Disclaimer: See chapter one.
I can't find the sugar. *sniff* Maybe it's for my own good.
~*Chapter 5*~
Sally shut her eyes tightly. She listened, but could only hear the bare branches of the trees brushing against her window. She could have sworn she heard something that wasn't of this world, or her home world. She opened her eyes, and tried to see if there was anything strange in her room. The only thing she could see was the faint glow of Zero's nose. She quivered her lips and searched for the light switch. Her hand rubbed against the wall until she found it. When she did, she nervously switched it on. The room brightened and she caught sight of the clock. It read 2:56 in the morning. Sally rubbed her eyes and got up out of her bed. She walked out of her room and into the little kitchen. She turned the light switch on and grabbed a glass from the cabinet. She began filling the glass with water.
It was then she heard footsteps behind her. It scared her so much that she jumped and dropped the glass. It shattered into a hundred pieces.
"Woah, Sally," Lock began. "Calm down. It's just me, Lock. You know, the devil boy of the seven best trick-or-treaters in all of Halloween Town?"
"I know who you are, Lock." Sally explained. "I'm just a little jumpy tonight."
"Why?" Lock asked. "Did you have a nightmare?"
"Sort of," Sally answered. "I kept hearing noises in my room."
"Noises?" Lock asked. "That's odd. Oh well. Do you want me to help you clean up the glass?"
"No, dear," Sally said. "I don't like the idea of you or any of the kids being around broken glass. Besides, you already have a cut on your knee."
"Okay." Lock agreed. He watched as Sally picked up a dust pan out of the closet and knelt to clean the broken glass. His eyes wandered around the room as he put his arms behind his back. He shifted his weight from his toes to his heel and back again. He watched Sally get up and swipe the broken glass into the trash bucket.
"Did you need something?" Sally asked, catching Lock off guard. Lock shook his head and looked up at Sally. "I mean, since you got up at practically three in the morning?"
"No," Lock said. "I just heard you get out of bed and wanted to see if you were okay."
Sally smiled and reached into the cabinet for another glass. She filled it with water and splashed in a few ice cubes. She then slowly walked to the little kitchen table where she sat down and began sipping down her beverage. Lock walked to her and sat in the chair across from her. He lowered his head into his arms that crossed in front of him on the table.
"Sally," Lock began. "Do you think it's really possible that dreams can come true? I've been waiting a long time to meet nice girls."
"How old are you again?" Sally asked.
"I'm seven years old." Lock answered, slightly annoyed that Sally forgot his age.
"Well, you've still got a whole life ahead of you." Sally explained. "It's going to be a few more years before you make it to Junior High. Besides, you've met three nice little girls. What about Seritta, Suzie, and Shock?"
Lock froze, his cheeks turning bright red, almost as red as his hair. His hair flew into his eyes; he didn't even bother to push it back.
"I see." Sally observed. "You've got a little crush on one of them."
Lock narrowed his bright, yellow eyes and crossed his arms at his chest. Sally laughed.
"I won't tell." She said. Lock smiled underneath his ticked off face.
Dr. Finkelstein was secretly watching their conversation.
"Darn it." He whispered. "That stupid brush didn't work. Look's like I'll need stronger science to pull this off."
He took a look down at himself. He hadn't noticed that he had changed ever since he followed Sally into Halloween Town. He looked nothing like he did at home. He smirked. There was an abandoned research lab on the other side of Guillotine Square.
"Maybe there's some old science stuff there I can use." He said. He quietly wheeled himself across Guillotine Square and cracked the door to the Research Lab open. Once he was inside, he slowly wheeled himself up the ramps to the top floor where there was an experimenting room.
"If there's any science stuff in this dump," Dr. Finkelstein began. "It's probably in here." He opened the door and wheeled himself inside.
Dr. Finkelstein spent hours in that experimenting room. He was the one that had found all the good candy after Halloween. (That was why the seven kids didn't find anything good.) He kept testing it all until he came upon a final conclusion. He gave the candy bar a zap, and wrapped it back up in its wrapper.
"Sally," he began. "This will be the last taste you will ever know."
It was morning back at the tree house. The seven trick-or-treaters dressed up in their Halloween costumes and grabbed a few large sacks.
"This is just to double-check if all the candy has been found that was left over from Halloween." Seritta explained. "We won't be long."
"And, hey, we're wearing our Halloween costumes. Maybe we can scare some candy out of the people of Halloween Town!" Barrel added. He picked up Jake and put him on his shoulders.
