Oh man I just got back from a Halloween party and I am HYPER!!! It's amazing how I found the time to write tonight! Happy Halloween everybody!!!

Now the mayhem really begins. If you read Maru-sha's stories, you know Serenity loves to play practical jokes on everybody. Well that's what's going to happen in this chapter. And what happens when Ed and Faye help her? Mayhem, that's what. Enjoy!

-Randall Flagg2

(1)

"Whatcha reading?" Faye Valentine asked, looking over Serenity's shoulder.

Serenity quickly slammed the book shut and hid it behind her back. "Nothing! Nothing at all!" she said quickly.

Faye reached behind the young girl's back and plucked the book from her hands. Interested by the title, she began opened the book and began to read it.

"This is it. I'm dead meat. She's going to learn about what I'm planning to do and tell Inuyasha and then I'll really get it!" Serenity thought.

Much to her surprise, Faye chuckled. "So you like playing practical jokes, do you? That does not surprise me in the least."

"Huh? Why? I thought you would be mad!" Serenity said, puzzled over Faye's reaction.

"No way kid. I don't mind. In fact I kind of suspected you had a naughty streak in you from the moment I laid eyes on you. You have that look in your eyes."

Serenity blushed and giggled. "Well thanks Faye. I'm really glad you won't tell Inuyasha about this. If he found out he would..." Her words trailed off and she turned pale.

"He would what?"

"I really don't wanna talk about it."

Ed popped in at that moment. "Serenity person is going to play jokes on people! Ed wants to help!"

Serenity's face brightened. "Wow! You really mean it?!"

Ed nodded rapidly. "Uh-huh! Ed wants to have some fun with the others!" she said with a demonic grin.

Faye took out a cigarette and lit it up. "Mind if I cash in on the fun to? I think it's time we show the guys how formidable we girls are."

Serenity smiled wickedly. "Alright then! Let's get to work!"

(2)

A few hours later, everything was ready for Spike, Jet, Inuyasha, Canti, and Haruko. This would be fun indeed.

(3)

Spike yawned and stretched on the couch. He was quite tired. It had been quite a day for him. As he rose, Ed came by.

"Would Spike person like to go sleepy sleep?" Ed asked.

Spike yawned again. "Yeah whatever."

Ed took Spike by the arm and led him upstairs. Spike would have preferred to go up on his own, but he decided it would be easier just to let Ed have her fun. She led him to his bed and told him to lie down. Just as Spike did though...

SNAP!!! SNAP!!! SNAP!!! "AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Spike screamed like he had never screamed before as agony shot up all over his body. He jumped to his feet and thrashed his body, but the pain became worse and worse. It was then that he noticed there were mousetraps all over his body.

Ed was laughing insanely. "Spike person is a big sucker!!!" she crowed.

Spike stopped thrashing and glared at her, ignoring the bright pain. "What did you say?" he growled.

Ed realized she might have given herself away. "Bye bye!" Ed said, and dashed out of the room.

(4)

"Faye, what was Spike screaming about?"

Faye shrugged her shoulders and took another drag on her cigarette. "Who knows what the lunkhead wants? I don't really care."

"Fine whatever."

"Oh yeah, Jet? I found this in the house. It's a special kind of candy. I wanted to know if you wanted to try it."

"You offering something to somebody else? Are you sick or something?" Jet asked sarcastically.

Faye handed him the candy. "Just shut up and eat."

Jet popped the candy into his mouth and suddenly his face contorted. "Oh God, what is that?!! It tastes like raw fish!!!"

Faye smirked. "Go get a glass of water then."

Jet ran to the kitchen to get something to drink. There was Serenity holding a glass of some sort of liquid or another. Jet instinctively grabbed it and drank it down.

Big mistake.

Jet suddenly screamed in agony. His mouth felt as if it were on fire. He scrambled towards the freezer, threw it open, and began sucking on the ice maker. Serenity giggled from behind him.

"I knew that would work!" Serenity said, holding up a bottle of hot sauce. With another giggle, she walked off.

(5)

For his part, Canti was busily cleaning the house. He couldn't speak, but that didn't mean he couldn't think. He didn't mind his job, cleaning the house and tending to the yard. Haruko helped him out too, so the job went fairly quickly.

The TV screen for a head robot looked up and saw Faye standing in the hallway. She was grinning.

"Eat this iron man!" Faye yelled, and took out a super soaker and blasted him. Canti blocked it as best as he could, then started to advance on her to stop her. Unfortunately he was made of metal and metal did not do well when it came in contact with water. His joints became stiff and brown patches appeared all over him. Soon he couldn't move at all. He had rusted.

Faye laughed maniacally. Playing pranks was a lot more fun then she thought it would be!

(6)

Ed and Serenity meanwhile, were busy swinging Haruko's guitar against the wall, and pretty hard at that.

"I wish it would just break already!" Serenity whined. "This is taking forever!"

Ed grabbed the guitar out of Serenity's hands and swung it with bone shattering force. CRACK!!! It broke in two.

"Serenity person was saying?" Ed asked.

Serenity did not respond. She called "Inuyasha come quick! I broke my leg!" sounding as agonized as possible. Soon enough, she heard him running up the stairs. Quickly, she and Ed left the room.

"Serenity are you-" Inuyasha began. It was then he saw the broken bass guitar. Oh God, this was not good. If Haruko saw this, there would be Hell to pay. Before he could leave however, the pink haired alien girl came in.

"What's all the yelling about?" she said.

And then she saw her guitar.

Inuyasha took one look on Haruko's face and almost screamed. He began to back out of the room when Haruko tackled him.

He would never forget the fight that happened next. Haruko's fists and feet, and even her teeth, flew in every direction hammering him with blow after merciless blow, and each hit was punctuated by a shriek of rage. All the while Inuyasha was screaming like a little girl as Haruko beat him.

(7)

Serenity, Ed and Faye were busily laughing their heads off in the guest room. This had worked out perfectly. Everybody had gotten a good dose of practical jokes and nobody knew it was them. Oh it was pure ecstasy.

(8)

What the girls did not know was that the others (even Canti who could not speak) were busily having a meeting. Haruko had heard them laughing and had deduced in a second who was behind what had happened. She had told the others and now they were deciding what to do.

"This is my sister's doing." Inuyasha snarled. "She always plays jokes like this! It's what she loves!"

"I never expected Ed to do this. She rarely acts this bad. Faye I can understand, but not Ed." Spike sighed.

"Nevertheless, they need to be punished. Severely. How shall we deal with this little predicament?" Jet asked.

"I'll tell you how." Inuyasha said. Quickly, he explained what should be done. Exclamation marks appeared on Canti's TV screen face and everybody else looked shocked.

"Serenity's eleven years old Inuyasha! Don't you think she's a bit old for that?"

"You're never too old for anything Jet." Inuyasha turned to Spike. "Would you go get the paddle out of the garage Spike?"

Spike smiled cruelly. "My pleasure."

He went to the garage to do just that.

To be continued...

Faye's voice: Well that was certainly fun, playing pranks on the guys and all. I don't feel sorry in the least for what I did. Not at all, and neither do Serenity and Ed. But what are Spike and Inuyasha doing? What are they planning? And just what is Spike doing with that paddle? Uh oh! Trouble's brewing! Next on Random Adventures with the Bebop: Punishment for the bad girls! Wait a minute! I'm a girl! I'm gonna get punished?!!!