This is a series of Grimm based one shots.
I welcome your feedback, suggestions, and ideas.
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Halloween hats
Grimm Supernatural/Adventure
Characters: Elizabeth Lascelles, Catherine B, Nick B, Adalind B
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*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!* concussive blast after blast shakes the Burkhart's expanded loft all the way to it's heavy industrial concrete foundations. Every single thing in their house shakes and vibrates as the powerful blasts outside rock the house. Gigantic plumes of thick blue and white lightning mixed with orange and blue fire crackle and roar up out of their paved yard following jagged trails through the light rain up into Portland's dreary late fall night sky.
The weather authorities have picked up a localized lightning storm on their radar and it was disrupting everything in the area. TV, satellite, internet, radio, cellphone, GPS and navigation were all currently down. Even the Military systems were severely disrupted by the powerful electrical storm. They had also picked up what they first thought were large birds zooming through the lightning storm - but they were going much too fast for birds. They grumbled, "Storm Chasers" were always flying drones in the storms to collect footage for the popular internet videos.
Soon a dozen more thick bolts of orange lightning mixed with hundreds of giant orange fireballs slither and blast their way high up into the sky, finally exploding into patterns of pumpkins and more giant thunder claps rock the building. The sky over the old converted paint factory building lights up revealing shadows of women and one male Grimm in large hats zooming their brooms through the wet inky black night.
More multi-colored lightning mixed with colored fire surges and crackles even higher into the sky exploding into cornucopias, ghosts, skulls, and cats as witches continue swirling and zooming on their brooms.
It's Halloween at the Burkhart's and the Witches are celebrating with The Grimms and their Wesen friends. A large portable roof is keeping the rain out of dozen large ancient black cauldrons bubbling away with soups, hot appetizers, and hot drinks. A second protects the picnic table full of halloween delicacies and several large coolers brimming with icy beverages. Everybody is wearing extra-heavy duty ear protection to guard themselves against the deafening blast of bolt after thunderous lightning bolt being launched feet away from them. The kids are roasting marshmallows and hot dogs over a warm campfire burning in a steel fire pit. It's flames help drive off the chill of the damp late October night.
A dozen Witches are smiling and telling stories while drinking sweet fruity Beaujolais noveau wine and trading hats. The women are taking turns transforming into ancient bony hexenbiest corpses grinding their jaws and cackling while blasting giant crashing lightning bolts and huge roaring plumes of fire out of their hands high up into the Halloween night sky. Each one eagerly awaits her turn to try all the other witches hats to see how they compared to the hats in her own collection. They especially liked testing the "New hats" against the "Old hats" they had inherited from their own mothers, aunts, and grandmothers.
Elizabeth Lascelles had taught her granddaughters Diana and Catherine how to make their own hats from scratch. The ancient tradition was that a mother or grandmother would start teaching her young Hexenbiest to sew her own hat on her 13th birthday when Hexenbiests got their powers but hardly anyone did that anymore. Mother witch Adalind knew nothing about this and wasn't interested - her mother had never taught her any of this. Diana's Grandmother had been determined that her Hexenbiest granddaughter and her sisters would learn their ancient ways.
Everyone agreed that they liked Diana's hat the best for regular work. It was so easy to control and would effortlessly produce exactly the desired outcome.
Catherine's hat on the other hand exuded pure, sheer, raw, brute power. Her hat was difficult to control because it was simply so incredibly powerful. An experienced witch had to be extremely careful casting spells in this hat or she was likely to completely incinerate everything around her. Mom was insistent on "House Rules" that Dad -The Grimm- wasn't allowed to wear this daughter's hat anymore since he had mistakenly blasted lightning and fire into their concrete and steel shed - melting it into a glowing, boiling pool of molten lava two years prior. That video was still a Hexenbiest internet sensation with just over one half billion views. It was their reigning champ, the Burkhart family record.
The witches knew exactly how a hat got it's power, but on Halloween night when they came to The Grimm's house to pour thick booming lightning and raging fire straight up into the very top of the heavens - tiny Catherine's hat ruled them all.