This is for Manuel022's Halloween Awards, so I hope you like it! I'm not good at writing scary/horror, so I hope this is good and that it scares you a bit! :D

This is the picture I used.

"So, how does it look?" Nikki Powers asked, turning around in her Harley Quinn costume, letting the top of the baseball bat spin on the ground while she held it by the handle.

"You look great, babe." Sheryll Goddard insisted with her legs crossed on the couch as she was relaxing in her Black Widow costume while scrolling through the TV channels. "Any good horror movies we can watch?"

"Ouija is on, and so is Ghostbusters."

"Ghostbusters, in case we get kids coming through here." Sheryll turned it on, before standing up, wrapping her arms around Nikki's neck, and pushing back a stray brown hair. "I love you."

"I love you too." The brunette smiled, going to lock the door so they didn't scare any kids, and that's when she looked out the peephole, and saw two children who looked to be girls, holding hands and walking up to the house.

She broke out of her girlfriend's hold before yelling in excitement. "SOMEONE’S AT THE DOOR! GET THE CANDY, QUICK!”

And that's when Sheryll felt a pit in her stomach, and while grabbing the candy, she also picked up her phone.

After all, in case she and Nikki got murdered by two children, at least their was a witness.

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"Mom, why do I have to take Maya trick-or-treating?" Seth Hale questioned as his little sister skipped through the kitchen, dressed as some sort of ballerina or gymnast or...he didn't even know.

"Because I was called in, honey. Apparently a lot of people are getting hurt tonight." His mother , Jane, insisted before kissing his forehead. "Love you."

"Love you too." He mumbled as she went into the garage and Maya came back into the kitchen.

"When are we going?" She asked, as his the text alert went off on his phone, and he picked it up.

"Just a minute. Get your shoes and basket, okay?"

She giggled and ran off, but Seth was too busy looking at the text from his best friend's girlfriend that shocked him to the core.

'Seth? It's Sheryll. There are these two creepy ass girls outside of our apartment and Nikki is trying to get them to leave, but they won't go. Come help us.'

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"Girls, please just leave. There is way more candy in town." Nikki insisted, talking to Corrine and Sunshine (ages 9 and 6, respectively) as they just looked at her with blank stares.

"Look, are you lost?" Sheryll asked, crouching down to the girls, as she was 5'11, and the girls were on the shorter side. "Cause we can call your parents if you just give us your last name."

"Oh, we are not lost, ma'am. We are just trick-or-treating like everyone else." Corrine insisted from inside her jack-o-lantern mask, but Sheryll's gut feeling just got worse.

"Then why are you still here? Do you want Babe Ruth's or something?"

"Sheryll!" Nikki gasped, gently smacking her girlfriend's arm, before continuing to talk to the girls. "Can we help you with anything, girls?"

"That'll be all." Sunshine tilted her head inside the leather mask, grasping onto the older one's hand, before they walked off, and Sheryll almost threw up as she locked the door with the three locks.

"Why are you so jumpy, babe?" Nikki asked, sitting beside her and gently rubbing her arm. "Did Halloween costumes really scare the same woman who can watch all the Chucky movies in a row and sleep with zero nightmares afterward?"

"T-those weren't costumes..." Sheryll stuttered, looking her girlfriend dead in the eyes. "T-those THINGS killed m-my..." She sniffled, holding back tears, as she started to relive her high school nightmare again...

                                              ••••••••••••••FLASHBACK••••••••••••••••

Sheryll shone her flashlight around the woods, looking for her phone she had dropped while jogging earlier that day, and trying to ignore the creeping feeling in her chest as her feet on dead leaves and twigs were the only noises in those woods.

"RAH!" She screamed when she heard that, tripping over a root and falling on her butt, before another flashlight clicked on, and she saw the culprit. "LUKE!"

"Sorry, Sher. I just wanted to see you jump a bit."

"You're a asshole." She growled, pushing herself back on her feet and ignoring his outstretched hand. "What the hell are you doing anyway?"

"I was gonna ask you the same thing. I was looking for you, babe."

"I dropped my phone on my jog." She insisted, going to kiss his cheek playfully, but a third voice interrupted them, and the scared feeling that she felt before Luke snuck up on her came back as they both turned to two girls in matching floral dresses, one with a leather mask on her head, and the taller one with a jack-o-lantern on hers.

The one who was probably older had been the one who had spoken, holding her light pink Samsung Galaxy in her almost white hand, holding it out to her, but Sheryl took it reluctantly.

