Unable to do anything about jonesy, jack pulled himself, along with the others, up to a secure spot near the jut in the rocks. To his surprise, there was an opening that led to somewhere else. He cautiously went through the opening, the gang following.

---

Jack wasn't prepared to see what was exactly was on the other side. But it certainly wasn't what he expected. It was a giant cavern, and streams of lava were gushing everywhere. And more importantly, the whole area was covered with Oogie's booby traps.

"What is this place?" jack asked. However, he ended up talking to himself because the others were too fussing over jonesy. Jack looked around. "Looks like there's nowhere to go but straight ahead…" he eyed the sword-slashing suicide kings and swinging buzz saws. "This place is filled with Oogie's traps…" finally, jack looked at the smoldering magma flowing around him. "I don't think any of us would care to fall into that lava!"

"Sick. Sick. I think I'm gonna be sick!" said Sam. "There's no telling what happened to jonesy! But either way, at the speed he was falling, if he does reach solid ground, he's sure to suffer some serious injuries!"

"I don't like this game anymore, guys!" cried jimmy.

"Calm down, guys!" said jack. "We'll find jonesy! It's going to be all right." He began to walk down the path straight ahead.

"I'm surprised that you're being calm, jack," said Sam as he and the others followed the pumpkin king. "I would think that you'd be hysterical by now…"

"Well, in case you haven't noticed, I am the best there is," said jack. "I prefer to scare and not be scared."

"If you say so…" said Sam.

But in jack's mind, he knew he was just bluffing. He was beginning to wonder why he was really wasn't hysterical at the moment. He did like all eleven of the teenagers, but jonesy was definitely his favorite. Mostly because jonesy was so much like his older brother, it almost drove jack crazy.

"I swear to god, if anything has happened to that boy, I will never. EVER forgive myself," jack caught himself thinking. But he couldn't freak out in front of the others. This would just worry them even more. So he held it in.

---

Oogie's buzz saws and sword-swinging suicide kings made the path almost impossible to walk through. Thankfully, either the traps could be easily destroyed by jimmy, or they were easy to time just right and pass through them. So it wasn't that much of a challenge. But throughout the trail, all eleven of them kept an eye out, just in case jonesy was here. But jonesy was nowhere to be seen.

Then, as they were halfway through the maze of booby traps…

MAAAAAAAOWWWWWWWWWW!

The team froze. What was Oogie going to say this time?

"Ba ha ha ha ha ha! You're going to be torn to pieces, guys! Do you really think you can make it out of here alive? It's sooo entertaining, watching you run from my little traps down there. Ha ha ha ha!"

The feedback ended.

"Well, that wasn't very helpful," said Sam.

But for some reason, jack looked intrigued.

"Is something wrong, jack?" asked jen.

"You didn't hear that?" asked jack.

"Hear what?" asked Caitlin.

"That groaning!" said jack. "When Oogie was talking…I heard groaning in the background! I think it might have been jonesy!"

"Oogie has jonesy?" asked Sam.

"Uh oh…" said jimmy.

"All the more reason to hurry," said jack. "Come on!"

---

At the end of the path, there was a large entryway that led deeper into the caverns. Jack and the others took no hesitation in entering it.

Inside the new cavern, the team was met with quite a sight. It was a big circle of six cages, each representing one of the six holidays besides Halloween. There was also a big cage that looked like it led up in the middle of the room.

"What on earth?" asked Sam.

"The holiday leaders are being kept in the depths of Hades!" exclaimed jimmy.

And jimmy's exclamation wasn't that inaccurate. In five of the six holidays cages, there were wriggling sacks, presumably the leader of that holiday.

"I recognize this cage!" jack said, walking over to the cage in the middle of the room. "it's part of a well in the town square this place must be where it leads."

"Hmm…" said Sam, looking at the wriggling sacks in the cages. "Thanksgiving, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Independence Day, and jack's the Halloween leader…" Sam's eyes widened. "Oh dear…someone's missing!"

"But who?" asked jimmy.

"I think I know," said jack, walking over to the empty holiday cage. There was a huge Christmas tree above it. "But…why didn't Oogie throw sandy in this cage?"

"It's beyond me, jack," said Sam.

Jack looked deeper into the empty cage. "Hey…I think we can continue through here."

"What?" asked Sam.

"How?" asked jimmy.

"It's open!" said jack, trying the cage door. He looked at the others behind him. "Shall we?"

"If it means getting closer to jonesy…" said Samantha. "Yes!"

"Jonesy, we're coming!" said jimmy.

---

As jack and the gang almost ran down the new path, they soon realized something: the path was pitch black! They couldn't even tell what they were walking on. But the path kept going, so they kept running.

After what seemed like forever, the path finally opened to a new room. And the only other thing in the room was a certain walking potato sack glowing green from the black lights and…welding jonesy's m16 assault rifle

"Oogie!" jack yelled to his foe standing in the middle of the room. "Return the holiday leaders to their worlds!"

"And give back jonesy!" added jimmy.

Oogie just sneered. "I can assure you…" he said. "The leader of every holiday is right where he should be! And you're looking at him!"

"Oh, please," Nikki said in her most sarcastic tone.

