Wee! Chapter five!!! Well this is the last chapter, sadly, I didn't want it to end. It'd be fun to keep writing this fic with absolutely no ending at all, but I'm sure everyone would stop reading by the time I started to write that. Ah well, I have my other fics to bounce back on. Besides, I'm still working on other fics, mostly Invader Zim ones. Rest assured though, this will not be my last TNBC fic, read the end of the fic to see what I mean. (laughs evilly) Much joy comes to me with the prospect, thanks to my muses, Nightmare and Midnight. Well enough talking, on with the last chapter!

TheAngryPrincess13: Thank you for reviewing every single one of my insane chapters ) I send you much happiness and chocolate chip cookies. Lol. Hopefully you like choco cookies o.o Anyway, like I said, thanks for reviewing the chapters and I'm glad you liked the fic. Sorry it took so long to post this chapter.

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The scene was at the Skellington Manor in Johnny's room. Oogie mysteriously appears out of the shadows of the walls and leaves Johnny's still unconscious body on his bed and leaves as he came. Johnny slowly starts to stir awake as he hears heavy and fast footsteps on the stairs leading to his room. The door slams open and in come two very tired looking girls and a worried skeleton father.

Jack: Johnny! There you are! Thank goodness, we thought something might've happened.

Johnny: -.o I'm okay (he looks around and notices that the room is quiet, too quiet) Where's Nicole?

Jack: o.o We thought she was with you.

Gaby: You two were the last to leave the freaky tree house.

Johnny: Oh no, she must still be there then.

Jack: We have to get you three humans back to the cemetary by midnight or else you'll be stuck in Halloweentown until next year.

Karina: o-o . . . . . . Nicole! I bet your really enjoying this!!!

Jack: C'mon, we don't have much time.

They all leave Johnny's room with Karina muttering about this as some kind of warped nightmare and as some sort of punishment while Gaby started to juggle a few mangos. We now switch back to the tree house down into the roulette room. Nicole is chained to the wall and Mir is sitting nex to her, after he was done with his Doom song they began to sing a song from her favorite CD. Mir's high-pitched voice didn't fit with Michael Crawford's but he was too cute to say anything about that so they both continued singing their off-key song.

Mir and Nicole:

"Past the point of no return!

The final threshold . . .

The bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn!

We've passed the point of no return . . . "

Shock: Will you two shut up already?! You've been singing those songs ever since the robot got bored of the doom one! .

Nicole: Make us

Mir: Yeah, make us!

Shock: Gladly .O

The two girls continued to glare at each other as if daring the other to make a move. Girl verses girl, witch verses witch. (If you don't get it read 'The Salem Witch Trials' by E.S.Young and all will be explained, its actually a very good fic u.u it has Salem) Before Either one could even attack the either they all hear the creaking of the floorboards above, they turn to the rope to see Oogie climbing down.

Oogie: Well I left the skellington boy at the manor, now what do we do with this human? Maybe we could use to her to get to the human world.

Shock: Lets curse her!

Lock: Or burn her!

Barrel: Or all of the above!

Nicole: o-o Help!

Before any of them can decide what to do they hear a wooshing sound wear the slide from the upper floor is, in the roullete room Jack, Karina, Gaby, and Johnny come out of the slide.

Gaby: I like that slide can we take it home?!

Oogie: No you may not you impudent human!

Gaby: o.o Well excuse me Mr.-

Karina: Gaby! Insult him later. Nicole, lets get out of here, we don't have much time for you to wait here in damn wonderland! I want to go home now!!!

Nicole: o.o I would go now but one problem. (she raises her arm to reveal a shackle around her wrist, the shackle has a thick, iron chair thats connected to the wall)

Karina: o.o Oh my god!!! (she tugs on the chain like the insane girl that she is) Gaby help me!

Gaby: (jokingly) Ok, if I must (rolls eyes)

With all three girls tugging on the chain they pull out a large stone brick form the wall, the chain is still connected to that brick though.

Karina: Ok, now lets go!

Nicole: (tugging the heavy rock) How the heck do I pull this thing up the rope?!

Karina: Do I look like I have the answers to everything?! (she goes to a nearby black closet to see if there are pliers or something useful to break the chain, instead she finds swords) Cool. (she picks one out of the closet)

Oogie: A-ha! (he takes the sword from Karina before she can protest) Thank you.

