Urgent: Find the Spirit of Halloween (Patrol Fan-Fiction)

MISSING: THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN

by Madam Marvelous
ID#26130

I was working on my homework when a beep came from my BADGE communicator. My textbooks scattered onto the floor as knocked them off my bed as I raced to see what I was needed for. "Madam Marvelous, ready for duty."

"Have you found out any signs of the Spirit of Halloween yet?" Director Nova asked.

"No, sir. I patrolled last night and didn't find anything," I said, hating to disappoint BADGE's leader. Then an idea sprang into my mind. "But I've got a great idea on where to look for some clues when I'm done with my homework."

"Get to it, then. We can't risk not knowing if the spirit was abducted like the Avatars and E.B. had been. The powers of the embodiment of Halloween in the wrong hands could be disastrous." Nova cut the communication off at that point. Clearly, he didn't understand how challenging my science course was at the Sagan Academy. I gathered my notes on balancing chemical equations from the floor and placed them in their folder. They'd have to wait until later.

I grabbed a purple hoodie from my closet and rushed down the stairs to find one of my parents. "Hey. Can you take me to the Halloween store, please? I need a costume for school."

Dad was at the kitchen table while Mom put the finishing touches on dinner. "You're a shapeshifter, Kitt'n. Why do you need a costume? I figured that we wouldn't have to waste money on buying--"

"Hush," Mom said as she stepped up beside him and swatted him on the shoulder. "Of course I can. Do you know what you want to go as? How about dressing like Lucille Ball or Mayim Bialik? Maybe Ruth Bader Ginsburg"

Mom had been on this kick about notable women lately, so her suggestions didn't surprise me at all. "I'll think about it, but I'd like to see what they have in stock. I want something unique that nobody else will be going as."

"That's fine," she said. "We can go after dinner. Go wash your hands and set the table."

I hurried off, eager to eat and to be off. It isn't often that a chance comes to kill two birds with one stone. Getting a costume for Halloween was something fun to do, but if I could find the Spirit of Halloween and save it at the same time, well, that would be the treat of the season!

Be sure to visit Neo Utopia and join in the hunt for The Spirit of Halloween in the Nightmare Before Halloween patrol event going on now!!!