"Where are you holding sandy?" asked jack.

"Jaaaaack…" Oogie drawled. "Weren't you guys listening? I said I have a debt to repay old sandy claws! A debt I'm going to pay back in person! Of course, I don't want you causing any trouble while I'm on my little visit. So I've hidden the Christmas door in something quite nasty! So in the meantime, what say we have some fun?"

"That's never good to hear…" said Sam.

"The Oogie casino is now opened!" said Oogie.

When Oogie said the word "opened," the entire room lit up, revealing the giant roulette wheel that Oogie had last year. And that wasn't all…

"Jonesy!" yelled jimmy, pointing.

Jack and the gang looked. Sure enough, up near one of the many doors in the room, there was jonesy. The only problem was that he was lying on his back, not moving. A soft groan emitted from his mouth, but that was it.

Jack growled and jumped down so he was right in front of Oogie, followed by the others. They readied their weapons, nobody could hurt their friend and get away with it!

"What are we gambling for, you ask?" Oogie asked, apparently not intimidated. "Oh, nothing all that valuable. Just your lives! CUE THE MUSIC!"

"Music?" sam groaned. "Oh…why does there always have to be music?"

Oogie Boogie: well, well, well!

Look what the bat dragged in!

Jack, you made it this far?

Oh, I'm really scared!

Jack: Oogie, we're here to finish this once and for all!

Oogie Boogie: you're jokin'! You're jokin'!

I can't believe my ears!

You're jokin'! You gotta be!

Best laugh I've had in years!

Sam: we hope you did amuse yourself

With this, your little fling!

Jimmy and Caitlin: you'd better pay attention now

'Cause he's the pumpkin king!

Oogie Boogie: you think you are winning

But that's a lot of noise!

Just to be a sport, dear jack

I'll share my Oogie-toys!

Whoa-oh!

Ghosts: whoa-oh!

Oogie Boogie: whoa-oh!

Ghosts: whoa-oh!

Oogie Boogie: whoa-oh!

Ghosts: whoa-oh!

Oogie Boogie: I'm the Oogie Boogie man!

"So, you really made it this far?" asked Oogie.

"Release the holiday leaders!" jack commanded again.

"And jonesy!" said Sam.

"JONESY!" said jimmy.

Jack: the leaders of the holidays

And jonesy must be set free!

Release them all at once

Or you'll have to deal with me!

The gang: and us!

Oogie Boogie: you beat my men, so what? Big deal!

You even ran the maze!

You still can't stop me!

I'm the king of seven holidays!

Whoa-oh!

Jack: whoa-oh!

Oogie Boogie: whoa-oh!

Jack: I'm the only pumpkin king!

BOOM!

One last hit from the gang and jacks' weapons made Oogie fall and made him drop jonesy's m16 rifle. He was exhausted.

"You…you've got some nerve…escaping my perfect trap…" he panted. "However…the real losers are you, guys." Oogie suddenly stood up. "For he who has the last laugh wins!"

Suddenly, Oogie's body began to melt into the floor below him, which was the middle of the roulette wheel.

"Huh?" the gang asked all together.

"What's this?" asked jack, shocked.

Just then, something rose up from the same spot. It looked just like the Oogie shadow that had possessed jimmy and Caitlin. "Congratulations, heroes!" said Oogie's voice. "You defeated my shadow!"

"It was a fake?" asked Samantha.

"The real me is in Christmas town!" said the Oogie shadow. "Bye, now!"

The Oogie shadow glowed brightly, and the whole room suddenly shook, almost as if the shadow had been a bomb.

"Hash browns and eggs with buttered toast!"

Jack knew that voice. He strained to see through the room, but it was hard because of all the dust that had kicked up. That's when he saw him. Jonesy was now conscious, obviously in pain and clutching his head, limping across the room where the others were standing.

"JONESY!" the gang said all together.

Suddenly, jonesy fell over on his back.

"Jonesy!" said jack, running up to his friend. "Are you all right? Oogie didn't do this to you, did he?"

"Nope…" jonesy mumbled. "Just had a sudden urge to fall down, granddad…"

"Granddad?" asked jack. "I'm not that old…" he added under his breath.

"Oh dear…" said Sam. " He seems to have experienced that some head trauma from that fall…"

"Relax, will ya?" jonesy slurred. "I'm fine, except that I have a splitting headache the size of liberty city…"

"Well, if you say so, jonesy…" said Sam.

"And hey, I still got my rice and chicken!" said jonesy. "And look what else I found!"

It was then that the others noticed that jonesy had been carrying something else the whole time. They gasped when jonesy held it up. It was another holiday door, this one shaped like an Easter egg.

"The Easter door!" exclaimed jack. "But…where's the Christmas door?"

"Not here," jonesy mumbled. "I checked. Not here…"

"Now what, jack?" asked Sam.

Jack looked behind him. The Oogie shadow had left a giant hole in the middle of the room.

"We'd better head back to the plaza," said jack. Then without another word, he jumped into the hole!

The gang just stared for a moment. Then all of them shrugged and jumped into the hole, but jonesy stopped and went to back to get his m16 the Oogie dropped then he jumped into the hole following the others and jack.