Ran Damuo hated Halloween.
Every year, brats would come up to his door, in cheap store-bought costumes, and interrupt whatever he happened to be doing at the time.
So he was in a pretty bad mood when he was just sitting on his sofa, watching T.V. when the doorbell rang.
"Ugh!" Ran groaned, as he got up and grabbed the bowl of candy sitting next to him.
It wasn't like he could ignore them. His wife always got on his case if he ignored even a single trick or treater.
And she always knew.
Ran went up to his door and opened it.
And boy this was not what he was expecting.
There were five little girls and one teenager outside his door.
Now that part wasn't the unexpected part. The teenager was probably just one of these kid's older brother, who was forced into chaperoning their little sister and her friends.
It was their appearances that were off-putting.
The first thing he noticed was the girl whose bottom half was a spider.
Now, Ran wasn't a quirkist. He thought people who judged others based on something they couldn't control were scum.
That being said, he was, like many, arachnophobic, so seeing this girl scared the shit out of him at first.
However knowing that this was wrong, Ran quickly focused on her upper half, which actually was easier than you'd think because the costume she was wearing, some kind of spider-themed shrine maiden, was both creative, and rather pretty.
So if the goal was to make a costume so good it took people's attention off her spider body, then he mentally applauded the tailor who made this.
There was also a girl that was dressed as Link. That wasn't very notable in it of itself, what was that she was shaking in terror. Seriously, someone help this young girl.
The other one that really boggled his mind was the teenager, who was wearing a Pinhead from Hellraiser costume. How did this kid even know about that character, it's so old.
All the other girls were less mind-blowing. Two seemed to be dressed up as some kind of anime characters, and one was dressed up as a unicorn.
"Trick or Treat!" Yelled all the kids except the one dressed as Link.
Wait a minute.
Ran looked at the little blonde girl.
That was a male voice coming from that one...you what. He wasn't gonna think about it. Maybe they just had a deeper voice, or maybe they were a young crossdresser, who was he to judge?
"T-T-T-T-T-Tri-Tri-Trick-" The one in the Link costume was struggling hard to try and say trick or treat.
"Uh...is she gonna be ok?" Ran asked the teen.
"It's her first time." The teen explained.
"First time trick or treating?" Ran asked.
The teen winced. "...That...amongst other things."
Now, what the hell did that mean?
"Come on you can do this." The unicorn girl encouraged the shy one.
"You're the hero! You can't back down now!" The black-haired anime girl added.
"You can do it." Said the blonde girl who Ran was half convinced was a boy.
"Courage! Rember you have the tri-force of courage!" The spider girl picked up the shy girl's left hand, which had a gold triangle on it.
"R-Right! C-Courage!" The shy girl psyched herself up. "Tri-Tri-Trick or Treat!"
"Yeah, you did it!" All the girls, the teen, and maybe one boy? (Still unsure about that) cheered for her, before looking at Ran expectantly."
"Oh uh, here." Ran took candy out of the bowl and gave it to the kids, giving some extra to the shy one because it seems like she should get some kind of reward for overcoming...whatever was going on with her.
"Thank you." Said the children and teen, before taking their leave.
Well, that is probably the most interesting thing that'll happen to me tonight. Ran thought.
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Ding Dong!
Ran sighed, and put down his popcorn bowl, paused his movie, grabbed the candy bowl, and got up to answer the door for what felt like the millionth time today.
He opened the door, ok another weird one.
Altogether there were two kids, one teen, and one adult. Maybe they were a family? Who knows?
Now most of them were normal.
The teen was dress as some kind of wizard. The adult had the most basic, uncreative bedsheet ghost costume.
One of the girls was wearing a normal snake costume...mind you, she did have snakes for hair, but that was likely part of her quirk, so he would try not to stare.
But the final girl, no older than eight maybe, is what gave him pause.
Now when you pictured a little girl on Halloween, what kind of costume would imagine they would have.
A princess? A fairy? A fairy princess? Maybe a female pro hero? Something along those lines right?
What probably won't come to mind is what the girl is actually dressed up as, Jason fucking Voorhees. Machete included.
Why would her parents let her watch those movies? Why would they let her dress up as that mass murderer? Why would she WANT to dress up as that mass murderer?
