Emika's first scare on Halloween

At 9:30pm on October 31, A family of three came home from taking their five year old daughter trick 'r treating. She is dressed as a grey and blue dragon, thanks to her tail. But she didn't mind, less of creating her costume.

"YAY! Look Mommy! I got lots of candy!" Emika showed her candy bag to both Vox and Charlie.

They smiled. "Wow Emika! That's a lot of candy that you got. But remember-"

"I know mommy, I only can have 2 or 3 candies for tonight before bed and bath or shower."

Vox chuckled in amusement while Charlie just laughed.

"Good, now why don't you find some clothes for you to change into and eat those 2 or 3 candies while you're at it?" asked Vox as he rubbed the top of her head, making her hair a little tangled.

Emika giggled, "Hehe okay daddy."

Then Emika left up stairs to her room after putting her candy bag on the table in the kitchen and grabbing 3 candies. Vox and Charlie smiled as they saw her running up stairs and hearing her singing 'This is Halloween' from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

"Emika really enjoys Halloween huh Vox?

"Hehe yes, she does but it's almost time for her to go to bed. I wanted to at least spend some time with her and you for Halloween." Vox put his down a little, feeling a little sad about not being able spending the night with his two favorite girls in his life.

"Aww, it's okay Vox," Charlie smiled but then turned into a little smirk as she started to lean against him, whispering, "But are we still on for tonight though?"

Vox stood a bit more straight as he felt himself blushing a bit. He felt her hands on his chest, slowly going sliding up to his shoulders, making his whole body shook in excitement and smirked back at her as well.

"Of course it's still on my dear, but we have to put Emika to bed first and then-"

"Put a spell around our room for soundproof. Hehe, I know, love." Charlie giggled and Vox nodded as they both went up the stairs getting read for 'bed' themselves too.

Emika found some dark grey pajamas, a tank top and some shorts (not short shorts)and went to the bathroom with Charlie starting the bath for her. Emika took her costume off and jumped into the tub, making some splashes and a mess on the floor a bit. Charlie at least covered her face but sadly not most of her dress as she saw some wet spots on her dress that Vox got for her a while back for their date night.

"...Oopies, I'm sorry mommy!"

"It's okay sweetie, just please be careful next time and don't jump in the tub okay?"

Emika nodded and started to play with some of the bubbles in the tub as Charlie started to wash her hair.

~ With Vox ~

Vox went to their bedroom to get some clothes for both him and Charlie for the night. After he found some clothes that will be good enough, he felt something nuzzling his left side and saw that it's Vark, lightly purring and tail wagging. Vox couldn't help but smile as that.

"Hey, I miss you too buddy," he kneeled down and petted Vark on the head. "But I want you to sleep in Emika's room for the night."

Vark pulled away and looked at Vox with a confused, sad face, whimpering a bit.

"I know bud but I want you to make sure that she's safe for tonight and incase she has nightmare okay?"

Vark smiled and nodded as his tail wagged again. Vox laughed as Vark's happy expression before it got interrupted by the bedroom door opening.

"Hope I'm not interrupting you guys time."

Vox and Vark turned and saw Charlie holding Emika in her arms. Emika started to yawn, slowly feeling tired from taking a bath.

"But a certain little someone wanted to say goodnight before heading to bed." said Charlie while putting Emika down and kneeled down next to her.

Emika looked at her mom for a second before running towards Vox as he held out his arms and held her before standing up while holding her in his arms. She laughed as he gave her a raspberry on her tummy. Charlie stood up straight and smiled at the scene.

"Daddy! Stop that tickles!"

Vox laughed as he hugged her a little tighter, "Okay baby girl, but are you ready for bed?" Vox pulled away and she snuzzled against his chest.

Emika nodded. "Yes Daddy... but I'm a little scared..."

"Aww, don't be scared. Vark will be sleeping inn your room for tonight."

Emika looked at Vark with excitement in her eyes. "Really?!"

"Haha, really, Now lets go my little trouble maker, Mommy and I will tuck you in." Vox said as he and Charlie walked from their bedroom to Emika's bedroom with Vark following closely behind.

~ Emika's room ~

Charlie walked in first and uncovered only the top part of the bed as Vox put Emika on the bed.

"Alright Emika," Vox took the covers and covered her while rubbing her head. " It's time to go to sleep okay?"

Emika smiled and yawned. "Okay *yawn* daddy."

Vark waked on the opposite side of the bed and licked her cheek lightly that made her giggle a little and yawned again. This brought smiles on Vox and Charlie's face.

"Aright sweetheart," Charlie walked next to Vox and bed and gave Emika a kiss on her forehead. "Goodnight and sleep well okay?"

"And don't be scared okay? Vark will be here to protect you."

After Vox said that, he suddenly got another idea.

