Hallow's Night

O here's the Halloween chapter yay! I making this semi fluff and semi serious, kinda mixing them so I'll see how it goes. I don't own Tall One.

I bounced my feet in excitement as Charlie and I drove back to the cabin after going to the outlet stores a few miles off, sure it was risky but all we were grabbing was costume supplies and the costumes themselves. "You know he's going to be pissed when we get back." "I don't really care right now, I'm just happy that I have a costume, aren't you?" She smiled a bit and nodded, "Yeah I suppose, makes me feel a bit more normal than usual. I'm glad were doing something to celebrate Halloween." "Me too." I looked through the bag and pulled up the black hooded cloak I had found, I could tell the material wasn't that cheap kind and actually held some weight and warmth to it, and I had also picked up a beautiful looking medium purple colored dress that faded into black the lower it went and it stopped at just above my knees. I had also managed to snag a pair of black leggings, glow in the dark white colored face paint, and a few pairs of colored glow in the dark contacts. We had both been elated that the costume and crafts stores hadn't been emptied a lot, then again, who dressed up for an apocalypse? Charlie had gone with cool looking dragon wings and an elegant dragon themed face mask with horns, it was white and blue colored and she was going to wear the ice blue glow in the dark contacts...she also managed to get Bongo a ridiculous hot dog costume in his size though I'll never understand why.

I put everything back as we pulled down to the end of the gravel drive and we grabbed our stuff before hopping out, surveying the area as we did so. I unhooked the gate and opened it enough for us to get in before closing it and hooking up the chain once more, I was happy that it was a mostly fenced in area but there were places where the fence wasn't finished, maybe I'll put it on my agenda to finish it one day. "So what are you supposed to be again? Some weird spirit or something?" I shrugged as we walked and hefted the bag a bit more onto my shoulder, "I was thinking about doing something with the animal pelts I have saved up, maybe make a small head dress or mask or something...does it sound dumb?" "No no, I was just curious."

I nodded and we continued to walk in a peaceful silence, I shivered a bit and pulled my thin jacket around me as a fall breeze blew past us. "Is it me or is it a bit colder this Halloween than last year?" Charlie chuckled as she glanced over, hands in her pockets, "Well, depending on where we both were I suppose. But I hope it doesn't start snowing too early." As she talked she looked to the sky a bit as if she was outwardly praying to mother nature, I myself liked snow but I understood why she wouldn't want it too start too early, it would just make the winter harder on us. I suddenly was aware that Slender would figure out where we had gone and probably get annoyed at how careless I was being lately, but wasn't he always annoyed at something? Just as I was thinking this I felt a nudge from beside me and I looked up too see that we were at the cabin, "Were you like hypnotized or something? You were walking like a zombie." "Uh sorry, guess I was lost in thought or something. I tend to do that." She smirked a bit and nodded slowly as she opened the door and whistled for her furry companion, "Bongoooo, come here boy I have a surprise for you!" I felt so sorry for the dog as he trotted up, tongue lolling lazily out of his mouth and tail wagging away, and Charlie pulled out his costume before advancing on his slowly. I could tell he was skeptical as soon as he saw it for he stopped panting and his tail stilled, "Come on now Bongo, this will only take a few seconds." He backed away a bit as Charlie moved forward and I laughed as he turned tail and ran into another room, probably going to hide under my bed or the couch, and Charlie took off after him.

