Rated T

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Jr. walked through the cemetery. He dragged his feet while his head hung low. He was too afraid to tell Minnie. He wasn't even able to look her in the face till the moment he left.

She would find him soon. Her Nergal powers were what made her deadly, yet lithe. She would be able to sniff him out. Nergal powers heightened all sense to the point where the user thought they were animalistic. But her sixth sense was the ability to sense supernatural powers.

She would feel for his reaping powers and locate him instantly with flight.

He sighed. He should tell the truth. Soon, the Body Reformation spell would become permanent. She would forever have her body back. Which was a good thing, but…he would have to give up a very essential amount of his power to fully block her to the spell. He would have to gain that amount of reaping level almost twice as much. Not only that, but his father would question what exactly did he use to lose all that power.

He actually realized how mad his dad could really get, especially now that he had his own show. He always watched 1000 Ways to Die and the way some people died wasn't all that nice. His dad drew gruesome designs for these people's death. Some took time, others, instantly, but all ended in the same place, the Underworld.

He looked at the tombstones and figured after he lost the amount of his powers, his father was going to stuff him in one of these holes.

"Why couldn't I have just gotten over the fact Minnie was better than me?"

Jr. had sat on a stone, swinging his feet back and forth. A bark brought him out of his stupor. The little sheet dog didn't recognize Jr., but was friendly anyway. Jr., on the other hand, knew exactly what the dog's name was.

"Zero! How ya doin, buddy?"

Zero looked up in question, but immediately shook it off in lieu of making a new friend. He barked happily at the bone boy.

"Wanna play a game?"

Zero flew around Jr.

"Heh heh, alright. Sit boy!"

Zero settled on the ground while Jr. reached into his hoodie. He popped off a bone from his spine.

"Alright, boy, fetch!"

Zero took off in chase of Jr.'s bone. Now, Jr. had a pretty good memory, but there were times he forgot things. Like how right after he threw his bone, he got captured.

"Heh, heh, hehehehe!"

"Ahh! Get me outta this bag! I swear, all of you are gonna regret doing this to me!"

"It's a good thing there were two of them. Mr. Oogie Boogie got mad at us from last time when we lost that freaky girl."

Zero shivered in fear and worry as Lock, Shock, and Barrel carted Jr. away. He had to get help and quick.

TLTS

Minnie walked to the gate for the cemetery and slipped in. She had been here before, last year, when she had gotten captured. She got out quicker than her kidnappers expected and threatened killing them all should they try something like that again.

"I do so hope for mine brother's safe return."

She really didn't know where he went, but thought he would come back sooner or later. Until then she might as well have fun in her flight.

TLTS

Jr. hadn't been able to get out of the sack as he thought he could. His head wasn't attached to his body so he wasn't exactly fully capable to activate either his Reaper or Nergal powers. He had to be fully together to gather his powers. Even if his head was on his body, he would still need that rib he threw for Zero.

When they finally reached the hideout, he was dumped out of the bag. They were surprised to find him a little…dissembled. Once he was able to pull himself together, they got friendly. But he knew what was to happen. They gave him cookies, told him he could join their little "club". He knew not to buy, but allowed what was to happen to happen. He needed Minnie there so he could fully assemble and make sure Oogie Boogie didn't kill his sister like last time.

He told them the story of how his parents met, who he was, his really cool uncle, another Jr. When they came to his sister, though, he was different from last time.

"Is that your sister?"

"Yeah, that's Minnie alright. Ya know, she's pretty cute in that one."

His sister was in her little baby outfit, sucking on a binky. Shock deducted Jr.'s feelings for his little sister.

"You guys seem close."

"We weren't always like that. I was really jealous of her at first, but after a couple of things that happened, I'd like to say we're inseparable."

Barrel asked his question.

"Why does she talk that way?"

"Oh, it's mostly because she spends her time with Ms. Helga."

"Who?"

"Oh, so you haven't heard of Helga Pataki. This is Halloween town, right? Helga Pataki is the scariest and meanest teacher in the Underworld. She's our private tutor. She's extremely strict and any type of misstep involves a complete rant and riot act. Minnie has always been able to keep in line, never getting any answers wrong. Me, on the other hand…well, let's just say it's a good thing I don't have ears."

