal to invite him in. Argent had draped three sides of the tower in spider webs, in imitation of a massive cloak. A bat hung from the T-Vampire's shoulders, and a fanged face grinned out from under an iron fence turned pointed crown.

There was still a little detailing left to do on the crown before Argent declared it done. She held her palette in one hand and a brush in the other. Very carefully, she consulted the list of runes in her journal, and began to copy one onto the back of the plastic tombstone she had propped up in front of her.

"If you ever retire from hero-work, you could probably work at a theme park."

Argent casually turned the tombstone over, and pretended to touch up the detailing on the front.

"If I ever retire? Don't jinx it, Jinx."

"Haha." Jinx came and sat next to her on the edge of the roof. "Seriously though, you could be an installation artist if you wanted. Or a stage designer."

"Ta."

Overhead, an osprey chirped and seagulls shrieked.

"Sorry we didn't help," Jinx said.

Argent reloaded her brush and dabbed paint into the embossed eye socket of a skull. "It's alright."

"Not really," Jinx said with a frown.

"You can make it up to me by being my date to the halloween party."

"Sure thing, pumpkin." Argent brandished her paint brush, and it took some quick gymnastics on Jinx's part to avoid being painted. They both laughed.

"I guess I would pick my battles too if I had to share my head with bird brain," Jinx said.

Argent snorted. "No, you wouldn't"

Jinx grinned back. "No, I wouldn't."


October flew by. The days grew colder, and the sun set just that little bit sooner each day, until finally Hallow's Eve arrived

"It makes more sense for you to be Dusk. She's got the pigtails," said Argent, who was already dressed in the vampiric red costume of Thorn.

"Yeah, but purple's my signature color, so obviously I should be Luna." said Jinx, shrugging into a purple blazer. "Besides, think how cute little Rae-Rae would look with pigtails again."

"If you don't stop bringing that up, I will put cherry pie in all of your boots," Raven threatened.

"Mother may I turn around?" Argent quipped, not actually waiting for a response before she spun around.

"Hey! What are you wearing?"

Raven was veiled from head to toe in layers of sheer black cloth."My halloween costume," said Raven.

"But what about our couples costumes?" Jinx cried, outraged. "It takes 3 goths to make the Hex Girls!"

"I'm always No-Face," said Raven.

Argent glanced nervously out the window, where the last sliver of the coppery sun was still visible over the horizon. "Can't you dress up as Dusk just this once?"

"I still have no idea who that is," said Raven, picking up her mask.

"Why didn't you say so?" said Jinx. "We can watch one of their movies together. But don't leave us hanging."

"Yeah, be a Hex Girl with us!" coaxed Argent.

But Raven was firm. "I like being No-Face," she said, slipping the elastic band over her head.

"No!" shouted Argent, lunging for the mask—but she was too slow: Raven had disappeared.

"Fuck," she swore.

"That was a weird reaction," came Raven's gravelly voice.

Argent spun around to see Raven standing in the dying light by the window, still looking very much like a girl in a halloween costume. Behind the plastic mask, Argent was sure she was raising an eyebrow. "Anything I should knnnnghf-" Suddenly, Raven stiffened. The last of the sun sank below the horizon with a last blood-red flash of light. The figure by the window slowly elongated, levitating slightly off the ground.

"Haha, very funny Raven. Quit messing with Argent." Jinx flopped on the bed, muttering to herself, "Arey, the pranks are gonna be so lame this year…"

No-Face rotated in place. Argent stared deep into twin black voids, and thought they might be staring back. And then her girlfriend-turned-Ghibli-spirit faded out of view.

"... Well that's not good."

"Why are you so riled up?" asked Jinx. "You know she's just messing with you."

Argent didn't know what to say.

A loud crash came from somewhere else in the tower, followed by several more crashes and a handful of thuds. Jinx and Argent exchanged glances, before running towards the commotion.


They found the common room completely trashed. The rest of the gang was already there: Robin, dressed as Mario, trying to console a distraught Tamaranian Elastigirl; Cyborg, in a trench coat and fedora, scanning the airwaves with a mysterious beeping device; and Beast Boy looking mostly normal in a green t-shirt, except for the dog puppet on his hand.

"Like, what happened?" Beast Boy's sock puppet asked.