"Do you want anything?" Joseph asked. "We might go to the candy store if we don't find anything good."
"Oh, that's okay." Sally reassured. "You guys just go out and have fun."
The seven kids smiled up at Sally and ran out of the tree house and across the bridge to Guillotine Square.
A little while later, Sally was getting hungry. Her stomach growled as she looked through the drawers of the kitchen to find something to eat.
"Oh, there's nothing good." She said regretfully. She went to go to her room, but a knock on the door stopped her. She opened the door to see a kind old professor. What she didn't know, was that it was Dr. Finkelstein in disguise.
"Good day, young lady." He said politely.
"Good day to you, Sir." Sally said, smiling down at what she thought was just a nice old man.
"I'm going door-to-door giving away candy left over from Halloween. I have no children of my own, so I'm going to each house seeing if anybody else wants some." The old man explained. "Would you like some of my candy bars?"
"Well, I am a bit hungry." Sally said. "Oh, okay." She reached into the basket the old man had in his hands.
"Might I make a suggestion?" the old man asked, holding up one candy bar in specific. "This one had a bunch of different flavors packed into one."
"Thank you!" Sally exclaimed, taking the candy bar from him. "How much is it?"
"Oh, don't worry about money, dearest." The old man said. "You're such a sweet young girl; you can have it for free!"
"Really?" Sally asked in disbelief. "Oh, thank you!"
The old man smiled and wheeled himself away. When he was sure that he was out of Sally's sight, he smirked to himself and said, "No, thank you, for falling into my most ingenious plan ever!"
Sally unwrapped the candy bar and took a quick look at it. She smiled and bit a piece off. She chewed it and swallowed. She smiled for a moment, and then her expression went dazed. Her entire body became wobbly, and she fell over. It was hard to breathe, and the air around Sally was getting hot and thick. She soon passed out, but, more importantly than that, she had been magically poisoned, and she stopped breathing. Her heart soon stopped pumping, and she laid there, helpless and nearly dead, even for a citizen of Halloween Town.
The seven trick-or-treaters walked into their tree house a little bit later with upset faces.
"I guess all the good candy really WAS taken." Seritta confessed. "I'm sorry I pushed you guys to double-check."
"Oh don't worry ab-Oh my God!!!" Shock screamed. The door to Sally's room was open, and the seven kids saw Sally on the floor. They rushed to her. Joseph pressed his ear against her chest.
"She's not breathing." He announced. "Her heart isn't even beating."
The other six kids gasped as sobs came across their little faces.
"Who could be so cruel as to kill such a sweet woman?" Jake asked, wiping his little bony cheek.
Lock tried to blink back tears. His face was angry, and his eyes almost started flaming as an expression.
"Well, whoever did it," he announced. "We'll punish them! We can't let who it is get away with this! I won't let them!"
Lock ran out of the tree house. Seritta placed Jake on her shoulders and the rest of them followed him into the forest, where they heard a horrible laughing that almost shattered their ears.
(This next part, well, I sort of took the idea from the deleted storyboard that you can see if you have the special edition DVD. If you haven't checked it out and you have the DVD, it's the alternate identity to Oogie Boogie. Okay, enough with my chat. On with the story!)
"You!" Lock screamed, pointing at the laughing man. "You must be the one that killed our beloved Sally! How could you do such a thing??"
Dr. Finkelstein turned towards the seven kids, and smiled a crooked- tooth smile.
"What do you know?" he asked. "That horrible woman was ruining my life! Now, I have what I want. She's dead! You seven should be, too! I'll just take car of that now!"
With that, Dr. Finkelstein stood up without his wheelchair and reached his arms to the sky. A bolt of magic hit him, and he was surrounded by a bright light that transformed him into a giant, misshapen monster. She kids closed their eyes and covered their faces to protect themselves from bright lights. When the lights dimmed, they opened their eyes back up and saw a horrible sack-like creature with a scary face, no hands (Kingdom Hearts joke), and a huge body.
"Just try to stop me now!" it screamed. "I am Oogie Boogie! The Boogie Man!"
The seven kids gasped in fear as Oogie Boogie came walking towards them with a giant pumpkin-like thing in arms.
"If you seven are the greatest trick-or-treaters in all of Halloween Town, and you don't fear anything, let's just see how well you deal with this!" Oogie Boogie shouted and he rolled the giant pumpkin down through the forest.
