Happy Halloween, everyone! Hope you get lots of candy and your costumes are awesome!

Lucy put the finishing touches on her costume. This is going to be perfect! She placed her pointy hat on her head, then surveyed herself in the mirror. Fairy Tail was having a Halloween party later this evening, and Natsu had begged her to go with him early for a little Trick-or-Treating. She had grudgingly agreed, but the look on his face made up for it.

Almost.

She sat down, placing her broom on her lap. She was going as a witch this year. Where is Natsu? He said he'd be here by six-thirty. Lucy happened to glance at her window and screamed. Natsu was perched on her windowsill and grinning eerily.

"Don't do that!" she scolded as she let him in. "And what are you, anyway, a dragon?"

"Nope!" he said cheerfully, then pouted a little. "Erza said that she wanted me to go as something other than a dragon."

"How long have you been going as a dragon?" she asked, curious.

"Ever since I heard about Halloween," he said with an innocent look. "Can we go now? Please? Please?" Lucy sighed.

"Fine. Wait, where's Happy?"

"He's with Lisanna," Natsu shrugged. "She's helping him with his costume."

"What's he going as?" Lucy asked as she locked her door. She had set out a bowl of candy with a note saying to only take one.

"A fish," Natsu stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, which it kind of was. "What are you supposed to be? A cleaning maid? Ow!" Lucy hit him over the head with her broom.

"I'm a witch, thank you very much."

"Sorry, geez." Despite this little spat, Natsu gave Lucy half of all of his candy, though she insisted she didn't need it. Finally, they arrived at the guild.

"Hi, Lucy!" Levy said, running over. She was a librarian ghost. Levy had put a spell on herself so her skin would appear translucent, and it was eerie how well it worked. "Your costume looks amazing!"

"Thanks!" she beemed. "Yours does too! The spell seems like it worked out really well."

"It did," Levy agreed. "I needed a little help from Freed, though, but he was really nice about it." She gestured over to the green haired vampire king. He was standing behind 'Thor', who was shamelessly flirting with Mira, who had gone back to her goth clothes for the day. She, surprisingly, was flirting back with Laxus, who seemed pretty happy that she was finally paying attention to him.

Elfman wasn't wearing a costume, but he kept saying that he was going as a 'real man', so people let him be. Evergreen was hanging on his arm, dressed as a fairy.

"You've arrived, Lucy," Erza said with a smile. She was dressed as a cowgirl, whereas the Connels were all dressed as knights. "Yes, we thought it would be amusing to switch our usual outfits for Halloween." Lucy raised an eyebrow at the man next to Erza who was dressed as the Phantom from 'Phantom of the Opera'.

"Jellal?" she guessed. What could be seen of his face blushed and nodded. Erza blushed a little as well.

"So Bunny-Girl's a cleaning lady or something?" a tall, broad mummy asked Levy.

"I'm a witch, idiot!" she hissed.

"Got that right," he smirked. Both girls glared at him as he left, chuckling. Levy sighed and began to explain who everyone was.

The flying fish was Happy, whereas the flying Laxus was Carla, who Happy and Pantherlily had begged to dress up as. Pantherlily was suffering Carla's revenge, dressed up as the scariest thing anyone could think of: Porlyusica. Juvia was a mermaid, trying to chase after Gray - a prince - as best she could. Levy thought it was an awful lot like 'The Little Mermaid'. The master was dressed as Odin, which they suspected was because of Laxus' costume. Lisanna was dressed as a cat, and helping Mira serve the drinks. But the cutest was Wendy.

Wendy, like Freed, was a vampire. She would run around playfully biting people, and they would humor her and pretend like they were also turning into vampires. Natsu took it too far, though, when he chomped on Erza's neck. For reasons no one could fathom, she also found Gray at fault and punished him as well. She then firmly told Natsu to remain a normal demon, not a vampiric demon.

The party was magnificent. There were all sorts of games and candy. Natsu managed to get a candy apple stuck in his pink mop. Thinking it was Gajeel, Natsu unintentionally started a new game: Throw the Apple. It ended when someone ducked and the apple hit Erza. Mira quickly passed Erza strawberry cake to defuse her. It worked. The offender only went through two walls.

"I can totally eat more candy than you!" Natsu shouted.

"Dream on, Flame Face," Gray scoffed. The candy eating contest commenced, with most of the guys joining. Surprisingly, Freed won. On second thought, it wasn't that surprising, as the Dragon Slayers started a fight halfway through and knocked out most of the competition, including themselves.

