A/N: Well, last chapter was certainly a heavy one wasn't it? Lots of new knowledge that Mike and Charlie now have, Henry's last secrets laid bare. Some of them are missing pieces that are now filled in, while others present challenges or opportunities that have yet to be addressed.

However, I think I'll wait a bit before tackling the next big lore chapter. This fic is just as much about the ghost kids' new life as much as it is about their old, and it's generally easier for me to write about things that the ghost kids are doing in the present day than about past lore. Don't worry, though – it will all be addressed in time.

Also, I made a big mistake and confused Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental with Circus Baby's Pizza World. I went through several chapters and fixed my mistake whenever I saw it, but it's entirely possible that I might have missed one. Thank you guys for letting me know through the reviews. There's also another mistake I might have made in that the kids might have been murdered in 1983 instead of 1987, but unlike the CBEAR mistake this one is more ambiguous and there's evidence suggesting both possibilities (FNAF2 implies the murders took place in 1987, FNAF4 suggests they happened in 1983). If I do decide to change the kids to being murdered in 1983 instead of 1987, I'll adjust the appropriate chapters accordingly and make it so that the kids' bodies weren't discovered in the suits until they were moved to the FNAF2 location. Since Fazbear Inc. is the shining pinnacle of corporate incompetence, they probably would somehow miss the decaying bodies in the suits. This one I haven't decided whether I'll change or not.

You might have noticed that one of the ghost kids' names has changed. Apparently, the books have revealed the name Cassidy as one of the ghost children, while keeping the other names. This makes it very possible that Cassidy is the last ghost kid who is possessing Golden Freddy, even if her gravestone is covered in the Gravestone Ending of FNAF6. Since I want to keep this fic as closely adherent to canon as possible and because this detail will bug me endlessly if I don't do it, I have changed Rachel's name to Cassidy's in every chapter. But don't get confused – they are the same character, just with a different name.

TheStrangeZora: That's a very interesting question, and it's one that I have to think about. Any case where Dark!Mike would reappear would be (a) incredibly rare and (b) directed at someone other than the kids, since it takes A LOT to well and truly piss him off. I'll have to think about that one.

Chapter 37 – Frights and Delights

The ghosts sat in stunned silence as Mike finished telling them everything they had discovered at Henry's house. At first, they had reacted with exclamations of awe as Charlie described why she and Mike had left them that night, but with every new surprise they revealed, they became too shocked to do anything but listen.

"So…that was why…" Susie murmured. "That was the real reason why we were trapped."

Mike shook his head. "It still sounds like something out of some weird science fantasy/horror movie. But it's the truth, as hard as it is to believe. This remnant…whatever it is…it can bind souls to objects. And from what I remember from the blueprints, the only way to destroy it is with intense heat, like from a fire."

Jeremy gave Charlie an apologetic glance. "I guess I owe you an apology then," he said sheepishly. "Sorry for putting the blame on you earlier."

Charlie shrugged. "Don't worry about it," she assured him. "To be honest, I thought the same thing myself until I learned about Remnant."

Cassidy hugged the Puppet's body. "We knew you'd find a way to save us," she told her gratefully. "And you did."

"My father and Michael Afton did most of the work," Charlie deflected the praise. "All I did was give them a little extra help."

Gabe suddenly noticed that Liz had been silent the entire time. "Uh…Liz?" he prompted. "You all right there?"

"I was just trying to think about if I ever heard about this Remnant stuff before, since dad said it was on the blueprints for the Funtime animatronics," she explained after several seconds of thought. "But I've never heard of it. When I told Mikey that he wouldn't die, I thought that was because I'd come back to life as Baby. I didn't think there was anything more to it than that."

"I doubt you would have understood what it was even if you did," Mike commented. "Since the Scooper had Remnant inside it, it must have injected some into Michael and that's why your brother stayed on Earth even after the death of his body." Liz flinched at the details of his murder and instinctively tried to curl in on herself, but a hand on her shoulder from Gabe and an encouraging smile from Fritz perked her up.

