Disclaimer: Of course, I don't own them! They belong to Marvel and Kid's WB.
Author's Notes: Hey people! Happy Halloween! So I actually thought of this story about a week ago but realized I wouldn't be able to finish writing it all by today…so I'm posting the prologue and the first chapter on Halloween, but it will continue on, even if it won't be October! I got my inspiration from many things and I'll tell you about that later because I think I'll wreck it for anyone who actually knows about what I'm talking about! Again, I'll say later…lol! For now, please Read, Review, and most of all, *ENJOY!* Now on with the show……………
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Fright Fest
By: pinkchick
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Chapter 1
Xavier Institute October 31, 2003
"Alright! It's time for some Halloveen movies!" Kurt Wagner exclaimed with enthusiasm as he jumped around the living room and grabbed the remote from beside the television. Kitty Pryde looked at him from the top of her magazine and rolled her bubbly blue eyes in annoyance. Kurt was usually labeled as the jokester of the house and sometimes it was a good thing; but as of right now, Kitty was just about fed up with him.
"Kurt, there's, like, nothing special about Halloween! All it does is make good profit to candy stores and scares little kids off," Kitty stated as she went back to reading her magazine.
"Zat's vat you think," Kurt replied pointedly, "but Halloveen is actually a very complicated holiday."
"Oh yeah! You should know there's really no such thing as evil spirits. So what's, like, so complicated about it?" Kitty asked, eyeing him suspiciously.
Kurt smiled, revealing two fanged teeth that only a blue fuzz ball can produce and jumped into the seat next to Kitty. Flipping on the TV with the remote in his three fingered hand, he sighed happily. "You see, it's very complicated to watch all the movies zey make in one month."
Kitty rolled her eyes again and brushed herself off as she got up off of the couch. "You are, like, so lame! I still think Halloween's a stupid holiday."
Kitty looked at the TV and Kurt again and marched out of the room. Kurt shrugged his shoulders and grabbed the bowl of chips from the table in front of him. "Well, I zink Halloveen is ze coolest holiday."
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Rogue had just finished her homework for that day and had just associated herself onto the chair in the kitchen when Kitty walked into the kitchen with an irritated expression on her face. Rogue followed her friend and fellow housemate with her eyes as Kitty scoffed and pulled out a chair and sat in it. She ripped out her magazine as if she were about to strangle it and started reading where she had left off.
Rogue looked at Kitty and back at the kitchen door in which she had just come through. She had known Kitty for awhile and the girl was usually full of energy and perkiness; this was certainly not a mood she usually saw her in. Rogue eyed her for a couple of more minutes before she started to acknowledge Kitty of her presence.
"What happened t'ya?" Rogue asked slowly. Kitty muttered something under her breath and Rogue leaned in closer to hear what she had said. She knocked on the table as if to bring Kitty out of her imaginary world.
"What was that, Kitty? Ah'm kinda hard of hearin', so if ya wouldn't mahnd speakin' up a little!" Rogue exclaimed.
Kitty looked up from her magazine and flushed from embarrassment. She closed her magazine and spoke louder this time. "I said, Kurt's, like, getting on my last nerve with all this Halloween crap."
"Ya know the elf doesn't mean no harm," Rogue replied.
"Yeah," Kitty said, pointing her index finger at Rogue, "you try sitting with him in one of his wacky Halloween moods."
"Whatever!" Rogue responded.
"I just, like, don't see the big deal about Halloween that's all," Kitty perked up. "If you ask me, it like, gives me the creeps."
"Ah guess it's just tha fact that everyone gets free candy," Rogue put in. She played around with her glove before looking at Kitty again. "So, ah guess yo' not goin' to tha Halloween dance this Friday?"
Kitty shivered openly. "Oh, ick, never! Are you?"
"Maybe," Rogue answered.
"Really?" Kitty asked, surprise in her voice. Rogue was never the one to go out to a dance, especially one involving costumes.
"Yeah, in another lahftahm."
