Jacob9594: Yeah, I like writing his reactions.
MAJORMATT1234: That'll be for next year I'm afraid.
Jss2141: Fair enough.
Lighting Lord Kaji: Glad you like it. I don't think I'll do it...not really sure.
GhostFang GF: I thought it was okay, it's just I don't think I'd really do something Undertale related any time soon.
Gamelover41592: Thanks and I don't know.
Tonytaker: Glad that was your favourite moment.
Greer123: It was something.
SGArkosfan: Because cliffhangers are fun to torment people with. Glad you enjoyed it so far. Happy holidays to you too.
NuclearPenStrokes: Sorry, not anytime soon.
HAIL KING DELIRIOUS: I will try.
Colossus Bridger: I might do that.
Dragon Bone Z: Yes there is and merry Christmas to you to.
DragonflyGaming: Thanks for that.
Blackwingww: I will build up to that.
Mikazuki Augus1: You're in luck, because it will be ready by the end of the week.
Guest: I did think of that but I don't know if I have enough time.
Fyr RedNight: Thank you for liking it and no to Skyrim.
Obsidian Prime: I didn't even notice the reference.
Dcsonic 10: Glad you liked it so much. I will try to get to those.
Writer2018: While I appreciate it, Dcsonic10 was only trying to suggest something. He's not bad.
Arkadian97: Sounds like you've been drinking too much eggnog mate.
Kstagr01: I intend to do that one.
"So we will be continuing on with Jaune Skellington." View said as he held the orb for that world again.
"Ah good, I was hoping to see more of it." Weiss said.
"I do as well." Penny said in agreement. "I am very curious what my counterpart is going to do"
"I'm more interested in what Jaune's going to do now he knows about Christmas." Ruby said, a little worried.
"Geez, Ruby, you make it sound like he's gonna steal it or something" Sun said.
"No, that's then other one" View said.
"What?" Blake asked.
"Nothing" View said. "Anyway, here's the next part of this world" View said as he threw the orb in.
"So long as there's no more songs." Qrow said.
"Prepare to be greatly disappointed" View said, causing Qrow to grumble, much to the amusement of his family and colleagues as the screen turned on and everyone watched the screen.
A few hours later Jaune could be found in his room on the top floor of his tower like building connected to his home. He was in his bed, wearing tan pyjamas and a long nightcap, his back to the roar fire reading a book. A large pile was next to his bed next to read.
"Man, he's really searching about this whole Christmas thing" Tai said as he was a little surprised to see the amount of books he was reading.
"Hmm, I remember doing the same when I first came online" Penny thought to herself as to avoid any drama from her fellow watchers.
After a minute be close the book and pick up the next one. He then closes that on and tosses it aside. The next book was not much help either as he close that one annoyed. All the books seemed to be some way or another about Christmas.
"Why is he reading books about Christmas?" Nora asked. "It's a lot more fun doing Christmas stuff then reading about it in some book."
"Well, he's never really seen Christmas before, Nora." Pyrrha reminded her teammate. "This is an entirely new concept for him to learn."]
"Jaune has always done this whenever he learned something new when we were kids." Saphron said fondly. "Just read whatever has more info on it.
"That does sound familiar." Pyrrha said, remembering when she tutored Jaune on different fighting styles.
After closing the next book Jaune looked around the house he stay at when he in Halloween town. Holly with bulbs streamed around the room resting in mouth of monster roaring or on top of hooks and bookcases. He had a string of light on in the shape of a spider web on one of his walls.
"It's...creative, I'll give him that" Ozpin said.
"I think they're neat!" Nora smiled.
The same crud Christmas tree from the town meeting was next to his bed with Zwei sleeping in his doggie bed a candy cane in his mouth.
"Aw! That's cute" Ruby cooed.
"I think so too." Weiss said in agreement, smiling at the ghost dog.
"I don't" Blake said.
"Now Blake, we did we say about serotypes?" Kali teasingly frowned at her daughter.
"It's not my fault that I can't stand drooling mutts!" Blake remarked.