"So what do we do now, now that we know about all this?" Gabe asked.

"Right now, there's not much we can do," his father admitted. "I told you all this because you all have a right to know why you were trapped in that nightmare to begin with." He had told them about everything – except the new Rockstar animatronics and the picture of Charlie and Liz he had found. Those were best saved for later. "But it's not like we can really act on this. If I told anybody that there was this random substance that could trap souls in robots, people would laugh at me and/or throw me into the nuthouse. Even if they didn't, there's barely any Remnant left nowadays, at least that we know of."

"Isn't it obvious?" Fritz asked as he got on his feet. "We go to this Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental place and destroy what's left!"

Mike raised his hands. "Whoa, calm down for a sec," he interrupted. "I'll admit that I had that idea in mind, but it's too risky to do that right now. Afton Robotics is still operating and still sending people into that building, even if it's closed. If I get caught trying to commit arson right now, I'll get arrested and where would that leave you guys?"

"We'd follow you to the jail and keep you company!" Gabe declared, with the others nodding in agreement.

Their father chuckled affectionately. "Thanks, guys, but that's no way for you to spend your new lives. No," he shook his head, "now's not the right time. The guy Charlie and I visited told us Afton Robotics might be closing down soon, and once they do there won't be anybody coming back to that building anymore. But until then, I can't do anything about it."

The ghosts looked at each other, and Fritz still seemed like he wanted to press the issue. But they knew that Mike was right. It just wasn't safe enough to take action at the moment.

"With that being said, I think it's best that we drop the topic for now and focus more on the present," Mike decided. "I promised you guys that I'd be looking at that list of vacations you came up with, and I'm a man of my word. So let's see it!"

His children's eyes lit up at the prospect, the shadows of the past quickly forgotten. Cassidy floated through the ceiling and returned a few seconds later with the list. "Here you go, dad!"

Mike took the sheet of paper and his eyes widened. "Oh, geez, you really had this all planned out!" he exclaimed, earning a couple of laughs from the ghosts. "Okay, let's see…" he read through the paper several times, not showing any expressions apart from the occasional eyebrow or one-word comment.

"All right," he said once he had finished. "A lot of these are pretty cool places. Some of them we'll only be able to go to during the summer or the winter, cause otherwise the weather will suck and it'll kill the fun out of the vacation in the first place. A few of these I think we'd have more fun going with the Marshalls," the ghosts started chittering excitedly at that, "but that depends on their schedule. So it's currently October…oh, crap!" he suddenly exclaimed.

"What?" the ghosts asked, some of them getting worried.

"Halloween's almost here!" Mike explained as he palmed his face. "somehow, I managed to forget about the spookiest holiday despite the fact that I'm living with seven ghost kids."

"Way to go, dad," Charlie deadpanned as the rest of the ghosts giggled.

"In my defense, it's not like anybody comes trick-or-treating to a mansion that's far away from the rest of town, especially when there's an iron gate blocking the only way in," Mike retorted. "Anyways, do you guys actually know what Halloween is or remember anything about it?"

"Trick-or-treating?" Gabe answered with a raised eyebrow. "They did have Halloween parties at Freddy's, you know. It's not like we were completely cut off from the rest of civilization, at least while the pizzeria was still open."

"Huh," Mike wisely decided not to comment on how impressed he was that the ghosts still remembered details about that after more than 30 years of isolation and suffering. "All right, so what do you remember?"

Jeremy thought for a moment. "Apart from trick-or-treating and Halloween costumes, not much," he replied. "Are you asking us for the history of the holiday or something?"

Mike snorted. "Pfffttt…you think I have a big enough attention span to actually give a crap about something like that? Nah, you've basically got all the essentials that actually matter down." His smile faded a bit. "Unfortunately, we have a bit of a problem."

"What is it, dad?" Liz asked.

"The simple fact is that you guys are ghosts," Mike explained with the dry sense of humor that by now was so familiar to all the kids. "And as spooky as Halloween is, having ghosts floating around in plain sight asking other people for candy they can't physically eat is a little too spooky for the general public, if you get what I'm saying."

