Starry Skies
By Gold Sparrow
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL:
Trick, Please!
8:01 PM, The Kou Gardens…
"Everyone here?" The girl whispers, crouched low in the bushes. Several others squat with her, their own grumbles falling into her ear in a rather unpeaceful manner.
"Eren, your elbow is in my face!"
"Catrina, get off my costume!"
"Everyone, let's quiet down a bit, okay?"
"Oh, piss off Cent"
"W-wha- You piss-!"
"Shut up!" the ringleader, the girl, snaps, a biting edge to her voice. Her four companions quiet, but still fidget uncomfortably. The teen on her left, a pretty girl dressed up like gypsy, pouts, hugging her knees from the cold. On the right, a boy dressed like a samurai and another dressed like a boxer shift under her heavy gaze, and the girl next to them, who tries in vain to fix her fairy wings, ignores the glare.
"Sorry Bad" They all chorus, and Bad sighs.
"Let's get ready" And they do, holding up their own toilet paper and looking to the target. Bad slips away, toward the hole in the hedge, and one by one they all get through. "Eren, get your butt through!"
"I can't" Eren's shoulders are too large, and he ends up shaking his head. "I'm going around"
"You'll get caught!" Bad stomps her foot. "Plus it's funner this way!"
"More fun" Centola corrects, and slowly everyone turns to stare at her. "What? Proper grammar!" The garden is quiet, and Eren walks around, hopping the waist high fence with ease.
"'Kay. Let's go!"
"Not so fast!" Whipping around, Bad's mouth goes dry. "WE were here first"
"What?!" She squeals, stomping forward, her black witch costume waving with the movement. "Nu-uh!"
"Yeah-uh!" The boy retaliates, his fake sword swinging at his waist swinging. "We've been waiting here for the last ten minutes"
"We've been here for twenty"
"Thirty"
"Forever"
"Forever and a minute!"
"Not possible, Alibaba!" Alibaba puffs up his cheeks, and Bad does the same. Centola waves slightly at the blue haired boy next to Alibaba, and Catrina shares a smile with the redhead there too.
"Hi Aladdin, Morgiana, Kougyoku"
"Hey Kougyoku" Asad winks at the younger girl, and she goes cherry red at the action.
"Traitors! Don't speak with the enemies!"
"Enemies?" Bad crosses her arms, the staff she had to complete her outfit clutched in her palm. She named it Sheba, though the reason why slipped her mind.
"Yes. I've been planning this attack on Gyokuen Ren for the last month, and I won't let it be ruined by a bunch of losers with...string?"
"I was out of toilet paper" Aladdin admits with a blush, and Bad smiles at him, and replies,
"Oh, it's okay if it was your idea, Aladdin" The gypsy beside Bad tosses her 'weapon' back and forth between her hands, sighing.
"Well, what do we do?"
"We'll stay" The two leaders answer at the same time. "Jinx!"
"Well, how about-"
"Hey, we were here first!"
"Sinbad?!" Yet another group arrives. Their leader, a man with flushed cheeks wearing a pirate costume hiccups as he approaches.
"Sin, there are kids here-"
"NOPE! This woman tried to sue me last month! Imma toilet paper the crap outta her house~" The space is filling up slowly, with Sinbad's eight friends-
Wait.
Eight?
The horror on Centola's face is evident once her aunt Zeina, decked out in her own cat costume, is shown with them, laughing at the drunk pirate who spouts nonsense.
"Auntie Zeina?!"
"Oh please Cent, don't interrupt the show~!" The aunt replies, giggling. Bad steps up, gaining attention.
"This is my target! Please vacate the premises immediately!" Sinbad hiccups again, and shakes his head. Alibaba also stubbornly refuses, and Bad's face goes scarlet. "Seriously-"
"Who's there?" A woman calls, and instantly every person freezes, taking a quick peek at the light flooding out from the open door. In a flash they are all running out the gate, down the road toward their cars. Zeina jumps into her car, and Sinbad flies into the passenger seat as Ja'far, Masrur and Spartos join them. Aladdin tries to keep up with Alibaba, Kougyoku and Morgiana as the door to Hakuryuu's jeep swing open and the teen screams,
"Go, go, go!" At them.
Drakon, Sharrkan, Pisti and Hinahoho hop into Drakon's wife, Sahel's car, and she does drive away, but ignores their pleads for her to go faster than the speed limit.
"Hi Bad!" Yamu chirps as the girl and her four companions rush in, oblivious to the commotion. "I assume Gyokuen heard the ruckus all you idiots were causing?"
"Yep! NOW PUNCH IT!" And they speed off into the halloween night.
8:34, Sindria Estate
"Seriously Sinbad, that was beyond stupid" Ja'far scolds the man, taking the drink out of his hands. Sinbad pouts, adjusting his vampire outfit and fangs dyed red with the wine. "I can't believe you talked me into going with you fools, Zeina!"
Said woman merely shrugs, her feet dangling inches above the floor from her seat on their nice table. Drakon is getting scolded by Sahel, and Sharrkan, Pisti and Hinahoho trade war stories about what they saw as they were leaving.
"It was fun, admit it!"
"...Why am I friends with you people…?"
"Whelp, let's go finish 'er off!" Sinbad cheers, though only Zeina, Sharrkan and Pisti cheer with him. All the others have sweat drops falling down their foreheads.
