Hello,

I'm back again and this time it is Halloween.

However, seeing as I have already done a Halloween special for season one this is going to be set just before season two so everyone is going to be there (apart from Impulse as he arrives midseason). Basically this is the original team messing with the new team.

Wally and Artemis have left the team but they came back temporarily to celebrate Halloween and Aqualad hasn't left yet.

Forgive me if the Mountain's rooms are messed up.

As usual I own nothing and apologise for any spelling or grammar mistakes and OOCness.

Hope you enjoy.

Robyn

It started with the original team. They had all met up for some reason or other when Nightwing had proposed the idea. They should celebrate Halloween to help the newer members feel a bit better (lately it seemed every mission they went on went wrong, which was a familiar feeling for the original members of the team - they had never really cracked the secret of being a covert team). The rest of the group agreed and plans were formed, by the time the group separated to return home they all had evil smirks on their faces. This would be a Halloween the team wouldn't forget.

On Halloween at around seven in the evening, the original team was ready, everything had been set up. No one apart from them were in the cave and it was time. They gave the signal and Nightwing made calls to all newer members saying there was an emergency and they were needed at the Mountain. Before breaking up and shutting off the call, he rushed into position waiting for the action to start.

The first person to arrive was Mal, swiftly followed by Bumblebee. They were greeted with the sight of no one and nothing in the entrance hall apart from some pathetic half-hearted Halloween decorations and. . . something else. How they hadn't noticed straight away escaped them, as the team had purposely made it giant and obvious for anyone entering the Mountain.

Blue Beetle, La'gaan and Beast Boy arrived soon after catching sight of what Mal and Bumblebee were now staring at almost instantly. Robin, Batgirl and Wonder Girl arrived last and joined the group staring. On the wall was a message, written in a suspiciously familiar shade of red.

"If you ever want to see your friends again than follow the trail and survive the scares. Welcome to the night of fright." A little pumpkin with a scary face had been painted onto the wall at the end of the message. It was a fairly cliché but threatening message, something you would expect at any Haunted House, but being superheroes they immediately took the threat seriously.

"Why are you guys just staring? We need to help the other! Who knows what kind of crazy villain has found the Mountain." Wonder Girl declared before walking closer to the message, inspecting it for any hidden layers or secrets.

"You're right. What is the trail we're supposed to follow anyway?" Blue Beetle agreed, looking around the room for any clues.

"Look! There is another pumpkin. I bet we have to follow them!" Beast Boy pointed out as he gestured to another pumpkin on the door leading into the main part of the Mountain. With Batgirl in the lead, all weapons at the ready, the group moved forward ready to face this new villain and rescue their captured teammates.

The main part of the Mountain seemed to have had a complete transformation. It was covered in realistic decorations and looked nothing like a mountain. . . more like a haunted house. The team crept forward into the first room which was usually the souvenir room but tonight it looked like a forest. The team had to give credit to whatever villain this was, it looked amazing.

The walls had been painted with trees, extra realistic fake trees had been added into the room and a temporary wall had been placed in front of the souvenirs. The floor had been covered in Astroturf (fake grass) and the ceiling painted to reflect the night sky with the full moon on clear view, even glowing faintly.

"Well, well, well. You made it to the first room. Now you must survive the thing inside, collect the pumpkin and move on." A creepy unfamiliar voice cackled down from the speakers.

"Who are you? Where are our friends?" Bumblebee called out spinning around to face one of the speakers as if that would let her see the person the voice belonged too.

"I suppose you may call me the Cheshire Cat and for your friends. . . Well, they're waiting for you to find them. Mwhahahahahaha!" With a terrifying cackle the speaker cut out. A second later a spine shivering howl was heard.

"Emmm. . . anyone know what that was?" Mal asked looking like he really didn't want to know the answer, but knew they were likely to find out anyway.

"We're in a forest at night. There's a full moon and it is Halloween - we just heard a howl. I'm pretty sure it is safe to assume that was a werewolf." Batgirl pointed out with a grimace. "I think that is what this 'Cheshire Cat' wants us to face."

