The Party
Happy Harbor
October 27, 2011
3:52:17 UTD
Conner and Megan are in a little shopping spree for the mysterious party. They were too excited to find out who the host is. So they decided to have some fun shopping.
"I went as the zombie bride last time. What do you think should I go as this year?" Megan asked. While the two are in a costume shop that will be opened temporarily until after Halloween.
"Not sure. But you look great in any way." Conner assured her. But he wasn't sure what he should wear for the holiday. But the two were too busy having fun shopping. Then theu overheard another pair of teens talking to each other.
"Ren, check out those costumes. They look very realistic!" Said a ginger-haired girl. She is wearing a pink short and white shorts, plus a tennis headband. Megan's guess is thst she is an aspiring tennis player. Other other is a boy with long raven hair and magenta eyes and hair streak, wearing a Japanese school uniform.
"Nora, those mask are porbably made of rubber." Ren pointed out. Looking at a rubber mask of a goblin.
"Know what?! Who cares. But I'm gonna go as Wonder Woman this year! Warrior princess, goddess of war!"
"That's a metaphor, right?" Ren asked. Then Conner and Megan heard another pair talking to each other in another section.
"What? Rumor has it, she fights gods." Nora retorted.
"This will be the night of our lives, Neptune!" Said a girl with white hair. She is talking to a young man with blue hair, to which the others thought it was hair dye. "Don't know, Snow Angel. Our dads will kill us if they found out we're together." Said Neptune.
"Oh, they won't. Not if we disappear." Said the white-haired girl. Holding up a costume and waving it left and right. Neptune smiled at the girl, supposedly they are a couple. He wrapped his arms around her waist while the girl returned that embrace. "Weiss, you rock." Said Neptune.
"We are so gonna win that couples' costume contest in the bash this year." Megan overheard this and based on their favorite favorite movie series, she finally decided on what costume she was gonna wear the night. Much to Ren's annoyance as he and Nora passed by. "Get a room, you two." Ren said, firmly. While Nora kept smiling carrying the purchased items.
"Conner. I think I got an idea on what we should be on Halloween." Megan said. Conner glanced at her after listening to other shoppers.
"We? Got something in mind?" He asked.
Megan then hands him a costume, which astonished Conner, as if she already had a plan for him.
"Remember when we watched "The Mummy" movie series? There's going to be a costume contest... for couples. And we're joining in." Asked Megan. Conner is now getting the idea what was in stored for each other.
"Alright, I see where you're going." Conner replied.
Then through the window, a girl, who appeared to be some sort of spirit bangs on the window for help.
"Can anyone hear me?! Please!"
Conner blinked as he heard banging again. Be he turned around to see no one through the window. Megan then glanced at where he was looking at. "Conner, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. Thought I heard something." He replied as the two continued shopping before the big event.
Central City
October 27, 2011
3:52:17 UTD
Wally told Dick about the girl he saw through the mirror. But he didn't believe him, thinking he was telling those things to scare him. "Dude, I keep telling you, last week there was a girl in the mirror talking to me!"
"You're not believing the story about the Girl in the Mirror, aren't you?" Asked Dick. They are at Wally's house, where the two would meet uo to play video games, or discuss their teerible days to complain.
"It's not a prank! I am serious!" Wally had no other option but to show him. By dragging him to the bathroom for him to look at the mirror to seenif the girl was somewhere around glass and other reflections. "Look, look! You're going to believe me when she shows up here!"
Dick and Wally waited for something to happen. But the more they looked at the mirror, the more it annoyed Dick. "Dude, you've been really watching too many evil babysitter movies."
"Maybe she is delaying her appearance?"
"Walls, I think you just got too excited for the party that all this stuff must've got into your head to believe that a girl in the mirror story was true." Dick assured him. But then he turned to see the girl in the mirror. But waved before he even noticed. "Oh, hey." He said and turned back to Wally before he blinked looks back at the mirror again. "Hm?"
All he can hear was the wind as soon as it forced the window opened. Dick then realized that Wally wasn't lying to see a girl in the mirror. "KF?"
"Yeah?"
"You saw this too, right?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you sure this isn't a prank?"
"Of course it's not a prank!"
"Excuse me?" The two looked at the mirror and sees her. They froze as the girl in the mirror was speaking to them. The girl appeared again. Wally and Dick stood in fear. Not sure on whether or not that spirit should be trusted. "Ahhh!"