"Oh don't think that you'll get out of this sooo easily dog! You're going to be a hot dog and like it!" I put the bags on the couch as I continued to laugh and I got all of my things out of it including a few of the contacts, still not sure which to use yet, and I walked to my room. It was about 3:30 and I wanted to do something by at least 6:00...but the problem was figuring out what to do. As I sat down on my bed with a sigh my Tall friend decided to pop in at that moment with a perturbed sounding voice, and I could only have one guess as too why, "Do you want to be killed? Because it seems to me that you are doing a very good job of trying." I looked down at my hands as the question hung in the air, I knew it upset him when I did things like this but it was for a good reason...too me anyway. "I wanted to dress up for Halloween like I used too, I didn't go too the same area that we did before and we were like 10 minutes tops. I'm sorry I mad you angry..." I continued to look down as I finished and I began to feel a bit ashamed of my actions, why did I only ever make him angry or frustrated with what I do? It was a few minutes before I heard a sigh and his smooth voice spoke up once more, "I'm not angry Orella but what I'm trying to get you to understand is that I can't always be there to pull you out of situations. What if I had never met you and you pulled that dumb stunt a week back? You would be dead right now." I said nothing and let him continue his rant, he obviously needed to get it off of his chest, ever since we had been around each other more he seemed to gain some different qualities...such as ranting. "...I just want you too be safe young hunter." I glanced up too see that he was looking out the window as he said that and it was almost like he was talking to his self, "I know, and I'm sorry ok? I just don't like following rules that's all." I heard him chuckled and he turned his head towards me, his mouth turning into a visible smirk, "One of the reasons why I didn't kill you when I first saw you young hunter. You are quite different." I crossed my arms and nodded shortly, "That's right, and don't you forget it." "I do not think that I could at this point...So what do you plan to do for Halloween?" "Well..." I turned around and reached into my bag, pulling out my cloak and the contacts, then I pulled out the dress as well, running my hands over the cotton/silken fabric. "I'm going to throw these on along with some face paint and possibly a mask and be some type of spirit I suppose, then Charlie and I will probably make some paper lanterns with the supplies we got and hang them around." He seemed to think this over and as he did so I took a look at the contacts I had grabbed, there was a beautiful glowing emerald color, a fiery amber red, or a normal glow in the dark green color.

Deciding that the red amber would look better I put that side with my cloak and I proceeded to walk out of the room and into the bathroom to hang my dress for later, I hate leaving things like that on my bed. I was about to question why he looked so deep in thought when I walked back in but he beat me to the punch, "Would you like to participate in a type of...game for Halloween?" My eyes widened a bit in surprise and I felt a bit hesitant to nod but before I could open my mouth I was, again, beaten to the punch...this time by Charlie and a depressed looking Bongo in a hotdog costume. "Uh duh we want too, but it had better not be something dumb like sitting in the house in the dark or something." Slender grinned wolfishly and for the first time he didn't shoot back a retort at Charlie like usual, "Oh do not worry short one, this game will be anything by dumb...be prepared to start by 8:00." And with that he disappeared, leaving us both with wondering expressions and an undying curiosity of what he had in store for us tonight.

(Around 7:30) We had just finished making the paper lanterns and hung them up after lighting the candles inside, I looked around at the beautifully lit cabin and smiled, feeling happier now than I have been in the past year. Charlie smiled as well and I chuckled as she ducked so her horns wouldn't knock down the lanterns, "I'd say we did a fine job huh Bongo?" The dog just huffed from his spot on the ground and Charlie smiled, "I thought so. Ready to go outside and see what your creeper has cooked up for us?" I narrowed my eyes at her playfully and nodded, following her outside but making sure to hand her her machete and I grabbed mine as well, "Just in case." She rolled her eyes and we shut the door carefully, I looked up to the sky to see the full moon shining brightly and I looked around the dark forest warily. "Good thing we put a few out here or we'd be falling over ourselves. Here, I grabbed the flashlights too." I took one of the flashlights from her and clicked it on, pointing it around trying to locate Slender, "Well...where is he?" I nearly flew out of my skin as I heard his voice go through my mind, "You will not be seeing me yet, this game is similar to hide and seek...except you will be collecting pages, are you ready?" I nodded to myself and he told me too turn around, Charlie looked at me slightly confused but I pointed to the page that was now on the cabin door and explained, "We have to find pages, about 7 of them I believe." She nodded and I saw her smile widen, "Ahhh so he wants to play this game...this should be fun." I had no idea what she meant by that but I picked up the first page and read what was on it, it was a picture of an eye and below it the words said 'I will be watching' I folded the page and held it as I motioned for Charlie to follow me as we started out to find the other 6 pages, being ready for anything. "So where do you think they'll be? On trees and junk?" "Well he probably made it a bit more challenging since he likes to torture us so we should probably think a bit outside the box." She nodded and we pointed our flashlights every which way, looking for more pages.

