Snowflake asked "So what are we going to do? We can't see anything."

Jingles sighed "We just have to wait till this, whitish-gray stuff is gone, or else we could bump into anyone."

"Or anything." Snowflake added.

They waited and waited for what seemed like forever. The fog, or whitish-gray stuff, had rolled away just enough to see. They saw that they were at a gate, with crooked bars and winding stones. Inside they could see a werewolf, witches, a cyclops, vampires, a two faced man, monsters of all sorts! Some that Jingles didn't even know about. Then from the din, Jingles could hear footsteps coming. The three hid to the side, and they saw a tall, doll walk out. She had sweet eyes, long, brownish-red hair and walked like she kind of unbalanced.

A walking doll? Jingles began to wondered she might be friendlier than other monsters. She defiantly looks nice anyway.

Then he could hear her say something, she had a soft voice and she looked around with determination in her eyes "Where could Sandy Claws be?"

Sandy Claws Jingles thought, then he gasped she must mean Santa Claus! Without asking Snowflake, Jingles inched out of his hiding place said in a whisper to her "You're trying to find Santa?"

She looked around surprised and then she saw him and said "Who are you?"

Snowflake shook his head and backed away into the wall, but Jingles kept talking "I'm Jingles. I know where Santa is."

"You do?" she asked with interest in her voice.

"Under a bridge," Jingles pointed over to where they came from "with a someone named Mr. Oogie Boogie."

"Oogie Boogie!" she gasped, then she narrowed her eyes "Of course Lock, Shock and Barrel, would take him to Oogie's lair."

"Well come on, follow us!" Jingles began to walk away "We'll take Santa back home."

Sally seemed confused "Us?"

Just then Snowflake walked out of his hiding place with Holly in his hands. Jingles pointed to them "This is my brother, Snowflake and Holly, my sister." He saw that Holly was still passed out in Snowflake's arms "It's ok, she just got a little scared." he said.

"Oh," she replied which made the conversation have an awkward moment of silence. Sally then turned to Jingles "I'll help you get Santa and he can help Jack before he get hurt."

"Who's Jack?" Jingles asked.

"He's supposed to be the king of Halloween." she then sighed sadly "But now he trying to be Sandy Claws."

Trying to be Santa? Jingles thought Jack must be the snowman! Jingles quickly put that thought at the back of his head "Well come on," Jingles said "let's get Santa." Then he started running toward the tree house again.

They followed Jingles, though the doll was faster than Snowflake, looking like a skyscraper compared to him. The old house on the twisted tree came into view as they ran closer.

Once they got there she sat down in front of the bridge and said "Quick, help me take off my hands."

"Your hands?" Jingles seemed a little wearied out.

"Don't worry, it doesn't hurt." he held out her arms and Jingles saw that she was sewed together.

Jingles nodded and began to pull on the strings "I didn't catch your name, what is it?"

She laughed a little "Sally."

"Nice to meet you." Jingles smiled.

Snowflake stood there "What about me? What am I gonna do?"

"Take care of Holly." Jingles answered.

After disassembling Sally, Jingles helped her down the hole. Sally took her un-attched leg and handed it to Jingles. She then pointed her arm down to a door that look like teeth. Jingles nodded and climbed down a rope that Snowflake held at the other end. He took her un-attached leg and crawled down to the teeth door. Once he got down there Sally nodded her head and Jingles stuck her leg through the crack in the door. Jingles then heard Mr. Oogie Boogie walking toward him and Sally threw her hands into the window.

She stuck her head in the window that was poorly closed with bars and said to Santa in a whisper "I'll get you out of here."

Only a few seconds past till Jingles felt the leg being pulled out of his hands and he heard the thundering sound again "What!?" it screamed "You trying to make a dupe out of me!"

