All right, I realize it's been a while, but I figured my next Halloween story should be based around 'The Loud House', so here it is! Anyway, enjoy!

It was nighttime as everyone was asleep in bed... well, nearly everyone. Lisa Loud, having recently got a brand new invention idea in her head, couldn't sleep as she was carefully sneaking out of her room and carefully walking downstairs towards the kitchen. Unfortunately, in the process, she didn't take into account that Cliff had been sleeping near the top step, so imagine her shock as her foot came into contact with Cliff's tail, making him yowl. Lisa tried to soothe the cat, but by the time she did that, most of the Loud sisters upstairs were already awake.

Luna yawned as she came out in her pajamas, noticing Lisa standing nervously. "Lisa, love, it's the middle of the night."

"Lisa, again?" Lori frowned as she walked out, Leni following not too far behind. "You're just lucky Mom and Dad didn't hear that!"

"All right, what's so important that it couldn't wait until morning?" Lucy asked as she walked out of her room.

"It's Lisa. She's thinking up a brand new idea for an invention again!" Luna sighed as Lisa blushed in embarrassment.

"Hey!" Lola came out, wearing princess pajamas and a cucumber facemask, making everyone, even Lucy yelp. The cucumbers fell from Lola's eyes as she glared at the sisters, Lana following out. "This better be good, Lisa!"

As Lynn and Luan came out to glare at Lisa, Lincoln peeked out from his bed as he sighed. He then turned to the wall as he said, "Living with ten sisters isn't easy, as I've mentioned before. Sometimes, we all sleep well, but... one of them has to get an idea in the middle of the night... it's just something we're used to at this point..."

Lincoln came over to the others as he whispered, "All right, all right, break it up, sisters! We don't want to rile everything up. Mom and Dad are still sleeping, but if we keep making more noise, they'll know something's up!"

Lincoln then turned to Lisa. "Okay, Lisa, what were you thinking that couldn't wait until morning?"

"I was just going to get a glass of water." Lisa smiled nervously.

Lori, nonchalantly, just pointed towards the restroom on the other end. Lisa scoffed. "I meant from the kitchen."

Everyone glared at Lisa as she looked uncomfortable as she meekly admitted, "...and maybe get an orange juice."

Lincoln and the other sister stepped a little closer as Lisa chuckled nervously. "For the... goldfish I'm experimenting on?"

"Lisa, what has Mom, Dad and most of us here told you about experimenting in the middle of the night on animals?" Lincoln asked.

"Not to do it?" Lisa asked.

"Exactly." Lincoln paused as he gave a smirk. "Besides, fish can't eat orange juice."

"And why not? I'm interesting in hearing that theory, Lincoln." Lisa frowned.

"Because they could easily die." Lori started.

"Exactly, and we know what happens to fish that die, they get flushed down the toilet..." Lincoln said, giving a smirk. "And when they do, they come back to life."

Every sister turned to Lincoln in confusion as Lincoln raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me you haven't heard the stories."

"What stories?" Luna asked.

"They say when a fish dies and gets flushed down the toilet, they can easily spring back to life in the sewers." Lincoln explained.

"So... the first fish that died in our family..." Leni started.

"...could still be swimming around our sewers... only he'll have grown bigger and grow legs. But they won't be the same fish we knew them as... they'd be mutated... mutated into Monster Goldfish!" Lincoln said as he sat down.

Lucy seemed interested in the scary tale as Lana and Lola held each other. Leni sat down, holding her legs as if interested. Lori, Luna, Luan and Lynn, understanding where Lincoln was going with this, sat down as they listened to the tale. Lisa frowned as she said, "Monster Goldfish? Please!"

"It's true!" Lincoln insisted. "It all started a few years ago, before Lucy was born. People were trying to get rid of some chemical waste that had been mistakenly delivered to a power plant, and the best way to get rid of it was to dump it in the sewer. And so they did. They say the chemical waste inside the sewers brought people's dead goldfish back to life and turned them into monsters... and anybody who worked in the sewers never came back from their first day... rumors say that the Monster Goldfish still walk around the sewers to this very day. And any goldfish, dead or alive, that gets flushed down, joins in the ranks of the Monster Goldfish... and if they ever came out... well, you don't want to know what'll happen..."

Leni shuddered as Lucy gave a grin. Lana and Lola looked uncomfortable with the idea as both of them said, "Good night!"

As Lana and Lola ran back in their room, Lisa just rolled her eyes. "Don't think I don't know what you're doing, Lincoln!"

"Oh?" Lincoln said with a smirk.

Lisa frowned. "Fine. I won't do any experiments tonight! I'll stay in bed like a good girl!"

"Good. Now you just sleep." Lincoln said, leading Lisa over towards her room and shut the door. Lincoln waited as she watched Lisa climb into the covers.

Lori, watching this, smiled as she patted her little brother on the head. "Great job, little bro. Hopefully we won't have to worry about more experiments in the middle of the night."

"I'm just happy to help. And besides, I tell a good story." Lincoln said as he went over to his bedroom.

"Yeah... Monster Goldfish... what a tale it is..." Lucy smiled as the other sisters nodded and started to head towards their bed... though Leni couldn't help but take a look towards the downstairs to see their swimming goldfish.

Shaking nervously, she followed Lori back into their room, hopefully getting a peaceful night's sleep.

Little did any of them realize was that what started out as a scary story... may turn out to be a scary adventure.

And there's the first chapter! How did you guys like it? Keep your eye out on this story, as Halloween is rounding the corner! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!