Hello
again readers, if you've read this far then thank you! =D We're on
the fourth chapter! (dances happily in her computer room) Again sorry
about the short chapter before, this one is long though! I originally
planned this fic to be four chapters but I thought to cut this
chapter in half because it was a little long. I wanted to build
suspense, and 'cause I can! Yeah . . . . anyway please review, or if
you want flame me for cutting the chapter. And sorry this took so
long to post, about a week after I posted the third chapter I was
like 'didn't I have to post something . . . ?' Time has been flying
by quickly here so again sorry it took so long to post. Enjoy.
TheAngryPrincess13: Lol, glad you like the fic, I could
actually imagine the whole thing with Barrel poking Karina with a
stick and the mango thing. I'm glad you got the review, I enjoyed
your fic so far. A whole Jack Skeelington bag filled with horror
books? Cool! Most people think I'm weird 9.9' Again ,thanks for
liking this fic and reviewing every chapter =D
E.S.Young: Hey
Sid! Thanks for reviewing my fic . I stil can't believe
never sent you my review o.o maybe it was my comouter's fault. Who
knows? I can't wait to see the 15th (or was it 16th?) chapter of
SMiYE! I'll try and review on Jeff's computer if I go to his house
with Karina.
FreddyJasonV: Now you can see what happend next
=D Glad you consider it one of your favs. I also like your fics, they
sound interesting. I'll try to review when my comouter works better
6.6'
It was now the next day at the Skellington
Manor. The bright, orange Pumpkin Sun was shining through the
windows, filling the room with the morning's rays. It was around 7
a.m. as Johnny walked down the stairs, looking like he came back from
hell. He still didn't know what to do, he just hoped whatever he was
going to do was the right thing. He sat at the table where Jack and
Sally were having breakfast. Sally noticed something was wrong and
decided to ask.
Sally: Johnny, whats wrong? You've been
acting gloomy since yesterday and you haven't eaten a thing.
Johnny: It's nothing and I'm not hungry.
Jack: Where
are your little friends?
Johnny: Their meeting me at a store.
Johnny was a terrible liar, he knew it and so did Jack.
Johnny stood up from his chair and excused himself.
Johnny: I
better go meet them, bye mom, bye dad.
Jack: Something's not
right, I just know it.
Before Sally could say anything the
screaming doorbell rang. Jack goes to the door and opens it, in walks
the Mayor with the worried-face on.
Mayor: We need you now
Jack, the preparations for Halloween need to be finished so we can
get everything ready! Halloween is tonight!
Jack: I'll be
right there. (he turned to Sally) I have to go now to-
Sally:
-work on the celebration, I know. You really should find out what's
troubling Johnny.
Jack: I will, don't worry.
Jack
gives her a kiss and leaves the house. We turn to the graveyard see
Johnny leaning against a gravestone, waiting and looking both
concerned and angered all at once. Barrel comes in a brown hood and
clock but this time is standing on stilts to appear taller so Johnny
doesn't recognize him.
Johnny: Who are you and what have you
done to my friends?!
Barrel: They're fine but I can't say the
same for you.
Shock comes from behind Johnny and throws a
sack over him, ties it tight, and pushes him into the bathtub with
feet. Johnny tries to thrash about to get free but its no use. All he
can hear is the clanging metal sound of the tub's feet on the rocky
ground and the manical laughter of two all too familiar voices. Back
inside the tree house Karina, Gaby, and Nicole were sitting against a
wall being carefully watched by Lock and his pointing stick. They
hear the walking bath tub as it walks into the room followed by Shock
and Barrel. The three girls see something squirming in a sack bag
inside the tub.
Shock: Lets get him ready.
Shock
grabs a pair of handcuffs from a nearby table and kicks the tub
causing it to fall. Johnny tumbles out of the sack, before he can
react Lock and Barrel jump on him and pin him down. Shock walks up to
Johnny and puts the cuffs on his wrists while Lock and Barrel have a
hold on him. They drag the kicking and yelling skeleton to a wall and
attach the cuffs to it. The wall is close to the cauldron that
contains the bubbling potion.
Nicole: Let him go! Not to be
rude but what the heck do you want with Johnny?! I thought you wanted
revenge on Jack!
Shock: Simple, we need a treasured
possession of Jack's, namely his son. We need him for a spell to
bring back Oogie.
Lock: Enough talk! So what do we need to do
to Johnny? Turn his bones to ash, crush his skull, remove an
arm?!?!?!
Shock: (she reads book) We need to keep him close
to the potion and alive.
Lock: That's all?! Where's the fun
in that?!
Karina: How can you keep him alive if he's already
dead?!
Back at the Skellington Manor, Sally was in the living
room reading a book called 'Rose Red' in an armchair. Her mind wasn't
in the book though, she was thinking about Johnny and what was going
on. She had her head in the palm of her hands contemplating on what
she thinks is happening.
Sally: I'm worried for Johnny. Jack
was right, something is wrong. But what?
Sally hears a
whimper, she looks up from her book to see Zero floating in the
doorway with the note in his mouth.