"That's no ordinary pumpkin, guys!" Joseph announced. "That's a giant pumpkin bomb!" (Kingdom Hearts joke)
The seven kids ran over to the pumpkin bomb and tried with all their might to push it back towards Oogie Boogie. They pushed it with all their strength, and they were able to get it half way back to Oogie Boogie. He realized this and ran towards the bomb. He tried to push it back onto the kids. The seven kids pushed harder on the bomb, but so did Oogie Boogie.
The kids were starting to run out of power. They were getting weak, and their arms were getting tired. Suzie pushed the bomb with her side only to feel something against her. She reached into her skirt pocket, and pulled out something she didn't realize she saved.
"Lock!" she shouted. "Look at this! Remember all those sour balls I had on Halloween? Well, I had saved a few from the pile of candy! You can throw farther than any of us. Throw them at Oogie's feet!
Lock grabbed the sour balls from Suzie and threw them with all his might at Oogie Boogie's feet. Oogie took a step forward, ready to push the bomb onto the kids, only to slip on the sour balls and fall over.
"Everybody!" Lock screamed. "Push the pumpkin bomb on him!"
With all that remained of their strength, the seven trick-or-treaters pushed the giant pumpkin bomb onto Oogie Boogie. The seven kids ran out of the forest as fast as their little legs would carry them. Jake bounced on Seritta's shoulders. Just the second that the seven kids got out of the forest, the pumpkin bomb exploded, leaving bugs and rags everywhere, not to mention a brain of a professor, which was squished to smithereens as a tall tree fell over it from the explosion.
Back at the tree house, the seven trick-or-treaters sat in a circle around Sally. She hadn't woken up since they were gone.
"Hey guys," Barrel began. "Remember all those extra pieces of wood down in the basement we were going to use to replace the loose floorboards?"
The six other kids nodded.
"Let's make a coffin for Sally instead." He said, tears rolling down his chubby cheeks. "That way, we can be near her at all times, and we can say good-bye."
The six trick-or-treaters nodded in agreement.
"Sally," Lock began. "I'm sorry this happened to you. We should have taken better care you. I'm so sorry, but it looks like your dreams won't be coming true, not in this world anyway. I wish you a happy life, wherever you go. Just, don't ever forget us. We'll take care of Zero for you. We promise to keep him safe." Lock gently stroked Sally's hair. "Don't ever forget, wherever you go, we're always with you, and we'll always love you." (Kingdom Hearts joke)
~*End of Chapter Five*~
I can't find the sugar. *sniff* Maybe it's for my own good.
~*Chapter 5*~
Sally shut her eyes tightly. She listened, but could only hear the bare branches of the trees brushing against her window. She could have sworn she heard something that wasn't of this world, or her home world. She opened her eyes, and tried to see if there was anything strange in her room. The only thing she could see was the faint glow of Zero's nose. She quivered her lips and searched for the light switch. Her hand rubbed against the wall until she found it. When she did, she nervously switched it on. The room brightened and she caught sight of the clock. It read 2:56 in the morning. Sally rubbed her eyes and got up out of her bed. She walked out of her room and into the little kitchen. She turned the light switch on and grabbed a glass from the cabinet. She began filling the glass with water.
It was then she heard footsteps behind her. It scared her so much that she jumped and dropped the glass. It shattered into a hundred pieces.
"Woah, Sally," Lock began. "Calm down. It's just me, Lock. You know, the devil boy of the seven best trick-or-treaters in all of Halloween Town?"
"I know who you are, Lock." Sally explained. "I'm just a little jumpy tonight."
"Why?" Lock asked. "Did you have a nightmare?"
"Sort of," Sally answered. "I kept hearing noises in my room."
"Noises?" Lock asked. "That's odd. Oh well. Do you want me to help you clean up the glass?"
"No, dear," Sally said. "I don't like the idea of you or any of the kids being around broken glass. Besides, you already have a cut on your knee."
"Okay." Lock agreed. He watched as Sally picked up a dust pan out of the closet and knelt to clean the broken glass. His eyes wandered around the room as he put his arms behind his back. He shifted his weight from his toes to his heel and back again. He watched Sally get up and swipe the broken glass into the trash bucket.
"Did you need something?" Sally asked, catching Lock off guard. Lock shook his head and looked up at Sally. "I mean, since you got up at practically three in the morning?"
"No," Lock said. "I just heard you get out of bed and wanted to see if you were okay."
Sally smiled and reached into the cabinet for another glass. She filled it with water and splashed in a few ice cubes. She then slowly walked to the little kitchen table where she sat down and began sipping down her beverage. Lock walked to her and sat in the chair across from her. He lowered his head into his arms that crossed in front of him on the table.
