Hello and welcome to the…late Halloween chapter of Monster Colosseum! As usual, I own all of my OCs, so...yeah. Anyway, with nothing else to say, we hope you enjoy the following story, please remember to review, and finally...thanks for reading!

"Urgh!" The Catoblepas groaned as it fell backwards, a large wound stretching across its torso.

"Damn it! How did I lose to a newb?" Wesley asked, incredulous.

"Shut up Wesley and admit that you suck." Luna said with a sneer.

"But-I-How-!" Wesley sputtered.

"Shut up Wesley." Matt repeated.

Wesley grumbled as he recalled his monster-a large, scaly creature with the body of a bull, the head of a boar and a wet, purple gaze-back into an amulet he wore around his neck.

"Yes! Another win! I'm now invincible!" Zatch exclaimed as she leapt into the air in joy.

"Zatch, that was only your second win." Kumo reminded her as he cleaned his sword on a rag.

"Yeah, but it was still a great second victory!" Zatch protested.

"…My leg has turned into stone." Kumo pointed out, motioning to his petrified right leg.

"I still won though!" Zatch said smugly.

Dora rolled her eyes, clearly this was all going to the newbie's head.

Zatch turned to Faye and motioned to Kumo's leg "Uh, is that going to be permanent?"

"No, it'll go back to normal next time you summon him." Faye replied.

"Awesome then." Zatch muttered before calling Kumo back to the ring Zatch wore on her finger.

"Well, the Colosseum's closing down for the day, what do you guys want to do now?" Rob asked.

"I'm glad you asked!" Zatch exclaimed suddenly, making everyone around her jump "Since it's Halloween, I've been planning a Halloween party!"

"She does these things every year." Dwier muttered to Red.

"Yep! And you're all invited!" Zatch added.

Faye's eyes lit up "Really? Awesome! Hang on, I need to go get my costume!" and at that, she ran off.

"So…am I invited to?" Wesley asked.

"Shut up Wesley!" Temar snapped, causing Wesley to flinch.

Zatch gave him an apologetic glance "Sure, I guess."

"Yes! It's all coming up Wesley!" Wesley exclaimed.

In response, Luna threw a can at his head.

All throughout Zatch's house, action was being taken. Some were decorating, some were setting up benches and tables and some were cooking as Zatch prepared her annual Halloween party. Although it was still early, most of Zatch's friends were there, as well as the Gladiators she had recently met, Rob, Faye, Dora, Anteros and the Wolfpack. With the exception of Temar, they were all in costume as well, Edan was a jester, Nestor was dressed as an Orc, Glare had shown up as the Master Chief, Dwier was wearing a Jack O' Lantern costume, Faye looked like Blind Mag, Rob was Jack Skellington, Red was Wolverine, Romulus had dressed up to look like Remus Lupin, Anteros was wearing a Leonidas costume, Matt looked like Owlman, Selene appeared as Moon Knight, Damon dressed up as a demon (of course) and Dora looked like...a lawyer.

"Uh…nice costume Dora, very…appropriate." Matt told her.

"Thank you." Dora replied curtly, before walking off.

At that point, the doorbell rang.

"Oooh, the first guests!" Zatch cried as she rushed to the door, wearing a Rikku costume, a clawed glove being provided to her by Red beforehand.

Standing in the doorway was Calida, but behind her was a strange collection of people. One was wearing what looked like a Scarecrow outfit, but with gloves on both hands with knives attached to each finger, one seemed to have crystalline green skin and was wearing a purple tunic, two were dressed as mobsters with sunglasses and the last one resembled a giant bipedal lizard.

"Hey, glad you decided to come!" Zatch greeted enthusiastically.

"We had nothing better to do." Calida replied in a bored tone of voice.

"So, who are your friends?" Zatch asked.

"This is Rod, Jasper, Kurimuzon, Ao and Connor." Calida answered, motioning to each of her friends in turn.

"Nice costumes…" Zatch said, examining them all.