I was beginning to get frustrated after a few minutes of mindless searching but it finally paid off when Charlie pointed to one of the boulders ahead, "There's one, c'mon!" We jogged over, me being careful of my cloak and dress, and I picked it up too read it. 'Only the beginning' "Obviously this will be lasting a bit longer than we expected..." We continued on and withing another 20 minutes we found three more pages, but with each page I felt the atmosphere change...it felt as if we were being followed closely but every time I turned around there was nothing. "Your such a creep..." He chuckled through my mind but said nothing as we progressed, I could tell Charlie was feeling a bit creeped out as well and she turned towards me as we came too a stop, her eyes glowing because of the contacts and the white glow in the dark paint standing out. "Ok this is getting kind of scary now, where the hell are the last two pages?" "I don't know, we just have to keep going to find them-" But just as I said that Charlies eyes widened and she let out a scream, "Orella run!" I turned and didn't have time too react as she grabbed my arm and pulled me along with her while I saw something following us. We held our flashlights ahead of us making sure too watch out for rocks and oncoming trees, but before I had a chance to blink I had tripped on a small rock and before I could land on my face I turned and landed on my side, the breath leaving my body is a rush. I stayed laying for a moment before I coughed and looked up, pushing my hood back from my face a bit so I could see where my flashlight had gone. "Charlie? Charlie where are you?" I sat up and held my flashlight tightly as I looked around for my friend, adrenaline and fear pumping through my veins and my eyes wide with fear.

I didn't see her anywhere so I used a tree to help myself back up and I brushed off my dress, feeling satisfied that it wasn't damaged, and I pointed my flashlight ahead looking for anything after me. I let my breathing slow before I started to walk again and I heard an odd noise in my head...static. I knew it was Slender and I wasn't in any real danger but for some reason my mind went into a state of fear and paranoia I began to run blindly in a random direction, the following feeling intensified as I ran. I was sure I was going to be caught but then I spotted a group of boulders overhanging on each other and I sprinted over, sliding on the ground a bit as I went behind them and crouched against the rocks while pulling my hood down and closing my eyes tightly. I don't know why I was so afraid, but I think I had developed a severe phobia of this stuff in the past few months and it was taking a tole on my mental state. I hadn't noticed but by the time I felt the presence in front of me I noticed that I had tears falling from my eyes and I whimpered, afraid of what was too come. I didn't relax my body even when I heard the unusually soft voice of Slender speak up, "Ella why are you afraid? Did you get hurt?" I shook my head with a sniff and I didn't move as a tentacle took hold of one of my hands and moved it before turning my head towards him, I opened my eyes and saw that he had shrunk down from his usual 8-9 feet to about 6.

"Young hunter, I did not mean for this to frighten you-" "It's not your fault." I was careful as I wiped my eyes remembering that I had the white glowing face paint on, and I stood a bit shakily as I faced him. "I-I just...I had some breakdown or whatever. But I'm fine now." He seemed unconvinced but didn't push the problem at the moment, instead he tried to change the subject to cheer me up I'm guessing. "So other than this attempt at a human friendly game, was your Halloween enjoyable?" I smiled and sniffed a bit more and I nodded, "Yeah, it was fun...thank you for trying." He nodded and the made a comment that brought a blush too my cheeks, "I have too say that you look quite...beautiful, tonight. Your eyes glow as that of a hunter should." I looked down a bit and felt my smile widen at his compliment, "Thank you...and the game was pretty fun.." He smiled wolfishly and he pushed my hood back with an appendage so he could see my face, "I thought it would fit the holiday." But then his grin disappeared and his tone took on a more serious and slightly guilty tone too it, "But I do not wish too see you like how I saw you tonight...you were truly afraid..." "I thought you liked it when people were afraid of you?" "Not like that...not when it is you young one..." He seemed to sober and I felt bad that I had brought these feelings upon him, so I decided to make it up to him. Before he could move or react I stepped forwards and wrapped my arms around his middle, laying my head against his chest and slightly burying myself into his warmth. He stiffened at first as I suspected, but then he relaxed and enveloped me gently with his long arms, creating a type of barrier between myself and the world. When I had first been around him I assumed his too be cold to the touch and icy, but this was the complete opposite to be honest.

I felt like I could stand like this forever, being content to just shut out the world and be close to him as long as I could, I have really got it bad. "Not that I do not enjoy the contact young hunter, but how long do you intend to stay like this?" I shrugged and closed my eyes as I asked a question, "So where's Charlie?" "I caught her and brought her back to the house before going back after you." "That was nice of you." I heard him rumble a bit and I chuckled, "I am not nice, I just wanted her to stop complaining." "Okkk...we can go back now." He was silent as I closed my eyes once again and he teleported us too behind the cabin so Charlie wouldn't see us and start teasing, I stepped back and looked up at his featureless face with a smile and waved goodnight as he nodded and disappeared into the night, but not before he got in one last sentence in my head, "Happy Hallow's end young hunter."

Wooo I really liked this chapter guys, sorry if you don't lol. I really got into the whole thing with the pages because I thought hey, what if they did something that everyone is familiar with and we could all laugh a bit while instilling that fear. Hope you enjoyed and review comments and thoughts!