Chapter 4! I just thought I'd let you all know that I'm on vacation right now, so I can't promise exactly when I'm going to update. But that's happened before and explains why I'm late on this one. Enjoy reading!

"Are you sure he's nowhere in the castle?"

"He's not in the kitchen, he's not in the lab, he's not in the bathroom, and he's not in the freezer." Columbia listed off of the top of her head.

"Why would he be in the freezer?"

"We found him in there once," Magenta sighed. "He almost froze to death, so we checked there first."

"And he still wasn't there!"

"Well this isn't good."

"Did we ever say it was?"

"I suppose you didn't."

There was a pause. Then I spoke up, breaking the short lived silence that had fallen over the three of us.

"Well should we go?"

"Wait! I need to change!"

Magenta and I turned our backs so Columbia could get dressed in her sparkling groupie outfit. When she was finished, the three of us walked out of the room, locking the door so Kelly couldn't get out if she woke up. Magenta led the way down the hall with Columbia dragging me close behind. We walked by Riffraff who was nailing something into the wall.

"Where are you three going and where's that other young lady that came in dressed like my dear Magenta?"

Columbia turned around and took a big breath of air. "Well we're going out to look around Denton for Rocky because he's missing and we have to find him before Frankie gets back or else he might kill us because you know how aggressive he can be and Magenta knocked Kelly out so she's in a mini coma in our room on our bed and Kyara originally came looking for candy but she-"

"That's enough, Columbia, I get it." Riffraff continued to hammer the wall with the big, rusted mallet. The three of us continued on our way out the door and down the path, closing the squealing gates behind my heels.

We found our way to Main Street (without any help from me), among the kids and parents walking around getting their treats. Columbia looked around, astounded.

"Kyara! They're all dressed like you, except with longer skirts!"

"Not to mention they're all at least three years younger than her, maybe even more." Magenta huffed, walking forward. "Now come on, we have to find Rocky."

"If it makes you feel better your costume's a lot more interesting." Columbia whispered to me as we followed Magenta. I shrugged, expecting comments like that.

We walked through the neighborhood, avoiding the slowly moving cars and the waves of children dressed as princesses and superheroes. Finally the houses started looking slightly more familiar. Then I realized where I was, passing a blue house with the lights on, a jack-o-lantern on the porch, and a huge, fake, glittery spider on the door.

The Majors' residence. And they were home. And Ralph and Betty were over.

And they were related to me!

Oh, nevermind, I thought. It shouldn't be a problem. They aren't coming outside unless someone rings the doorbell, so they wouldn't see me. Or Magenta. Or Columbia.

Wait.

There's Magenta.

WHERE'S COLUMBIA?

A squeaky voice from the half-lit darkness scared the crap out of me.

"What is this thing?"

I looked over to find the source of the voice standing on the porch taking particular interest in an orange globe with a face carved in it. Darn it!

"Columbia, put that down and get over here."

"Why? It's so cool!"

I walked over to the porch and took the pumpkin from her, placing it back on the step. "Just leave it alone!"

"What gives you the authority to tell me what to do? This isn't your house!"

"Yes, it is, now we have to leave before my parents come out!"

"Your parents are home?" Columbia jumped to her feet. "I want to say hi!"

"Wait, Columbia, don't!"

It was too late. Her finger already found its way to the orange-lit doorbell button. Ding-dong.

The bushes rustled. The door unlocked and opened and a small woman with short, sandy colored hair holding a bowl of assorted chocolates appeared. Her pleasant mood was shown on her face, but was soon replaced with a look of confusion.

"Kyara? What are you doing home? Where's Kelly? Where's Dustin?" Mom asked me frantically.

"Chill, Mom. Everything's fine. I got hungry. Kelly and Dustin are hanging out and trick or treating on the other side of the neighborhood while I came here and got some substantial food instead of eating all my candy." I lied surprisingly well, making it up as I went along.

"I told you to eat dinner! At least you didn't just eat candy. Come inside." Mom stepped aside and let me in, shutting the door behind me. "What do you want?"

"I don't know, maybe just a banana or something." I walked in and grabbed one out of the fruit bowl. "Thanks Mom. Hi Dad. Ralph, Betty." I quickly sped out before anyone could ask why I was there, shutting the door and the screen behind me. A low moan from the bushes caught my attention.

I jumped off the porch and helped an injured entertainer out of our shrubs.

"Sorry I had to do that; if mom saw you with me I would have been shot."

"And so you pushed me over the side of the railing?" Columbia squealed at me, grabbing her top hat from where it landed on the bush.

"Yeah, sorry. Now let's go, we have to go find Magenta."

"Is that a banana?" Columbia pointed to the yellow crescent I held in my hand.

"Um… Yeah I guess it is." I went to throw it into the woods next to our house when Columbia caught me by my collar.

"Wait! I want it!"

"Okay," She took the banana and it was gone faster than you could blink. By the way she ate you'd think she'd be the size of a blimp.

"Columbia, where's Magenta?" I realized, looking around.

The two of us took off down the street as fast as we could run without falling over to go find the domestic that had left us behind without a care.