Jaune signed thinking of a way to get Halloween town to except Christmas as he saw it. "There's got to be a logical way to explain this Christmas thing."
"I don't really think there is any way to explain it" Ruby said.
"Yeah, it's more like...well, like something you have to experience." Yang said.
"Wise words, kids." Qrow complimented.
Then Jaune got an idea, he grabbed another book from his self, opened it and began to read. It was a dark green book with the words 'THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD' in bright white letters and a lightning bolt turned on its side underneath.
"Hmm, I particularly remember Bart doing the same thing" Ozpin said.
"Yeah, also about Peter's spectacular tales of adventure" Qrow said as he already felt tired for just thinking about them.
The next morning at Merlot's lab the doctor could be found outside of Penny's room. She was sitting on her bed looking dishearten as the doctor scorned her holding an ice bag to his head. "You poison me for the last time you wretched girl." Before he slammed her steel door and dropped the steel bar that locked her door.
"Well, that sucks" Sun said.
"Yeah." Coco said in agreement.
"Mean old coot" Ruby muttered under her breath.
"It was a good try nonetheless, Penny" Winter complimented.
"Thank you, Specialist Schnee" Penny smiled.
Then the sound of a bells gonging as someone rang his doorbell, "Oh my head," complained the doctor still feeling the hangover effect of the large amount of deadly nightshade Penny used.
"Serves him right." Ruby muttered.
He wheeled to the ramp like stairs and shouted, "The door is open!"
To his surprise Jaune came through the door a leather bag in his hand. "Hello?" he called out.
"Jaune Skellington," cried the doctor, causing Penny to hear him through her door, "Up here my boy."
"Hmm, what does Mr Arc need from Merlot?" Ozpin pondered.
"Maybe he needs a second mind to talk about Christmas with" Ghira suggested.
"I doubt he'd be sane enough to provide an answer." Glynda said.
"Doctor," cried out Jaune seeing the doctor on the top of the stairs. "I need to borrow some equipment."
"Is that so? Whatever for?" the doctor asked as Jaune climbed the ramp toward him.
"I'm conducting a series of experiments." Said Jaune as he reaches the top.
"Experiments?" Tai said with confusion.
"What would he need to experiment on?" Kali asked.
"Nothing good I'd imagine." Illa said.
"Oh, how perfectly marvellous. Curiosity killed the cat you know." Said the doctor happy as he rolled to Jaune.
Blake looked over to her partner who had a teasing grin on her face.
"Don't even, Yang." Blake warned.
"I didn't say anything." Yang said, throwing her hands up.
"I know," Jaune responded.
"He knows" Ruby whispered to Weiss who just rolled her eyes at her partner.
"Come on into the lab and we will get you all fixed up." Dr. Merlot said as he started ahead. Jaune follow him pass Penny's door, who was leaning against it listening to what they were saying.
"Hmm, experiments?" she wondered aloud as Jaune entered the lab.
"It looks like my counterpart is curious" Penny observed.
Sometime later Zwei woke up from his nap to hear his master calling him, "Zwei, I'm home."
Jaune climbed the last of his spiralling staircase and entered his room. He heaved the leather bag onto a table open it and started to remove the equipment he borrow from Dr. Merlot. There were beakers, a case of vials, a magnifying glass and a microscope were some of the items he borrowed.
"What is he going to do with those?" Sun asked.
"Use them to figure out what Christmas is, I guess?" Yang guessed.
"This seems like he's taking things a bit too literally" Winter stated.
"That's an understatement" Qrow said.
Jaune started with the microscope, he uses a pair of tweezers and pulled a single berry from a thing of mistletoe. He places the berry on a small glass plate and placed it under the microscope. He looked through the end and twists the node and zoomed in. but he then zoom too close and squashed the berry and broke the glass plate.
"Man, he must really berry upset!" Yang punned with a massive grin.
"God damn it yang" Weiss groaned.