9:10 PM, The Kou Gardens…
Alibaba anxiously watches the windows of the house. The kitchen one is off, and so is the living room, but down the hall a light is on. If they do this, then they have to be extremely quiet. Aladdin and Mor quietly complain about the knee pains from crouching, but Alibaba is adment. Gyokuen Ren had nearly got him expelled two weeks ago for picking a fight with her step-son Kouen, who isn't even school anymore! AND, the entire thing wasn't even his fault!
Payback'll be a bitch.
Slowly he creeps to the front, and the others follow. Pulling back his arm, he prepares to throw it, until-
"Seriously, Prince-y, GTFO"
"Bad, will you just shut up and spare the world your annoying habit of talking?" The little girl glowers at him, and then smiles sweetly at Aladdin.
"Hi Aladdin! Is Alibaba always this mean?"
"Uh...I'm just going to let you two sort that out" The strawberry blonde by her side squints at the house, scanning for movement.
"I'm surprised Hakuryuu agreed to drive you around" Alibaba shrugs.
"He hates his mom with a passion. Ever since he and Hakuei moved out, they never got along" The pinkette nods. "Gyokuen's a-"
"Meanie-poo-poo"
"...Uh, Yeah, let's go with that"
"So…"
"..." They all stare at one another. "Should we…"
"Work together?" Centola suggests, smiling. Catrina, Eren and Asad aren't paying much attention anymore, as Catrina and Morgiana are chatting idly and Eren's looking at the house, already aiming. Asad had taken Kougyoku aside, and now the two talk, Asad shooting the girl dressed up like a princess flirty smirks that should be illegal.
"Eh, might as well" Bad stubbornly agrees, looking away. "But don't get in my way, Prince-y. Aladdin, do you want to teepee over there~?" before anyone can take a step, someone shouts,
"HEEEEERE'S SINBAD!" They look over to the man, who instead of his pirate costume, now has on some sort of ax-murder costume complete with fake blood and a chainsaw. They all gawk at him, and then-
"Hello?" The woman's voice is back. "Trick or treaters?" And instantly they're running again, back into the cars, and far away from the Kou Garden houses that line the plot of land.
9:51 PM, Yunan's house
"We should just watch a movie" Asad suggests, lazing on the house as Bad paces. Yunan enters with hot coco, nodding.
"That sounds fun! What do you think, sweetheart?" Bad clenches her fist, and then stomps the floor.
"Papa, I promised Judal I'd teepee Gyokuen's house tonight for him so he could go to a friend's house without feeling guilty about ruining the tradition! What'll he say tomorrow when it didn't happen?" Bad runs over and plops down on Asad's stomach, crossing her arms. "I'm in a doozy!"
"OOF! Pleeaase ge...et off!" Yunan chuckles and places the cups on the table. Catrina, Eren, Centola and Yamu soon enter, drawn by the smell. "Heeelp!"
"Bad, please get off Asad" Catrina asks sweetly.
"No"
"Well I tried" Catrina sips the warm drink, looking blissful from the taste. "Wow Yunan! How'd you make this?"
"I have a secret recipe!" the man states proudly. The doorbell rings, and Yunan opens it, smiling at the three children at the door with a bowl of kit-kats in his hand. "Hello"
"Trick-or-treat!"
"Here, take one"
"How about three?"
"uh-"
"Four!" Another child digs his hand into the bowl.
"The whole thing!"
"Wait-" Yunan cries as the bowl is stolen from his hands by the three little monsters, and they run away, splitting the candy between themselves. "My candy!"
Everyone just looks at the man who falls to the floor and begins to weep hysterically. Yamu turns to Bad.
"I'll drive you kids there"
10:13 PM, The Kou Gardens
"This is getting old" It's a three way standoff, and Alibaba, Bad, and Sinbad are all standing in a circle. "Seriously, some people need to leave"
Alibaba frowns and shakes his head.
"We formed a truce, remember?"
"What?! I wasn't I allowed in this 'truce'?" Sinbad asks, scandalized. The two younger leaders stare at him.
"You showed up dressed like a murderer…"
"...and you were making a 'Shining' reference…"
"Psh, shut up" The adult huffs, puffing out his wolf costume.
Where is he getting these outfits?!
Smirking, Bad offers a hand.
"Let's just teepee the crap out of this woman, shall we?"
"Agreed" They say in unison.
"Asad, Kougyoku, get over here and stop being gross! Centola, Eren, you get the hedges and trees with Zeina and Pisti! Sharrkan, Sinbad and Alibaba will get the house, and Aladdin and I will hit up that tree" Everyone one aims, and then, as they release the white paper into the air, the door opens. Staring at said front door, they meet a pair of red eyes.
"Oi, I don't care what you're doing, but don't make so much noise" Kouha says, and slinks back inside. It takes three seconds for his words to process, and then everyone gets back to work.
The next morning, when the matriarch of the Ren family awakens, she meets with hundres of white toiletries strewn across her house and garden. Narrowing her eyes, she whispers,
"Judal...We talked about this!"
Somewhere, passed out in a certain redheaded man's apartment, a black haired boy shivers and rolls over onto his side.
"Bad you better have...done that thing…*Snore*"
Hello! Halloween special = AU! YAY! Fun, right? Well, I hope you liked it! Now it's late so I gotta sleep so...
Happy Halloween!
BYE~~~~~~~