Sure enough out of the trees appeared a creature. They looked like they were only half way transformed. It was still humanoid in shape but had fur everywhere, fangs glinted in the light and its eyes were a eerie bloodshot red. Attached to a half ripped checked shirt was a painted pumpkin which looked like it was just a paper pumpkin that had been laminated. It looked very out of place amongst the realistic decorations and monsters.

The werewolf leapt forward at the team, only to be hit back hard by Robin's bo staff. Beast Boy jumped forward and grabbed the pumpkin as the werewolf retreated into the forest, nursing its head. The team gathered around Beast Boy to look at the pumpkin, one or two of them keeping a careful eye out in case the werewolf acme back. On the back was a clue to where they assumed they had to go next. It said 'a home to knowledge where stories live'.

"That has to be the library!" Wonder Girl pointed out. The group nodded and carried on towards the library. Remaining high on alert now that they knew there were monsters lurking.

When they arrived it was to only to discover the library had been completely transformed as well. It looked more like a medieval castle than a library. Massive doors stood in their way, which hadn't been there yesterday. The team stopped and looked at the door, about to try and open it but before they could do anything the now annoyingly familiar voice came out of the speakers.

"I see you beat the wolf. Well good luck with your next challenge. She's not so nice." The Cheshire Cat cackled as the speakers cut out as suddenly as they went came into action.

"Enter." A distinctive female voice echoed from within the castle as the doors opened to reveal a hallway with a red carpet leading up to a golden throne.

On the throne sat a figure, which they presumed was the source of the female voice. She was dressed up, a cloak covering her with the collar turned up. She had soulless eyes and large fangs. She was a vampire. A blond vampire. The team inspected her and the surroundings, noticing the next pumpkin hanging behind her.

"I thought Dracula was a guy?" Blue Beetle whispered to the rest of the team.

"I heard that. I'm not Dracula." The female vampire snapped. Well, there goes any chance of diplomacy

She leapt gracefully down from the throne and charged at the team. As she attacked and the rest of the team carried out defensive manoeuvres, Bumblebee shrunk and flew to the throne before growing back to normal size, standing on the throne to grab the next pumpkin. Almost instantly the vampire froze. She turned to face Bumblebee who had returned to the team, prize in hand, victorious.

"I see you have the pumpkin. Well I wish you luck for the next challenges. You are getting closer to your friends and a surprise." The vampire stated.

"What do you mean surprise?" La'gaan asked. However it was too late. Smoke filled the room and by the time it cleared the vampire was gone, leaving them in an empty room. They moved back out of the library, scanning the corridor for threats before looking at the next clue.

The team looked at the pumpkin, this time the clue said 'You come here before leaving as a team'.

"Leaving as a team? The mission room!" Robin announced. "I wonder what will be waiting for us there."

"Who knows hermano, who knows." Blue Beetle shook his head before the group wandered back off down the corridor to the mission room, keeping an eye out for threats. They didn't like the sound of the 'surprise' the vampire had mentioned.

The mission room looked nothing like it was supposed to, following the trend of the previous rooms. It was covered in sand and decorated to look like the insides of a pyramid. All sorts of artefacts and jars covered the room and hieroglyphics were painted onto some of the walls. In the centre of the room stood a sarcophagus.

"I think I can guess what is going to happen." Mal groaned. He was really starting to hate whoever this 'Cheshire Cat' was.

As soon as that thought had been voiced smoke started pouring out of the sarcophagus and the door groaned open. Inside lay a mummy. As expected. It was covered in sandy bandages, full of rips and faint bits of blood. Its eyes remained permanently open but were empty of anything but blackness. The pumpkin was attached to the inside of the door and so far the mummy wasn't moving. The team shared a glance, almost daring someone to have a go.

Batgirl darted forward, tired of just standing around, hoping to reach it before the mummy moved. Just as she was about to pull the pumpkin off a hand grabbed her wrist causing her to give out a little shriek as she jumped. The mummy had moved and was now blocking her exit. She was trapped.

