#kain fall

Vlad: Heheheee, Halloween's right around the corner Cindy~!

Cinder: *not as enthusiastic* Joy...

Vlad: Oh come on, where's your spooky spirit?

Cinder: You do this every year, it's just a single day wear kids dress up and eat candy.

Vlad: I know, but it's a fun holiday! I know you put up with me gushing over it ever since we met but why not get in the mood, for us the and kids?

The pyromancer dealt with a lot of things her ecstatic husband did almost every day. She was night and he was day despite their color choice and fashion sense, but Cinder would be lying to herself if she didn't enjoy it. Not denying her smile to form it was a cute sight of Vlad hanging up decorations for the occasion.

Cinder: Are the pies almost done?

Vlad: Just about to be, never tried cinnamon on pumpkin but we'll see how those turn out.

Cinder: Also I was wondering...*reaches under the couch pulling out two sets of clothes on hangers* How would these suffice as our macabre attire?

Vlad: ...is that-

Cinder: Gomez and Morticia Addams costumes? Yes, yes they are. *winks*

Vlad: Cindy you're the best!!! *bounds to her then swoops Cinder up in a hug* Oh wait our heights are all wrong...

Cinder: It's fine, I didn't plan on walking in heels anyway with how far we might go.

"Mommy, daddy, we're ready!" Shouted a chipper voice from upstairs accompanied by excited little feet.

Vlad: Oh. My. Goodness.

Ash (3 yrs old): Ta-daaa! *dressed as Carrie White post blood bucket* Mommy picked it out for me!

Cinder: Oh, that's fake blood by the way. That'll wash out by tomorrow.

Vlad: Whew, had me worried for sec-

Cinder: But not on Kain's.

Stomping dramatically in the living room came their boy clad in a dark gray jacket, dusty jeans, and red-spattered machete in hand topped off with the infamous hockey mask.

Kain (8 yrs old): ... *dressed as Jason Voorhees*

Vlad: *deep breath* Cindy...?

Cinder: It's alright, it's pig's blood!

Vlad: IN WHAT UNIVERSE DOES THAT MAKE IT BETTER?!

Cinder: For authenticity babe, calm down! You two loving your costumes?

Ash: Yup-yup!

Kain: *raises his mask* It's hard to breath with this thing and it makes my face hot...

Cinder: Oh, here sweetie.

Using her prosthetic arm she punctures six holes near the mouth with her metal nail, strapping the plastic on Kain's head.

Vlad: Better?

Kain: Mmm, now I'll sound tons scarier with my breathing!

Cinder: Haha, wonderful.

Vlad: Are you guys ready for the best Halloween ever?!

Kain/Ash: YAAAAAY!!!!

Vlad: Later we're gonna talk about using actual blood on props...! *whispers angrily to his wife*

Cinder: Not before our alone time~.

Vlad: *teeth chattering* W-why...i-i-is it so dang...c-c-c-cold?!

Ash: It’s December dad, January is supposed to be worse so let’s be thankful.

Kain: Plus you guys are behind on the heating bill so we can’t go over this month until it’s payed off. Yours and mom’s words so, yeah.

Vlad: Ahhh I knew I should’ve incorporated Dust into my cloak dammit... *looks over at his kids*

Kain: Don’t look at us, you didn’t think ahead so deal with the consequences! *small fire lit in his palm warming him and his sister*

Ash: *sticks her tongue out*

Vlad: Betrayed by own children... *sniffle*

Cinder: I’m back! *closes door quickly* It is frozen hell out there.

Vlad: No k-k-kidding! Oh, h-hey Cindy!

Cinder: Hmm?

Vlad: You c-can heat things up right?

Cinder: Yes.

Vlad: It’s incredibly cold right now as you know, but you’re warm and are a walking heat generator.

Cinder: Yeeees?

Vlad: ...

Cinder: Ugh, c’mere.

Excitedly chuckling the pseudovampire hopped off the couch to the floor for his wife. Sitting down she wrapped her thighs around his neck, a warm glow illuminating around Vlad’s cheeks as he sighed. Cinder’s own cheeks donned a flushed red from his reaction.

Cinder: No one said you could enjoy this!

Vlad: Nobody said I couldn’t~!

Kain/Ash: Gross...

Cinder: GO TO YOUR ROOMS!!!

Cinder: Can’t believe we have to go to this parent-teacher meeting.

Vlad: Cindy, Kain got into a fight...

Cinder: Well I can guarantee you he did something for a good reason!

The couple reach the principal’s office to find the irritated school’s foremost at his desk, and their seven year old son sitting in a chair rather lax, though his hands looked rather grubby and red. Kain looked up at his parents with a slight smile.

Kain: Hi mom, hi dad!

Vlad: Okay, what did my boy do this time?

Principal: Mr. Caliban, your son is responsible for beating three boys mercilessly for, what I got from the parents and them, seemingly no reason.

