Chapter 8 is complete! Yay! I would like to give a big shout out to all my wonderful readers, and all the fantastic reviews! I'm so glad you all enjoyed my last chapter when the trick or treaters drew pictures, I mean I'm in art college so of course I had to add something to do with drawing! I hope all of you enjoy chapter 8!

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Chapter 8

The first night sleeping in their own new rooms was mostly a success, until around 4:30 in the morning when Shock woke up from another nightmare about lighting. She pushed her new purple chair over to the light switch, stepped on top of it and flicked on the light. She fearfully inspected the room. It didn't look like any lighting or fire was coming out of the closet or under the bed. Though she still wasn't fully convinced. Sleep had now become impossible, so what was she supposed to do now? She turned to the door, a wide grin grew on her face, she snickered to herself, carefully opened the door and tiptoed out to the hallway.

Lock had been tossing and turning all night as well. Not because of nightmares, but for other reasons. He felt this sickness in the pit of his stomach, not actually sick, but completely disgusted with himself. He hated Jack, and he hated Sally, he was such a moron the other day, letting the two of them get away with actually telling HIM, Shock, and Barrel what to do. Lock felt as though he was the one to blame, he let his guard down, and the other two just followed along. He was a boogie boy! Not Jack and Sally's pet! They had no right to boss him and the others around! The nerve of them!

"Lock?" Shock whispered, peeking threw the door.

Lock jumped up, seeing Shock in the darkness, "What are you doing in here?" He hissed.

"Shh!" Shock snarled, "I couldn't sleep," She said now taking a seat at the end of the bed.

Lock sighed, "Me neither."

"Really?" Shock said brightly, did he have nightmares too?

"Yeah," The young devil spat, "I was thinking about how much I hate Jack, and that stupid rag doll! What's her name? Sally?"

"Oh," Shock whispered, disappointed in his answer, not that Lock noticed.

"The nerve of them," He gripped, "They are treating us like we're Zero or something!"

Shock raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

"Telling us what to do, where to sit at the table, what to do, giving us new rooms, why? Just so we'll behave for them? They are trying to control us Shock!"

Shock put a hand under her chin and thought about what her friend had just said. She didn't want to be controlled by anyone, ever! She didn't have to behave for anyone! Huh! As much as it scared her to say this in her head, but Lock was right! She didn't need or want Jack and Sally making the rules and telling her how to act! Crossing her arms, she growled "I do whatever I want, when I want."

"That's right!" Lock said sitting up, "Let's go get Barrel, I got a plan."

Barrel was sound asleep in his new room. Snoring happily away, having a wonderful dream he found a door with a huge lollipop on it, he went inside and was in a strange holiday land that celebrated lollipops. He was just about to be named king of this amazing world when something jerked him in his sleep.

"Wake up you big baby!" Shock hissed, with Lock violently shaking him.

"What," Barrel groaned. "I wanna sleep," He whined.

"We gotta talk to you." Shock whispered.

"Why?" Barrel cried, with his eyes still closed, "I'm tired."

"Jack and Sally are trying to control us," Lock announced, trying to get the youngest trick or treater to listen.

That didn't really phase Barrel though. He had put up with Lock, and Shock telling him what to do ever since he could remember, at least Jack and Sally were actually nice to him. Plus in the last two nights he spent at Skellington manor he's never been hungry, Miss Sally always made sure he had enough to eat, and Jack had manged to give him a cozy warm bed for the last two nights. So if this was what being controlled felt like, he really didn't mind at all.

"Come on Barrel, wake up," Shock said pulling at his blankets. "This is serous."

Barrel groaned, if he didn't get up they'd never leave him alone, "What?" The small boy yawned rubbing his tired eyes.

"Jack and Sally had their fun, it's our turn," Lock said deviously with Shock nodding in agreement.

"What are you even talking about?" Barrel grumbled.

"We just said! They're trying to control us stupid!" Shock hissed.

"I'm not stupid," Barrel protested, now sitting up, "How are they controlling us?"

Lock raised and eyebrow, and whispered in his younger friends right ear,"First it starts with cookies, and candy canes."