Everyone's faces fell. "Oh…" Susie mumbled as she and her family realized what Mike was talking about.

"Not to worry, though," Mike continued with a smirk. "Even if you can't actually do any trick-or-treating yourselves, it doesn't mean you can't go along with someone who can."

The children's eyes widened. "You mean…"

Mike's smirk grew as he picked up his cell phone. "Let's see how Ryan feels about ramping up the spook factor when the 31st of October rolls around…"

Halloween, the Marshalls' House

"How did you guys even get costumes on?" Meghan asked as she gave the ghosts an utterly baffled look. She, her brother, and the ghosts were all inside their room while Mike chatted with the Marshalls downstairs. Ryan might like the ghosts, but he had still been reluctant to open a mental link between his kids and Mike's and had only agreed to it under the condition that Charlie would sever the link as soon as the night was over. "I mean, ghosts don't change clothes, at least not in any stories I've heard."

Jeremy shrugged. "It's just something we can do," he replied as he fiddled around with his Batman costume. All the ghosts had on different costumes to celebrate their first holiday – Gabe had on a Harry Potter costume, Fritz had surprised everybody by dressing up as a ninja instead of a pirate, Susie looked like a vampire girl, Cassidy was wearing a fairy princess costume, and Liz was dressed as a witch. Charlie was a bit of a unique case, as she was wearing the black robes of a Grim Reaper over the Marionette's body. The others couldn't help but feel a little jealous that Charlie was the only one with a physical body to enjoy trick-or-treating with, but it quickly faded as they reminded themselves that technically, she was the only soul left who hadn't been freed either. The Marshall kids were also dressed in costume – Meghan was Wonder Woman and Alex was Frankenstein's monster. "I will admit it took a couple of tries for some of us to get the costumes down correctly, but we got it eventually."

"It's cool and fun dressing up like this after so long," Susie commented with a grin, "even if nobody besides you guys and Dad will be able to see us."

"So where and when are we going?" Cassidy asked eagerly.

Alex looked at his clock. "Well, it's 6:00 pm right now," he noted. "We're gonna be leaving at around 8:00 pm, I think at that point it'll be dark enough to go out and start trick-or-treating."

"What are we going to do until then, though?" Liz asked.

"Have you guys watched any Dreamworks films, yet?" Alex asked. "Like Kung-Fu Panda?"

"What's Kung-Fu Panda?" Fritz asked.

Both Marshalls' eyes widened comically. "What's Kung-Fu Panda?" Meghan exclaimed. "What's Kung-Fu Panda? Only one of the best animated movie series of all time! They've made 3 movies so far, in a world where so many sequels suck after the first good movie, and ALL of them are amazing!"

"Is it really that good?" Gabe asked curiously. The only animated movies that he and his family had seen were some of the older Disney ones.

"The fact that you haven't seen this movie yet is the scariest thing I've experienced so far this Halloween," Alex answered firmly. He took a DVD out and put it in the player. "Get ready, guys, you're in for a treat."

The ghosts lowered themselves to the ground as the movie started playing and showed them Po's growth from being a bumbling panda to a powerful kung-fu warrior. They were immediately blown away by the introduction showcasing the Dragon Warrior's badassery and spent the first part of the movie laughing at the hilarious antics going on and being awed by the Jade Palace and martial arts skills being showcased. As the movie progressed to Po's training and development, all of them felt both sympathetic at his inner insecurities and impressed by how much he was improving himself. Their confidence in Po's ability to beat the movie's villain, Tai Lung, strengthened with every minute that passed, and they would need that confidence when they were shocked by the secret of the Dragon Scroll and Tai Lung's brutal beatdown of Master Shifu. The final fight between Tai Lung and Po was one that took their breath away, and they watched in awe as Po used everything that he had learned to challenge and battle Tai Lung. All of them cheered as Po defeated Tai Lung with the Wuxi Finger Hold and was finally recognized by the Furious Five and the Valley of Peace as the true Dragon Warrior, signaling the end of the movie.

