(Happy Halloween everyone. I'm posting this before midnight so it still counts. But I'm sorry its not a new chapter. I've been working on a new story that will be released later but I promise to get you a new chapter soon. So enjoy this Halloween chapter.)

The Arc home was lively as everyone was running around the home preparing for the Halloween party in town. They had prepared everything until the last minuet when Athena had accidentally burned the costumes when testing a new mod on her weapon. So now the whole family, minus June and John who were doing some last minute shopping, were scouring throughout the house searching for old costumes they could wear to the party.

"Athena, what were you thinking!?" Angela yelled as she searched the room full of boxes for old costumes she could quickly resize to fit herself.

"I'M SORRY! How was i supposed to know that would happen!?" She yelled while also searching through boxes. They all had been searching for hours now but haven't been able to find any. They had searched through the all their closets but couldn't find anything to wear. So all the girls decided to look through boxes their mom had put away in one of the room for storage, but there was one problem they had no idea what room they were in. So they had to search every room in their house to find them.

They really hated their dad now for buying such a large house. Like Ellen who was up in the attic.

Ellen had been searching through the attic checking boxes and totes. But after an hour like the others she found nothing. She really wanted to kill Athena right now. They each had been working on their costumes for weeks then Athena destroys them in a matter of seconds. Ellen stopped searching and sat down on a box taking a break.

"I hate coming up here. Its always so hot." She wiped the sweat from her brow with her arm before leaning back against a pile of boxes but as she did she felt them move.

"Uh oh."

(Down Stairs)

"You think Ellen found anything?" Valerie asked Jaune, who was wearing a tiny white tuxedo while chewing on a teething toy as Joan was wearing a white dress as she was sleeping in the carrier. Valerie sat on the couch working on a old costume she found. It was a little small but she could fix it.

"AAAH!"

*CRASH*

Valerie looked up to the ceiling after hearing the loud scream and crash. Which meant one of them upstairs was currently under a pile of boxes.

"Should we go check?"

She asked looking down at Jaune who was still chewing on the toy not bothered by the sound.

"Yea your right. Let them deal with it."

She just sat back down and continued working on the archer outfit she found.

(Attic)

Ellen was currently buried under a pile of large boxes. She lay there taking deep breathes trying to calm herself and not break out from under the boxes and go strangle Athena.

"Okay, all i need to do is get out from under her and continue looking."

She tried moving her arm around until she felt something, it felt like a cloth. She continued feeling it trying to figure out what it was until she pulled it out to see it was Athena's old empress costume.

"HA!"

She began pushing the boxes off of herself before rushing down the steps of the attic and straight down stairs to work on some of the holes in the costume. As she ran down stairs Angela had run out following her after finding her mom's old vampire costume. She'd have to work on it, especially around the chest, and some tears in it so she could wear it.

But back in the room Athena was still looking through the boxes trying to find something.

"Come on, Come on!"

She yelled as she kept looking through another tote, but she suddenly stopped as she found a box at the bottom of it. She pulled it out before opening it and looking inside of it.

"What the?"

After Two hours each of them, except Athena who was still upstairs, had finally finished sewing the tears in the costumes and adjusting the sizes. They were now sitting in the living room waiting for their mom and dad to show up.

"Anyone seen Athena?"

"Who cares. She's the whole reason we went through that." Valerie said still mad about the boxes, which was her fault but still blamed Athena. So she sat watching some Halloween movie with them as she held Jaune while he was sleeping. Joan had woken up and was now laying on her stomach as she tried to crawl but was still to young so she was just flailing her arms around.

The continued sitting there until they heard footsteps coming from upstairs. Then as they ran down the stairs they saw Athena run in with a giant grin on her face.

"HA! Finally got this thing on." She yelled, while not waking Jaune, as she sat down on the couch dressed up as a female pirate. But they could see it was tight around her chest due to the look of the shirt.

"Why are you dressed like a female Jack Sparrow, and can you breath?" Angela asked her staring.

"I found it in a box and to answer your question yes, but if i take a deep breath their going to bust out." She said as she checked the buttons on the shirt making sure they were okay since she only had time to fix the buttons and not adjust the size. So now she had to be careful or else her sweater puppies were going to pop out.

"So, any idea where mom and dad are?"

"Nope." They all said, except Jaune and Joan for obvious reasons.

Suddenly the TV switched from the movie to the local news. They looked around to see who had the remote until they saw Joan with it chewing on the side.

"Hey look its mom."

They saw on the news a live feed of their mom chasing their dad through the street as he was screaming something.

"Well looks like were not going to the party."

"Yep."

So they just sat there watching more movies dressed in their costumes not bothering to take them off.