Ooh, look! I updated! That took longer than I would've liked because, unfortunately, I was taken prisoner by the monster known as School, and it took me this long to fend it off. And to blue oyster cult, (great band, by the way! ^_^) I am truly trying my hardest not to make this a Mary-Sue. If it ever starts getting like one please feel free to start bashing me over the head with loaves of Italian bread until I fix it. ^_^;; Enjoy everybody! Everyone's favorite Pumpkin King pops up in this one! But for some reason I had the hardest time getting Jack's character to feel right, so if there's any OOC that is just too outrageous to be funny, I apologize in advance.
Chapter Three
Jack peered across the graveyard through the open and ominously swinging and creaking gate. He swore he saw something just FLY out of the sky, but decided to check it out himself before alerting anyone else. No one else saw it; they were too busy with Halloween preparations. It was coming up, after all. Ironically, no one would notice he was missing for a short time.
There! He saw it, something moved. And there! On the hill, someone, no, four… things were standing there. He slipped like a shadow through the cemetery to find out what exactly he had seen.
"I just can't explain what's happened," Cari moaned, very irritated that she, for once, did not know absolutely everything. "Adria's convinced she's dreaming." She hitched a thumb back to Adria, walking and murmuring about what a life-like dream this was.
"Yeah, dreaming, that's probably it," Shannon said, somewhat nervously, trying to convince herself. Finally they caught up to Regina, gawking out of breath at the giant moon.
"Wow, this is it! This is the real thing! I can't believe I'm really here! Dreams do come true!" she cried, flinging her arms out and spinning in a circle.
"Oh, gosh, I think I'm going to hurl," Cari muttered disdainfully, rolling her eyes.
"Heh, Regina would do that in real life too! Cool!" Adria commented to no one in particular. Cari just looked at her strangely.
"Hey, who's over there?"
The three friends all turned to look in the direction Shannon had pointed.
"I-I don't see anything," Adria stammered, even though this was just a dream...
"Yeah, just a shadow or something," Cari assured primly.
"Oh, yeah, of course it's nothing! There are never any harmless moving shadows in a dark, spooky GRAVEYARD!" Shannon cried out, slightly paranoid.
"Calm down, my friend! No worries!" Regina assured her hyperventilating companion.
Then the four turned back to look at the freakishly huge moon, but they were met with the silhouette of a very familiar skeleton.
Shannon let out a short scream of surprise before Cari clamped her hand over her mouth. Adria just blinked in awe. ("Man, I've never had a dream like this!") Regina squeaked in euphoria.
"Who a-," Jack started, but was interrupted by Regina, who fell down on her knees and latched herself onto his legs. He made a very surprised, and more than a little freaked, face.
"Wow! It's really you, Jack!" Regina sighed blissfully, snuggling his legs. Jack was still speechless with shock and confusion.
"Um, allow us to introduce ourselves!" Cari started nervously, deciding to take control of the situation, as she liked to do. "I'm Cari, this is Adria, the psycho latched onto your legs is Regina"-here Regina snuggled closer and Jack started to try and kick his way out of her death grip-"and this is… this… where's Shannon?"
Cari and Adria both turned around to see Shannon curled into a fetal position, rocking back and forth.
"Oh my gosh, this is real…" she kept saying.
"And that is Shannon," Cari said with an exasperated sigh, gesturing towards the huddled figure behind them.
Jack finally succeeded in releasing himself from the creature Regina clutching his leg and took a step back. He assumed they were humans, though he'd never met (scared, rather) humans anything like these.
"Um…" the Pumpkin King was rather unsure of what to do with these humans from the sky. They seemed fairly harmless…
"Shannon, get up for goodness' sake! Of course it's real; get over it!" Regina hissed, nudging Shannon with her foot.
Adria helped Shannon up, and they all stood there, staring at each other. It was a tense moment.
"How did you get here?" was the first thing Jack asked, no longer needing to ask who they were.
The four exchanged looks.
"We… don't exactly know," Shannon answered, feeling better now that her initial shock was over.
"Okay, whe- does she blink?" Jack asked, indicating Regina, staring at him with those creepy twinkley bug-eyes again.
Cari hit the back of Regina's head with her palm.
"Hey!" Regina protested, rubbing her head, although it didn't hurt.
"All we know is we need to figure out a way to get home," Adria informed, feeling she was playing along with her dream very well.