"She's that bad?"

"Even with that, with her teaching, Minnie has been able to grow into a talented performer and ballet dancer."

"Wait, ballet? You mean that ballerina from the musical Lenore?"

"You mean she's a performer?"

"A dancer?"

"An actress?"

"She's good at about anything. I can break dance, but that's about it. I am, however, in her next performance.

The only suckish thing is that Uncle Nergal spends more time with her than me. He'll play a couple of games with me, but the moment Minnie ask if he could have tea with her, he hops up, throws the bunny suit on, and sits with her. It's disconcerting how he would drop everything to be with her."

"So you're jealous of her relationship she has with him?"

"I just wish he would at least spend more time with me, since Mom and Dad are gone most of the day."

"You shouldn't keep these feelings bottled up or you're gonna explode. Ask him, or do something all three of you can do."

"Besides, let's forget bout all that. Tell us about your Reaper powers. Don't you have those?"

Jr. had been so into talking with them, he forgot about the part where Oogie decides to use his head as piñata practice. Jr. was going to tell them he did, but thought against it, making sure they didn't know fully of his powers.

"My Dad said I would get those sooner or later, just not now."

Lock looked annoyed. He yelled in Jr.'s face.

"What! Are you serious? So you're telling me you aren't this cool Grim Reaper?"

"Not yet, but can I still be part of th-!"

Jr. went lights out, dropping to the floor in a heap.

TLTS

Minnie flew around in the cemetery, flying with the bats. She laughed happily, loving the feeling of the wind through her hair.

When she caught the sight of Zero holding her dear brother's bone in his mouth, however, she quickly landed down to him.

"By Father's Scythe, this is my brother's bone."

She had Zero lead her to where Jr. was being kept, hoping to get there in time.

TLTS

Jr. was enraged. They really didn't know who they were dealing with.

"You are going to let me go! You have no idea who you're dealing with! I'm gonna kick your butt!"

Lock snorted.

"Don't listen to him, Mr. Oogie. He's a liar, he has no Reaper powers. He's just some dumb little bag of bones."

"Crap. I was hoping you wouldn't tell him that. What is that you want from me?"

Oogie told him of his little plan to use him to figure out how to get Reaper powers, while the Trick-or-Treaters were getting ready to cut the rest of his body up, Shock being the lucky one in holding his head. Oogie was holding his head up by now when Minnie arrived and shot an arrow through Oogie's hand sack.

"Lay not a hand upon mine brother or thou shall pay the price most dear!"

Minnie let her reaper powers engulf her body and parried against the King of Hearts' blades. She opened her leg knives and cut the cards off, deactivating their use. The skeleton cowboy slots opened up their guns while she was a bit distracted.

She was able to dodge almost all of them except on that skimmed her arm. She let her tail and claws grow and ran around the gunshots. She shot up into the air, switched to beast feet, and dove into the wires of the slots, creating an explosion and knocking the kidnappers off their feet.

She walked up to the frightened kidnappers, glaring pointedly at the Trick-or-Treaters, then to Oogie. Jr., however, was reveling in the feel of his sister's tail caressing him, making him sigh delightfully.

Oogie groveled at her feet, begging for her mercy. She barked at him, telling him should he ever take her brother again, he should really just wrap himself up in a nice little bow and await his punishment from her hands.

She made her way back to his body and reset his head and handed him back his rib.

"Minnie, am I glad to see you."

"Really, brother?"

"And that was, like the coolest thing I've seen."

Minnie shined, but then frowned again.

"Wouldst thou tell me of what bothers thee if mine performance was so great?"

Jr. frowned.

"I told you Minnie…I can't tell you. You won't understand it."

He let go of his sister's hand and got up. Minnie was looking dejected.

The distraction was all Oogie needed and pressed the button to the Pumpkinator.

It grabbed Minnie instantly. She screamed as she was caught in the clutches of the giant destroyer.

But Jr. was ready.

Yay! My first cliffy!