Disclaimer! - I do not own the nightmare before Christmas, nor do i own the characters, they belong to Disney and Tim Burton...
Melody woke up with a yawn, and then sat up with a jolt, hitting her head on the coffins lid. She would have to remember to open it. After she was up she ran to the mirror on the wall, it was a tall oval shape and was laced with a dark, shiny metal. Melody looked into the mirror and smiled, she took after her father when it came to looks, she was a skeleton. The towns folk said she looked so much like her father, if it wasn't for her red hair and size, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference! Melody chuckled, she was only 7, so she would still grow, in fact if she ever got as tall as her dad she would likely consider shaving her head to trick the town's folk. She went over to her dresser and grabbed her comb and walked over to the mirror and started to comb her hair. When she was done she ran over to her closet and started searching for a scary outfit. After 12 minutes of searching she found one, it was a little black dress with white cob webs on it, she toke off her night gown and switched it with the dress. Melody looked into the mirror and smiled, she was horrific! Her hair reached to her chin, Melody had also put a head band in it to stop it from fizzing up. She twirled around, happy with the results she walked to her door and out the hall way, after going a few meters left she found her brothers room. She put her ear against the door..Yep...He was still sleeping, she could tell be the snores. She slowly opened the door and creeped in. She went over to her brothers coffin and slowly opened it, and of course they lay Tomas, He toke after their mother, He looked like he was stitched together, well he was, though he didn't come un-done as much as their mother, He had short blonde hair. Neither mother or father knew where it came from but they didn't care. His eyes were a greenish color when they were opened . She leaned close to his head and whispered the word "Boo". That did it, Tomas shot up and uttered a half-scream. This sent Melody into a laughing fit! She was laughing so hard she couldn't breath...if thats possible for a skeleton. "Har har" Tomas spat, still a little sleepy. "Come on, we are going to be late for breakfast!" Melody cried as she rushed out the door and headed to the kitchen with Tomas soon following.
Down stairs in the kitchen was a tall woman cooking over a stove, her red hair running down her back. "Hey Mom!" Melody yelled as she jumped onto her chair."Hello Melody, how was your sleep?" "It was good" Melody finished and then Tomas broke in "Today is the day right?" Sally turned and looked at her kids and smiled "I think so" Tomas turned to face Melody and gave her a high five. Just then a tall skeleton walked in, he wore a black suit that had a bat bow tie. "Hello Sally" "Hey Jack" Jack and sally wrapped their arms around each other and kissed. "Ewwwww" "Yuck!" Melody and Tomas said almost at the same time, each making grossed-out faces. Jack chuckled and then said "Are you guys ready?" "Yes!" Melody and Tomas cried at the same time. "Did you guys eat?" "no.." Jack shook his head, "Better hurry then it starts in 10 minutes" Melody and Tomas nodded then as soon as Sally put their breakfast in front of them, they started to eat. After they were done they ran to their father and cried "We are done!" Melody then asked 'Can we go now?" Jack looked at a clock that was hanging on the wall. "Alright" Melody and Tomas gave each other high fives then rushed down stairs to tell their mother that it was time to get ready
Melody watched at her mother's side as the yearly song toke place in front of her, The monsters dancing and singing, but she knew that none was going to be as scary as her father, he always took the cake, and speaking of Jack, here he came! He was dressed as a scarecrow with a pumpkin head, then in a flash he grabbed a touch and set his body on fire! He got up and started dancing, he leaned back then spun around, it appeared the fire consumed him! Then he pulled back up and leaned forward, the flames in the pumpkins mouth appearing as if they would jump out at the watching ghouls, they of coarse gasped and jumped back. But Melody, Tomas, and Sally weren't scared, they knew Jack too well, but it did give them shivers. At the end he jumped into the fountain and rose up, the water washing off the scarecrow suit, leaving him in his normal outfit. He got out and everyone cheered! Sally ran over to Jack and congratulated him. Melody and Tomas ran over and hugged their dad, "Ok everyone, time for the rewards!" the mayor said, Melody watched as the monsters went up one by one to claim their trophies. "And before everyone goes home, we would like to read the list of the monsters that get to travel to the land of the living for 1 night and scare them out of their skins" The mayor pulled out a list and began to read " Jack Skellington, Melody Skellington, Tomas Skellington, Flaregro Maleko, Peter Helgro, and Harry Glitcs. " Melody was shaken, she knew the mayor was going to read those words but she still shoke from excitement! Jack kneeled down to talk to the kids "Come on guys! Are you ready?" Melody nodded at what seemed to be super speed. She had been planning for this day for years! Tomas replied "yes I am!" "Ok then follow me" Melody and Tomas followed their father into the graveyard until they reached a grave with a trap door. Jack looked at all the monsters and said "Remember the rules, you may frighten the living but NOT hurt them! You are also prohibited to taking anything back with you...and you must be back by sunrise...ok you all got that?" After all the monsters nodded Jack opened the trapdoor and said "Alright, lets go!"
