A/N: How is everybody doing? I hope every one of you had a good Halloween. Now, it's time for an all new update to 'Howl-O-Ween'! In the last update, Eli has a mental breakdown when Chief Bogo shows him a photo of Michael Myers after killing the gas station employees, confirming that it is him. Bogo also puts Walter Cruz and Jack Savage on the case, promising them early graduation from the academy, and a spot at Precinct One if they arrest or kill Michael. Russel and Eli have already picked out their costumes for Howl-O-Ween night, and Michael watches Nick, Judy, and Eli drive away after killing a Howl-O-Ween store employee. Now, the horror truly begins. Enjoy!
October 31st, 2018
Howl-O-Ween
Judy and Nick were waiting outside of Eli's room to await him to come out wearing his costume. Both Nick and Judy had their phones out, with their cameras ready to snap some photos of their kit's first Howl-O-Ween in Zootopia since he first arrived from the human world. Soon, the door opened and Eli came out the door with his costume on, including his plastic hockey mask.
"Oh! You just look so adorable!" Judy said while taking pictures of him.
"You're rocking that mask, buddy!" Nick complimented.
"T-Thanks mom and dad. B-But where are your c-c-costumes?" asked Eli, noticing both the fox and rabbit were wearing their police uniforms. Earlier that morning, Bogo told every member of Precinct One, that they were to be working Howl-O-Ween night undercover, whether it be taking their young ones trick or treating, or even going to parties. Their mission: arrest or kill Michael Myers. If they spotted a tall human wearing dark blue coveralls, and a gray aged latex William Shatner mask, that they were to drop whatever it was they were doing and either cuff or shoot him. Judy decided their best course of action would be to not dress up, and remain in uniform for the night.
"Oh, these are our costumes sweetheart. We're going as cops" said Judy before taking a selfie of herself standing right in front of Eli, with his mask still covering his face.
"Wearing our uniforms outside the office on Howl-O-Ween night doesn't count as a costume, carrots" Nick said before setting his phone's camera on a timer and placed it on a table, leaning against a vase before the three of them took a photo together, smiling for the camera (you couldn't really see Eli's because of his mask).
"Um, Eli, aren't you forgetting something?" asked Judy. Eli took his mask off and looked at his costume.
"I uh... don't think so" he replied.
"Your hockey stick, buddy. You can't shred the ice if you don't have your stick" Nick told him. Eli then remembered that he didn't have his stick and then went back into his room to look for it. Once it was just the fox and bunny in the living room, Judy spoke to her boyfriend/partner.
"Now remember, Nick, we are not just taking Eli trick or treating. We're hunting down Michael Myers, if you see him, you take our your gun and shoot him down. Got it?" Judy told him.
"Why can't I just tranquilize the guy and cuff him? Put him in a straight-jacket for good measure?" asked Nick.
"Because Michael is too dangerous to live. You've seen what he's done to those poor animals. Chief Bogo also told me that Mrs. Otterton saw Michael kill her neighbor, Mr. Lemurton yesterday" Judy reminded him. Nick's ears drooped, as well as his smile, the images of the corpses of Michael's victims replaying like a really bad comedy movie in his brain.
"Oh yeah" the fox said simply. Their conversation was cut short when they saw Eli come back into the living room holding his plastic hockey stick.
"There we go! Now make a pose that shows that you're ready to slam into that goalie!" Nick said while taking more pictures. Eli did as Nick asked him and held his hockey stick in both hands while bending his knees.
"Nick, you've clearly never played or watched hockey. Because the players don't SLAM into the goalies" Judy said, correcting her partner's mistake in his statement.
"Come on, Jude the dude, just let me have my fun" Nick replied, still taking more pictures.
"OW!" he yelped after he felt a painful jolt in his arm from Judy.
"I told you this fifty million times, slick... only my dad is allowed to call me that" Judy reprimanded.
"Sheesh! You got some personal vendetta against my shoulder or something? You always punch it so hard" Nick said while rubbing his arm.
"A-Are you okay dad?" asked Eli.
"I think your mom fractured it" Nick answered while still rubbing it. Judy only rolled her eyes and looked back up to her adopted kit.
"Your dad's just being overly dramatic honey" Judy told him before she grabbed an empty orange pillow case with a black jack-o-lantern face on the front off the couch and handing it to Eli.
"I am not!" Nick denied. The three of them then walked outside the house and began walking down each door, beginning Eli's first ever trick or treat outing of his life.
"Say buzz buzz!" Fangmeyer cried out as she took a picture of her adopted human baby, Rosalie wearing a bumblebee costume. The costume had cute little antennae on the hood, and fake wings on the back. She and her husband, Raph Wolford were excited to take their baby girl trick or treating for the first time (while hunting for the serial murderer that many humans called Michael Myers of course). Fangmeyer was dressed up as Dorothy from the movie 'The Wizard of Fox', while Wolford was dressed up as a vampire, wearing a fancy dress suit with a pointed collar cape, as well as a fake amulet across his neck.
"Oh, this is so exciting! Our little girl's first Howl-O-Ween!" Fangmeyer cheered, staring down at the photos she had just taken.
"Now don't get too excited, Nadine. You know what we're supposed to be doing while we're out" Wolford said, referring to his fellow officer/wife by her first name.
"I know, we're supposed to be hunting down Michael Myers. But this is just too precious a moment for us to just take lightly. One moment, she's trick or treating in a bumblebee costume, the next, she's out going to see scary movies or out to parties with her friends" Nadine told him.
"You're right. I'm sorry" Raph apologized. The two of them took little Rosalie by her hands and began walking out of their home and down towards the neighborhood until they actually found a nice house where several children had just collected candy from. Fangmeyer then got on her knees and looked over at her child.
"Alright Rosie, you're gonna go up and knock on the door. And once they open up the door what are you gonna say?" Nadine asked.
"Happy Birfday!" Rosalie cheered, causing both the tiger and the wolf to burst out laughing at the adorableness of their daughter. It has been a good few months since they had adopted Rosalie, and during those months, Rosalie had managed to learn a few words such as 'Dada', 'Mama', Happy Birthday', 'Book', 'Bath', and a few others as well.
"No, sweetie. You're supposed to say 'Trick or Treat' when they answer the door" Ralph said in reply.
"Tell mommy what you're gonna say when they open up the door" Nadine said.
"Twick or tweat!" she cheered.
"That's right! Trick or treat!" Wolford said before he and his wife held her by the hands again as they walked up towards the door. Nadine then rang the doorbell and looked to Ralph, who nodded before looking down to Rosalie.
"Knock on the door, honey" he instructed. Rosalie went ahead and knocked by slapping her open palm on the wooden surface of the house's front door. Eventually, the door opened and a doe came out holding a large red plastic bowl of assorted candies.
"Twick or tweat!" Rosalie yelled. The doe only giggled at the sight of this and crouched down to her eye-level.
"Well aren't you just an adorable little honey pot" the doe complimented before Fangmeyer spoke up.
"She sure is! It's her first time trick or treating too" said the tigress.
"Well then in that case, here you go little lady" the doe said, putting a good amount of candy into Rosalie's bag.
"What do you say, Rosie?" Ralph asked.
"Tank you!" the human girl thanked.
"You are quite welcome, little one. Happy Howl-O-Ween" the doe said before going back inside her house and closing the door behind her. She then walked into the kitchen to wash her hooves before walking towards the oven to check on the pumpkin shaped cookies she was baking. They looked like they were just about done, so she put on some oven-mitts and opened up the oven, placing the baking sheet next to a large pot of boiling water that she was using to make spaghetti for dinner tonight.
"Now, to let these cool down and then it's decorating time" said the doe before taking her oven-mitts off and set them down on the table. Her phone began to ring, just as she was about to place the noodles into the boiling pot, so she placed the noodles down and picked the phone up.
"Hello?" she answered.
"Oh, hi Paul!" she said, it was her brother. She began conversing with him over the phone while she continued to cook, not realizing that someone was standing in her backyard. It was Michael Myers, staring at her through the window. Michael waited to enter the house until he saw the doe leave the kitchen and go into another room of the house before he walked inside, clutching his knife tightly in his right hand. Michael then walked inside the pantry and hid inside it, awaiting the doe to return to her cooking.
"Yeah, I heard about that on the news. Seven bodies found dead yesterday? And two of them are police officers? Zootopia's going to have a mammal-hunt for this human. I know that certain mammals like Chet McSprinter are gonna have a field day with this" said the doe as she continued to talk.
"No, he isn't reporting for ZNN anymore, he got fired. He was caught saying really specist things about humans while they were still on the air. And that was back when there were only a few humans arriving in Zootopia before hundreds more started showing up" Michael heard her say. He decided to wait for her to hang up the phone to kill her.
"Last I heard he's now the head of some Anti-Human Society" the doe continued.