He then connected some jumper cables to the end of a large battery and the other end to a metal jar, heating some liquid inside of it. Jaune dropped a candy cane with a pair of tongs into the liquid. After a few seconds and some red smoke coming out he pulled the candy cane out. It was now soft and flabby. It stripe colouring was also gone. Jaune looked in disappointment at the drooping cane.
"Ew" Ruby cringed.
"Aw," Nora pouted. "Now it's ruined."
"Too sweet for my tastes." Ironwood said.
Jaune the tried something else. He sat at his desk and folding a large piece of paper into a small triangle. Looking at the open book on a stand in front of him, it had a large designed snowflake on it. Jaune then took some scissors and started to snip at random. When he was done he put the scissors done and opens the paper happily but it turned too shocked and confused as instead of a snowflake like he intended, he made a detail spider in an outline of an outer web.
"How...is that possible?" Weiss asked, very confused on how that happened.
"I...think he did it wrong." Ren suggested as he himself didn't know how that quite happen.
"It's amazing how he pulled that off." Tai commented.
"It's impressive, I'll give him that." Ilia muttered.
Jaune then had a teddy bear on a small slanted table and use a scalpel to cut a vertical line down it belly, revealing it stuffing. He then uses a pair of tongs to pick some of the stuffing and looked at it under the magnifying glass.
"I think he's overlooking this a little too much." Qrow remarked.
"That's obvious" Tai said.
"Well, he's trying to learn everything about it." Glynda said. "He hasn't even seen most of these in his world"
Later he took a bulb from his tree and crushed it in his bony hand sending the powdered remains into a large open beaker of bubbling liquid over a flaming burner. After a few second the liquid glowed bright green that light up the whole room. "Interesting reaction," Jaune said as he looked at the light in aw before he frowned in anger, his hand on his head and asked "but what does it mean?"
"It means he can make green glowy stuff by crushing a bulb" Nora recounted.
"Yes, Nora, we saw that." Weiss rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"I wish I could do that." Ruby said.
"Why?" Blake asked her leader.
"Because it would look a lot better!" Ruby exclaimed as if it were obvious.
A little walks away in Penny's room you could see glow of green light from Jaune's top window. Penny was pouring a liquid into a funnel some she got all of it into a glass bottle. After she was done with that she turned toward the door worry that the doctor would hear her. When she thought it was safe she place the jar she was pouring down she took a single spoon full of a powder from another jar into the funnel. When she was sure all of it was in the bottle she removed the funnel and places a cork of the opening before popping it in.
"What is your counterpart doing?" Winter pondered as she leaned in in interest.
"I do not know, Specialist Schnee." Penny answered.
"Maybe it's another attempt to poison Merlot" Velvet suggested.
"I doubt it would work this time" Blake said.
Penny then took the bottle and place it in a wither basket filled with other goodies near her sewing machine. Using tread from her machine she as a line she open her window and lower the basket slowly to the ground.
"Oh, she's going to visit Jaune!" Ruby said in realisation.
"I just hope she doesn't get caught" Pyrrha said.
She look at the basket below before staring at the tower that held Jaune, the green light still shine here and there, with a sad frown. Making up her mind she smiles, took a deep breath and jumped out the window.
The town band, who was watching below, winced as she hit the ground. Penny looked to be in bad shape. Both her legs were removed from her body, leaf sticking out and one of her arms was off, the hand barely attracted by a tread.
"No! Penny!" Ruby cried out.
"Oh dear..." Penny simply said.
"I would have more of a reaction to that!" Yang exclaimed, shocked at how Penny was so calm right now.
After a few second she open her eyes blinked and use her good arm to push herself up slightly. She looked up at the open window before she turned and grabbed her left arm.
"Oh, I forget she could do that." Nora said.
"I imagine it would still hurt!" Weiss said.
"It doesn't look like it." Ren said.
"It doesn't even looks like it bothers her." Ozpin said in curiosity.
Penny then pulled a needle out of her hair and a stool of tread from her pocket. She started to sew her arm back onto her body using her teeth to pull it tight. Once her arm and hand was down she fixed her legs, good as new and broke the tread before she place the needle back into her hair. She then stood up and started to Jaune's house.
