Andromeda: I hate you!
Me: (laughs diabolically). I know!
Oogie: Okay, am I in this one?
Me: Yes. Happy?
Andromeda: I'm not!
The bathtub continued to walk through town without anybody else noticing. Everyone else was asleep. After about 5 minutes, it arrived at the trio's tree house. Once inside, Shock opened the bag and took the wad of clothe out of Andromeda's mouth. This was a bad idea.
"What the heck are you doing?" she yelled, grabbing all of them by their hair. "My father will hear about this! Let me go!" Lock bit her hand, hard, and was set free. He grinned evilly at her.
"Go ahead! Scream! No one's going to hear you!"
"Yeah!" gasped Barrel, the grip on his hair very tight, "except the Oogie Boogie Man!" Andromeda looked towards the "Oogie shrine" that had been built in the corner of the room. With wide eyes, she looked at Lock and he, catching her drift, nodded. She dropped the other two trick-or-treaters and backed up until her back was pressed against the wall.
"I'm not going down there," she said quietly.
"Oh yes you are!" answered Lock. He snapped his fingers, and the two skeleton men appeared.
"I'm not going down there!" she shouted. She kicked one of the men in the ribs. Hard. The bones fell apart. But the other man grabbed her forearms and moved her toward the chute opening. She screamed, and made her feet hit the corners of the chute. The tricksters cackled evilly. Then, andromeda let out a horrible, death-like scream that filled the night. Lock and Shock looked out their window, and saw several lights go on in town. Man, that girl can scream! they thought. "Get her down, now!" said Shock urgently. The skeleton forced her down the chute. "Bye bye, Andromeda!" the children cackled evilly as Andromeda slid down.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!" she yelled all the way down. She landed on hard on her rear, and on some sort of table. The woman looked around the dark enclosure. It suddenly lit up, or rather, everything was bathed in flashing neon lights, illuminating several torture weapons and gambling devices. Including the table, which was actually another gambling thing. Several pictures of Jack Skellington were taped to the wall, all of which looked like they had suffered severe damage. Andromeda got up, and began to look around.
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Oogie was in his billiard room playing pool by himself, when Andromeda arrived in his torture chamber. He heard her scream, and a small thud. He raised a would-be eyebrow, as he was not expecting visitors, except for Lock, Shock, and Barrel, bringing him news from the outside or just entertaining him. And certainly, none of them could scream that loudly.
He heaved his bulk off the chair and waddled off to his main chamber. When he got there, oogie made sure to stay in the shadows, so as to have a greater impact on his unexpected visitor.
When his empty eye sockets saw Andromeda, they widened slightly. Oogie had been expecting his intruder to be a small bug, or a young child. He had not been expecting to see a beautiful young woman in here. She was inspecting oogie's torture equipment. Her back was to him, and she was looking at his iron maiden. When she looked down, she found several card patterns were on the ground. She laughed and spun around. Oogie stared avidly at her pretty face. He had definitely not been expecting this. She looked up and saw how high his ceiling went. She gasped. "Awesome!" she whispered to herself.
Oogie smiled proudly. Nobody had ever called nis cavern "awesome" before. He slowly edged out of the shadows, but making sure he was not seen. Andromeda began to talk again, but quietly.
"Looks like Oogie's house is better than he is," said she contemptuously. "maybe the kids made a mistake. this hose is waaay to good for him to live in it."
Oogie inched towards her back. He stopped when he was a foot behind her. She wore a huge smile on her face, and didn't notice him. This made oogie very happy.
"Well, well, well, what have we here?" he said quietly but viciously. Andromeda spun around quickly. As tall as she was, her head only came up to his chin. She was taller than most people in Halloweentown, so she felt very vulnerable. She suddenly believed that this was oogie's home. All horror and fear that was inside her came up, and was shown in her widened, dark eyes. Andromeda, for the first time in her life, was terrified!
"And you are?" he asked, smiling evilly. Andromeda didn't answer. She backed up until her lower back was against the table she fell on.
"Well," continued Oogie leering at her, his face close to hers, "it seems to me that you are TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY!" He yelled the last part, hoping to scare the woman. She whimpered, putting both hand to her mouth. Oogie cackled evilly.
