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Kilandra strolled into the event. Hell, she practically DANCED in, her long flowing hair swinging as she moved. She was dressed up like a cup of water, a very tall one. She grinned, grabbing a lantern and an awesome purple colored Cauldron Bucket, before making her way into the main area of the festival, her eyes sweeping the event. She played a game, then three, before winning a delicious looking caramel apple. She dropped it in her bucket, and wandered around a bit more, before spotting a green hybrid up ahead, who had just won a sugar skull. She sashayed over, and leaned nearby. "Mmm that looks tasty, congratulations on winning it." She gave a slightly flirty smile to the other nightmare.






Keirani wandered into the festival, picking herself up a lantern and a white cauldron bucket. She wandered around the festival, seeing the families together, and the friends, with a sad and wistful smile on her face. She couldn't help imagining doing this with the parents in her photo. Finally she pulled herself together, and gave a game a try! She managed to win an ADORABLE purple and blue plushie, though it had a locket necklace on for some reason. The stall owner said 'Keep it' in an unconcerned way, so she shrugged, and took it off the plush... and immediately dropped it into her bucket, not liking how it made her feel sad again.






Mizuki walked in, her eyes bright with interest. This was her very first festival she'd been able to attend, here in Below. She had been too busy finishing college before. She looked around, ever so excited. She saw an ADORABLE red Jack O'Lantern bucket, and claimed it, along with that ever useful item, a lantern, before going deeper into the festival. She spent a fair amount of time, watching everyone have fun, looking fascinated and excited. For once, something was more exciting then architecture to her! Finally, she decided to give a game a try. She picked a stall that had adorable ghosts as a prize, and played. When she won, she got one with an adorable sleepy face!

Yami hated crowds especially during festivals. He had work to do. It was always their busy season at the café and he knew that Yun needed help. It was also the time that Vanna disappeared to go have a social family life so Yami got dumped on with all the mafia responsibilities. So he was in a grumpy mood wanting to be anywhere but here. However he had tiny little children who loved the holiday and it was Tempo’s first Haunted Hallows. So here he was with an exited little freshling tugging on his hand on his way to meet up with his somewhat girlfriend.

Luckily Amatsu quite knew his father and had dragged them both over to a food vendor before they met up with Tempo so that Yami could distract himself with a sugar rush or at least something to eat.


Amatsu was always happy when they got to do things with their family, although Mikazuki had run off when they had gotten there. Yami warning his twin to be careful, Amatsu could have also disappeared to enjoy the festival by himself but he so often got to spend time with Yami that well he was glued to the older hybrid’s hand.

He was really looking forward to meeting up with Miss Tempo. She was really nice and always smelled really nice like flowers, however he also wanted to find Lapis and ask how the kitties she had taken were doing. He figured with soo many people it was a moot point. Ah well he believed in people so he believed she would be taking really good care of them. In fact he had been telling Yami on the way over all about their escapade to go rescue the same Kittens. After a quick food stop in which Amatsu got bribe candy to keep Yami at the festival they walked over to where Tempo was waiting. Amatsu shoved Yami over to go say Hi before looking around at all the different costumes. Dating people needed some alone time after all.


Sidhe wasn’t sure what you would call her outfit, but it was definitely far from her original style… drastically far away from her original style. She supposed she could call it dressing up like a celebrity that didn’t want to be noticed. She had a one of those in fashion black outfits on with her own baseball cap and sunglasses and she had even gotten a black wig. In fact you would have to identify her by her tail and feet, and since there were tons of other white cats out there it was a good thing. After all on her way to meet her partners someone had given her some skull candle as a prank and she had kind of lobbed it back at their head in retaliation. Yeah long school hours did wonders for her temper. Seeing as they had a rather pissed off cat on their hands they fled. So it was dressed up like this while holding a red dripping candle on top of a skull that she walked in to meet her partners.

“Hi”



Still there was a far enough distance away from the event that Samhain could look back at it fondly, and the fact that the Kumiho had entered the world and Tomoe was still alive and well. He was pretty sure he had even spotted the male, but remembered how overwhelmed the poor guy got and left him alone, just happy he was alive and getting a chance to explore the world. However Samhain had taken unsociableness to the extreme and just pushed Salem out into the open and slept in the back of their head. It wasn’t until that news broadcast that he had awakened again. He had a nice blank space in his head for about a month. Still it looked like Salem hadn’t done too much damage.