"Wow, you got all your parts on without a problem" Ruby said in an amazed tone.
Penny smiled at the red reaper. "Thank you, friend Ruby!" The robot girl smiled.
The band played their song to encourage and comfort her as she walked, a bit wobbly from her fall, pass them towards Jaune's house.
Back in her room, Dr Merlot opened the door holding a lantern and said, "You can come out now if you promise to behave." Seeing no one or hearing nothing he entered looking around, "Penny?" he asked softly. "Penny?" before he spotted the open window and growled out in anger, "Gone again!" before he smashed the lantern he was holding.
"It's kinda your own fault dude." Sun said.
"Yeah, maybe if you were less of a dick, maybe she wouldn't have done that." Yang grinned.
Back in Jaune's room Jaune was writing on a large black board. He was making equations to try and make Christmas understandable. Unfortunately what he had down made no sense to anyone. He had the words; sugar plum vision and egg nog, circled that had an arrow pointing to a larger equation. It started out as a picture of a snowman times (chestnuts/open fire) divided by a picture of a bell square root of Dec 25th with a 12 over it plus Sandy and a picture of a lobster claw equals Christmas.
"Wow, Jaune is really overthinking this." Ruby said in amazement over the amount of writing on the board.
"That's an understatement" Yang said.
"I don't even think my Jaune could write of all that down" Saphron said in surprise.
"It's almost something that Professor Oobleck would write down." Blake said.
"And somehow that would never stop" Coco said.
Jaune was adding this last bit before placing a question mark at the end. Jaune looked it over as well as the other equations some crossed out as he rubbed his head. He let out an hmm before he heard something knocking at window. He turned to see a basket pulled up from a rope. He opens the window and look to see who was sending this to him. He saw Penny at the end of the rope, he smile and waved before pulling the basket in and removing it from it hook of the rope.
"It looks like me and Jaune Arc appear to know each other already" Penny said.
"It looks that way, Penny" Ironwood said.
Placing it down, he removed the cloth covering it to show as green glass bottle as well as some other goodies. He took out the bottle and removed the cork. To his amazement pale green smoke came out before it shaped into a moth, slowly flapping it wings before it dissolved.
"Woah..." Ruby said in awe.
"Now that is pretty impressive." Yang complimented.
"Indeed." Weiss said in agreement.
"I wonder what other thing it could make." Pyrrha pondered.
Smiling for the first time in a while he looked out the window to thank her but was shock to see that she was gone. He looked down and around trying to see her but she was nowhere to be found. After one last look Jaune closed the window wondering where she went to.
"Why did she leave?" Velvet asked.
"Looks like someone is too shy?" Kali teased, causing shocked looks from Pyrrha, Velvet and Yang while Penny had a very little shocked look.
"Kali please..." Ghira groaned at his wife's childishness.
Penny quickly shut the gate and hid by Jaune front wall as he looked back out his window. She hoped he liked her gift as he seemed to be working so hard. She then sat down by the wall and notice her favourite flower, a forget me not, was growing by her. She picked one off and started to pick off some of the peddles, thinking. But before she even pick her third peddle the flower changed.
"Woah..." Ruby breathed in amazement.
"Cool!" Nora said.
She gasped knowing she was having a vision. She got them from time to time. The flower lost it peddles and small branched grew before it looked it looked just like the tree Jaune showed the town at the meeting. It spun in her hands as she gazed at its beauty. Before the eyes the tree stopped spinning and caught fire. It quickly burned into a dark husked as Penny looked in horror.
"Well...that does not bode well." Ozpin said. If that fire meant anything, then things wouldn't turn out well for Jaune.
"But...But what does it mean?" Ruby asked, worried about what the tree fire meant.
"It means that Jaune is gonna find himself into trouble if he continues this on" Blake said to her leader.
