Dusk had arrived as the shroud of Halloween night began to fall across the landscape. Ryona stood in the window of his second-floor bedroom, watching the sun set. He just stood there, watching, as if waiting for something to happen.
"Ryona!!!"
The silence was broken by an eccentric sounding voice. Ryona turned his attention away from the window and went downstairs. When he entered the living room looking for the source of the voice, he only found his sister and a man with long red hair in front of a large mirror, fixing up their appearances.
"Diana, Kyūbi, I just heard Shukaku calling me," said Ryona. "Do any of you know where he is?"
"No," they both said as they fixed their hair in the mirror.
Ryona looked around the room from where he was standing. The cool-headed boy casually extended his arm right as if about to catch something.
"Okay, Shukaku; you can give up the joke. It's no use to jump down on me when I already know you're about five feet above my head."
"Man, I hate it when you do that!" The same voice boomed.
A small, chubby tanuki fell from the ceiling and landed in Ryona's outstretched hand. The assumingly cute animal had tan fur with elaborate, violet-blue markings around his body. At the time though, he was not happy about his little ambush being spoiled.
"Why on earth do you have ta' do that to me," he barked.
"Because," Ryona responded. "There's no time for that now. You should be getting into your costume, Shukaku. Or…should I say 'Axel'?"
Shukaku giggled at the question.
"C'mon Ryona," he said. "That's been said and done a long time ago!"
Diana, seeing this all unfold in the mirror, turned her head around. Her face showed slight curiosity as she looked at the stout tanuki.
"So where is it," she asked. "Because all I see is a tanuki sitting on a hand."
Shukaku started laughing hysterically. His laughter was so uncontrollable that he fell off Ryona's hand and onto the floor. He rolled around the Ryona's feet, still laughing to the point where his words were barely understandable. The boy figured that the laughing fur ball probably said, "I'm gonna' bust a gut".
"Okay, just shut up, you stupid badger," Kyūbi finally said amid all the chaos.
In a heartbeat, the once laughing bundle of fur had the nature of a raving mad animal. It looked like steam would blast out of his ears at any time. Shukaku hated being called something other than a tanuki, especially when termed "stupid" or "dumb" in the process, and always took it personally.
"What was that!?" growled the enraged tanuki.
"Heh…I knew that would shut you up," Kyūbi said casually, using a Transformation Jutsu to alter his hair's shape and color.
"Don't even go there, you little…"
"I wasn't planning that; just show your costume already!"
"Alright, alright; sheesh," said Shukaku in an annoyed tone. "Y'know, you can be a real killjoy Kyūbi…I mean 'Xemnas'."
Shukaku puffed into smoke, and then it cleared, revealing a new physical identity for the tanuki demon. His was now human; his figure was similar to the calm kitsune demon. Shukaku's hair was red and spiky, with the spikes slightly pointing back at the top, and then pointing back at the back. His face also had small triangles under his eyes. His new appearance also came with a black, trench coat-like robe with a hood, black pants, and boots that reached up to his knees.
"Oh," said Diana, amused. "You were in your costume already; you were just joking around afterwards."
"Bingo," said Shukaku. "But it's not completely finished yet. There's just one more thing to add."
"I'm way ahead of you on that," said Ryona as he left the room.
He later came back with a large, wooden box. Ryona, opened it, and inside were two chakrams. These weren't your regular bladed circles; these chakram had a unique appearance. They had eight sharp points on their bladed rims, pointing like compass directions, and uniquely designed handles in the center of each one for ease of use. Shukaku took them both out of the box.
"Alright…my Eternal Flames" said Shukaku, letting out a brief laugh as he spun one of them on his finger. "Now I really am 'The Flurry of Dancing Flames'." He then struck a pose with the large chakram.
"Yes; indeed, except that you aren't capable of fire attacks, so you aren't truly 'The Flurry of Dancing Flames'," said Kyūbi, just finishing his hair's appearance to match that of his costume character, Xemnas.
"Kyūbi, quit sucking the fun out of this Halloween and just shut the hell up, will ya'?!"
Kyūbi ignored Shukaku's remark as he put on his Organization XIII coat.
"Well, 'Naminé', are you almost ready to go?" asked Kyūbi as Diana was finishing her hair.
"Almost," she said, reaching for a sketchbook. "Now I am. Now that just leaves 'Roxas'."
"We don't have to wait, guys," remarked Shukaku. "'Roxas is already prepped to go."
Everyone looked towards the living room exit; Ryona was already in his costume. His hair was somewhat spiky in the front, his coat was already on, and he was holding two large keys in each hand. The one in his left hand was black with a chain running along both sides from a purple gem on the hilt to the blade's tip, and it had a black crown keychain attached to it on the bottom. The other in his right hand had an opposite appearance. It was white with a long, narrow space going from the hilt to just short of the tip, and it had a star-like keychain attached. The keychain, however, looked like it was pieced together with shells; five long half-shells to be precise. The star was made to looked like a person. Ryona sheathed both of them beneath his long coat.
"Well then," said Ryona. "Is everyone ready?"
Both Diana and Shukaku gave an enthusiastic "Yes", whereas Kyūbi gave a cool nod, a typical reaction from such a serious demon.
"Okay, let's go; Halloween night waits for no one!"
They all left, ready to snag the rewards of the night.

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Part 1 to the story I did for Halloween last year.

FurAffinity seriously needs to update to allow Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) documents. -_-;

Does anyone know how to put the story up so it DOESN'T have to be put up in the comments?