“Yeah I’m perfectly fine. My face is hard and it really hit the mask. Protection you know” Samhain tried to joke. “Yep. Apparently they were watching us when we were there and Xiaoshi found me first so I was stuck as her exchange family, but since she doesn’t plan to go back can you really call it an exchange….” Samhain trailed off. “I was worried and I do want to stop by and check on her too often but then I don’t want to make it seem as if I’m secretly following them. So walking around and seeing the festival would be lovely”





Vanna scoffed and shook his head. He had told Kingston he was probably going to tell Mai and Eilwen about him. After all Eilwen didnt know what he did for a living and he was hardly going to talk about work secrets around Mai. It left him not that many things to talk about.

"If they weren't good things then it was your fault, Mr. Mets people by quoting Shakespeare at them." Vanna teased. He still cant believe Kingston had run into him by quoting Romeo of all things. He shook his head with a sigh refusing to bring that memory up. Especially since he had been silly that day and started reciting back.

Mai took a deep breath and stepped out finally from behind her brother's back. She was trying to get better and this was the fist step towards doing that. Vanna's friends wouldn't make fun of her and she wanted to make her brother proud. She did notice Vanna laid a supportive hand on her shoulder and that was all she really needed.

"oh he said only the best things I promise." Mai replied. "although what if Vanna lied and I secretly am a giant strawberry cake. I would hate to strain your friendship with brother because I was a tasty cake. The indignity of it." She ignored vanna's eyeroll. It was his fault. Growing up Vanna was her best friend. Of course they had similar humor.

"yeah those two definitely bite when they're hungry. I figured I would save the public from hungry stomachs." Ren stated. "ah we haven't. Vanna likes to pretend that I dont exist really."

"I do not think that at all Ren."

ren just smiled and after adjusting the candy to his other hand, held out his now hand for Kingston to take. Manners where important after all. "I'm Ren. I'm Mai's best friend"

Oriset being in front, it was her task to open the door. Inside was a long, dark corridor, barely lit by flickering, guttering candles. The place looked deserted. There were cobwebs--real cobwebs, not fake ones--everywhere, and when they walked, clouds of dust rose up from where they stepped. Okay, good design for the hallway, then. Oriset was impressed. No ax murderer, just a subtle set dressing.

As soon as Nai had stepped through the door, it slammed shut and all but one candle, the one at the far end, blew out. A voice whispered, "Keep everything you are given."

Ori looked around, but she could not find the source of the voice. It came from everywhere at once, speaking softly to them. Ori turned back to her friends. "Well, that's easy to remember." As soon as she said that, objects fell from the ceiling and rolled over towards them from the dark corners of the room. Once again, they gathered up the objects together and divided them among themselves. "I'll keep one of the teeth," Oriset said. "I might as well be our custodian of the creepy." Actually, she really wanted something sweet to eat, but reflexively she took the worst option. She didn't want her friends to think that she was greedy, especially as two of them were looking decidedly spooked right now!



Jie shuddered. The voice had sounded like it was coming from below her! She wanted to leave, now. But there was no turning back--the house knew that she was there. She took a bag of skull-shaped candies and a stuffed cat. No one argued that she deserved the cat. She was the one most visibly shaken.



Wyrdda was also a little nervous. While Jie's tail was curving in a loop and fluffing out, Wyrdda's tail was tucking itself between her legs. Okay, that was creepy in a way she hadn't expected, although she hadn't been all that surprised when a tooth fell and hit her head. Thankfully, no one asked her to keep the tooth. Instead, she took a sugar skull that looked pretty. It was blue, did it need to be anything else?



Kuni had actually said a swear word when the candles blew out and a voice spoke out to them. He knew they were being observed, but it was...disconcerting, nonetheless. As they divided the trinkets, he made an effort to get the glow necklace. "Everyone else has lanterns," he said. "I didn't take vun because, y'know, fire? Aber I vould like somesing to light ze vay."

Everyone else agreed, and their resident "Earth" slipped the glowing necklace around his neck.



Nai agreed to take the other tooth that had been given to them, keeping it in a special place so that they could find it later. However, the rest of the group convinced him to take the second plushie. "It's because you're at the back," Jie said. "You deserve a little reward for taking the second-most dangerous position in the party."

Nai was beginning to think that she was right about that, the people running the haunted house didn't seem to want to do anything to them unless everyone was in the same place. That meant that he would be triggering everything from here on out. Besides, it was a pretty cute plushie, even if it was missing an eye...



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Niol convinced his siblings that they ought to try out the guess-the-number game. They all groaned, but consented, and he led the way over to a large glass bowl in the shape of a pumpkin. "Guess the number," the vendor said. "Write it down on a piece of card. You each get one guess. If you get within fifty of the correct answer, you get a good prize. Get within ten, and you'll get a very special prize. We also have three magical numbers that will get you a plushie, but aren't necessarily the correct answer." The vendor, a Geist, grinned. "You ready to try?"

