Hi again! Hey guys I'm really really really really sorry for not posting sooner and I hope you'll all keep reading and reviewing!!!! Sorry it's been so long, but I've been really busy and it would take too long to explain!

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Shock muttered to herself as she slipped through the gates of the graveyard, soon disappearing into the dark cemetery, lost in the shadows. She slid past some of the tombstones and jumped over some of the other ones. Right now she was too angry at Lock to care where she was going. He had been getting on her nerves way too much lately, and too often had Shock been halfway to her collection of deadly weapons before remembering Jack's words of caution. But Jack wouldn't care where she went, and Shock was eager to get as far away from Halloween Town as possible.

Her two girlfriends, Rosaline and Sandy, had betrayed her and now they were in huge fight. Neither of them was talking to Shock—and she wasn't talking to them. Even Lock and Barrel, whom she had gone through so much with, were making her angry.

So Shock wanted one thing—revenge. That oh-so-sweet-and-satisfying revenge. The word rolled on her tongue as she said it aloud, and she smiled to herself. Nothing drastic, just something fun for her…

She carefully thought and tried to retrace her steps—the steps that she, Lock, and Barrel had taken to get to the doors. Maybe something there would prove interesting. As she wandered through the forest she realized just how bad she was at retracing steps.

After running into three dead-ends and going by the same tree for the fourth time, she stopped, growing a little frightened. She dropped down next to the tree and leaned against it, willing herself not to fall asleep. As she finally decided to get up and go a different way, she saw a small path leading behind the tree, which she immediately picked up on.

Shock stared around the circle of trees, eyes falling over each door. As she stared at each one, she failed to notice the Christmas door opening silently. She first noticed when a breeze of icy air blew by her, and secondly by the voice.

"Who are you!?"

Shock whipped around to see a little girl—about her age, with striped stockings and a green dress. She had rosy cheeks—which looked flushed. She reminded Shock of the children she saw in Christmas Town.

"Who are you?" Shock demanded stubbornly, placing her hands on her hips.

"I'm Medieva. Now you tell me who you are." She replied.

"I'm Shock. Why are you here?"

"Cuz I got sick of Christmas town, they're always so…happy! I hate it!"

"Oh."

"Are you from Halloween Town? You look like you could be."

"Yeah. I'm here cuz I got sick of everyone in Halloween—especially my friends." Shock replied before Medieva could ask.

"That doesn't sound good."

"I guess not. No one's bein' nice—I need to play a prank for revenge."

"Oooooo! Me too, but I'm not sure where to go…"

Shock looked back to the door that had interested her—The Heart. Valentine's Day. Love was a very dangerous prank—Shock didn't even know the extent. Nor did she know exactly what was behind that door—although it seemed interesting.

"Well I'm going through that door right there."

"You are?! But that won't cause trouble. Christmas Town is full of love!" Medieva shouted, but shock had already pulled open the door and jumped through. As if Halloween Town had that much love—that would be a perfect source of torture.

Shock fell fast, blinded by pink—PINK! Her least favorite color, and it was everywhere. She should shove Lock and Barrel in here one day—they might not have survived. They both hated pink more than Shock.

She landed hard in a pile of paper. Colorful paper that, upon further inspection, was cut in the shapes of hearts and messages were scrawled over them.

"Won't you be my Valentine? You're so sweet. I love you. Uuuuughhhhhhh!" Shock moaned as she clambered out of the pile, brushing the cards away as she fell a couple of feet. She had been at the top of a looming pile, and now half were scattered across the spotless white floor. She surveyed the area around her; tall green pillars of ivy shaped like little people with wings and a bow and arrow set. They looked really retarded. She stared at it, then shook her head. "Whoa, this place is weird."

Then, on second thought she added, "Boy I need to stop talking to myself."

Hearts were mounted on the walls and the white floor was soon interrupted by brilliant pink webs spreading all across the floor, making the whole place seem a bit cluttered. The strange thing was, however, that there were no people. Not even one person scuttling by, lost.

She soon saw an archway in the ivy statues and headed towards it. As she walked by, she noticed the biggest, ugliest, purpliest flowers she had ever seen. But upon closer inspection she saw that they were clusters of tiny purple flowers, and they kept popping up everywhere. There were millions of flowers all around, except in one area, where only one tiny bud grew.

Shock swept past the flowers and headed through the archway and into a wave of light. She smoothed out her lilac dress after she was nearly knocked over by a tiny replica of the statues hurrying by. This room was filled with these little cupids, and each one was carting around a bunch of the sickly sweet cards Shock had been reading.

Not one of them took notice to her, hustling by and throwing letters into little slots, where they zoomed away. She followed one, and as he dropped a letter, picked it up before he could get it. He turned and stared at her. After recovering from the shock he seemed to go through, he snapped, "Give that back, little girl, and go back with all the other children. You know we have work to do!"

"No I don't." Shock replied hotly, throwing the letter through a random slot. It zoomed away, and then an alarm bell sounded, causing both the little cupid and Shock to jump. The whole factory stopped dead in their tracks, panicked. Shock enjoyed watching the panic spread, and they all hurried towards the center of the room, where a large screen sat.

Shock rolled her eyes and watched the cupid try to duck out of the way. Shock giggled to herself and followed him through the door, planning on continuing to follow and annoy him.

"What are you still doing here?" he demanded a couple of seconds later, when he had sat down on a strangely shaped bench.

"When I find out what this place is."

"It's Valentine's Day, girl, we have work to do."

"You're not doing it." Shock smirked. "What's Valentine's Day?"

He gaped at her. "You're joking, right?"

"No. Ever heard of Halloween?"

"No. What's that?"

"My holiday." She chirped. "Tell me about Valentine's Day."

"It's the most romantic day in the world! We send gifts out to loving couples and 'tha bossman' makes people longing for love find their soulmate."

"That's so stupid!" Shock exclaimed.

"You must be an awfully lonely person." The cupid shot back.

"How dare you!" Shock growled, her temper rising. "I wouldn't mess with me if I were you!"

"Sorry." He shook his head. "Why haven't you heard of Valentine's Day?"

"We spend all year preparing for Halloween and pulling pranks." Shock replied. "And, wait, did you say, 'tha bossman'?"

"Yes, I did!"

"Who's that?" she asked with a laugh.

"The man, Head Cupid. The one with the power to create love and tragedy."

"Did he, like, make you rehearse that?" Shock was still quite amused.

"Ugh, I have to get to work. Go back from where you came from, brat."

Shock laughed madly as he left. When he was gone, she got up again and turned around. Another door, this one a bright pink, was on the other wall. It was too tempting to resist. "This is so much more fun than Halloween Town!" Shock decided.

She cautiously pushed open the door and found a long hallway, the crisscrossing pink floor designs reaching out in front of her. Her footsteps echoed around the room, and soon she saw a window. She peered through it and gasped. A huge red chair sat in the center of the room, and another cupid sat in it. He was so definitely 'tha bossman'.

And really ugly. Well, really ugly was an understatement. He had long bland curls and a frown on his face. And he was just…ugly. And he looked evil. Shock wrinkled her nose, beginning to grow bored with the whole valentine's Day.

Until she spotted the bag.

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Thats all for now! This time it was a little bit of a cliffhanger

Wonder what Shock's up to....*grins evilly*

smilez, Siri