HEELLOOOO EVERYONE! HAVING A FINE HALLOWEEN I HOPE?!
Well I promised and I have delivered. This is the newest chapter update AND IT'S STILL ON HALLOWEEN!
Lance: But there are some people who have already passed Halloween.
Me: Oh...well...nuts. Still, it's Halloween where we're at so it still counts!
Lance: *sigh* Just get on with it
Me: ON WITH THE SHOW!
Disclaimer: See Ch. 1
(Que song: This is Halloween - Marilyn Manson)
Lance
Lance was up before the alarm went off. It was 6:00 in the morning and he was raring to go. He grabbed a fresh pair of clothes, changed in the bathroom, and tossed his clothes from yesterday into the laundry hamper. Kurumi was still asleep so Lance decided to keep quiet and head outside. The sun was just beginning to rise, there were very few students out, and Lance never felt more awake. Wow, Halloween really is magical, Lance thought playfully as he headed for the kitchen. Breakfast was already being served to the people who were already awake.
Lance grabbed a tray and filled it with pancakes, waffles, a piece of toast, an orange, a cup of jello, a slice of ham, a slice of pizza, a glass of water, a milk carton, and a pudding cup to top it off. Not many people were there so Lance had more than one place to sit without being bothered by anyone. He took a seat, remembered that they'd be assigning color cards soon, and quickly scarfed down his breakfast (in only a minute at that) and set his tray on a nearby collection cart. Lance rolled his shoulders, pumped himself up for Halloween, and made his way back to his dorm as quickly as possible.
The sun was beginning to rise just as he reached his dorm. Kurumi was still asleep and the clock read 6:50. Lance closed the door and sat on his bed. Well I have nothing to do, Lance thought. He'd already eaten breakfast and everyone was still asleep (so no blowing things up sadly). So he ran through different ideas of how to pass the time. I could go spar with a water clone, but then everyone would freak out. How about if I…no because then everyone would have to clean up the mess. Well what about…. Nah, that's just too much work to set up. Well there's always…no, no, then we'd REALLY be in trouble, Lance thought. He kept thinking about different things to do but nothing doable came up.
After ten minutes of unsuccessful thinking, Lance gave up. Just in time though, because not only did Kurumi start to wake up but an envelope slid under the door. Lance walked over and picked up the envelope and looked inside to see a red card and a blue card. The red card had his name on it and the red card had Kurumi's.
Lance turned around to see Kurumi sitting up, fighting to stay awake. "Well good morning princess. Sleep well?" She nodded absently, stood up, and made her way to the bathroom. A few minutes later she came out dressed and ready for the day. She noticed the envelope in his hand. "Are those the cards?" Lance nodded and pulled out the red and blue cards. "Yours is red, mine is blue. At least, that's how the names were put on them."
Kurumi smiled as she headed to the door. "Well, we better go see who won." Lance was all too eager to see who won and followed his niece out the door. Outside, people were starting to show up, probably waking up to see who get to decorate the school for Halloween. Kuroko, Milkshake, Yang, Ruby, Blake, and Weiss were already outside. "Good to see you you're both finally awake. They're just about to announce who won," Yang informed. Lance smirked as he and Kurumi joined the rest of the group. "Well let's just hope they announce someone who can really make Halloween special." Ruby smiled as she gave Lance a playful punch to the shoulder. "You mean you?" "Guilty as charged." Lance replied as he smiled in return.
Just then, the speakers all around the school, "Attention students, it is time to announce the winning card of who will be this year's Halloween decorator. This year's winner will hold the blue card. If you have the blue card, please come to the office to meet the inspectors. Thank you." Everyone waited a few seconds before Lance started to chuckle. Everyone looked towards him as he held up the blue card. "Looks like this Halloween will be special after all." With that said, he headed for the office to meet these 'inspectors'.
*Time Lapse*
Kuroko
Everyone waited outside the school's front doors They were there because Lance had somehow managed to get hold of the school's intercom and said, Attention girls of Tokiwadi Middle School. This is your crazy Halloween decorator speaking. I need everyone to wait out by the front doors with the representatives while I get everything ready."
That was five minutes ago.
Now they waited along with the two representatives, who didn't look like much. One was a short, tubby man with a balding head with some black hair and the other was a tall, scrawny man with the same head of hair. They were writing things down on papers on their clipboards as Weiss huffed. "I know Lance can do things that are impossible, but knowing him he should already be done by now."
Yang just placed a hand on Weiss' shoulder. "Just give him a few more seconds. You know how he likes to show off." The doors opened by themselves just as she said that. Talk about perfect timing, Kuroko thought as she heard a voice whisper "Enter." What was surprising was that nothing could be seen inside. It was like a wall of darkness had been placed right behind the doors.