The next morning as the sun began to rise and light faded into Halloween town. As the light came pass Jaune's house a rooster made of bones crowed. The four vampires stood outside in front of the wall around Jaune's house in the last bit of darkness before the sun got higher. They were concerned about Jaune and they voice this in a small tune that woke Penny up, who was sleeping near his front gate.
"Something's up with Jaune
Something's up with Jaune
Don't know if we're ever going to get him back"
"Another song?" Qrow raised a brow.
"Are you gonna be grouchy every time there's one?" Tai asked.
"I'm just not a fan of musicals is all" Qrow said.
By then the sun was higher and the vampire left to head back into their home, using their cloaks to keep the sun off of them. The other citizens of Halloween town gather around the gate all worried.
"He's all alone up there
Locked away inside" The werewolf sang and went away
"Never says a word" A mother zombie sang as she walked with her son.
"Hope he hasn't died" The Kid monster sang.
"I thought he was already dead." Nora said. "Y'know, because he could remove his head so easily."
"You make a very valid point, Nora." Weiss complimented.
"Aw, thanks Weissy!" Nora cheerfully said and Weiss rolled her eyes at the name.
"Something's up with Jaune
Something's up with Jaune"
Penny looked around the gate to the tower where you could see Jaune pacing about his room. His mind was full with Christmas as he, unknowingly, continue to song to get his mind flowing and come with a solution.
"He's still trying to figure it out" Terra said with a concerned look.
"Yeah." Saphron simply said, growing worried for her brother in this.
"Christmas time is buzzing in my skull
Will it let me be? I cannot tell"
He walked over to his desk which had a house of cards made from large Christmas cards. He picked up two more chard and added them as he sang,
"There are so many things I cannot grasp"
"When I think I've got it, and then at last"
"Through my bony fingers it does slip"
The house of cards then collapse and a very annoyed Jaune swiped them away as he sang,
Weiss noticed a glare from Ruby when they saw the house of cards, confusing her for some reason.
"Like a snowflake in a fiery grip"
He rolled away from his desk and looked around the room as he sang the next verse.
"Something's here I'm not quite getting
Though I try, I keep forgetting"
"Like a memory long since past
"Here in an instant, gone in a flash
What does it mean?
What does it mean?"
On another desk were three jar filled with some liquid that held a yo-yo a fire engine and a gingerbread man.
"Man, he's treating this like this is a full on mystery that needs cracking" Sun said.
"Well, this is new to him" Blake pointed out.
"In these little bric-a-brac
A secret's waiting to be cracked"
"These dolls and toys confuse me so
Confound it all, I love it though"
He pushed the jar with the gingerbread man closer to the other before moving to the front of the desk.
"Simple objects, nothing more
But something's hidden through a door
Though I do not have the key
He picked on a doll and held it closer to his face. He looked annoyed as not knowing the answer he wanted began to shake the doll as he went on,
"Man, there's being obsessed and then there's being a nutcase" Qrow remarked.
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby moaned.
"What!?" Qrow said, raising his hands up.
"Something's there I cannot see
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
What does it mean?"
"Hmm..."
Jaune toss the doll over his shoulder which landed in Zwei's bed, who woke up and stared at the doll. He looked to his master who was flipping through a book.
"I've read these Christmas books so many times
I know the stories and I know the rhymes"
He close the book and placed on the pile before climbing down the ladder attach to his long book case. When he got to the bottom he sat there spread out as he sang,
"I know the Christmas carols all by heart
My skull's so full, it's tearing me apart"
"He is acting act a bit of a drama queen" Sun said.
"Maybe a little." Ren said. "But he's just wanting to know more."
"Let's just hope it doesn't cost him" Pyrrha said, worried over what she saw about the flower.
"As often as I've read them, something's wrong
So hard to put my bony finger on"
Zwei tried to cheer up his master by bringing his a picture in a frame. It was a drawn picture of Jaune holding a pumpkin his face wearing a scary smile, posing with one foot on a pumpkin. Behind him was a close up full moon with spiral hill in the back ground. Jaune took the picture looking at it as he sang,
"Nice picture" Nora said.
"Or perhaps it's really not as deep
As I've been led to think"
"Am I trying much too hard?"
