They arrived at Halloween Town. Everything was painted black and the sky was blood red.
"Ack!" Yumi shrieked.
"What?" Sora asked.
"D-d-d-donald……"Yumi said pointing at Donald. Sora and Goofy turned and saw Donald all wrapped up in white strips of cloth.
"Ack is right. That does look scary." Sora agreed with Yumi's answer.
"What are you staring at?" Donald said folding his arms against his chest. Donald turned around and looked down at a puddle of water and saw his reflection. Donald screamed. Goofy caught Donald. Donald shrieked again.
"Whatsa matter with you people! Have you gone insane wearing those costumes!" Donald yelled.
"Huh?" Goofy, Sora and Yumi said at the same time. They looked at each other and laughed.
"Look, I'm a witch with my broom!" Yumi said.
"Uh…I'm a…..a Frankenstein." Goof said.
"Hmm…..I think I'm a bat or Count Dracula." Sora said. Everyone laughed.
"Well, lets get started on our journey." Yumi said. She got on her broom and started to fly. "Whee! This is SO cool!"
"This sure is a spooky place." Goofy said looking around. " I bet the people that live here are scary lookin' too."
"Goofy! You're so rude…." Yumi kidded around.
"Don't worry. We look scary too." Donald said. "If they scare us, we'll scare them right back!"
Everyone laughed and they went past the gates to Guillotine Square. They saw an explosion from one of the buildings. They saw a bunch of heartless surrounding a green water fountain. They walked around the square trying to avoid the heartless from attacking them. They stopped when a fat man with a tall hat announced something.
"And now, allow me to introduce the master of terror, the king of nightmares: Jack Skellington!" the man said. Jack made his entrance coming out of the green water fountain and posed.
"Bravo, Jack! Bravo!" the man said running up to Jack. "Those ghosts will be a big hit at this year's Halloween."
"Thank you, thank you." Jack said. "But their movements still need more work. It's not scary enough. I want to strike bone-chilling terror. I'm going to consult the doctor." Jack walked away. He headed to the lab entryway. The gang followed until they reached the Research lab and entered. They peaked through the doorway and listened to the conversation.
"I don't understand. Maybe the guidance system was damaged in the explosion." Jack said.
"Nonsense. My devices are always perfect." Said a person in a wheelchair.
"Oh, I got it! Why, of course! The heartless need a heart! Doctor, do you think we can add a heart to that device?" Jack asked.
"Certainly. A heart's not all that complicated. Let's get to work." Said the doctor.
"To make a heart, first take a container with a lock." Jack said reading off a book.
The doctor prepared a container with a lock. "We need a key for this thing first!"
"I'll unlock it for you." Sora said stepping in from the doorway. Jack and the doctor look shocked. "Uh…..sorry to eavesdrop on you guys, but it was a very interesting conversation."
"What is he saying!" Yumi said outside with her ear on the door.
"I don't know because I don't have my ear against the door." Donald said.
"Just a little bit more….I can hear him saying something but I can't make it out.." Yumi said pressing her ear against the door harder. All of a sudden, the door opened with Yumi pushing Sora down on the floor.
"Ow….."Sora said rubbing his head.
"Sorry! I was…….eavesdropping…..but I couldn't hear a single word you said, honest!" Yumi said.
"Yea, I forgive you but just get off of me. You're heavy." Sora said.
"Sorry." Yumi apologized and got up. Sora got up and explained the whole situation to them.
"You're really gonna unlock it for them?" Donald asked.
"Why not? If they succeed, we won't have to fight the heartless, right? Besides, I want to see the heartless dance too. Don't you?" Sora asked.
"Not really." Donald answered.
"I have a bad feeling about this….." Yumi said.
"Don't worry." Sora said.
Sora unlocked the lock on the container.
"My. That was amazing! Uh, and you are…" Jack said.
"Sora." Sora said.
"Well done, Sora! I'd like you to be a part of this year's Halloween." Jack said.
"What's this heartless doing here?" Sora asked.
"Oh, the heartless came to town just recently. What's frustrating is I can't get it to dance with me." Jack explained. "So the doctor and I are trying to improve the guidance system. He's quite a genius! Ok doctor. Let's continue. The ingredients for a heart: pulse, emotion, terror, fear, hope and despair. Mix them all together, and we have a heart."