Sally: What have you got
there Zero?
Sally takes the note from Zero and reads it to
herself, her worry grows more. Now she knows something is happening,
her son might be in danger and so might his friends. We now see Jack
walking back home, the dilemna with the festival plans was solved and
now he could talk to his wife. While walking home he sees green smoke
coming from the chimney of the tree house, he also hear's the
laughter of the three halloweentown pranksters. Jack already knowing
that those three having fun isn't a good thing, decides to go to the
house and find out whats going on. He sneaks inside quietly, he's
holding himself up on the rope left behind those years ago. He can
hear the voice of the Lock, Shock, Barrel and his own son.
Johnny:
Can you at least let my friends go? They're of no use to your plan.
Barrel: But we need someone to torture at times, its boring,
especially when Oogie takes over all of Halloweentown!
Lock:
Can we start now?
Shock: Right. We got the potion, Oogie's
sack, and Johnny; let's begin. I have to recite this spell, it will
steal the essence of Johnny, kind of like his soul. He'll still have
it but some will be transferred to Oogie in order to make him live
again. Right, spell time.
Before Shock can recite the
incantation Jack runs into the room, he has an angered look on his
face that could kill anyone.
Jack: You will not harm my son
or his friends while I'm here and I will not allow you three to being
back that evil fiend! Now release them.
Shock: Hold him down!
Lock and Barrel push Jack into some kind of torture chamber.
The machine had metal straps around his wrists pointing out and his
ankles strapped together back against the wall. (Basically the
machine has a hold of him in the shape of a "T.") There's
also two straps around his waist, if activated one will pull one way
and the other in the oppisite direction, the sharp impliments
pointing at him don't help the situation much either.
Johnny:
Dad?! What are you doing here?
Shock: Enough interfernece,
let's begin already!
With this spell that I chant,
What
I want it shall grant,
Bring back life to the dead,
The
person, Oogie Boogie, as I have said,
With the enemies soul
and potion at hand,
Bring back life to this land!
A
green smoke surrounded Johnny and so does a black light around
Oogie's old sack. The green smoke slowly floats around Johnny for a
while then whisps itself to the cauldron near him.
Shock:
Okay, now that the essence of Johnny is in the potion we have to dump
the contents into the sack and stand back.
Lock and Barrel
dump the potion into the sack and all three stand away. The sack
begins to glow an errie crimson red and the sack begins to grow. It
reaches the full size and height of Oogie, the top corner where the
face would be opens three slits, two for the eyes and one for the
evil smirk.
Lock, Shock, and Barrel: Yay! Oogie's back!
Oogie: Well well well, I guess I am, (sees Jack who's
struggling to free himslef from the restraints to rescue his son)
Well hello Jack, nice to see you again. Last time I saw you, you were
almost sliced up into bits by my torture machines.
Jack: Last
time I saw you, you were an dirty, old sack.
Johnny: Dad! Get
out of here!
Oogie: Looks like got a kid. (looks at Johnny)
I'll bet he has your sence of curiosity, and your stupidity for
thinking he could stop, just like you used to think.
Johnny:
My father is not stupid! He'll always be better than you and no
matter what, he will hold the title of Pumpkin King!
Oogie:
Yep, just like you Jack.
Nicole: That's it!
Karina:
What's it?
Nicole: (whispers) I have an idea. (yells loudly
to Oogie) Hey Oogie, want to make a bet?
Oogie: (turns away
from Johnny and turns around) A bet?
Nicole: (smirking) I
knew that'd get his attention. Yeah, or are you not the gambling
type?
Oogie couldn't help but laugh, these people from
another world obviously didn't know him very well.
Karina:
O.o Was your plan to make him laugh to death?!
Nicole: You'll
see. (she looks back to Oogie who has regained some of his composure)
So how 'bout it?
Oogie: Sure, why not? I love bets.
Nicole:
Good, okay. I bet I can beat you in a stareing contest, we can do
anything to make the other person blink. If I win you let us go. If
you win, you get all three of us and we do whatever you want, no
questions asked.
Karina: OO NICOLE!!!!!
Oogie: Deal,
this will be too easy.
Karina: Nicole, he's a sack! He
doesn't need to blink!
The two sit at a table across from
each other. The stareing contest begins, Oogie is staring into the
dark brown, nearly black eyes, of his opponenet and she stares back
into his empty, black slits. Oogie tries to make her blink with the
most stupid funny-faces ever but she was too busy thinking about a
certain pirate from a movie to really pay attention. When she noticed
he had stopped but still hasn't blinked she decides to try her plan,
praying that it would work and that she didn't pass out. She tried to
concentrate all her energy and anger out on Oogie while still
stareing into his eyes and remembering what Diana, her guardian, had
taught her. She thought about all the torment Oogie had caused for
Jack and Sally in the past, Johnny, and her friends. Her head began
to ache but she ignored it, she could see that Oogie's eyes were
beginning to produce a small but visible smoke. Finally Oogie realed
back from the pain gathering on his face, that gave them the time
they needed to escape.
Oogie: What did you do?! I'm blind!