"Maybe a little" Yang joked.
Then the picture began to change before his eyes. He imaged that he was wearing Santa's outfit, beard and all holding a present, a large happy smile on his face. Then it hit Jaune as the picture changed back.
"Oh dear..." Ozpin said.
"He's not suggesting what I think he's suggesting?" Ironwood asked. "Isn't he?"
"It looks like that's the case, James" Glynda said.
"This is not going to end well." Ghira said.
"For anyone" Tai added.
"Of course! I've been too close to see
The answer's right in front of me "
"Right in front of me"
Jaune climbed up the ladder before sliding over as he sang.
"It's simple really, very clear
Like music drifting in the air "
"Invisible, but everywhere
Just because I cannot see it
Doesn't mean I can't believe it"
He got down and grabbed the tree in his room. And started to twirl with it around the room.
"Well, he knows what he wants to do now." Ruby said in an optimistic tone.
"I don't think it'll end well for him, Ruby." Blake said.
"You know, I think this Christmas thing
It's not as tricky as it seems"
Jaune then grabbed the string of lights at the bottom of the tree and pulled. The tree spun around fast losing the lights and bulbs flying off. They hit the floor breaking and scaring Zwei.
"Aw...poor doggie" Nora pouted.
"Ergh..." Blake quietly gagged.
"And why should they have all the fun?
It should belong to anyone"
"That's...true for the most part. But not in this case." Ren said.
Jaune gathers up the light in one hand before sliding on the floor to his electric chair.
"Not anyone, in fact, but me "
"Why, I could make a Christmas tree
And there's no reason I can find
I couldn't handle Christmas time"
Jaune swung the string of lights around the chair wrapping them around it all the way to the dome top. As he sang the last verse he threw the switch causing the light to light up before overloading and breaking and sparking. All with a scary smile of his face.
"Oh boy." Saphron said in great worry, along with her wife and son who had slightly scared faces at Jaune's face at that moment.
"I bet I could improve it too"
"And that's exactly what I'll do"
"Hee, hee, hee!" Jaune cackled.
He went to the window and threw it open before he called out,
Eureka! I've got it
He looked down at the gathering crowd at his front gate and cried to them, "This year Christmas will be…ours!"
He screamed this last part and the crowd, minus Penny all cheered and screamed.
"Well. This is certainly a predicament." Qrow remarked.
"You're telling me" Tai said.
"But, Santa is already on Christmas" Ruby pointed out. "What's Jaune going to do?"
"I guess we are going to find out the outcome, friend Ruby" Penny answered.
Everyone in Halloween town was now lining up to go into the town hall where Jaune was to give each of them a special job to help make Christmas. "Patient everyone!" cried out the Mayor over his megaphone. "Jaune has a special job for each of you."
"I wonder what he's gonna make them do" Weiss wondered.
"Probably something to make Christmas more like Halloween" Blake suggested.
Penny was waiting in line behind the band thinking tapping her chin with her left hand. Then the Mayor cried out "Doctor Merlot!" This cause Penny to turn and looked back as she heard Doctor Merlot wheeling over. "Your Christmas assignment is ready."
"Oh dear..." Penny said.
"Not that nutcase again..." Yang groaned.
Doctor Merlot wheel by the spot where Penny was, but she hid behind a well of water with an empty cage over it. He sneered while he looked around as he knew Penny was nearby. "Doctor Merlot! To the front of the line!" cried the Mayor again causing the doctor to stop his search and move to the town hall.
"Good thing he didn't find her" Ruby breathed out.
"Indeed." Winter said in agreement.
"It's a good thing she leaned to outmanoeuvre him" Ironwood said.
Inside the vampires were looking at baby doll that was crying, "Maaa!" cheerfully.
The vampires were confused, "What kind of noise is that for a baby to make?" The one that held the doll asked Jaune.
"The kind dulls your eyes all day long" Qrow remarked.
"Ah, your just being grouchy, Uncle Qrow" Yang waved off."