The doctor went up to a lever and pushed it down. The electric sparks flew from above's machine striking down on the heartless. The heartless moved a bit then collapsed back on the table.
"It failed." The doctor declared. He went up to the book and read some more. "Maybe we're missing some ingredients. Let's try adding memory. Sally, Sally! Good for nothing girl! Don't know why I bother creating her. Sally's got the memory we need. See if you can track her down.
"No problem. Sora, would you like to come along?" Jack asked.
"Sure!" Sora said.
"Ahem……can we come along too?" Yumi asked.
"Why, of course! Let's get going." Jack said exiting the Lab room.
Jack, Jack! We have a major crisis! The heartless are completely out of control! We can't stop them!" the mayor said.
"Hmm…..maybe our experiment triggered something. Everything will be fine, mayor. Nothing to worry about." Jack said.
Once they defeated all the heartless in Guillotine Square, Yumi wandered a bit and ran into a gate leading to a graveyard. "Hey! Let's check this place out first!" Yumi yelled over the square. Jack, Sora, Donald and Goofy joined her and went through the gates to the graveyard.
"We'll check this place too, once the heartless here are out of our way…."Sora said fighting a couple of heartless.
As soon as they finished, a white dog rose from the ground with a beam of light flashing from its nose.
"Zero, have you seen Sally anywhere?" Jack said approaching the dog. Zero soared through the air and went behind a statue.
"Is something wrong, Jack?" a girl appeared behind the statue. Her name was Sally.
"No, everything's going great." Jack said. "We're going to have the best Halloween ever. All we need now is your memory."
" 'Memory?' You mean this?" Sally said pulling out a forget-me-not flower behind her back and handed to Jack. "Why don't you try something else? There's still time."
"Nothing could beat what I've got planned!" Jack answered. "Once we give the heartless a heart, they'll dance just as I envisioned it." Sally gave him a worried look. "Trust me. You're going to love it!" Jack said. They exited the graveyard and headed back to the research lab.
"Yes. This is it. Now, just one more ingredient." Doctor said. "We need 'surprise' to complete the heart. The mayor should know where it is." They found the mayor looming around Jack's house, pacing back and forth on the stairway. "Oh, Jack!" the mayor yelled running to Jack. "It's a disaster! The heartless are after us!"
"Really? What have I done!" Jack said.
"Psyhe!" the mayor said with a smile.
"Jeez, you scared me!" Yumi said.
"Exactly! I presume the word I'm looking for is 'surprise'." The mayor said handing them a Jack-in-a-box.
They headed back to the research lab and gave it to the Doctor.
"There's the last piece." Doctor said inserting the jack-in-a-box into the heart. "There you go. This time it's sure to work." The Doctor went up to the heartless, but before he got up to 10 feet away from the heartless body, a boy in a skeleton suite tripped the Doctor. The heart flew up and into another kid's hands and they ran off.
"Hurry! After them!" Yumi said running out the lab doorway. The rest followed out and into Guillotine Square.
"Darn. We lost them!" Sora exclaimed.
"Zero!" Jack called out. Zero came soaring to Jack. "Zero, after them, quick!" Zero went down straight and made a sharp left turn into the graveyard. They followed Zero into the graveyard discovering that the 3 naughty children went up the so-called "moving swirlie hill" and crossed it.
They crossed and came across a manor.
"I knew Oogie Boogie was behind this!" Jack exclaimed.
"Uh…Oogie who?" Yumi asked.
"Oogie Boogie." Jack said. "Well, never mind that. Let's just stop him before he does anything else!" They followed Jack into the evil playroom where Lock, Shock, and Barrel, the 3 naughty kids were. They threw in the heart down the transporter that led to Oogie Boogie's lair. Sora and the gang beat the kids up as a punishment. Finally they gave up.
"We were just following orders." Shock confessed. "Oogie Boogie told us to steal the heart. It's all Barrel's fault! It was his idea to tell Oogie Boogie about the heart."
"Yeah, that's right." Lock said with his head bowed low.
"B-but you said-" Barrel said.
"You should be ashamed." Shock interrupted. "Anyways, to get the heart back, go to the torture chamber. It's a green door near the entrance gate."
They all followed Shock's instructions on how to get to the door. They finally reached it and entered seeing a roulette and torture toys around the room. On the other side of the room was Oggie Boggie holding the heart.