Then the mummy groaned and fell, Blue Beetle had hit him from behind and pushed him away from her. Batgirl grabbed the pumpkin and retreated not wanting the mummy to get up again. However it looked like the mummy had become inanimate, as it lay unmoving on the sandy ground.

"Can we leave the room before reading the clue? He's kind of creepy." Batgirl asked and was answered by the hurried nods of her teammates as they made a swift exit out of the room, being careful to close the door securely behind them.

She turned the pumpkin over to reveal the next clue: 'where you prepare for the real world and meet the ground'.

"The training room!" La'gaan shouted, figuring it out first. The team marched slowly to the training room. They were getting tired of these games, they had all just wanted to enjoy Halloween, not be playing games with a villain who had captured their friends and teammates. As they made their way once again down the corridor the familiar crackle of the speakers echoed in the silence.

"Soon. Everything will reveal itself soon. Mwhahahahahah!" The Cheshire Cat cackled softly, before the speakers promptly cut off again.

"Well, that's totally not creepy!" Beast Boy announced glaring at the speakers as if that would do something, like stop these stupid games.

The team entered the training room cautiously. Well, what had been the training room. There was AstroTurf covering the ground and gravestones littered the place. The walls had been painted to look like trees and a spiky metal fence. The ceiling was painted like the night sky with fake stars glittering down at them. They were in a graveyard.

"Hey, there's the pumpkin! Now where's the next monster thing." Wonder Girl declared pointing at the pumpkin attached to a grave a few meters away. She couldn't see nay immediate threat though and it was making her nervous.

She had jinxed them, as soon as she finished speaking a ghostly figure seemed to rise out of the grave that held the pumpkin. The figure turned solid revealing a ghostly girl with dark eyes, blood in her dark hair, and a ripped and bloody dirty white wedding dress. A ghostly bride.

"Sooooo. Who wants to get the pumpkin?" Beast Boy asked facing the rest of the team. Personally he really didn't want to go near the ghost, it was quite high on the scale of scary things they had seen tonight.

"Not me!" Rang out from the group apart from a single voice who was to slow.

"Darn it!" La'gaan groaned.

The ghost seemed amused by this display as she gave a small smirk, which didn't do anything to make her look nicer. La'gaan moved forward slowly keeping the ghost in sight at all times (sometimes he hated his job). As he got closer, she disappeared only to appear behind him and push him into a ditch in front of the grave that she had been hiding. They hadn't noticed the ditch before hand, and La'gaan spluttered as his face met dirt. The rest of the team dashed forward to help, the ghost was scary but they couldn't exactly leave La'gaan in a ditch (no mater how much some of them wanted to). Every time they were about to land a blow she would vanish only to reappear somewhere else a few seconds later.

As the rest were distracted fighting the ghost, Mal helped La'gaan out of the ditch and grabbed the pumpkin. The instant he touched it she gave a spine shivering scream and vanished for the last time. They quickly left the room, La'gaan grumbling the whole time as he tied to wipe away all the dirt.

This time the clue led towards their living quarters, which was worrying (what if this 'Cheshire Cat' had been in their rooms?). There they found the place covered in a giant sticky web and facing an enormous hairy black spider. Let's just say more than a few of the group got stuck in the web, freaking out multiple people who were scared of spiders. Plus, the webs were not easy to get out of.

The next clue led them to the kitchen which was covered in blood and had knives everywhere, it looked like a murder scene (the team was really hoping all the blood was fake). The group was faced with a giant eyeball that rolled towards them at startling speeds, they all admitted it was rather creepy.

The clue after that led them to the showers. When they arrived they were faced with the sight off all the showers running and all the drains blocked up, trapping the water and creating a knee deep puddle in the room. They were met with another ghostly figure this time it was a young man that had clearly been drowned (after why else would all the water be there - and he was more of a blue/green than the white the other ghost had been). It was a bit more difficult getting the pumpkin off of him, with all the water making moving harder than normal.

