James picked out the lizard costume, only once bothering to try it on did he realize he'd gotten the DRAGON costume!
"Uh-oh... well, there are websites that insist dragons were once an actual species that simply went extinct... so... maybe that'll count? And technically dragons are animals... and it invitation DIDN'T say that 'mythical' animals didn't count..."
The dragon costume was generic,, with green plastic scale, and a yellow cloth belly,, and the hook hanger wings with cloth webbing, and a heavy hollow tail that pulled on James' back to stay off the floor,, and of course the three yellow talon boot, and clawed gloves... It was a little hard to see with the oversized muzzle, he might have to take it off to each anything... the plastic horns were at least light... Sitting down was gonna be a challenge too... But it was too late to hurry back and replace it!
Brad had arranged this party as an excuse for adults to dress up in costumes for Halloween, and maybe as an excuse for some of his furry friends to hang out. James wasn't one himself, but he held no grudge.
But then James would find out he wasn't the only one who had waited till the last minute to find a costume.
At Brad's fairy large house in a gated community, James was spoken to by a bright white horse girl with a mask that must have made it even harder to see than with his costume! The mane and tail was yellow. The hooves stilts looked hard to walk on. The hooves hands looked downright impossible to hold anything with... And getting through the door with that horn was gonna be a challenge.
"Hello mighty dragon you, what are you doing among these lowly animals?"
James knew that voice! "Kacey!?"
"BIG BROTHER?!"
"What are you doing here?!"
"I'm not missing out on a party like this!"
"You're not even in the right theme!"
"Neither are you!"
"I took it by accident!"
"... Unicorns were what the costume shop had left that was closest to a horse!" Kacy didn't say the store hadn't been there the day before, not like she'd know, or that she'd just missed her brother while there.e
"Well, aren't we a mythical collection!"
"Rosa?" James asked to his off-again on-again girl friend...
She was wearing a full body suit... it must have been like a sauna in that thing. Bright orange fur. A full fox head concealing mask. Her body was a mass of bright orange fur with white 'gloves', 'socks' and ear tips. And also she had a slew of spring loaded fox tails behind her. She was dressed up as a kitsune.
"Hey James, hey Kacy."
"Did you pick a mythical costume by accident too?" James asked bewildered.
"Naw. Picked this one on purpose!"
"Of course." James said. Rosa always had to be the center of attention even if she was in disguise.