I do not owe Nightmare Before Christmas and I haves a feeling that I'm going to be doing a lot of updating today and tomorrow as my treat to all of you for Halloween. So enjoy chapter four of Haunting Swamp and don't forget to review or a leave a comment. This might be short so I'm terribly sorry but if this chapter goes the way I want it to flow, then the next chapter will be hopefully long.

~~With Shock~~

Shock woke up in a cell; her right leg was chained to the wall while her dress was torn in spots while her hat was the skeleton that was occupying the bed there. "Where am I?" she asked herself quietly.

She screamed as a shock went through her neck, she looked down to see that someone had placed an electric collar on her neck, 'Great,' she thought. 'I'm at his mercy again.'

She heard footsteps coming closer and she trembled, fearing for the worse as she saw a pair of yellow eyes coming closer in the dark.

"It's been awhile hasn't it Shock?" a voice said before Shock went unconscious mysterious.

~~With Lock~~

"So, how come I never met you before?" Lock asked, trying to make conversation with Mackenzie but wasn't succeeding as Mackenzie ignored. "I'm talking to you little pest."

The dragon rolled her eyes as they went back to the dark hole Lock was at when he tried to go face to face with the thing that was taking citizens of Halloween Town away. "Just keep one hand on the side and slide down," she said as she flew down slowly.

"I'm taking orders from a dragon, oh how the great have fallen," Lock said but he jumped down keeping one hand on the side. His hand soon grabbed onto a ledge, "Hey, fire mouth, I found a ledge," Lock yelled.

Mackenzie flew up and hissed, "Keep it down, he might hear you," she sniffed the air, "good job by the way, let's go this way," and she flew ahead.

"That stupid dragon could wait for me," Lock mumbled as he pulled himself up on the ledge and chased after the swift dragon.

Lock caught up to a mid-flight stone Mackenzie, "Huh? What happened to you?" He receives no answer, "I should've known that I won't get an answer," a sound was heard. "What was that?" He looked around to find a hiding spot; he looked up to the ceiling and saw bats with yellow eyes looking down. He climbed up there and hung upside down by his tail away from the bats that he didn't frightened them but close to where it looked like he was one of them.

A sown up bag was walking with an unconscious Shock over his shoulders, "Well, well, well, it's been awhile Shock, hasn't it? Ever since you the true Boogie boys betrayed me," it said.

'Oogie Boogie,' Lock thought angrily.

"Whatever you do, don't worry your pretty head about what I might do to you that is if you give me all the information I want to know, your highness," Oogie said as he walked away. "Oh, I forgot to tell your little stone dragon friend hi."

"What is Oogie Boogie doing here? I thought Jack had gotten rid for good the third time," Lock said to himself quietly as he crept in the shadows following Oogie Boogie and Shock.

Oogie Boogie put Shock on a bed and tied her to it with electric chains, "I'll be back with a friend that we both know, oh, don't mind the company, they were so excited that they turned into statues." He laughed as he walked away, not noticing Lock.

'You have a lot of questions to answer, Shock,' Lock thought before going in there. He noticed that all the missing citizens were there and they were statues. 'I need to get Shock, Mackenzie, and me out of here soon.'

He snapped his fingers and a tiny flame came to life and burned the chains, be careful not to burn Shock.

When he got to the last chain, Shock started to stir. "Shock," the young devil whispered as the last chain was burned through.

Shock opened her purple eyes to meet Lock's yellow; she still had the collar on, "We need to get out of here after we grabbed the statue of Mackenzie."

Shock nodded and got up, she quickly took the collar off, "Lead the way, Lock."

Shock followed Lock to where Mackenzie was Shock muttered a small spell which turned the dragon back to life.

"Shock!" Mackenzie said happily as her colors changed to a shimmering green.

"We need to get out of here and somewhere safe," Lock said quickly, "Especially since I have a lot of questions for you Shock."

"Why for?" Shock asked.

Mackenzie created a portal and with one of her claws, grabbed the witch and devil and flew them into the portal.

Lock took in his new surroundings to see an eerie purple light shroud the land, a gothic castle that reached the sky and its dark clouds, a wrought iron fence with spikes was protecting the castle, "Where are we?"

"Well, this is a safest place I could think have on that spot," Mackenzie said as she landed on Shock's shoulder, "What happened to your hat?"

"It was on some skeleton," she replied, "Welcome to the dark side of Halloween Town, Holloween Town Lock."

Sorry it's short but the next chapter should make up for it since we are going to learn about Shock, Shock and Lock's relationship will go up (^_^) and we will finally see how Barrel is doing?