"And do let... THE COOKIE MONSTER GET YOU!"

Vox tickled her that has her squealing in laughter before stopping to let her catch her breath and also kissed her forehead.

"Goodnight baby girl, sleep well okay?"

Emika nodded and turned to fall asleep as Vox to Charlies hand and walked out the room after putting on the nightlight next to the bed. They looked at her one last time before closing the door. Vark nuzzled Emika and she also hugged him back. They pulled away and Vark laid down next to her bed.

"Goodnight Vark. See you in the morning."

Vark purred and mumbled in response and fell deep asleep.

Emika smiled as she laid back down and snuggled against her pillow.

~Vox and Charlie's Bedroom ~

"So, my dearest, what should we do?" asked Charlie as she came out from the bathroom, that's connected to their room, changed into her black night gown.

Vox is sitting against the headboard of the bed reading some paperwork from his work. He looked up and saw her in the night gown, it almost turned him on instantly and blush a little. But he quickly changed it into a smirk as she went to the bed and sat next to him.

"Oh I can think of one thing.'

Charlie saw the smirk on his screen face and knew that he's planning something. Not that she's complaining.

Before she could say a word, she was suddenly on her back with him over her. At first, she was surprised that he did it too fast for her to even react but she smirked as she placed her arms around him, pulling him closer and kissed him with such hunger for passion. Vox held her closer to him and kissed back with such hunger for passion as well. They pulled away and stared at each other for a few seconds before kissing each other again.

"Wow...you...certainly...got me...by surprise Vox" said Charlie, in between the kissing.

Vox pulled away from the kiss and smirked.

"You don't know what other things that I can do, my love."

He leaned closer to her and whispered, "You'll soon find out though."

That caused Charlie to blush and do the spell that made the walls soundproof for two hours.

~ 11:30pm at Night ~

CREEEAK

Emika slowly woke up from the noise that she heard. At first she thought that she was just hearing things and was about to go back to sleep before...

THUMP THUMP THUMP

Emika, now wide awake, slowly sat up and looked around for the noise and where it's coming from. She looked over to the side of the bed, to see if Vark's tail is making the noise.

THUMP THUMP THUMP

But sadly, it wasn't Vark's tail.

CREEEAK CREEEAK

Emika turned her head towards the her bedroom door and heard the noises from behind it. She slowly got off the bed and walked towards the door when she suddenly felt something nudging her back.

"Ah!" She turned around and is relieved that it's only Vark with a question expression.

"Vark, did you hear something too?" asked Emika as she hugged him.

He whined a little and nodded.

CREEAK THUMP THUMP

Both Emika and Vark looked at the door and nodded at each other before they walked quietly to the door and opened it slowly. They looked down the hallway on the left, towards Vox and Charlies bedroom door. Then they turned to the right, towards the stairs when suddenly...

THUMP THUMP THUMP

They both heard the noise coming from downstairs. At first Emika wanted to run to her parents room but is suddenly against it.

"Lets go and check it out Vark."

Emika quietly opened the door a bit, enough for her and Vark to go through and walked towards the stairs. Vark at first didn't want to go but he didn't want anything bad happened to Emika, so he followed her close by. They slowly walked down the stairs and the noise got louder.

THUMP THUMP THUMP

Emika jumped a little and Vark nuzzled against her back. Emika turned and smiled.

"Thanks Vark, your the best." said Emika as she hugged him.

Vark mumbled with a smile.

When they pulled away, they continued to follow the noise. When it lead them to the doorway of the kitchen, that has the lights on.

THUMP CREEEAK THUMP

Emika held onto Vark when she saw a shadow, by the light, moving around in the kitchen. They walked towards the kitchen to see if it's Vox or Charlie but as they barely got to the doorway, they saw the shadow stopped moving and got bigger until they saw a big dark figure coming through the doorway with four arms and red eyes.

"AAHH! MOMMY! DADDY!"

Emika yelled as Vark barked scared. They ran towards the stairs but Emika slipped and fell near the first step before she could even reach the stairs. Vark looked back and saw her hurt as she fell. He ran back and protected her. She cried as she turned to look at the dark figure coming closer to her. She curled into a ball and cried, "NO! Please don't hurt me!"

"Emika!?"

Suddenly the lights turned on in the whole house as she heard footsteps from upstairs coming downstairs. When Emika heard her name being called out, she took her hands off her face as she sat up completely and saw that lights are on and looked around for the dark figure but only saw...

"What the heck Val! You could've made her hit her head against the bottom step if she slipped a bit more sooner." Vox yelled, picking her up and holding her close.

Emika just hugged him and was about to cry again. Charlie must've seen this as she rubbed her baby's back and said in smooth words, "Shh, it's okay sweetie, mommy and daddy are here. It's alright."