"That was a surprisingly deep movie," Charlie commented as her eyelights twinkled appreciatively. "The secret of the dragon scroll took me completely by surprise."

"Not to mention the fact that it was TOTALLY AWESOME!" Fritz cheered. "Po is such a badass!"

"I liked the Furious Five too!" Cassidy added with a silly grin. "Especially Viper and Mantis!"

"Shifu and Tigress were kind of jerks though, weren't they?" Susie pointed out. "I mean, they got better towards the end now that Tai Lung is dead, but still…"

Alex shrugged as he took out the movie. "Don't worry guys," he promised, "they definitely will be in the second movie."

"Man if only we'd seen this movie before we came here," Jeremy lamented. "I would have LOVED to dress up as one of those kung-fu masters!"

"There's always next Halloween," Gabe replied as he got to his feet. "But speaking of Halloween…"

"That's right!" Ryan interrupted as he poked his head through the door. "It's 8 o'clock now! Ready to get going?"

"YEP!" everyone chorused as they got to their feet. All the ghosts faded from view, and it was only thanks to the mental link that Alex and Meghan could feel their presences around them now.

"Perfect," he grinned. "Mike and I are ready to go, so let's get to it!"

Alex, Meghan, Charlie, and the ghosts all followed Mike and the Marshall parents out through the door and into the neighborhood. By now, night had fallen, but they could still see several houselights and other groups of kids wandering around the neighborhood. The three adults hung back as the kids approached one of the first houses of the night, one with a jack o'-lantern on its porch. Alex knocked on the door and it opened to reveal a young woman dressed in a devil costume.

"Trick or treat!" Alex, Meghan, and Charlie all yelled cheerfully as the woman laughed.

"I've got just the thing you want!" she answered as she took out some small chocolate bars and handed them to each person. "Have a good night, kids!"

"Bye!" they all waved as she shut the door. "All right, Snickers!" Alex commented as he looked at what she had given them. "One of my favorites!"

"I got Milky Way, I'm cool with that!" Meghan replied.

Charlie took out the chocolate bar she had gotten. "Since I literally can't eat this, do you want it? If you don't, I'll give it to dad later."

Alex grinned. "I will happily say yes to more candy!" he laughed as Charlie gave him the bar.

"I'll make sure Meghan gets the next one," she promised. "Are you guys doing all right?" she asked the other ghosts.

"We're good!" Liz answered back. "Can't wait to see what kinds of candy you guys get!"

"Are you sure you're okay?" Charlie pressed worriedly. "You sure not being able to actually trick-or-treat isn't bothering you?"

"We're fine, Charlie," Gabe firmly assured her. "We've been through a lot worse." The way he said that made both Marshalls shudder, and they shared a look of agreement that the subject needed to be changed right now.

"So THAT'S your name?" Meghan decided to ask. "Charlie? Wasn't it Mary?"

"Mary was just a name Dad gave me for a while, and I stuck it with as a joke," Charlie explained as her eyelights twinkled. "Dad didn't realize I had a real name for more than a year." She looked over at Mike and waved at him as he visibly rolled his eyes.

"These houses aren't going to trick-or-treat themselves, you know," Jeremy commented as he saw another group of trick-or-treaters pass by.

"Yeah, you're right," Alex agreed. "Let's pick up the pace or all the good things will be gone!"

For the next hour or so, the group of friends walked around the neighborhood and various streets, stopping by every house that had a car or had lights on inside. Sometimes, what they found was disappointing, only a single Life Saver or gum. Other times, they hit a nice load of candy or chocolate, possibly even a full bar as the Halloween jackpot. Alex and Meghan were always particularly excited whenever they got one of these, and Charlie started saving those herself to give to Mike later on once the night was done.

To keep the other ghosts from getting bored or jealous, the Marshalls talked to them frequently through their mental link. The ghosts welcomed the conversation, and after a conversation about movies and books the topic soon turned to what the ghosts' new life was like so far.

