Booshy Hollow.
Summery- After a series of murders have been carried out at the small village of Sleepy Hollow, constable Howard Crane has been called out to investigate them. Can he slove the mystery with his new friend Naboo and his new love interest, the mysterious Vince Van Tassel?
Disclaimer- I do not own the boosh, I do not own Sleepy Hollow either, Tim Burton does. Great director he is :)
Author's Notes- Thanks to everyone who reviewed so far, I love you all Please also forgive for the next deaths in this chapter ;) Last chapter cries oh well, new horror/fluff story on the way ;)
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The carriage carring Howard pulled up outside the doctor's office and he rushed inside, straight to the two coffine in the middle of the room, holding the bodies of Mr and Mrs Van Tassel. He opens the lids forcefully and glares down at the headless corpses, looking for the slightess clue. Seeing nothing on Victoria's body, he moved over to Dixon's, holding up the arm with the cut palm on it "No blood flow, no clotting, no healing. When this cut was made, this gent was already dead"
He rushes back out to the carriage and finds the driver is missing, so he gets in the driver's seat and strikes the horse with its reins, making it gallop off to the mansion. Finding no-one there, he then galloped off towards the windmill, the only other place Dixon would take Vince.
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The old, rotton windmill stood in a large field just outside the village, its sails ripped from strong winds. Thunder and lightening cracked in the sky as Naboo moved from the outskirts of the village towards it. Inside, Vince layed still knocked out on the dusty floor, a red handprint on his cheek and a bleeding lip from where Dixon slapped him, as his step-father knelt over him and snipped off a piece of his long, raven hair.
He then walked over to a mini-alter, covered with lit candles, a mini fire and the skull of the headless horseman "Come, rise once more. One more night of beheading, rise up for me and come for Vince" He muttered, as he threw the strands into the flames. In the western woods, the horseman once again shoots out of the tree of the dead, galloping towards the windmill.
Vince then came round, glancing at his surroundings in confusion. He then glanced in fear at Dixon standing above him "Ah, awake at last. Did you think it was just a bad dream?"
"Wait, my mother saw the horseman kill you. How are you alive?" Vince asked, now curious.
"She saw the horseman come towards me with his sword out, but it's me who the horseman takes orders from" Dixon said, smugly.
"But, there was a body..." Vince stuttered, once again confused.
"The servent, Donny. I thought she was useless, but it seemed he had a purpose after all once I cut his head off" Dixon admitted, without a hint of remorse in his voice.
"Who are you?" Vince asked, now disgusted with the man in front of him.
"My family name was Archer, I lived with my parents and brother in a cottage not far from here until one day my father died and we were evicted. No-one in this village would take us in because my mother was suspected of witchcraft. But she taught her sons well as we lived as outcasts in the western woods until she died too. My brother and I stayed in our safe-home, seeing not a soul until one day whilst gathering firewood, we crossed the path of the horseman" He paused as Vince gasped in shock, taking all the infomation in.
"I saw his death and at that moment, I offered my soul to Satan, if he raised the horseman from the grave to avenge me againest Van Garret. He showed us no mercy as we starved, while Van Tassel and her husband and boy-child stole our home. That's why I made myself the new husband of your mother. The easiest part was to enter your house as your fathers nurse and put his body in the grave, what wasn't easy was to secure my legarcy. The widow had to go of course, and Bollo and even that midwife Hamilton had to go after finding out about the widows secret. Then soon those four idiots soon fell foul to either the horseman or their own different deaths" Vince looked away from him to watch Naboo sneak past the deranged Dixon.
"You have everything now..." Vince answered, getting interupted by Dixon slapping him across the face again, the pain in his cheek flaring up.
"No, you have really by your mother's will. I just get everything in the event of your death, oh and my brother in the cave in the woods also passed away quite recently" Dixon sneered, not sorry at all.
"You chopped off your own brother's head?" Vince almost shouted, angry and disgusted at how this madman treated everyone. Behind Dixon, Naboo picks up a small sledgehammer and prepares to hit the evil man.
"He deserved it..." He then turned around to face the shaman "...For helping you and your master" Naboo dropped the hammer in fright and rushed past him, grabbing Vince's hand as he went "You're just in time to have your head cut off, you know. Tonight the horseman comes, and he's coming for you"
Howard gets to the windmill first, jumping off the carriage and runs towards two figures, also running towards him "Vince! Naboo!" He then sees Dixon standing at the doorway, holding the skull smugly in his arms. He gathered Vince up in his arms close whilst silently thanking God, then other sounds of hoofbeats came close as the horseman finally got to the windmill. All three ran past Dixon back into the old building and closed the doors behind them, sliding a shovel handle through the wood-bar lock, then covering the door with heavy sacks of flour.
The doors banged harshly, but didn't give way as the three backed away "To the roof, I have an idea!" Howard called out, as they rushed towards steps and a ladder going up to the rotten rooftop. He stopped and pulled down a lever first that made the windmills sails start to move again using the dusty and rusted machinery inside. The horseman sliced through the shovel handle using his sword and slammed open the doors, walking up the steps following them.
