Chapter 4: Kitchen Crisis
"Uh...I don't know. There has to be a way to get the skeletons away. They are fast too." I admitted catching my breath. Sally then looked around and something got her eye.
"Oh, this is pretty." She said and walked over to a cart that had multiple kinds of fabric on it. She took one with roses and felt it.
"I've never seem any like this before." She said. I walked over. "Yeah, I guess Halloween town doesn't have many flower options." I said and Sally took a black and red one.
"What are they for?" She asked. I looked around the room. "Oh, it must be for inspiration for the next paintings." I guessed and pointed to several drawings of girls and boys in outfits that resembled the fabric.
"Oh, did you do one of those?" She asked, I laughed. "No, I'm not good at that. I think one of these is my friend Brianna's. She takes this class." I so as looking at some of the art work.
"Well, fabrics aside, we need to come up with a plan before the boogie boys find us." Sally said. I thought for a moment and looked at her hair and grabbed my braid and a lightbulb lit up.
"I got it, start cutting out some fabric." I said and started undoing my braid. "W-what are you doing?" Sally asked.
"I'll be taking your place." I explained taking my brown jacket off along with my bow and arrows. "With my hair down, and from behind I look a lot like you. It'll fool the skeletons enough to chase me." I said as my braid was completely undone. My hair was now past my shoulders. Not as long as Sally's, but long enough.
"No, you can't do that? You could get hurt." Sally cried worriedly, grabbing my hands to stop me from grabbing the tape.
"Sally, if I said this once, I've told you a thousand times, I know this school and the creeps don't. I have a trap planned for them too so I'll do that, while you wait here." I said and handed her my bow and arrows. She looked at them with doubt.
"You should take them, you'll be defenseless if you leave them with me." She said trying to hand them back, but I pushed them towards her.
"That'll give it away and you need something to protect yourself. I'll show you how it works too. Now help me get tape fabric to my clothes." I said and grabbed the tape. Sally hesitated, but helped tape some fabric to my back.
I wasn't too keen on the idea with leaving Sally on her own, but my trap included some stuff that could hurt Sally. That as something I was never planning on doing. Cause 1: She's too sweet, and 2: She and Jack are my OTP and if I harmed it, I would be able to live with that guilt.
"Okay, is this good?" Sally asked and I looked at myself. "Yep thanks. Okay I shouldn't be gone for too long, but here..." I said and grabbed two walkie talkies, that were on the teachers desk, and handed one to her.
"If something goes wrong contact me and I'll get here as fast as I can. I'll let you know when I'm coming back too." I explained and Sally looked at the walkie talkie. "Um...how do I use this?" She asked holding up my bow.
"Oh, right." I said and took the bow and an arrow. "You hold it up like this and place the arrow on it, pull back and release." I demonstrated, but I didn't shoot the arrow. "Got it?"
"Yes, I do. Are you sure you'll be alright?" Sally asked. I gave a thumbs up and winked. "After what we've been going through this'll be a walk in the park." I said.
"Good luck Charlotte." Sally said. "Thanks, and you might want to hide in the closet." I suggested. She nodded and went in. I closed the door, grabbed my phone, took a deep breath and stepped out in the hallway. Not a second later I heard skeletons hiss at me.
"And running." I muttered and took off to the stairs. Once I was on the steps I flipped over the rail and landed on the other level, like they do in the spy movies. I stumbled, nearly falling over, but I somehow regained my balance and kept running. Once I was on the first floor I turned a corner and busted in a door. The kitchen.
"Okay, I don't have much time." I said and crouched by the oven and turned on the stove. Thankfully it was a gas stove. Just what I needed.
I twisted the knob to turned on the flames, then grabbed an air freshener from the shelf and the fire extinguisher. I dove behind the oven and the skeletons burst in. I peaked up and saw that they were coming towards me. I smirked, perfect. The ice creeps were apparently curious, and walked up to the the stove and watched the flames. I then jumped up and grinned.
"Flames up!" I yelled and, before they could react, I sprayed the air freshener and a home made flamethrower was born. The ice skeletons wailed as they were melted. The fire skeletons then ran up, but I got the fire extinguisher.
"Time for you to chill out!" I exclaimed ten cheesy pun, and took care of that problem. Once they were all down I sighed and turned off the oven.
"Hey Sally I'm heading back up you okay?" I asked through the walkie talkie, but all I got was static.
"Sally?" I hit the darn thing. "SALLY?!" I tried again and, once again, I got static. Fearing the worst, I burst end out the door and started running, fabric falling off my clothes, and I looked around. I shouldn't have left Sally on her own, she might have been hurt, and it would be all my fault.
I turned to the staircase and more skeletons ran towards me I tried to run up stairs but more were coming down. Then I ran inside the nearest door and slammed it shut. Then I was enveloped in total darkness.
Author's Note:
Cliffhanger! Yeah, what will happen next? Hint: Music notes! Hehe, I hope this story is good I wanted to do something original. I've read a lot of great Nightmare Before Christmas fics and they are great! Please read and review, it would really help.