Here you were again, Halloween and and your family had managed to get you to the party again. Hey, when you were a kid you liked these things, but now? Well lets say you needed something to make it more interesting. Sure there were girls at the party, but the costumes? It was a joke! You had to make things better so you at least spiced your costume up, though your family didn't realize it.
When you showed your family your costume they all thought you were a scientist. They certainly had never seen your comics! You'd sold a load around school, but definitely not shown any to your Mom or sisters! They wouldn't appreciate it. So, scientist... maybe. Better to say mad scientist. You kind of thought of him as a sort of anti-hero... well, anti-adventurer since he never really fought crime or anything.
Dr Hypno was his name, a scientist, engineer, biologist, chemist, metallurgist genius who absolutely LOVED gadgets! In typical Mc Guyver style he'd usually build stuff one the spur of the moment from junk nearby, but it would always work (usually only once, or at least as long as needed though). One comic had him build a rocket ship out of three garbage cans, a lawnmower and some fuzzy dice (they were important... stabilizers!). Another had him build a rain making machine out of a lava lamp, a garden hose, two camp stoves and sixteen paper clips. One had him hypnotize all the girls at the local school to fall for him using nothing but the school intercom and a bobby pin (which he insisted on calling his 'Fluxed Inductor')... though of course the girls snapped out of it before he could *Ahem* make use of the situation! Hey, this was something you were selling at school! The teachers would have had a fit if you'd sold porn! Of course that didn't mean you hadn't DRAWN stories like that, you just didn't show anyone those particular stories. Now those were your favorite stories! He he!
"Hello? Are you OK?" you heard your Mom say pointedly, finally finding you in the crowd.
"Uh, yeah Mom," You said, sighing.
She's caught you day dreaming again. You straightened your costume, fixing the long white scraggly wig, and shook your head at her costume. Your Mom went for weird (well, your sisters too) and this year she'd gone for Xena the Warrior princess, right down to cardboard rings, like those things she threw in the show. Her chest was covered by the paper mache cirlicues, like the brass things she wore, but it was over pink cloth, not skin! Nearby you could see Claire too, your older sister. She had on some kind of leotard that was covered in goo... looked like jello, over an inch thick everywere, but you doubt it was. It didn't smell for one thing, and in this heat Jello would likely have melted! She also wore a balaclava which was also covered in goo, looking like gooey hair in a weird way.
"What are you Claire?"
"A slime." she said smiling "You know from Shazmar, that new online game. I know a lot of people don't pick them 'cos their dumb, low mental stats etc, but I like them. I think they look cute!"
You shook your head, but then a hand grabbed your shoulder and turned you around to see...
"AARRGH!"
You jumped as green, scales and piercing eyes stared at you. Then you saw it was just Juno, your younger sister. She giggled from inside her modified hoody. Her suit was also sort of skin tight, except for the coat, but the coat seemed to have been used just for the hood. Wires pushed the hood forward over her forehead, looking just like the upper jaw of a snake. Eyes were glued on top and fake scales were glued on in places all over her costume. A cardboard strip went from the hood down around her chin and back up the other side looking like the lower jaw of the snake... leaving Claire's face peering out from inside a snake mouth. Very weird! There was even a red strip of fabric hanging out under Juno's chin that looked like a tongue, although forked it looked more like a long normal tongue than a snake one.
"GOTCHA!" she shouted, jumping up and down.
"Oh I should have guessed it would be snakes!" You moaned, Juno seemed to be on a snake craze this last year, ever since she saw the python at school. She just loved them!
"Naga!" Juno said simply "We eat ladys in one slurp! Yum!"
"Errrr, yeah right." you mutter and try to walk away into the crowd, but Juno seems to want to follow you.
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