"Y'all know we are," Niol said with a grin. He picked up a piece of card and handed it to the vendor. She smiled at him and crumpled up the piece of paper. "Okay, you go stand over here," she pulled him over to the side, "while your friends guess." It was apparently so that he didn't tell them what he guessed. In the end, he got a plushie and a candle with a skull on top, which was creepy, but hey, the plushie was cute! A pink vespercat, he liked it.



Deni didn't do quite as well as his brother did, but he did at least get within fifty. He picked out a bag of eyeball candies and stepped back.



Sara also got one of the "good" prizes, but instead of picking out candy, she picked a ghost. Hey, they were cute, and she had two from last time, so she might as well collect the whole set!



Anchriesel's next stop was to a dart game booth. It was one of the old classics, with darts that had been enchanted to only do damage to the balloons. Chries wondered if he could learn how that was done someday. He aimed carefully and threw true, winning two prizes with two of his three darts. He picked out a pink vespercat (he didn't have one of those yet!) and a plastic goblet that he learned to his disappointment was cheap junk. Oh well. Such was the way of Haunted Hallows...



Darryl had seen an interesting game a few feet ahead of them, so Mesektet felt themselves being dragged in that direction. It was a ring toss game that he wanted to try. Mesektet was handed a few rings of their own to toss. Their rewards for their not-very-good efforts was a handful of hard candy. Well, that was better than nothing. They slipped it into the pouch tied around their waist.



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Quilo shrugged. "Um, dunno. We could go over to the obstacle course, see how well we do there." To his surprise, his companions agreed. They went over to the obstacle course, limbered up, and left their buckets and lanterns behind. Despite two of them being in dark robes, they actually did pretty well, racing over the obstacle course in a good amount of time. Quilo was the only one of the lot not to get a plushie, but honestly he had so many plushies at home he didn't know what to do with them all! He was quite content with the lollipop he'd won.



Yaviss did better than Quilo, but not as well as Zuna. The vendor at the obstacle course plopped his choice of bat plush, a green one, into his bucket, but he distinctly heard something hard hit the rock in his bucket. He felt around and felt a--a tooth? Hm. Well, he had been planning on turning some of his tricks into jewelry, but could he find any tool tough enough to carve a tooth?



Zuna did better than either of the boys, but to their disappointment, blue stuffed animals were thin on the ground. Alas, they would have to settle for a green one. They picked a neon green one with fetching pink eyes. Other than that, they won a stick of cotton candy with swirls of sea green. That was actually pretty neat. "Okay, I like that place," they said. "Anyone want to try again?"



Ciel could hear movements from downstairs. Apparently, they had guests down below! She could hear their chit-chat from here. Apparently, two of them were scared, but the other three wanted to move on. She smiled and shook her head. Good luck, kids, she thought. She kept as still as she could, listening to the staticky fake gramophone in the corner.

Something dropped onto her lap. She felt around for it. It was one of the ghosts. It had fallen from the ceiling...oh dear, what should she do? Uncertain, and positive she could hear the voices getting closer to her room, she stuffed the ghost in a pocket of her costume. She'd just have to deal with that later...



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Azriel looked in to his pail disappointed in a trick he had just revised. inside his pail was a rock, why would some one give a child a rock? he sniffled wanting to have something sweet when suddenly he heard a noise. as he turned to face it a cute Fennekit sat there looking up at him it to looked just as sad as he did and it appeared to be blind he began to walk back to the group as loki laughed at azriels misfortune. but the Fennekit growled at loki she soon backed down as the cute famillure began to nuzzle in to azriels leg.


as Kahlua garbed some candy from the bowl she felt a overwhelming sadness flood her as she pulled out a pretty locket. she didn't want to leave it alone so she put it in her pail and went back, but she stopped hearing a meow as a Vespercat was looking at her from the bushes and began to fallow her she was smitten with how fluffy it was as she picked it up and began to carry it around it didn't seem to mind much.



loki went to grab some candy next as it seemed the owner of the bowl put a fresh bowl out it was filled with candy having all the icky stuff at the bottom she wasted no time in garbing some candy eyes with a cheesy grin but the other girls stared at him not wanting her to pick on azriel again. but the truth was Loki was jelous, she was upser that azriel was geting all the plushies and pets.

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sheo was next to get some candy as she went up and garbed some candy , existed she ate a piece now but it was nasty and old she frowned and began to walk away but she was stopped by the daydream that was giving out candy and handed a cute little green plushie as an apology for her geting stail candy. she happily thanked them and snuggled it close sticking her tongue out at loki who was scowling slightly.