Before I begin, I'd like to say: Yay! I think I gots me ole humer back! ^_^. Also, I'm writing this chapter with no reference to my last one, so 'scuse me if it doesn't fit (dialoguewise/actionwise) with the last chapter. It's cause my sister (Pianobuggy) is working on updating her fic on the computer I wrote the last chapter on, and also the only computer that currently has the internet working.

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Ivan had had a good day, until that morning. He was just innocently reading his book, 100 Ways To Annoy Your Friends, when Mia interrupted him by shouting in his ear.

Remembering Tip #44, he ran out the door and shouted that she should be a witch, because then she wouldn't need a costume. His luck improved when Mia ran into Garet, giving him time to make his escape.

He hid in a bush until Garet found him. He got mad and was plotting revenge. But first, Ivan figured that he'd have to get some help. He went off into the plaza of Vale.

Ivan had wandered around the place for awhile. It was pretty boring. He wandered off and got to Garet's house. Kay and Aaron were carving a Jack-o'-Lantern. More specifically, Kay was chasing Aaron with a scooper because he had gotten pumpkin inards all over her favorite dress.

Snickering, Ivan went up to the pumpkin. It was pretty ugly. The carvings were very sporatic, as if Aaron had been continually bumping Kay's arm as she was working on her "masterpiece".

A fun and evil idea formed in Ivan's mind (thanks to Tip #78!!!). He snuck off with the deformed Jack-o'-Lantern behind Garet's house.

Ivan looked to the left. Ivan looked to the right. No one was behind him. Good, he thought. Smiling devilishly, he stepped a few paces behind the Jack-o'-Lantern. Spreading his arms in a dramatic pose, he shouted at the top of his lungs (which was very loud! Almost as loud as Mia's...), "LET MY CREATION LIIIIIIIIIVE!!!" With that, he cast Shine Plasma on the pumpkin.

The electricity absorbed into the pumpkin. Ivan was intrigued. He took a step forward, and the pumpkin hopped forward. Ivan stared. He took a step back. The Jack-o'-Lantern hopped forward. Ivan gulped. "I am sooooooo screwed..."

So, Ivan ran three paces backwards. The pumpkin hopped forward four times quickly. Ivan sprinted away as fast as he could. The pumpkin followed. Its eyes gleamed psychotically.

After three minutes of predator chasing prey, the prey knocked into an innocent bystander, Garet. Ivan stopped, pulled Garet up (the adrenaline helped... trust me), and continued running.

Garet was having a hard time keeping up with the Jupiter Adept. "What're you doing, Ivan???"

Ivan pointed behind him. Garet turned around and saw the pumpkin. He was about to laugh when the pumpkin launched itself at him, little pumpkin fangs bared. Garet screeched like a little girl and took off after Ivan.

"Alive And Freaky Jack-O'-Lantern Alert! AAAAAAAAAH!" He shouted, tearing after Ivan.

The pumpkin just followed, hopping.

The duplicate Ivan waved at them, before a random Mars Djinn landed on his head.

The Valians did nothing.

They just... stared.

And shook their heads.

Garet and Ivan were still running when Ivan smashed into Isaac. Isaac tripped and the bag he was carrying flew over the hillside. Garet didn't want to stop, so he leaped over Isaac and shouted back a warning. "A.A.F.J.O.L.A!!"

Garet didn't think Isaac understood, but he didn't care.

Ivan was finally running out of breath, so he picked a random tree and climbed up it. Garet followed, more slowly.

A couple hours passed.

Ivan wished he brought cards.

Garet was hungry.

They both were getting sick of hiding in the tree.

So, naturally, they started to argue about whether the pumpkin had found them or not. In whispers, the snapped at each other, until a loud "HELLO!" interrupted them.

Ivan and Garet almost fell out of the tree. Mia and Isaac were standing there, staring at them. At their feet was the Jack-o'-Lantern.

"Crud." Ivan muttered.

"What're you doing up there?" Mia called.

Garet just pointed at the pumpkin. Mia and Isaac stared some more. Ivan whispered to Garet. "Theydon'tgetit.We'llclimbdownandgetridofthepumpkin,gotit?"

Garet nodded in understanding. Together, the climbed down the far side of the tree. Ivan was humming the theme to "Mission Impossible." Garet leaped out from behind the tree and immediately Cycle Beamed the pumpkin off into the distance. Smiling, he called to Ivan, "It's okay! The pumpkin's gone!"

Ivan came out from behind the tree, glaring suspiciously.

Together, the four Adepts decided to go visit Felix and Jenna. As they were walking, Mia thanked Garet for helping with the decorations at Isaac's house.

Garet didn't know what she was talking about. Ivan thought about this, and frowned. He remembered that, as he and Garet were running away from the pumpkin, a person who looked suspiciously like himself waved at him.

So, when the companions got to Felix and Jenna's house, and four of them were fighting. Well, let's just say he wasn't surprised. Or, rather, he was, because the Jack-o'-Lantern stood silently on the top of the sibling's house, watching.

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Sorry that was so short, me pretties! ^^; I'm going to be writing multiple chapters today, so I need to space them out... And it also doesn't really help that today is Halloween, and I still gots chappies to write... Oi. I really need to work on my "not-procrastinating" skillz... @.@

However, I will answer some reviews:

E.A.Saraby- Heh heh... You don't want to see what's inside me knocker... Honestly. And to counter the Latin, I say to you: Lutat behrn, bor! Eh kolga. Eh op kalaso, bor. Mesa. Eh me. Pavra lugau fen lutat starat. Eh fa du, phe. HAHAHAHA! Translate THAT! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Loki54: Sorry if I got your name wrong! As I said, I'm doin' this from mem'ry... And we gots an OBHL on our hands, don't we? ^_~ Heehee. Piers will be in here, don't worry. He comes in in a few chapters (like, 2)... I think... @.@