Jack and Sofia raced off in the wagon towards the castle. Jack was driving the rickety carriage being pulled by Jade's donkey, Coco. The pack mule was running as fast as it's legs could physically move. But it was difficult and it eventually collapsed from exhaustion. They were still far from the castle.
"Looks like we'll have to run from here!" Jack said, getting out of the cart.
"Princess Sofia!" a voice called from the sky.
Sofia looked up and saw Cedric's raven Wormwood flying down to her.
"Wormwood! What are you doing here?" Sofia asked.
"Castle! Bag of bugs! Alive! Big trouble!" Wormwood said through his panting.
Jack blinked. "Sofia? Are you talking to that bird?" he inquired.
"Yes, my amulet helps me talk to animals." Sofia answered. "So, what's going on, Wormwood?"
The raven finally caught his breath. "A living bag of bugs named Oogie Boogie stole Cedric's wand and is using it to take over the kingdom! He's got Cedric locked up and everything!"
"Who's Oogie Boogie?" Sofia questioned. "That's a weird name."
"Oogie Boogie?! Here?!" Jack uncharacteristically shouted, startling Sofia and Wormwood. "That explains everything!"
"Wait a minute, you know him?!" Sofia asked.
"I certainly do! Oogie Boogie is a no-account, evil Boogie man from the same world as me. But unlike myself and the other citizens of Halloween Town, Oogie takes pleasure in hurting people instead of scaring them!" Jack explained. "I destroyed him a long time ago and now's he's back! It all makes sense now! Oogie came to life and brought me here to this world to keep me from creating Halloween!"
Jack became very angry. All his hard work in making the scariest, most horrible Halloween was being ruined by his greatest enemy. His fury appeared on his already scary face. Sofia whimpered, frightened by Jack's anger. Wormwood hid behind Sofia in fear.
But Jack, being the dapper gentleman he is, kept his cool. "Sofia, we must go to the castle and stop Oogie once and for all!"
"Oh my gosh!" Sofia squealed. "I forgot that my schoolmates are coming to our castle for the Halloween Ball! So my family and my friends are in trouble!
"Then there's no time to lose!" said Jack. "I'll get us back on the road! Hop in." he ordered. Sofia did as she was told and got inside with Wormwood perched on her shoulder.
Jack hopped on Coco's back and tapped the back of the mule's neck. When the donkey turned around, Jack put two fingers in his mouth, stretched it out and made one of his scariest faces at the donkey, uncorking a hideous shriek.
The donkey screamed and the hair on it's mane stood on end. The mule took off like a bullet running towards the castle.
"HANG ON, EVERYONE!" Jack shouted over the high winds as he rode on Coco bare-backed.
"WHOOOOOOOOA!" Sofia and Wormwood wailed, holding on for dear life.
At the castle of Enchancia, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather arrived along with the students of Royal Prep. When they came to the doors, they slowly creaked open, beckoning them to enter.
"How spooky!" Fauna said with such giddy.
The headmistresses and students arrived in the ballroom. It was dark, they can't even see an inch in front of their faces.
"Wow, Sofia must have something big planned!" Princess Hildegard whispered to Princess Clio.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" a mocking laughter echoed through the darkness.
Everyone screamed and huddled into a tight group. Green, fiery faces glowed in the darkness. An army of Jack-o-lantern monsters stepped out of the shadows, surrounding the terrified children. The room was lit and everyone saw that the ballroom was no longer a ballroom, but it was transformed into a giant roulette wheel!
"What is the meaning of this?!" Flora demanded.
A shot of magic was fired at the three fairy sisters and they were trapped in a cage. Flora tried to use her magic, but it didn't work! All three sisters tried to use their magic together, but that cage did not give!
From the top of the stairs, Oogie Boogie looked down at his trapped victims. "Well, well, well, what have we hear? Trick-or-treaters, huh? Oooh, I'm really scared!" The Boogie man slid down the railing and landed before the terrified party-goers. "Welcome to the Oogie Casino Kingdom!"
"Are you sure about that?"
Oogie turned and came face to face with Jack's skull. Oogie yelped in fear and backed away. "J-Jack?!" His shock was soon replaced with anger. "What are you doing here, you bonehead?!"
"I should be asking you the same thing, Oogie!" Jack snapped.
The trapped fairies and children gasped together seeing the king of Halloween himself. "Flora! It's him!" Fauna whispered.
Oogie waved Cedric's wand and a giant podium raised him high up. "Going up!" Oogie drawled. "Get him, boys!"
Oogie's pumpkin monsters charged. But Jack on ready for them. He unleashed his Soul Robber and the battle begun.
With the skeleton and boogie man battling, Sofia and Wormwood headed to Cedric's workshop, but it was guarded by two pumpkin-headed ghouls.
"Oh, no. How are we going to get past them?" Sofia whispered to Wormwood.
"We just need a distraction." Wormwood said.
"Leave that to us!"
Sofia and Wormwood looked over and saw Clover along with Mia, Robin and Whatnaught. Clover glanced over to Wormwood and the raven glanced back. "Now, listen, Wormy." Clover started. "I know we don't really see eye to eye, but-"
"Don't bother explaining, Veggie breath." Wormwood sneered. "We'll have to bury the hatchet for now."