"Ohhh, it was Silkie!" cried Elasti-Starfire. "My little bumgorf was being the adorable while I fed him his gorka berry mush, when suddenly he ignited into flame and began behaving like a zorfian rofgar!"

"Strong words," muttered Cyborg.

"I do not understand," said Starfire morosely. "He has not behaved in this manner since we first rescued him from Killer Moth. And earlier, he was so happy when we put his little double-Jack costume on him."

"She means Jack-Jack," supplied Beast Boy.

"Jack-Jack?" said Argent in surprise. "I thought you were dressing him up as Toad?"

"Turns out it's really hard to put a hat that big on something without a neck," Beast Boy explained.

Robin had narrowed his eyes at Argent. "Why does i-"

"Hold on!" Shouted Cyborg, putting a chin to his hand. "I got this. I'm a detective."

"You mean an inspector," said Jinx.

"Same difference." A magnifying glass appeared out of Cyborg's hat and held itself aloft in front of his eye. "You say Silkie was behaving like a zornian… rothgar?"

"A rofgar, yes."

"Describe what you mean by that."

"Well, he was slurping his glorka berries-"

"Were these the fresh glorka berries that made him go berserk the first time, or was this the post-Killer Moth molting stuff?

"The molting stuff," said Starfire, while Argent mouthed the words "the what?" Jinx just shrugged. They were equally in the dark about this one.

"And then?"

"The sunset was particularly glorious, so we stopped to admire it, as we often do. Then just as the sun went down, he started screaming. I tried to give him the burpie-wurpies, but he caught on fire. And then he wiggled out of my arms and bounced around the room like a ping-pong ball until he disappeared."

"Okay Beast Boy, see if you can sniff him out!" Cyborg ordered.

"You gotta give me a scooby snack first, bro."

Cyborg rolled his eyes, but procured a pack of gummies from his trench coat. Beast Boy made a show of gulping them down and transformed into a great dane, with a little Shaggy Puppet on his tail that danced and waved with every wag.

Scooby-Boy pressed his nose to the carpet, and proceeded to sniff around the living room. The rest of the Titans trailed along after him as he nosed around upturned furniture and shredded banners. He stopped next to the sofa. "Oooh, I think I got it!"

Everyone jumped in astonishment (Robio noticeably higher than most).

Scooby Boy, still in the form of a large green dog, shouted "Zoinks! I can talk?"

There was a commotion as Cyborg, Starfire, and Scooby-Boy all tried to speak over each other at once, but Robin and Jinx just stared at Argent, who had burst out laughing in spite of herself.

"Explain," Robin ordered.

"I put up some runestones on the crown of the tower," she admitted. "They turn everyone inside into whatever costume they've dressed up as. Happy Halloween."

"For how long?" exclaimed Starfire.

"Just until sunrise," Argent promised, sobering. "I'm really sorry about your pet, Starfire. I didn't take last-minute costume changes into consideration."

Starfire pursed her lips and looked around at the destroyed living room. "This is giving me the deja-vu," she said.

Silkie's rampage had not spared the overhead lighting; one of the bulbs was flickering, and several had gone out all together, casting deep shadows over the edges of the common room.

"I can't believe you would do this… without telling me!" Jinx said. "I would've dressed as Rae just to annoy her."

"Speaking of Raven," Robin began. "Where is-?"

Beast Boy screamed. "SHE'S RIGHT BEHIND ME!" He jumped into Starfire's arms, which instantly stretched out like a pair of noodles and dropped him to the ground. "Where'd she go?! Where'd she go?!"

But by then, No Face had faded back out of sight.

"She didn't want to be a Hex Girl with us," Jinx said, a tad sulkily.

A loud crashing sound drew their attention back to the hole in the floor.

"We must find Silkie," Starfire declared. And with that, she leaped into the void.


A/N: Hex yeah, I'm totally on track to finish this by next Halloween B)

Leave a comment if I made ya smile!

Replies to last chapters reviews 3

Mazamba - glad you're loving it! Honestly, I'm amazed this throuple hasn't been written before. They make so much sense!

Cwrysm - thank you! Yeah, Robin was wise to ban Raven and Jinx from decorating... too bad he trusted Argent with the job