As Howard just gets to the ladder, the horseman swipes at his head, but misses as the constable starts to climb behind Vince. He sweipes again, but only suceeds in cutting of bits of the ladder. Up on the rooftop, Howard drops the laturn they'd been carring down to the bottom of the windmill, sacks below setting on fire as he hoped the horseman would be trapped inside still "Jump and grab hold!" Howard yelled out, prompting Naboo to jump first, grabbing onto the sail as it spun round to the ground. Vince and Howard jumped on the same one, then fell off when they neared the ground.
They ran towards Howard's abandoned carriage just as the windmill exploded from the combination of oil and flames "Is he dead?" Naboo asked.
"That's the problem, he was already dead to begin with" Howard explained, watching in shock as the horseman walked out of the wreakage unharmed. The three of them got onto the driver's seat of the carriage and drove off, as the horseman got onto his own horse and rode of after them into the western woods.
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"Where are we going?" Naboo asked over the sounds of rushing wind.
"Anywhere but here!" Howard answered, glancing behind to see the horseman quickly closing the gap between them, sword drawn out "Here, take the reins!" He said, handing them to Vince as he climbed over the top of the carriage holding a large rifle the driver left behind. He lined up his firing shot and looked in shock as the horse behind had no rider in it, the horseman instead grabbing the back of the carriage. he shot the horseman still, making the ghost let go.
Howard stood up and looked down to see the horseman gone, not realising about the low branch until it smacked him in the back of the head and knocked him onto the huge beast behind. He then sat up and saw the horseman was holding onto the bottom of the carriage, being dragged along the dusty ground. When he got close enough, he leapt onto the horseman and climbed back onto the top of the carriage.
The horseman followed him up on top and grabbed him around the throat, throwing him down onto the roof "Jump!" He managed to shout to Vince and Naboo, making them leap onto the two horses pulling the carriage. As they went over a fallen log, the part holding the horses to the carriage broke, seperating the carriage with the horseman one it one way and Howard jumping onto Vince's horse another.
The carriage crashed into a clump of tall trees, causing the horseman to fall to the ground and the heavy carriage falls on top of it. The two other horses rode on until they reached the tree of the dead, running to the base only to be stopped by Dixon riding over to them "Still alive I see"
"Run, Vince" Howard yelled, pushing him away from his demented step-father as Dixon pulled a pistol from his jacket pocket and fired, hitting Howard in the chest where his heart would be, making Vince turn back around in shock and go over to him. He got stopped when his step-father grabbed his hair harshly and held him still as the horseman got closer "Here, take him now!"
Naboo knelt down next to Howard, sighing in relief to find him still alive "You're not dead, great" Howard gave him a slight smile, then sat up and notised a sack tied to Dixon's saddle. He stood up and bounded onto the madman, knocking him and the sack off and realesing Vince. The skull fell out of the sack and a struggle began between them to get it. Naboo picked up a large branch and bought it down on top of Dxion's head, knocking him out.
Vince stood a bit away watching, amazed Howard was still alive. But he didn't realise the horseman was right behind him until it grabbed his hair and pulled his head back, exposing his neck. Howard saw he was about to get his head cut off and grabbed the skull, holding it up high. He then threw it to the horseman, who let go of Vince to grab it.
It put its skull back on it the right place and a awful screeching sound as blood, muscle, white hair and green skin grew back quickly, wild eyes back in the empty sockets. As this went on, Howard went over to Vince and held him tightly in his arms, his anger rising as he spotted the handprint on his face. Vince pulled away and gave him a questioning look, which Howard answered by opening his jacket pocket and showing the small book Vince gave him, the bullet lodged in it.
The horseman's regeneration had finished and it glared at them not with anger or evilness, but calmness and a small bit of gratatude. He then got onto his large horse and rode swiftly towards the unconcious body of his tormentor, picking him up and holding him in his arms. Dixon woke up in surprize of his position and screamed as the horseman bought his pointed teeth down upon his own lips, kissing him deeply.
When they pulled away, they both had blood running down their lips and chins as they rode towards the tree of the dead. A flash of light brightened the forest as they disappeared back into hell, Dixon's hand just sticking out of the trunk, curling up in death, causing Howard to faint once more.
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The next day, a carriage rode back towards London, drving through the English countryside carring important passagers. As they drove in London, Howard was asleep, but was soon woken by the feel of Vince leaning over and kissing him awake gently "Here we are, just in time for a new century" They got out of the carriage just as snow fell from the cloudy sky above them, amazing Vince no end who never saw it in his village.
"You'll soon get your bearings, Naboo" He replied to the ex-shaman, who was carring the bags as best as he could "Home is this way, you'll soon get used to this" He held out his arm for Vince to loop his around as they walked down the snow covered street where everyone was busy shopping and chatting.
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There we go, finished :) I'm sorry about the sucky ending hehe thanks for everyone who reviewed this :) from chugirl2526