5A/N: This story is based on Costume Quest, the Halloween theme game from Double Fine Production. It takes place after the events of Costume Quest 2. There will be several references to all the games so you can either buy the games or just watch the playthrough on youtube to understand what happen prior. As always I don't own anything.
It was a beautiful day in the suburbs of Auburn Pines. In one house in particular the parents were decorating the backyard for a very special occasion. Inside however...
"LET GO IT'S MINE!"
"NO YOU LET GO!"
The twin children Wren and Reynold were fighting over a horn helmet before they finally resorted to slapping each other.
"STOP THAT!" their mother intervened. "What's wrong with you two? Today is your 13th birthday, I would have thought that you've outgrown such childish behavior by now."
"That's wishful thinking," the dad chuckled from behind his newspaper. Only to be silenced by his wife's icy glare.
"It's Wren's fault," Reynold accused. "She gave away all of my old costumes now I don't have anything to wear except this one." Reynold holding up a Barbarian costume.
"Liar!" Wren shot back. "You're the one who gave away our costumes and tried to sneak THAT one on to my side of the closet!" Wren pointing to a giant Candy Corn costume.
"What's all this talk of costumes? This isn't Halloween." mom wondered.
"Don't you remember, you asked us what kind of party we wanted so we agreed on a costume party." Wren reminded her.
"Oh right," the mom said casually. Truth be told, she wasn't paying attention at the time and just blindly agreed with whatever they wanted only to keep her kids out of her hair. "So why did you give your costumes away?"
"Well, when we told our class about the party, they told us that they didn't have any costumes. So we agreed to lend them some of ours." Wren explained.
"We've collected a lot of costumes," Reynolds said proudly.
"Don't remind me," their mom groaned. It seems that every Halloween, her kids come home with more costumes than candy. Claiming that they needed them to save Halloween and the world from candy stealing monsters or an evil time traveling dentist. Naturally she just chalked it up to kids' wild imaginations, but it is getting cumbersome to find space for all of the costumes.
"So now we're down to our last two, and cool one should go to me." Reynold claimed.
"LIKE HECK IT DOES!" Wren objected. As expected the twins devolved into another slap fight.
"STOP IT!" the mom yelled. "If you can't settles this among yourselves then I'm going to have to decide." The mom pointed her finger of judgement at her kids. The twins held their breaths awaiting the moment of truth. "You," mom pointing to Wren. Wren was giddy with excitement. "You wear the candy corn," the mom decreed.
"Aw what?" Wren protested.
"Sucks to be you," Reynolds gloated.
"Why?" Wren whined to her mom.
"Because I think you'll look much cuter in a candy corn costume than the barbarian one," the mom justified. "Now get dressed, your guests will be here soon." Wren muttered and grumbled as she put on her crummy candy corn costume. While Reynold kept going on and on how cool his barbarian costume looks complete with a foam ax.
Later that day, Wren and Reynold's classmates arrived wearing all of their costumes. "Happy birthday guys," this boy wearing a cardboard box on his back with two tubes dangling from the back made to look like pony legs congratulated.
"Everett! So glad you can make it." The twins welcomed their friend. "But what are you wearing? Is that our unicorn costume?"
"Yeah I lost the head piece so I improvised. It's a centaur costume now." Everett explained.
"Cool," Reynold giving his thumbs up in approval. "But where's Lucy?"
"I'm right here," Lucy answered wearing a...
"KISS CANDY COSTUME!" the twins yelped. Seeing their friend wrapped in aluminum foil. "Why are you wearing that? It's almost as bad as candy corn."
"Considering our past history, it is logical to assume that one of you would have gotten stuck wearing the candy corn again. So I figured I'd wear one too so that you won't feel so bad." Lucy surmised.
"She's so smart and considerate," Everett swooned. Not that it's any surprise to the twins. It's pretty obvious of how Everett feels about Lucy. Also the fact that they time traveled to the future and met their future daughter Halley. (Costume Quest 2)
"Let me guess, you were experimenting on our costumes again trying to find out where our superpowers came from then and accidentally ruining them all except the candy corn which you wrapped in aluminum foil to make it a kiss?" Wren teased.
"I spilled sodium chloride on them," Lucy confessed.
"Hey you dorks!" a familiar but unwelcomed voice called out to them.