"Only a few mammals have joined. Hey, listen, I gotta get back to cooking. I'll see you at Thanksgiving through. Happy Howl-O-Ween" she said before hanging the phone up and placing it back on the cutting board. The doe then smelled the noodles that were still inside the pot.
"Needs more Asiago" she said before walking over to the pantry and opened the door before she turned on the lights. Michael was revealed to be standing inside once the lights were turned on, and she screamed before she felt a sharp pain in her midsection. She then looked down to see Michael's knife inside her stomach before he pulled it out and pushed her to the floor. The doe tried to prevent herself from falling by grabbing onto the pot of boiling water, but all that did was spill all of the scalding hot water and wet noodles all over her body.
"Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhh!" she screamed as her body was now covered in severe third degree burns from the water being spilled on her. Some of her skin started to bubble like tomato sauce when it got hot. Michael then stepped out of the pantry and stood above her as she screamed in agonizing pain on the floor. Michael stared at her for a bit until he decided it was better off to leave her there to die, so he walked out of the house through the front door. The doe eventually passed out from the extreme amount of pain she was in, as well as the large amount of blood she was losing from where Michael had stabbed her. Within minutes, she was dead.
At the ZPD, Jack and Walter were walking down the stairs and out of the armory to go to the front lobby. The two had been given temporary uniforms that they were to wear as long as they remained on the case to hunt down Michael Myers. To Jack, it felt like a dream come true, to be wearing the uniform of the profession he always dreamed of joining. But to Walter, it was nostalgic, when he first joined the LAPD, and had his badge pinned onto him in front of his family, he couldn't have been anymore happier.
"Hey Ben!" Walter called out. Clawhauser was dressed up like a clown, wearing makeup and a large multicolored onsie with red, white, and yellow colors on it.
"Walter! Hi!" Clawhauser called out to the human, waving out to him.
"How've you been?" Walter asked.
"Um... not so good. Kids come up for trick or treating, but I just end up scaring them away for some reason. I have no idea why though" Clawhauser said, a little sadness was detected in his voice.
"Hmm, I dunno... maybe it's because you're dressed up like a clown!" Jack pointed out. Walter gave a glare to the hare.
"Jack! Don't be rude!" he snarled under his teeth to his friend.
"What's wrong with clowns?" Clawhauser asked.
"Clowns are a common phobia among human beings and animals. That includes adults too, not just the children" Walter explained to him. He remembered when he was little he sneaked a scary movie into the living room to watch on Halloween night past his bedtime while his parents were asleep, and ended up being scared of clowns for life because of it. So he could relate to those who did have a fear of clowns like he did.
"But why would anyone be afraid of clowns? Aren't clowns supposed to make people laugh?" asked the obese cheetah.
"You clearly have never seen 'Homicidal Mimes from Deep Space', dude" Jack told him.
"You watch Stephen King's 'IT' and you will be scared of clowns until you die. That's not an opinion, it is just a fact" said Walter. Clawhauser raised one eye and lowered the other one, looking confused.
"What's 'IT'?" he asked.
"Old scary movie from my world" Walter answered simply. Jack then decided to speak up again.
"You've been having a pretty rough night it seems, huh?" he asked.
"Yeah, and not just with the trick or treaters. I've had FOUR calls about Michael Myers tonight. All in the space of ten minutes" the cheetah told him.
"Four's not that bad" said Jack.
"Yeah, until those number of calls starts to build up the more Michael is on those streets claiming more and more victims by the minute" said Walter before he heard a voice emit from the walkie-talkie that was dangling from his belt.
"Dispatch this is unit 220! We've just discovered a body. Body is covered in third degree burns, and a stab-wound inside the victim's abdomen" the voice said. Walter and Jack looked to each other, their faces blank and pale with horror. He took his radio off the belt and spoke into it.
"220, can you give the address where you found the body?" asked Walter.
"26677 Antelope Lane, sir" said the voice on the other end.
"We'll be right there as soon as we can. Cruz out" Walter responded before he and Jack ran down to the garage and towards their squad car to run to the place of the homicide.
In the upper-class district of Zootopia, many children were out trick or treating and walking around the streets freely. Many of them either going to the next house to collect more candy, or to go home after having their pillowcases completely stuffed with candy. Two zebra kids were walking up the street and looking down into each other's bags while speaking to each other.
"Wow. You actually managed to get two king sized Snickers bars? Lucky" one Zebra said.