(Que song start) Everyone began to file in behind the representatives as they walked in first. "Looks like another easy grade," the scrawny mumbled. He stopped short as they finally saw what happened to the hallway: it had been trashed and some of the walls seemed to be coating in something slimy, but it was too dark to really see anything. But she could hear the walls actually sliming, which made her want to throw up slightly.
What hit her next was the smell. It was like rotting flesh; there was no other way to put it. The short, pudgy man readjusted his glasses as he smiled. "Looks like this year will actually be different." He and the scrawny man began to walk off, leaving everyone else alone. "Uh, wow. Lance really did a number on the place." Sissy wondered. Kuroko turned back to reply, only to see the doors slam shut.
She turned around again only to see that she and Sissy were alone. Three pumpkins fell and smashed to bits just as she was about to say something. She didn't know why, but Kuroko suddenly felt frightened. She grabbed Sissy's hand to run but she turned to face a shadow with sharp teeth and red eyes. "I am the one hiding under your bed. Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red." Kuroko turned to run only to hit a creature with a long snout. "I am the one hiding under yours stairs. Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair."
Kuroko didn't wait for any of its spiders to fall on her, she just ran past it. Her and Sissy ran to the end of the hall and turned left. At the end of the hallway they just turned Kuroko saw someone in red armor that looked like it was made from segments made of scales and a hood point in their direction. Kuroko felt a fresh wave of fear as she turned and sprinted as fast as she could.
She had a brief flash of Lance in a tuxedo with a top hat and cane spread his arms with a maniacal grin on his face. She shook her head only to see a trash can fall over. She immediately stopped and stared at the garbage can, waiting for something. A few seconds passed by and nothing happened. She was about to breathe a sigh of relief when a twisted form of a jack-in-the-box head popped out, grinning a terribly deformed smile.
Kuroko and Misaka screamed and ran passed the terror. As they ran the walls began to ooze red, black, and green slime. Kuroko turned to run down another hallway but was pulled back by Sissy as two enormous dice rolled by. They stopped and Kuroko saw their faces on the sides of each die, but with twisted smiles and deranged eyes. Now Misaka grabbed Kuroko's hand and pulled her along. Another flash of Lance appeared in her mind, laughing as he raised a hand, raising a jagged pillar of rock made a dark material.
Kuroko shook her head to clear her head, but ran into Misaka. Kuroko looked in front of Sissy only to have some sort of mask placed on her face. In front of Sissy stood a faceless being in clown attire. "I am the clown with the tear-away face. Hear in a flash and gone without a trace." Kuroko realized what was placed on her face and screamed bloody murder. She ripped off the clown's face and ran with Sissy down the hall. A voice echoed throughout the hallway. "I am the who when you call who's there." A gust of wind blew from behind them and said, "I am the wind blowing through your hair." Kuroko's sanity was on the edge of breaking as another vision filled her head. It was the same person in the red armor and hood from before. It whispered, "I am the shadow on the moon at night. Filling your dreams to the brim with fright."
Misaka shook her from her vision and pulled her along down the hall. Just as they reached the end, a large dog-like figure. It was a mass of sliming red flesh with spots of white bone-like pieces of armor around its arms, legs, chest, and back. It had no face, only a large mouth with four enormous fangs – two on top and two on the bottom – with smaller fangs in between. It growled as it took a step closer, causing Misaka and Kuroko to fall backwards. It stepped forward, getting right into their faces, letting them see how disgusting and terrifying it looked up close and smell the horrible stench that was with it.
Kuroko closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable. But what happened instead was a small bag fall into her lap. She opened her eyes to see it was a tiny brown bag filled with candy. She looked back up at the creature, shocked at what literally just happened. It turned and rushed down the hall, leaving a trail of liquid that Kuroko really didn't want to know about.
Kuroko had had enough of this terrible nightmare. She grabbed both the bag of candy and Misaka's hand and tried to teleport away from the school. She did manage to teleport, but she found herself in a crowd of students who were all staring up at a raised podium in front of a blood red curtain. Lights flipped on, revealing Ruby and Yang on one side of the enormous podium and Weiss and Blake on the other side, all wearing a dark crimson dress with black arm-sleeves and gloves.
They all waved their hands to the center point behind them, light turning on to reveal a walkway leading up to a familiar figure in a familiar tuxedo. Lance turned to face the crowd, beaming with the same maniacal grin as he addressed the crowd. "So how is everyone? I take it you've had a frightening experience?" Well everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now." Lance removed his tophat and held his hands, one with his hat and the other with his cane, and gave a laugh.