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"Bobby!" Amara cried out in horror as a fake bloodied skeletal hand came out and grasped her. Amara jumped back and crossed her arms over her shoulders. Bobby Drake came out of the closet he had been hiding in and pulled out the fake hands. The young teen was usually known as the prankster, and he would excessively do it during the month of October. Right now, Amara wasn't pleased.
"Hey!" Bobby exclaimed. "You were supposed to scream."
"Get out!" Amara shouted as she pointed to the doorway of the room. "Try doing something better with your time."
"Like what?"
"Setting up candy for all those little kids."
"Yeah, like anyone would actually come to the mansion after they found out about us, Amara," Bobby said. "Especially little kids."
Amara sighed and placed her fingers on her temples. "Bobby, I have a lot of homework…so I really don't care what you do with your time."
"Fine, I'll just go carve some pumpkins," Bobby said as Amara dragged him out of the door and into the hallway. "This is gonna be the most boring Halloween in all history."
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All the students sat in the planning room as the four adults of the mansion stood before them. Professor Xavier, hands placed calmly in front of him, looked upon the five students standing before him. He didn't want to say what he was about to, but he feared he had no choice. The professor was a usually calm man, but one of his worst fears was about to come true. He was to leave his students, all of them, alone. Alone, on Halloween.
"I am afraid something has come up," he told them.
"Like what?" Scott Summers asked, standing up.
"I am afraid that isn't any of your concern, Scott," the professor replied. Scott sat down at the gesture from the professor. The professor gave a weak smile. He knew he could at least count on some of his students to be responsible. He looked at the doorway. It was the other students that Xavier was worried about.
Logan crossed his arms and twitched his lips. "What Charles here is tryin' ta say is that we have to go away. All four of us." He pointed towards himself, Storm, Beast, and the professor.
"For how long?" Jean Grey asked. She was sitting on the couch next to Scott, whom she officially started dating awhile ago. As one of the eldest students at the mansion, she also took second in command of the group in situations such as this one.
Professor Xavier sighed. "Just for the weekend. The reason I am telling you five is because I need you to look after the others in our absence."
"No problem," Kurt replied happily.
"He also means ya can't go messin' around either, elf," Logan replied gruffly. Kurt felt himself shrink down to size from Logan's hard stare. The elder man was getting used to the student's mischief's, but he didn't want them to get in any trouble while no adult was around. He remembered what happened last time; they all had thrown a party behind Jean and Scott's backs. He tried to promise himself that that wouldn't happen again.
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The four adults had left soon after their departure announcement. The five X-men had spread the word and havoc dawned upon the house. Since the adults were gone, that meant no one was allowed out of the house until Sunday, except to go to school and back. Jean Grey sat in her room after she helped inform everyone about the sudden change in plans for the weekend. She closed her closet after looking at her Halloween costume once more. Jean and Scott had been planning on attending a party, but they obviously couldn't now.
She sighed and slumped her tall, slender body over her bed. For some weird reason, she feared this was going to be a very long weekend. She unconsciously started to twirl her fiery red hair around her finger before she was interrupted by a hard rap on the door. Jean smiled before speaking; she didn't need her telepathy to figure out who it was.
"Come in, Scott," she called from her seat on the bed.
The door slowly opened to reveal a slim yet tall and muscularly built man who was around the same age as Jean. Scott Summers walked into the room with his hands in his pocket, an apparent shyness creeping over him. He ran his hand through his somewhat thick chestnut colored hair, an unconscious gesture he submissively did.
"Hey Jean, how'd you know it was me?" he asked.
Jean shrugged but gave him an irrepressible smile. Scott smiled back at her and looked down at the floor which had suddenly become interesting. The silence in the air hung like the branch of a tree holding onto a leaf, waiting for it to fall off. Jean quirked a concerned eyebrow at him.
"Did you need something Scott?"
"Hm, uh no. Not really anyways," he stuttered. "So, you still mad about not going to that Halloween dance?"
