smash_logs | HALLOWEEN '10

Who: Whoever!
What: HALLOWEEMS
When: October 31st, all day and all night.
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: Spooky stuff.

Except it's not really all that dark and stormy. It's a cool, clear night in Final Destination, ready and waiting for shenanigans of all sorts. The streets are full of trick-or-treaters, the front porches are full of pumpkins, the sky is full of stars. All-in-all...a perfect evening.

Of course, nothing is always as it seems. As the night drags on, it becomes clear that something is not quite right. But what is Halloween without a few scares? As someone once said, it's close to midnight, and something evil's lurking in the dark...

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Um. Yeah, sorry Leon, but she is NOT SPILLING THAT.

"Oh, I just... kind of do wish I could be Champion! It's such a big and important title, you know? It must be such a big duty, a-and... it's not that I think the Champion's cute at all!" AWKWARD LAUGH.

When suddenly, an invisible force shoved Leon from behind.

A glance around the pool area would reveal nothing, but perhaps if one looked closely in the surrounding bushes, they might see, for one brief instant, a smiling figure.

What the-

"HEY-" was all Leon could say before his face hit the cold water. It took him a moment to gather his bearings and stop splashing his arms around before he swam back to the surface and looked up at Misty's direction.

WHAT. Um, well, that was just... kind of... uh...

Who even did that?

"Hey, you jerk, what was-" Yet Misty turned around and only saw a kid. Some kid hiding in the bushes. It didn't last, though- once she blinked, she couldn't even see him anymore. Was she just seeing things? That was probably it.

She looked back over to Leon and extended a hand to help him out. "Are you okay?!"

"This doesn't surprise me one bit," he responsed in a deadpan tone. "But there goes my ensemble."

Instead of taking her hand that very moment, he dove back underwater and seconds later resurfaced with his tophat and threw it onto the concrete before finally accepting her help.

"At least I know I could still swim."

"I... guess that's a really good thing!" Misty laughed awkwardly, yanking him out and onto the concrete again. That was so strange. How did that even happen?

"What... could have even happened? You don't think a ghost did that, do you?" She questioned, glancing around. If something did that, it wasn't something that she was able to see.

"I felt something shove me behind, it was probably just some punk."

Once on dry ground again, he had to relieve some damp weight off him, so the best had to go.

"I'll just flunk him if I've seen him in class." Maybe it was Falco? But surely he wouldn't do anything so CHILDISH!

"I guess, but once he shoved you, I didn't even see him at all!" Misty spoke. She then remembered that supposed 'trick of light' from the bushes. When she felt she 'saw something'. That was just...

"I saw someone in the bushes. Maybe that was the kid?" She wondered with a frown. She walked over to the nearby bushes and brushed them aside, only to see--!

Nothing. That was underwhelming.

"Maybe a pokemon used teleport? Should we do something about it?"

Leon was freezing but he did his best to keep a straight face.

"I don't know what we can do if we don't know who did it!" Misty frowned. "If it looked like that boy, though, with the green hat... maybe I can try to find him after all. I can try now that I've got a lead somewhere!"

Even if it was kinda flimsy, and she wasn't even sure it was real.

"What green hat boy?"

His first thought was that Luigi fellow, obviously.

"I saw a boy in the bushes, but once I blinked, he disappeared!" Misty explained. "I don't even know if I was seeing things or not! He had a green hat, he was smiling like he did something wrong... oh, and I think he had blond hair! He was really short, too!"

That was the best description she could pull from what she remembered.

"Too bad I don't know a lot of people here these days. It'll all be over by sunrise in any case."

Nope. Luigi wasn't blonde. Leon started to pull all his hair back and wring out the ponytail as he spoke.

"But if you do find him and your Pokemon manage to rip him a new one, then all the more stronger you get towards becoming the champion and showing uglyface out the door, right?"

That was a very good point. It'd help in two ways! Not that she... REALLY planned on aiming to be Champion, though. It was an awful white lie, but mentioning crushes was not what she planned on this Halloween.

Misty nodded, smiling uneasily. Oh, crushes, you so crazy. "I sure can! It shouldn't even be that long until sunrise anyway, right? It is kind of late," she told him, looking to the stars again. "I usually go to sleep earlier than this, but it IS Halloween, after all, and-"

Wait, uh, he was wet. Uh, yeah, about that. "Oh! Wait, you're wet! Shouldn't you get some better clothes? You can come back out after, if you want. I might still be here! Or I might go around campus again!"

"I think I'm gonna head to the bar after I go home and shower," he said while putting his shoes back on. "But we'll talk again sometime. You're good company."

Aw, that was a shame, but Misty definitely did enjoy the company while it lasted. She grinned. "So are you! Thanks for keeping me company! It was good talking to you!" She, too, would head off and explore around campus more. Maybe grab one more coffee. She kinda needed it. "See you later!"

Off she went!

"Likewise."

He waved a hand briefly and left in his own direction. The thought about leagues and champions stood in his mind, but Champions more dominantly. He WAS after all, the most admired and wanted (no, not romantically) killer in his district back in the day.

It's only a matter if he'll ever be the best at something ever again.

HALLOWEEN '10

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