"LOCK! SHOCK! BARREL!" shouted the boogieman. The trio ran down quickly with huge smiles on their faces.
"Hello," said Andromeda quietly but angrily. The trio looked at her, their faces blank. "Who is this little girl?" asked the boogieman sweetly, feigning kindness, raising Andromeda's right arm.
e trio laughed mischievously. "Do you like her?" asked lock. Andromeda glared at him. The trio was so sure that Oogie would just love having andromeda in his clutches. He looked down at her now frightened face. "what am I supposed to say?" he retorted dryly. "I never like my captors." He said the word "like" with an expression of disgust.
"ethought you might like her," answered shock, giggling.
"Who IS her?!" yelled Oogie.
"Andromeda skellington!" squeaked barrel. "Jack's daughter!" Andromeda's glare intensified to a million. "I hate you, like you never known me to hate you before," she whispered malevolently, with an evil grin. The trio looked scared. Even though they hated her, she could be just as scary as jack sometimes.
"Maybe we should go," whispered Barrel frightened, to shock. She responded by kicking him in the face. "no!' she whispered back. Not yet!"
"but she's scaring me," put in Lock.
Meanwhile, Oogie's expression of shock and disbelief was slowly turning to one of ecstasy. An evil grin dominated his face, and he rubbed his stubby hands together. He turned back to the woman.
"Well then," he began, "we haven't been properly introduced. You deem to like my torture equipment. Let me show it to you again!" Oogie pushed a button on the side wall. A long skinny arm was thrust through, and picked up Andromeda. It brought her up high. Another arm came out, and the two played a game of catch, about ten feet in the air. She screamed. Oogie cackled diabolically, but the trio watched Andromeda in fear. As much as they disliked her, they knew that Oogie would treat anybody related to Jack horrendously. And deep, deep DEEP down, they knew that Jakc would rip out their internal organs with his bare hands if his girl suffered pain, or anything worse.
Oogie, however, was the happiest he had been since he had Sandy Claws and Sally in his clutches. He was throwing some snakes and spiders in his large black cauldron. He was just warming everything up when oogie heard a scream from above.
"MY FATHER- WILL HEAR- ABOUT THIS!" yelled the woman, saying each two words as she fell into the hands. "YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM HIM FOREVER, BOOGIE BOY!" She said the last two words with comtempt. Oogie glared at her. The two hands dropped her, and she fell into the boiling pot. Andromeda screamed the water was so hot. ogie chuckled evilly and pushed another button, having all the things in the pot mix together. He stepped back to watch the progress when he felt a tap on his leg. He looked down, clearly annoyed, and saw Barrel looking up at him.
"What?" he snapped. Barrel gulped. "Well, we were just thinking how mad Jack's gonna be if Andromeda dies." Oogie groaned and threw his arms up in the air.
"That's the whole point! When she dies, Jack will hand Halloween town over to me!"
"But if she does die," added Lock, stepping forward, "then you won't get any ransom." Oogie thought about that for a second. "Ransom, eh?" he said at last. The trio smiled, very relieved. Jacky boy is pretty rich, thought Oogie slyly. I suppose that he would pay a pretty handsome price for his girl. The boogieman looked back at Andromeda. She was vainly trying to stay above water. She glared daggers at him. The girl is kinda pretty, too, he thought smiling to himself. Wouldn't want her to totally go to waste.
Oogie ordered the trio to leave. They gladly obliged, hoping against hope that he had listened to them. Oogie looked at the timer, above the pot. It was 1 minute before everything in the pot could be cooked. She had fainted a few seconds ago, because of the heat. After watch her for afew seconds, and with 5 seconds before she would be dead, Oogie did the unthinkable: he lifted her out.
Andromeda: Am I dead?
Me: no.
Oogie: Why do I think she's pretty?
Me: because, well, you, uh, just do! Okay?!
Oogie: I still hate you.
Andromeda: (dances around, chanting) I'm not dead! I'm not dead! I'm not dead!
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Anyway, thank you for the awesome review! Review again!