As the month of October came on, Randall saw on TV a lot more how humans were reacting to this Halloween thing. Sometimes he went out with Mikey and he told him how fun Halloween was. And how Master Splinter used to take him and his brothers out when they were younger.
Even Raph had a tale to tell. "Mikey would eat all his candy the next day and then get sick." He laughed.
"We would get enough candy to last for months." Don said.
"Candy's not my favorite food, but I will eat it occasionally." Leo said.
"So, what do you plan to do this Halloween?" Randall asked.
"Design some pumpkins at April's and then go get some candy." Mikey said.
"Just wander the streets too. It's just nice to be able to walk about and it doesn't matter how we look on this one holiday." Raph said.
"Even you'll be able to walk around and be yourself." Don said. "Unless you want to wear something extra to make it look like you're not just a lizard."
"I can make something extra if you want me to." Mikey said. "Or I can get something."
"I might be better off that way, or I'm not going anywhere. It's more risky for me, as I don't walk on two legs like you guys do. You could be more convinced for humans in costumes. Me, not so much." Randall said.
"Alright. I'll get something for ya." Mikey said. "Just leave it to me."
"As long as it's not something silly looking."
"I'll see what I can do."
"Halloween's the only day of the year when we get to walk the street as we are and don't always have to stick to the rooftops, but we'll still keep our gear for that should we need it." Leo said.
"Hm, but I don't need it."
"Whoever your parents were, they sure gave you great gifts of those fingers." Don said. "That you don't have to have climbing gear like we do."
"Yeah, and they've saved my tail more times than I can count."
The more October progressed, the more there was candy, pumpkins, and stuff that looked scary like was being put up all over the city in people's stores and homes.
Randall found that he was liking this holiday. The scarier the better.
A few days before Halloween, Mikey came down to his apartment at April's and had a box for Randall.
"I hope you like it." Mikey said.
Randall put the box down on the bed and opened it. No one had ever given him a gift like this. He saw something black was lying in the box.
With his top arms, he picked it out and it looked like a coat. A black coat. It had string on the front of it and it was a long coat.
"What's this? I get it's a costume, but what is it?"
"It's a vampire cloak." Mikey said. "Here. I'll show you how to put it on."
Randall let the turtle put the cloak around him and tied it on his neck. It went down most of his back. His tail still stuck out, but it covered most of his back.
"You can also wrap it around yourself if you want to. That's how vampires play sneaky." Mikey said.
"You mean like this?" Randall wrapped it around himself and gave a mischievous grin.
"Yeah, like that. You make an awesome vampire lizard!"
"Thanks."
"So is this costume okay?"
"It's great, thanks."
"A few more days and you can wear it out in public. We'll be by to decorate pumpkins first and then we'll go out shortly after that." Mikey said.
"Okay. I look forward to it." Randall said.
Mikey then sat about down there with him to watch some TV and have a snack with him like the best buds they were.
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Halloween was finally here. Tonight was the night for dress up.
The turtles all went over to April's house for pumpkin decorating. They knew that Randall was there waiting for them, and April would be dressing up to go to a party with Casey.
Now that his sons were well grown up, Splinter wouldn't mind some silence in the lair to meditate for awhile. He was glad he didn't have to take them out anymore. He just felt too old for it. He hoped they had a good time and especially Randall to be able to walk among the humans for once.
When they got to April's, they got their choice of pumpkin and all went to sit in the living room to decorate it. Randall wasn't upstairs yet.
April was dressed up as a biker girl. Then Casey came to her door and they left together. He was a biker dude. But before leaving, April went down to the basement and told Randall that the turtles were there.
"Alright."
"There's an extra pumpkin for you to decorate too." She said.
"Thanks."
Then she left.
Randall wanted to get his cloak on first. He just wanted to be wearing it.
He put it on and snuck upstairs. He made sure the turtles couldn't hear him. He snuck up the spiral staircase. His main body vanished and he poked his head up. He saw the turtles were just minding their own business.
