Disclaimer: This is the third time to fix my story, I hope you enjoyed the corrected story! Slytherin-Mafia suggested that I fix this and I did. I do not own The Nightmare Before Christmas or Haunted,they belong to Tim Burton and Evanescence, enjoy! Especially you, Slytherin!

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"Mommy, daddy where are you?!"

The little five year old girl ran through the burning hallway in her house searching for her parents, the hallway turns to ashes every second. She was scared, yet she insisted that she needs to find her parents before something bad happens to them; then she stopped in her tracks and hears a man and a woman scream from another room, which is not far from where she's at.

"That must be mommy and daddy..." said to herself.

When she took the fifth step to the room where she heard her parent's scream at, she saw her parents lying on the floor with an frighten expression on their faces. She was wondering what they were scared of, then she felt something frightfully chilly down at her spine at the sound of hard foot step going towards her parents. She resisted the feeling that said don't go in there and ran towards her parents, but the woman, who is her mother yelled to her that made the girl stop running.

"Mendel, sweetie, run from here, NOW!!"

The voice of Mendel's mother was trembling and scared, the girl named Mendel was surprised about her mother's voice, she got curious and asked her mother

"Mommy, why are you yelling at me?"

But the mother didn't responded to her, then the man who is her father tells her that might make her understand.

"Please, listen to your mother and runaway from here and don't come back!! You hear- -"

It cut short when his eyes went wide, then closed his eyes and fell in front of them and they noticed the knife, which appears to be a butcher knife on his back and died. While Mendel stared frightfully at her father's dead body, her mother screamed in terror that her beloved husband died in front of her and her daughter. Then out of nowhere, the man appeared in front of them; the man's outfit was a black sweater with a hood on but you can't see his face, both Mendel and her mother were scared for their lives. Then, the man came to the dead body of Mendel's father and pull out his murder weapon; which is the butcher knife, and starts to grinning and laughing at the same time. Then he spoke in a rough Brooklyn accent,

"What a cute little girl, too bad I have to kill you."

When he was about to stab her, Mendel's mother quickly shield her and got stabbed in the chest and dangerously went straight to her heart and then collapse on the floor. Mendel was so terrified that she trembled to the ground and cried out in sorrow,

"MOMMY!!"

She couldn't believe her eyes that her mother sacrificed herself to save her own daughter; but when Mendel's eyes starts to tear up, her mother used her last dying breath and said this to her,

"Mendel, don't cry. I still be with you, even though you won't see me. No matter what happens, me and daddy will always love you and will always protect you. I love you Mendel, I love you very much..." then that was the last time Mendel ever heard and will not hear her mother speak again, she was dead.

Mendel cried out in sorrow that both of her parents will no longer be with her and will be alone for the rest of her childhood life or any of her entire life. While she was crying, the man laughed at her in pity and starts to get closer to her and said

"Aw, I killed your mother? What a pity, she should've stayed out of it. But you'll joined them soon enough in heaven, little girl."

When he was ready to kill her with his bloody murder weapon, the parts of Mendel's burning house fell on top of the murderer and burned to death. Mendel was glad that it killed him, but still not happy that her parents got murdered in front of her in such an early age. But Mendel had no choice but rushed out of the murder scene and leave her parent's body to burn along with her home to the ground. Then in the middle of the hallway, the burning wood had cut off her path to the exit of the house, she panicked in terror that she might not made it out in time. While panicking, she heard a crackle sound coming from atop of her and realized that the burning wood was about to torn apart anytime now, then it broke. Mendel closed her eyes real hard and expect the worst. Then in the middle of nowhere, she been saved by a man in the trench coat and amazingly has no damages to himself nor the coat then said to her,

"Hold on, child. I will get you out of here, so hold on to your breath, I don't want you to suffocate from the smoke."

Mendel understood and cover her nose with her shirt, but still silent from the bloody ordeal she had faced and also terrified. Once they both made it out of the house in one piece, the house trembled to the ground along with Mendel's parents and her parent's murderer. Mendel starts to tear up and take a good look at her rescuer; he was tall and thin looking, his eyes looks so dark that you can actually think that he had no eyes, his face is skeleton like and white like a ghost. His fingers is also thin but can't really tell cause he's wearing gloves, and his feet is smaller then your own bare hand. When she continue to stare at him, she had a chill down at her spine when she saw his hands going straight towards her and ...

"Gasp!" 10 year old Mendel woke up from the floor covered with sweat and stood up to look outside at her window then rubbed her sleepy eyes and realized that it was dawn. Once she realized that, she grunt in anger that the dream she had woke her up again in two months in a row.

Mendel sighed and said to herself, " I might as well get ready before they - -", but it was interrupted by the yelling of her foster parents,

"MENDEL!! Where ARE you?! Why are you NOT in the kitchen?!"

"Too late, they already yelled." Mendel said to herself.

"I'M COMING!!"

In her dirty brown slave like outfit with a torn top shirt and a torn skirt, she headed out to her door and said to herself,

"Here goes another day of torment in the morning. This is like prison of torment to me!! I can't stand it!! I gotta get out of here, but I can't. Every time I escaped from this so-called 'house' they end up finding me and beat me up until they see bruises. Why am I still alive, I don't know. But I do know is this: I need to find a way to be free from this torture place plus a torment foster family and stay out of it, permanently..."

She sighed and think it might not actually happened and opens the door and closed it behind her and walked down stairs to the kitchen. She thinks it's NOT gonna happened but, what she DIDN'T know that tonight her request will come true by the man that is from another world a holiday if you will, also a king, and he is the one that saved her life six years ago. But she never knew he still existed, but not in the flesh anyway, a living-dead if you say and he is called: Jack Skellington.

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