Vox looked at his baby girl and hugged her more tightly for a minute and looked back a Valentino with a glare.

"I'm sorry Vox, I was trying to make me something eat when I come here to spend the night, since I was around the neighborhood. I thought she was in a deep sleep." apologized Valentino, raising all his four hands.

Vox just narrowed his eyes in annoyance as he gave Emika to Charlie and grabbed Valentino by his fur coat and dragged him back into the kitchen. Valentino whined for Vox to let go but it's fall to deaf ears. It was silent for a couple of seconds before both girls and Vark heard yelling and things throwing around. Emika held on Charlie more tightly, scared of what's going on in the kitchen. A few seconds later, Valentino ran out of the kitchen to the spare room inside the house. Then Vox came out of the kitchen next, with a spoon ladle in his right hand.

"That'll be the last time you'll use the kitchen again Val!"

Both girls and Vark stared at him with surprised eyes until Emika giggled a little. Charlie laughed a little too.

Vox suddenly got jumped by Vark that caused both of them to fall on the floor. Both Emika and Charlie laughed at them as Vark hugged and nuzzled Vox tightly.

"Vark...can't...breath."

Vark suddenly lets go as Vox is gasping for air, sitting up.

"Vark!"

Vark looked at who called his name and saw Emika, holding out her hands out for him, trying to reach him. He smiles and runs towards her and Charlie. He was running too fast that made Charlie worried.

"Vark! Slow down!"

But it was too late, he crashed into them both that also caused them to fall making Vox smirked a little. Emika laughed as Vark is licking all over her face. Charlie sat up a little and smiled at them. Vox got up from the floor and walked over to them, gently grabbing Vark to pull him off the girls.

"Alright buddy, that's enough. We had a scary night but we need to go to bed now."

Vark whined but nodded as he did what Vox asked him to do.

Vox helped Charlie onto her feet before helping Emika up too. But Emika help up her hands to him and made grabbing motions, asking him to pick her up and hold her. Vox was about to protest when he saw her making puppy eyes.

'Oh no, not those puppy eye!'

Vox tried so hard to resist them.

'Don't fall for it, don't fall for it, don't fall for it.'

...But he ended up falling for it as he picked her up. This made her giggle. Vark saw this and nuzzled him by the leg.

"I have a feeling she got that trick from you." said Vox, playfully glaring at Charlie.

"Who? Me?" Charlie pretended not to know. "Why I never would do such a thing, love."

Vox smirked as he pulled her closer to him with his free hand, "Oh? Like that one time you wanted to go to the hotel and ask Alastor or Angel to babysit Emika, when I don't really feel comfortable for her to be around them?"

Charlie blushed at those memories but what Vox is about to say made her face red as a tomato.

"Or just an hour ago, when we- " Charlie quickly covered where his mouth is on his screen and glared at him blushing. Emika looked at them confused on what's going on.

"Don't you even say it. Not with Emika here, dearest."

Vox laughed and nodded as she took her hands off his face. They were interrupted with a yawn, they looked at Emika and saw her slowly falling asleep against Vox's chest, sucking her thumb.

"Awww." They both said hugging each other.

Vark looked up from nuzzling Vox's leg and saw the whole family in a hug. He hugged them both purring as Charlie rubbed his head.

"I think she should sleep with us tonight. After what just happened, she might have a nightmare from this until Valentino apologizes in the morning."

Vox thought about it and agreed until he suddenly remembered about something.

"But what about-"

"Already changed them."

Vox just stared at her in shock that all you can see on his screen is just big red eyes.

"I changed them while you were asleep, love. You are a very heavy sleeper to notice."

"You are...full of surprises, my love." said Vox as he kissed the side of her head, causing her to giggle lightly.

They went back to their room with Vark following behind them. As they got to the bed, they placed Emika in between them as they got to bed too. They covered themselves and her, they held onto her with smiles on their faces before falling asleep.

Vark watched them falling asleep before laying down next to Charlie's side of the bed and falling asleep as well.

~ The Morning ~

The next morning, in the living room Valentino did apologized to Emika for scaring her last night. She couldn't get mad at her awesome uncle, all she did was running up to him hugged him by his leg and accepting his apology.

"It's okay uncle Val, I know that you didn't mean to."

Valentino couldn't help but pick her up and hug her, spinning her around, making her laugh and squeal in happiness before stopping but still holding her in his two top arms.

"Vox and Charlie are sure lucky to have you, you little shinning star."

Emika smiled and grabbed his face and leaned her forehead against his and said, "Yup but I'm lucky to have you and everyone else uncle Val."

Valentino smiled at that and hugged her more tightly.

What they didn't know is that Vox and Charlie are watching them from the doorway to the living room, smiling at the scene that's happening.