"Oggie Boogie, give me back that heart!" Jack said.
"You want it? Well, then come on over and get it!" Oggie Boggie said as he swallowed the heart "hahah………Now let's see if I can get their attention. Oh heartless!"
2 heartless flew into the room.
"This is it? Nobody disrespects me! Nobody!" Oggie Boggie tortured them around with his toys. Finally, they, as a team, beat him. Oggie Boggie spilled because a seam ripped. All of these bugs poured out of him leaving the remaining bag figure of Oggie on the floor.
"So, that heart was a failure after all." Jack said.
They left the room and headed back to the manor until they felt the floor shake.
"Huh?" Jack said looking up at Oggie's manor tree. Gray mist filled the air and the tree transformed into something huge. It took the form of Oggie Boggie.
"Whoa! How did he get so big?" Sora exclaimed.
"Look! It's brimming with the power of darkness!" Yumi said observing the blue and purple globs. "Oggie Boggie is drawing power from those dark globs!"
"So we have to destroy those things, right?" Sora asked.
"Yea, let's go!" Yumi said. "Donald, Goofy, and Jack, destroy the ones from the middle, down. Sora and I will take the ones on the top. Go!" They split in their sections. After destroying the last glob, the place shook again and Oggie was finally defeated. A keyhole appeared on the floor. Sora sealed it. They all met back at the research lab.
"Sally, why didn't I listen to you?" Jack asked.
"Don't feel bad, Jack." Sally said. "We'll come up with another plan for Halloween."
"But I need something." Jack said. "Halloween is just 2 days away. I guess we have no choice. We'll have to cancel the heartless Halloween festival for now."
"No, Jack! Don't give up already! We'll dance for you." Sora said.
"Yea, we look pretty funny in a way, but we can substitute for the heartless…err even though there's just four of us... heh." Yumi suggested.
"That's a great idea!" Jack said with enthusiasm. "We'll invite all of the kids in Halloween town to participate in the festival. You guys have brilliant minds."
"Err…. I was referring to us, but oh well. That's a great idea." Yumi said.
"Will Lock, Shock and Barrel join, too?" Sora asked.
"Hmm…. well, of course!" Jack said. "Just as long as they don't make a mess and ruin things."
"Awesome!" I wanna show Lock some more tricks…"Sora said.
"Sorry Sora. What did you say?" Jack asked.
"Ahem!" Yumi said and nudged him in the shoulder.
"Uh….I mean, I'm going to teach him how to be a good little boy!" Sora said.
"Oh, ok. I thought you said something else." Jack said turning around drawing plans on the table.
"Emotion, memory…." Doctor said. "We put all the necessary ingredients. What also do you need to make a heart? What is a heart anyway? I can't figure it out."
Afterwards, they stayed around Halloween Town and helped out with the festival.
"Excellent, Jack! Excellent!" the mayor exclaimed. "How did you think of such a wonderful idea like every year?"
"It was all part of Sora, Yumi, Donald, and Goofy's idea." Jack said. "Still, I got to admit. That was such a wonderful idea."
"Ahem. Sorry to interrupt, but we need to handle other worlds you know." Donald said to Goofy, Sora and Yumi.
"Oh yea……" the three of them said.
"Well don't just stand around! Let's get going!" Donald said walking towards the world exit. Goofy followed.
Yumi and Sora went up to Jack and Sally who were standing next to each other.
"Well, it was nice to be part of the Halloween festival." Yumi said.
"But we have to go now." Sora finished.
"Okay, be save now!" Jack and Sally waved goodbye. Yumi and Sora waved back and left for Guillotine Gate and out of the world.
Back in the Gumi Ship….
"Aww, I wanted to keep my costume. It look soo cute!" Yumi whined.
"What! I hated my costume! It looked ridiculous!" Donald grunted.
In the back, Goofy and Sora could hear them bickering.
"Sigh….this is going to be a noisy trip." Sora said putting his hand on his head.
"You said it!" Goofy agreed.
To be continued in Chapter 9: Neverland ……………..
A/N: Heyy! It's been REALLY long since I've even updated. Well, I'm now working on Chapters 9 and 10. Yea, my mom caught me playing video games during the weekday, so she said, "you can't play video games from Monday to Thursday, understand?" I understood but I really wanted to playy! Oh well. So much for school…. ()