The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Pumpkin King's Tomb
Chapter 1
"Hurry!" she shouted, "There's something I have to show you!" The torches illuminated the trail. All the members of Halloween Town followed. Sally, now old and grey-haired, led them to the site. As the crowd followed, the atmosphere became cold and creepy. What a lovely evening. She stopped abruptly, almost knocking everyone off their feet. "We're here!" There was an enormous wall that protruded from the swampy earth in such a menacing way, that even the Hanging Tree shivered.
Depicted on the wall was a particularly familiar spiraling hill. The famous scene with Jack and Sally was recorded onto this wall, this tomb. Sally slowly placed her finger against the very tip of the spiral. An opening then appeared directly below it. The town followed her into the secret grave.
The town members' torches revealed many different bat designs carved on the walls. Jack always did love those creatures. Sally approached an old podium at the end of the hallway and waved her torch singing:
Halloween, Halloween. This is Halloween. Halloween.
Another opening was revealed, and the town members once again followed. They waited in the next room where Sally had instructed them to extinguish their flames. All of a sudden, a scarecrow rose out of the ground and echoed the same tune. His body went up in flames and the crowd cheered. He was back… The pumpkin king was back!