Chapter Twenty-Four "Halloween Curse"

Author: Hey everyone. I'm back and I'm sorry for the slow updates. I haven't been in the writing mood as much. Ok, that's a partial lie. I've been writing, but not updating my fanfics. Since it's the sprite of Halloween and we all love this one day holiday, I thought about making a chapter to the Halloween theme, BUT with a spin. You'll find out soon enough.

*creepy witch voice*

Good night my children and happy Halloween. *evil laugh*

Today, no point of view. Trying third person.

What do you think of when you hear the term "Halloween?" You're probably thinking ghosts, witches, vampires, candy, pranks and parties. Yes, that is partly correct. In the world of Ouran, there is a curse that comes out once every five years. Why five? Because it is said that a girl who went to school here long before it became Ouran was experimenting with spells in an old book found in the creepy part of Japan. She was an orphan in an orphan schooling program. They told her about this holiday, the creeps, the treats and the magic hidden beneath.

She loved the stories about witches the most. How they contained magic and could do almost anything. She hated how they looked ugly, even in the old drawings she saw. When it came close to the Halloween, she decided to make up a scheme, no, a plan. She went into the far off city to an old book shop. The story had been robbed so many times the man never cared about cleaning or watching who took certain things. Also, the man was blind now and he couldn't see a thing. That Halloween, before it was dark out, she went to the store and found the book of spells. Clearly it was old and faded. The spine was tearing at its edges and she carefully took it and ran off.

By the time she came back to the school, she made sure the book was hidden; underneath her shirt to be exact. She went down to the basement and had everything needed for the spells. She wanted magic of her own. Any magic powers. She wanted to rule over her subjects and have them bow down to her. On that night for the special occasion, she dressed up like a witch. She wanted them to realize she wasn't kidding around with this tall tale.

As she began to mix things into the caldron, something felt wrong to her. She mixed everything into the pot, but she thinks she added too much of on ingredient, less of another and she forget to get some vial of snake poison. When she said the spell, which she pronounced it wrong, something strange occurred. A green spectrum appeared out of the caldron. It had that smoky appearance some witnesses said and floated around the building. Any one near the spectrum turned into something foul and tormenting. As for the girl, well, they say she trapped in that basement. For her wish came true, but not in the way we all aspect. And that's that.

Hikaru said finishing off the story. All the hosts and guests sat around him amazed. They applauded warmly. Haruhi even joined in as well. Tamaki however wasn't. He went off into his corner, ashamed that every one was cheering for Hikaru instead of him.

"Are you alright……Daddy?" Kyouya slouched down on the ground beside him and patted his chocolate, shiny hair.

"NO I'M NOT ALRIGHT!!!!!! I WANTED THE APPLUASE, THE ATTENTION AND THE HARUHI CLAPPING FOR ME!!!! WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HIKARU!!!!!"

"Because you choose him to read it remember,"

*flash back*

"Kyouya senpai!" Tamaki said as he pointed to Kyouya.

"Yes master Tamaki?"

"I want you to make Hikaru read the story of the ghost girl to our guests this evening. I'm sure they will all hate for making them be scared and having nightmares,"

"You're just too scared to read it yourself aren't you?" He grinned at him and slightly fixed his glasses.

"No I am…… ok maybe I am,"

"I knew it….. moron,"

*end of flash back*

"I hate when you're right," Tamaki angry announced still in the corner of shame.

"Tamaki senpai get out of there. People will think I'm emo," Haruhi stood behind him with a angry face.

Tamaki stood up and looked at them for a minute as suddenly a light bulb appeared over his head, with a small crack in it. He then grinned and placed his hand under his chin and rubbed it for a while. The Prince came up with a plan, a deadly plan which will probably fail in his behalf, but we'll see.

"Kyouya senpai….. he has that retarded look on his face again. Should we call the doctor this time?"

"I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR!!!!!"

"Alright Tamaki, what is up your sleeve this time?" Kyouya asked blowing out a mushroom cloud sigh.

"Why it's simple. I suggest we have….. a scare off,"

"We had a scare off last season remember and my team lost," Haruhi replied thinking back to like episode 13.

"But my dear daughter, this will be different," He paused and leaned over by Haruhi trying to put his arm over his own shoulder, but failed since his body was tall. "This will be…who can ever last in the…haunted hall,"

"The haunted hall?" Haruhi asked confused.

"Yes, the haunted hall Haruhi. The story that Hikaru just told is true to some degree. No one has lasted in that hall for a long time. Most people stay one second before running out. I guess you can say they are afraid. The longest time recorded was five minutes when two couples walking down the hall saw a disfigured student as they claimed and ran out. Since then, no one has enough proof of the hall truly being haunted,"

Once again, Kyouya did his research and was being all fancy pants about it. He then fixed his glasses again and a small beam of light covered his glasses so his eyes were undetected All Haruhi saw was a small grin and nothing else.

"You guys have to be kidding me. There is no such thing as magic, ghosts, or creepy things coming out at you. I mean, it's probably some one scaring those kids and making them run off,"

"You could be right Haruhi, but we are uncertain. However; back to what Tamaki stated, I think the plan should commence. I like a challenge. However, I will not join you, but I will keep tract of time,"

"You mean it! I love you Kyouya!" Tamaki said as his eyes lit up, big sparkly eyes of joy as he jumped up and hugged Kyouya tightly.

"Please get off me," Kyouya stated a little un-amused.

With that set in motion, the "plan" was being spread around rapidly. It was the new rumor hitting the market. Even the News community couldn't say no not writing this story. As the days turned to weeks, it was almost Halloween. Every one was gathering around and setting up their teams.

