Me: Heeeeyyy, people! How are you? I bet you were expecting Chapter 12?! Well, GUESS WHAT?!
People: What?
Me: THIS ISN'T CHAPTER 12!
Xen: Damn it, Sharkist! WHEN ARE YOU MAKING IT?!
Me: Later, maybe when I have the time for it.
Xen: ._.
Me: But hey, silver lining, it's a Halloween Chapter! It's not canon towards the story itself or the sequel, but it will still have the same classes. Also, Add and Lu/Ciel won't be in this, because I don't know where to put them... So it's just Elsword, Aisha, Rena, Raven, Eve, Chung, Ara, Elesis, Xen, and Aera.
Xen: K... but what's it about?
Me: Well, you know how 2015 Elsword's Halloween Event, with Witches-kidnapping-Children, Harmony Festival are going on, and all?
Xen: ...Yeeaaahh..?
Me: Well, it's about that.
Xen: Oh...
Me: Now, this takes place in about the next story, but I'm going to make it so it doesn't spoil any good sugar. X3
Xen: Wha..? What do you have planned?
Me: I'm going to-
The Harmony Festival, a time that only comes every few years, that brings every being in Elrios together and be friends with each other for the duration, as well as Halloween, a time of spookiness and candy that people enjoy, is today, and the El Search Party are celebrating in the center of Lanox with Rena, in a witch costume, is telling them a scary story about a lone child in his home without his parents.
"'M-mommy..? Are you there..?' The boy says as he searches his house for his mother in the darkness. The child turns at the corner, but little did he know... There was a demon around the corner." Rena read from a book, reading "The Walking Nightmare". Chung was cradling himself, as he may or may not have tiny dots of tears in the corners of his eyes. Although, the always poker-faced Eve next to him is simply enjoying her lollipop.
"As the boy turns the corner..." Chung already had his face deep into his knees, scared of what might happen. "The demon... IMPALES HIM! With his SHARP. JAGGED. CLAWS!" Rena shouted loud enough to startle Aisha, and make Chung dig even deeper into his knees than he already is.
"...Uhh... Rena, don't you think that book is a bit too violent..?" Ara asked, with a sweat drop on her left temple. "Why did you even get that book in the first place?"
"I dunno, I just thought it would be a fun book to read." Rena shrugged. Elsword payed no attention, as he was snoozing off, dreaming of something that seems to be funny enough to make him physically laugh.
The Elgang's entire attention seemed to immediately shift to a certain, well-known Cobo Representative, sprinting and calling towards them. Rena immediately closed her book, only to be grabbed by Aisha and whack the back of Elsword's head with it, to wake him up.
"Ow, wha- Who's that calling?" Elsword groaned.
"It's Ariel." Raven answered, as he turned towards said woman. "What is it?"
"Elsword! Everyone! Parents have reported that children haven't returned from Trick or Treating yet!"
"I don't see the problem." Xen began, only for Ariel to finish.
"The problem is that they haven't returned for 4 hours! It's 12:00, midnight!"
Xen stood from the log across from Rena, with a completely confused face. "What?! 4 hours?!"
Ariel nodded. "Yes, the last time the parents saw them, the children went into a dark forest."
"And those parents didn't come with them?! Into a dark forest?! Whatever, what do you want us to even do about it?"
"To enter the forest and bring back the children."
"Why can't we just send in some Knights?"
"They're all on a vacation to Leikiki Lake."
Xen groaned. "Dear El, we're not being payed enough for this crap!"
"We don't get payed." Raven pointed out.
"Exactly!"
Aera, sitting right next to Xen, smacked him on the head. "This isn't about money, Xen! It's the children!"
Xen lets out an exasperated sigh. "Fine, where is this forest?"
Xen kicks the tiny rocks on the dark, decayed grass aside, as he tries to look for the missing children, along with Elesis, Elsword, and Aera. But now, they're just Children Search Party.
"Ugh... I can't see a damn thing with this fog all over here!" The Burning Thunder complained.
"Hey Xen, why don't you shut it and just use your powers to get rid of all water in the air and get rid of the fog? Made of tiny molecules of water?" Elesis questions Xen, but only for the brown haired fist-fighter to give her 'The Look', along with an out loud thought.
"I'd like to ask you the same, Elesis."
"..."
"Here, since my Hellfire is stronger than your bland fire, I'll do it for you."
"Wait, wha-?"
"Not listenin', catching on fire."
Xen's feet are covered with Hellfire, and slowly climbs up his body, up to his head. He then spun around rapidly, and the fog around him starts to disappear. However, once he stopped, he realized there were certain beings walking around them. With weapons.
Gingerbread people.
That looked like them.
"...Hey guys, I have a riddle and a question. First, fill in the blank. 'A bird that swims in water is a...'" Xen riddled.
"Uh, duck..?" Elsword answered and questioned.
"OK, and now, do you guys like crispy Gingerbread?"
"Huh?"
Much like the random roaring Xen decided the have come out of his mouth, the Hellfire still covering Xen had spread out like a wildfire and roasted the surrounding gingerbread men. Luckily, the others had ducked in time. Smoke had covered the entire area, them having coughing and swatting away at the smoke, as if trying to get rid of pesky flies.
"Since when were you a riddler?" Aera demanded, Xen replying with a simple shrug.
"That's not important right now, we have a kidnapper to find." Elesis prompted.
