Halloween was upon them and the students of the two schools were just too excited that the heads decided to forgo classes that day. When Headmaster Lionheart told his students the news at breakfast, he commented how it was for the best considering the boys had to prepare for the Haunted House tonight.
Nick and the gang were passing classrooms of students getting ready with sound effects and props. They stopped by the music room where the band members were setting up their instruments and when they spotted the group they explained how they would joined by the boys choir of them singing as the Hitchhiking ghosts from that classic ride in Whinnyland.
Ben gave them a quick compliment before they headed to the science lab where they had set up the table that Clawhauser would be laying on. They then put on their costumes and Gideon helped Ben with his make-up given he was a master of decorating frosting on pastries. Nick had a black plastic wig on his head while letting his ears stick out. Finnick wore the bat outfit much to his resentment but Nick would have blackmail about him and Fru-Fru if he didn't. Gideon ended up being a mummy wearing long bandages they found in the hospital wing. They were all set and Nick couldn't wait for Carrots to show up.
She told me to scare her so I'm going to scare her…
The girls were excited on wearing their costumes for Fru had the brilliant idea of them dressing up as their favorite Boarway show characters. Fru was dressed as Mariel in her seahorse form from The Little Mermare. Dawn dressed as Elephba from Wicked, Giselle was Elle Woods from Legally Bald and Judy was dressed as Christine Doe from The Puma of the Opera specifically in the character's pink masquerade gown with a mask on a handle.
They walked over to next door where they saw Leodore wearing a suit that had a nametag saying Mayor Lionheart on it was greeting the masses as they were entering the school. They came up to him and he smiled, "Well good evening, ladies! And such amazing costumes! Yours suits you, Smellwether, being the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Ox."
She gave a force grin and said, "In a way I am but it's more of Elephba from Wicked and I can see you're still having delusions of grandeur that you'll ever became mayor of Zootopia."
Judy playfully scolded, "Now Dawn, you know that here 'anyone can be anything'."
Leo smiled, "That's right, you listen to your friend and have a scary time when you go in."
Dawn made a humph sound as she went on and her friends followed after.
Judy could see the dark hallways were giving off a creepy feel and she wondered what Nick was going to do when he saw her.
Well, you did ask for it when you gave him permission…
Just then they heard music coming ahead and took a turn in a dark where there were mammals glowing white and were singing!
"When the crypt doors creak and the tombstones quake… Spooks come out for a singing wake… Happy haunts materialize and begin to vocalize… Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize! Now don't close your eyes and don't try to hide… Or a silly spook may sit by your side… Shrouded in a daft disguise… They pretend to terrorize… Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize! As the moon climbs high o'er dead oak tree… Spooks arrive for the midnight spree… Creepy creeps with eerie eyes… Start to shriek and harmonize… Grim grinning ghosts come out socialize! When you hear the knell of a requiem bell… Weird glows gleam where spirits dwell… Restless bones etherealize… Rise as spooks of every size!"
The girls decided to move on and found more attractions some eerier than most but no Nick or his friends. Then they came upon a hallway that had fog from a fog machine. Suddenly they heard rattling chains which caused Fru and Giselle to quake. But Dawn and Judy weren't fazed until suddenly they heard a spooky groan coming from a nearby dark room and they slowly went into it. A large sheet was covering something on a table just then the sheet jump up at them causing the girls to give startle gasps and a Francolin's monster rose up! This time they screamed and were about to get out until the door slam on them! And all at once in different parts of the room, a mummy came out a closet, a vampire from a coffin, and a bat hanging upside down from the ceiling acting scary and creepy. The girls huddled together as they screamed.
The vampire was getting close to Judy and showed her dripping fangs with blood! She let out a terrified scream and then she started laughing hysterically.
"Is that seriously the best you can come with?!"
Nick wiped the food dye off his mouth and frowned, "Didn't scare you for a second, didn't we?"
Giselle said, "Not so, the door closing on us was frightening."
Fru pointed, "Or how Finnick was hanging from the ceiling like that, how did you ever managed?"