The teams were split up into two. Each member had to commit to staying in this game. If one wanted to quite, the other must follow. It was set to whoever stayed there the longest would win. Kyouya, being the genius as he is made it so if the guests one, they could get a passionate kiss from any one of the host club members. If any of the hosts members won, well, the prize would be further debated later.

Halloween day finally arrived. The hosts were setting up for their guests to arrive. Today the host decided to do whatever Halloween related costume they felt like. The twins, being the little devils they are decided to be….well…. devils. Hunny and Mori wanted to be a two person costume. They went with the headless horse men theme. Hunny was the cute pumpkin head that Mori would carry and as you can tell, he was the body setting on a horse. Kyouya wanted to be plain and simple. He went with the old ghostly appearance. Dull looking, covered with white and gray and cob webs for run. Now I bet you're wondering about our two favorite characters. Well, there were some problems.

"Senpai! That off right now!" Haruhi yelled a crossed the room.

"But…but… Haruhi. You look so cute! I mean, you just look adorable!"

"I thought we were trying to hide my gender senpai? Not show it off!"

"We are hiding it. No one said a male, like myself, couldn't dress up in a feminine appearance,"

"Just take it off. I don't you dressing me up in a witch outfit. Especially that type of….dress,"

Haruhi glanced at the outfit Tamaki was wearing. I was a tiny dress with white frills at the end of the dress. It was mean to be butt short lance so it had that more "feminine" adult appeal. Not only that, but we had to match it up with black boots, a broom, cob web gloves, and a cob web hat. The outfit was also blackish purple as well. Not mention there were no sleeves on the dress and it was a v-neck style, so you could see the small details of where the breasts should be.

"But I don't want to!" Tamaki said complaining like a child and turned around looking into the mirror.

"Fine! Have it your way! I'm dressing up like a werewolf like you asked me to. You know, it feels weird for me to be shirtless like this and with fake hair on. Did you really have to bring a monster movie makeup artist in to dress us up?"

Tamaki turned back and faced her again. He had that, happy, grinning smile again.

"Maybe….."

Haruhi sighed and left the room to go entertain her guests. Every one was shocked at Tamaki for looking like a female and question about the realistic "fake boobs" he had. Haruhi shook her again and continued to face her guests.

It was finally nine pm and every one came to the school. The haunting would start now. Kyouya laid out the rules as each guest looked at each other and nodded. He led the way and counted the time. He sat a while and every one was standing and chatting, trying to convince one another to leave. Of the guests left with five-seconds, then another twenty-five with ten seconds and about one hundred left with about one-minute into the game. All that was left was about fifth-teen guests and the host club. Kyouya continued to count and the current time record was close to being beaten.

"Senpai, how are you holding up?" Haruhi asked out of curiosity.

"Fine….. just fine Haruhi," He said and started to shake in his black boots.

"Calm down senpai. Besides, we can win this thing. Just think of a tune or something to pass the time,"

Suddenly Tamaki mumbled something to himself and then he started to strut down the hall. Music suddenly started to play. Go figure, Kyouya brought a boom box and clicked play on it. That's when Tamaki started to sing.

"You keep saying you've got something for me.
something you call love, but confess.
You've been messin' where you shouldn't have been a messin'
and now someone else is gettin' all your best.

These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you."

Haruhi did a forehead smack.

"I hate you senpai…." She thought quietly to herself.

Suddenly the music stopped when a massive green cloud lurked over every one. At first people had blank faces, but that's when people noticed something odd. Every one looked at Haruhi for a while, creep out I guess. They noticed something strange.

"What? Why is every one looking at me?" She asked confused.

"Um… Tamaki," One girl started to say and stopped as her boyfriend but his hand on her shoulder and shook his head.

"What? What's wrong? Is it something in my teeth? Something on my face? Hold on, I have a itch some where,"

Suddenly Haruhi got down on her hands and knees and started to scratch in rather odd areas. Then she scratched behind her head and made howling sounds.

"Ummm….Tamaki…." Tamaki started to say looking at himself strangely.

"Hmm,"

"You're….well…. any one have a mirror?"

Some girl came up and handed Haruhi a mirror as she stared into the reflection.

"What the!? I'm….. a mutt!"

"Hmm, strange. Seems like our beloved prince has indeed turned into a dog. I think it's more werewolf if you ask me, but it works the same," Kyouya said sitting in a chair across the group of being.

"Umm…Kyouya senpai. You're hovering over the chair," Haruhi said and pointed out towards him.

"Hmm, I guess you're right. I feel…. Well, not alive,"

"Haha! Kyouya is dead!" Tamaki laughed happily and began to chuckle strangely.

"Hey check it out you guys," The twins called over and every one turned to see them.

"Umm, Hikaru, Karou you both have horns and tails now," some person said.

"We know that," Hikaru said grinning.

"It's much better than that," Kaoru made the same facial expression as his brother.

"We can now summon fire," The said in sync.

Suddenly the two brought around them massive size fire. Tamaki got made, really mad. Rage poured into his eyes as random words came out of his mouth. Suddenly, lighting shocked the twins and they fell down. Every one looked in Tamaki's direction.

"Haruhi, you're… a witch!" Some fangirl said happily.

"I think that would be a wizard. Not a witch," Another fangirl said.

The chatting about this debate continued and this whole transformation thing with people lasted all night. Hunny and Mori looked weird. Hunny was a talking pumpkin and Mori was this silent body. The twins kept summoning fire and Tamaki tried to stop them. Haruhi kept looking at the moon and scratched herself pretty much all night. Kyouya just floated.

It was getting close to midnight and every one made this a social event. Before long, a cry came out from a room and every one looked at each other. It was silent…. The noise grew and Haruhi ran…the sound calling to her. She needed to. For this was the call of the night…..

To Be Continued………