Shock whispered in his left ear, "And games, and new things.."

"And if you're good they will promise to give you more.." Lock added.

"Then they will just make you work and become their ..."

"Their robot," Lock said grimly.

Barrel shoved is two older friends away from him, "What are you idiots talking about?" He rolled his eyes.

Lock spoke up, "Look at it this way Barrel, when you train a dog when it's a puppy and your just training it how to roll over it gets a treat right?" Barrel nodded, so Lock went on, "And once it starts to listen better it gets less treats, right?" Barrel nodded again, so the devil boy kept going, "And what happens when it finally learns to roll over after you tell it to so many times, and it does?"

"You stop giving it treats!" Barrel blurted excitedly, confident in his answer. Lock and Shock looked right at him, had he said something wrong? He thought about what his friend had just explained to him, what did training a dog have to do with Jack and Sally? And treats? Well, Jack gave them a candy cane today, and Sally gave them cookies when they were colouring? The youngest trick or treater froze, "We're like the dog?" He whispered.

Lock and Shock nodded.

The youngest ex boogie boy thought more into what his friend had just explained, Sally and Jack were trying to train them! And sure now it was good, but soon enough they would cut off all treats if they continued to follow their rules! Barrel was a trick or treater, He didn't want to be robot!

He jumped right out of bed, and hurried to the door, "Well what are we waiting for?" He said in a panic.

"Calm down stupid," Shock hissed, "Get dressed, and meet us downstairs," She turned and grinned at Lock, "Locks got a plan."

Barrel hesitantly walked back over to his friends, "W-what kind of plan?"

"A little revenge on the mayor firstly," Lock said, "And to prove to Jack and Sally we're not their minions."

"That we can do whatever we want when we want, and we don't care what anyone thinks of us," Shock added.

The three ex boogie boys smiled deviously at each other. They have been cooped up long enough in Skellington manor, it was now time for some real fun...

Lock was the last one to meet the other two at the entry way, he was busy gathering up all the eggs in Jack's fridge, to bring with him. Shock and Barrel were waiting for him, each with a handful of toilet paper that they stole from the bathrooms.

The oldest boy shoved by them and swung open the front door, "Let's go," He announced excitedly.

Shock looked him over, noticing right away something was missing, "Where's your coat stupid?"

Lock turned to her scrunching up his nose, "What are you my mother?" He turned back to outside, "Come on, before Jack wakes up!"

Barrel happily followed behind. Shock stood there for a moment, glaring at her stupid devil like cohort. "Freeze to death then," She muttered, "Get sick, and see if I care." She was starting to wonder who the real dumb one of the group was. At least Barrel had enough brains to put a jacket on. The young girl rolled her eyes, finally giving in and following her friends.

Lock had explained his mastermind plan to his two best friends, first they were going to break into the Mayors office, break and ruin everything as best they could, then they were going to teepee, and egg town hall, and if they had enough time, rummage threw Jack's office as well.

Barrel picked up the biggest rock he could find, and with as much power he had thrown it right at the Mayor's office window. Shattering it first try.

"Bull's-eye!" He said proudly.

"Nice!" Lock praised.

"Come on dummies!" Shock said, running over to the broken window, the others soon followed.

Lock and Barrel gave Shock a boost first, Shock pulled Barrel up, and the oldest and the youngest ex boogie boys helped Lock up.

They all had a devious grin on their faces, looking at the perfectly neat office...

Jack was sound asleep, having a wonderful dream about this year's Halloween. All the citizens of Halloween town were happy, even the Mayor. Lock, Shock, and Barrel were there to, they were behaving, dressed nice, and they actually looked like they were enjoying themselves. Oh, and Sally was there to. During the whole dream Jack had a small little box in his coat pocket, and right when the celebration was almost over, he planned to purpose to her. It was going to be the best Halloween yet! He was just about to get down on one knee...

"BANG! BANG! BANG!"

"JACK!" The Mayor's voice wailed.

The pumpkin king snapped his eye sockets open. He turned and looked at his Alarm, it was 5:54 in the morning, what could the Mayor possibly be in such a panic about so early in the morning?