Karina: Hey! Son of a-

Jack: Toss me one!

Karina grabs another sword from the closet and tosses it to Jack. Jack and Oogie glare at each other and begin their fight to the bitter end. The metallic sound of clashing swords fills the room as the two fight. Both are skilled at swordsfighting, its hard to really see who will win.

Oogie: So what now, Jack Skellington? Are we to be two immortals locked in battle until Judegment Day?

Jack: Or you could just surrender.

The two continue to fight while Karina continues to search for the pliers, Nicole is trying to rip the shackle off her wrist, and Gaby is staring at Johnny fighting off Lock, Shock, and Barrel.

Nicole: (stops her insane tugging to notice Gaby staring at something) Gaby? Just for curiosity, what are you staring at?

Gaby: At the key around the little devils neck, wondering how to get it.

Nicole: O.O What?! (she looks and sure enough the key to her shackle is around Lock's neck) Ah kuso! The stupid key just had to be around his neck didn't it?!

Her anger now turned to the shackle around her aching wrist, if it wasn't for it they could've left a while ago. If she could just get it off somehow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . her thoughts stopped as she felt her wrist getting warm and the air smelled of burning metal. She looked down at her wrist and saw that the shackle that was once around her wrist was not a hot, glowing mess on the floor of the roullete room.

Gaby: What just happened?

Nicole: Uhh . . . . . . . . . . it was the power of Halloweentown!

Gaby just shrugged it off and went over to Karina to tell her they didn't need the pliers anymore. Nicole sighed in relief, she never told anyone about meeting Sidney, Zim, Tyia, Diana, or Athena over the summer in Salem or what happened that night that changed both Sidney's and Nicole's lives forever. They had learned they were witches, witches with gifts. She snapped out of memory lane and went to her two friends who were watching the fight between the Pumpkin King and the Boogie Man. Neither of them was showing any sign of giving up soon, but Johnny had succeeded in fighting off Lock, Shock, and Barrel. When Johnny was done with them he joined the three girls, he noticed that something was wrong. He remembered when they arrived here he heard a loud, screechy voice singing, but now it was gone.

Johnny: Where's that loud metal thing?

At first the three girls were at a loss for what he meant, then realization dawned on them.

Karina: Where's Mir?

Nicole: o.o Ohmygoddess!!! We have to find him!!!

Gaby: But where could he be?

They didn't have to wait very long for an answer, a loud 'boom!' shook the whole underground hideaway. Jack and Oogie were still going at it but all eyes were searching for the source of the noise. A loud, high-pitched voice filled the air.

Mir: Master! I found candles, it was too dark here so I lit some of them.

The little robot smiled cutely as he dragged a familiar black box with a white skull on the front and cover. Karina didn't know what was in the box since she hated this movie and Gaby didn't know either since a few days ago was the first time she saw the movie. Johnny, Nicole, Lock, Shock, and Barrel DID know what was in the box, and it wasn't candles. It was where the three demonic children kept their explosives.

Nicole: Mir no! That's TNT!

Mir: Candles! .

The robot laughed insanely as he got a match out of his head and started lighting the explosives, he threw them around the whole room. 'This is not good,' was the thought in the minds of everyone. Johnny looked around the room, he made a decision, he had to protect his friends.

Johnny: Everyone get out of here now! I'll get rid of the explosives, go now!

His three friends pleaded he would br all right, they grabbed Mir and climbed up the rope ladder with Lock, Shock, and Barrel close behind. Johnny sighed, hopefully now everyone will be safe. He turned around to see his father and his enemy were still swordfighting despite the gashes on themselves already. Johnny grabbed all the lit explosives as he could and dumped them in a bucket of water. He looked around to seem if he missed any, everything seemed fine now. For the second time he turned towards his father and Oogie, his face turned to horror quickly. On the floor, between the two swordsmen, was the last and biggest stick of dynamite. Neither of the two swordsmen had noticed since their attention was on defeating the other, Johnny noticed the fuse was almost done.

Johnny: Look out!

Both the Pumpkin King and Boogie Man looked to Johnny, at each other, then to the floor. They both understood what he had he meant, but it was too late. Before either of them could even speak the sparking fuse entered the stick and an explosion beyond all belief erupted inside the roulette room. The intense brightness from the explosion made it impossible to see what had happened. As the light began to diminish everyone saw all that was left of the tree house and the crumbling roulette, rubble and dust was everywhere. Everyone was speechless, even Mir which was a first.