"Sally," Lock began. "Do you think it's really possible that dreams can come true? I've been waiting a long time to meet nice girls."
"How old are you again?" Sally asked.
"I'm seven years old." Lock answered, slightly annoyed that Sally forgot his age.
"Well, you've still got a whole life ahead of you." Sally explained. "It's going to be a few more years before you make it to Junior High. Besides, you've met three nice little girls. What about Seritta, Suzie, and Shock?"
Lock froze, his cheeks turning bright red, almost as red as his hair. His hair flew into his eyes; he didn't even bother to push it back.
"I see." Sally observed. "You've got a little crush on one of them."
Lock narrowed his bright, yellow eyes and crossed his arms at his chest. Sally laughed.
"I won't tell." She said. Lock smiled underneath his ticked off face.
Dr. Finkelstein was secretly watching their conversation.
"Darn it." He whispered. "That stupid brush didn't work. Look's like I'll need stronger science to pull this off."
He took a look down at himself. He hadn't noticed that he had changed ever since he followed Sally into Halloween Town. He looked nothing like he did at home. He smirked. There was an abandoned research lab on the other side of Guillotine Square.
"Maybe there's some old science stuff there I can use." He said. He quietly wheeled himself across Guillotine Square and cracked the door to the Research Lab open. Once he was inside, he slowly wheeled himself up the ramps to the top floor where there was an experimenting room.
"If there's any science stuff in this dump," Dr. Finkelstein began. "It's probably in here." He opened the door and wheeled himself inside.
Dr. Finkelstein spent hours in that experimenting room. He was the one that had found all the good candy after Halloween. (That was why the seven kids didn't find anything good.) He kept testing it all until he came upon a final conclusion. He gave the candy bar a zap, and wrapped it back up in its wrapper.
"Sally," he began. "This will be the last taste you will ever know."
It was morning back at the tree house. The seven trick-or-treaters dressed up in their Halloween costumes and grabbed a few large sacks.
"This is just to double-check if all the candy has been found that was left over from Halloween." Seritta explained. "We won't be long."
"And, hey, we're wearing our Halloween costumes. Maybe we can scare some candy out of the people of Halloween Town!" Barrel added. He picked up Jake and put him on his shoulders.
"Do you want anything?" Joseph asked. "We might go to the candy store if we don't find anything good."
"Oh, that's okay." Sally reassured. "You guys just go out and have fun."
The seven kids smiled up at Sally and ran out of the tree house and across the bridge to Guillotine Square.
A little while later, Sally was getting hungry. Her stomach growled as she looked through the drawers of the kitchen to find something to eat.
"Oh, there's nothing good." She said regretfully. She went to go to her room, but a knock on the door stopped her. She opened the door to see a kind old professor. What she didn't know, was that it was Dr. Finkelstein in disguise.
"Good day, young lady." He said politely.
"Good day to you, Sir." Sally said, smiling down at what she thought was just a nice old man.
"I'm going door-to-door giving away candy left over from Halloween. I have no children of my own, so I'm going to each house seeing if anybody else wants some." The old man explained. "Would you like some of my candy bars?"
"Well, I am a bit hungry." Sally said. "Oh, okay." She reached into the basket the old man had in his hands.
"Might I make a suggestion?" the old man asked, holding up one candy bar in specific. "This one had a bunch of different flavors packed into one."
"Thank you!" Sally exclaimed, taking the candy bar from him. "How much is it?"
"Oh, don't worry about money, dearest." The old man said. "You're such a sweet young girl; you can have it for free!"
"Really?" Sally asked in disbelief. "Oh, thank you!"
The old man smiled and wheeled himself away. When he was sure that he was out of Sally's sight, he smirked to himself and said, "No, thank you, for falling into my most ingenious plan ever!"
Sally unwrapped the candy bar and took a quick look at it. She smiled and bit a piece off. She chewed it and swallowed. She smiled for a moment, and then her expression went dazed. Her entire body became wobbly, and she fell over. It was hard to breathe, and the air around Sally was getting hot and thick. She soon passed out, but, more importantly than that, she had been magically poisoned, and she stopped breathing. Her heart soon stopped pumping, and she laid there, helpless and nearly dead, even for a citizen of Halloween Town.
The seven trick-or-treaters walked into their tree house a little bit later with upset faces.
"I guess all the good candy really WAS taken." Seritta confessed. "I'm sorry I pushed you guys to double-check."
"Oh don't worry ab-Oh my God!!!" Shock screamed. The door to Sally's room was open, and the seven kids saw Sally on the floor. They rushed to her. Joseph pressed his ear against her chest.