Before Jingles's vary eyes he saw Sally get sucked into the window, followed the the screamed of the jolly elf and the rag doll. This Mr. Oogie Boogie was bigger than Jingles thought, way bigger. Jingles looked up and saw Snowflake peaking over the side of the cliff above. He threw the rope over to him and Jingles climbed up.

At the top Jingles whispered to Snowflake "We're gonna need a lot of help. Mr. Oogie Boogie is huge."

Snowflake frowned, but agreed "As strange as it seems, we might need that Jack guy."

Jingles eyes got wide with excitement "The snowman, I-I mean Jack. He's big too, and a king, plus he is the scariest thing I know." he agreed "I mean, what other choice do we have?"

Snowflake then asked "What about Sally?"

Jingles sighed and felt guilty for getting Sally kidnapped, but remembered that Mr. Oogie Boogie was too big for him alone. Even if Snowflake helped him, they would easily crushed by Mr. Oogie Boogie "We need help to get Sally and Santa."

"Where is Jack?" Snowflake questioned.

"I don't know, let's go back to the hill and see if he's there." he was just about to get up when he saw Holly still passed out "We just need to quake Holly up first." Jingles bent down and patted Holly's face "Come one get up." he said. Nothing happened and time was running out. Jingles didn't really want to do it, but he couldn't think of any other way. So he reached for her face and pinched her nose.

Holly's eyes flashed open and she pushed Jingles away angrily "What are you doing?"

"Shh." Jingles hushed Holly. "We need to be quiet."

Holly lowered her voice to a whisper "Why?"

"Just follow me and don't pass out again." Jingled helped her up and the three ran to the hill.

They left the three house behind and ran to the spiral hill. The hill was spooky in itself, yet seemed like it could do no harm, nor good. That it remand neutral. A thing that had no personality, but had an important meaning.

They stopped at the top when Holly asked "Did we save Christmas?"

"No." said Jingles crossed "We're looking for someone to help us."

"Who?" she looked around in vain.

Jingles sighed "Jack, his name is Jack. He looks like a tall and skinny snowman."

Holly looked around "I don't see any snow."

"He's not really a snowman," he sighed "He just looks like one." Jingles was getting tired of his sister's questions.

They looked around in silence and scoured the land before them. For a long time they looked around, waiting for Jack and thinking of places he could be. They waited and waited, then out of the blue Holly started stuttering.

She was pointing her finger to the graveyard "L-l-l-l"

"What is it?" Jingles asked then he looked up and saw a tall, stick figure running away, pursued by a ghostly shadow.

Jingles felt weak and swallowed hard as he ran to meet his nightmare. Snowflake and Holly quickly followed. Jingles didn't think about why he was running or who he was running to, he just ran. If he thought about it, he would freeze and not be able to move. When he began to think, tears ran down his eyes. Deep down inside he didn't want to meet Jack, but he had to. His heart was begging him to stop and go home. Jingles was fighting with himself, it was the hardest thing he ever did. He would rather hang out by the hill, but he couldn't do that ether. So Jingles just kept running and didn't stop. Jingles was paying so much attention to running that he ran into someone.

He opened his eyes and saw a round, white head with dark holes where eyes belonged that said "Who are you?" if voice sounded deep, and similar to the voice that had said 'What's this?' in his dream.

"Ahh!" Jingles hid his face. Emotions began to well up inside of him, he had to ask for help, but he was afraid. Excitement, anger, fear, doubt, surprise, all of this was building up inside him. It was building and building up inside like a balloon of thoughts and emotion ready to burst out in all directions. In one big roar Jingle ripped his arms off of his face and screamed "I NEED YOUR HELP!" Jingles opened his eyes to see Jack rather surprised and the ghostly figure hiding by a tree. Seeing Jack surprised made Jingles have another surge of courage "I know where Santa is!" he exclaimed, then he tried to calm down and lower his voice "And a rag doll named Sally is stuck with him too."

Jack looked interested and asked with an urging tone "Where are they?"

"At a monster's named Mr. Oogie Boogie." Jingles then stood up and dusted the dirt off of him.