"T-th-thank you." Calida spat, extremely reluctant to say it "Can we come in?"

"Sure, go ahead." Zatch said, stepping aside to allow them to enter.

An anxious Dwier approached Zatch "Ah, Zatch? Why did you invite her?"

Zatch shrugged "I kinda felt bad for her."

"She tried to kill us." Dwier pointed out.

"Well, Nestor and Edan were being jerks to her."

"So it's acceptable for her to try to kill us?" Dwier asked, incredulous.

"Well, no, but she told me she felt bad about it…" Zatch replied.

Dwier stared at her, stunned "I…wow. Zatch, I knew you were naïve, but this…this takes it to a whole new level…"

"Well I think you should be more trusting." Zatch replied, before walking off.

"So, who are you supposed to be?" Anteros asked Calida.

"…Volcana." Calida replied.

"Uh..."

"From the Superman cartoons? Jeez, that loser standing next to Zatch is the most obscure person in the room! I mean, Christ, who in this room has ever read the God damn Super Friends comic?-!" Calida snapped.

Everyone stared at her, perplexed by her outburst.

"…I mean, what a nice costume you have on there…" Calida said sweetly while glaring at Anteros.

"Why yes, yes it is." Anteros said with a grin, oblivious to the fact that Calida was slowly reaching for one of her candlesticks.

She was promptly stopped when Jasper grabbed her by the arm and slowly shook his head, Not yet, he thought to her.

Calida grumbled before letting her arm go to her side.

Soon, the other guests began to arrive. They were a mix of Gladiators that Zatch had met and her regular friends and acquaintances. There was even a band, and in true Zatch fashion, they were somewhat…unorthodox…

"Hey, we're the Triplets Clef. I'm Treble." The one in front greeted as he and his brothers stood in the doorway.

"Awesome! So, what instruments do you guys play?" Zatch asked.

"The flute, viol and trombone." The more composed looking Bass replied.

"…Really? Isn't that kinda weird?"

"Well, yeah, but hey, some people are gotta be into our brand of music, right?" Treble said with a shrug and a chuckle as Alto looked on morosely.

"Cool! Ok, come in, you guys can set up over there." Zatch prompted, ushering them in.

"So, who are you?" Damon asked a figure clad in red and black armour.

"The Chariot." The figure responded.

"Is that a comic hero?"

"No, it's someone of my own creation." The figure replied.

"That's stupid." Damon muttered before he noticed an ornate knife attached to the belt of the figure "Hey, cool knife though. Is there some kind of evil history behind it?"

The figure paused before answering "…Something along those lines. Excuse me, I have matters to attend to."

And at that, he walked off, leaving behind a somewhat bemused Damon.

"Hey guys, wassup?" Bug Eyes asked as he popped up directly behind Damon.

In response, Damon shrieked like a frightened child before he fled in terror, with Bug Eyes following closely behind him.

"So, I see you're a Canadian chick." Nestor noted as he stood next to a giant transforming robot.

Air Raid simply grumbled underneath his mask.

"Well, it looks like everything is going well." Glare noted.

"Yep." Temar agreed.

"So, why aren't you in costume?" Glare asked.

"Why should I be?" Temar questioned.

"Well, it is a Halloween party…" Glare said with a shrug.

"Ok then…" Temar muttered as she grabbed a pen and haphazardly scribbled on her face "There, now I'm Darth Maul. Happy now?"

Glare just stared at her.

"So, any news about D12?" Romulus asked Rob.

Rob shook his head "No, they've been pretty quiet lately, I think it's because the security around the Colosseum's cracking down on them."

"I see." Romulus muttered, before walking off.

Finally, it looked like everyone had arrived and the party really began.

"Hey, guys, I-!" Wesley began as he approached Zatch and her friends.

"Shut up Wesley!" Dora snapped.

"But-but I-!"

"Shut up Wesley!" Dora repeated, louder this time.

