Fangtastic Dah-ling!

Turtle woke up to a very sore mouth, and a crazy thirst. Dammnit, it was happening again. He should have never dressed up as a vampire as a kid, it wasn't good for his health. Not good at all. He flexed his jaw and groaned, he could feel them, two tiny but insanely sharp fangs biting into his lower lip.

He supposed his reflection was pale and drawn as usual. Why couldn't Vash have gotten the vampire? Goddess knew he acted like one. But, then again, Fall, he supposed, liked to play cruel jokes on him.

"Curse you smiter!" He said, raising his fist to the empty air.

He could have sworn he heard a laugh. He shook it off as just his imagination and got himself out of bed, he supposed it would be Vash's turn for the ritual and then his, then they could all go to Witch House, as they did every year. He smiled, although he scoffed at it, he enjoyed going to Witch House and the Pumpkin Patch, it was always fun, hell they had been doing it for over a hundred years already.

He laughed, a hundred years and he still looked like he was eighteen, go figure.

Vash finished his part of the ritual in a panted sigh. There was so much magick in the air and so many colours of different auras he didn't know if he could take this any longer. It felt as if the magick was sucking the life right out of him, well, Turtle would have to dispell it into the world when he worked his magick. He looked down at his bony fingers. Soon the white bone would come out of the skin, painlessly and effortlessly and he and Tweak would be the Bone Twins as everyone called them. He wondered if Miaka's transformation was complete. Spacey was probably her cat self by now, so it didn't really matter. He blew out all the candles in a silent reverence, watching as the flame, once bright and full of life, diminished in one single blow.

Kind of like fall. He thought to himself as he blew the thirteenth candle out. He smiled. Yup, just like fall.

He didn't know how right he really was.

Winter's Chill

Wherever she walked a cold chill followed. The boys were looking at her, some openely, others trying to look at her over their girlfriend's shoulders. She smiled, men were so fickle. She grinned sarcastically to herself and tossed her platinum hair over her shoulder. She was looking for someone and soon found her in the middle of a group of 'goth' teenagers. She rolled her eyes and sighed impatiently. What was Fall doing hanging out with these people.

"Cool Jeanni. Let's do it this weekend." One of the men said with a wink and a smile. Winter shuddered, what was Jeanni going to do with him? Jeannie smiled and flipped her red/black hair out of her face. Winter nearly shrieked in horror. Fall, or Jeannie, was wearing a black mesh shirt covered with another black tube top, her hair was done up in some kind of bob with chopsticks topped with skulls holding it together. She had on what looked like a huge skirt to Winter but were actually pants with suspenders and too many zippers to count on them, Winter supposed the pockets in those things were big enough to hold a small dog in them. She was also wearing a necklace with skulls on them and a spiked dog collar. Winter was horrified.

"Hey Jeanni," the same boy said, "that popular chick over there has been staring at you for the past five minutes."

'Jeanni' looked at Winter and smiled, her black eyes going amber for an instant. Winter stared her down, letting her younger sibling feel her aura, Jeanni smiled and winked. A group of four passed Winter but stopped as one, a blond boy, stopped to talk with Jeanni's new boyfriend. Winter looked them over.

One girl was wearing a long grey shirt she probably got from the men's section of Target, jeans and gym shoes. She was taller than the rest by scant inches and could get jealous very easy, though she tried to hide it, with blond tipped brown hair, blue eyes with gold suns circling the iris, she had on a Celtic thumb ring, she had on a necklace as well but Winter couldn't see it. The other girl with them was shorter and much more defensive than the first. She had poofy blond hair that seemed forever to be in a ponytail and blue/hazel eyes. She was much more decorated than the other with five rings decorating various fingers on both hands, she also had on a necklace but it was a Celtic triad, she was wearing jeans, a red and black shirt, and boots.

The male standing beside the first girl was dark and mysterious. But easily manipulated by a pretty face and nice body, Winter thought with a smile, he was wonderfully built with muscles showing underneath his black shirt. He had black spiky hair and gorgeous brown eyes, he had on studded bracelets and a necklace that Winter could have sworn was giving off a light glow. Both him and the first girl were talking quietly. Winter was instantaneously jealous. Now the last boy in the group was lighter than his counterpart but more goth. He had on a spiked collar and another necklace tucked under his shirt. Well, one of them, he was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a orange jersey over it, he had spiked and studded bracelets on, he was wearing jeans as well with black boots on. He was muscled as well, but seemed more relaxed than the other, although he could be swayed by a pretty face he seemed more solid than the other.

"Hey Vash, hurry your skinny ass up we need to go meet Turtle!" The first girl said.

He held up a finger, telling her to wait a minute.

"There he goes again." She muttered.

"He'll come in a minute Miaka." The boy said.

"Yeah I know. What time is it Spacey?" She asked.

Spacey looked at her watch.

"Fifteen to three."

The other boy sighed.

"Chill Tweak." Miaka muttered.

Finally Vash finished talking to the group and rejoined his old one the four walked away chatting methodically. Winter watched as her younger sister walked over to her. Fall grabbed her by the back of the head and kissed her sister full on the mouth. Winter kissed her back, glad to have her younger sister's warm embrace in her arms again. Fall licked her sister on the ear, making Winter shudder and moan.

"Come to see my holiday sister?"

Winter smiled and pressed her sister into her.

"Later, but for now, let's make or own."

Fall laughed and the two vanished.