Meanwhile, with Aisha, Rena, Eve, and Ara, they were dealing with a demon they thought they dealt with in Sander.
"Come back, ladies! This Incubus has a present for you!" Incoolord cries out as he creates several black magic circles, aiming for the four.
"Let me guess, it's in your pants?" Aisha guessed while avoiding a stream of darkness from one of the circles.
"Hahahahah! ...Maybe..!"
"Dear god..."
"Perhaps it would be fun..." From the darkness of a shadow, a figure similar to Incoolord, appears, "...with two of me."
Ara was slightly sweating from nervousness, "I'm not ready to lose my innocence."
"...crrrraaaAAAAAAAPPPP!" A familiar voice cried as they fly, in a zoom of spiked brown and black jacket, ramming into Incoolord, and his clone. Xen, with a noticeable bruise on his right cheekbone, rises up from the Incubus bodies, and rubbing the bruise.
"Xen's here. How wonderful..." Eve said under her breath.
"Hey, guys, I think this is where Xen launched off to!" The voice of Elsword is heard in the distance.
"Urgh. Hey. We havin' a party here?" Xen asked, facing the four, recovering from whatever it was that launched him.
"Probably, 'cause you're late." Rena commented.
"No, no. If anything, it could be an orgy." Incoolord rose back up behind Xen.
"Come again?" Xen turned around to face the Incubus, but was answered with something he didn't thing he'd hear this Harmony Festival.
"Sure, I will. Gimme some time to get ready for it."
"Ugh, look what came from the Fagtory." Much to everyone's disturbance, Incoolord let out a creepy chuckle, especially Xen, who sighed.
"...I'm gonna punch it. I'm gonna punch it, and I won't regret anything."
"Well, just try, and we'll see if you can fist m-"
At that point, Xen had his fist, covered in electricity and Hellfire, feet deep in Incoolord's face and through the ground.
"Mother of El, I'm gonna exterminate every single Incubus and Succubus."
From a group of trees, Elsword, Elesis, and, a very pissed off, Aera emerged out.
"'Ey, guys! How's it go-" Xen began nervously, but was interrupted.
"I will slap five cuts in your face. 1 for each finger." Aera immediately warned without any sign of reluctance.
"Yes, Ma'm."
"...So. Where's Chung?" Aisha wondered aloud.
"He stayed in Lanox to protect the townspeople." Elesis briefly explained.
Elsword suddenly stopped to sniff the air, as the rest stopped as well.
"What'd you stop for? We've still got a witch to find." Raven reminded Elsword, but he ignored it.
"I smell... gingerbread."
"What, I didn't roast them well enough, or did I just miss somethin'?" Xen muttered.
Elsword started walking North-East of where he was facing, and everyone just decided to follow suit. After following Elsword for about 3 minutes, the El Gang found a large gingerbread house, about the size of a regular house. "Awesome! It's an edible house!" Elsword yelled in excitement. However, the door of the gingerbread house opened, to someone who seemed enragingly (Is that even a word?) familiar to the team. "Hello. El Search Party." The former Fire Priestess, Ignia. With a witch hat on.
"Wha- Ignia?" Xen demanded, "What the hell are you doing with children?"
"W-what? W-who's Ignia? I am, uh, the 'Witch of the Woods'!"
"Whatever, just give us back the children."
"Oh those little Trick-or-Treaters?"
"Yeah, those." Xen just says, acknowledging he just called children 'those', not 'them'.
"You'll have to fight me for it~." Xen was tired of all the s*Censor*t he had to put up with. He did not want to deal with Ignia with a witch hat at 1:00 in the morning.
"Give me-" Xen walks up to Ignia, "-those-" and puts a fierce grip on her head. "-Children!" He violently rammed his head against her face, knocking her out. After recovering from the Splitting Headache he had to preform, he turned to everyone. "Grab the children. I'll stay here for a minute."
"Wait, what are yo-?" Elsword began to question, but before finishing, Xen grabbed a rope, attached to a cage full of knocked out children, handed it to Raven- "I can't trust Eldork. You take this." -and shoved them all outside.
Back in Lanox, where the children returned to their parents, everyone was wondering what Xen was doing in there. "I'mma blow this thing up." Xen said right before the house exploded in a spectacular explosion of Hellfire and Electricity, and tons of it fly into the sky. Back in Lanox, they seem like fireworks to the townspeople.
But to the El Search Party? They know it's just Xen blowing up everything that he hated in the events that occurred that night.
Me: ...and that's what I have planned.
Xen: Isn't it convenient how the duration of you explaining is the same as the amount of time the reader took to read the chapter.
Me: Right? But now that this special is done, I'm back to trying to write the next chapter. Taking forever, too.
Xen: STOP. DELAYING. S**T. SHARK.
Me: I'm sorry! I just have so much things I do.
Xen: Yeah? Like what.
Me: Trying to get a Skill Tree Reset for me.
Xen: Wha..?
Me: My main. A Blade Master.
Xen: Wait, I thought you changed it into an Reckless Fi-
Me: I changed it back.
Xen: Why-
Me: Bye, everyone.
Replies to certain comments.
To LucasTheCookie.
Me: Yeah, I'll take note of that.
To Arrow-Chan3
Me: Where would you think I'd go?
Me: And so, that's it...
Bye.
Wait for Chapter 12. I'm cookin' it up. c:
