(Later That Night...)
The night sky was colored in a pastel of a vivid dark purple mixed with a little bit of maroon red and hot pink. Down in Virgo's backyard, everything was lit with beautiful lights from the dangling wires above. There were many dancing guests, carrying bags after trick or treating as they were getting down on the open dance floor.
It was beginning of Hallow's bash at last, it was bubbling with lots of music flowing in the air.
And that music, you might ask, was coming from the stage that stood in the middle of the elaborate party zone.
Standing on the gigantic stage that hovered below the floor was Russell, who was dressed up for this year as a pirate captain. He wore a red overcoat decked with golden fringe and buttons.
He wore his regular hat along with a pair of black boots covered over his peg legs and had a microphone tightly gripped in his..um..hook.
But the otter was joined on the stage by Handy and Lumpy. Lumpy was happily playing the bass guitar in his fancy Dracula costume with a goofy look on his face. Handy's fur had been painted a deep shade of green with a couple of stitches drawn on his face, giving the sign that he was supposed to be a zombie. He was also wearing a torn up white T-shirt while he was playing the drums.
"Yar, Song Cue!" Russell shouted.
(Song #4: It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones)
Russell: It's not unusual to be loved by anyone
It's not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone,
It's not unusual to see me cry!
Oh, I wanna die
Meanwhile, Giggles was looking quite radiant in the frilly pink dress of her Princess Peach costume.
She even had the crown over her head and she was holding a teddy bear in her arms. That teddy bear was a prize that Cuddles won for her. He was wearing his favorite karate uniform with his black belt wrapped around his waist.
They were standing over by the ring toss stand. Cuddles tossed a ring onto one of the poles, only for it to bounce off and it bonked him right on the head. Giggles just laughed and kissed him on the sore spot of his head and he only blushed in return.
Russell: It's not unusual to go out on anytime
But when I see you out and about, it's such a crime!
Toothy was dressed as a mummy and he had a blindfold over his eyes. He had a giant baseball bat in his paws due to the fact he was about to hit a giant pinata that stood over a tree. Sniffles was holding the rope and he was dressed up as a common scientist.
When Toothy swung down the bat, it suddenly slipped out from his grip and went flying over Sniffles's head. They both looked to see that it struck Cro-Marmot's ice block and it luckily left a couple of cracks. Sniffles glared at the beaver, who can only reply with a nervous shrug.
Russell: If you should ever want to be loved by anyone
Handy, Russell, and Lumpy: It's not unusual, it happens every day!
No matter what you say!
Handy: You'll find it happens all the time!
Handy, Russell, and Lumpy: Love will never do what you want it to
Lumpy: Why can't this crazy love be miiiine~*
When Lumpy was singing his line, the last note he sang was so powerful that it nearly knocked Handy hat off and it practically tore off Russell's eyepatch.
"..Yar, very nice..." Russell muttered to the moose.
"Thanks! I did it myself!" He replied.
Handy and Russell just rolled their eyes from the fact that Lumpy was an idiot after all.
Meanwhile, a pair of familiar cats flapped their long wings before they retracted into their backs.
Those wings belonged to the newcomers who have just arrived to the party. Azalea's eyes seemed to sparkle as she was taking in the scenery while Soleil was looking quite breathless from the view of the sky above their heads.
"So this is what Halloween looks like..I like it." Soleil said, a soft smile on her face.
Her eyes had been circled with black eyeshadow that marked the illusion of empty eye sockets. Both of her arms were lined evenly with fake scars and a pattern of painted stitches. She was wearing a strapless dress that was a pale shade of turquoise, the skirt of the dress trimmed with gray vertical stripes that traced down to her bare feet.
In the center of her top was a black splotch of fabric that looked like a open wound. Her green gloves were replaced by a pair of lacy white ones. She was dressed as a beautiful undead bride, but what made her look the most ravishing is the bridal veil draping down her backside.
As for Azalea, she wore a large handbag with huge pockets as it hung across her chest with a giant strap around her waist. She wore a small white blouse that had short puffy sleeves and a skirt with light red checkerboard pattern that accented her big brown boots.
Her costume was Red Riding Hood as a large red cape with a small hood was tied around her neck.
"This is gonna be so much fun!" Azalea chimed, giving her sister a hug. "We'll be eating candy and partying before you know it!"
Soleil could only laugh gently at her sister's kindness. She was often more funny than her little sister but she was always there for her when she was willing to have some sisterly fun.
"That's why came here in the first place, because you're the best sister I ever had." She replied, gently petting Azalea on the head.
But that was when suddenly remembered something and stuck her arm behind her back. After Soleil pulled her arm back out, she was holding a dark brown book in her paws. The book was a shockingly large size and the front of it was covered with gold paint spiral shaped designs. Scattered all over the book's hard cover were yellow opals, blue diamonds, and green pearls.
"Here, I need you to hold onto this for me in case anything happens."
"Isn't that your emergency spell-book?" Azalea said.
Soleil nodded her head to say that she was completely positive before she handed her the book. She started to stumble a little from how heavy the book was but she kept her balance shortly after. "I always wanted to use this bad guy ever since daddy mailed it in from last month." Soleil laughed. Azalea replied by giggling happily and she kept the spell book wrapped in her arms.
"If that's what makes you happy, then I can't wait until we get started!" Chimed the younger cat. She carefully tucked her spell-book inside of her handbag, which strangely fit inside of it perfectly.
"It'll be just you and me! Sisters like us will be having the time of their lives!"
Azalea was about to continue when she was suddenly distracted by a small shadow that was standing high up from the ground.
"Hello down there, ladies. I don't mean to interrupt you at the moment."
The voice that called from above was obviously a male's voice, but the tone of it sounded very familiar. Soleil glanced up at the figure from above and she was starting to blush a little. Azalea also looked up to see that she was giving the figure a foolish yet lovesick smile on her face.
"~Hi, Splendid!" Soleil purred in a sing-song voice.
"Splendid? When did he get here?" Azalea repeated. She could see that the sky blue squirrel was hovering overhead while he stood in a heroic stance, his paws on his hips.
He quickly descended down from the sky and landed on the grassy ground.
"I didn't want to miss out on such a event." He said, " Especially not for my favorite cats in this great town."
Splendid looked at Soleil before he gently held her left paw, giving a soft kiss. The blushing Soleil could only giggle in spite while Azalea was giving her a more concerned look. Soleil wrapped her arms around him in a huge embrace.
He managed to laugh a little when she began batting her eyelashes at him.
"You know just what to say, don't you Splendy?"
She kissed Splendid on the cheek, forcing him to blush a bright shade of red. "Aww! I love you too, my little angel." Splendid replied in a soft tone that made Soleil blush back in return. He wrapped his right arm gently around her waist while he stroked his fingers playfully underneath her chin.
"I think I've almost forgotten how cute you are when you blush." He continued, "There's nothing that I could find more wonderful than you, probably because you're the only girl that sends my heart pumping at the speed of light."
Soleil's tail flickered in delight when she kissed the squirrel on the nose.
"If I'm the one who got your heart pounding, my legs are more fluttery than the wings of Hermes's' heels!"
They both leaned in close as both of their noses started to rub against each other in one large eskimo kiss.
"Oh, I'm always gonna love my darling Cutie Mask!" Soleil chirped with a swoon. She began pressing her paws against his cheeks and rubbing them gently in place within little circles.
"~I wuv you even more, Little Lei-Lei!" Splendid replied in a voice that sounded more silly than his usual.
Azalea was watching her own head turning left and right as she watched him and her big sister exchanging names back and forth.
"You don't know just how darling you look in that dress, Strawberry Dumpling!"
"Ha ha ha! Oh, Honey-kins! Don't start spoiling me like that!" Soleil giggled again.
"Maybe I want to spoil you, Pumpkin!"
The squirrel began to trace her cheeks with multiple kisses that made her giggle.
"I just wanna kiss every bit of your face, Shmoopie-Pie!" Cooed a lovesick Splendid. He reached down and he ran his fingers rapidly underneath Soleil's armpits. Azalea couldn't help herself but to blush from the way that Splendid was enamoring her big sister.
Soleil began to laugh giddily and even snorted a few times, her feet shuffling together as he kept tickling her.
"Who's my pretty kitty? Who's my pretty witty-kitty boo boo?" Splendid said with a smirk on his face. Soleil was too busy laughing to reply and yet, she was pretty much compelled by love at the same time.
On the other paw, Azalea was still feeling pretty embarrassed from the fact she was still watching them flirt.
"Um..I think I'm just gonna leave you two lovebirds alone for a bit.." She said before giving them a nervous laugh. Azalea was starting to back away in order to give them some space. But she didn't see that somebody else was standing not too far away while she was taking a couple of steps backwards.
That person was Mime, who was dressed up as Mario from the classic Nintendo games, and it seemed that she instantly caught his eye.
Azalea looked around a few times to make sure that wasn't bumping into anyone.
"Geez, love can be so awkward..." She muttered.
