A Nightmare in Love Chapter 1: This is Halloween, a yu-gi-oh fanfic

Title: A Nightmare in Love

Genre: romance and fantasy

Pairings: puzzleshipping(YamixYugi), bakushhipping(BakuraxRyouxAkefia) puppyshipping(SetoxJoey), bronzeshipping(MarikxMalik), supportshipping(TristanxTea), cheershipping(DukexSerenity), conquestshipping(ValonxMai), minor roseshipping(PegasusxCecelia)

Summary: Based on Tim Burton's classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, it tells of a love story that took place in the Holiday Worlds of Old. Yami is the Nightmare King that rules the Halloween holiday with many adoring subjects with one who loves him with all his heart, Yugi the Ragdoll. After another successful year, Yami becomes worn out of the same old routine they've done every year for Halloween, not even a visit to a fellow Holiday Leader and dear friend Dartz, ruler of Christmas, had helped to lift his spirits. But when Dartz all of a sudden disappears before the end of November, Yami has been trusted to take over the holiday until the Holly Lord returns. But when Yugi has a vision, things could only get worse. Once the two find out who is responsibe for Dartz's disappearance, will Yami be able to save Christmas with the help of Yugi's undieing love, or will everything go up in flames?

Yeah I know I should get a couple of my other works done first. But I had this story planned out for a while, and I wanted to at least get the first chapter done and up.

Yugi: That's fine, Niana. You're an author after all.

Yami:*wraps arm around the sweet Hikari* That's true. Writting a lot is the job for an author.

I'm still in training until I get one of my books published. I'm just glad to have people online reading my works. I did put a lot of work into them.

Yami and Yugi: But you've put your heart into them and that could be why you have readers.

Thanks you two. You guys are just the best. Now could one of you do the disclaimer? I'm going to see if I can get any of the others in.

Yami: Sure thing. Niana doesn't own YuGiOh or the Nightmare Before Christmas. Besides, she would never steal from someone she's a huge fan of. Enjoy!*gives a wink and a thumbs up*

Chapter 1

This is Halloween

'Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems. In a place you've perhaps seen in your dreams. For the story you're about to be told began in the old worlds of the holidays. Now you've might have wondered where these wonderful times came from. If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun to wonder.

Entering the holiday world behind a door shaped like a white pumpkin with gray shades around the eyes and a gray tint all around the mouth, we enter a world where everything is pitch black and the one thing that catches the eye is a scaregrow with a glowing pumpkin for a head, holding a wooden sign that read 'HALLOWEEN TOWN' in black letters in one hand with a branch from an old willow tree with a few dead leaves remaining in the other hand. As you pass the scarecrow, you could almost miss a sign of the scarecrow giving you a wink.

Finally out of the dark, you find yourself surrounded by endless tombstones in a cemetary and suddenly see shadows appear on the stones, one being a ghost, a second shadow a werewolf, and a third is a girl with two heads instead of one, weilding one knife in each hand. Then you start to hear many voices as they sang together as one.

Boys and girls

of every age

Would you like to see

something strange?

Come with us

and you will see

This our town

of Halloween

Then appearing by a long iron spiked fence are a group of ghosts as they chant along with the long with pumpkins falling out of the night sky with different spooky expressions and landing on different spikes on the fence.

This is Halloween

Pumpkins scream

in the dead of night

This is Halloween

Everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the

neighbor's gonna die of fright

Entering a town with buildings in nothing but dark colors and spiked roofs, the ghosts circle around the square like voltures circle their dead prey.

It's our town

Everybody scream

In this town

of Halloween

Following the ghosts through town, you learn all you need to know of the residents of this Halloween world.

I am the one hiding

under your bed

Teeth ground sharp

and eyes glowing red

You see a demon who is seventeen appear from under a bed with incredibly sharp teeth and his eyes glowing an ominious red before turning back to a dark purple color with crazy sandy-blondhair that appeared as if he was struck by lightning and a few veins popping out from his forehead. His eyes are red when he is mad and wants to appear more scary.

I am the one hiding

under your stairs

Fingers like snakes

and spiders in my hair

Next is another boy who is seventeen as well with a more tamed appearance than the first demon that appears from the stairs he was hiding under and join the demon who emerged from the bed, his snake fingers wrap around his lover's arm and a spider that is settled in his short, more smooth sandy-blond weaving spider silk into his strands.

Now in a room full of coffins, a book on a stand is open with the pages quickly flipping on their own with a grandfather clock ticking and the coffins pop open with the four once sleeping vampires emerge and quickly joined each other's side.

This is Halloween

Halloween, Halloween

In this town

we call home

Everyone hail to

the nightmare song

The four vampires, Mahad, Isis, Shada, and Mana then refer the nightmare song being their holiday leader.

Then we see, a man in his late thirties wearing a mayor suit completed with a tall top hat settled on top of his silver white hair and a spider for a tie, his ember eyes having different patterns stand upon the roof of a herse that is his vehicle.

