"TRICK OR TREAT!!!!"

Jericho shook his head (and his shiny pants-clad ass) and got up to open the door "Ahh. I am so scared. Oh hunter, please protect me from these evil creatures." He said in a monotone.

Eddie punched him good-naturedly. "Oh, come on, you know you love me!" Eddie was dressed as a Chihuahua…or at least that’s what the little ears on his head made him look like. Joanie followed behind him, wearing cat ears.

Filling the hallway in back of her were Kane, who was dressed in his ring clothes, but had a red circle coming out of his head, and Sean, who was wearing all green with a green… thing… coming out of his head. "What’re you two supposed to be?" asked Jericho.

Sean smiled. "I’m Dipsy, and he’s Po. And what are you?"

"I’m Moongoose McQueen, can’t you tell?" Jericho stepped to the side to let the guest in, but as soon as they walked in, Hunter started to groan.

"God, do you EVER dress in a normal costume, Sean? Do you have to look like an idiot every year?"

Jericho stood there in confusion. "Do I WANT to know the story behind this?"

Jesse piped up from the couch, where he was entwined with Billy. The two of them were dresses as each other. "Last year, Sean was Blue, from Blue’s Clues. The year before that?  Janet, from Rocky Horror Picture."

Billy giggled. "And guess who was Frank N. Furter?"

Jericho saw the telltale blush on Hunter’s face and busted out laughing. "You better have pictures, my sweet transvestite!" he managed to choke out.

Kane, Sean, Eddie, and Joanie arranged themselves on the floor. "What are you dressed as, Hunter?" Joanie asked.

Hunter was still too embarrassed to talk, so Jericho flopped down in his lap and talked for him. "Hunter didn’t want to play, so he just tied a flannel shirt around his waist and claimed he was Mick."

Hunter glared at his friends. "Well, would you preferred I stuff a pillow down my pants and be fatass Kurt Angle?"

His friends shook his head. They sat there eating candy and drinking punch for awhile, until….

The room went black. "Shit! What happened?????" Jesse screamed.

Billy clutched him. "It’s so dark, I can’t even see your hot-pink shorts!!!"

Hunter stood up. "Ok, everyone just relax!"

"Well, I WOULD!!!" Jericho screamed from the floor, "but you just dumped me on my ass!!!"

"Sorry…" Hunter muttered.

Joanie stood up where she presumed was next to him. "Do you have candles or flashlights anywhere?"

Jericho also stood, rubbing his sore posterior. "I’ll get the flashlight. I think the candles are in the kitchen."

Jericho and Hunter started to work their way towards the bedroom, where their flashlights were, and Joanie and Eddie worked their way into the kitchen. Jesse and Billy shook in a pathetic heap together on the ground. Sean and Kane…..well, Sean and Kane decided to lighten the mood by singing the Teletubbies song.

The following scene, taking place in the utter dark, mind you, would defy the powers of explanation. One can only report the conversation heard during this eventual mayhem…..

"Ok, so where in the kitchen ARE the candles?"

"The refrigerator, I think. DAMN, where’s the flashlight?"

"Look in the dresser, sweetie."

"Dipsy…LaLa..."

"Ok, got the candles…need matches…"

"I found some…oh…oh shit…"

"What do you mean ‘oh shit’?"

"Uhm…nothing…"

"EDDIE!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE KITCHEN?!?!?!"

"Tinky Winky…Po!!!"

"Nothing!!!! I just…dropped the matches."

"Well pick them up so I can light the fricking candle."

"I think I found the flashlight….OWWW!"

"Chris, what did you do?"

"Teletubbies, teletubbies.."

"Something hit me…oww…Hunter, there’s something moving over here…"

"What do you mean? We don’t own anything that moves…"

"Guys, I’m gonna come over there with the candle…"

"Hunter, I’m scared…what if it’s a rat?"

"Say.."

"But I’m scared of rats!"

"Hel-"

"OhGodOhGod…"

"OhGodOhGod.."

"-Lo!!!!"

"Guys, I’m…." Joanie paused, holding her lit candle. Jericho was sitting on the floor rocking in terror. Hunter was dead white, pressed against the opposite wall. On the floor…

On the floor was a pair of wind-up teeth, chattering loudly as they tried to walk across the floor.

Eddie came rushing in after her. "Was it a…." he looked down at the teeth. "WOW! You guys are even more stupid than I am!"

Jericho finally squeezed one eye open, and saw the teeth. "Hey, it was dark!!!!! You can’t blame us…"

Hunter cautiously walked over to wrap his arms around the still-shaking Jericho. "Shh…it’s ok….I was really scared too…"

The four of them finally walked back into the living room. In the candle’s light, they could see that Jesse and Billy had taken advantage of the dark to start doing the horizontal mambo, while Sean and Kane seemed to be starting along the same path.

Joanie, Eddie, Chris, and Hunter stood there speechless, until the moanings and groanings and "ooo, faster, harder"-s were broken by a loud cry from out side the door.

"TRICK OR TREAT!!!"