Newsies One Shots

The Scavenger Hunt

Modern AU

Central Park's annual Halloween Night of Frights has come once again. There's a haunted house, a scary story contest, and of course the annual scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt is one of the biggest things at the Halloween Night of Frights, and one of Feister's favorite parts of the whole thing. Well, hers and Mush's, after all, they've been the remaining champions for the past three years.

"This is going to be the best year yet!" Feister exclaimed as she and Mush walked over to the scavenger hunt area. "I can feel it in my bones."

"Feisty, you're dressed as a snow leopard, not a skeleton " Mush said with a laugh.

"Ya know, it doesn't help that you're dressed as a skeleton, right?' Feister asked while stepping in front of him and walked backwards. "But seriously, I have a good feeling bout this. After all, no one can defeat dynamic dual."

"You got that right," Mush agreed as he high fived Feister.

"Ok, remember don't do anything stupid."

"Name one-"

"Caramel," Feister cut off while crossing her arms as she continued to walked backwards.

"The riddle said "a sweet an' sticky treat", how was I supposed to know it meant the apples an' not the caramel," Mush defended while throwing his arms in the air.

"Maybe, because the riddle also said "red an' plumb"," she replied with a look that said, "you really do have mush for brains".

Mush only laughed because after what happened with the caramel his hair was like a magnet. It did catch their next clue when they couldn't figure out what "higher than a ghost" meant. But it also meant he had to take three showers, and was still picking caramel out of his hair for the rest of the week.

When they got to the scavenger hunt check in, they signed their names, got their bags to hold the items they found and waited for it to start. After a few minutes someone came and said, "Hello everybody, and welcome to Central Park's Night of Frights annual scavenger hunt! My name is Eliza and I'm one of the judges. Now, before we get started let's go over a little run down on the rules. A group must be two or three people . You have find as many things on your lists, you must be back by midnight. The winners of the scavenger hunt will win tickets to The Scary Night of Movies this weekend at the movie theater. My fellow judges and I will now hand out your first clue, and at exactly 8:13 you may all open your clues. And don't forget to have fun."

Once the clues were passed out and the clock struck 8:13 Mush opened the clue with Feister looking over his shoulder. "A murder has happened in the area, so look around in the heart of the caféteria?" Mush read. He was a little confused since this didn't make any sense.

"The Witch Café," Feister said. Mush gave her a weird look, so she said, "Look the at the first e in cafeteria. It has an accent, and the word café always has that accent, so-"

"It's a play on words," Mush finished. With that they ran over to the opposite end of where they were. The Witch Café was set up in a tent like all the other places there. It was a tent that had long wooden tables and long benches.

Candles, bones, and cobwebs decorated the place. There were some woman dressed as witches, who were making a sweet treat called gool. It was green icing, with candy corn and jelly beans. And "potions" which are flavored sodas that are mixed together.

"Look in the heart of the cafeteria," Feister repeated before going to the middle of the room and looked around. But Mush was sure that wasn't what the riddle meant.