Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Trick or Treat ❯ Too Old for Candy... ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I do not own fairies, princesses, ninjas, pirates, pirate ninjas, schoolgirls of the killer or dead variety, foxes, fox-girls, hobos, or candy companies of any sort. I also do not own the idea of haunted houses or portals to other dimensions. And I definitely do not own Nancy, Katy, Sapphire, Jaci, April, or David, although I do own myself. I think.

 

Trick or Treat

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Chapter One

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© 2007 Ohne Sie

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It was Halloween 2007 and Amanda was having her annual Halloween party. She had invited many of her friends, and miraculously, even one who had recently moved across the country said she would come. She was excited for the night's festivities, because for the past two years, she had not been able to go trick-or-treating with her friends, mostly because everyone told them they were too old for it. This year, however, the tradition would live on, because, even though they were all nineteen, they needed sugary goodness.

 

Amanda tapped her fingers against her computer chair in anticipation. Her friends would be arriving soon, and she was dressed in her new costume. This year she would be a princess. She had bought the costume at the last minute, deciding against reusing the costume she had used in 2006, when she was Little Red Riding Hood. She had no desire to dress up as the same thing two years in a row. When she had seen the frilly pink dress in the costume shop, she had to buy it, even though it probably cost more than she should have spent. Still, it was Halloween, and she decided that she was allowed to splurge on something awesome for that one night, her favorite night of the year.

 

Her brother stomped down the stairs, forcing Amanda to look up and see him. He was dressed, apparently, as a hobo. Amanda wondered why he had dressed up, when he had originally expressed no interest in doing anything special for Halloween. She was about to ask him what he was doing when the doorbell ring. She got up to get the door, but her brother got there first.

 

“Davey!” the person at the door squealed. Amanda giggled to herself, realizing that it was Nancy. David backed away, terrified, evading a hug. Nancy pouted. David sighed and held out his arms reluctantly. Nancy's face brightened and she hugged him tightly, nearly choking him.

 

“Hey,” Amanda said to Nancy, nodding. “Um, David, are you dressed as a bum or something?” she asked.

 

“Hobo,” he managed to say while trying to pry Nancy off of him. “A little help…?”

 

As he said that, Katy walked through the door, followed by Sapphire. Together they pulled Nancy off of Amanda's brother.

 

“Hey, guys,” Amanda said. “So,” she started, looking at Nancy first, “You're…a fox girl…?”

 

“A kitsune girl, yeah,” Nancy said, smiling and tugging on one of her fox ears.

 

“And Katy's a…” She frowned. Katy was dressed as a ninja, but she also had a pirate hat, bandanna, and an eyepatch. “Pirate…ninja?”

 

“Yep,” Katy said. “That's right.”

 

“And Sapphire…” She cocked her head to the side. “Um…okay, I don't know.” She was dressed as a schoolgirl, but there was more to it than that, she assumed.

 

“Dead schoolgirl,” Sapphire said, smiling. “Yeah, I'm all bloody and stuff.”

 

“Yeah. You guys are weird.” She looked at David again, who seemed to be confused. “David, why are you dressed up? I thought you said Halloween was stupid.”

 

“I was bored,” he said. “I thought I'd go with you guys.”

 

Before anyone could say no, another person walked through the still-open door. It was April, wearing a costume very similar to Sapphire's, except that she was carrying a fake knife as well. She stopped when she aw Sapphire's costume.

 

“Killer schoolgirl?” Amanda asked. April nodded.

 

“You killed me!” Sapphire said. She ran and hid behind Katy, the pirate-ninja.

 

“Who else is coming, anyway?” Katy asked, ignoring the dead schoolgirl behind her.

 

“Jaci,” Amanda said. Just then, Jaci came to the door, dressed as a fairy.

 

“Aw…you're so pretty,” Nancy said.

 

“I was tempted to be a fairy this year,” Amanda said. “Good thing I didn't go with that, I guess.”

 

“Where's Kyle?” April asked. “I was hoping to see him dress up as a fairy, too. Although I guess that's not really a costume for him…”

 

David rolled his eyes. “When are we going?” he asked. “I'm bored and you guys said you wanted to go trick-or-treating.”

 

“We're going to leave any minute now,” Katy told him. “But you're not.”

 

“Please?” David begged, pouting just as Nancy had earlier. While Nancy's pouts had a near-100% success rate, David's pouts were only at 50%, probably because he was a boy and not as cute. Because of this, he only won over half of the girls.

 

“Oh, let him come,” Jaci said. “He's actually pretty fun sometimes.”

 

“Yeah, Jaci's right,” Amanda said. “Plus, he got all dressed up, and we don't want to make him feel left out. And my mom would probably get mad if I left him behind.”

 

“I don't want your mom getting mad,” Nancy said. “Let's bring him along.”

 

“Fine, but if he acts up, he's going home,” Katy said. The others nodded in agreement. They all walked out to the street to start trick-or-treating.

 

“This sucks,” Amanda said after about half an hour of walking to people's houses and being presented with no candy. “No one will give us anything because we're too old.”

 

“I guess nineteen is too old for candy, or something,” Katy said. “Maybe we should give up…”

 

“No, wait,” Nancy said. “There's a house over there that looks promising. It's all decorated for Halloween, too.”

 

Nancy was pointing to a large house that looked like the stereotypical haunted houses in movies and books. It was dark, with dead trees around it and a large iron gate.

 

“I've never seen this house before.” David frowned. “And we've lived here for years.”

 

“Yeah, me neither,” Amanda said. “Maybe we should skip past it…”

 

“No, but they might give us candy!” Nancy said. “Please?” She pouted, and of course, everyone conceded.

 

“I don't know how that always works,” Sapphire mumbled as the group made their way up the steps to ring the doorbell. April rang the bell and the group waited a minute. Nothing happened.

 

“Oh well,” Jaci said. “Let's just go, and—“ She screamed when something flew in front of her face. She looked up and noticed that it was a bat.

 

“Okay, that's creepy,” April said. As she said that, the door opened. Everyone turned to look at the door. No one was there.

 

“Trick or treat?” Nancy asked nervously. They all prepared to run.

 

“Come inside,” a voice ordered. There was a blinding light that lasted for a moment and then vanished. When it was gone, the trick-or-treaters discovered, to their surprise, that they were inside the house.

 

“Welcome,” the voice said, while they searched for a door to no avail, “To your doom.”