jan 1st 10:00 pm in a small rich neighborhood a 16 year old boy was heading off to bed he had to get his beauty rest the next few days were going to be big days thank goodness it was winter break

the 16 year old was named jonsey Garcia. he and his 6 best friends jimmy x jude lizowski wyatt Williams Caitlin cooke nikki wong jen masterson and his 4 for more friends joe fred sam and Samantha they had just finished another day at the galleria mall as he made his way through his snazzy disco theme room complete with a cd player a plasma widescreen tv and a ps3 his eyes stopped at his desk.

sitting on his desk was his pistol and one of his brothers old maps but it wasen,t like like his other maps which usually led jonsey into trouble this was a magical map one that held a lot of value to jonesy as he gazed at the map jonsey began to remember what he has been doing at this time of year...

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on halloween night of last year jonesy had found the old map in his attic he jimmy jude wyatt nikki caitlin jen joe fred sam and samantha jodie and freddi followed it until they had found a strange jack o, lantern door carved in a tree deep in the woods outside of apple creek school they had been pulled into another world a world in which halloween was created and it was called halloween town.

in halloween town the gang met the ruler of halloween a very tall but kind skeleton named jack skellington (known by the townspeople as the pumpkin king ). however, jack had become dissatisfied with doing the same old thing year after year and he was depressed he wanted something new.

and he got. well, sort of . before the gang knew it they along with jack discovered a new town called christmas town but jimmy and caitlin went missing in the town and while the gang were searching for them they ended up meeting jack face to face jack who had never heard of any other halloween was immediately captivated and recruited the gang to help him bring christmas to halloween town (since they were experts on the subject).

when jonesy learned that jack wanted to take over christmas for himself even though he really didn,t understand it he was against the idea ( and the fact that jack knew jonesy had been spying on him didn't help either). but when jonesy learned that jack would also be making the presents he pretended to go along with it so he could get his free present but jen wyatt and sally one of jack,s friends knew that it definitely wasn,t going to work.

the gang finally reunited with jimmy and caitlin in the town hall jimmy and caitlin had been off looking for a way to become santa's elves' but they couldn't find it so they ended up following three brats named lock shock and barrel back to halloween town jack instructed lock shock and barrel to bring santa claus (or "sandy claws," as jack called him) to halloween town.

jimmy and caitlin suspicious of the three kids ended up following them and learning that they were planning to do terrible things to santa along with their boss some guy named oogie boogie but luckily jimmy and caitlin were able to stall the process by tricking lock shock and barrel into taking the easter rabbit instead of santa.

but unfortunately the three brats got it right on the second time jude wyatt nikki jen joe fred sam samantha jodie freddi sally and even jonesy tried one last time to talk jack out of the plan but jack was too preoccupied to listen and despite jack,s orders lock shock and berral took santa to oogie boogie who kidnaped santa along with jimmy and caitlin.

sally finally resorted to creating a fog so jack couldn't take off but all this did was give jonsey an opportunity to sneak into jack's sleigh without being seen thanks to jack,s dog zero the sleigh did take off with jonesy still inside!

jack began putting his macabre presents inside every home in the rich neighborhood and tricked jonesy into coming out of his hiding spot jonesy was mad at first but not for long after jack began a conversation about jonesys map of halloween town the two found out that jonesys brother was actually one of jacks old friends! as they rode through the sky jonesy and jack were beginning to become friends... until military units shot down the "imposter that was mangling christmas."

jack and jonesy landed in the cemetery outside of town and jack after a small pity-fist finally saw the error of his ways he and jonesy knew that they were the only ones who could set things right so they headed back for halloween town.

but things weren't so good there either when jude wyatt nikki jen joe fred sam samantha and sally heard about the military units they went to oogie's hideout in hopes of rescuing santa jimmy and caitlin but oogie caught them and almost sent all 12 of them into a cauldron of molten lava!

jack and jonesy got there just in time and after a short showdown with the gambling sack of bugs they sent oogie barreling into his own lava. now that everything was safe santa went off to fix the things jack had messed up.

jack sally and the gang went back to halloween town where they were greeted by the overjoyed townspeople santa brought snow to the town then as the gang were leaving they saw jack and sally reveal their true feelings for each other at the top of spiral hill.

when jonesy got home he was swamped with over a months worth of undone homework but for some reason ( probably because compared to what he had just gone through homework was nothing ). jonesy felt like doing it and he actually got it all done!

thankfully it was easy creating an excuse for jonesy's parents they had jobs that caused them to leave before jonesy woke up in the morning and come home in the late evening when jonesy was already in bed. sure they were never home but they had just assumed that jonesy had just done his daily routine enough said.

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as the memories drifted through jonesy's head he switched off overhead light and turned on his lava lamp he laid down and buried himself under the covers his eyelids began to flutter shut but just as he was about to fall asleep...

" HURRY JACK"!

jonesy shot up. his eyes must have been as wide as dinner plates he looked around his dimly lit room there was nobody there.

so then... why did he just hear a woman's voice just now?

And even weirder, it sounded very familiar.

sal-

RING!

jonesy's cell phone ringing jarred him from his thoughts he quickly picked it up and answered it

"Hello?" he asked cautiously.

"jonesy?" jonesy relaxed when he heard jen's voice on the other end "jonesy you're going to think i'm crazy but i just heard ..."

"someone,s voice" said sam.

i heard something too " said wyatt.

" me too " said nikki.

" me three" said caitlin.

"dude me too" said jude.

"me fred and samantha heard something also " said joe.

"hello? hello?"

"jimmy?" asked nikki.

"who's there?" asked jimmy.

"As i was saying..." said jen. " i was about to go to sleep and i heard sally's voice, jonesy! but when i sat up, there was no one there!"

"miss sally was in your room too jen?" asked jimmy.

" you guys heard it too then" asked jonesy.

"this is quite queer, guys," said sam. " why would we all hear sally's voice here now? shouldn't she be back in halloween town?"

" yeah she should " said jonesy "what did she say?"

" hurry jack!" said jimmy imitating sally's voice

"thats what i heard her say too " said jen " do you think something happed to jack?"

jonesy began to ponder this then he gazed at the map on his desk and picked up his pistol loaded up and cocked it " guys get your guns and meet me at the entrance to the woods " he said " we're gonna take an unscheduled field trip."