Title: Johnny In The Land Of The Dead

Rating: T

Notes: This is actually an EDIT. I've rewritten the first chapter here. :3 Yay, maybe it won't suck as badly.

Disclaimer: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (C) Jhonen Vasquez
The Nightmare Before Christmas (C) Tim Burton

HERE WE GO. TAKE TWO. :DD

Take note, that beforehand, I had a description about how old everyone was. But, I think you've got some intelligence to the point that you could probably figure it out. Yup. Just be intelligent about it. :3

Johnny spent his Mondays, usually, brooding. He never really was up for killing anyone on a Monday, because he got the Monday Blues too. He never wanted to take the initiative to get up off of his couch on Mondays either. He just sat there, and watched the television.

Even though he would get bored, he would do it anyway.

Upon this said Monday, Johnny just couldn't stand to sit around any longer. He didn't want to look at people, he still wanted to go outside for a walk.

Of course, he would choose to walk in the forest that was some ways from his shack.

He dressed himself properly for that time of the year, and ventured out into the dark world, not to have any idea what he was going to encounter.

After a long immeasurable amount of time, Johnny realized that he was actually lost. He searched for a clearing that he could take out of the forest, but there wasn't one in sight.

His best bet was a cabin in the forest, which he would have to wander to find.

As Johnny searched the forest miserably, he came across a circular clearing of a quite small size. There were doors on the few trees surrounding the edge of the clearing, and they all seemed to present a holiday.

There was one for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's, St. Valentine's, and Halloween. (Alert me if I've missed one. I haven't seen TNBC in ages.)

Johnny investigated every door deeply, but leaned into the Halloween door just a little too far.

His body went spiraling down into a land where the only colors you really saw were deep blue and black. It was dark and depressing, but it had an amazing feeling to it. As though everyone there belonged, and there was a place for them all. The town emanated and feel of desperation, fear, and love.

Johnny loved the feeling immensely. He never wanted to leave the town. He thought about making a life there. Stopping his ghoulish acts for a fresh start.

The new town felt clean, as though everyone there was pleasant.

Right as Johnny had gotten accustomed to the amazing feel of the new town, the sound of crinkling grass and twigs filled his keen ears. Or at least that's what he believed he heard. Four people, give or take.

"Now, you three, remember that we are here to study your abilities to notice intruders, not play around," A man ground out his last three words, annoyance lacing his peaceful tone, "Lock, Shock, Barrell. Get over here, and tell me if you can sense anything." Two pairs of feet shuffled, and then stopped. "Barrell! Stop that! You're going to get your tongue frozen!"

"I wike wicking phe ole! (I like licking the pole!)" (I'm sorry. I had to keep that childish bit from the original first chapter.) A young male voice resounded, his speech shaking from the cold. Johnny then realized the weather. It was snowing. There was ice on the tombstones.

Wasn't it summer back home? Back home? Johnny clutched his head and groaned. "This is fucking bu-Oh shit!" He jumped back as the feet shuffled closer to him, taking coverage behind a large tombstone.

"Ah! Jack! I sense a human! Their body is still backing due to the entrance to Halloween Town! (1) Though, this human is different." A cheerful female voice popped up, happy to make an addition.

"Good, Shock. That's a wonderful observation. Anyone else?"

"It's a man. Sensing from the dark aura, he's done horrible things in his past. Probably plans to in the future." A more mature male voice spoke up, dark and brooding, angry and hateful.

"Yes, Lock. Good. Now, I'd like for you to try and loca-Barrell?" Johnny looked up, and noticed a short boy dressed in blacks and greens walking his way.

Johnny's mind raced and ran through different choices and lies. He fell in the door just seems so unbelievable. Maybe, he just got lost and made his way here? No, that's highly improbable.

The short boy came closer with every passing second.

Johnny's mind just stopped working, and he shot up from his position on the ground.

"Oh, Barrell! Wonderful locating skills! How'd you get free from the pole?"

All attention shifts to Barrell, and an awkward silence falls over the group of five.

They have no idea what kind of future they've just created for themselves.

(1) - Alright. I'm thinking these things up as I go. Really. When a human enters Halloween Town upon any moment, their body reverse ages. They move slower toward their birth, to ensure that decomposition is even among all. So, since Johnny is about 23 in the comics, his age is brought into the middle to late teens. (:

Well, that's MUCH better.

I honestly don't like it much more either, but oh well. It's a great improvement from the original, and I hope you all appreciate the change.

As of 6/29/11, the remodeling of "Chapter One: This Door Goes Where?", is officially done. (:

Just keeping time. ;)

Tell me if you think the improvement was for the better, my lovelies~