HOLA MINNA!!!

This is the 40th 'Chapter', so I decided to do what other authors have done a ton of times.

No, it is NOT a cruddy Author's Note that you thought was an actual new chapter to the story.

Don't you fret, my little meatballs. By the way, I was eating meatballs in my room while typing this so, y'know...

ANYHOO! This is a oneshot special chapter. Like the ones Mashima does in the manga!

Also, I stole the idea of the NaLu part of this from a hilarious post on Tumblr by thecriticoflife.

Enjoy~

-MustacheNarwhalz

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When Halloween came around it was complete hell for the girls of Fairy Tail, as well as some of the guys. Their wonderful partners always loved to think up Halloween costumes for the pair to wear. Which always ended horridly.

Erza, Lucy, Juvia, Levy, Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel had all woken up early in the morning of October 29th. Only two days away from Halloween.

Magnolia was already high in spirits for the holiday. Children were carving pumpkins. Adults had been stocking up with candy.

But no one was more excited than the cities favorite attraction, Fairy Tail. The guild was decorated in the spirit of Halloween.

Black and orange streamers hung loosely from the ceiling. Makarov had hired an artist to carve the faces of each guild member into a pumpkin, which then decorated the window sills and tables.

Most of the Fairy Tail mages had been picking out their spooky costumes for the night of the 31st.

Which was the exact reason three of our favorite mages had all decided they would have to hide until Novemer. As well as a special guy who made the terrible decision to visit his girlfriend on this particular day.

Lucy and Levy had sprinted towards the guild together in the early morning. The two pushed the guild doors open with such force that a few faux paper bats fell from the walls.

"Where do we hide?!" Lucy shouted in horror. Levy was continually looking behind them as lookout for Gajeel and Natsu.

Mira, whom was happily setting up the bar for the new day, waved to them, "Good morning, girls. Anything I can help you with?"

Levy shot her head towards the white haired woman. She asked in a hurried tone, "Do you know of any good hiding spots in the guild?"

"Hehe," Mira chuckled to herself, "Why, are you playing hide and seek with the others?" She began to clean a few of the bar glasses with a perfectly white rag.

"Yeah, sure, whatever. Do you know of any or-" Lucy started.

Mira smiled and pointed the infirmary. She whispered to the two, "Infirmary, there's a closet on the right. Hide there behind the coats and other supplies. Gajeel and Natsu probably won't find you in there."

She smirked at the girls as they quickly thanked her and ignored the fact that she knew who they were hiding from.

Levy ran ahead of Lucy as pried open the wooden door to the infirmary closet. They pushed aside the boxes of medical supply and the dusty coats the hung from the rod.

They both squeezed theirselves into the corners of the closet and pulled the door closed. They buried their heads into their legs and prayed that they wouldn't be found.

Mira was to blame for all of this. Thanks to one of her suggestions, every year, on Halloween, Fairy Tail would hold a costume competition. For those who wanted to participate they would all have to dress in one theme.

This year's theme was Comic Books. Super heroes, super villains, or whatever could be classified as anything between the two.

Outside the guild, one ice Mage had already been spotted by his girlfriend. Juvia screamed at Gray as they rounded the corner ad headed straight towards the guild, "GRAY-SAMA! STOP RUNNING THIS INSTANT!"

Gray looked ahead and silently begged for her to trip or something. Nothing that would hurt her, just temporarily paralyze her!

His thoughts were interrupted when his body was covered in water. "Damnit!" He screamed as Juvia encased his entire body, besides his head, in an orb of water.

"Suck it up, Gray-sama!" Juvia pouted. She hated having to put him through this, but he kept escaping. What else could she do?

Ever since they started dating, Gray was always one to run away when Juvia tried to force him into something he didn't want to do. Usually, Juvia would just have to ignore him for a day and he would completely follow her every whim.

But that never worked on Halloween costumes. She pleaded with him, "Would Gray-sama just listen to Juvia's idea?"

He squirmed in the water, he knew he couldn't exactly freeze the water. It would hurt her. Gray shot back at her, "Why do we have to this every year? Can't we just skip this one?"

"No," She argued, "Juvia and Gray-sama will win for sure this year! Juvia has no doubts! She has the best idea for a comic book couple!"