"What do you want Travis?" the group groaned. Travis is the class bully who likes to try and steal their Halloween candy every year. The only reason he's here at their party is because their parents invited the entire class.
"I only agreed to come to your crummy party cuz you promised to give me a super cool costume!" Travis ranted.
"So what's the problem?" Reynold asked.
"What's so cool about this!?" Travis demanded pointing to the Gingerbread man costume he was wearing.
"Obviously you haven't seen Shriek. Gingy was one of the coolest characters in the whole movie." Wren mocked.
"Besides this isn't just an ordinary Gingerbread man. This is my original design, the Gingerbread Knight. Complete with a candy cane sword." Reynold drawing a giant prop candy cane that was strapped to Travis's back and swinging it like a toy sword.
"That doesn't even make any sense," Travis feeling completely bewildered. "It's not even worth giving you a wedgie, but I'll give you one anyway in honor of your birthday." Travis was about to reach for the kids when...
"You don't want to do that," a giant catfish jumped in.
"Who are you?"
"It's me Sadie," the cat fish opened its mouth revealing a young girl inside.
"Okay fishgirl, tell me why I don't want to do that?" Travis challenged.
"Because this is their birthday party, and if you want a slice of that big beautiful cake over there you better be on your best behavior." Sadie pointed out.
Travis began drooling, daydreaming about eating a slice of cake and then stealing everyone else's slice. "Grrr, fine! I'll play nice. For now." Travis promised. "And it better be chocolate!" Travis added gabbing the candy cane sword from Reynold and walking off.
"Thanks Sadie. Cool costume by the way." Wren breathing a sigh of relief.
"It's not a costume," Sadie said sadly. "It's the mascot for dad's store. He wanted me to wear it to your party to advertise his big sale. Here have some fliers. Oh and happy birthday." Sadie handing the kids some of the papers she was carrying.
"Uh Thanks?" Wren and Reynold said with uncertainty, fearing that these fliers and the threat of a wedgie might be their birthday presents.
The party continued without a hitch. Travis surprisingly was on his best behavior. (Guess he really wanted that cake, that or he vented all of his frustrations on the pinata with his candy cane sword.) About an hour later the entertainment arrived and to the twin's surprise, it was their old foe the witch Dorsilla and her twin brother Dorian. (Costume Party 1)
"Now children watch in wonder as I summon a monster from the dark kingdom of Repugia!" Dorsilla began chanting, opening up a monster portal and a confused Grubbing peeked his head out first before stepping out to the applause of the audience.
"So when do I get my candy?" the Grubbing whispered.
"After the show," Dorsilla muttered between her teeth.
While that was going on, Dorian set up a fortune telling booth, using his crystal ball to predict the future. "Ah I foresee that you will go on a long journey," Dorian prophesied. Naturally everyone called him out as a hack since he gave everyone the same prediction. "No I'm serious. I keep having visions of you all going..."
"Yeah, going home after we've had cake!" Travis interrupted. Prompting all the kids to start laughing.
"Speaking of cake..." Wren and Reynold's parents announcing that it is time for cake. All the kids, and few grown ups gathered around singing happy birthday to the twins. At the song's conclusion, Wren and Reynold were preparing to blow out the candles when a beam of light shot down form the sky and lifted their cake off table! "Man I knew we bought a light angel cake but this is ridiculous," their dad commented.
"Wait, you got us ANGEL CAKE!" Wren ranted. She really wanted the double fudge chocolate one.
"Do not resist. Your sucrose now belongs to Stevian Prime." A strange alien voice came from the sky. Soon several more beams shot down, taking all the candy, fruits, and sweets around town. Not only that, they were also taking the children who were wearing candy themed costumes!
"What's happening?" "I fraid of heights!" "If this is a prank it's not funny!" "I blame television!" the kids being abducted cried.
"Kidnapped for looking like food, where have I seen that before?" Wren retorted as she was lifted up into the air.
"Yeah you think we'd be use to it by now," Lucy agreed floating next to her.
"LUCY! I'LL SAVE YOU!" Everett making a heroic jump and grabbing Lucy's hand. Unfortunately he couldn't hang on for long and fell flat on his face.
"Don't worry cake, I mean sis! I got this." Reynold putting on his shoe wheelies. Up in the air, Wren rolled her eyes. Directing Everett to angle the table so he could use it as a ramp, Reynold used his skates to launch himself into the air. "I got cha! I got cha!" Reynold yelled reaching out for his sister.