In this town

Don't we love it now

Everybody's waiting for

the next surprise

In a dark alley, a dark pink cat with deep purple eyes and a matching ribbon around her neck came down a flight of stairs to find and join her master who had snuck out of the doctor's manor. Jumping on top of a trash can, she feels the lid all of a sudden lift, rocketing her away as a young woman in her mid twenties with vivid violet eyes and her long blond hair really being yellow poisonous snacks appear with two werewolves, one with brown fur and icy blue eyes and the other having a dirty blond fur and honey-brown eyes both being eighteen joining her by crashing through a weak brick wall.

Round that corner, man

Hiding in the trash can

Something's waiting now to

pounce and how you'll scream

This is Halloween

Red and black

Slimy green

Aren't you scared

The two werewolves, Seto and Joey ask the question if anyone is scared at this time of year. Now in a deep, dark well, you see two witches, one with short brown hair and blue eyes who is seventeen, the second with long auburn hair and green eyes being fifteen riding their magic brooms.

Well that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance

and roll the dice

Ride with the moon

In the dead of night

As soon as the two witches are out of the well, next is a young woman also seventeen with dark skin, her black hair in two chinese buns, gills on her neck, her hands and feet wadded and seaweed that were wrapped around the skeletons of small dead water birds hanging from her arms.

Everybody scream

Then the dead birds perk up as they join their mistress.

In our town

of Halloween

Next a boy that is dressed as a clown soon appears by the medussa woman, Mai and sings as he grabs for the side of his face.

I am the clown

with the tear-away face

And did just that to show he can do it before quickly disappearing in a puff of red smoke after kissing Mai's hand like a gentleman.

Here in a flash

and gone without a trace

Then, stepping out of the shadows of a building and out of hiding, is a seventeen year old boy with pale blue skin, tri-color hair with a black base, blond bangs with a cute forlock in the middle, and red and dark purple tips, wide amythest eyes that holds a light innocence, shirt of mismatched fabrics, dark brown caprise with a few tears at the end and on the legs, black boots, and stitches all over his body; one across his right eye, small ones at each corner of his grey colored lips, a few on his wrists, long ones that went around both upperarms, one around his neck like a chocker, one on his chest, and some on his legs. He is Yugi, the ragdoll.

On his arm is a basket he has when he's out to pick Deadly Nightshade, a plant that can only be found in the cemetary of Halloween Town. Yugi uses the plant to poison the doctor so he can run off to join the residents of Halloween Town. But mostly he's in town to see the King of Nightmares.

Seeing the dark pink cat appear by his feet and rubbing her body against his leg. Smiling at his companion, Yugi bends down a strokes the purring feline.

I am the "who" when you call

"Who's there?"

I am the wind blowing

through your hair

Suddenly Yugi felt the wind pick up and begin to play with his hair. Then a shadow appears in the ever-full moon.

I am the shadow

on the moon at night

Filling your dreams

to the brim with fright

After the shadow vanishes from the moon, the tall, iron gates open and three men, with a boy in his eighteenth age wearing a green long coat, black pants and boots, a green top hat that hid two much smaller versions of himself and the second an eighteen year old boy with tan skin, blue eyes, red suit with devil horns on his head and devils tail swishing behind him and a big wicked devils grin on his face waltz into town with the third man, a big tanned man in dark red overalls, an ax embedded in his head, leading a skeleton horse that had a shadow figure riding the strong steed.

This is Halloween

Halloween, Halloween

Halloween, Haloween

In the town square, right next to the guillotine are three corpse teens, two eighteen and the third seventeen. They shared the same appeaance with the two eighteen year olds having more spikier white hair and brown eyes that had a sharp edge to them with one having pale skin like their young lover and the other taned skin with a 'T' shaped scar over his left eye while the seventeen year old appeared more gentle compared to his two lovers.

Tender lumplings

everywhere

Lifes no fun

without a good scare

The gentle corpse teen started as he brought his two lovers close to him.

That's our job

But we're not mean

In our town

of Halloween

The older boys soon joined him in song before they leave their spot to join everyone in the square to see their Nightmare King makes his appearance.

In this town

Don't we love it now

Everyone's waiting

for the next surprise

The mayor, Pegasus, still stands upon his herse when he shows Bobosa leading the skeleton steed and his master around the square.

Master Yami

might catch in the back

And scream like a banshee

Make you jump out of your skin

A few residents had approach their beloved leader to welcome him to the party. Then one of them held a dark medallion to the shadow figure, who appeared to be smirking as he took the special item and place it around his neck.

This is Halloween

Everybody scream

Won't ya please make way

for a very special guy

Yugi and his cat, Amethyst peer around a dead weeping willow with Yugi smiling, it is almost time for their holiday leader to appear.