Her eyes sparkled as she said that. Gray knew he couldn't win this. He gave out an exaggerated sigh and groaned, "Let's here it, then."

She gasped in joy. Juvia squeal, "Juvia was thinking of doing Mr and Mrs Freeze from Batman!"

Gray couldn't think of anything worse. He tried to stop this idea, "B-but there isn't a 'Mrs. Freeze' in Batman, so maybe we could-"

"Nope! Doesn't matter. Mira even said Juvia's idea was good!" She laughed.

Gray muttered under his breath, "Damn that woman."

Jellal walked along the streets of Magnolia. He was no longer considered a criminal, so he could be free from wearing disguises to hide his face.

He was planning on making a surprise visit to his girlfriend, Erza. He had no clue what he was going to himself into.

Jellal saw the Fairy Hills building in the distance. A smile spread across his face as his walk soon turned to a sprint.

He rushed down the street, passing by a few other guild members who were just waking up. Cana saw him from a far while walking out of her apartment building.

She smiled to herself and muttered, "That poor sucker must not know what he's getting himself into. Heh, Erza'll be real happy, though."

As he passed by her, Cana yelled after him, "Erza's on the second floor, room 28!"

He spun around before crashing into the doors of Fairy Hills. "T-thanks!"

She laughed as he stumbled into the building. "This was going to be one hilarious Halloween." She said under breath.

He finally made it up the stairs. He ran down the halls towards Erza's room. Jellal couldn't wait to see her face when he showed up.

He knocked-not so lightly-on her door. Through the wood, he heard her moan, "I'm coming, I'm coming. It better be important or I swear I'm gonna-"

She opened the door with a scowl. Her hair, although she had obviously just woken up, was perfect. Her expression melted away when she saw who it was.

"Jellal!?" She half laughed, half shouted. He just awkwardly waved as he was pulled into a bone crushing hug.

He slowly began to hug her, rubbing her back soothingly in the process. "Yeah, it's me. Woah, what happened in here?" He asked as he looked inside her room.

Fabrics, metal, and various other materials were thrown askew all over her room. She proudly presented her disaster area of an apartment. "This, my dear companion, is the makings of the best Thor costume ever created."

"Oh, is it? And you know you can call me your boyfriend, right? Enough with this 'companion' stuff." He rolled his eyes as Erza scowled at him.

"I can call you whatever I want." She threw her arms over her chest. She quickly left the main room for a minute and came back in her usual battle ready attire.

"So, are you really this intense about a Halloween costume?" Jellal asked, leaning over what was the start of a large hammer.

Erza shot up from her couch. Her eyes sparkled and shimmered as she ran over and took a strong grasp on Jellal's arms. She shouted, "I just had the best idea! How about you join me this Halloween?"

"F-for what?" He asked, staring back at her. She seemed like she just ordered the world's largest strawberry cake.

Erza twirled around dramatically, her red hair swinging behind squealed, "The Fairy Tail Costume Contest!" She finished off her spinning with an enthusiastic fist pump.

Jellal stammered, "Er, sure? Who exactly would I be?" He vaguely knew of the Marvel Universe. Enough, atleast, to know the members of the Avengers.

"OH, you can be Loki!"

"..........Huh?"

Levy and Lucy had been trapped in that closet for atleast two hours now. They both intended to take a nap while in there, but sleep had eluded them. The constant fear of having your boyfriends burst through a door kept them awake and alert.

Levy made a slight gasp as she realized something. Lucy turned and glared at the blue haired Mage. "What is it?" She whispered to her.

She shuddered and looked like she'd seen a ghost. "Lu-chan," She whispered back, "can't Gajeel and Natsu just smell where we are?"

It took a moment for Lucy to understand the horror of this fact. She banged her head against the back wall. "Oh, f-"

At that moment the door swung open. Two figures stood looming over the girls. One had a long mess of black hair, the other had short, spikey, salmon hair.

"Found you! What are you guys doing in closet?" Natsu grinned wildly, completely missing the obvious fear in the girls' eyes.

"We-uh, well" They stammered.

Gajeel shook his head, "Doesn't matter, we've finally come up with some ideas. C'mon, Pipsqueak." He reached over the boxes and grabbed ahold of Levy's arm. With ease he lifted her out of the closet.