"Things are going great!" Cassidy exclaimed as they started walking to another street. "Mike took us to the mall a few weeks ago to pick out some clothes, so that we could practice changing our appearance. That's how we learned how to put on Halloween costumes."

"You have no idea how much it sucks to wear the same clothes over and over," Fritz added through his ninja mask. "Heck, even I get tired of pirate stuff eventually. Also, thank God I don't need to breathe cause otherwise this mask would be killing me."

"Has your dad taken you out anywhere else?" Meghan asked. "Besides our house and the mall?"

Charlie shook her head. "Not really," she admitted, saying this part out loud. "there's only so many places we can go to right now, and the only thing we can really do there is just watch stuff happen."

"Eh, it'll work out eventually," Alex said confidently. "From what I've seen of your dad and from all the things Dad said about him, he's got his shit together like nobody else."

"Alex!" Stella immediately scolded him. "Language!"

Every single one of the kids burst out laughing at that. "We're about to hit another house," Meghan pointed out as she, Alex, and Charlie approached. Upon ringing the doorbell, the door swung open to reveal a young man wearing a Darth Vader costume. "Trick or treat!" they shouted the now-familiar phrase.

The man grinned. "You guys lucked out, I bought a full box of standard-size M&M packs and you three got the last ones." He handed them one of them each to the kids. As Charlie reached out towards hers, the man's brow suddenly furrowed.

"Those arms…" he murmured. "I could have sworn I've seen them somewhere. That striped pattern and those long fingers? Why are your arms like that?"

Charlie immediately tensed. "It's a costume within a costume," she explained nervously, hoping that the man would drop the subject.

Unfortunately, he didn't. "Would you mind lifting up your hood?" he asked. "I'm kind of curious to see what your second costume is." By now, Alex and Meghan were exchanging panicked glances. They didn't know what the man's reaction would be when he discovered the living Marionette underneath the Grim Reaper costume, but they doubted that it would be much better than him discovering the existence of the ghosts floating around them. The other ghosts were also freaking out – they were in for a world of trouble once Charlie was revealed, especially if the man recognized the Marionette as being from the Freddy Fazbear franchise.

It was Mike who suddenly saved the day. "Hey!" he shouted as he stepped forward aggressively. "Are you harassing my daughter?"

The man looked up in shock. "Uh…no, sir," he answered, stupefied. Then, he shook his head in exasperation. "God, what is wrong with me?" he muttered. "Asking to look through someone else's costume like that. Jesus, I sound like a freaking stalker…"

"I'll forget this happened if you do," Mike offered tersely, and the man was all too happy to agree. He shut the door behind them and guided the kids back out into the open street.

"God, that was close one," Charlie breathed a sigh of relief. "Things could've gotten really bad if people discovered what I was. How did he even recognize the Marionette's arms?"

Mike shrugged. "Who can say?" he replied as he and the Marshall parents fell back a bit to give their kids some time to themselves. "Maybe it was somebody who used to go to the 1987 Freddy's as a kid."

"That was one fright we didn't need," Susie said as she fidgeted with her costume a bit.

"Speaking of frights…" Fritz's face slowly spread into a mischievous grin that was all too familiar to the other ghosts.

"What are you thinking, Fritz?" Gabe asked warily.

"We might not be able to treat, but we still might be able to trick!" he eagerly explained. "We could go around, creeping out a couple of other people just for a little bit of fun!"

"This already sounds like it could go horribly wrong," Susie challenged. "I thought the whole point of us being invisible was NOT to reveal ourselves?"

"We wouldn't do anything serious or big!" Fritz insisted. "Just a tiny little prank like whispering in people's ears or something." He looked around at found a kid walking around in an Iron Man costume. "Like that guy over there!"

Jeremy was about to continue the argument against Fritz, when suddenly his eyes narrowed. "Something's wrong," he muttered.

"What is it?" Alex asked.

"Look over there," he pointed at the woods near the houses. "That man…something about him seems off."

By now, Meghan had noticed the man in the woods too. "Yeah, you're right," she murmured. "Why is there a man just hiding in the trees like that?"

