The Claim that I don't own it: I don't, nor will I ever own anything that is related or affiliated with The Nightmare Before Christmas (I don't even own a copy of the movie!). And once again, I'd like to thank Macy's, Mervins, JC Penny, and Ross for giving my nameless characters names when I couldn't think of any.

A/N: It's the final chapter AKA the hardest one to write.

Chapter 5: The Death

Dusk arrived and all of the young children had gone home. The parents that had been with those young children eyed the group suspiciously, but didn't say anything. Pranks were expected on holidays like this. When the older kids started coming, Macy would start her prepared spiel. The first two teens to come were girls dressed as brides.

"Ahh! Ladies! Before you can cross the bridge, you must heed my warning.

Long ago,

When the bridge was first built,

An old witch cast a curse."

Macy then cracked an egg on each of their heads. They screamed in horror at the gooey texture. The 2 girls ran but Lock stopped them in the middle of the bridge.

"She was sad,

All the flowers would wilt,

And the curse got even worse."

Lock cracked 2 eggs on the first girls head and then on the second girls. They screamed even more and ran again. Now it was Mervin who stopped them.

"Now heed our warning,

Don't cross the bridge,

Or the curse will get you,

And if it does,

It's only your fault,

But we'll try not to forget you!!"

Mervin cracked eggs on their heads again. They screamed and ran while Macy, Mervin, and Lock laughed hysterically. Nallie raised one eyebrow, failing to see anything too funny about it. They went with this routine until they got too tired to say it anymore.

Kids stopped coming for a while and Lock looked over at Nallie in the silence. Her eyes were drooping and she looked like she was going to fall asleep. Lock felt bad that she would probably get in trouble for something she didn't even think up. He pushed the thoughts out of his head when Macy called for eggs to be chucked.

The eggs were dive bombing on a large group of teens that dared cross the bridge. They all ran for cover but that just caused more eggs to land on them. Two big burly guys made threatening fist gestures towards Lock and one girl even gave him the finger.

"Egg war!!" Lock yelled this in response to the rude sign and shrugged. Macy squealed when one girl went to pull her hair. The hair puller got slugged in the face from Macy in response. Mervin smirked when he saw Macy do this.

All of the teens made it off the bridge covered in egg yolk and whites. Chuckling, Lock looked over at Nallie who was grinning. She found the spectacle quite entertaining. The 'egg war', as it was now dubbed, exhausted their stock to only 12 eggs.

"Who still hasn't come?" Macy asked this after she walked to the middle of the bridge. Mervin walked over, calculating in his head.

"Damn. Can you guess who still hasn't come?" Mervin asked this frustrated.

"Well, by the way you said 'damn', I'm guessing the D's." Lock said this slyly. Mervin grimly nodded his head. The D's consisted of Diddy, Dixie, and Donkey Kong. More formally named JC, Penny and Ross.

JC, affectionately known as Diddy was short, had brown hair, and resembled a monkey in stature. His twin sister was Penny, who was Dixie, and was JC's girl counterpart. Ross or Donkey Kong was big, ugly, and an unofficial bodyguard. His bark was definitely worse than his bite, although his bite was a pretty bad bite.

JC and Penny were the rich ones in the small town. They could wiggle themselves out of any situation with their money. They flaunted that fact everywhere they went.

Macy, Mervin, and Lock made their way to the beginning of the bridge where JC, Penny, and Ross were standing. Macy glared at Penny with loathing.

"Give us $10 and I'll let you passed un-egged." Macy made this bargain even though she would still bombard them with eggs.

"Begging again, I see?" Penny and JC gave out high pitched laughs at the horrible joke she made. Ross grunted. Macy tried to pounce at the monkey, but Mervin held her in her place by her arm. She growled deep in her throat. Lock just glared and Mervin glared harder.

"I guess I could spare a one." JC said this sarcastically, causing Penny to break out in even higher pitched laughter. It was Mervin who then tried to pounce at JC and Macy held him back.

"Pick on somebody your own size, if you can find some one!" Mervin hissed this at JC, who he towered over. The moonlight made Mervin look terrifying. Ross grunted and stepped in front of JC.

"Well, Mervin, if you weren't so ugly I'd probably ask you out. And I doubt my parents would let me have a pet!" Penny sneered when she said this. (A/N: I was going to do a better dog joke but they all came out dirty sounding.)

