Holiday Nightmare
Chapter 1: The Beginning
In an early October 29th, three monsters are at the pumpkin patch. All three plan to have a great time as good friends should be. The mummy with bandages on her body, legs, and arms was the first to arrive at a dirt circle drawn around three pumpkins. She is also wearing gold and silver clothing, has long blond hair, and a golden ring as a headpiece. The moonlight seems to blend in with her pale skin and lips. She sat on one of the pumpkins and waited for her other two friends to arrive at the area. A little while later, a Cyclops met up in the dirt circle area in the center of the pumpkin patch.
"Cyclips and Patti go and group up with Jackson?" the large orange Cyclops with the green shirt and black shorts asked the mummy.
"That's what we all agreed on at school during study hall." Patti answered to him. "At least we don't have school for the rest of the week."
Cyclips also sat on the pumpkin; however, it has to be the most durable one because of his large size and heavy weight. After that, a skeleton with a black Mohawk and wearing a worn out tuxedo came into the group circle.
"Where have you been, Jackson?" Patti asked the skeleton.
"I had trouble waking up." he replied.
Jackson got on the large pumpkin within the drawn circle and stood on it as if it were a platform. Then he rubbed his eyes and yawned.
"Did Jackson have bad dream again?" Cyclips asked as if he didn't noticed Jackson's tired expression on his face.
"Yeah," Jackson replied with the face of sorrow, "but it doesn't matter what it is."
"But this is the third nightmare that you had this week," Patti explained as she is concerned about him, "and when I say 'nightmare' it's not the good kind."
Before Patti can say anything else, Jackson said, "I guess you want to know what my nightmare was about, again. Well…"
"It was on a dark night with the full moon out. I was with my mother, Sally, and father, Jack. The dream began at the Town Square where the citizens of Halloween Town were gathered for our favorite holiday, Halloween. At first there was joy and celebration, but then it quickly turned into fear and horror (again, it's not the good kind). Suddenly, both of my parents are gone and the citizens glared at me as if I did a crime. They kept saying,' Get him! He assassinated the Pumpkin King!' Then, I ran away from Halloween Town to Spiral Hill when a monster appeared out of nowhere. The monster was big, green, and it told me this,' I'm the seven holidays king and you're the prince of nothing!' while it raised one of its arms. When the monster did try to squash me, I suddenly woke up. It was at three o'clock- I think."
After Patti and Cyclips heard his story, they thought about it and became more concerned.
"Its sounds just like your previous two dreams," she supposed. "It could be foreshadowing and event that may come in the near future."
"What? Can someone please translate that the Cyclips?" puzzled Cyclips.
Jackson answered to his friend, "She's saying that my dreams could be a sign of something that can happen later on."
Cyclips just use 'oh' as his reply. Then, Jackson smiled and stands up on the pumpkin.
"Let's not talk about nightmares and dreams," he told the mummy and Cyclops. "Instead, we should be planning for this year's Halloween. This year will be more horrible and terrifying yet!"
Jackson transformed the mood from dreary and gloomy to happy and excited. His other two friends feel his positive emotions and smiled as well.
Then Jackson has brought up a speech, "With Cyclip's super strength, Patti's intelligent and well-working mind, and my creativity, we all can make this the best Halloween ever!"
Cyclips cheered after his friend's speech is done; then he asked," Can Jackson tell us how we all met?"
Once again, Jackson has to tell another story. "Alright, Cyclips," he said to his friend and Patti, "I'll tell you. You and I met in Kindergarten and have been ever since. If any bullies picked on us, we would be there for each other. Then when we were in middle school, Patti the mummy moved to Halloween Town and she didn't get the greeting that she deserved at first because a mean sorceress named Cleo teased Patti (which is short for Cleopattira) about her "toilet- paper- wrapped" body. After a while, we [Cyclips and I] found out that Patti is a very intelligent creature and we made friends with her. As I said before, we work best as a team. Cyclips provides the strength and muscle for Patti and I, Patti has the brains for Cyclips and gives me some reality, and I provide the creativity and ideas for our group."
"So what is this year's plan Pumpkin Prince?" Patti asked Jackson after he's finally done with the story.
Jackson answered, "Even through I am the son of the Pumpkin King, I only want what's best for our town and the plan is-"
"Jackson!" a corpse boy cried out as he sprinted to where the group held their meeting.
"How did he get here?" Jackson puzzled the kid who stopped running and is now out of breath.
The corpse kid managed to explain," Emergency- Sally said- that you- would be here. It's- about Jack- something- terrible happened with him- today."
The other three monsters gasped with terror, especially Jackson, yet they don't know the whole story on what had happened; however, what they do know is that it can't be good. "What happened? Is my father OK?" Jackson thought to himself.
As Jackson ran with his two friends and the corpse boy, he command," We should go to the Town Square. That's usually where the news is brought out first."
Note: I don't known Tim Burton's the Nightmare before Christmas or any of his characters. Rate and comment on how it is so far. I'm trying to get it so that readers 10 years and older can read it. Please don't be too harsh when it comes to comments for I may not be great as a writer, but I love the ideas. I also did drawings based on this idea; if you want to see them, go to and search 'Holiday Nightmare Chapter 1' to see some drawings that I did before I published this chapter of the story.