"-!" Wesley opened his mouth.

Dora glared at him and held up a fork threateningly "Shut. Up. Wesley."

"But I didn't even say anything that time!" Wesley protested.

Dora sighed and threw the fork at Wesley. He yelped before running off.

"Why are you guys so mean to him?" Zatch asked.

"He's annoying." Selene replied.

"She still shouldn't have done that."Zatch murmured.

"Oh, don't get all high and mighty Zatch, you didn't do anything to stop her!" Luna snapped.

Zatch was taken aback, but then realised that what Luna said had been correct, she hadn't done anything about it.

"Wow…" Zatch whispered, looking down at her feet.

Red cleared his throat, clearly uncomfortable "So, anyone want punch? Cause I think I'll go get some punch."

It was at that point that they all heard something clatter to the floor. They turned to see Calida standing atop a nearby table, all of the food that had been on it knocked to the ground.

"Alright rejects, listen up! Me, Zatch and some of her little friends have a score to settle! Now, as long as you losers don't interfere, then you don't get hurt, got it?" Calida shouted in order to be heard throughout the room.

"Hey, Einstein, I hate to burst your psychotic little bubble, but we kinda outnumber you here." Rob called back.

And indeed, that seemed to be true, Anteros was aiming his bow at Calida as the Wolfpack entered combat stances, their respective weapons raised while beside them, Dora wielded what seemed to be an ornate jar. Rob and Faye meanwhile had already summoned their monsters, Leo and Carcinos respectively while Zatch did the same with Kumo.

Calida however, simply smirked "Oh, you may have me outnumbered, but I brought in backup to even the odds a little! Hobby, GiGi, Pulsy, Crimson, Blue!"

And at that, Calida's friends sprang into action. Rod suddenly began flailing his arms about and the party guests had to run in order to avoid being slashed by his bladed gloves. Connor quickly scaled the walls and spat a viscous substance at anyone who tried to escape, while Kurimuzon and Ao…pulled out pistols and began waving them around…it was somewhat less impressive to be honest.

"Wait, is that your thing? You shoot people?" Nestor asked the brothers.

"Zip it kid, we're gangsters, we wield fear and respect! Those are our weapons!" Kurimuzon snapped as he levelled his gun at Nestor.

In response, Nestor rolled his eyes "Lame! That's just so bland! Do you guys even have cool villain names?"

"Yeah! Blue and Crimson! Like our sunglasses, see?" Blue motioned to his sunglasses, referring to their colour.

Nestor scoffed and rolled his eyes again, making more of a show of it "See, that's still lame! Show some freakin' originality for God's sakes!" At that, he turned to Pulsar "And what's this guy do? Grown down from the ceiling and drip water?"

Actually, I'm a psychokinetic telepath Pulsar thought directly at them, before lifting up several plates and allowing them to hover about the room.

"See? Now that's a power! You could learn a thing or two from this guy!" Nestor taunted.

"…Cool!" Edan gaped.

Isn't it just? It was at that point that Pulsar picked up Nestor and Edan and began flinging them into various things, walls, tables even each other.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!"

"Oh Jesus, why?-! What did we do to deserve this?-!"

"Hey! Put them down!" Anteros cried.

If you insist Pulsar thought, shrugging before he allowed to pair to fall to the ground.

"Ouch!"

"Oh God damn it, Anteros!"

Glare narrowed his eyes at Anteros "Next time wait until they're not floating a few meters off of the ground before you say that!"

Anteros smiled sheepishly.

Calida whistled in order to gain the attention of her friends…or minions, whichever term you feel works better "Alright, listen up! Hobby, Pulsy, you deal with those monsters over there, GiGi, you deal with our targets, Crimson, Blue you two can…"

"Yes?" Blue asked expectantly.

"Keep the party guests in check." Calida finished.

Crimson proceeded to curse in Japanese "God damn it Buccellato! Why can't we do something important for once?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, did you want to attack the giant crab with the pincers capable of ripping through flesh? Well by all means, be my guest!" Calida snapped.