"CHARGE!" Mia chirped. She, Robin and Wormwood attacked the gourd guards. They pecked and pecked at their heads, the monsters growled and tried to shoo away the birds. Clover and Whatnaught rushed in and attacked the other guard by chomping and nibbling on their feet.
Sofia saw her chance and grabbed the key from Cedric's hiding spot. She unlocked the door and saw Cedric, King Roland and Queen Miranda locked in a cage.
"Sofia!" Miranda cried. "You're alright!"
"How did you get in here?!" Roland questioned.
"There's no time for that!" Cedric shouted. "Sofia! In my drawer is my family's wand! Get it, quickly!"
"Gotcha!" Sofia ran over to Cedric's drawer and took out the family wand. It was a wand far more powerful than his original wand. The princess handed Cedric his wand ad the sorcerer zapped the cage and it disappeared.
By now, the pumpkin creatures shook the animals off and entered into the workshop. The were about to breath out fire at the humans until Cedric stepped in. "Returnus, Vegitatious!" he flicked his wand at the squash and turned them into harmless pumpkins.
"Well done, Cedric!" Miranda congratulated. "Now to stop that, that, whatever that thing is!"
Sofia, her parents, and Cedric hurried over to the ballroom. When they opened the doors, they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
The floor was covered with splattered pumpkin and dead plant roots. Standing in the middle of the mess was Jack. "Your army is finished, Oogie! It's time to give up!"
Roland, Miranda, and even Cedric gasped at the sight of the living skeleton.
"J-Jack Skellington?!" Cedric stammered. "The Pumpkin King is actually here?!"
"The Pumpkin King?!" Roland exclaimed, eyes wide with shock. "He-He's real?!"
Sofia grinned. "He sure is, Dad."
Oogie was at his boiling point. "Why you..." he growled. He fired his wand again and the pumpkin innards and dead roots were picked up and turned back into pumpkin monsters again!
"Face it, Jack! You can't beat me! I win this time!" Oogie said to Jack, laughing. "Just who do you think you are?!" The monsters ran in for the attack.
"JACK!" Sofia screamed.
But Jack remained cool as a cucumber, and he was going to let them have it. He spun the Soul Robber a few good times and lashed it out on a pumpkin monster, grabbing it. Then Jack began to spin around, lifting up the beast and using him to smash the other monsters.
"I AM THE PUMPKIN KING! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Jack yelled for all to hear. Within seconds, Oogie's squash were squashed and he flung the final monster straight at Oogie and knocked him down off his grand perch and crashed painfully down to the floor, making him drop the wand.
Jack then snatched the wand with his Soul Robber. "You've had your fun, Oogie." Jack said, approaching his fallen rival. "But now it's time to end this now!"
"Wait, Mr. Skellington!"
Jack turned and saw Cedric. "Allow me." Cedric, with his shoulders back and wand at the ready, cast a big spell. "Creepy creep and creepy crawl! Become undone! Once and for all!"
Cedric fired Oogie with a mighty blast of magic. The sack of bugs screamed as he floated in the air. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Oogie's body began to glow brightly and then disappeared, all that was left was his brain, a mere earwig. It's tiny voice wailed in agony and defeat as it tried to crawl away. But Jack promptly stepped on the insect, destroying Oogie once again.
"We did it! The kingdom is saved!" Sofia cheered.
"But I believe there's one more spell to cast." Jack said "Mr. Sorcerer, if you please."
Cedric understood. "Indeed." He cast another spell, this time with his family's wand. He raised it up high and shot down magic to the ground, magic filling up the castle and throughout the castle. And soon enough, the ballroom was returned to normal and the headmistresses were free. The rest of the pumpkin monsters down in the village became normal pumpkins again.
Now that the madness was all over, everyone else in the room stared at Jack. The children seemed pretty scared until Flora and her sisters approached the skeleton man. "We owe you an apology, Jack Skellington. We were wrong about you all along." Flora said. "We were told that you were the evil one. But it wasn't right of us to judge you before we really saw who you were."
Jack waved his hand. "No need to apologize, ma'am. It's just something I have to expect given my frightening visage."
"But thanks to you, the kingdom is saved!" Sofia said.
"Thank you, but I really can't take all the credit." Jack told them. "After all, Mr. Cedric was the one who really gave Oogie the boot!"
"You're right." said King Roland. "Excellent job, Cedric."
"Oh! Well, thank you very much, your majesty!" Cedric said, flushed with success. He was never used to getting compliments of gratitude, especially from the king.
Sofia noticed that Jack was looking a bit depressed. "What's wrong, Jack?"
Jack sighed. "Well, Sofia, Halloween is here, but I'm afraid it might be too late. Halloween will have to canceled this year." he slumped, depressed.
"What?! No way, Jack!" Sofia exclaimed. "There's still time to celebrate!"
"Princess Sofia is right!" Flora said. "We'll help you out, Jack!"
Jack's face beamed with joy. "Thank you, everyone!" He gasped when a light bulb went off in his head. "That's it! I know what we'll do for Halloween!"
Jack told everyone his big idea, when he was finished, they all seemed quite pleased.
"That's a great idea, Jack!" Sofia said.
"That reminds me! Sofia, do you still have my package?" asked Jack.
"Yep! It's right here!" Sofia took the package out of her backpack. Jack took the package and quickly opened it. When he saw what was inside, his eye sockets grew wide. "Why, this is perfect! Alright, everybody! Grab your tricks and treats and let's go!"