"He could be just trying to jump-scare the next group of kids that come his way," Alex suggested, but even as the words left his mouth he didn't believe them.

Charlie's eyes flickered as she concentrated on the man. Then, underneath her cloak, they flashed angrily. "It's much worse than that," she growled. "He's trying to kidnap the next kid that comes along his way!"

If Alex and Meghan weren't caught up in their own anger, they would have been disturbed by the aura of rage that the ghosts were emanating. "Son of a bitch," Alex snarled under his breath. "What do we do?"

"Should we tell mom, dad, and Mr. Schmidt?" Meghan asked, clearly worried. They were still talking in the back and so far it seemed they hadn't noticed either the mystery man or anything that was off with the kids.

"Definitely not!" Cassidy answered quietly but frantically. "If he's got a weapon or something, then our parents could get hurt!"

Liz's eyes narrowed as an idea suddenly entered her mind. "I'LL deal with this," she declared. Then, the Marshall kids suddenly felt her presence vanish from next to them.

"Don't stare at that man for too long," Charlie warned. "If you get his attention then he'll either come after you or move to a different location."

With great difficulty, Alex and Meghan managed to turn their gaze away from the potential kidnapper. "I hope your sister's gonna be all right," Alex muttered.

"Don't you worry," Fritz replied with a grin. "She's got this locked down."

/

The would-be kidnapper watched the three kids talk in the distance. For a moment, he'd thought that they'd recognized him for what he was, but once they looked away he relaxed. It was probably just a coincidence. It's not like he could try and kidnap them anyway, there were three of them and their parents were only a few feet away.

Suddenly, he felt a chill in the air around him and shivers tingle down his spine. "What are you doing?" the voice of a young girl whispered into his right ear. The man whirled around, but there was nobody there. The nervousness that he had felt earlier was beginning to evolve into genuine fear. "Did I catch you off guard?" This time, it whispered into his left ear. "You should have known I would find you," the voice echoed, and this time it had taken on an undercurrent of hostility.

By now, the man was outright panicking as he desperately searched around, trying to find whoever it was that was taunting him. "You aren't welcome here." His eyes suddenly came across a hulking figure buried in the shadows. It looked vaguely like a girl, but it was far larger. And even though he couldn't make out any details in the darkness, there was something about that girl-like thing that felt terribly and inherently wrong.

Green lights suddenly flickered on in the figure's eyes, then flashed brightly. The man screamed as he saw the monstrous clown-like face in front of him. His fear only increased when he realized that, despite the seeming impossibility, he was staring straight at a ghostly robot. "Get, Out," she hissed, and for a second, neither of them moved. Then, Scrap Baby let out a screeching mechanical roar and lunged at him. The man's eyes widened in horror as Baby raised her wicked, razor-sharp claw and swung it towards his neck. He didn't know if the claw was simply intangible like all ghosts were or if it really would kill him despite it belonging to a ghost, and he wasn't going to stick around to find out. He ducked under Scrap Baby's claw and fled out of the trees and down the street, screaming something about demon robot clown ghosts with metal claws. "And don't come back," Liz thought as she turned back into her human form. Seconds later, she had rejoined her friends.

"Good work," Charlie said approvingly, and Liz only smiled faintly in return. She would always feel some shame about Scrap Baby, but for the first time since Mike had taken her to the old Freddy's locations, she didn't despise the animatronic's existence like she had used to.

"From the looks of things, it doesn't like he'll be bothering any kids for a while," Gabe added confidently as they all laughed.

"Told you she could take care of it," Fritz smirked at Alex, who could hear the smugness in his tone despite not being able to see him now.

"What did you do, exactly?" Meghan asked curiously. "Whatever you did, it terrified the everloving crap out of him."

Liz's smile faded a bit. "I'd…rather not talk about it," she muttered.

The two Marshalls looked at each other and then shrugged. "All righty then," Meghan said after a few seconds. "Hopefully there aren't anymore kidnappers hiding out in our street. I'll definitely be keeping a closer eye on my surroundings after this."