"…I still think we could take 'em." Crimson muttered.

"Oh for-! Fine, you two can help Hobgoblin while Pulsar deals with the rest! Happy now?" A somewhat cross Calida asked.

I'm not Pulsar though, disgruntled, although he nevertheless levitated the guests above the ground and seemed to place them into some kind of stasis.

"Well tough! Now everyone get to work!" Calida shouted.

"Ahem, question?" Zatch cleared her throat.

Calida groaned in frustration and threw up her arms "What? What is it now?"

"Uh, don't you think that this is all a just a little petty?" Zatch asked.

Calida scowled "Hey, do you know how pissed my father was for what you and your freak friends made me do? He punished me severely for it!"

"Well, what'd he do? Beat you or something?"

"No! He docked my pay and made me work overtime!" Calida snapped.

Zatch blanched "I…seriously? And so you're going to kill us over that?"

"Yep." Calida said.

"…You're a sociopath, aren't you?"

"Little bit, yeah." Calida replied.

"Uh, Buccellato? Are we gonna do this or what?" Hobgoblin questioned.

"We'll do it when I say we'll do it!" Calida snapped "…Ok, do it!"

Hobgoblin suddenly leapt forward as Crimson and Blue provided covering fire for him. Unfortunately for them, Carcinos was standing at the forefront of the group, allowing his armoured carapace to absorb the majority of the damage. Hobgoblin meanwhile, was engaged in a frantic duel with Leo, their blades clashing loudly against each other.

"Gonna give up soon, fur ball?" Hobgoblin sneered.

"Nope, are you, rat?" Leo hissed as his tail tried to bite Hobgoblin.

"Never!"

As the fight was raging on behind them, the Gruesome Gecko and Calida were advancing on Zatch and her friends.

"Looks like you freaks are going to get your just deserts!" Calida exclaimed, raising one of her candlesticks menacingly.

Zatch rolled her eyes "Ok, that was lame! Puns are not a good form of humour!"

"Shut up! My puns are fine!" Calida snapped.

"Stand down wench! You cannot hope to defeat me!" Kumo snarled as he lowered his blade, pointing it at Calida.

Calida however, simply cocked an eyebrow "GiGi?"

"Got it, Cali." The Gruesome Gecko said before he spat that strange fluid at Kumo.

Whatever it was, it struck Kumo in three of his eight eyes "Argh! By the Gods it burns!"

The Gruesome Gecko shrugged "Yeah, that was a venom my body produces, you'll be blind in those eyes for a few hours…nothin' personal or nothin'."

"GiGi, stop apologising and get them!" Calida snapped.

The Gruesome Gecko sighed and reluctantly advanced on the group.

"So, split up?" Edan asked as he backed away.

"Why the hell would we do that?" Dwier asked.

"So that there's less chance he gets me!" Edan cried as he ran off.

"Oh! Oh, God damn that little creep!" Nestor cried before he too fled.

"Damn it get back here!" Glare shouted as he took off after them.

"Jesus! Are they all completely stupid?" Dwier asked.

"You have to ask?" Temar deadpanned.

"Zatch, you guys run, we'll hold them off." Red said, looking over his shoulder as he raised his claw.

"Hey! You gave me a weapon, I can fight!" Zatch protested.

"Rob, Faye…" Red said, glancing at the two.

"Running!" Rob exclaimed as he and Faye grabbed Zatch and dragged her away.

"Hey! Lemme go!" Zatch cried.

"Uh…" Dwier gaped as he and Temar stared on.

"Anteros, Dora…" Red added.

"Alright, alright! We're going!" Temar snapped before she and Dwier ran off after Zatch.

"Oh, they think they can fight me, how cute." Calida taunted "GiGi, you go after those losers, I'll deal with them."

The Gruesome Gecko sighed and bounded after them. Matt attempted to block his way, but Calida leapt in front of him, candlesticks raised menacingly.

