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Chapter XII: Roll of the Dice

Jack Skellington

"Who was that Jack," the mayor asked as we stop to rest for a second.

"I'm not sure," I told him, I wasn't sure if he was a demon or a ghost but whoever he was on a mission to prevent us to save Danny.

"Did you ever hear of that guy who sent him Vlad whatever?" he asked confused as he caught his breath. Everything that has transpired has him baffled and to tell the truth so I was I.

First Lock, Shock, and Barrel steal an ancient and powerful book, then kidnap Danny, and now someone named 'Vlad Plasmius' doesn't want us to find the Halfa. This keeps just getting stranger.

"No, I haven't," I told him plainly as we continued walking.

While we were searching I heard the mayor call out, "Jack, come look at this!"

"What is it," I ask as I race up to where he is standing and find Sally's stuffing on the ground. "This isn't a good sign," I say picking it up and looking at it, trying to figure out what happened here.

"You don't think they took her as well," the mayor asked worriedly as I placed the stuffing in my pocket and we continued our journey.

"I don't know, my guess is she probably went out to look for Danny. I just hope they didn't catch her spying," I said running faster hoping she was okay.

Danny

Have you ever seen those horror movies where huge swarms of bugs attack a person. It's pretty horrifying to see thousands of insects crawl all over a person devouring them in seconds. Well that is what is happening to me.

I watch in horror as millions of insects crawl over me, I try to shake them off but there are too many of them. They sting as they crawl all over me but I can't scream.

That is not the worse part; along with the bugs I hear a strange voice mocking me. "So this is Danny Phantom, huh. I thought the one who would have defeated the ghost king would be stronger than this," it tells me in a barely audible tone.

I cannot answer back as the bugs crawl into my mouth and nose preventing me from breathing but I was not feeling deprived of oxygen. It's as if there is some sort of symbiosis between the bugs and me making sure that I survive (if only for their own selfish needs).

Soon my entire body is covered in bugs, there are so many that I can barely feel my own body. I feel my eyes drooping as bugs crawl over them and soon force them closed as darkness washes over me and transports to Oblivion's shores.

Sally

"Where are we?" Sam's redheaded friend (who she identified as being Danny's sister Jazz) asked as we landed with a thud on the ground.

"We're one of the torture rooms," I tell them as I look around and see numerous gambling themed devices across the room with skeletons on the floor.

"Where do we go from here?" Sam asked as she looked around and shuddered at the devices in the room. "Who are these kids the Mendez brothers," she asked.

"Who were they?" I said confused by her comment but she shrugged it off telling me it didn't matter and that we needed do focus on saving Danny.

I looked around trying to figure out our next move when I heard something, "hide!" I said as we hid behind a roulette wheel.

"Are those the little demons?" Sam asked curiously as she saw them walking in the room.

"Do you see anything?" I heard Shock's voice ask as they look around the room, they must have heard us come in and were looking to us.

"Keep quiet," I told Sam and Jazz as they studied the two kids. I looked back at the two girls, Jazz was holding her noise to prevent a sneeze from coming on.

She tried her hardest but in the end she lost and let out a sneeze, "sorry," she said rubbing her nose sheepishly.

I went to say something but suddenly felt as we pushed out of hiding, "I found them," Lock said as he pushed us into view.

"So you thought you could rescue your Halfa friend, well think again," Shock sneered as she put chains on us led us away.

"Where are you taking us," Sam asked wanting know her fate.

"To our boss, of course," Lock said as we were dragged away.

Sam

Those brats took us to another chamber; this one looked like some sort of weird casino. It was lit all in blacklights that revealed strange images everywhere.

"Who lives here, the ghost of the Earl of Sandwich?" I asked sarcastically as I looked around at the strangeness of it all.

"Aren't you clever, little miss drab," a voice said as pair of a dice came flying out a door and hit me in the face. "However your luck just ran out," it continued as a large ghost (at least it looks like a ghost) appeared.

"Who are you?" Jazz asked the creature, "and what are you going to do us," she says trying to be braved.

"I am Oogie Boogie and you dolls are going to be playing a game," he said smiling.

He walked over to me, "What's your name beautiful," he said sending a chill up my spine. He walked over to me but before he could do anything I bit him.

"Ow, you'll pay for that," he snapped.

"You taste like bugs," I said making a face as I tried to get rid of the taste in my mouth. "Sorry, but you're not my type," I told him darkly.

"Of course, you love the Halfa, maybe this will change your mind," he said (how did he know that) as he peeled back his skin revealing a disgusting mass of bugs. They soon parted and revealed a terrifying sight.

Underneath all the bugs was Danny's head, it was tilted down like he was unconscious but his eyes were open. Bugs were spewing out his mouth and nose.

My heart broke at the sight, I wanted to reach out and remove the bugs from him, "Danny! Danny!" I shouted hoping it would rouse him, but he didn't move his eyes.

"Sorry, but Danny is not home," Oogie's voice said as the bugs covered Danny again and the skin repaired itself. "Lock and Shock, attach these three to some roulette wheels," he said as they strapped us to three wheels.

"What are you going to do to us?" Jazz asks as her courage dissolved before her eyes. She couldn't believe what was going o

"How much do you value life," he said in response.

She shrugged her shoulders, "You can't put a price on life, you know that Danny," she told the creature hoping to reason with him.

"I told you, Danny boy is gone, and you are about to find that everything has a price on it," he said smiling evilly.

We gulped at those words as we knew this might be the end of us.

Jack Skellington

We finally made it to their hide out. I could hear Sally's voice along two other females.

"What do you hear Jack?" the Mayor asked as he raced up to where I was listening in on what was happening.

"It's definitely him," I whisper to him.

"How are we going to get in," he asked me worriedly.

I thought for a moment, this was going to be tricky and if not done properly we could be caught.

After thinking for awhile, I saw the answer, "Follow me," I said as I walked over to a nearby grate and pulled it off so we could sneak in and rescue Danny, I just hope we're not too late.