It seemed as though the citizens of the Magic Kingdom could not get enough of the candy monsters. Their faces were filled with fear and glee as the monsters entertained them at every turn. Some monsters were playfully scaring the kids and adults, while others were just playing with them.

Kids climbed on top of the candy corn monsters. Other kids were skipping around with the lollipop monsters.

Yes indeed, this Halloween looked to be a rather enjoyable one.

The one most proud of his work was Jack Skellington, who looked on from Halloweentown with massive pride. The edges of his lips curled to opposite ends of his skull, smiling with joy and delight, as well as chuckling heartily at what he had accomplished.

"Three cheers for Jack Skellington!" proclaimed the werewolf.

'Hip hip hurray!'

'Hip hip hurray!'

'Hip hip hurray!'

"Oh, Jack, darling! Clearly you have outshined yourself!" said the creature for the black lagoon.

"I bet no one will be wanting to eat candy anytime soon!" said one of the witches.

"Quite honestly, Jack, I must say, it's your finest work yet!" said the Mayor.

"Thank you, thank you! It was my pleasure. But I can't take all the credit. After all, I couldn't have done this without the help of the great Dr. Finklestien! In fact, I believe I'll go over there right now and commend him on a job well done!" said Jack.

The pumpkin king waved goodbye to the Halloweentowners before heading off to the lab.

"That Jack is really one in a million bones," said the Mayor.


In all his years, Jack had never felt as proud as he did now. Not even on that one year when he made snakes come out of an old lady's chicken pot pie. Jack was elated to thank the good doctor for his help as he knocked on his door a few times.

Soon, Finklestien answered the door and Jack shook his hand with force and feeling.

"Doctor, doctor, DOCTOR! You did great!" Jack exclaimed.

Finklestien's face beamed as Jack walked into his lab. "Oh, Jack. You're too much, it was your idea in the first place," he said.

In the midst of Jack and Finklestien's conversation, Sally saw them from the second floor and immediately called out to Jack.

"Hi Sally! Hey what do you say you and I go out on the kingdom?" Jack suggested.

"Yes, because you need to put a stop to this," said Sally.

"What do you mean?" asked Jack.

"I had a terrible vision. I took a piece of candy and it melted in my hand!" said Sally.

"Maybe you just had it in the sun too long," said Finklestien.

"No! It turned into a green goo and melted in my hand! Something bad is going to happen, Jack, I just know it," said Sally.

Jack could see the concern in Sally's eyes and decided that maybe it would be best to go see if things would turn out as bad as she said. "Alright, Sally. We'll go check things out," he said.


Jack and Sally arrived at Main Street and examined the activities that were going on. From the looks of things, so far, things seemed ok.

A group of the lollipop monsters were playfully frightening children, dancing around them in a ring-around-the-rosey type of manner.

The chocolate and walnut monsters were juggling children in the air.

Donald was trying his luck at actually scaring one of the monsters himself. "I'll show them. Nothing scares me," he said.

As he slowly tiptoed, he started hearing a brushling sound behind him. Quickly, he turned around, and discovered a large piece of taffy on the ground. Looking delicious, he picked it off the ground and prepared to eat it, but as he did, the taffy revealed itself to be a taffy snake and wrapped itself around him, making hissy sound that made him faint.

Jack chuckled. "Well, I guess we can't all have the Midas touch," Jack said, taking off one of his hands and making a finger pointing gesture with it.

"Jack, this is serious. Things seem alright now, but I think we should call the monsters off before they get bad," said Sally.

"Oh, but Sally, look how much fun they're having," said Jack.

But despite the calming atmosphere, at least as calming as it could get on Halloween, Sally still insisted that Jack call the monsters off.

Based on previous experience in regards to Sally's visions, Jack decided that perhaps she was right and gave a big whistle to all the monsters. "Attention monsters! I'm afraid the fun is over! Time to get going!" he shouted.

The children groaned in disappointment as the monsters rallied towards Sally and Jack who assured them they would be back next year.

One of the monsters, a candy corn monster, was making its way to Jack as well, when its eyes laid upon a child dressed up like a football player. The child reached into his bag, pulled out a piece of candy corn and ate it. Upon seeing this, the pupils in the candy corn monster's eyes shrunk and it let out a monstrous snarl. As the child ate more pieces of candy corn, the rage inside the monster grew until it pounced onto the child, roaring, exposing it sharp teeth.

The child screamed in horror as the monster lower its open jaw to his head, as it to eat him. But at the last second, Jack kicked the monster off of the child.

But this was only the beginning. Some chocolate blob monster noticed a bunch of kids eating chocolate bars and began smothering them in a rather aggressive way.

The lollipop creatures reacted the same way after seeing some children biting on lollipops, taking it upon themselves to bite them.

As the monsters saw more and more kids and adults eating candy, it was as if something was triggered inside of them, making them more violent, more aggressive, more terrifying, more monstrous.

"Oh no, it's happening. Just as I feared," said Sally.

"Well this certainly is a pickle," Jack said subtly.

Since Finklestien was responsible for creating the monsters, Sally figured he would know what was going on. Jack agreed and the two rushed back to Halloweentown in the hopes of getting answers from the doctor.