She felt her backside bump against Mime's right hip, causing him to spare a gaze at her stylish costume.
She turned around in his direction, only for her ears to perk up in surprise when Mime closed his eyes and placed a large kiss onto her lips. The blush on her face went from pink to a blazing shade of red as she returned the kiss towards the deer.
Her eyes fluttered shut from being compelled by love.
As the kiss began to grow deeper between them, Azalea could feel her right leg do a little kick up in a still position. A large flurry of pink and red hearts was bubbling around them. Mime's arms stood behind his back, his paws clasped together.
The fact that he was so lovestruck made his feet suddenly flutter up and down like the propellers of a helicopter. The only other thing that was fluttering was Mime's heart, but Azalea's heart melted from thinking if his heart was hammering just as hard as her own.
The quick pace of his fluttering feet caused both his legs and even the lower half of his body to hover a few inches above the ground as if he had wings. After a few seconds in mid-air, Mime slowly landed back down to the ground. Azalea was feeling a little dizzy after they broke the kiss apart.
"Hey, Mime!" She chimed, "So glad you could make it."
Mime only replied by giving her a large hug that made their cheeks press on each other as a flurry of hearts was bubbling over their heads. Azalea giggled as he kissed her again.
"Nothing could possibly go wrong today!" She laughed before she nuzzled onto to Mime's shoulder.
But usually when you're a Tree Friend, saying something like that sounded far too good to be true.
Meanwhile, There was another vendor's stand. It had a sign on the front that read "Candy Bar!" written in sparkly orange and silver paint. The stand had many shelves that were stacked with various candies filled to the top in glass jars and bowls on the wall.
Down by the far left corner outside from the stand was a couple of brown wooden crates.
That was the moment when a giant crowbar crammed its way in one of the crates, popping the top part open with a single lift.
That crowbar was being used a by two raccoons who were snickering mischievously.
"Yo, Shifty! Check out these little beauties!"
Lifty was dressed up as vampire, clad in a simple black cape and a pair of fake fangs in his teeth. He quickly tossed the crowbar off-screen as he began digging his arms around and about inside the crate.
He managed to gather a large bunch of circular chocolates that had golden foil wrappers around them in his paws.
"Ehehehehe! Just look at it! All the chocolate coins we can eat!" He snickered, holding up the batch of coins.
Shifty was standing right over him. He also wore a black long sleeved jacket along with a pair of matching pants and shoes. An ascot, a fancy kind of tie, that looked like a skull was tied around his neck.
Not to mention that his regular fedora was colored black and it had three vertical white stripes painted on it. Two small white rectangles were lined around the shoulder parts of his jacket and four matching buttons were on the front. His costume was Death the Kid from the classic anime, Soul Eater.
"We'll be swimming in cash when we sell these things!" Shifty said, his trademark smirk on his face, "Why didn't we think about doing this earlier?"
He took the coins and he shoved them inside one of his pockets. He was also carrying a burlap sack that was stuffed with other kinds of candy. Lifty kept on gathering the coins from inside the crate and he tossed them inside the sack again and again to fill it up.
"I just love trick or treating, that's 'cause we trick all them suckers while we get our treats!" Lifty said with a sly grin.
Both of the raccoons snickered before doing a quick high-five.
"Come on, you guys! At least some of those coins for me.."
Lifty and and Shifty turned their heads to see that somebody else was also there with them.
"Exactly! There's no way that I'd forget about you!" Shifty added, blushing on his cheeks.
The third person of their little spree was only Mizty, who was giggling a bit from hearing what Shifty said. Mitzy always loved to be there for her boyfriend, Shifty, as so to speak.
She was often brought along for daily robberies or any kind rare treasures they want to steal so she can use her nuclear powers to break the strongest of vaults. Lifty, on the other paw, was so bothered from the goofy response of his brother that he could only roll his eyes.
He had to admit that he has been slightly envious of Mitzy from the fact she was radioactive.
Mitzy was dressed as famous anime legend, Haruhi Suziyama, complete with the classical sailor school girl uniform and wrist band. She even had a pair of yellow ribbons tied in her hair to boot.
"It's ain't Halloween if you don't have any candy!" She continued, "And I know I'm not the only one."
"You got a point right there, kid." Shifty smirked.
He was still blushing as he gently ran his left paw through Mitzy's thick hair. She blushed back and smiled happily from his sweet movement of his paw left a couple of her wavy black curls matted and uneven.
"Smart and cute dames like you are the best kind."
"Geez, what a sucker.." Lifty muttered, unwrapping one of the coins.