Vlad: HE WHAT?!

Kain: Nuh-uh, they were being racist to her and pulling her ears when she told them to stop!

Principal: If that is the case then you shouldn’t have fought them!

Vlad: At least tell the adults!

Kain: They didn’t fucking do anything when I told a teacher...

Principal: Young man!!!

Vlad: Watch your mouth in public! *he whispered to Kain*

Principal: *sighs* Mrs. Caliban, what have you to say of this?!

Cinder: ...are you fucking kidding me?

Principal: !!!

Cinder: You fucking call us up here because our son rightfully kicked some bitch’s spoiled crotch goblins for being little menaces to my daughter?! You can shove this damn meeting up your ass, let’s go Vlad. *leaves*

Vlad: C-Cindy wait! *runs after her*

Principal: O__O;

Kain: Can I go now?

-Later at home-

Ash sits on the couch with a small icepack over each of her bat ears, watching her favorite Valen cartoons. She perks up when the door opens to the sight of her brother and parents, running to hug Kain.

Ash: Kay-kay!

Kain: I’m back!

Cinder: Kain.

Kain: I’m not apologizing and I won’t write an apology letter.

Vlad: You’re not going to.

Kain: ???

Vlad: What you did today was a bit...much, I wouldn’t have beaten up people but you are not me. You stood up for your family and that’s all that matters, and if those brats act up again, I know you did it with good intentions.

Cinder: Also you took on three at once, impressive! Were their noses broken and how many teeth did you knock out?

Vlad: Cindy!!!

Kain/Ash: *giggling*

Cinder: KAIN YOU PUT THAT DOWN RIGHT NOW!!!

Kain: *running with a cleaver* Miss me miss me now you gotta catch me!

Cinder: AND STOP THROWING FIRE CRACKERS, ASH!

Ash: *giggles as she hurls tiny bombs at the ground with a tiny pop*

Cinder was a woman who could take on anything, from Grimm, to other people, some sleazy creep who got too grabby for his own good, all manners of the like. One thing’s for certain, motherhood isn’t one of them, for her and Vlad’s little blessings, Kain and Ash, were running her ragged. Kain was a rambunctious boy, having discovered the wonders of sharp things at the age of three which only grew into his seven year old self now. Ash was two going on three years and the sound minor explosives brought joy to her heart, the little bat ears she inherited from her father wiggling with excitement before the pitch.

Cinder: You’re making a mess! *snatches the box from her daughter*

Ash: *sad pout*

TWANG!

Cinder gritted her teeth then stormed to the kids room hoping nothing was broken, and maybe punish Kain regardless.

Cinder: If you cut something with that knife I swear-*THWING*

Her rant would’ve continued if not for the same cleaver Kain ran off with flung itself into the wall, whiffing near her head...

Kain: Oops...

The pyromancer fell to her knees in exhaustion, her children’s antics catching up to her. Ash waddled in and stood next to her brother, the half-human pups approaching their tired mom.

Ash: Mama?

Kain: Are you okay...?

Cinder: *exhale* I am now...

Kain/Ash: ???

Cinder: Because...I got you right where I want you!

An abrupt rush of motion and both kids were swept up into Cinder’s embrace, Kain screaming and Ash squealing with glee. Cinder herself laughed as she spun with both her little gremlins.

Cinder: Okay, now are you two done driving mom crazy?

Kain/Ash: Yeeeaaah.

Cinder: Good because now mom has a game to play. *sets them down* Since I chased you around the house all day, maybe you could chase me?

Kain: Like tag?!

Cinder: Kind of!

“If it means you don’t dying on my watch then I’d rather play tag,” she thought to herself cantankerously. Ah well, the one-eyed fire mage ran out of the room, the sound of gleeful children close behind.

Jaune/Cinder: *baggy eyes* Yaaaaaay...

Kain: So you guys have a crazy Halloween lover in your family too?

Garnet: Two, and our mom gets excited since October is her birth month, so that means we have her birthday right after trick-or-treating.

Blossom: Citrus still has two years before she’s “officially done” trick-or-treating.

Kain: You two tapped out?

Garnet/Blossom: Yep!

Kain: Huh, guess that means Ash will have someone to go with this year.

Citrus/Ash: SPOOKY MONTH!!!!!

Ruby/Vlad: CANDY TIME!!!!!!!!!

Jaune/Cinder: *both facepalm*

Kain: This is going to be a long October...

Ruby/Vlad/Citrus/Ash:

Ash: *walking through the halls until she sees Jade working on wiring, smirks* Heheeee, sorry Jade, but this is how the cookie crumbles~...*kills her, then suddenly Kain, Veronica, Frost, and co. all pop out of the same position she was in*

Ash: WAIT-

Dead Body Reported!

Kain: DEAD TO RIGHTS, DEAD TO GODDAMN RIGHTS, DEAD TO GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING RIGHTS!!!

Ash: YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!

