Here is my Halloween story for 2021 enjoy (this was submitted on Halloween so hopefully it posts that night)
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Night had descended on Homeward Haven, the lights and sounds, decorations rose with eerie dreaded intent. For tonight was the scariest night all year round. The cold wind blew against the autumn trees, leaves rustling clinking for dear life.
But the cold was too great ripping them for the very spot they were born. Monster lured hungry hiding from human all year hunting for sweets
Tonight was Halloween, many favourite time of the year
Tripp stepped on the endless concrete path with a gloomy look on his face, sighing, shivering to bring his old jacket close for warmth with how lit up the resident street was it might make people wonder if it was even night.
This city sure got festive when the popular events were just around the corner.
The sound of screaming children and laughter rang in his ears, the 19-year-old look on with slight envy. Tired lonely eye wandering seeing the festivity in full bloom. Jack-o'-lanterns, Halloween lights, even the front lawns were festive with fake gravestones and hanging skeletons.
"Your soul shall be mine!" screamed a mechanical skull.
Tripp stopped turning to the headless thing it's eye lit up trying to be scare him, sitting on top of a post box it would certainly scare some random kid but not him, not when he is in a mood.
He ignored it move on tried, hunched, looking at the kids, grouped together with friends dressed in all manner of attire. Like a young girl dressed like Hermione, he didn't know kids still dressed as harry potter, but another dressed in something more modern, a red spacesuit...Clearly from that among us game.
What a time to be alive, being so young and innocent shielded from the real horrors of adulthood.
Damn, he was being pessimistic again...Tho he couldn't help it.
Being alone, with only your chilly thoughts to comfort you wouldn't lift anyone's spirits.
Homeward Haven, the place he had to move to for college using the family's holiday home it never easy to move away from home but the burned image of glee on their face when he had to, something he couldn't forget.
Loneliness was like an unwanted friend which had followed him all his life.
The man was surprised to find not just kids out here but others around his age scurrying about, dressed up. More than him, he just wore a jacket and jeans, maybe if someone asks he could play it off as just a background character, last year he remembers someone actually did that.
Anyway, noticing a guy from college he believes it began with N, dress in a mix of a classic vampire, cape, fake fangs and all that while also a werewolf with fake fur. While being followed very closely behind by his best friends Wendy and Amber.
Wendy dressed as a werewolf and Amber as a vampire.
It really surprised him how well they've done their costumes it almost felt real. The almost pale radiant look of Amber and the fur on Wendy's the ears and tail was so life like.
If they entered the Halloween costume competition they most likely win...Certainly, since the Pureblood moon that happen a while ago, even since then both had become breathtaking...Still, it was a little weird how close they were to the guy, an almost inhuman glow to their eyes, must be some contact or whatever.
But seeing them all together smiling laughing, the odd intimate closeness they had gotten since that bloody moonlit night. All three of them made his heartache, there was a rumour all three were in a relationship but that didn't feel...normal, either way, any guy like Tripp would be green within envy, everything around him just reminded him of his loneliness.
Tripp even noticed the college idol the girl everyone admired Amelia dressed as a cute innocent angel hanging with...he didn't know he looked familiar but who the guy was probably someone from college he looked his age dressed as a priest, he had no idea this street was popular for trick or treats while he was just out for a mindless nighttime walk, seem fitting on this spooky night.
But anyway he moved on mindless seeing the different kids dressed up even some adults to, one certain caught his eye.
A tall sexy woman wearing something almost scandalous, bright scarlet hair horn and wings...with a heat shape tipped tail, smile wildly nuzzling, arm wrapped around a shorter man with a similar smile.
She was unfucking believe, literally, it was hard to tear his eye away for such a perfect woman, hell a group of guys (not dressed up) was following close behind her like a pack of horny dogs.
He could see it, feel it, trouble.
However, when they came to close a powerful feeling of dread suddenly emanated, the guy she was currently latched to had stopped checking his phone on something, but the succubus lady just glanced back glaring.
If looks could kill then they would already be in the darkest pits of hell, a 'fuck off' feeling radiating off the woman everyone around them had noticed...All but the innocent kids and the guy she was latched onto, she only wanted the attention of that guy anyway.
One Tripp couldn't remember tho had noticed at college...He thinks it began with R, the guy was dressed like a wizard but darker, a warlock maybe? He knew from the few fantasy game he played a warlock summon demons or whatever, must be a couples thing.
Either way, she certainly got the eye of everyone even the adult staring her perfect ass and hip and breasts, yet she wasn't bothered by it or even the cold, only caring about the man she had her arms around.
A closeness that felt more intimate just like the friends before.
Just what the hell. Bitterness rose into the guy shaking his head able to look away he made the smart choice of moving along.
Tripp wasn't the most people person but it wasn't his fault. A very pessimistic man gained from a time when he was picked on as school years ago, he was forced to toughen up fight back. tho when he did he was finally being left alone but that came at the cost of no one wanting anything to do with him.
Afraid that he might do something...Guess in his mission to be left alone he succeeded further than he wanted, typical.
Up head, some old lady walked alone, with her a small shopping bag in one and a weird walking stick that look like a magical staff with a glowing blue crystal one top, the lady had a smile on her face distract by seeing all the kid and decoration she never noticed the pack of wild feral animals in costumes name...Children behind her.
An Alien, a devil, a robot and what looked like some evil spy ran up ahead like unleashed dogs unaware of anything around them so they knocked into the woman.
"Careful you lot!" she shouted a real power in her voice that would make any adult stop in their track, however kids high on sugar being kids just completely ignored her.
Wobbling a little Tripp hastily came to her aid.
"Thanks kid," she spoke with a now noticeable British accent.
"No probably, someone really needs to keep an eye on those kids."
The woman nodded, "bloody gremlins, but Halloween is only once a night so let them have some fun."
