Chapter 15
The old Cemetery of Blithe Hallow was exactly that. It had been the cemetery that the first settlers had used when they had arrived in the New World right up to 1812 when the witches curse had been placed upon the town. When the curse had been placed onto the town the town burried the Court members cursed there as they moved the cemetery to its current location, a ten minute drive away.
The old cemetery was a good five minutes run from where the supernatural fight was happening and that was even with poeple with background knowledge of the place. Without background knowledge it tripled in time. The woods was filled with paths that twisted in all directions and even paths that snaked back to the beginning. There was signs that pointed tourists to the creepy spots in town and soon this whole place would be filled with stalls as Blithe Hallow took advantage of the Halloween season. While the rest of America was right into Christmas, Blithe Hallow was more into Halloween. It was the time in the year that the town got good money as people came from all over in hopes of getting scared. Little did the people of Blithe Hallow know that they were not even touching the first layer of what was happening.
Norman pushed past the trees. The leaves getting stuck in his spiky hair he suddenly feel out of the forest and into the clearing of the old cemetery. He stood up as Neil dropped to the ground in a heap beside him and brushed off the branches and leaves that had gotten stuck to his t-shirt. His sister and Alvin came in next followed by Mitch. The others got up quickly and looked at where they were.
They had found their way to way to the part of the old cemetery where the members of the court who had put Aggie to death. Their graves were still destroyed after the zombies had burst out of their graves in a part of the curse. That was where they had started to case Norman and Alvin until they had ran into Mitch and the others in Mitch's van. From there the zombies had gone into them town itself as they looked for Norman in hopes that he could calm Aggie down and end her curse. That was something that the teens didn't know as they ran for their lives from both zombies and from adults.
"This place again!" Alvin groaned as he stood beside Norman as Courtney stood behind her brother. "I thought I would never see this place again!" he finished as he looked at all the graves that had been destroyed by the zombies as they had been brought back to life with the full force of the curse that Aggie had placed on them.
It was made even worse with all the dead trees all around them. There was a slight path that lead to the larger part of the old cemetery. The part that had more graves both with names and many with no names. The path that Norman had taken last year had been cleared as the council had prepared to do work on the damaged graves in hopes of bringing tours up to the old cemetery. They hoped that Norman and Alvin would be doing many of the tours as they retold the people that came to Blithe Hallow looking for scary stories and to be scared.
"Its the only safest place other than the school and it was closer!" Norman replied as he walked away from the tree line. His red Converse crunching the dead leaves on the ground with every step that he was taken. He slowly made his way towards to the Judges grave. The gravestone was just as he remembered it. Tall and terrifying just like the man when he was alive. It was also starting to grumble with the passage of time and the weather just like the man when he was dead.
Courtney looked at the place in disgust. She could just about hear the sound of the fight on the other side of the forest. Then she heard another noise. It sounded like banging but it was all wrong. It didn't sound like the fight, even if there was a few battles that were happening in the forest. No this sound had a beat to it. It was not random like the explosions that were happening from the guns from what Julian had called Hunters and the roaring of all the creatures that had taken a side.
"Um guys what is that noise?" she asked looking at all the others.
Norman and Neil instantly froze as they listened to the noise. Coming to think of it Norman could feel vibrations in the ground. He had at first thought it was from the fight but the more he thought about it the more he noticed that it had a beat. A beat that only came when massive speakers were blaring music at loud volumes. "Oh no!" Norman sighed. This couldn't be happening. There was no way that they were holding it tonight. "We need to get everyone out of here!" he finished saying as everyone else in their little group worked out what was happening.
They council of Blithe Hallow had decided that on the first night of the Halloween holidays there would be a party in the old cemetery where everyone was invited. How could they have forgotten this? This was something that they should have told Julian before they had left the Inn but that bit of information had slipped their mind. And who could blame them in forgotten that. There had been a lot that they had found out. A God was interested in turning Norman into a weapon against all the heroes who were going to be standing against him as he tried to destroy the world. Then they had found out that Julian was not just a Werewolf but he was also what was called a Shadow Man which was a more powerful form of a Poltergeist
"And why would you do such a thing like that?" sang a voice from behind them. It was a voice that they had not heard before and it was enough to cause all them to have a shiver go down their spines.
As one the group of teenagers turn around to face the sac of bugs who had followed them from the fight. "Now why would you want to prevent people from spending time with me? The true ruler of Halloween unlike that goody to shoes Jack Skellington!" the sac sang as it advanced towards them who kept walking backwards to get away from him. A smile spread on his face, which should have been impossible for a creature that looked like it was sac that should be holding potatoes rather than being a creature like the other creatures that they had seen. "I'm just a friendly Oggie Boogie looking for a good party that will last all year!" he sang at all the teens as he kept walking towards them and they kept walking away from him.
He stopped and kept his massive grin on his face as he stared at Norman and his friends. "Are you really that scared of me?" Oggie Boogie asked in that Jazz voice of his. He was already planning of what he could do to the teens. He knew that without a doubt that he would need to take the boy with the spiky hair back to Seth. The Wereset had made that clear as day that the boy was to go with him along with the next generation of super humans, even if they were Mutants.