"I can get out by myself, you idiot!" Levy squirmed in his arms, flailing her limbs around.

He sighed groggily and set her down gently in front of himself. Placing one hand on top of the poor girl's head, making sure she couldn't escape, he bellowed, "So about my ideas..."

Levy wanted to punch her stupid boyfriend right in his ugly face. "Can he seriously not tell that I don't give a crap. For Mavis' sake!" She thought to herself as Gajeel continued.

"So since I don't really know much about nerd stuff like the rest of you people, I had to have Salamander and that midget, Romeo, help me out." He began. The blue haired Mage rolled her eyes at his descriptions of her guildmates.

She had a theory that Gajeel liked to point out people's height differences to hide his insecurities. But then had a difficult time imagining him to be like those girls on drama shows, where he would be huddled in the corner of his room with a pink princess mirror held up to his head while he cries and whines about his appearance.

"So they showed me a bunch of Carvel movies-" He looked away as Natsu corrected him.

"It's MARVEL you metal-prick!"

Ignoring him completely, he continued, "And I came across this one dude called Ironman. And he also had this side kick-or was she his girlfriend?-anyway, she was like this book nerd and helped him not be stupid, so she reminded me of you. Oi, Salamander, what's her name again?"

Natsu grumbled and then shouted back, "Pepper Potts!"

Levy didn't know if she should be annoyed with the whole 'Always-has-to-be-metal-related' aspect of choosing a costume, or happy at the sweet gesture at how she kept him from being an idiot. Okay, so she sort of sucked at keeping him from being an idiot, but it was sweet nonetheless.

"So, will you do it?" He asked her. Levy crossed her arms over her chest and smirked up at the dragon slayer.

She chuckled, "I don't exactly have much of a choice, do I?"

"That's still a yes, right?" Gajeel joked with her. She laughed again and playfully punched his arm.

All the while Lucy was being yanked out of the closet. The pinkette pulled on her arms as Lucy wrapped her legs around the metal pole the coats were hanging from. "Luce, would you just come out!"

She puffed out her cheeks, "No way! You just want to talk about one of your stupid Halloween ideas!" Lucy knew inside that Natsu was not trying hard to pry her out. If he did, he would probably just end up hurting her.

"That's an unfair judgement! How do you know they'll be stupid?" He even put in some of Lucy's 'big boy words' to make his argument more convincing.

She screamed, "They always are!" An evil twinkle appeared in his eyes.

Her stomach leapt in her chest as he lowered his voice, "If you don't let go now, I will lick you."

Natsu had used licking her to get his way for awhile now. She was absolutely revolted by licking. It amused him a lot.

She finally released her grip on the pole and fell into Natsu's arms. He gave her one of his wide grins as he set her down onto the floor.

"So, what's your stupid idea this year?",the blonde huffed.

"Isn't it better to show you, than to tell you?" He laughed. Natsu then proceeded to yank his scarf off of his neck and wrapped it around his forehead and eyes, adjusting the position of the cloth so he could see. He then brought his hands up and poked his fingers through the scarf and into the air.

That's when he began to sing. As he imitated the Batman theme song, Lucy slapped her hand to her forehead. "Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Nat-suu~!"

He grabbed Lucy's legs and swung her over his shoulder, parading around the room. "And you could be Cat Woman!"

"NO!" She shouted, pounding her fists on his back, attempting to make him stop singing as well as release her. She grumbled to herself, "Why do I even love an idiot like you?"

"Cause I'm awesome!" Natsu cackled proudly as he kicked a pumpkin at Gajeel's head.

The girls groaned as their boyfriends began to fight, dreading the thought of the Halloween contest. Mira must be having a field day.

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Wow, that was actually a LOT longer then I was planning. I was just gonna have it, like, eight pages or something.

So I just wanted to ask you guys if you want me to continue this so you could see what happens next, or to just go back to writing the regular plot.

Either way, I'm going to go back to writing FTB so don't worry about that.

And sorry about the comic nerdness in this. I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy and was kind of in that mood. And OMGOSH HOWARD THE DUCK.

That is all.

-MustacheNarwhalz