Suddenly, darkness began to flow into his tophat. It was pure, terrifying darkness that flowed from behind their group back into his hat. With a wave of his hand, Lance somehow created a cape that flowed from his sleeve, hiding him for a second. After the cloak vanished, Kuroko saw the same familiar figure in the red scaled armor from before. Lance spread his arms out again, revealing clawed gauntlets. The curtain parted from behind, showing the biggest Halloween festival Kuroko had ever seen. Booths each with a different creature manning it, jagged pillars of the same rock she had seen before, different rides styled after different horror stories were all over, and when Kuroko turned back around to see the school was still looking the same, only with spider webs, scarecrows, ghosts, and other Halloween decorations all over the school. Kuroko blinked once and saw everyone in a Halloween costume. Students were dressed up as robots, others as supernatural creatures. Kuroko herself was dressed in her favorite Halloween costume: a cat girl with cat paws, whiskers, tail, and ears.
"I give you… your spectacular Halloween!" Lance shouted (Que song end). All the students rushed forward and went off to different games, but Kuroko and Misaka stayed behind. Kuroko had some questions, and Lance was going to give her some answers, powered-up or not.
Lance
Lance was having an ecstatic night. First he was able to let Chaos and the Darkness have a little fun. Then while everyone inside was running around he was busy raising up the most fun Halloween stands he could think of, then he donned his Dracula Armor and let everyone see his work…and he was able to give them their preferred Halloween costume.
Lance looked down to see Kuroko – in her cat girl costume – and Misaka – in her frog thing outfit. Lance grinned from underneath his hood. He jumped down from the podium, denting the ground but otherwise landed normally. Kuroko wasn't even fazed. "Just what were you thinking?! I nearly had a heart attack because you wanted to have fun!" Lance just stood there, listening to her vent. She did have the right to, but Lance chuckled at her anger.
He held up a hand to silence her. "Kuroko, I was just letting Chaos have a little fun, that's all. Besides, no one would've died. You saw the Chimera give you a bag of candy, right?" Kuroko gave a nod. "Well then there you have it. Now, let's drop the hostilities and have some fun. It's Halloween, so let's have fun."
Kuroko sighed, but she gave in. Lance led them, his sisters, and Kurumi – who showed up as a robot – into the Halloween shindig. It was then that everyone had forgotten about the horrors that Lance let them glimpse from his past and had fun. Kuroko had won a giant teddy bear from a fish tank stand. Misaka and his sisters all had cotton candy, and Lance and Kurumi killed it at the ring toss. After thirty minutes or so passed, they were all hanging out by the dunk tank. Lance still had his hood on and his sisters were still in their dresses but no one seemed to care much. "So you did all this in the short time that we were inside?" Milkshake asked. Lance nodded. "Yeah, it was easy considering how much power I can use." Just to prove his point, Lance shifted his focus on a nearby rock pillar and forced it to retreat into the ground. Ruby and Yang smiled as they shared the last of the cotton candy.
After that they continued to play at different kiosks, eat all kinds of candy, and share many laughs. By the time the clock struck midnight, all the students seemed to be winding down. Lance folded his arms as he looked out at the entire area. "Well, party's dying down. Guess that means it's time to put everything back."
Lance had BB hack into the intercom so that he could be heard all throughout the 'park'. "Ladies and other ladies, it's time that the party ends and the sleep begins. Finish anything you're currently doing and head back to the dorms. Once everyone leaves the area the stands and other stuff will disappear." Now all Lance had to do was wait and watch as everyone filed out of the area. It took a good seven minutes before the last of the stragglers managed to leave the area.
Lance double- and triple-checked by sending out a pulse wave to detect any life in the area. When nothing was out of place, Lance raised his hand, focused tying all the energy from the area to his palm, and brought it down, sending the kiosks, rocks, and decorations down back into the ground and into whatever pit he pulled them out from.
In his current form Lance felt no energy loss whatsoever, but he knew that once back to normal he'd either crash or nearly crash so he decided to wait until they got back to their dorms. As they walked, Lance listened in on all the girls' stories from what had happened at the party. Yang and Ruby had decided to venture back into the haunted school for fun (since Lance made it the 'haunted house attraction'), Weiss, Blake, and Kurumi had all went from kiosk to kiosk to play for all sorts of prizes, and Misaka and Kuroko just had fun in general.
Lance smirked slightly as they walked up the steps. It wasn't every day that he could do this. Halloween was more magical than most people realized. Spirits walked around, magic grew stronger and returned quicker on Halloween, even idiots who think they can do magic the rest of the year have a chance of performing a real spell during the short time (even though the strongest they can manage is a simple parlor trick).
When they finally reached the dorms, everyone waved by to each other and headed for their rooms. Lance returned to normal, changed into his night clothes in the bathroom, threw his clothes into the hamper by his bed, and fell asleep as soon as he touched the mattress.
AND THERE IT IS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! THE NEWEST CHAPTER!
I kinda felt like I was rushing it at the end, but no matter what it still felt rushed. I just hope not many of you readers (if any) feel the same.
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P.S. Elements, I am currently writing a SAO crossover as you read. HUZZAH!
Until next time: DEUCE!