"So…en garde then!" Calida said as she flared up her weapons.

They stood around her, respective weapons raised. Red, his clawed gauntlet, Luna, her knives, Matt, his warglaive, Romulus, a sword, and Selene, what could only be vaguely called a claymore.

"Aren't you going to help?" Dora questioned Anteros.

"Na, I'm going to see how it all pans out." Anteros replied as he snacked on a bowl of corn chips.

In the crowd of guests, Pulsar realised that there was one amongst them that was…different. It was almost as if there was a void where their mind should be.

That can't be…it just can't…Pulsar thought muttered as he tried to probe into the blank mind…yeah, I just wrote "thought muttered", what are you gonna do, set a writer on me? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Oh, but it is, a different thought entered Pulsar's head.

What-?

There was a flash of light and the guests had to shield their eyes. When the opened them, they were puzzled to see that Pulsar had suddenly disappeared.

"Hey, he's gone! Let's get the hell out of here!" One of the guests cried.

The guests all rushed out as fast as possible, not noticing a card with the likeness of Pulsar on the floor.

"What the-? Oh, that's not good…" Blue said as he turned to see the last of the guests leave.

"This is all Pulsar's fault! Where the hell is he?-!" Crimson cursed as he whirled around.

"Perhaps you should be paying attention to what's in front of you?" A voice from behind them asked.

"Oh, crud-!" Blue began, before he and his brother were knocked unconscious by Carcinos.

Leo meanwhile, was having a tough time with Hobgoblin. While he had the human greatly outmatched in terms of strength, Hobgoblin was much quicker and more agile.

"Ha! Too slow, pussycat!" Hobgoblin taunted as he ducked to avoid a decapitating slash.

Leo growled "You are testing my patience vermin!"

"Oh, that's reassuring! Good to know that I'm having some kind of effect!" Hobgoblin said as he ran around Leo "But while irritation is good, you wanna know what my favourite emotion is?"

Leo gasped as Hobgoblin slashed his arm with one of his blades.

"Fear!" Hobgoblin shouted before giggling like a lunatic.

"What the-?" Leo cried, before he began to convulse "What's…happening…to me?-!"

Leo's legs and tail were suddenly pulled together and seemed to change form, becoming wooden. His armour fell to the ground with a clatter, before his skin began to change. His fur fell out in thick patches and what looked like straw grew in its place. Leo gasped as he realised what he was becoming.

"A scarecrow?-!"

"Uh…why is that monster writhing around on the floor?" Treble asked as Leo proceeded to do just that, his arms clawing the air, his legs kicking frantically and his tail flailing wildly.

"And why is he screaming that he's a scarecrow?" Alto added, his eyebrow raised in confusion.

"So…you guys wanna do something about that Krueger knock off?" Bass asked.

Treble shrugged "Sure, maybe we'll get paid extra for it."

"Alright, go, Letchku!" Bass shouted.

"And enter, Netchku!" Treble added as they both raised staves, one gold and one silver.

Floating in the room where two mechanical owls, one gold, the other silver.

Hobgoblin folded his arms "Oh, owls, I'm so scared."

"Oh, you should be." Netchku said, before emitting a blinding flash from his chest.

Hobgoblin tried to laugh at the attack, tried to movie, but to his shock and horror, found himself incapable of moving at all.

"Letchku, finish him off." Bass ordered.

"On it." Letchku replied, before he began spinning rapidly, faster and faster until his features blurred.

Hobgoblin struggled harder, trying to move as the golden blur came towards him.

He didn't.

Treble chuckled "Well that looks like it hurts."

"Yep." Bass muttered.

"Isn't this kind of cheap? Beating an immobilised opponent?" Alto questioned.

Treble burst out laughing "Oh, Alto…"

Meanwhile, Edan and Nestor were racing through the house, desperately trying to escape.

"Runningrunningrunningrunning!" Edan repeated as he dashed through the halls.