The final clue took them to the hanger room. The group slowly trudged there, feeling a bit more miserable after getting wet. It was the icing on top of the cake and at this point they just wanted to go to bed but they still had to face the villain and rescue their teammates. On the way down to the hanger room, they passed the Grotto which had remained the same as usual. Another ghost was there a young girl that was almost familiar in a way. The team did not have to worry about her as the girl did not interfere only watched them pass, vanishing when they got too close. She looked different to the other ghosts they had seen, more peaceful almost., and the whole room had turned freezing when she appeared. They moved on quickly.

Eventually they made their way to the hangar room. They opened the door, expecting trouble, to instead almost get blasted off their feet by a deafening 'SURPRISE!' from the creatures they had faced and various members of the Justice League. The room was decorated in a more traditional Halloween style, lots of clearly fake decorations and a table full of treats stood to one side. It was a party.

"Please say I'm not the only one that is still confused." Blue Beetle announced, turning to his teammates who nodded in agreement only to be met with laughter from the rest of the room.

The group of creatures stepped forward with an unfamiliar figure dressed up in purple, a familiar mask on his face - here was their 'Cheshire Cat'. The figures all removed matching necklaces, revealing faker costumes and familiar figures wearing them - the original team. The 'Cheshire Cat' explained, grinning wildly.

"It was simple. We got together and decided you all needed a break so we put this plan together. We decorated the Mountain, told the League what we are planning and got into costume. I faked a distress call and then got into position, waiting for you all to arrive. I was the Cheshire cat. Kid Flash was the werewolf, Artemis the vampire, Superboy the mummy, Miss Martian the ghostly bride, Wolf the spider, Sphere the eyeball, and Aqualad the drowned ghost. This is a Halloween party, have fun. We certainly did watching you guys." The Cheshire Cat, now revealed to be Nightwing explained. The rest of the original team had matching grins on their face, it had certainly been entertaining watching the younger heroes go about the Mountain.

"May we ask about the costumes?" Bumblebee asked, the rest of the information really hadn't sunk in yet but she was curious how their costumes had worked. They certainly seemed very fake now, but they hadn't before.

"Of course. During our first year as a team this is what we dressed up as, except from Nightwing and Aqualad, as they were busy and Sphere and Wolf as they didn't take part, with a bit of magic from Zatanna and some make up we made ourselves look better. It was a trip down memory lane for us as well." Artemis explained, still grinning, she held her necklace up as the source of the magic.

"How did you manage to travel around the cave so fast without us seeing you?" La'gaan asked.

"A mixture of air vents and secret tunnels which we may tell you about some day." Aqualad answered the whole original team smirking alongside him.

"Okay, you said this was a party right? Then let's get it started!" Beast Boy shouted and moved away from the group as music started. It had been a long night and frankly he just wanted candy. That seemed to be all the rest of the team needed as they split up, mingling with the Justice League members, who all wore costumes as well.

Robin and Batgirl however stayed behind as the rest of the group dispersed. They had one more question for the original team.

"You mentioned everyone, but what about the last ghost in the Grotto?" Robin questioned curious, looking mostly at Nightwing.

"What do you mean last ghost? There was no last ghost? We didn't touch the Grotto" Kid Flash asked looking at his team for confirmation.

"Yeah there was. She watched us for a while before disappearing." Batgirl defended Robin, they had absolutely seen a ghost. When the original team didn't answer, they wandered off into the party, clearly they were still messing with them.

The original team looked at each other. There really had been no other ghost. The thought that maybe the younger heroes were just getting their own back for the whole night was prominent and they joined the others at the party. Aqualad and Nightwing stayed back another minute, they had an odd feeling about the supposed ghost, they shivered inn sync at the sudden cold wind that moved through the room, unnoticed by everyone else. They shared a last glance before joining the rest of the heroes, but they couldn't shake that odd feeling for the rest of the night.

Back in the Grotto, the young ghostly girl leaned against her holographic figure listening to the music in the other room and smiled, happy for her friends.

And finished.

Hope you guys are all enjoying/enjoyed Halloween.

Do anything special?

Anyway any suggestions for chapters?

Hope you enjoyed.

Robyn out.