Mitzy laughed a little after hearing what he said for some reason.
"You're so funny when you're ticked off, Lifty! That's why you're always the cute one of the team!"
Lifty's face had a blank yet stubborn expression at first, but that expression changed to a pair of wide eyes only a couple of seconds later. His ears twitched a little while a small amount of blush rose on his face.
"..I'm..cute?" He repeated.
"Yeah...that's what I said" Mitzy continued, her eyes taking short glances in confusion.
Suddenly, Mitzy felt something heavy pounce on top of her while wrapping its arms around her waist. She looked down to see that Lifty was in the middle of giving her a gigantic hug. As Lifty was hugging her, a "squee" sound effect was heard in the background; symbolizing the affectionate moment.
"Aaw, you don't have to call me that.." Gushed a blushing Lifty, his tail flickering a few times.
Mitzy could only blink a few times before she looked at Shifty.
"...Can we keep him?"
Shifty took one good look at Lifty...and smacked himself on the forehead as hard as he could.
"I'm not even gonna ask about that..."
"At least you guys are having fun..." Said yet another voice.
Mitzy turned around to see Flippy. He was sitting by the counter at the front of the stand. But she could to see that the bear had a sad look on his face as he took a sip from the apple cider in his glass, a couple of empty glasses standing on the countertop.
"Hey..isn't that Flippy over there?" She muttered, pointing in his direction.
"FLIPPY!?"
Lifty made a mad dash and he quickly leapt inside one of the opened crates, Shifty diving inside from behind. Mitzy rolled her after watching their bushy tails sticking out from rubble of coins.
"Hehehe, He'll never find us in here!" Shifty snickered.
Back to Mitzy, she was looking back at the sad-looking Flippy. She walked over to the countertop as he poured himself another glass from a pitcher of apple cider on the stand. "What's the matter, buddy?" She asked. The bear just gave Mitzy a long glare with nothing but a set of empty eyes.
"N-n-nothing.." Flippy replied, his voice crackling a bit, "Just leave me alone befor-*hiccup*..before I hurt you like everyone else. I already caused t-this town e-e-enough trouble..."
Mitzy jumped a little in shock from hearing that hiccup. She looked down at the empty glasses with an unsure look. She pushed the glasses aside while Flippy was finishing his glass. He let out another hiccup and rubbed his groggy-looking eyes.
"I think you've had enough apple cider. There's not even any alcohol in it.."
"I know that..I just forgot about it a little." Flippy shouted, retorting as he set his finished glass on the counter. But he suddenly felt one of his legs stumble as he fell face-flat onto the ground.
"..I'm okay..."
Mitzy bent down and helped him get back up. As soon as he was back on his feet, Flippy could only look down as her traced his finger around the rim of an empty glass.
"Don't be so hard on yourself." Mitzy said, wrapping her arm around his shoulder.
She then held out one of her paws as a small group of sparkles surrounded it. In the middle of the sparkles was the image of a miniature version of Flippy's head as it smiled cheerfully.
"It'd make my day to see a smile on your face." She continued, "Just try apologizing to that Soleil chick and it'll be over in a jiffy."
Flippy still looked at the glass, his ears dropping a little from remembering what happened yesterday.
"Not really, I don't want Soleil to hate my guts any further.."
The hologram in Mitzy's paw vanished as she gave him a nervous laugh.
"Well...I'm sorry that I asked.." She giggled.
"It's just that no matter how I try, I just can't stop flipping out!" Flippy added, "Just thinking about what I've done makes me feel like I'm nothing but a big-"
"A sucker?" Mitzy's voice replied.
"Yes, that's exactly what I-"
When Flippy looked back up at Mitzy, he stopped directly in mid-sentence when he noticed that she was holding a couple of lollipops in her paw. That's when he realized what he was about say.
The bear just looked at the viewer (you, who is reading this story) with a annoyed look on his face as a classic "sad trombone" played in the background.
"Never mind..." He muttered.
Mizty nodded her head, tossing the lollipops off-screen. "Well, don't worry about anything." She chimed.
One of Flippy's ears twitched from what she said, obviously confused.
"What should I be worried about?"
Mitzy just laughed as she wrapped her arm around his shoulder, which was starting to comfort him a little.
"I want to help boost some of that self-esteem of yours!"
Flippy had no other thing to say except for one thing.
"Self-what now?"
ToonAngelStar17: Phew! iI'm finally done! After hours of writer's block and laziness. I'm finally done this chapter! Do forgive me if that last part of this chap was too sucky! I can take a hint (-_-) Like I said, writer's block..
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