Honestly, this was probably the scariest costume he'd see tonight, if only for the implications.
"Trick or Treat!" Said the snake girl, with the other girl staying silent, only raising up her(presumably) fake weapon, and holding up her candy bucket as if she were mugging him.
Not wanting to anger this small girl, Ran quickly put some candy in both of their buckets.
But then, much to his surprise, the guy dressed as a ghost also had a bucket of candy, holding it out for him to fill.
Ran gave the man an odd look. "Aren't you a bit old for this?"
"He's seven." The teen girl told him.
Ran's eyes widened in shock, and he was sure his jaw fell to the floor. "O-Oh."
That was a seven-year-old!? What on earth were they feeding this kid! By the time he got to his teens, this kid was gonna be like ten feet tall or something.
"Heh. Sorry about that!" Ran laughed nervously, putting some candy in his bowl. "It's just you know, he looks older than he uh...is apparently."
The tall boy then proceeded to poke his hand out of his costume and...maybe he'd been a bit too quick to say his costume was uncreative.
He then started using what he assumed was sign language. Which he, unfortunately, didn't understand.
"He's saying it's ok. It happens a lot." The teen girl said. "Thank you for being understanding! Happy Halloween!"
All of them then started to leave, except for the Jason girl, who stayed there for a minute...standing there...breathing loudly.
It was creepy as hell.
"Uh...can I help you?" Ran asked.
The girl then dropped the fake blade, and reached out behind her, pulling something out of the back of her jacket.
It was another, slightly smaller machete, this one much more real looking, and covered in dried blood.
"What the!" Ran fell backward in fear, dropping the candy bowl in the process. "Ahhhhh!"
The girl just laughed maliciously, before putting the weapon away, and stealing the candy bowl, before running after her group, laughing evilly as she went.
After recovering from that shock, Ran quickly got up and closed the door.
Never would he ever tell anyone about the time he was mugged by a child.
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Ding Dong!
Ran once again paused the T.V., got up, grabbed the SECOND bowl of candy because the first one was gone, and went to answer the door.
He opened it and-
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Ran screamed the moment he laid eyes upon one of the kids.
Turns out, the Jason girl would not be the scariest thing he'd seen today. THIS WAS!
This kid was dressed up as the Grimm reaper, and it was a damn good costume. A completely black robe, with pieces of white bone all around it. Their face, completely shrouded in darkness, except for two bright red dots that were presumably their eyes. He was also carrying a bone scythe, that did not look like it was made of plastic!
The only parts of their body Ran could see were their hands. Being unnaturally pale with pitch-black fingernails.
This is exactly what he'd imagine death as an elementary school student would look like.
And just when he thought that was the worst of it, he heard a voice in his head.
Are you alright sir? He heard a female voice in his head.
"AHHHHHHH!" Ran screamed again. "Who said that!? Why are you in my head!?"
"Sir, please calm down." Said a green-haired teenager that looked to be chaperoning the children. "The voice you heard is this little girl's quirk. She can't turn it off, and she can hear your thoughts. Don't worry about it."
Don't worry about it!? Ran screamed in his mind. How am I not supposed to worry about it! That's extremely worrying! Wait, she can hear me! Oh god, what do I do!?
Ran tried to calm himself down, and took note of the full group.
There was the aforementioned kid dressed up as death and the teen girl dressed as a barmaid.
Aside from them, there were two more children.
One was dressed as a princess, and presumably was the one who was hearing his thoughts.
And the last one was...a slime. A small, round, blue slime...with black pencils that seemed to mimic eyes of some sort. He honestly couldn't tell the gender of this child...assuming they had one.
Still, Ran was not a particularly strong person. And so when faced with a mind reader, and kid death over here, he did, at what he thought, any reasonable person would do.
He tossed the candy bowl into the hands of the teen and ran back inside.
Once again, he would never tell anyone of the night in which he was scared out of his wits by children. Twice.
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At this point, Ran didn't even bother watching anything anymore.
It was late, so soon enough the hoards of kids would be going back home, and the trick or treating stuff would be done with.
Ding Dong!
Ran got up, the THIRD bowl of candy already in their hands, as they opened the door.
Oh, one of the kids was on fire...sure. Why not. That might as well happen.
This group consisted of five people, this time there being two teens and three kids.