"Get up!" Erza ordered. "It's time for tricks and treats."

"She never really has gotten the hang of this," Mira sighed. "It's just a festival that Magnolia has on Halloween."

The first booth that Team Natsu destroyed - er, visited was a dunking booth. Natsu went first, nailing the target and dunking the poor man. Gray and Erza were no better. Or worse, in this case. But the man was grinning, so Lucy guessed it was ok.

A group of kids ran past them, dressed up as members of Fairy Tail. "Natsu!" one of the little girls yelled, bearing an eerie resemblance to Erza. "You destroyed five cities again!" The real Natsu scowled as his team tried hard not to laugh. "Gray, put your clothes on! Happy!" The girl started yelling at 'Natsu's' stuffed cat. Another girl, this time with blonde hair sighed, and said to 'Gray', "Wouldn't it be cool if we could meet the real Team Natsu?" Said team glanced at each other.

"Yeah," the boy said. "I mean, Gray is like the coolest!" He stuck his tongue out at Natsu, who would have punched him if Erza hadn't held his hand back, wanting to see how long it took for the children to realize who they were near.

"You forget that he constantly loses his clothes," the boy dressed as Natsu contested. "Natsu is totally awesome! He can breathe fire and everything!" They began to argue which member was the coolest.

"Be quiet!" 'Erza' snapped, slamming their heads together. She did a very good impersonation. "Come on, we told our parents that we'd be at the face paint booth in a few minutes." The boys glared at each other, then followed her.

"Hey, Lucy," Lucy said, crouching in front of the other girl. "If you give Erza strawberry cake, she calms down." The girl beamed at her.

"Thanks! Wait… Do I know you?"

"Lucy, come on!" Natsu complained. "Erza wants to move on to the shooting range." The girl's eyes grew huge as she realized who she was talking to. Lucy winked and stood, following Natsu.

"Anne!" they heard the girl shriek. "Guess who I just met!"

They met Jellal on the way to the shooting range. He presented her a large stuffed strawberry cake. The two of them went off alone shortly after, holding hands.

Lyon showed up shortly after with Juvia with him - maybe she finally took Mira's love advice and was playing hard to get. Whatever she was doing, it worked. Gray got jealous and followed, leaving just Lucy and Natsu.

"So," Natsu said, scratching the back of his head. "Now what?" They had done all of the booths, and now were awkwardly standing on the outside of the festival. Lucy scuffed her toe.

"I don't know," she admitted. "Maybe… we could go over to my place?" Natsu blinked in surprise; Lucy never invited him over.

"O-Ok." Lucy flopped onto her bed, making sure that her skirt was down.

"I'm exhausted," she sighed. "I'm going to take a shower, ok?" Natsu nodded, watching her. His gaze was so intense that she blushed and ran into the bathroom. What was that about? Lucy wondered, the hot water beating down on her skin. She peeked out after she had gotten dressed. Natu was nowhere to be seen, but her neat bed was now a bundle of blankets. Various pieces of his costume were strewn around her room. "Seriously, Natsu?" Her bed didn't make a sound.

Lucy couldn't pull the covers from her head, but she could pull them down enough to see his pink hair. Stroking it gently, she sighed, "You really are adorable sometimes, you know that?" Lucy bent down and kissed his head. His arm shot out from underneath the covers and pulled her down. He planted a kiss on her forehead and grinned at her. "You little -" she started, but he began tickling her and she couldn't help but laugh.

Until she found his weak spot. As it turned out, he was immensely ticklish on his neck. His body writhed under her as her slender fingers tickled his neck.

"Stop it," he begged as soon as he had breath to do so. "Sto… Stop it, please!" Lucy hesitated, and it cost her. The next half-hour was spent furiously tickling each other, which escalated into a pillow fight.

At last, they stopped for breath. They had been laughing too hard to do anything else. Lucy sank onto her bed, a couple giggles still inside. Natsu sat next to her. "This was the best Halloween ever," Lucy decided.

"I know something that can make it better," Natsu offered.

"What?" she asked, turning to face him when his mouth pressed against hers. Lucy's eyes widened. Then she closed her eyes and sank into it. When they eventually pulled away for breath, he murmured, "I think I like you, Luce."

"I think I like you too," she smiled, kissing him again. They both agreed later that it was the best Halloween they ever had.