The fennec fox pulled his foot away to show the section cup.
Dawn commented, "Clever."
Gideon said, "At least we were able to scare that one group of kids that came this way."
Nick said to the bunny, "You see Carrots, if we weren't entertaining kids this would be way scarier."
She smiled, "I believe it. The Nicholas Wilde I know always has a trick up his sleeve. But don't fret you still have until midnight to really scare me."
He smiled back, "If you're sure…"
"I'm sure." she stated.
"Okay then, Cottontail, don't say I didn't warn you… In the meantime check out the rest of the house, I'll come find you when I'm ready."
"Fine." she opened the door and her friends followed after her.
Dawn said, "I give them A for effort."
Fru mentioned, "Well, some of it was pretty scary, they didn't do so bad."
Giselle said, "I admired how they downgraded it for the children's sake. After all, the last thing we need is to give them nightmares that will haunt them into adulthood."
Judy smiled, "That should be a new song for you of how to banish nightmares."
The gazelle smiled, "That's actually a very good idea. I'll have to talk about it to my record company."
The girls were chattering away about Gazelle's possible new song when something caught Judy's eye. Something had been following her and the girls and ducked into a room then she gave a smirk figuring it was a certain fox. She separated herself from the group without them knowing and went toward the room. She just kept smirking as she waited for whatever Nick had planned for her. But her smirk disappeared the moment a female voice with spite in her tone said.
"It's been a long time, Jude."
Her eyes widen in fright and tried looking around the room but it was dark so she couldn't find anyone, "Who-who's there?"
"Why Jude, I'm shocked, surely you remember your old pal, Rube."
"Ruby…" Judy uttered.
"Jude and Rube that's what they used to call us in the tri-burrows. We were after all the best of friends…"
This made her scowl, "Keyword: were."
"Indeed… before you decided to turn your back on me and everything we were."
"You brought that upon yourself… Now why are you here?"
"All in good time, Jude. I just want to us to catch up first. I admit I was bit surprised to learn you were at some fancy-shmancy school in Zootopia. I know how we always talked about going together before the incident…"
"It was always my dream to move to Zootopia, getting away from you was just a bonus."
"Poor Jude, you really believed in that old bumper sticker displayed in the General Store window, didn't you? You know that the one store we would always stop by after school?"
Judy remembered that store of course but she stopped going to it for a long time since it brought back too many memories. But she just said, "I don't remember, sorry."
"Too bad, that was actually was one of my favorite things I do with you."
"What you did… I can't forgive you for that… You were once my friend but I saw the path you were taking… A path I couldn't follow…"
"Which is a shame, because if you had married my brother we would have been in-laws. True sisters just like what we always wanted since we were kids."
"Your brother didn't love me… I thought he did but he loved other bunnies… All the more reason I had to get away…"
"He was stupid but from the moment you left he realized he needed you."
"Need me how?" her voice was getting angry, "For my love? Or for my body?"
There was pause, until the unseen Ruby said, "We'll see each other again, Jude." and she heard a backdoor opened.
When it closed, Judy broke down and cried unaware a fox had listened to the whole thing…
Nick had the perfect idea to scare Judy as he searched for her throughout the school then he heard voices coming from a dark empty classroom and he found Carrots facing the darkness as it spoke back to her.
His eyes widen as he heard everything that was being said. And when the voice had left he heard Judy's sobs. It practically broke his heart when he heard them. He wanted to do something. He wanted to comfort her at that moment but figured he was the last thing she wanted comfort from and the fact he eavesdropped on her again would be adding salt to the wound.
Then he heard shuffling coming from the hallway and saw silhouettes of her friends coming back and that they were calling for Judy, no doubt they realized she wasn't with them and had to go back to retrace their steps to find her.
Good, they can do what I cannot…
He quickly went the other way so they couldn't see him.
AN: Yeah, I had a hard time figuring out how to use an animal-related pun for Legally Blonde and the closet my sister and I could come up with was bald since a bald eagle is used as a symbol for the justice system. And yup, things are definitely picking up now.