Tomas gasped as he entered the normal world, it was nothing like the Halloween world. Well, it kind of us, due to it being Halloween but not different enough to notice the different, The ghouls split up tell only Melody, his dad, and himself was left, "So now what?" he asked, "Now we scare" Jack said with a look on his face that suggested he couldn't wait! The Three ducked into a pair of bushes and waited. Tomas looked over to Melody and whispered "I don't know what to do" Melody looked at him then whispered "You don't?" "No, i spend all my time thinking of new ways to cook" "You like to cook?" "Yes, in secret though" Melody looked at him in confusing then smiled "I have an idea" She went over to their dad and whispered her idea, He smiled and gave her a thumbs up, oh boy!
Tomas waited tell he say a young girl walk up, then he sent his hands toward her, he dident like it when his body parts came un-down, they were rather hard to move, but he did it, he watched as they went on the girls leg, then followed her scream, his hands jumped off and she ran, classic! Jack smiled and said 'Good job" Tomas was super excited! His first ever scare! He turned to Melody and mouthed the word Thanks. Melody in return mouthed welcome.
Melody felt like her non-existent heart would leap out of her chest! Her first scare trip! She had so many ideas! And she just helped Tomas scare a little girl. "Ok Melody, your turn!" Melody all of a sudden felt like a nervous rack! What if she failed? What if...no get those thoughts out of your head, She gulped and started to climb a nearby tree. She found a branch low enough so she could jump but hidden enough so she wouldn't be spotted. She waited for about 15 minutes tell she spotted a kid that looked easy enough to scare, problem was, his parent was walking behind him, after debating she went for it, She jumped and landed on the kids shoulders then jumped off and yelled Boo! Only problem was though she realized after she landed, that she jumped on the adults shoulders! Worse yet he wasn't even scared! In fact, he looked angry! "Who do you think you are? Jumping down from trees?" Melody was about to respond when she saw her father creeping up behind the man, you go dad she thought while smiling. Jack put on a downright scary face and screamed in the man's ear, this of course scared the man out of his wits! And then he fainted with a thud, the boy screamed and ran. "And thats how its done" Melody couldn't help but feel embarrassed, after all, she completely messed up! It went on like this for the rest of the night, Melody gave Tomas ideas and he pulled them off perfectly, and when Melody tried to scare, she somehow messed up and her father had to bail her out. When the night ended Melody couldn't help but feel ashamed, her first scare night and she kept messing up! Not once did she pull off her plans.. but she felt happy for Tomas who was clearly proud of himself.
"How was the trip?" Sally asked when Jack and the kids stepped in. "It was great!" Jack said in response. Melody and Tomas ran up to sally and told her all about their night. Sally congratulated them then sent them off to bed. After Jack and Sally were sure they were asleep sally broke the silence "Have you decided?" "Not yet" "You have to soon" "i plan on announcing it the tomorrow or the day after" "You promise" Jack wrapped his arms around Sally" "I promise" then they kissed. After they were done, Sally headed to bed and Jack to his study. He had a promise to keep, and he intended to do just that.
Melody lat awake in her coffin, the nights events kept rolling in her head...well there's always next time. She shut her eyes and began to dream,
So what do you think? I have so many ideas for this and i cant wait ti write the next chapter! Feel free to post your reviews though ;)