Frost: All according to plan, haha!

Veronica: Lol, rekt!

Ash: I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU, my own family!

Kain: Guess that’s how the cookie crumbles, little sis.

Ash: Eh?!

Ash was an Imposter.

Lea: Good plan, Frost!

Garnet: Now what tasks do we have left?

Veronica: Reactor.

Jonas: Umm, why is it counting down...?

0:03...0:02...0:01

“CRAP!!!!!”

Defeat.

Frost: What, how!??!

Kain: Haaaahahahaha, you all fell for it!

Yuki: ...I’d be mad if that wasn’t more genius than Frost’s plan.

Blossom: But how???

Kain: When the game started I looked away for a sec, looked back and saw I was the Imposter but I didn’t see my partner, so when Frost planned her ambush, I took the time to sabotage the Reactors.

Ash: So you betrayed me, knowing kinda full well I was also an Imposter, killed me, but still got us the win...

Kain: Eeeeyyyyup~!

Citrus: Hey, Blossom?

Blossom: What’s up lil’ sis?

Citrus: So Kain and I gave each other our numbers, right?

Blossom: Okay.

Citrus: And we’ve had pretty great conversations.

Blossom: Uh-huh.

Citrus: What’s it mean to send a nude?

Blossom: ...what?

Citrus: Kain sent me this video just now, and I dunno what to make of it. *shows her sister a few second video of Kain in his room, only in black jeans. The half-Faunus boy turned off his light and walked to his Scroll*

Kain: Oh! Oh hey, I was just ‘bouta go to bed. I know we couldn’t vid-call tonight but...that’s alright! *brushes his long, curly black hair behind his ears* Goodnight girl, I’ll see ya’ tomorrow. *proceeds to fall backwards, letting out a scream for it to be distorted by the audio of his Scroll, the video finally ending*

Citrus: Is this a nude or am I missing something?

Blossom: I think Kain is missing brain cells...

-At the Fall-Caliban house-

Ash: So you fell on your back for the sake of a joke?

Kain: Worth it...

Cinder: That girl is a hazard to your health.

Vlad, from downstairs: IT’S TRUE LOVE CINDY!!!

Vlad, filming with his scroll: Okay so, Cinder wanted to try out this Warframe game that Kain and Ash play, I’m recording her reaction to watch later.

Cinder: Ha ha, very funny Vlad, I doubt it’ll be amazed. So what...“Frame” did you guys set me with again.

Ash: Ember Prime!

Kain: Ignis Wraith for the Primary, Kuva Nukor for the secondary, and Silva & Aegis Prime for the Melee. All fire based weapons just for us!

Cinder: Why-oooohhh, okay, because of our fire related Semblances, I get it.

Ash: *giggles*

Kain: Right, so we’re in Mot now in the Void, seeing how long she can go with ol’ Ember here before she decides to extract. *he says over the many enemies firing their weapons, the timer reading 3 minutes now*

Cinder: So the weapons do what they intend, a flamethrower, a chained beam pistol, and a sword and shield?

Kain: Spinning mace, and a shield, specifics mom!

Cinder: Whatever.

Ash: Hold down R2 and press X, hold it if you want.

Cinder: *does the former, shoots a red-orange fireball, burning two enemies* Oh! *charges it, shoots a bigger fireball, burning six enemies this time* Huh, neat!

Vlad: See, they told you it’d be fun!

Ash: It gets so much better. Press Square this time!

Cinder: ‘K... *Ember is wreathed in a spiral of flames* Does this act as armor or something?

Kain: Pretty much, and see that meter? The higher the percentage the more damage your abilities will do, but your energy will drain when it reaches ninety percent.

Cinder: Ah, balances the power, got it. *sees the meter has reached sixty percent now* How do I decrease it?

Ash: Hit Square again or push Circle to use her third ability.

Cinder: *presses Circle, releasing a wall of flame around her, burning enemies and knocking them down, her eyes widening* Woah...

Kain/Ash: I know right?!

Vlad: *big doofy grin on his face*

Cinder: Nooow what does triangle do???

Kain: It...just watch.

Cinder apprehensively looks her son, but pushes triangle anyways...a maelstrom of meteors hails down on a mob of enemies, either killing them or taking of their health.

Cinder: ...

Vlad: *snickers* Weeeell?

Cinder: ...I love this game.

Kain/Ash: SUCCESS!!! *high five each other*

Vlad: And I got what I needed, alright you two, let’s go get dinner started!

Cinder: You guys go on ahead, I’ll be here another minute or so.

-Five hours later-

Vlad: Cindy.....it’s time for bed...

Cinder: *hair a bit unkempt, eye slightly bloodshot, fingers flying across the controller as she Bullet Jumps, casts abilities, and fires her weapons along with swinging her melee* J-just five more minutes...!

Vlad: YOU SAID THAT TWENTY “FIVE MORE MINUTES” AGO!