To my readers; Sorry, but Kirby won't be in this chapter, but I PROMISE he (or she) will be in the next chapter. Also, in the preview from the previous chapter, it described Kirby as being gray and having a ghost tail.

Well, for any of you who have played Kirby Squeak Squad and got the ghost medal then you'll recognize the description as Kirby's ghost copy ability.

Because let's face it, it would look pretty weird if Jack was walking around with a pink puff ball. Anyways, you know what I own and what I don't, so there.

Chapter 9: The Quest for Money and Memories

"Sally, Jack, Mayor get your butts down here! We've got urgent business to talk about!" Those were the words shouted by Torako that caused Jack to fall out of his bed, Sally to trip down the stairs and the Mayor to nearly choke on his own toothbrush.

It would take about two minutes for the startled trio to re-collect themselves, but Torako could only stand one minute. "I said MOVE!" Torako shouted.

After hearing the anger in Torako's voice, Jack and the Mayor dashed out of the rooms looking a couple of dorks. Jack came out with his coat on over his pajamas and only one shoe on. The Mayor came running out in a pair of light blue boxers with rubber ducky prints on it and his face was smeared with toothpaste.

And about halfway down the stairs the two of them tripped over Sally causing her limbs to fly in every direction.

The poor thing was crushed like a bag pipe. *Wheeze*

"I'm sorry!" Jack cried.

"It's okay!" Sally replied, in a sort of breathless way, making her voice resemble an old lady's. "Besides, I learned a good spell on how to put my limbs back together really fast...But I'm going to need help sitting up first."

"Alright." Jack peered up the Mayor who was half way into a coma and sitting on top of his back. "Mayor, I'm going to get up now."

"W-w-wait! I'm not ready, I'm not-WHOA!" Soon the Mayor flew off of Jack's back and landed on top of Zero, who proceeded to maul him.

However, Jack ignored the girlish shrieks coming from the Mayor and went over to help Sally sit up.

"Thank you, now I'll show you that trick I was talking about."

Once Sally was in an upright position, she pointed her right shoulder towards her disembodied arm. Then she whispered an ancient spell under her breath and suddenly the threads on her arm began to wriggle about, as if they were coming to life. Soon the threads began to wriggle faster and faster and faster until they stretched back to Sally and re-threaded themselves back together.

"That's really neat, Sally!" Jack exclaimed.

"Jack," Torako said, "Can you stop your dog before he minces the Mayor?"

….

After going back into their rooms and making their appearance look more….sane, The Mayor and Jack both went back downstairs for breakfast and sat at the table with Sally, who was wearing an orange summer dress with an unbuttoned purple sweater. Torako was standing in front of the table with a chalkboard that read "Plans for when we get into town" and wearing a blue sweatshirt with a skull on it and a pair of black jeans. Both of these outfits were to deter from the fact that they were witches.

"Okay," Torako said "since we have extra additions to our crew, it's going to be harder to manage our finances. So we need to think up some plans to scheme up money. Any ideas?"

Jack raised his hand and Torako pointed at him with a piece of chalk in her hands. "Yes, the scrawny toothpick sitting in the middle!" She said.

"I'm not scrawny! And why don't we get some part-time jobs-"

"NO! That would take too long. I'm talking about INSTANT CASH!"

Then the Mayor raised his hand.

"Yes, the insecure two-faced Mayor, what's your plan?"

The Mayor straightened his coat and tried to act as suave as possible, acting like he was in a 1950's bad boy movie. Then he licked his hand and slicked back his eyebrows and said, "Let's just say…I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows how to get us some money."

Creeped out by his idea, Jack and Sally scooted their chairs far away from the Mayor.

"…..How the heck did you get elected?" Torako thought. "Anyways, Sally do you got any ideas."

Of course by then, Sally scooted her chair so far back that she was in the other room. "What did you say?" She called.

Torako slapped her forehead and then shouted "Sally you overacting drama queen, It's just the Mayor, he's not gonna hurt you! I mean for crying out loud, he got beaten up by Jack's little puppy!"

Shyly, Sally came back into the room, holding her chair up towards the Mayor like she was some kind of lion tamer. When she felt more secure, she placed her chair next to Jack, and made sure she was on the other side of table from the Mayor.

"I do have a good idea, though." Of course this statement was no surprise to anyone. Amongst the group, Sally seemed the most…together (figuratively of course). "Anyways, we all have good talents, so why don't we try some street performing?"

"Whoa, nice Sally!" Torako exclaimed.

"I liked my idea better…" The Mayor grumbled.

"That would help us find Sally's memories too!" Jack said.

Everyone turned to Jack, having even never thought of using their money scheme to help Sally's memories. However, they weren't sure how street performing would help find someone's memories. Thankfully, Jack read the confused expressions upon everyone's faces and no further questions were needed.

"If people see Sally perform, then maybe one of them will know who she is."

"Nice, Girly-man." Torako snickered.

"For god's sake, stop calling me that!"

For a moment, Torako continued to amuse herself from Jack's incredibly angry face, however, the amusement ended when she saw Jack's several broken bones (of course they all had it, but Jack's was more noticeable). She quickly got up and went to the fridge, where she pulled out numerous gallons of milk and placed them before her cohorts. There were three gallons of milk for everyone.

"Drink it, all of it."

The party exchanged glances, and prepared their stomachs for the possibility of vomiting when they got through the lactose nightmare sitting in a jug before them.

…..

Shakily, the band of four emerged from the ship, shortly after landing in an abandoned ghost town a few miles away from an inhabited town.

Even though the bright lights of the town could easily be seen from their location, it was hard for them to maneuver about. Especially after drinking an amount of milk that was on the borderline of humanly impossible, and the fact that it was very dark that night.

The town ahead of them was very different from Jack's hometown, it was lit up with neon lights and there was color everywhere. It even had what Jack had longed for, that he couldn't find in his hometown: All kinds of different monsters and the streets were filled with them. There were even some monsters Jack had never seen before (the same went for the Mayor; however Torako and Sally had seen similar sights). Each one had a smile on their face.

For a group of rookie street performers, they couldn't ask for more. Of course, there was one little problem: they didn't know what they were going to do for a performance.

"Let's set Jack on fire." Torako suggested.

Jack stared back at her menacingly. "Let's set you on fire."

Sally glanced around at their surroundings until her eyes came upon a children's toy store that sold glow-in-the-dark juggling balls. Quickly, she dashed into the store to purchase the item, unaware that Jack and Torako were doing an experiment on each other and that experiment was; is it possible to ignite without a match? So while Sally was gone, the Mayor was left to watch Torako and Jack skid across the pavement in an attempt to cause sparks under their feet and set the other one on fire.

….

It took much persuasion on Sally's part, but finally the victims of her bribing, pleading, screaming, harming, swearing, puppy-eyes and threats to drink more milk finally caved in.

And now, here they were getting ready to do a juggling act that they had never practiced before. What could go wrong? Well, a lot of things actually, but unless you were Jack, Sally, the Mayor or Torako the worst case scenario would most likely not happen. And if all four of them were together, then the worst case scenario would DEFINITELY happen.