Karina: Holy cr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gaby: Oh my god . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nicole: Please no . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The dust started to clear, there appeared to be no movement at all from the now destroyed land. Suddenly a mound of rocks started to move, coughing was heard and Johnny slowly arose from the rubble of rocks. He was partly burned and scratched but surprisingly looked okay. The girls sighed in relief, but then wondered 'Where's Jack?' Another pile of rocks some feet away from Johnny began to move. The girls and skeleton prayed it was who they thought it was. Out of the rocks arose the slightly torn, but still alive body of Oogie Boogie. He turned towards them with a sly smirk on his face.

Oogie: Looks like I've won after all.

The four faces turned from hopefulness, to shock, and to sadness quickly. "There's no way this is happening," "It can't be true!," "There's no way Jack's dead but somehow Oogie lived," "This can't be true," was racing through their minds. Oogie stood up at his full height and walked over to the terror-stricken teens and stared them hard in the face. His cold, black slit-for-eyes stared at them, as if he could see their fear of believing the truth.

Oogie: It's like I said before, Boneman never stood a chance against the Ol' Boogie Man.

He smiled evilly towards them knowing he had won, but then his smile slowly faded as a sound filled the air. The sound was like scissors through cloth, Oogie looked down at his mid-section and saw a sword covered in green gunk was sticking through him.

"No Oogie, you will never win so long as I'm here."

The spectators, including Oogie, all turned around to see a tall, tired-looking skeleton. It was Jack. He was barely standing up but he still held onto the handle of the sword. Jack pulled the sword out of Oogie, "You will never win," he said to Oogie just as Oogie fell to his sack knees and collapsed with the green gunk spilling from his eyes, mouth, and open wounds.

Jack: Well, that's that.

That's that?! Jack just said that after defeating his mortal enemy, thats all?! At first everyone was silent but then everyone broke out into laughter, applause, and cheers. It was finally over, Oogie was gone so that would mean peace in Halloweentown.

Johnny: This is great, now I can finally show you three around Halloweentown. We have all the time to spare now that Oogie's gone.

The smiles quickly faded and froze in shock. Time, what time was it?! The portal to home! Had they missed it through their adventure? Through all the mayhem they had forgotten.

Karina: Johnny, what time is it?

Johnny: I . . . . don't know.

Johnny looks to the sun, or rather the sky, it was already way passed sunset. Stars were already in the beautiful, black night sky and so was the full moon. They heard the chiming of an ancient clock, probably the one from the town square. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. It was already eleven o' clock. They only had an hour left in Halloweentown. It was too soon to leave. They all walked back to Jack's manor in silence to get their belongings and bid farewell to Sally and Zero. Before they left the manor the three girls each gave Sally a hug and took one final look at Skellington Manor . . . . . . .

They arrived in the graveyard with ten minutes left until they'd have to leave. It took them fifty minutes to walk to the manor and back to the cemetary. They all stood in silence at the edge of the spiraling hill overlooking the peaceful graveyard scene. It seemed only yesterday that they had landed there in the very same graveyard, confused at how they got there, and now they were leaving. Leaving back to their home in New Jersey, but somehow, it felt as if they were now leaving their home. Jack's voice broke the silence from their thoughts.

Jack: We do hope you visit us again, it was a pleasure having you all here.

Karina, Gaby, and Nicole thanked Jack for his hospitality and promised they'd be back someday. Somehow. They checked their bags to make sure they had everything, they all couldn't help but feel they were missing something. They were probably missing Halloweentown. With only a few minutes left the three girls, metal robot, and two skeletons walked to the tombstone that would take them home. It looked more like a trip back to a sad reality away from paradise. They all stopped in front of a large tombstone that was about eight feet in height with stone doors and a metal-ring handle. A stone skull rested at the top, a dying tree stood over it with a few ravens on the branches overlooking the departure.

Gaby: I'll go first. (she turned to Jack and Johnny) I'm gonna miss you two dead guys!

Johnny: And we'll miss you our little mango-obsessed friend.

Gaby: . Bye

Gaby stepped toward the tombstone, the doors opened into the darkness. She walked inside and dissapeared down the stone stairs.

