mega: Hello everyone! Welcome to the revised second chapter. I hope you enjoy it. I know I just posted the first one a little while before this, but still... Oh well! The newest chapter will be up soon, and I promise it will be worth the wait. Sorry for those of you who liked the name Yoma better than Allen, but it just didn't appeal to me. Allen seemed like a more fitting name. Well, I hope you like this chapter!

mega: Hey guys! For those of you who read my old fics, guess what? My Yami is back!

Yamimega: You know, I was having a nice vacation.

mega: Yeah, well almost a year is long enough for a vacation.

Yamimega: I'm several thousand years old. I deserve a big break.

mega: And you got one. So anyway, he's going to do the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: megafan505 does not own The Nightmare Before Christmas or anything in this fic other than the concept of the character Allen. Everything else is property of Tim Burton or Disney... Can I go back to my vacation now?

mega: I'm gonna bring you back eventually.

Yamimega: Whatever.

mega: Oh fine then... On with the fic!

"Very funny Jack", I said to the skeleton man standing in front of me, "Now do that magic spell again and get my mask off of me"

Jack merely grinned and said, "Well there's a problem" with a bit of a chortle, "I can't. By the way, what did you say your name was again?" I couldn't believe this!

"I didn't say it, but it's Allen, Allen Hershel. And what do you mean you can't?" I asked, "You put it on me!"

Jack put his bony hand on the back of his head, "Well, I can only use big magic like that once a year", he said a bit slyly, "And I didn't just stick the mask on your face, you are now a phantom."

"What do you mean I'm a phantom!? So what now I'm gonna have some supernatural powers?!" After I said these words something felt a bit odd.

"Um, Allen", Jack said pointing down at the ground. I looked down and saw that I was floating in mid-air!

"I'm floating!" I shouted. "Actually you are hovering, floating would be higher. You're just a little off the ground. There's a difference between the two"

"I don't care about the difference between floating and hovering!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. I stuck my hands out right in front of me and extended my arms. A short plume of fire flew from my palms. I stood there with my jaw wide open. "No way..." I said to myself.

"Well your powers are coming along nicely", Jack said cleaning up the small char mark which my flame left behind.

"What ever, I'm going home", I said hovering over to the door, even though I still had no clue how to get back.

"Oh you can't go back to the mortal world now", Jack said as he stood up from cleaning the mark.

"What do you mean I can't get back?" I asked still facing the door.

"Well, a little while ago a big holiday mess happened. You could say it was like Halloween colliding with Christmas. It was kind of my fault". As he said this I thought back a couple of years, the year when Halloween had a little less scare in it and Christmas almost made up for it, "Ever since that has happened, the members of the Holiday Towns have only been able to enter the mortal world on the days of their holidays."

I turned around and slowly landed back on the ground. "So you mean I'm stuck here until Halloween with these new powers and everything?" I asked. Actually I felt that was a bit of a good thing really.

"That's right", Jack said moving over to an armchair, "Would you like to sit down?" I sat on a couch across the room from his chair.

"But where will I stay?" I asked. Jack put one of his hands to his chin.

"Hmm... that is a bit of a problem. Wait! I know! You can live with me and be my apprentice!" I looked at him with a strange look on my face.

"Are you joking?" I asked him thinking that this was a great offer, "I could really live here with you and become an apprentice of the Pumpkin King?" I listened to myself. Did that sound odd or what? A few moments ago I didn't even know who the Pumpkin King was.

"Sure, I don't see why not" Jack said standing up, "Plus we've been in need of some help this Halloween. We have been doing well and all but not good enough. It just needs to be a little bit scarier. That's where you can help!" He walked over to a table which had one leg that was shorter than the others and got a book off of it. "Now then, let's get started", he said setting the book down and sitting back in his armchair. He picked up the book and flipped through it quickly, "All right! Show me the scariest face that you have"

"Um Jack", I said pointing to my mask, "Even if I had an extremely scary face, no one could see it. I have a mask on remember?"

"Oh that's right", he said bluntly, "All right, let's work on your powers. Focus on something that you think would make people scared." I stretched out my arms as far as I could and tried to focus on something but it wouldn't work, "I can't do it Jack."

"Sure you can. Here, imagine acid and slimy toxins", he said trying to encourage me.

"All right", I stretched out my arms again. If anyone could see behind my mask they would see my eyes glowing green. Acid poured out of my glove covered hands and melted the table in front of me. "Well, how's that", I asked sheepishly.

"Um, I think we're done for today", Jack said lifting up the table and throwing it out a window which led over the cliff. I could see Jack kept looking out the window even after we both heard it land at the bottom. He finally brought his head back in, "Well we better get ready for the town meeting tonight. I can introduce you to everyone there" Jack ran up a spiral flight of stairs and then came back down in about five minutes. "I changed", he said although it looked like he was still wearing the exact same outfit.

I went to the door and opened it, "After you sir", I said bowing just as if I were his butler. This whole apprentice thing was starting to get to me. Jack walked out the door and I followed after him. We went down to a big place with a clock on it but instead of time, the clock told the date. Instead of numbers it had the months on it and there was only one hand. A sign beneath the clock read, "5 Days until Halloween." We walked into the building which I assumed was Town Hall. All the creatures I had seen earlier were there. On top of the stage was the man that had the two faces. He was wearing his sad, nervous face.

"Please everyone settle down!" he shouted, "As soon as Jack gets here we can get started, ah there he is". Jack grinned and I followed him onto the stage.

"Everyone settle down please". In an instant they all were silent and the man, who I guessed was the mayor, changed to his happy grinning face. "This is Allen Hershel", Jack said, "He's new in town and I think he can help us with this year's Halloween! I looked out among the crowd and saw tons of different spooky faces. There was a tree with a face that had skeletons hung from its branches, a girl that looked as though she had been sown together, a creature that had no jaw and the top of his head was connected to the bottom of it only by a long red cord, and many other odd creatures.

"What does he do?" a werewolf in the crowd asked.

"Yeah he doesn't seem scary at all!" a witch shouted.

"Show them your stuff Allen", said Jack. I nodded and began to hover, then I began to go higher and I flew over all of their heads. Then I released fire from my hands which lit four torches strapped to the wall. Finally, I flew back onto the stage with my cape flowing and set toxin all over the chandelier above all of their heads and bowed. They all began to express their amazement with applause and shouts of excitement. Then I really knew I had found a place I could really call my home for once.

mega: Well that's it for the redone chapters! The next chapter is under way, and it is my main priority. It's going to take place on Halloween night so sorry for those of you who wanted to see Jack and Allen training. But I have a lot planned for Allen in the future. Just stay tuned!