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Chapter X: Transformation

Jack Skellington

After staring at the video and still finding no clues, I decided it was time for a short a break (I was having trouble staying awake).

I decide to see how Danny is doing. I walk up the stairs and approach the door, "Danny are you okay, it's Jack," I say through the door but get no response. "Hello Danny, it's Jack Skellington," I say again and again nothing, something is wrong.

I knock three times on the door and after no answer I decide to open the door. The sight that awaits is not a pleasant one. There was a huge hole in the wall and an empty bed. I look around and to my surprise I find water on the floor, "Just like the library," I say kneeling to examine the water. Soon I found another more disturbing clue, a playing card, "it can't be," I gasp as I race out of the room and go to alert the mayor what has happened.

"Mayor, we have an emergency," I tell him as I race into the study where he is looking over some check-in cards from library.

"What's wrong Jack?" he asks as he switches to his sad face and gets up.

"Danny has been Halfa-napped and it's the same crooks who took the book," I tell him as I show him the playing card I found.

"Oh no, but how could this be, he's dead," he says recognizing the calling card and realizing the danger Danny is in.

"Yes, but my theory is that his Hench-kids are planning to bring him back and if we don't act fast there won't be a Danny to save," I tell him anxiously as we race out of the room and go to save the Halfa.

Jazz

"What happened?" I ask I sit up, we must have taken a bad fall as both me and Sam were laying on the ground. I look around and find ourselves outside the gates of a cemetery. A cold wind blows through air sending a chill up my spine.

"Someone must have attacked us, because I feel like a truck ran me over," Sam said as she comes to and I go to help her up. She looks around at our surroundings, a faint smile plays on her lips, "Something tells me that this isn't Amity Park, but it is definitely my kind of place," she says taking in the sights.

"Wherever we are, something tells me that Danny came here and we better find him," I say as I take out the Fenton Finder.

"Ghost 1 yard away," the device chimed in as we walked to the graveyard gate and entered in.

"The Fenton Finder is going crazy," I tell Sam as the screen flashes and beeps like there's no tomorrow.

"I think I know why," she says as she points to a tombstone that has a shadow coming out of it.

"How dares to wake us up," the shadow says as it looks at us angrily.

Normally we would have broken out the ghost hunting gear, but seeing as we were in a strange place I thought best not to cause a scene.

"Uh…hi, there, I'm Jazz and this is my friend Sam and we were wondering if you could tell us if you seen this person," I introduce ourselves nervously as I hold out a picture of Danny in ghost form.

The shadow looks at it and smiles, "why didn't you say you were looking for the Halfa, he's at jack's house it's the large house on the hill, you can't miss it," he says pointing us in the right direction.

"Thank you," Sam says as we start out to find Danny.

"You're welcome," the shadow says as it goes back into it's grave and we leave the cemetery.

We walked for about two hours when we stopped to rest for a second, "Look I can see the house on the horizon," I say pointing to a tall house on a hill.

"Yeah, I…," she begins to say but stops midsentence as if something startled her.

"Sam, what's wrong?" I ask nervously as I look around to see what could have spooked her.

"I think we're being followed," she said as she placed my her hand on my mouth, "You hear that?" she asked.

I could hear a faint sound approaching like a motorbike and gasped as I saw someone approaching us, "oh no, it's Johnny 13," I said as the specter drove up to us.

"You got that right girls, and I'm here to make sure you two don't ruin Vlad's plan," he said as he blocked our exit.

"You don't frighten us creep," I said as I took out the Fenton Peeler and aimed it at him.

"Oh please, you're worse than your dweeby brother," he said as he snapped his finger, "Shadow Sic'em" he ordered as Shadow appeared and growled.

I went to go for the backpack but Johnny blasted it to bits, "not so hot without your toys," he sneered as he revved his bike kicking dust in our faces.

Sally

Poor Danny, who knows what those three monsters are doing to him, but I will rescue him.

While I was racing to where they were holding him prisoner, I saw something a distance. It appeared to be two girls being terrorized by someone on a motorbike.

"Hey leave those two alone," I said as I raced up to the guy on the motorbike throwing a rock at him.

The man glared and drove up to me, "Hey Kitten, you have spunk, I live that," he said smiling at me, "how'd you like to be my girl," he said styling his hair.

"Sorry but I'm happily married," I tell him showing him my ring on my finger.

"Ditch that square and come with me," he said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me close to him.

"Let go!" I shouted as I tried to a pull away but his grip was strong.

"You're not getting away that easy, Kitten," he said pulling my closer to him.

"That's what you think," I told him as I undid my stitches causing him to go flying through the air and hitting a tree.

"You think you won, but I'll be back," he sneered as he got to his feet and ran away like a coward.

I turned to the other girls, one was dressed in a black shirt and blue skirt with turquoise eyes and red hair but it was her companion that really got my attention.

She was dressed in a black dress that was cut at the sides to allow her to move freely with spider web gloves on her hands and a black shawl over her shoulders. Her eyes were a bright shade of purple and her hair was ebony black.

"Wait a second you're Danny's friend Sam right," I asked her curiously.

"Yeah, who are you and how do you know Danny," she asks cautiously.

"My name is Sally, I found Danny wounded and took him back to my place but he's been kidnapped. I'm on my way to rescue him," I tell them urgently.

Sam looked at the other girl for a minute before responding, "Who took him," nervously.

"Three very dangerous kids named Lock, Shock, and Barrel and if we don't save him, who knows what they could do with him," I told them as they looked at each other again and agreed to come with me to save him. I just hope we are not too late.

Danny

"Everything is ready," the girl said as she came back into the room with a boy dressed up in a devil costume.

"Yes, I'll start the pump," the boy said as raced over to the machine and threw a switch which caused a green liquid to flow through the tubs connected to me.

The girl began to open a book, "Forces of darkness and every regent of the Infernal Lands shed your sublime darkness over our plan," she chanted as the book began to glow and levitate.

While I was watching this go on, I began to feel strange like I have bugs crawling over me, "I feel itchy," I say as I try to ignore the feeling.

The boy walked over to me and removed my gloves.

I looked in horror as my skin started bubble and bugs started to crawl out of me, "Hey what's going on?" I shouted as the bugs coming from my hands were joined by a parade of bugs from the floor.

"Excellent," the girl said as she and the boy smiled with delight at what was going on.

I tried to break free one last time but I wasn't strong enough.

"Don't worry, pretty soon you'll feel like a totally new person," the boy laughed as he and the girl laughed insanely and walked away.

What's going to happen to me I don't know, I just hope someone finds me before it's too late.