Karina: My turn. (looks to the two skeletons) Even though most of the time I was here I was creeped out beyond belief I will miss you guys. (she walks towards the two skeletons and gave them each a hug, much to their surprise) Bye.

She waved to their still shocked faces, Karina walked to the open doors and down the dark stairs, and like Gaby, dissapeared. The stairs would take her home probably.

Nicole: I'm last I guess. (Mir climbed into her purse preparing to leave, she turned to Jack and Johnny) I feel like I'm leaving home, I'm definitely going to miss you guys. Hopefully I'll be able to return soon. (she walked up to Jack and gave him a hug) Bye Bone Daddy. (she turned to Johnny) Bye Johnny. (she walked up to him and gave him a kiss on his bone-y cheek)

Johnny: o.o . . . . . . . u.u (gives her a hug that she happily accepts)

Nicole took one final look at her new skeleton friends and walked down the dark stairs. She could hear the town clock ringing down to twelve rings already and the stone doors closing and sealing off the last bit of light. She continued her way into the tombstone and down the stairs, resisting the urge to go back to the stone doors and staying in Halloweentown. It was quite deep but eventually she saw the wooden door of Karina's closet.

Nicole: (sighs sadly) I didn't want to leave . . . . .

She walked out of the closet and as soon as she was out the door slammed shut. She looked at Karina's clock that was blinking 12:01 a.m. She wrenched open the closet door not to find a dark staircase, but an ordinary closet filled with Hot Topic shirts and an endless number of shoes.

Karina: The funny part is that from here we could see what was happening over there through the dark.

Nicole: o.o You did?!

Gaby: Yep . Anything you want to explain to us?

Nicole: I do miss them though . . .

Gaby: Stop changing the subject!

Karina: I was actually starting to like them too.

Nicole: Atleast I have my camera with the pics we took there.

Gaby: Oh yeah, yay! And I still have my hats, woo!

Karina: I still have my witchy stuff u.u

Nicole: I still got my necklace and earrings, I'll keep them forever.

Karina: Thought you would.

Mir jumped out of her purse chewing on some gum. He also looked quite sad.

Mir: I miss Johnny. He was like Erik, the phantom, and you were like Chris-

Nicole: Mir! Wait a minute . . . . . Hey! (rummages through purse looking for something)

Karina: Calm down, it was just gum.

Nicole: Not that, I'm missing my CD player and Phantom of the Opera CD!

Karina: That must be what you left behind.

Nicole: Oh man. Oh well . . . . . . . I guess he can have it, I'll get a new one. As long as I still have the wonderful memories of the past three days . . . . . . . That's all I need.

Nicole smiled as she held the spell book in her hands, the same one that Shock used to bring back Oogie Boogie. She wanted to make sure he never came back, plus she thought she could use the book for something in the future. Who knows? Maybe it could help her. She still held her smile as her fingers traced the silver skull on the cover. Only time will tell . . .

Back in Halloweentown Johnny was in his room, he and Jack had just gotten back from the cemetary and was he was still sad that his new friends had to leave so soon. He lied down on his bed trying to think things through over the recent events. When he opened his eyes he noticed a round, silver-grey object. The CD player, he remembered his friends told him that it played music on compact discs. He put the headphones on and put 'play' to continue whatever the previous song was on the Phantom CD. It was already at the end of the last song with the verses sung by Christine to the Phantom, Erik, as she bid farewell to him. :

"Pitiful creature of darkness,

What kind of life have you known?

God gave me courage to show you,

You are not alone!"

Johnny smiled to himself and continued to listen to listen to the wonderful CD, hopeing that they would keep their promise and return one day. He knew they would . . . . . . . . . .

THE END

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Oh my god . . . . . I just want to say I loved writing this fic. It was kind of long but I like how it turned out the nonetheless. I do plan on writing a sequel sometime in the future. If questions on what I mean I'm happy to receive e-mails or IM's. Please review. Well I tried to get everyone in character as much as I could and if anyone is wondering, yes my friends and I do act like this, but I think a little more insane. Well I must go now, I can't wait to start writing my sequel fic, but that won't be for quite a while, I'm already working on a lot of my Invader Zim fics and a few other ones too. 'Til next time then. Invader Nicole signing off.