"That's not proper grammar!" Lucy criticized.
Reynold missed his sister but was able to grab hold of Sadie's giant flying fish costume. "I don't got cha," Reynold said to his sister still floating upwards.
"No kidding!" Wren yelled back.
"Hey Reynold, you can use this." Sadie handing Reynold a toy fishing pole.
"Where did you get this?" Reynold wondered.
"Free give away for my dad's store, was suppose to be your birthday present." Sadie simply told him.
"That's not what I...never mind." Reynold then used the fishing pole to catch his sister and the other kids, reeling them in closer to him and Sadie. With all the children gathered together, their combined weight was able to lower them back towards the ground. Just before they made it all the way down, three strange creatures that looked like flying jellyfish attacked them, disbursing everyone again. The kids still wearing candy costumes resumed floating upwards while Reynold, wearing a barbarian costume continued to fall. Surprisingly not alone as he noticed that Sadie was still gasping tightly to him.
"You shall not interfere with out culling," the one of aliens said.
"Time to show you how trick or treating is done on Earth," Reynold snarled signalling to Everett and Everett nodding in agreement. Reynold and Everett both jumped into the air and in a flash of light, magically transformed into a giant barbarian with a huge battle ax, an intimidating Centaur, and for some reason a flying catfish between them. Without giving the aliens a chance to react, both boys attacked the aliens mercilessly taking them all down rather quickly.
"This makes no sense! Are you the tri...trickimo..." the aliens commented just before passing out.
After taking out the aliens, Reynold and Everett looked up into the sky only to see Wren and the other kids disappearing into the clouds. The clouds then parted revealing several spaceships hiding behind them. After collecting all the candy and kids, the ships rocketed upwards.
"Oh my gosh, Lucy got abducted by aliens. Sure it's cool since she's always wanted to meet one but this is terrible!" Everett freaking out.
"And they took my cake!" Reynold cried. "Oh and everybody else," he added after seeing everyone glaring at him.
"Um Reynold thanks for saving me, but I think you got us tangled together." Sadie blushed.
"Huh," that's when Reynold noticed that that they were both caught up in the fishing line. "There you go," Reynold using the cake knife to cut the line. Looking up in the air, they can no longer see any spaceship. "Aw man, how are going to save them now?"
"We might be able to do something," Dorsilla said stepping forward.
"But we will need your help," Dorian added joining his sister.
"How can I help?" Reynold asked.
"If you allow us to tap into your twin connection with Wren, we might be able to open a portal to where you sister is." Dorsilla explained.
"I don't get it, but if it brings back my cake I mean sis then let's do it." Reynold resolved. Dorsilla and Dorian each placed their hand on Reynold's shoulders. Chanting some ancient spell a new portal opened up. Inside they could barely see a blurry image of Wren sitting down in a strange room with the other kids. "Wren! Can you hear me?" Reynold called out.
"Reynold? Is that's you? I don't know what's going on but I'm sure it's all your fault!" Wren accused.
"Whatever," Reynold shaking his head. "Dorsilla managed to open a portal thanks to my twin connection. You can use that to escape. Oh and don't forget the cake."
"You don't have to tell me twice," Wren snapped. "Okay everybody. We can use this portal to get back home!" Hearing that all the kids rushed the portal. "Whoa, slow down, one at a time!" Wren trying to get some semblance of order. All of a sudden the ship they were on started shaking, followed by a strange sound, then the portal just vanished. "What happened?" Wren wondered.
"I believe that this ship must have entered warp speed. Moving us out of range of the portal." Lucy surmised.
"How many of us managed to through?" Wren asked.
Back on Earth, only five kids managed to get through the portal before it closed down. "Hey what happened to the portal? Where's Lucy?" Everett demanded.
"We're losing our connection to Wren," Dorsilla said trying hard to focus.
"She's moving out of range of our magic," Dorian clarified. "When I predicted that they'll be going on a long journey I didn't foresee this."
"What can we do now?" Reynold cried. This time about his sister and not the cake.
"I may be able to help," a mysterious but familiar voice offered.
Up in space, the remaining 10 kids were all crying over the loss of their chance to get back home. Over in the corner, Wren sat quietly with Lucy contemplating their situation and making plans. Though things may seem hopeless they have been through worst; and no matter what, they vow that they are going to bring everyone home.