AN: Please excuse any mistakes I make with the guardians. I have not seen the movie in full, only a few scenes. I honestly really only know about them through hijack fanfictions. Anywho. Also, thanks for the reviews. Really boosts my mood for once. Anywho, chapter three, enjoy!
When they arrived in the North Pole, Jack suddenly noticed a change in Skellington. He once more went into a jolly mood it seems. Looking around the North Pole with curiosity towards everything he sees. North and the other guardians walked in and saw Skellington examining a very uncomfortable yeti.
Norths voice boomed "Dear lord Skellington, didn't you see enough back when you first came here?" Skellington noticed North and the guardians then said, "My apologies. It is always fascinating as I normally am surrounded by black and orange. Even after I've learned my lesson on that sour Christmas, I still can't help but admire your holiday mister Claws. Oh, and where are my manners for your friends?" He advanced towards the guardians and did a low bow in a kind and proper manner and said with a smile, "Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King, at your service."
The first sound came out of Tooths mouth who screamed in horror when he smiled then immediately pushed Skellington onto the closest chair, pulled out dental equipment from Moon knows where and began furiously working on his teeth. Skellington was to shocked to retaliate the onslaught Tooth placed upon his mouth. When Bunny, Sandy, North and Jack combined finally pulled her off, Skellingtons teeth were as white as Jacks hair. He grabbed a mirror from the dental kit and tapped his teeth as he looked at them through the mirror.
"How am I going to be scaring people on Halloween now? My teeth could blind them before they see any true Halloween scare."
North said quickly while holding Tooth back from finishing the last tooth, "Sorry about that, this is the Tooth fairy, she's normally not so... demonic. It's just you know, being tooth fairy and all, she's obsessed with teeth." Skellington got up from the spot and said "I understand. Like how my Halloween nature caused me to transform Christmas into a nightmare when I was still ignorant to the fact that I belong in Halloween only." North had tied Tooth to the globe with some rope he found. She still started to bend part of the globe when she started using her wings but remained anchored.
After about ten minutes, Tooths tooth lust settled and they were able to untie her. She immediately apologized to which Skellington accepted knowing full well that it was simply her nature to go warmonger on teeth in the condition that many Halloween town residents were in. They all made their way to a meeting room and began discussing what to do.
In the middle of their discussion, they heard barking. Skellington immediately got up and greeted a ghost dog that appeared to be frantically trying to tell everyone in the room something. Skellington then saw the dog had brought them a clover shaped knob and Skellington stood up and went grim. "Something wrong Skellington?" North boomed. Skellington then asked North, "What is the fastest transportation we have?" North answered, "My sled, why?" Jack replied "No time to explain. Come with me." And quickly went to the sled.
Skellington immediately got in and when he managed to scare Bunny in, grabbed the reins and yelled,"Hyia" as he used the reins as the reindeer began flight. How Skellington knew how to fly a sleigh, Jack did not know. In about 20 minutes, they were over a flaming forest and Jack heard Skellington murmur under his breath, "The hinterlands..."
Just then, a herd of nightmares came flying up and attacking the sleigh. Sandy began using a dream whip while North pulled out his swords and Bunny started flinging his boomerang. Meanwhile Jack tried shoot as many nightmares as he could using his staff. North cried out, "There's too many, I think they're gonna take us down!" However, Skellington replied, "If missiles and Boogies machines couldn't take me down, a bunch of piles of sand horses aren't going to either. With that, Skellington handed Jack the reigns and said, "Just keep us going straight, don't crash." As if it was that easy, then he pulled from his coat a staff with a skull on the tip and summoned flames and shot them at the Nightmares. Though this helped for a while, the numbers were to high. Skellington said to North "North, take the reigns and land." North cried out "Are you insane? They'll overwhelm us!" Skellington replied "Insane, yes. Overwhelmed, no. Just trust me." North grunted then took the reigns from Jack and made the sleigh go in a steep fall towards the forest bellow and quickly pulled up and landed the sleigh as gently as he could, which was to say not at all.
The minute they got to the ground, Skellington jumped off the sleigh and leaped into the trees and soon was impossible to find. Bunny cried out, "I knew we couldn't trust him! He left us here at the hands of Pitch!" And then suddenly, nightmares began to surround them. Thousands of them. Too many to count. They began closing in when a maniacal laugh filled the air. The steads nervously pawed the ground and looked around, their golden eyes scanning the area. Then, suddenly, out of nowhere came Jack, behind him, hundreds and hundreds of... Pumpkins? Living pumpkins. Each had their arms morphed into some sort of weapon and most of them doing goblin-like laughs. This is when Skellington said, "Unleash Halloween!" And the pumpkins charged into battle. The battle did not last long as the pumpkins somehow chased off the nightmares.
Jack looked at Skellington in shock and said "How did you... Where those... I'm confused. Why did you use an army of pumpkins?
And how?" Skellington replied in an a-matter-of-fact tone "Simple. I went to the pumpkin patch in Halloween town, called the pumpkins who forever obey the pumpkin king whoever he may be at the time, and they fought. They can normally only appear in Halloween town, however, they seem to be able to also appear in the Hinterlands as it technically the hub for holidays." With that, the pumpkins all, disappeared in plumes of fire. Everyone just stared at Skellington who smiled and said, "Never underestimate Halloween. It is a time of fun and dressing up, but it is also home to some nasty pranks. And if Oogie thinks that he can become Holiday king with Pitchs army, we'll have to show him holidays can not only celebrate, but also that holidays, can be his worst nightmare."
Sorry for the sucky quality. I was tired and had nothing to do so I thought I'd write this. Once more, please forgive any mistakes I made. I am rusty as I stated in a previous chapter. Thanks for reading. Next chapter coming. Please review! I'd like to know how to improve and how well I'm doing. :)