Chapter One
As I enter the portal,
I feel the enchantment
It takes me away; away from here Enter by Within Temptation
"GAH! How the heck did I get lost! I followed the directions…" Kane said.
Kane Nageki, a nekomata, was lost somewhere on her way to the spirit realm…
"Man, this is the last time I follow directions from a crow demon… There isn't even any spirits here to help me get un-lost! Even in the trees, there's not one Kodama to be found!"
Kane continues through the strange forest until she comes to a pathway of trees, each with a door on them…
"Huh, what are these trees doing here? They all have doors on their trunks, there's one with a firecracker, one with an egg, one with a heart, another with some sort of bird, one with a tree, and then… one with a pumpkin?! What is this?!"
She walked farther up the clearing and found more of the strange trees…
"O.k. this is just weird... now there are five trees with doors representing the five elements… Air, Metal, Fire, Water, and Earth, something just isn't right about this forest… And I see even more tress up ahead! I better go back to the first grove of trees… I'll get even more lost if I continue on…"
She walked back to the original clearing, wondering what to do next…
She sat up against the tree with the pumpkin door, and thought about the situation…
"First, there's no Kodamas anywhere, now these weird doors show up… MAN! This is nothing like it was in Japan. I hope I can find my way out of here, but at least around this one tree it doesn't feel so creepy. Maybe I'll stop and take a cat nap here! " – Kane grinned to herself, remembering her last cat nap in the sun
And as she was about to take a nap, the door opened…
"WAHH!!!! WHAT THE HECK DID I DO NOW?!!?!!?"
She fell through the portal. As she fell through it she saw many haunts, spooks, and demons, but none of the kind she had seen in Japan… She had no idea what these things were, and then she sunk into a dark world…
"Guh… man, where the heck am I?"
She got up and started walking around
"Well, at least the scenery is nice here, creepy, ghostly, much better than the weird forest. Ha-ha"
Something rushed by her, and she heard the sound of laughter...
"WAH! What the heck was that, it looked like a person…But it had blue skin. Maybe I am in the spirit world..?"
As she was pondering this question all of a sudden…
"BOO!!!!" – A skeletal figure exclaimed
"WAH!!! WHO ARE YOU???? WHY THE HECK DID YOU JUST SCARE ME?!?!" – Kane panicked
"Huh? I'm sorry, who are you? I don't think I've seen you in Halloweentown before…"
The skeleton straightened up as he talked, and Kane could see he was VERY tall, he was also very skinny, and looked as graceful as a spider…
"That didn't answer my question... And what the heck is Halloweentown?!" Kane yelled.
"Well, I guess I should introduce myself then, I'm Jack, Jack Skellington, The Pumpkin King. I'm the King of Halloweentown. Halloweentown is where you are at the moment, my dear… wait, what are you anyway?" – Jack stated.
"Huh? Oh, I'm Kane Nageki, a Nekomata from the clan of Aganau. But I'm still really confused, how did I end up here?!" – Kane asked
"What is a nekomata?" – Jack asked
"… A nekomata is a spirit cat with two tails, I can assume the form of both a human and a cat, and I can control certain magic's… You, you're not from Japan are you?"
"Well, since you don't know me, I'm guessing you aren't from England or France… I've never heard of this Japan place though… I can't believe they haven't heard of me, the King of Nightmares, there though…"
"Well, it's alright, I'm thinking they haven't heard of you because of all the spirits there already, they still don't know about more than half of the youkai there! But then again, they are just humans. That is expected."
"Well, lets get to your question now, How did you arrive here?"
"Well, I was walking --- "
A girl came into the clearing where Jack and Kane where, she was a little shorter than Jack was, and she had red hair and blue skin, with many stitches all over it, she looked uncertain of what was going on
"Hello, I've never met you before. Who is this, Jack?" – The girl said
"Sally, this is Kane Nageki, a cat spirit, and she's somehow found herself in out town. We're trying to figure out how she got here in the first place…"
"Oh, well hello Kane, I'm Sally, a ragdoll, I'm pleased to meet you."
Sally smiled sweetly as she said this, and Kane was very confused
"Well hi, I have a question, how are you alive if you're a doll?"
"Well, I'm not completely sure of that…" – Sally said
"Neither am I. I'm glad she's alive though, she's my dearest friend…" – Jack said lovingly
Sally blushed at this, and Kane went on with her question
"Well, as I was saying, I was walking, and I came to this weird forest…"
"Ahah! Kane, you must have been in the Forest of Time!" – Jack exclaimed
"You must be right Jack, you found yourself lost there once…" – Sally said
"Huh? What is the forest of Time?" – Kane asked
"The Forest of Time is a forest of trees that lead to other worlds, was there a door on some of the trees?" – Jack asked
"Yeah, at the first clearing there were trees with a firecracker, an egg, a heart, a bird, a tree, and a pumpkin on it…"
"Ah! I was right then! You were in the circle of the Holiday Trees." – Jack said triumphantly
"I think Kane saw something else as well Jack…" – Sally said
"You're right Sally! There was another clearing! And it had many more trees in it… I didn't see all of them, but there were five trees with the Five Elements on each door…" – Kane said
Jack looked around "Well, I've never seen that part of the forest… but what are these Five Elements you speak of, Kane?"
"I've never heard of them either, I'm afraid…" – Sally said
"What? You both haven't heard of the Five Elements? Well, I guess I'll have to tell you the story of them then... Man, all this explaining is getting tiring…" – Kane sighed
Well the first chapter! Four pages on Word... Man I should type more. XD Please enjoy! At the beggining of each chapter I will take a qoute from a song/movie/character/ or myself that pertains to the chapter so.. yeah.
This time the qoute is from the song Enter by the band Within Temptation.
The Nightmare Before Christmas and all of its characters and worlds belongs to Time Burton.
Kane Nageki (and the new trees in the forest) belong to me.
Please check out the original artwork of Kane by me on DeviantArt. The link is on my page. Enjoy / Review.