This story takes place after GoldGuardian2418's Halloween story, 'Spiders and Skeletons'.
Enjoy and no flames! It's Christmas!
Spider Man, aka Peter Parker, was out on patrol this Christmas Eve. He saw the many happy and hectic citizens caught up in the Christmas chaos.
"New York City, it's a heck of a town."
The hero swung through the busy city. People on ground looked up seeing their friendly neighborhood superhero passing by. They waved hello and even took some pictures.
"Good to see the people of New York showing some holiday spirit." Spider Man said to himself. At first, no one trusted Spider Man, but after years of saving the town and it's citizens, many of the population warmed up to him at last.
Spider Man's phone rang. He landed on a rooftop and answered it. "Aunt May?"
"Peter? Could you come back to the house?" asked Peter's aunt. "There's someone here to needs to see you." Her voice sounded uneasy.
"If you say so." Spider Man hung up and hurried to his house. He didn't like how his aunt sounded. "Maybe it's Santa Clause delivering coal in person."
Spider Man arrived without his costume so not to raise suspicion. He came inside. "Hello?"
He froze.
Sitting on the living room couch was a skeleton. A skeleton in a black suit with white pinstripes and a bat bow tie.
Next to the skeleton looked like a red-haired woman, a woman with blue skin with stitches on her face. She obviously wasn't human.
But what really stunned Peter were the five ghoulish looking children that were with them.
One of them was a skeleton wearing a grey spiderweb pattern dress with a black spider brooch, long red hair, and a bat-shaped bow in her hair. She looked like the oldest.
There was another skeleton of medium height. He had spiky short red hair and wore a lab coat with black rubber gloves. He looked like a mad scientist.
On the couch sat two blue skinned girls, quietly drinking what looked like red juice boxes. They had various stitches on their skin, arms, and legs.
They were twins. Both had red hair pulled up in pigtails and wore matching black dresses.
Peter shivered seeing their black, empty eye sockets gazing right through him.
And in the blue skinned woman's arms was a sleeping baby with skin and stitches just like her. He was sucking on a red pacifier.
The suit wearing skeleton stood up. "Spider Man? Is that you?"
"Jack Skellington?!" Peter knew this skeleton. He was Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King and ruler of Halloween. He met him a while ago on Halloween night.
"Ah! Spider Man! It is you, my boy!" The friendly skeleton shook the confused boy's hand. "Merry Christmas!"
"W-What are you doing here?! And who are they?!"
Jack smiled. "Why, this is my family, of course." He brought him closer to his clan. "Everyone, this is Spider Man, the hero of this fine city. This is my wife, Sally."
"Hello, Spider Man." Sally spoke sweetly. "It's very nice to meet you." He showed him her baby. "This is Jackson."
The baby was still asleep.
"This is my daughter Julie and my son Sam." Jack introduced.
Julie zipped right up to Peter. "Is it true you can climb on walls and shoot webs from your hands?!" Excitement poured from her words. "You don't look like a spider, but still! It's amazing how a human can have spider powers!"
"Uh-"
Sam rubbed his gloved hands together. "Perhaps you and I can partake in an...experiment together?" he asked, a twisted grin on his skull.
"Sam, I thought we talked about this..." Jack said sternly.
"Forgive me, Father." Sam said. "It's not everyday you meet a fascinating subject."
Peter jumped when he felt something poke his leg. He turned and saw the twins looking at him. They moved silent as shadows.
Peter noticed that they were drinking pouches of a thick red liquid with straws.
"These are the twins, Jenny and Judy."
"Uh, hello..." Peter tried not to sound too creeped out.
"Hello." said a voice from behind.
Peter jumped up to the ceiling. He saw another red-haired skeleton girl. In her hand was an old book. Her hair was in a ponytail. She dressed in a black, long sleeved dress with a white bat wing shaped collar.
"And this is Sarah." Jack said. "She's quite a bookworm."
"And proud to be, Father." Sarah said, her eye sockets back in her book.
"So, why are you here?" asked Aunt May.
"Why, we're here on Christmas vacation, Madame." Jack said.
"WHAT?!" Peter was so shocked, he dropped to the floor.