"Really?" Qrow said with a raised brow. "Hands up if anyone had to deal with crying kids for an entire month or so."
Tai, Ghira and Kali then raised their hands up, much to the surprise of their kids.
"It's nothing against you, kitten" Kali said to her daughter. "But when you were young, your scream could wake up the neighbourhood."
"The same could be said for you girls" Tai said. "Yang nearly broke her crib and Ruby would often take too long to settle down"
"Gee thanks, dad" Yang grumbled, as did Blake and Ruby, much to the amusement of their teammates.
"Perhaps it can be improved," suggested Jaune.
"Doubtful" Qrow muttered.
"No problem," the vampires said.
"I knew it!" Jaune cried as they left and Doctor Merlot rolled up the ramp to Jaune. Jaune turned to him "Doctor thank you for coming." He said before he turned and looked through his pile of different Christmas things and pulled out a book. "We need some of these," Jaune then open the book to a page where Santa and his reindeer were silhouette against the night sky. Jaune was pointing at the reindeer.
The doctor let out an 'Hmmm' before he said. "Their contraction should be excitedly simple I think."
"Merlot would often try to recreate on flying Grimm" Ozpin recounted.
"It never did end well for him" Glynda said.
The Mayor looked down from his podium, who was covered in ink as he wrote down who got what job, "Oh how horrible our Christmas will be."
"Noooo," Jaune corrected the Mayor which caused his head to turn to his sad face, "How jolly."
"Oh," muttered the Mayor putting a hand to his cheek unknowingly leaving an inky hand print there. "How jolly our Christmas will be." He said with a lot less enthusiasm.
"Try not get too excited." Tai said.
"Yeah, leave some joy for the rest of us." Qrow jokes.
Then he was hit but several objects like bones and rocks. He growled out in anger and looked around at who did it. When he found them he was shocked, "What are you doing here?" he asked.
Three small children then came into view with slingshots in hand. They were wearing costumes, a witch a devil and a skeleton, with masked to each of their costumes. "Jaune sent for us." Started the one in the devil costume. "Pacifically," added the witch while the skeleton finished pushing the other two aside as he scooted between them, "By name."
"I just met them and I already know that I am gonna hate these little brats" Qrow said.
"What makes you say that?" Kali asked.
"I can just tell" Qrow said.
"Who are those kids?" Ruby asked.
"You'll see." View said.
The devil pulled his mask "Mercury," then off the witch pulled her mask off, "Cinder," and the skeleton followed his friends "And Roman." Roman then took a lick of the orange and black lollipop in his hands.
"How great, these guys" Sun exclaimed as he was not happy to see them, especially Roman after what happened last time.
"Just seeing them as kids is enough to make me really annoyed" Qrow said.
"At least they don't seem too bad." Ruby said optimistically.
"They're still appear to be brats" Weiss said.
"We'll just have to wait and see." Blake said as she and the rest continued to watch.
"Jaune, Jaune," whispered the Mayor with his megaphone, which ruin the affect, "It's Boogie's boys." He was worried not only on who they worked for but how much trouble they cause.
"Boogie?" Nora said, confused.
"He must be someone in this world" Tai suggested.
"We haven't seen this far yet" Ironwood pointed out.
"Maybe he'll be seen soon" Kali said.
Jaune however was not discourage, "Ahhhh," Jaune stated before he went to one knee to look at them at their level, even though he was still taller than them like that. "Halloween's finest trick or theatres. The job I have for you is top secret." He said as they gathered around. "It reacquires craft, cunning, mischief."
"Ahhh I thought you didn't like us Jaune." Cinder said pulling on Roman in a tone that could almost make Jaune believe she was blushing.
"Well, after seeing you in the other viewings, we can understand why." Yang said.
"No one is to know about it. Not a soul." Jaune said these last three words while he pointed to each one of them with each word to get his point across. "Now," Jaune started before he gathered them into a huddled and whispered to them.