"She's not breathing." He announced. "Her heart isn't even beating."
The other six kids gasped as sobs came across their little faces.
"Who could be so cruel as to kill such a sweet woman?" Jake asked, wiping his little bony cheek.
Lock tried to blink back tears. His face was angry, and his eyes almost started flaming as an expression.
"Well, whoever did it," he announced. "We'll punish them! We can't let who it is get away with this! I won't let them!"
Lock ran out of the tree house. Seritta placed Jake on her shoulders and the rest of them followed him into the forest, where they heard a horrible laughing that almost shattered their ears.
(This next part, well, I sort of took the idea from the deleted storyboard that you can see if you have the special edition DVD. If you haven't checked it out and you have the DVD, it's the alternate identity to Oogie Boogie. Okay, enough with my chat. On with the story!)
"You!" Lock screamed, pointing at the laughing man. "You must be the one that killed our beloved Sally! How could you do such a thing??"
Dr. Finkelstein turned towards the seven kids, and smiled a crooked- tooth smile.
"What do you know?" he asked. "That horrible woman was ruining my life! Now, I have what I want. She's dead! You seven should be, too! I'll just take car of that now!"
With that, Dr. Finkelstein stood up without his wheelchair and reached his arms to the sky. A bolt of magic hit him, and he was surrounded by a bright light that transformed him into a giant, misshapen monster. She kids closed their eyes and covered their faces to protect themselves from bright lights. When the lights dimmed, they opened their eyes back up and saw a horrible sack-like creature with a scary face, no hands (Kingdom Hearts joke), and a huge body.
"Just try to stop me now!" it screamed. "I am Oogie Boogie! The Boogie Man!"
The seven kids gasped in fear as Oogie Boogie came walking towards them with a giant pumpkin-like thing in arms.
"If you seven are the greatest trick-or-treaters in all of Halloween Town, and you don't fear anything, let's just see how well you deal with this!" Oogie Boogie shouted and he rolled the giant pumpkin down through the forest.
"That's no ordinary pumpkin, guys!" Joseph announced. "That's a giant pumpkin bomb!" (Kingdom Hearts joke)
The seven kids ran over to the pumpkin bomb and tried with all their might to push it back towards Oogie Boogie. They pushed it with all their strength, and they were able to get it half way back to Oogie Boogie. He realized this and ran towards the bomb. He tried to push it back onto the kids. The seven kids pushed harder on the bomb, but so did Oogie Boogie.
The kids were starting to run out of power. They were getting weak, and their arms were getting tired. Suzie pushed the bomb with her side only to feel something against her. She reached into her skirt pocket, and pulled out something she didn't realize she saved.
"Lock!" she shouted. "Look at this! Remember all those sour balls I had on Halloween? Well, I had saved a few from the pile of candy! You can throw farther than any of us. Throw them at Oogie's feet!
Lock grabbed the sour balls from Suzie and threw them with all his might at Oogie Boogie's feet. Oogie took a step forward, ready to push the bomb onto the kids, only to slip on the sour balls and fall over.
"Everybody!" Lock screamed. "Push the pumpkin bomb on him!"
With all that remained of their strength, the seven trick-or-treaters pushed the giant pumpkin bomb onto Oogie Boogie. The seven kids ran out of the forest as fast as their little legs would carry them. Jake bounced on Seritta's shoulders. Just the second that the seven kids got out of the forest, the pumpkin bomb exploded, leaving bugs and rags everywhere, not to mention a brain of a professor, which was squished to smithereens as a tall tree fell over it from the explosion.
Back at the tree house, the seven trick-or-treaters sat in a circle around Sally. She hadn't woken up since they were gone.
"Hey guys," Barrel began. "Remember all those extra pieces of wood down in the basement we were going to use to replace the loose floorboards?"
The six other kids nodded.
"Let's make a coffin for Sally instead." He said, tears rolling down his chubby cheeks. "That way, we can be near her at all times, and we can say good-bye."
The six trick-or-treaters nodded in agreement.
"Sally," Lock began. "I'm sorry this happened to you. We should have taken better care you. I'm so sorry, but it looks like your dreams won't be coming true, not in this world anyway. I wish you a happy life, wherever you go. Just, don't ever forget us. We'll take care of Zero for you. We promise to keep him safe." Lock gently stroked Sally's hair. "Don't ever forget, wherever you go, we're always with you, and we'll always love you." (Kingdom Hearts joke)
~*End of Chapter Five*~