Not According to Plan

"Lock!" The witch girl shrieked searching throughout the tree house for her cohort dressed in red. It could be seen that while she was on her rampage, she was missing her hat… A smirk came to the devil boys pale face. Though hearing the enraged girls yell, it quickly disappeared. She had found the hat already? It seemed things were not going as planned… The boy in red dashed to the cage that acted as an elevator for the three. He knew he had the slimmest chance of getting far enough so Shock would either cool off, or take her anger out on something or someone else. Or so he hoped.

Meanwhile, little Barrel was thinking of something. Sitting in his room on the floor, finger to his chin. He seemed to be in very deep thought. Unfortunately Shock's shout startled him, making his train of thought crash into a wall of laughter. Indeed he did begin to laugh, but quickly covered his mouth with a hand. Not wishing to be heard by Shock. She wouldn't like it if she knew he was laughing at her.

At that moment Shock burst into Barrels room, "Where is he?"

"Lock?"

"No Jack Skellington, of course Lock you idiot!" Shock scowled hitting the smallest trick-or-treater on the back of the head.

Barrel looked at Shock, something was different… He just couldn't put his finger on it. "Hey!" He said in sudden realization. "You're not wearing your hat!" The girl just glared at him. "Oh… Lock did something to it…" He spoke to himself with a nod. "Don't know," Finally deciding to answer Shocks original question.

Shock let out an angry growl, "When he gets back, he'll pay…"

Lock currently was just entering a ting of trees each with a holiday door upon its trunk. He was panting, having ran the entire way. Even though he was trying to catch his breath, he couldn't help but begin to laugh. Too bad things hadn't gone according to plan, but he had gotten a reaction out of her. The only draw back was the second part would have to be done tonight. Taking a seat on the ground he sighed. If he wanted to do the second part he would have to head back soon.

"Hey Shock?" Barrel stuck his head out of his room, wondering if his friend was still angry. There was no response, she may have been in her room, or maybe even out side. The skeleton boy sighed for no real reason at all. He slipped back into his room, deciding to stare at a wall to pass the time. Sometimes things got really dull without Oogie.

Shock actually was standing outside; having searched the entire tree house she guessed Lock had ran for it. Smart move on his part. Her arms were crossed, and an annoyed look was on her face. He'd better be back soon, that way she could beat him until he was black and green.

The devil boy in the forest continued to walk back towards the tree house. He smiled lightly, if he went back at this pace he'd be back in time for everything to go according to plan. Well to the adjusted plan anyways. His yellow eyes glanced up at the moon, it wasn't full tonight. Well it didn't look full…. It may have been for there were some clouds covering it. Oh well, it wasn't that important. It was just the moon, though it did give off a nice eerie light.

"Only 75 more days till next Halloween!" The mayor's voice boomed over the landscape. His annoying announcements were getting louder and louder each year!

Shock shook her head, somebody definitely needed to break that thing, it was nice knowing how many days were left until Halloween, but sometimes it got annoying… She looked at the sky drumming her fingers against her arm. He had to get back soon, the little devil. She squinted, and then decided to glare at the horizon.

Barrel blinked and finally looked away from the wall. He stood searching around his room, where was it? Oh there it was, he pulled a swirling lolly-pop from under his bed and began licking it. It had been awhile since he had tasted its sweet taste. Slowly, he stood from his kneeling position and walked out of his room. "Anyone in here?" He called glancing about. He walked to one of the window and spotted Shock, She was standing a little off to the side, still looking annoyed. Yet not enraged. He watched her a moment, then looked out over the landscape.

Lock kicked a small stone with his slightly curled shoe, glancing around he began to walk quicker. He had an odd feeling. But couldn't tell exactly what it was. It wasn't like he was being followed, then again you never really knew in Halloweentown. It was more 'something's going to happen' kind of feeling. He couldn't tell if it was going to be a good or bad something, or even if anything was going to happen at all. Now that was a confusing thought… He walked a few more minutes in silence, his mind wandering a bit. Suddenly, without warning there was immense pain in his head. One so great it made the small boys knees buckle and he fell to the ground, clutching his head. He clenched his teeth; he wanted to knock himself out just to make the pain stop… He yelled in agony, he felt tears of pain form in the corners of his eyes, but made sure not to cry.

Shock blinked and shook her head. Had she heard a yell? It had been a faint noise… Perhaps it was just someone screaming of fright off in the distance. She couldn't be sure. She stretched her arms; they were getting stiff from being in one position for awhile. Perhaps she should go get some sleep and 'kill' him in the morning. After another minute or two of waiting, she glanced at the sky, it was getting lighter. She yawned going back inside. She stuck her head into Barrels room since he wasn't anywhere to be seen and noticed the little trick-or-treater was already fast asleep, and snoring. Shock rolled her eyes and closed the door, walking off to her own room to sleep.

His yellow colored eyes opened the pain still immense, he hadn't meant to open them. They had just been… Almost forced. Everything blurred, becoming blobs of color. Then there was a voice, it was in a hushed whispering voice that wasn't his own, "You have a tail, yet are missing something else… Your hair has been a substitute… To make it seem, if only partially, as if you were complete. You hide the fact from your friends, those who seem to keep no secrets from you, that you are not as dead as you seem." Everything began to dim, began to darken. "Soon, oh so soon you will gain what you do not have little devil. Be complete. Not needing those who you call friends…" The voice trailed off and said in an even in an even quieter voice, "Soon you will get your horns…" The words slowly faded from his mind as his vision was greeted by the ground and everything was dark.

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End of Chapter one… This is kinda just a fic that popped into my head one day, and since I'm having a hard time with a chapter in my other fiction I thought this would help break the writers block x.x I hope its ok…