"Do you need to state every action you do?" An annoyed Nestor asked.

"…Maybe."

"I am seriously considering throwing you to the monster behind us!" Nestor snapped.

"Well, now would be a good time." A voice above them said.

The two looked up to see the Gruesome Gecko, attached to the ceiling.

"…Oooh." Was all Nestor could say.

"Yes, you are totally fucked…nothin' personal." The Gruesome Gecko said with a shrug.

Nestor glanced at the Gruesome Gecko, glanced at Edan and then shoved his idiot friend into his pursuer.

"Ugh!"

"Oof!"

"Later victim!" Nestor shouted as he tried to run off.

"Oh no you don't!" The Gruesome Gecko shouted, grabbing Edan by the collar of his shirt before leaping after Nestor.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light, followed by a scream.

A minute or so later, Glare, Zatch, Temar and Dwier came across the scene. Nestor and Edan were laying unconscious on the floor.

"Where'd that lizard go?" Temar asked, looking around.

"I dunno, maybe he ran off?" Dwier suggested.

"That's stupid, why would he do that?" Temar said with a snort.

As Temar and Dwier argued, Zatch looked around.

"Huh?" Zatch murmured as she noticed a card on the ground. Picking it up, she saw that it had a picture of a shocked Gruesome Gecko on it. Zatch looked around before she whispered to herself "Bug Eyes?"

Calida, meanwhile, was finding herself in a difficult situation. She had greatly overwhelmed her opponents and was being beaten mercilessly. At this rate, she'd have to resort to the attack that Bundt had forbidden her to use in all but the most dire of circumstances.

It was at that point that Selene clubbed her over the head with her pseudo claymore.

"Ow! Oh, God damn it! Screw restraint!" Calida shrieked, before pulling out her candlesticks and setting them up to their highest setting.

The dual weapons flared up, two huge jets of green flames lit up the room.

"Oh…crap." Matt muttered.

"Dance for me puppets, dance!" Calida cried as she began leaping about the room, twirling the candlesticks around so that the Wolfpack was forced to move incredibly fast in order to dodge them.

"Anyone else find this kind of fun, or is it just me?" Romulus asked as he leapt to avoid a burst of flames aimed at his feet.

"IT'S JUST YOU!" His teammates snapped at him.

"Anteros, you want to do something?" Dora questioned.

"Well, normally I would, but damn fire is scary!" Anteros said as he cowered under a table.

Dora simply sighed.

"Ahahah! Yeah! Run peons, run!" Calida cackled as the Wolfpack leapt all around the room in order to avoid her weaponry.

"Ahem." A voice from behind Calida spoke up.

"Oh God, what's behind me?" Calida muttered, cringing.

She was promptly knocked out by the flat of Kumo's blade.

"Me" Kumo said "Frankly I find it very rude that everyone forgot about me!"

"Uh…you're a hero?" Matt offered.

"Damn straight." Kumo replied as he crushed Calida's weapons underfoot.

At that point, Zatch and the others came back into the room.

"So…is everything over now?" Glare questioned.

"Seems that way." Anteros replied as he crawled out from under the table.

"Huh…well this was the best Halloween party ever" Zatch exclaimed.

Rob sputtered in shock "This? This was the best Halloween party ever?-!"

"Well I had fun." Faye muttered as she surveyed the damage.

"Yep! Man, I wonder how I can top next year's party?" Zatch wondered.

"…How can you stand to be around her for any length of time?" Luna asked Dwier.

"Sometimes I ask the very same thing." Temar muttered.

"So, what now?" Red asked.

"Well, there's still a few hours left until November first…party some more?" Zatch offered.

"Works for me!" Anteros exclaimed.

And so they partied long into the night. It was awesome, yes it was.

And t'end…yes, I'm aware that it is past Halloween, but I had exams and stuff. Yeah…so, anyway, as I hope that you enjoyed it, please remember to review and finally…thanks for reading! Happy Late Halloween!