The. the two sped out of the bathroom and shut the door. As the leaned on the door and panted. Thinking they were just seeing things.
"KF?"
"Y-yeah?"
"I think the story is true."
New York City
October 27, 2011
7:21:51 UTD
Zatanna and Artemis were shopping for some material to add to their costumes. Wondering who to be for the bash. "It's kinda weird to be invited to a party with no name of the sender. Not sure if this is a trap." Artemis said.
"That's what anyone else is wondering. By the way, I heard you and Wally are gonna compete in a Couples'Costume Contest. I also heard Conner and Megan are joining in too."
"Well, since Wally and I love Mortal Kombat. I think going as Sonya Blade would be cool. While Wally wants to go as Johnny Cage. Seriously, why do the fans ship these two to begin with?"
"Wow, Yang! A costume of Speedy?! And shades of red?! And extra zippers in the costume?! This is great!" Across the aisle, there was a girl, appearing 15 with black hair and silver eyes, alongside a tall blonde girl with lilac eyes. The blonde, called Yang, ruffled the younger girl's hair smiling affectionately.
"Hey, anything for my baby sis, Ruby." Zatanna noticed Artemis frown upon seeing the affection between the two sisters. "What's up?" She asked.
"Nothing. Just seeing the exchange of those sisters just looks cute." Zatanna now knows what Artemis meant. She does remembered her mentioning she had an older sister who was lost in a path.
"Yeah, I get where you're coming from." Then Yang and her younger sister came upon the two. They were just smiling at them like nothing happened.
"Oh, sorry. We didn't mean to stare at you." Artemis apologized.
"It's cool though. We just thought we come by and say hi." Ruby said. "Heard you guys are going to the bash too. Isn't this great?!"
"Totally." Ruby then perks up the minute she sees Zatanna. And had seen her in the posters before. "N-no way! You're Zatanna!" Excited, she shook her hand, causing the young magician to be taken aback. "I have seen you and your dad in your magic shows before! You have no idea how much of a big fan I was!"
"My little sis does like a lot of your shows. Whenever she gets upset. I took her there to cheer her up." Yang mentioned. "Your tricks looked a bit realistic when you and your dad performed."
"Hehe. I was more of an assistant if you asked. me."
Then they hear whispering. Both Zatanna and Artemis wondered what is going on. But got the feeling it has something to do on Halloween. As far as the Homo Magi are aware, every Halloween month, spirits roam around the air whether it was for freelance purpose, or for bad intentions.
"What's everyone whispering about? Even my friends in Gotham kept talking about mirrors and all that stuff." Artemis asked.
"Yeah, what was that all about?" Zatanna also asked.
"Oh, you guys probably never heard of this, but now everyone was convinced that the girl in the mirror had come." Yang said.
"The Girl in the Mirror?" Asked Artemis.
"You may not believe this, but two years ago, Ruby and I heard a story that nobody would shut up about, a student in Midvale Middle school went into a castle for a party with her friends. But as the girl got separated from her friends, she stepped into a trap and found a mirror. But it wasn't an ordinary mirror, it was an enchanted one. By the time she touched it, she disappeared. And her soul was bound to the mirror and every reflection she can appear from in Halloween month." Yang told the story.
This got the two girls intrigued. Especially Ruby, since she reads a lot of myths and fairy tales, mainly the Brothers Grimm.
"I always wondered if the story was real." Ruby said.
But then Artemis cuts in. "For all we know. It was just a story to get kids to behave, right?"
"Eh." Yang shrugged.
"Wait a minute, a castle at Midvale? I had seen it before." Zatanna said.
"You went there before?!" Ruby said.
"Yeah, at least this one time."
"Oh, come on. You guys don't believe the story. Didn't you?" The four turned around to see a blonde young man and a raven haired girl with amber eyes.
"Hi, Sun. Hi, Blake. You guys' ready for the bash?" Ruby waved. Then turned to Artemis and Zatanna. "Zatanna, Artemis. This is Sun and Blake. Sun, Blake, meet Zatanna and Artemis."
"S'uo, losers." Sun said, only called them that cause that's how he mskes friendly interactions.
"Hi."
"How's it going?"
"You guys heard that legend too? It was soreading like wildfire for every Halloween." Said Blake as she was reading a book called a Man with Two Souls.
"You also believe that legend?" Asked Artemis.
"Whetehr or not it's real. We cannot jump to conclusions. But Sun insisted that we gonto the bash. Not like webhave anything to do." Said Blake.
