Grazie to Random Little Writer, Grogie13 and Nausicaa of the Spirits for reviewing! Oy, vey… another long hiatus. Je suis désolée, but you know what my alibi is going to be… Repeat after me: "Life has been so busy lately and blahdy blah blahdy blah blah…" Please don't kill me for not updating like I said I would. Anywhoodles, onward with the story!


Queen Oogie Boogie pulled out her potion book for disguises. She leafed through it for maybe about 15 seconds until she found the perfect disguise.

She gathered all of the ingredients that were needed for it and they included: one half of a Vogon (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) liver, a meat pie from Mrs. Lovett's (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) shop, a mole off of Lord Voldemort's (Harry Potter) head, and a piece of eight from one of the Pirate Lords.

She then combined the ingredients in a cauldron full of boiling zit puss and Polyjuice potion and stirred them up until they produced a noxious odor that resembled that of a dead skunk rotting on the side of the road in the middle of summer and the potion turned a putrid greenish-grayish color.

"Eeeeeeehxcellent," Queen Oogie Boogie hissed (à la Mr. Burns from The Simpsons) proudly, observing her handiwork. "This will be the perfect to fool that little urchin Sally into taking the poisoned peach. Now, the only problem is to down this stuff without worshipping the porcelain god." (A/N: "Worshipping the porcelain god" is another expression for vomiting, for those of you who didn't know.)

She stared at it for maybe about 30 minutes until finally swallowing her disgust and swallowing the gunk that was the disguise potion.

After she swallowed it, her breathing became shallow and her mind started racing. She became shorter, her (nonexistent) hair became grey, greasy and slicked back and partially balding. Her chin and face contorted itself until it resembled someone's extremely pale derriere.

"Just as planned," the Queen said in a sly British voice. "She'll never know that it's me."

She stepped up to the mirror, and the reflection looking back at her was now that of Barkis Bittern.

"GOOD LORD!!" exclaimed the face of the rabbit hunter that was in the mirror. "It's hideous!!"

"Let's kill it!" cried the trick-o-treaters. They pulled out their slingshots and the rabbit hunter pulled out his gun and they began shooting at the Queen through the mirror, and somehow, the bullets and pellets actually went through the mirror.

"Stop shooting at me!" Queen Oogie Boogie/Barkis snapped. "It's me, your queen."

"Oh, okay." The mirror said, putting down its weapons.

"Now," she declared. "I must go poison the peach!" And you guessed it, evil laughter ensued.


OH, NOES!! Will Sally fall for Queen Oogie Boogie's evil plan? Will good triumph over evil? And when will Prince Jack Skellington make his next appearance?! Find out in the next chapter!

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-Harry's Girl 01031992