Jack frowned and growled, which scared Jingles a little "Oogie!" He then turned away, but looked at Jingles over his shoulder. Jingles could see his body slightly shine in the faint light of the moon and with a serious look on his face, Jack replied "Thanks." the like a skinny black flash, he was gone.

Jingles was astonished over how simple the conversation was once he got over his emotions. He wasn't hurt, he was relieved. Actually, he began to feel a little happy. He just meet his biggest fear, and found out it wasn't that scary after all.

Just then Snowflake and Holly ran up to Jingles, huffing and puffing. Jingles turned to them and snapped back to reality. With a gasp he said "We have to go back to Mr. Oogie Boogie's and get Santa." and then he started running off again.

When he got to the tree house, Jingles turned around to see Holly and Snowflake barely making an effort to run "Could... we... not... run... anymore?" Snowflake then flopped down on the ground exhausted.

"But we can't!" said Jingles "We have to..." then Jingles stopped to hear a strange sound.

"My bugs! My bugs! My bugs! My bugs! My bugs!" at first it sounded like Mr. Oogie Boogie, then sounded like a million tiny things screaming until it died out.

There was a moment of quiet, the type of quiet like after a storm. It was a while before anybody spoke. Holly then broke the silence "What was that?" then above them Santa had flew out of the tree house with magic dust flowing behind. He was alright, and the three were relieved.

Jingles then cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled "Santa! Over here!" He said hoping for a ride home.

Sure enough Santa turned around and picked the three siblings "What are you three doing here?"

"We were trying to rescue you." Jingles answered "We told Jack that you were with Mr. Oggie Boogie." Then Jingles began to think of Sally "Is Sally ok?"

Santa laughed and said "You mean the rag dog? She just fine."

They passed the hill and the odd little town. Over the haunted looking trees and pumpkin patches. As they flew the world turned from blackness of the Halloween world, to the white frost of Christmas. They were back home and Santa flew past some houses and landed in front of his house.

Mother was outside on the porch. She cried as she ran up to the three elves "Where were you three!"

Holly hug Mother tightly. She voice was slightly trembling "Mother it was... um... it was..." Jingles could tell that she couldn't find a word for it.

"Scary." Jingles finished "It's was scary."

"Ya!" she continued "There was this big voice and a tall snowman thing and...!"

Santa then interrupted "I hate to leave so soon, but I have to fix what a certain 'snowman' messed up." Santa then turned around and hurried to the work shop. As he left, elves surrounded him, asking his questions and crying out happily that he was ok.

Mother opened the door and exclaimed "Holly, Snowflake and Jingles are home! They're ok!" Then all of the other sibling ran out of the house to see the three. All saying things like "There you guys are!" and "Where were you!"

Candy was the first to speak directly to the three "When you guys were gone Santa was kidnapped!"

Jingles laughed "I know, we were trying to rescue him."

All of the children gasped, and Candy said "You saved Christmas?"

Jingles just shook his head and let it slip.

From that day on Jingles was able to grow up in Christmas Town and vowed never to tell another lie. When he was an adult, he worked with Jolly at the Christmas tree store. Jolly still kept the name, even with Jingles working there. As an adult Jingles saw the value of knowledge and began to make more books on the other holidays for the citizens of Christmas Town. In order to get information he visited the other holiday towns, and once took a peak at the real world. Doing this he learned more about what had happened that Christmas Eve, and of course he wrote about that too. He got married and had three wonderful children, Noel, December, and Fruitcake. They too grew up to be wonderful parents. One Christmas Eve, all six of Jingles's grandchildren gathered around the fireplace. All happy to hear a story that they have been waiting for. Jingles sat on the couch, held out his notebook and in his gruff, but soothing voice, he began to read:

" 'Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams. For the story you are about to be told, took place in holiday worlds of old. Now, you've probably wondered where holidays come from. If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun..."