The master of fright rubbed his eye sockets, and rolled out of bed. He moved as fast as his tired body could go to get to the door, he didn't want the Mayor waking up Sally or the kids.

Finally he reached the door, wow that walk felt a lot longer then usual.

He swung the door open, "Good morning Mayor," Jack said trying his best to sound cheerful and to cover up how annoyed he really was.

The Mayor's face looked completely devastated,"Oh Jack it's a disaster!"

"What is?" Jack yawned, still half asleep.

"T-the town hall!" The Mayor shrieked, "The boogie boys are ruining everything!"

"Nonsense," The master of fright said confidently, "They're upstairs sound asleep."

"Jack!" Sally called rushing down the stairs in a panic, "I just walked past Lock, Shock, and Barrels rooms! The doors are wide up, and their gone!"

After seeing Sally so shaken up, Jack woke right up, and concern swept over him, when could they have possibly snuck out? Would if they got hurt!

Jack turned to the Mayor, "Where are they?" He asked, with nothing but concern.

"They're at town hall!" The Mayor cried, "Destroying everything!"

Jack turned back to Sally, "Sally, darling get dressed, we're going too town hall!"

The three ex boogie boys had just finished tee-peeing and egging town hall, and were now rummaging threw Jack's office. Important papers were ripped away from the inside of Jack's desk, and now crumpled up on the floor.

Barrel was sitting in Jack office chair, spinning around, happily giggling, while Shock and Lock continued to dig through his desk, trying to dig up any kind of dirt they could on their pumpkin king. The perfectly neat and tidy room was now a complete mess. Drawers from the desk were yanked out and carelessly thrown on the floor, along with any objects the ex boogie boys seen no interest in.

Out of pure spite, Lock purposely knocked over the three chairs Jack had made them sit in countless times before. Shock had found a paper with some special details for this year's Halloween, she read them first of course, and then ripped it to shreds. She had gotten a lot faster at ripping things up, after having torn up every single paper in the Mayor's office earlier.

Lock pulled out another drawer, dumped everything out, tossed the drawer aside, and dug threw the pile of stuff. He found yet another pen, tossed it aside, and somehow it managed to land in Barrels lap.

The youngest child took notice of the shiny looking silver pen, continued to spin around, while playing with the fancy looking object.

"Pretty!" He said brightly, stopping the chair for a moment to show his friends. Though Lock and Shock took no interest. Seeing his friends not caring about the pen he had just acquired, Barrel decided he didn't care about it either, and tossed it aside. When the beautiful pen hit the carpeted floor, it splattered and became a puddle of blue ink. "Oops," Barrel said shyly.

Lock looked up from digging threw Jack's things, "Hey don't worry about it buddy, who cares?"

"Yeah it's just Jack's office, have you forgotten that we hate him?" Shock said, looking up from the file folder she was now going through.

"I guess," Barrel sighed.

For some reason though, the youngest trick or treater couldn't help, but feel a little guilty. He didn't care about what he did too the Mayor's office or town hall because well he always hated the Mayor, and hated the town for agreeing to kick them out of their tree house for a month. Sure he should have hated Jack too, but for some reason he didn't. He tried to remind himself that Jack was only trying to treat him like a pet, like his friends had told him earlier, but then again Jack also saved him from almost falling off the roof a couple of days ago. Barrel wasn't saying he overly liked Jack, because he didn't, but he also didn't hate him, and for some reason the youngest ex boogie boy wanted Jack to kind of like him. Though after Jack sees the huge mess they have made, Barrel doubted that was even possible.

"Come on Barrel, have a little fun, you haven't touched a single thing in here other than that pen and that chair," Lock said, now crumpling up yet another important paper to do with the town, and tossing it at Barrel in an attempt to cheer him up.

"I believe that would be the smartest choice to make," A stern familiar voice said in the doorway.

The three ex boogie boys froze in their spot upon seeing Jack. They scanned his face, he was mad of course, but luckily not as angry as he was the time they almost put garlic powder on the vampires.

The pumpkin king closed the door behind him, stepped over whatever was thrown on the floor, picked up the three chairs, "Sit," He ordered.