One as was stated was on fire. Wearing a mostly blue costume with a four logo on it.
Then there was a kid dressed as some kind of superhero, be it real or fictional he didn't know.
And the last one was a plain, and simple witch.
The two teens were dressed as knights, weird how many groups of teens chaperoning kids while also wearing fantasy-based costumes he'd seen tonight.
"Trick or Treat!" The kids said, holding out their buckets, which were full of candy.
Well, besides the kid that was on fire, this group seemed relatively normal. At least he wouldn't have to deal with anything weird this time.
SPLASH!
And suddenly, the kid in the superhero costume pulled out a hidden water pistol and shot him in the face with it.
You know what, Ran was done with Halloween this year.
And so the man simple placed the bowl outside his doorstep, closed the door, and went back inside
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Izuku and the rest of his group started walking back to the house, with Kiba and Shiruku carrying the huge load of candy they got.
"Well, I'd say this was a pretty successful Halloween," Izuku said, before turning his attention to Fuku, who was still on edge, but looked extremely relieved to be going home, while also sneaking glances at the candy pile. "And I'm so proud of you for coming outside like this Fuku. And on top of that, you only had to let your gas seven times."
"Yes, we are all extremely proud of you." Kiba smiled at her. "You made a fantastic debut to the outside world! And in a truly stunning costume!"
"Aww, it's not that great." Fuku blushed, hiding away her face. "It's nothing compared to Shiruku's, or Kiba's."
"I think it's just as good!" Eri told her. "You did a great job making it!"
"Maybe not as good as Shiruku's but that's an unrealistically high bar," Fu told her. "You worked really hard today so just accept the praise."
"Indeed! Today you showed true courage, facing off against terrifying monsters, such as depression! Anxiety! And crippling fear!" Kiba told her. "You gave a battle, worthy of the character you mimic!"
"Yeah...courage." Fuku looked down at the triforce on her hand and smiled a bit. "Yeah I-I was brave! I really went trick or treating! Outside! In the city!"
"That's right. And we're all so happy you did." Izuku said, giving her a pat on the head.
"Although I was rather surprised when I saw you choose to dress up as Link of all characters," Kiba noted. "I didn't expect something so...daring. Do tell, what exactly made you want to be Link in the first place."
"Well um...I've always admired characters like Link. Able to face off against any kind of danger. Explore the world. Have adventures. It's the same reason I admire you Lady Kiba." Fuku explained sheepishly. "I'll...I'll never be as brave, or strong as you, or Link, but...If I can pretend to be them. Even for just a little bit...it makes me feel...stronger."
Fuku looked down at the triforce on her hand. "I know this is just some paint that I put on my hand, but if I don't think about that, then it really does feel like it's giving me strength. Like I have a goddess pushing me forward."
There was a small pause before Fuku turned to look at the group. "One day I want to be strong enough to do these kinds of things without shaking in fear. S-So thank you all for supporting me. It means...everything to me. And one day I WILL be able to do things without clinging to you guys for help. I promise."
Everyone smiled at her, happy to see her growing so much.
"Well, I think this occasion is deserving of a reward," Kiba said, rubbing her hands together mischievously. "Everyone, it's time for, congratulatory head pats!"
"Wait! No!" Fuku gasped, as suddenly the other kids started approaching her, and she pulled out her master sword. "Stay back! I have the power of the goddess and anime on my side!"
Unfortunately for her, neither of those things would save her.
Haha, psyche! It's actually three Halloween chapters!
I totally planned that and didn't just make that up because the trick or treat part got too long.
Anyway, you might be wondering why the perspective was with some guy for most of the chapter.
Well, to be honest, the act of trick or treating is kind of repetitive and interesting by itself. It's literally just, go up to one door, ask for candy, go to the next, ask for candy, repeat.
However, seeing the trick or treating from the perspective of someone who has no exposure to the kids and their appearances and antics, might be more interesting.
Now before we go, I should explain why I choose the BOTW Link costume for Fuku. Simple. Arrows. Pretty much All Link's use arrows, but BOTW Link is the one most associated with them. And he is one of the Link's that actually has a quiver. Fuku is based on Bernadetta, an archer, so I think the association with arrows is needed.
Anyway, that's all for now, please review and have a nice day.