He grinned mischievously and then he jumped up and gave his best impression of a roar.
"AAH!" The turtles screamed in surprise.
Randall laughed.
"Did you have to do that?" Don asked, holding his chest.
"Yes. It was too good to pass up." Randall replied with a grin.
They all could see he had on a black cloak.
"So what are you supposed to be?" Leo asked.
"A vampire lizard." Randall said. "Mike got it for me."
"Looks good on ya." Raph said. "It suits ya."
"Vampires know how to be sneaky." Mikey said.
They all went back to making their pumpkins look what they wanted them to.
Randall picked his up off the table. "What do I do with this thing?"
"You take a knife or one of our weapons and you can make a face on it, however you want it to look." Don said.
"Here, Randall, you can use my knife. I'm done with it." Mikey said.
"What does yours look like?"
Mikey showed him.
"I plan to make mine look scary."
"That's fine."
Randall got the knife and went over to cut his up.
"Don't forget to cut the top off and take out the seeds and guts in it." Raph said.
"That's why we cut the tops of them off." Don said.
Randall looked at their pumpkins, and the tops of the stems were cut around.
Randall cut around the top stem and indeed, there was a gooey mess inside to deal with.
"Here's some newspaper to put it on." Leo said, putting some down. "These are old newspapers. April doesn't want a mess in here."
"Thanks." He knew how April was conscious about messes.
Randall got to work cleaning out the mess. Once that was done, he then did make a scary looking monster face on his pumpkin. One with sharp teeth and scary eyes.
The turtles knew that Randall was into that stuff.
Afterward, they put them in the windows and they went outside to go walking around the streets. Randall was nervous about this, but no one was freaking out at him, and he stayed close to his friends.
"Wow, those are impressive costumes." A kid said.
"Thanks." Mikey said.
The kid had a Silver Sentry costume on, and his companion had a Spiderman costume on.
"See, you gotta love this holiday." Mikey said.
Randall even ended up playing his vampire trick on some kids too, and they did find it cool. And there were some that he did scare, particularly some young ones. Their parents weren't so pleased with that though.
"Sorry, our friend is new here and doesn't know Halloween in the big city yet." Leo said. "He's just having fun. He's not trying to hurt anyone."
They moved away from them.
"I still like to scare some kids."
"Yeah, but it's not like before. Just don't draw too much attention to yourself, Randall." Leo said.
"I don't see you doing anything."
"It's just not my favorite holiday, though I don't mind walking around the streets with my brothers." Leo said.
Later, they got some caramel apples. It was just Mikey and Raph that had them. Randall wasn't much of a fruit eater. And they got some candy from some people. The turtles were just wanting to show Randall the time of his life.
Randall was so glad these guys weren't little kids. And he was an adult who was acting very much like a little kid at times tonight. He was having fun showing off and scaring others.
They were still on the lookout for any trouble out here tonight, but there wasn't much of anything, just people out in costumes, trick or treating or going to parties. There was even a party close to Times Square and there were prizes there for best costumes. But the turtles knew better than to go there.
They were out for several hours and had a lot of fun. They had wanted to make the most of it since it was the only night of the year they could do it so easily.
But they soon headed back to April's with candy and some tiredness. It had been a fun night and hated to see it end. April and Casey were out pretty late too.
The turtles and Randall crashed at April's tonight. Randall went down to his room and got out of the cloak. Then he went back upstairs and they watched scary movies until they all passed out.
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The next day, the turtles and Randall had awoken in April's living room. April came out of her room and they all had breakfast together before the turtles headed home.
April had the shop closed today, as because she was out late last night and the guys had been up late too. It was just for extra rest. Because it wasn't long before even Randall wanted to go to the basement for some more sleep.
April too cashed in on a little sleep too and later went to the store that day to restock her home supplies for herself and her friends, and Randall.
Randall wished there could have been more days and nights like that, but sadly, there wasn't.
I had a lot of fun with this chapter. I figure Randall would especially love this holiday since he gets to be scary naturally.