"No, it probably wouldn't have been any fun anyways," Jean replied. Scott nodded in concurrent. As of late, any mutant could not go out in public without being treated like a menace or some kind of plague that walked the earth. They would have probably crashed the party anyhow. It was thought to be much safer for all of them to stay at home.
"Well, I guess I'll say goodnight now and see you at the danger room session tomorrow," Scott said as he turned around to make his departure.
Jean sighed at his retreating figure. "Goodnight." Scott just couldn't give up one day of practice. She smiled as she heard the door close behind him. Some things just don't change.
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To every student's luck, Halloween and Friday collapsed on the same day that year. As the final bell of the day rang, the students were free to go. Their homework and worries left behind at school, they all walked out with new ideas of fear. Kurt walked down the hall with his girlfriend Amanda Sefton. He felt safe being with her, since she was the only one who appreciated his 'gift'. Being that they could not leave the mansion, he had invited her over. She had willingly agreed and they were on their way out to meet Scott, who was picking them up on his way home.
"Hey, mutie," a boy taunted at Kurt. "What're you gonna be this year? A normal person!" He laughed as he ran down the hall, making disgusted faces towards Kurt. Kurt looked down as he had been slapped in the face. How he sometimes wished to be normal. He immediately felt a tug on his arm as Kurt looked up to notice Amanda smiling at him.
"C'mon, Kurt," she said. "Don't listen to him. We'll have a good time this year."
"I sure hope so." Kurt mustered a smile, but to no avail.
"We can watch scary movies!"
Kurt's features brightened at the mention of movies. "And food?" he asked, licking his lips.
"Lots of it," Amanda stated, grabbing his arm and walking towards Scott's impatient figure. "What'd you say?"
"You're on!"
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Rogue walked down through the sublevels of the mansion with Jean, Scott, and Kitty towards the elevator. They had just finished up a danger room session. Everyone else had dispersed from the room before Scott could finish his sentence about what they needed to improve. He didn't feel the need to intrude, after all, it was Halloween. So, being in the spirit himself, Scott cut the session short and let everyone start the holiday early. The elevator opened and the four of them stepped in.
"Ya know what ah find weird?" Rogue asked no one in particular as the elevator started making it's way up the shaft.
"Like, what?" Kitty asked, gazing at Rogue.
"How is it that tha professor says that this mansion's been in tha family for hundreds of years…" Rogue started.
"…And no paintings of his ancestors are hung around here," Jean finished for her teammate. Rogue nodded at her. Though the two girls didn't see eye to eye and had major differences, they still got along fairly well. "I know, I've been wondering that for years."
"Well, wha is that?" Rogue questioned. Scott and Jean just shrugged at the same time in response. Kitty tilted her head and stared at the brown wall in front of her as the elevator opened and they stepped out. Kitty touched the wall as if picking up some kind of clue. "Who like, knows," she said.
"I think it's like, actually creepy," Kitty said staring off into space.
"Yeah, I guess it is," Jean echoed as she was left alone in the hallway with Kitty still lost in her thoughts. Jean was about to walk down the hall when Kitty's voice interrupted her mission.
"Do you think that something happened here that the professor doesn't want us to, like, know?" Kitty questioned, breaking her trance and gazing up at Jean.
"I don't know Kitty," Jean offered. "I really don't know."
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Three high school students pulled their bikes up in front of the front gates of the Xavier institute. They put their bikes down and took out three boxes from their backpacks and opened them up. The three boys snickered to themselves as they opened the large iron gate doors. The three of them walked all the way up the long driveway until they reached the fountain on the circular drive. They took the oval shaped objects from the boxes they carried in their hands and started throwing them at the house.
"Take that, you freaks!" one of the boys shouted.
Before they could completely finish their task, two boys around the same age opened the mansion's front doors and started throwing eggs at the intruders. The three boys started yelling in disgust at the two mutants standing in front of them. Bobby and Ray laughed at the boys as they started wiping off all of the egg yolk that now covered their entire bodies. They started running away from the mansion.