"Thank you..." She trailed off.

"Sorry, ma'am. My name is Corrine, and this is my younger sister, Sunshine."

"Cool. I'm Luke Connors, and this is my girlfriend, Sheryll Goddard. You two lost?" He asked, wrapping his arm around Sheryll.

"We are not lost, sir. We are trick-or-treating just like everyone else."

"We can lead you back into town, if you want." Luke offered, but the two girls shook their heads at the same time, making Sheryll want to throw up, but she managed to say. "Okay, then... See you around."

But Luke wouldn't budge, and instead he asked. "Can you take off your masks?"

The two girls seemed to glare at him, and they both raised their hands to the sky, and started chanting in a unknown language.

Sheryll gasped as a sharp pain in her stomach made her fall to her knees, but when she tried to look up at the two girls and Luke, she gagged, and grasped onto the damp grass, before she heaved onto the ground.

She tried to stop vomiting, but she couldn't see or hear at this point, and she could feel the vomit staining her shirt before everything went dark and silent.

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"W-when I woke up, I-I was in the hospital. I-I had a abdominal cyst, which i-is why I had t-thrown up blood. H-he had been s-slashed open. I-it was labeled a-as 'The Scream Copycat.'" Sheryll sobbed into Nikki's arms, grasping onto her.

Nikki was shocked. She remembered when that had happened in her first semester of college and thinking it was so fascinating how they had never found the culprits...but now she was just finding out it was not only her girlfriend's ex who had died, but they just had the murderers at their door.

She stood up, grabbed her keys, and slipped her jacket over her costume. "We have to tell police that there are two demons running around."

"The police don't believe a word I say, Nikki." She had regrouped now, only occasionally sniffing, as she held her girlfriend back. "They think I am a unreliable witness cause my cyst caused me to almost die while that was happening and that I was mentally unstable when it happened."

"So what do we do?" Nikki questioned, pushing her wig out of her face.

"Just pretend you never saw them. As long as you don't ask them to take off their masks, they won't hurt you."

"But they almost killed you, and Luke was the one who asked."

"They effect the person the victim is closest to. I was Luke's girlfriend. Just don't ask them to take off their masks, you are safe."

Nikki nodded, before she pulled out her I-Phone, and started rapidly texting someone.

"Who are you texting?"

"Seth. He's taking Maya trick-or-treating."

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Seth was rapidly tapping his foot as Maya went up to the house, grinning when she was given candy before running down the steps and clung to his hand.

They had been out for about two hours, and they were almost finished, when Seth's text alert went off, and while Maya went up to the next house, he read the text from Nikki, and a chill went down his spine.

'The Scream Copycat came up to our house. The victim was Sheryll's boyfriend. Watch out for two little girls, ones about six, the other is nineish. They are wearing matching floral dresses, the smaller one is wearing a leather mask, and the other one is wearing a jack-o-lantern mask. And if you and Maya do see them, DO NOT BRING THEM WITH YOU OR ASK IF THEY CAN TAKE OFF THEIR MASKS! Tell Maya the same thing, but don't tell her why. '

He pocketed the phone, and Maya was about to go to the last house, but Seth grabbed her arm, and started to lead her back in the direction of their house.

"Seth! What are you doing?!"

"We have to go home, Maya. It's not safe out here."

"You're just scared! I want more candy!" She whined, trying to pull away, and he pleaded.

"Maya, I will buy you candy at the store tomorrow when it's super overpriced if you just come home."

"That's not fun, Seth!" She screamed, pulling away, and that's when a third voice cut in, causing a chill to go up Seth's spine.

Maya stopped pulling and so did he as they turned to see two girls in matching floral dresses, one with a leather mask, the other with a jack-o-lantern mask.

"Let the child trick-or-treat, Sir. She just wants to have fun."

Seth bit his lip and went to grab Maya's hand to drag her home, but Maya smiled at the two girls.

"Thank you. Can you take off your masks? I wanna try them on" She asked with a smile, and the two girls glared as the sky went black.

"Maya, no!" Seth yelled, trying to grab onto her as the girls started chanting, but he felt a stabbing pain in his stomach and fell to the ground as everything just stopped, but not without him hearing Maya scream loudly.

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"Nikki!" Nikki woke up to see Sheryll sobbing as she shoved her phone in her face. "It happened again!" She wailed.

Nikki rubbed her eyes quickly, before taking the phone from her, and chocked when she saw the article.

'Local girl slashed open, brother diagnosed with abdominal cyst. The Scream Copycat is back.'