"Yes. Last time I visited here, I was so amazed by your city! So I asked the family to come with me for some well-needed time off. Even the Pumpkin King needs a little vacation."
"Pumpkin King?" May whispered to Peter.
"Yeah, he's basically the king of Halloween." Peter said as he got up. "And now he's here on Christmas Eve!"
"And since we're here. We are going to need a guide." Jack said. "That's where you come in, old boy."
Peter bit his lip. He felt like he wanted to scream. A scary family of skeletons and rag dolls running around New York?!
"I...think I'm gonna need some backup on this."
At the S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion, Spider Man stood before the Web Warriors. Iron Spider, Agent Venom, Kid Arachnid, and Scarlet Spider.
"This better be good, Spidey." Agent Venom said. "It's Christmas Eve!"
"Don't worry, Flash. I'm sure Santa will deliver your coal soon." Kid Arachnid joked.
"Oh, yeah?" Agent Venom responded by grabbing Miles and giving him a noogie.
"When are you two gonna grow up?" Iron Spider said.
"Seriously, did we walk into the S.H.I.E.L.D. preschool?" Scarlet Spider deadpanned.
The Web Warriors acted just like a close-knit family, quarreling and all.
"Listen, guys. I called this emergency meeting because we may have to face our most challenging mission yet."
"What? Doc Ock again?" Scarlet Spider said.
"Goblin?" Kid Arachnid threw out.
"HYDRA? Arnim Zola?" Iron Spider guessed.
Spider Man shook his head. "Worse...a friend of mine is here with his family for Christmas vacation. And wants me to be his tour guide! But I can't do this alone!"
"Seriously, bro?!" Agent Venom said. "You called us to be tour guides?!"
"I know it sounds crazy, guys. But Jack and his family are NOT a normal family! Which is why we all need to keep them on a short leash!"
"Um, what exactly makes this Jack and his family not so normal?" asked Kid Arachnid.
"Well..." Spider Man scratched his head. "You'd have to see them to believe them." He led his friends to the other room.
When the Web Warriors saw the Skellingtons, each of them gasped and screamed.
"My! What wonderful screams!" Jack Skellington said. "Are these your friends, Peter? I'm very pleased to meet you all!"
"Hello." Sally said sweetly, cradling Jackson in her arms.
"Cool!" Julie said with eye sockets full of wonder.
"Fascinating..." Sam said, his smile cutting across his skull.
Jenny and Judy just kept drinking their juice boxes.
Sarah politely bowed her head. "Delighted to make your acquaintance."
Scarlet Spider slowly turned to Spider Man. "I see them, but I don't believe them..."
"Hold on! You guys know Spidey's secret identity?!" Agent Venom asked.
"Why, yes. And we can't thank you boys enough for celebrating Christmas with us!" Jack said in his most friendly voice.
Agent Venom brought Spider Man close to him. "Dude! Please tell me this is a sick joke!"
"Yeah, Webs! I feel like I'm in a nightmare!" Kid Arachnid said in a panicked voice.
"Who or what are these things?!" Iron Spider snapped.
"They're not things! They're skeletons!" Spider Man corrected. "Look guys, Please, you guys gotta help me keep them in check! They've never been in our world before!"
"Then tell them to get lost!" Scarlet Spider snapped.
"NO!" Spider Man exclaimed. "Jack's a good guy. So his family can't be bad either. Just give them a chance. I mean, it's Christmas."
"If it's alright with you gentlemen, we would like a tour of the city!" Jack said.
"We promise not to be a burden." said Sally.
"We wanna see the lights!" Julie said, very giddy.
"Does this city have a library?" asked Sarah.
"Or the laboratory of a mad scientist?" Sam asked with a wicked smile.
"AAAAH!" Miles jumped when something tapped his leg. He spun around and standing before him were the twins.
Jenny and Judy looked at Kid Arachnid and held up their drinks.
"Wanna sip?" Jenny offered.
"It's blood." Judy said.
Miles felt ready to faint.
"It's gonna be a long night." Scarlet Spider said with a sigh.
So, what do you think of my OCs of Jack's children? ;) Reviews and no flames please?