Bobby and Ray gave each other high fives as they watched the three boys run away like little chickens. "Ha, that shows them!" Bobby exclaimed, throwing his fist in the air in victory.
"You'll pay for this!" one boy called over his shoulder at Bobby and Ray.
Ray looked at their retreating figures disappearing in the dark, gray night. He pointed his finger at them and turned to Bobby. "I don't know about them. You think we should worry?"
"Nah." Bobby shrugged as he opened the glass door behind him. "They're just a bunch of chickens."
Ray seemed to agree with his friend as he started to follow him inside. As he looked back at the driveway where the boys had just been, he felt a gnawing feeling in his stomach. Ray felt like this was going to be a very different kind of Halloween.
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The thunder clouds roamed over the mansion like a threat waiting to entrap the mansion in it's storm. Every person in the mansion that night sat scattered in the living room as Kurt prepared a horror movie while everyone else got themselves settled in. Kitty rolled her eyes at Kurt as he started going through the horror movie list to Amanda. She personally couldn't wait until this night was over. At school, Kitty had cringed while listening to some of the student's conversations about egging the institute and other obnoxious ideas that she did not want to deal with at the moment.
"How about Scream?" Kurt suggested for the millionth time that night.
"Kurt! Will ya just put in a movie ahlready!" Rogue shouted from the other side of the room. "Yo' drivin' meh crazy!"
"Alright, I can take ze hint." Kurt put his hands in front of his chest for defense. Since they were safe in the house, Kurt was his usual blue self, including the tail that sagged around in the back. Everyone turned at the sound of the front door closing. A couple of minutes later, Bobby and Ray walked into the room with big smiles on their faces.
"What are you two, like, so happy about?" Kitty asked as she swung her legs around the side of the couch she was sitting on.
"Nothin', me and Ray here just finished giving three guys what they rightfully deserved," Bobby stated.
"What would that be?" Scott asked, a single eyebrow raised in perfect view above his ruby quartz sunglasses. "You know what the professor said about pranks…" he trailed off.
Bobby backed away slightly but still looking in Scott's direction. "Hey, chill man! It was just for anyone who plans on messin' with the X-men! We egged them!"
Scott shook his head and crossed his arms. If Bobby could see his eyes, he would've sworn they'd be narrowed in a deathly glare about now. To place a comparison between the Bobby, the prankster, and Scott - there would be a wide gap between the two. Scott was the typical boy scout, at least Logan thought so. He was very logical and serious most times. He'd lighten up slightly, but there was always an air of responsibility to him. Scott was very determined, unlike Bobby who wanted to play a prank and get a good laugh.
Bobby suppressed a smile and shrugged his shoulders. He and Ray joined everybody else in the room and sat down next to Amara and Tabitha on the couch. Jean followed Bobby with her eyes and then nudged Scott next to her. She bit her lip, shook her head and gave him a playful smile.
Tabitha had been sitting on the couch for far too long and she was fed up with all this Halloween horror movie crap. She grabbed the remote from Kurt, who was enjoying a nice bowl of popcorn, and hit the forward button.
Kurt stared at her, dumbfounded. "Let's skip these boring scenes and get to the scary part already."
"Tabitha!" Kurt practically screamed. "I happen to like ze boring parts."
"Whatever!"
Tabitha forwarded through so many parts that to everyone sitting there watching, it was all a blur. It was an absolute soundless movie going around at an excessive speed. When the care free teenage girl was finally satisfied with the scene she had just passed, she hit the play button. Two minutes into the scene, the actress on the television screen let out a deafening scream. The thunder outside clapped, the lightning sent sparks of light into the night sky as an electrical cord was snapped and the room and everyone in it was plunged into darkness.
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A/N: So what do you think? I know the beginning is sort of an introductory for this story…I promise that it'll get much, um, spookier later! Lol, well, anywho, please review and tell me what you think!! They will be greatly appreciated!! ^__^
