HALLOWEEN TOWN
"Now" the old Hanging Three said as the corpse children stopped chatting and sat down quietly near his roots, ready for the tale of the Friday "what do you want me to tell? The laments of the Hanged Men? Or maybe the Tales of the Scarecrows?"
"Nothing of this" the mummy child spoke up for everyone "we were just wondering...what happens when a monster of Halloween Town dies?"
"Uhmm..." the Hanging Tree tought for a moment "why do you want to know that?"
"Well" the vampire child said "next week will be eight years since The Pumpkin King defeated the Boogie Man, and we were wondering what may has become of him."
"Yeah!" another child exclaimed "what happens when a monster dies?"
The children looked towards the old tree, who gave a deep sigh. "Well, no one knows exactly what happens when a monster dies...if he really does die. Somebody once told me that a monster doesn't die, but he does come back again in another form...most likely as humans."
"You mean...like reincarnation?" the mummy kid asked, fascinated.
"Dah, that cannot be true" a corpse kid said "if they come back to life once again, why no one ever gets to tell the others what happens?"
"Oh, well" the Hanging Tree said dreamily "some says they doesn't come back because they cannot remember anything about their past. The still have some kind of similarity to their old selves...but that's all, children."
"You mean they cannot remember they were monsters?"
"Indeed."
"But thy have no way to regain their memories?" a little vampire girl asked.
"I honestly don't know, little one. That's a mistery."
"Whoa!" a corpse kid laughed "can you picture the Oogie Boogie Man as a eight years old human child?"
All the children laughed at the thought. No one though, not even for a moment, that the legend the Hanging Tree had told them could be true.
I almost forgot the disclaimer...I'm writing this just for fun, and I don't own Nightmare Before Christmas (those disclaimer are really getting boring...)