Oggie Boogie would say that he was a simple Boogieman. He just wanted to rule Halloween Town as its King and watch as he chased Jack Skellington out of the town. Seth however he wanted to restart the Night Wars. He wanted the world to burn and to see him coming up on top. He wanted humans to be what they had been centuries ago. He wanted to them to be scared of what was in the dark with no technology to chase the darkness away and he wanted the supernatural to rule over everything with him being the top dog. Oggie just needed Seth and his forces to turn Halloween Town into his very own Bug Town.
"Now lets make it easy for us all and you all come with me!" he ordered the teenagers as he towered above them. He needed to get back to Seth so they could go back to Halloween Town where he would built a castle with a throne. "Or everyone in this graveyard will die!" he gave the warning as a snake slithered out of his mouth to flick its tongue at the teenagers who all took another step back to get away from him. A much larger smile came to Oggie Boogie's face when he saw the look of fear in their face.
"Don't even think about it Boogie!"
The smile fell from Oggie Boogie's face when he heard that voice. Slowly he turned around to face the skeleton who had walked out of the forest. The skeleton who wore a black suit with white strips running down it walked silently towards Oggie Boogie. "This ends now Oggie! I was going to give you a chance again but this this can not be forgiven! I can not allow the Night Wars to be restarted again! Too many lives had been lost on both sides!" the skeleton snarled at Oggie Boogie.
"Now Jack you can take a joke?" Boogie asked with a forced laugh. A wrong move done by the Boogieman as Jack Skellington suddenly moved towards him quickly.
"I heard what you are planning to do Oggie and that does not sound like a joke to me! It sounds like you want to restart the Night Wars!" Jack said when he was only a few inches away from Oggie Boogie. His empty eyesockets had narrowed as he glared at Oggie Boogie. "I can not allow that to happen. As the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town I am forced to obey the guidelines of the Code and take you to the Council where you will be put into trial to see what your fate is going to be!" Jack said. He was making sure that he kept the strict voice of a leader. He had been to many meetings and he had seen many of the Elders kept a authority voice as they spoke to each other and their peers. He had learned from watching them that the only way to get his voice across was to make sure that people knew that he was the leader of Halloween Town.
Oggie Boogie snarled at Jack. He had tried to cover up his planning but it seemed that he needed to change his tactics in getting everything that he wanted to get done. He also had what Seth wanted to get done, and the Wereset had made it clear when he had allowed Julian to kill Hazel that he was not allowing failures to stay alive. Hazel had been allowed to die as she had brought the attention of not only Seth's enemies but also a group of Hunters. One thing was for sure for Oggie Boogie the Boogieman. He was not going to fail Seth. He wanted to remain alive and that meant that he needed to take the Medium away from Blithe Hallow to Seth's new secret base. A base that was a HYDRA base.
Seth had made an alliance with HYDRA during the Second World War when he had began his quest that he had been planning for centuries. Their leader, the Red Skull was still missing but according to Seth he was doing an important mission for him. What the supersoldier was doing Seth didn't tell him. It was as if Seth was afraid that he would tell people what he was really planning. Sure if his life depended on it he would tell whoever was interrogating him he would tell them whatever Seth had told them. He was a survivor. That was what he had always been. It wasn't going to change especially with a war brewing. He just needed to survive. At the moment the best chance for survival was to do what Seth was telling him to do.
"You think the Council will safe you and the boy? Hardly-" he stopped himself before he finished the sentence. His blacl eyes widening as he took in what he was seeing. "Now boy don't do something that we are all going to regret!" he pleaded as he took a step back and away from Norman.
Jack Skellington followed Oggie Boogie's look and felt only dread as he looked at the young human teenager. He too took a step back at what he was seeing. The boy looked like he had just crawled out of hell. His eyes glowed green as green lightning sparked from his hands and the group just by his feet.
"I am not going anywhere with you!" Norman declared to Oggie Boogie. His powers growing stronger with his emotions.
Oggie Boogie began to turn around but was blocked by an angry whitr furred Werewolf. The fur that had been snow white before the fight had turned a grisly ready from the fight.
"Nice doggie!" Oggie Boogie begged in a small voice. A small voice that did not do him any good. Without warning the Werewolf lunged at him. It's sharp claws tore through the material of the sac that made up his body. The small bug that was his true self started to crawl away from the carnage of the attack but the stomp of a high heel stopped it from getting fast.
Courtney hiffed as she looked down at the bug thay she had stomped with her new high heels. She then looked over at Julian to see him glaring at the skeleton in the suit. She was expecting to see him attack the skeleton not nod his head and then turn his attention back to Norman.
"Norman breathe! You are safe now!" Julian said as he planted a clawed hand on Norman's shoulder. "We better start heading back down to the cars!" Julian said as he returned to his human form.
Norman allowed himself to calm down, but he was too early in doing so as Seth and Dracula exploded out of the forest. His eyes widended as he watched everyone being flung across the old cemetery with invisible hands where the tree branches came alive and snaked around his friends.
A hand grabbed his chin and forced him to look into the yellow eyes of Seth. The Ancient Egyptian God of Chaos growled as wounds leaked out red blood that matted his fur. "You are coming with me boy!" he snarled.
Norman closed his eyes and preyed to anyone to come and safe him.