Nicole, a little dizzy, grabbed the keys off a table that was
left ungaurded since Lock, Shock, and Barrel went to help Oogie; she
unlocked her two friends who ran like hell out of that horrid place.
She went to Jack and slowly tried to unlock the numerous locks, being
careful not to set off the machine that could easilt rip him in two.
When she was done with Jack she went to the last captive, Johnny, the
keys wouldn't work for some reason on his lock. 'This is bad,' she
thought, 'We're trapped, the keys don't work,' and to her horror she
saw Oogie was coming towards them with some of his eyesight back.
Johnny: Hurry!
Nicole: Slark, these keys don't work
for this stupid lock! (she starts to tug and kick at the lock until
it finally breaks) o.o Hey it worked!
Johnny: Lets get out of
here!
Johnny and Nicole run to the rope ladder Jack and Sally
used to escape last time, as the young girl climbs up she hears a
yell from Johnny. She looks down the rope ladder to see that Oogie
has a hold of Johnny around the ankle of his boot.
Oogie: The
both of you ain't going nowhere! (he pulls Johnny down from the
ladder and now has a tight grip around the young skelletons neck)
Nicole: O.O Squeek! No!!!
Oogie: Hmmm?
Nicole:
-.-' Lets make a deal, let Johnny go and you can have me . . . . .
and Mir.
Oogie: Whos' Mir?
Nicole: He's my little SIR
unit, Mir come out.
A small metallic gray robot jumps out of
Nicole's purse. She remembered she had built that robot after she saw
'Invader Zim' on Nickelodeon. The robot had bright sky blue eyes,
shoulders, part of his mid-section, and the ball-point of his
antennae. He gave a cute smile with his tongue sticking out when he
saw Oogie.
Mir: (looks up at Oogie with the cute, yet insane
smile on his face) Hi Mr. Oogie Boogie man!
Oogie: (slightly
disturbed by the creatures joy in this situation) . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . How does this thing know my name?
Mir: Youz
is from the Nightmare Be- (Nicole puts her hand over the small robots
mouth before he can say anything else)
Nicole: Hehe, he means
he knows you . . . . . from his nightmare. Yep . . . . you very scary
to him.
Mir: (muffled) Bo, I bean de vovie de ritenare bre-
(Nicole bonks the little robot on the head)
Nicole: Quiet Mir
.O (looks back to Oogie who has a puzzled face) So can you keep
us and let Johnny go?
Oogie: Fine, deal. (to Johnny) Be
happy, you've just been spared your life.
Johnny by now had
fainted from lack of oxygen since Oogie still had a tight grip around
the skeletons throat. Before Oogie left with Johnny at hand he turned
to his three young yet eager lackeys and gave them an order.
Oogie:
Lock, Shock, Barrel; watch the little human and that Mir thing. Make
sure they don't escape.
Lock: Yes sir! (salutes)
With
that done Oogie leaves the human, robot, and three denomic children
there. Lock turns to the young human who looks quite annoyed, he has
a smirk on his face as if he knows some secret.
Lock: Your
doomed, Oogie's gonna keep you here forever and ever.
Nicole:
Go away . . . . . . o.o I've got an idea.
Shock: o.-
What? If it's a plan to escape it won't work.
Nicole: No,
it's not. If I have to suffer here for eternity then you three should
atleast suffer until Oogie returns. (she looks to the little robot
who is drawing on the walls with her black eyeliner) Mir, can you do
me a favor?
Mir: (stops his drawing and looks to his master)
Okey dokey .
Nicole: Can you sing your favorite song for
them, atleast until Oogie's back.
Mir: Yay, okey dokey!
Lock, Shock, and Barrel: O.o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
Mir: (sings in a sing-song voice) Doom, doom,
doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doomy, doom, doom, doomy,
doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, etc.
Lock, Shock, and
Barrel: O.O
Nicole grinned at this, this song would cause
extreme torture until Oogie returned. She opened her button-adorned
black purse and took out her CD player. Nicole put the headphones
onto her ears, careful not to get the wire caught in her small hoop
earrings, and listened to her CD, 'The Phantom of the Opera.' She
silently thanked Gaston Leroux for writing 'The Phantom of the
Opera.' She hoped her friends would come back soon to help, she
really didn't want to spend the rest of eternity stuck in Oogies
layer.
End of chapter four. Okay or not okay?
Anyone hate me for cutting the chapter or thought it would be good to
build suspense? Anyway I'll try and post Ch. 5 quickly, I think that
will be the last chapter unless I make the final ending as chapter
six. Hm . . . . . choices. I don't think I will though, that would be
a really short chapter and it'd probably suck. I didn't mean as an
epilogue, but as the actual ending on what will happen. Okay then,
chapter five aka the final chapter coming soon! Invader Nicole
signing off.
P.S.: The thing with the lock breaking, that
actaully has happened before. It was with my high school locker and I
was late to class, it wouldn't open with the combination so I tried
kicking and pulling at it until it finally opened much to my shock
o.o The hallway guard was staring at me, and this kept happening a
lot during the year. Just a fun little note.