Seeing how angry he looked, the trio thought it was best not to push it, and listened to his clear intrusions, and scuffled to their usual seats.

Jack sat down at his office chair, firstly and most importantly, with his eye sockets he scanned over each child to make sure no one was hurt. To his relief they all looked okay, Secondly he looked around at his destroyed office, papers, pens covering the floor, and furniture that was knocked over. It was bad, but nothing compared to what they did to the Mayors office.

"Whatever went through your heads to do such a terrible thing?" Jack said, with the picture of how town hall looked from the outside still burned inside his skull. He really couldn't wrap his head around they're reasoning to do such horrible things.

No one had answered Jack's question, so the master of fright continued, "I'm very disappointed in the three of you," The pumpkin king sighed. It was the truth. Yesterday they were so good, him and Sally had done everything to try to make them happy and comfortable, and this is the thanks they get, for everything they had tried to do? He was very angry with the three of them, but mostly hurt. All he wanted to be was their friend after all.

"You're cleaning all of this up," Jack finally decided after a pause of silence, "Your cleaning up every single mess you have made today, and you are too apologies too the Mayor."

Lock snorted at such a ridiculous idea, "No we're not."

Jack put his elbows on his desk, and folded his hands together, "Alright then," He said calmly, "I'll give you three a choice, either clean up every single mess you have made today, and apologies, or have your tree house ban extended to how about three months instead of one?"

The three ex boogie boys mouths all dropped open and their faces became covered with concern at such a threat. He wouldn't, would he?

"You can't do that!" Shock cried.

"I'm giving you the choice." Jack said simply.

"That isn't fair," Lock protested.

"No, what isn't fair is to purposely do harm too others and not expect punishment for it." The pumpkin king said simply, There was another pause, so Jack continued, "So what will it be? Are you going to clean up?"

The trios heads were hanging so low looking at the floor, Jack just barely noticed the tiny nods they gave him.

Cleaning up had taken forever, it was almost impossible for a whole town to clean this all up, let alone three young kids. Jack sincerely felt bad for making them do all this work by themselves, but he reminded himself if they could make the mess, then they could be the ones to clean it up. Though cleaning up everything still wouldn't undo the fact they destroyed almost all the towns documents that were extremely important. This crime they committed was a terrible deed, but the pumpkin king can honestly say it was not they're worst. Taking Sandy Claus to the Boogie man was one of their worst. Though never the less they still did something that was wrong, and they deserved to be punished for it.

They started with cleaning up the outside of town Hall. Lock was shriving from the chilly morning air. Sally had noticed, and offered him her coat, which he spitefully swatted away and grumbled, "I don't want anything from you!"

Shock watched Lock working away freezing cold. That made cleaning up for her a little more enjoyable since she warned him earlier that he should have brought a jacket. Maybe next time he will be smarter and actually listen to her.

Around lunchtime Sally had handed them some sandwiches. Lock and Shock ate no problem, but Barrel only nibbled on it a bit. Still fighting with the guilt he had that was bubbling up inside. For some reason his heart completely sunk after Jack said he was disappointed in them. Jack hated him, and Sally probably did too. And the worst part about it, Barrel didn't have a single clue how he was going to make it up to the two of them.

The trio got done cleaning up everything, other than the ink spill. Barrel scrubbed for about forty five minutes trying to get it out of the carpet, but it was too late, it was already stained.

They got home around 5:30, Sally had supper ready for them, and straight after supper Jack sent them all to bed, without dessert. Warning each of them that he would still add another two months onto the ban of their tree house if they even attempted to leave their rooms without Jack or Sally's permission first.

I hope you guys enjoyed my newest chapter. Chapter 9 will be on its way! Also I would like to thank people that reviewed saying they wanted the boogie boys to get in some trouble, with chapter was inspired by you guys! And thanks to your inspiration it helps me a lot with my next chapter, which I planned to do as my original chapter 8, I'm so glad to have this chapter! Actually I almost deleted part of this chapter by mistake lol. Anyways tell me what you think! I promise to update soon, please stay patient with me, chapters are getting longer which is great, but that might mean longer waits for updates, which sucks. But I promise to update asap!