"Yeah, same," Alex agreed. He looked at his watch. "Oh, Jesus, it's already 9:30?" he gasped. "I'm surprised Dad hasn't told us to wrap things up already."

As if on cue, their father's voice suddenly interrupted their conversation. "Hey, kids?" Ryan called. "It's getting late. Let's wrap things up and head on home."

"Gotcha, dad!" Alex and Meghan both answered back as they turned to look at Charlie. "Are you guys all right with that?"

"Whatever works for you," Gabe shrugged. "You're the one who's actually doing the trick-or-treating around here."

"Thanks for letting us come with you," Susie smiled as she thanked them. "This was the most fun I've had in a while!"

"No problem!" Alex grinned. "It was a blast having you around. Hopefully your dad likes all the candy you got him."

"You know, I honestly have no idea what kind of candy Dad likes," Jeremy realized. "Heck, I don't even know what kind of food he likes."

Charlie opened her bag of candy and peered into it. Even with the ones she'd given to Alex and Meghan, there was still plenty of candy and chocolate left to give to Mike after they got back home. "Well, we'll find out soon enough."

An Hour Later, back at Mike's House

"Geez!" Mike whistled as Charlie turned over her bag of candy and presented its contents to him. "That is a LOT of candy! This is gonna take me weeks if not months to go through! Hello, diabetes!"

"Diabetes?" Gabe tilted his head curiously. "What's that?"

"A disease that you don't have to worry about and that I've tried my hardest to avoid," Mike explained succinctly as he picked up a Snickers. "So you guys wanted to know what kind of candy I like?" he shrugged. "Truth be told, I honestly don't have a problem with any candy. Or at the very least, if there's a candy that I don't like, I haven't come across it yet. Granted, I stick with brands that I'm familiar with so that might be why, but still." He was about to open the candy bar and eat it but then stopped. "Actually, that's not entirely true," he amended. "There's one candy I don't like. Black licorice. I heard it's an acquired taste, but to me it always tasted like garbage." He picked up another candy piece and his face scrunched as he realized that he had picked up a Black Twizzlers. "Oh God dammit!" he complained as the ghosts burst out laughing.

"Bad luck, dad!" Jeremy commented as Mike deftly tossed the candy into the trash.

"Anyway," the man continued, "I hope you had a lot of fun tonight, even if you couldn't actually go trick-or-treating."

"We did trick-or-treat, dad! Actually, we tricked AND treated." Susie corrected as she smiled at her father, who by now was eating one of the Snickers bars. "Hanging around with Alex and Meghan and watching Kung-Fu Panda was one of the best treats ever!"

"Kung-Fu Panda is an amazing movie," he praised once he was done eating. "I'll show you the second and third movies soon. But what was the trick you guys did?"

Fritz grinned and pointed at Liz. "Actually dad, that was all Liz. Your time to shine, sis!"

Liz gave him a thumbs up as she floated closer to her father. "Well let me tell you, dad…" she began as Mike leaned back into his couch. The way she was smiling right now, he knew he was in for quite the story.

/

A/N: And that's it for this chapter! Figured a Halloween chapter was in order since the story was happening in late October. One that was mostly light and friendly with just a tinge of darkness. I was not waiting 5-6 months til Halloween actually came around in order for another chapter to happen, lol.

Liz was NOT actually going to kill the would-be kidnapper with Scrap Baby's claw, she only intended to scare him off. She can still be invisible and/or intangible even as Scrap Baby, it's just that when she DOES choose to interact with the physical world, her "physical strength" is higher than the rest of the ghosts. And using the form of one of FNAF's most terrifying animatronics is a great way to scare the everloving crap out of someone, especially when you add being a ghost to the equation.

Oh, and final note: Kung-Fu Panda is an absolutely amazing movie and one of my favorite animated movies ever, possibly even my most favorite animated movie. It manages to avoid the increasingly common pitfall of Sequelitis and I would highly recommend watching all three movies.

It's my birthday on Sunday, so any favs/follows/reviews would make for great birthday presents! :D Nah I'm just kidding, hope you guys enjoyed!