A Kingdom Hearts story about 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' world Halloween Town!
Enjoy!

Welcome Back To Halloween Town
The Nightmare Begins

The midnight sky blankets the surrounding world. With tiny specks of stars twinkling about up above, while the biggest source of light is emanating from the bright full moon shining down upon the town below.

Our heroes find themselves in the holiday world known as Halloween Town. Sora, Donald, and Goofy walk up towards the Guillotine Gate. They stop right in front of the gate and begin waiting.

The rusty, old gate slowly begins creaking around, trying to move. The trio watches as the gate slowly begins rising up by itself, as it has done every time before. After the gate has risen up as far as it can go, the heroes enter into Guillotine Square. While in the square, no one can be seen, no one can be heard, almost like the place has become a ghost town… well more so than usual.

Sora slowly begins looking around, wondering where exactly everyone is. Most of the time someone is usually there to greet them. The Keyblade wielder looks towards his companions and asks, "Where is everyone?"

Donald and Goofy exchange glances and begin pondering the same question. Donald Duck is the first to come up with something. He quickly looks towards Sora and says, "Maybe there in the Graveyards or at Dr. Finkelstein's lab." Donald soon looks back towards Goofy and sees him pacing while still pondering.

Goofy walks back and forth, forward and backwards, but soon come to stop once he has thought of something. He turns toward Donald and Sora and begins, "Gawrsh, you don't think everybody is hiding because the Heartless are back."

Sora begins observing the area looking for any signs of the Heartless. "Well I don't think the Heartless could've taken over the town with Jack protecting it, but if the Heartless numbers are growing again, we better check on everybody and I know who we should start with." Sora turns his head to look at an oddly-shaped tower that is Dr. Finkelstein's lab. "Come on guys."

The trio begins walking up the stairs leading to Dr. Finkelstein's lair. Suddenly another thought pops into Goofy's head and he shares it with the others, "If the Heartless are back we should also check in on Christmas Town and make sure Santa's alright."

Sora and Donald nod in agreement and the three continue up the stairway. Once they have reached the top of the stairs, Sora slowly nudges the door to open. The door soon begins creaking open all on its own. The three slowly enter into the dark laboratory. Sora looks around, seeing nothing but shadows, the only light coming into the lab is from the moonlight shining in through the windows. "Hello… is anybody home?"

Suddenly from out of nowhere a voice says, "Who's there?"

Sora looks back at his companions, who only offer him shrugs as their answers. He turns back towards the darkness and says, "It's us, Sora, Donald, and Goofy."

"Phew," said the voice. Soon from the shadows comes slowly rolling out on his wheelchair, Dr. Finkelstein. "Well I'm glad it's just you three. The last trio that came into my lab really started causing a ruckus."

"Let me guess," started Sora, "Lock, Shock, and Barrel."

Dr. Finkelstein nods his head and says, "Those imbeciles have cause to much trouble lately. They destroyed precious lab equipment, mess with my important documents, and even had the audacity to delay a project of mine. Even worse," Dr. Finkelstein opens up his head, "those troublemakers tried to steal my brilliant brain."

Donald smirks and says, "Well those three are the little mischief makers of the town," sounding like he's a little impressed by their deeds. Donald quickly spots Sora stern face looking at him. "U-Uh," said a nervious Donald, "What I mean by that is, those three really shouldn't be doing that."

Dr. Finkelstein begins hanging his head low as his head closes back up. "With Jack gone," he started, "no one is here to put those three in their place."

The three quickly turn towards Dr. Finkelstein in wonderment by his words. "What do you mean Jack is gone," Sora asks, "where did he go?"

Dr. Finkelstein slowly raises his head back up and says, "I think he went off in search of the real meaning of the holidays… or something mushy like that. So I really don't know where he went off to."

"So where are Sally, Zero, and the Mayor at," asks Goofy, "did they go with him."

"Oh no," Dr. Finkelstein starts, "they're still in Halloween Town. Sally is usually in her room or wondering around the streets of the town. Zero is moping around near Jack's house, waiting for his master to return. The Mayor is at home coming up with brand new ideas for this year's Halloween." The doctor begins moving towards a window and says, "You see, Jack didn't even tell Sally and Zero where was heading off to nor did he tell them he was leaving and the Mayor still thinks he's at home." He stops the wheelchair right in front of a window and looks down at Guillotine Square. Watching the emptiness of the square… it's usually so crowded there this time of year. He turns his wheelchair around and looks towards his friends. "And I have a strange feeling something is brewing about in our fair town."

Sora, Donald, and Goofy look at each other wondering what type of omen could possibly befall Halloween Town. Sure the Heartless numbers were limited and the Nobodies had not been spotted in a while. The town was even free of Oogie Boogie, that old bag of bugs… but then again that has not stopped him from returning.

Well I hope you enjoyed chapter one and who knows when the next part will be up.
Happy Halloween!