"If anyone here is lucky, it's you. You're the one who managed to get a gigantic thing of skittles. Those are my favorites. I am so jealous of you right now" the second Zebra told the first. The two of them them bumped into someone and dropped their bags. They looked up and saw it was Michael Myers before they grabbed their bags up off the street.
"Sorry about that, sir" the second Zebra said before he and his friend walked off, unaware of who he actually was. Michael then watched as the two kids walked away before looking down at a campaign board for Mayor. It showed a pig wearing a dark blue pantsuit with an ashy blonde wig atop her head.
"Prey for Swinton" said the board. Michael only looked at it for a good few minutes before he heard a car horn going off. He turned to see several human, prey, and predator kids throwing eggs at the car. It was a very fancy and very expensive luxury SUV. The owner of the vehicle came out the house and began shooing them away with a rake.
"Get away from my car you brats!" said Swinton as she swung the rake at them as if it were a weapon. The kids ran away laughing. Michael then watched as Swinton got into her car and drove away from her house.
"I can't buy the vote of a city that's 95% prey if I drive around in a car that looked like a million pigeons took a crap on it!" Swinton shouted as she drove away. Matilda Swinton was one of those animals who had a mindset similar to Chet McSprinter, Dawn Bellwether, and Edwin Shellison. She was very biased towards humans, and thought they were nothing but an alien race, sent to their world to only cause trouble by disguising themselves as refugees and victims of abuse. She was also very biased towards predators too.
"I just hope the car wash isn't gonna charge me half a million dollars to get this cleaned up" Swinton said to herself before something went 'Splat' on her window. It was a large, rotten old jack-o-lantern. The entire windshield was covered in broken pumpkin bits, as well as it's guts. She screamed as it hit the car, and she swerved into a fire hydrant, causing the car to crash and make the hydrant break as well. A large beam of water launched itself into the air the minute the SUV crashed into it. Two teenage lions saw this and gasped at this.
"I thought you said this was a good idea" the first one said.
"I never said that" the second one replied.
"Then why did you do it?" the first one questioned. He didn't respond.
"W-We better get out of here" said the first lion.
"Yeah, let's go" the second lion said in agreement before the duo ran away from the scene of the car wreck. Swinton was still inside the wreckage, with a bloodied nose from hitting her face on the steering wheel during the very moment of impact. She also had gained a cut above her left eyebrow from the windows breaking and glass bits flew all over the place.
"Urrggghhh! Kids" Swinton said in a nasally tone while she held her right hoof up against her nose. She then noticed someone standing next to the car, and she looked to see Michael standing right outside the driver's door.
"Oh, hello. Do you... think you could call an ambulance or something? I'm not really feeling so good" Swinton asked politely, trying her best to hide her true feelings of disgust towards the human. Michael did nothing except stare down at her.
"Hey! Did you not hear me? I said I need a doctor" Swinton said in an irritated tone. Michael then grabbed the back of her head and began to bash her head on the horn multiple times. Each time her face hit the steering wheel's center, the horn went off only for a second before another horn went off. Eventually, Michael tossed a totally bloodied-faced Swinton out of the car and onto the concrete before he stood on her chest.
"D-Don't h-hurt m-me. I'm sorry for saying all those h-h-horrible things about h-h-humans" Swinton croaked, begging for her life. Michael's only response to her pleas, a knife right in between her eyes, four times. Eventually, Swinton stopped moving and died where Michael held her down. Michael then heard a loud scream and he looked up to see a teenage wolf girl dressed up as a sexy cheerleader, witness the killing and run away. Michael then began to take chase after her.
(Start playing 'Ray's Goodbye' from the new Halloween 2018 soundtrack as you read this next part)
"Help! Someone! There's been a murder! Help!" the wolf shouted as she ran. Every now and again she looked behind her, only to see Michael walk after her, not running, but just walking. The poor wolf just kept on screaming and running away from the masked murderer.
"Somebody let me in!" she shouted, banging on all the doors of the houses the ran past, hoping one of them would let her in. Everybody was either asleep, or just thought it was just some kids playing a prank. She kept on going but nobody would open the door to help her. Michael then grabbed her by the ponytail and then took her over to a metal fence that surrounded a large house and then impaled her right on top of it. Michael watched as her blood dripped down the iron bars for a minute before walking away down the street.
A/N: And there you have chapter 5! Looks like Judy and Nick decided not to dress up this year, and go in their uniforms while taking Eli out trick or treating. Michael's already claimed three more victims to add to his body count. And Nadine and Ralph are having a happy moment, taking their daughter out trick or treating for the first time ever. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!