Me: Hey, welcome to the first chapter to the Nightmare Before Christmas (Spyro Style). I better get this done, it's getting late.
Spyro: Well, you can always save this and save it until tomorrow.
Cynder: That's what all writers do, save their ideas for later. People need sleep you know?
Me: Of course, plus my mom and I are going shopping tomorrow, so I need some sleep. So here we go. On to the story.
(The story starts in a dark place with a scarecrow dragon with a pumpkin for a head. On its head was a sign that said "Halloween Town". Then it gets on to a graveyard of singing shadows.)
Ghosts: Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange. Come with us and you will see, this our town of Halloween. This is Halloween, this is Halloween, pumpkins scream in the dead of night. This is Halloween, everybody make a scene. Trick or treat until the neighbors gonna die of fright. It's our town, everybody scream in this town of Halloween.
Amy Rose (Monster Under the Bed): I am the one hiding under your bed, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red.
Luigi (Monster Under the Stairs): I am the one hiding under your stairs, fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair.
Vampires: This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. In this town, we call home. Everyone hail to the pumpkin song.
Ignitus (Mayor): In this town, don't we love it now? Everyone's waiting for the next surprise.
Ghosts: Round that corner man, hiding in a trash can. Something waiting now to pounce and now you'll...
Kazooie (Harlequin Demon): SCREAM!
Banjo (Wolf Man): This is Halloween.
Kazooie: Red and black...
Shadow (Melting Man): And slimy green.
Banjo: Aren't you scared?
Ember and Blaze (The Witches): Well that's just fine. Say it once, say it twice take a chance and roll the dice. Ride with the moon in the dead of night.
Trigger Happy (Hanging Tree): Everybody scream! Everybody scream!
Hanged Men: In our town of Halloween.
Flashwing (Clown with a Tear Away Face): I am the clown with a tear away face, here in a flash and gone without a trace.
Ghosts: I am the who when you call "who's there?" I am the wind flowing through your hair.
Malefor (Oogie Boogie): I am the shadow of the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
Citizens: This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Halloween, Halloween.
Bianca and Hunter (Corpse Kid and Mummy Kid): Tender lumplings everywhere, life's no fun without a good scare.
Ripto (Corpse Dad): That's our job...
The Sorceress (Corpse Mom): But we're not mean.
Bianca, Hunter, Ripto and Sorceress: In our town of Halloween.
Ignitus: In this town, don't we love it now? Everyone's waiting for the next surprise.
Citizens: Skeleton Spyro will catch you in the back and scream like a banshee, make you jump out of your SKIN! This is Halloween, everybody SCREAM!
Trigger Happy and Hanged Men: Won't you please make way for a very special guy.
Citizens: Our man, Spyro, is King of the Pumpkin Patch everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now. This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween.
Bianca and Hunter: In this town, we call home. Everyone hail to the pumpkin song.
(Everyone was beginning to chant as a skeletal dragon came out of the fountain. He wore a black and white pinstripe suit with a matching bat bowtie and he had a long tail. Then everyone began to cheer and laugh when the song ended.)
Flashwing: It's over!
Blink (Behemoth): We did it.
Banjo: Wasn't it terrifying?
Klaus and Flame (Mr. Hyde and Cyclops): What a night.
Ignitus: Great Halloween, everybody.
Spyro (Jack): I believe it was our most horrible yet. Thank you everyone.
Ignitus: No, thanks to you, Spyro, without your brilliant leadership.
Spyro: Not at all, Ignitus.
Sonic (Vampire #1): You're such a scream, Spyro.
Ember: You're a witch's fondest dream.
Blaze: You make walls fall, Spyro.
Ember: Walls fall? You make the very mountains crack, Spyro.
(Cuts to a beautiful black rag dragoness with stitches all over her body: her tail, her face even her legs. And her underbelly was pale blue. She was hiding behind Trigger Happy, watching the citizens admire Spyro. Her name was Cynder, the rag dragoness servant creation to Dr. Volteer, the mad scientist of Halloween Town. Then someone grabbed Cynder's tail. Cynder turned to see her master.)
Volteer (Dr. Finkelstein): The deadly nightshade you slipped me wore off, Cynder.
Cynder (Sally): Let go!
Volteer: You're not ready for so much excitement.
Cynder: Yes I am!
Volteer: (Pulls Cynder's tail) You're coming...with...me!
Cynder: No I'm not! (Removes the stitches on her tail and runs off)
Volteer: Come back here you foolish... (Gets hit by Cynder's tail)
Elise (Undersea Gal): Oh, Spyro, you make wounds ooze and flesh crawl!
Spyro: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
Ignitus: Hold it, we haven't given out the prizes yet. Our first award goes to the vampires for most blood drained in a single evening.
(Spyro hides next the wall leading to the gate to the graveyard.)
Ignitus: Our second and honorable mention goes to the fabulous dark lagoon leeches.
Spyro: (Sighs of relief and throws a coin to the local band)
Beldam (Saxophone Player): Nice work, bone daddy.
Spyro: Yeah, I guess so. Just like last year. And the year before that. And the year before that.
(At the graveyard, Cynder was keeping the stuffing in her ripped tail safe from falling out when she heard the gate open. Cynder hid behind the grave stone she sat by and saw Spyro walking by with a bored look on his face. Cynder didn't know why Spyro was this strange. Then Spyro came to a grave stone with the name "Sparx" on it and Spyro tapped his leg twice and a ghost dragonfly came out of the ground and saw Spyro with his bored look as well. The dragonfly was named Sparx, Spyro's best friend. Spyro began to sing.)
Spyro: There are few who deny at what I do I am the best. For my talents are renowned far and wide. When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night, I excel without ever even trying. With the slightest little effort of my ghost-like charms, I have seen grown men give out a shriek. With a wave of my hand and a well-placed moan, I have swept the very bravest off their feet. Yet year after year, it's the same routine. And I grow so weary by the sound of screams. And I, Spyro the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.
(Sparx showed a look of worry on his face. Cynder listened to Spyro's song with a look of worry on her face as well.)
Spyro: Oh somewhere deep inside of these bones, an emptiness began to grow. There's something out there far from my home, a longing that I've never known. I'm the master of fright, and a demon of light. And I'll scare you right out of your pants. To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mr. Unlucky and I'm known throughout England and France. And since I am dead, I can take off my head to recite Shakespearean quotations. No animal nor man can SCREAM like I can with the fury of my recitations. But who here would ever understand that the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin would tire of his crown. If they only understood, he'd give it all up if he only could.
(Spyro turns and almost sees Cynder but she hides behind a grave stone. Then Spyro walks to the Hinterlands as he ends his song.)
Spyro: Oh there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown. The fame and praise come year after year, does nothing for these empty tears.
(Spyro went into the Hinterlands as Cynder came out of her hiding spot with her hand reached ahead.)
Cynder: Spyro...I know how you feel.
(Cynder heads into three gravestones with various herbs and Cynder collected deadly nightshade, an herb that was used for medical reasons in ancient times but puts people to sleep.)
Me: That's all of it. Yes, I know Cynder's underbelly is magenta, but I couldn't find anywhere else for the color of Sally's skin to be for Cynder. It started off all over her body but I realized that Cynder would be unrecognizable that way, then I thought of just her tail, but that would be too weird. And finally, I decided it should be Cynder's underbelly. Don't forget to review.