Macy successfully pounced at the comment. Penny screamed when Macy started yanking out her hair. Mervin jumped at JC and started pounding him. Ross stood off to the side to wait for his cue. Lock ran back to Nallie who was staring wide eyed at the fight from the middle of the bridge.

"Come on Nallie! We have to go." Lock said this hurriedly while grabbing her by the wrist.

"But why!? It just got good!" Nallie wouldn't budge from her spot on the railing.

"No, it just got bad! We have to get out of here before anybody shows up."

"I don't care! I wanna stay, so I'm going to!" Nallie ripped her arm out of his grip. Lock rolled his eyes and sighed. He looked back at the fight and saw Ross start after Macy.

"Errrgg!!! Why can't I have a good day for once?" Lock made a mad dash for Ross. When he got close enough, he jumped onto Ross' back.

Lock wrapped his arm around Ross' thick neck and held on tight. After almost flying off a couple times, Lock was able to successfully hit Ross in the head. The hit surprisingly knocked Ross out. That wasn't good because Ross started to fall backwards. He fell right on Lock.

"Ahh!! You stupid-" Lock pulled himself out from under the large mass. He tried to stand, but the fall had caused his ankle to twist into a bad position. He closed his eyes to shut out the pain.

"Hey Lock! Are you ok?" Both Macy and Mervin ran to Lock after Mervin asked this inquiry.

"Do I look ok!?" Lock shouted this in pain and refused to let the pain show.

"I'm gonna go get help. This is out of control." Macy stated this and she ran to the woods, which was the fastest way to get to a house.

"Don't go anywhere!" Jokingly, Mervin said this and then he went after Macy.

"Stupid-" Lock was cut off from his insult when he heard a yelp. He spun onto his stomach and saw a horrific sight. JC who was bleeding, missing a front tooth, and had a broken nose was tormenting Nallie. He held her to the edge of the railing, threatening to drop her. Nallie shrieked.

"Why you little!" JC looked at Lock when he yelled this. JC just smirked and pushed Nallie a bit more. "When I get over there, I'm gonna kick your monkey ass!"

"I doubt that!" JC held Nallie just over the edge and she was hysterical.

"Let me go! Let me gooo!!!!" Nallie had tears pouring out of her small eyes.

"Grrr…." Lock steadily got to his feet, wincing at the pain in his mangled ankle. "I'm gonna kick your ass any way this goes so let her go!"

JC just smirked, not afraid of his coming doom. "Fine, what ever you say!" JC took his hand off of Nallie. She shrieked and fell back, off of the bridge. Lock froze. It all seemed to go in slow motion until JC grabbed Nallie by the wrist, preventing her fall.

"Now I'm really going to kick your-"

"I didn't actually mean for her to fall! So if you really are going to kick my ass, come and do it!" JC yanked Nallie back onto the bridge. She collapsed to the ground crying. JC wiped the blood dripping from his nose. Lock walked over the best he could.

"Ready?" Lock threw the first punch and hit JC smack in the face. JC threw a punch back and hit Lock square in the nose. JC got in the next hit before Lock could.

JC pushed Lock towards the railing of the bridge. Because of his mangled ankle, Lock couldn't keep his balance. In what was like slow motion, Lock fell over the railing and down towards to water. Nallie was instantly at the railing dry of tears and so was JC. They were both ashen faced with ice coating their insides entirely. Lock's body smashed into the flowing water.

Lock felt his body go numb from the bitter cold water. He couldn't see anything, and his unusable foot left him powerless against the pressure that was pulling him down. It was almost like something was dragging him down with them. Lock then felt a peculiar sensation.

He felt no pain in his lungs and there was no more cloud clogging his thoughts. There was nothing. Then he passed out and he was gone.

-Fin-

A/N: Ok, so it's a slightly different ending than the original. But I like this one better because Lock got to kick some ass before he died. This chapter was 665 words shorter, and then I realized that that number was 1 off from an evil number. So now it's 659 words shorter. I'd like to thank the people that reviewed in the original version of the fic and the person that reviewed in the new version. Thanks! Oh, and I'm writing the sequel right now. And then I'll write the prequel! Bye!