Our man Yami is king

of nightmares

Everyone hail

to the Nightmare King now

With the medallion around his neck, the shadow figure summons shadow magic into his hands, commanding a dark purple flame to cover his entire being, causing many Halloween Town residents to gasp at the terrifying act. Just as his steed stopped a good few inches from the fountain, the figure leaped from the back of the skeleton horse and dive into the deep fountain like an arrow.

This is Halloween

Halloween, Halloween

Everyone waiting for their king to emerge, the corpse lovers stand by the stone edge of the fountain to finish with the last of the town's theme.

In this town

we call home

Everyone hail

to the nightmare song

In no time, slowly coming out of the fountain is a young man of seventeen years, pale skin as white as a skeleton's fresh bone, deep crimson eyes with a light grey eye shadow, his lips the same grey color, arms crossed over his chest with his nails painted black, tri-color hair with a black base, white bangs with some going up the base like lightning bolts, and tips in a gentle grey color, wearing a pinstrip suit with black boots and a bow tie that appears as a bat with its wings opening from being right against his chest and shoulders.

As the residents hail to the King of Nightmares, a wolf's howl could be heard not too far as Yami stood atop the fountain's water dragon with shadow magic forming at the tips of is fingers to show that shadow flame one last time, which led to every attendant to applaud at the closing of an exciting and horrible Halloween, with the witches giving off witch laughter and tossing their hats into the hair like a disk, Valon the Clown giving Mai a huge kiss on the lips as he tip her down his left, Tristan Hyde and Mako the devil high-fiving.

"Great Halloween, everyone." Pegasus says as a mummy with some of his tanned skin exposed, Shadi helps Yami down and off the fountain.

Facing his loyal residents, Yami adds, "i believe this has been our most horrible yet. Thank you, everyone for all of your hard work each year to make our holiday successful."

Everyone all flattered with his words, Pegasus replies for the people, "Oh no, it's thanks to you, Yami. None of this is possible without your brilliant leadership."

"Not at all, Mayor Pegasus." said Yami with a bow to his coleader.

Then each resident approach their leader with words of admiration. His fluttering for the man who holds his heart, Yugi slightly steps out from behind the willow, only to feel a wrinkled old hand grab his wrist rather rouphly. Turning as he is being pulled away and forced to crouch slightly because the person holding his wrist is in an automatic wheelchair, Yugi found himself staring into the anger of the man who created him and his older sister with Miaka appearing like she had been demanded by their creator and grandfather to search for her brother ater he had left again. "The Deadly Nightshade you slipped me wore off, Yugi."

Glancing up at his older sister, Miaka simply gave him a look that said "Sorry little brother". Trying to free his wrist from the tight grip, Yugi said with Amethyst standing next to her master, "Let go, grandpa."

"You know you're not ready for so much excitement."

"Yes I am." Yugi tried to convince Solomon that he is ready to be with the rest of the town.

Using a small lever on his wheelchair, Solomon turned so he could lead the two back to the manor. "You're coming with me right now."

Struggling to free himself, Yugi yelled, "No, I'm not!" Just as he was going for the string that kept his arm and should meet, Amethyst sprang from where she sat and pounce onto Solomon's face, causing him to release his grip on Yugi, allowing Yugi to escape. With the boy gone and the cat leapt from the doctor to chase after her master, Solomon yelled after his grandson, "Come back here, you troublesome child!"

Grabbing her grandfather's fist, Miaka says with a gentle tone, "Just let him go, grandfather. He'll come back home when he wants to."

Seeing there being no point in argueing, Solomon let Miaka roll his wheelchair back to the manor. Besides, she is one of the reasons that Yugi is always able to sneak out of the manor in the first place.

Back in the square, Yami is having to backing away as each resident give him their comments of admiration. "Ooh, Yami. You are the essence of pure nightmares." Vivian the Undersea Gal said.

"Well thank you all very much." said Yami as he backed slowy into a path that led to the cemetary.

Just then, Pegasus came on the intercome with an announcement, drawing the residents' attention away, "Hold it! We haven't given out the prizes yet." which allowed Yami the first chance to get away.

With everyone now occupied with earning awards, Yami hid behind a stone wall, letting out a sigh of relief. Now making his way to the cemetary gate, Yami slowly passes by the town band as they play low, spooky tunes with Yami taking a coin from his pocket and flipping it into an old worn-out hat, which caught the saxaphone player, Duke's attention. "Nice work, Night Lord." Duke and his band say to their leader.

Looking down spirited and weary of the same routine each year, Yami simply dismisses them by saying, "Yeah, I suppose. Just like last year and all of the previous years." What everyone doesn't know about their Nightmare King is that he had reached his wits end. Well, maybe the only one that does know is a certain ragdoll.

Well, that's it for chapter 1. And to be clear, I don't want to hear anyone complain about the songs I'll have in the story. To be honest, the songs help make the chapters longer. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed how I started this version of a favorite movie. As for the cover, the credit goes to the original artist. In fact the pic is what inspired me to do a fanfic with Nightmare Before Christmas. So I'll see you guys next chapter!

next: a leader's saddness