That Mayor tried to listen in with his megaphone but no sound came. He shook it before he put his hand inside to see what was blocking it. He cried out as he pulled his hand put and a spider was biting his finger. He slapped the spider to his shirt, which was missing his spider tie, and hit it which became still and his tie once again.
"It's both creepy and impressive at the same time" Ruby said.
"I wish I had something like that." Nora said.
"Why?" Weiss asked.
"Just because." Nora simply said.
Jaune was done whispering and back up from the huddle. "Oh and one more thing." He said as he pulled on Mercury's tail as he tried to run pass. "Leave that no account Oogie Boogie out of this!" he said in anger as he did not want that monster near this.
"It sounds like Mr Arc isn't fond of this "Oogie Boogie" Glynda observed.
"Sounds like they have some history with each other" Ghira said.
"Is he like a bully or something?" Nora asked.
"Something like that?" View said.
"Whatever you say Jaune." Roman said.
"Of course Jaune," Cinder said sweetly.
"Wouldn't dream of it Jaune." Mercury finished as all three of the laughed. What Jaune did not see was that each of them had their hands were behind his back and their fingers were crossed.
"Little shits..." Qrow said.
And with that they left the way all the way to the gate, which opened for them and out of Halloween town. They ran over the hill and to a crooked looking tree with a treehouse on top. The crossed the rope bridge and entered a cage tied to a pulley before they started to sing.
"Oh for..." Qrow was about to say.
"Qrow. It's a musical, get over it." Glynda said as she and the rest of the audience listened.
[Mercury, Cinder & Roman]
Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws
"WHAT!?" Nora and Ruby exclaimed in shock.
"That's what Jaune wanted them to do?" Pyrrha asked, shocked that Jaune would ask that.
[Mercury]
I wanna do it
[Roman]
Let's draw straws
Roman held up three different size bones to use. Cinder then use her mask to slap him before she said
[Cinder]
Jaune said we should work together
[Roman]
Three of a kind
[Mercury]
Birds of a feather
[Cinder]
Now and forever
[Mercury, Cinder & Roman]
Wheeee
La, la, la, la, la
"Man, I hated when kids sing la la's" Tai shivered.
"Me too." Yang said in agreement with her father.
Cinder closed the cage was they were pulled up. They entered a dark room and when the light on top of the cage shined they saw bugs clawing around and shattered when they say them. As the trio got out the started to sing
Kidnap the Sandy Claws, lock him up real tight
Throw away the key and then
Turn off all the lights
"How dare they do that to Santa!" Nora growled as she clenched her fists.
"Nora, you wanted to trap Santa when we were young" Ren reminded.
"Yeah, but my traps were harmless." Nora said.
"Your methods for interrogation hardly wasn't" Ren said.
Roman took a lick of his lollipop before he puts it in a small cage with the front open held up by string. He then hid in the shadows.
"Even has a kid, Roman is a creep" Ruby said.
"No doubt there." Yang said.
"I agree." Weiss said in agreement.
[Cinder]
First, we're going to set some bait
Inside a nasty trap and wait
When he comes a-sniffing we will
Snap the trap and close the gate
A bug crawled inside for the treat but as it did so Cinder came out of hiding and grabbed a hatchet and cut the string catching the bug.
"Is it bad to say that feel sorry for the caged insect?" Penny asked.
"It is not, Penny" Winter said softly to the robot girl. "It's shows that you have more compassion then these people"
[Mercury]
Wait! I've got a better plan
To catch this big red lobster man
Let's pop him in a boiling pot
And when he's done we'll butter him up
"Man, here I thought Mercury was a creep before but in this, he's even more creepy" Yang said.
"Yeah, without a doubt" Sun said in agreement with his fellow blonde.
Mercury was pouring poison into a pot before he was passed the cage and he put it in. when he pulled it out the bug was not a glowing green but still alive.
"Poor little guy" Nora said in a sympathetic tone.
[Mercury, Cinder & Roman]
Kidnap the Sandy Claws
Throw him in a box
Bury him for ninety years
Then see if he talks
"God, these guys are just little psychos" Tai said.
"I tend to agree" Ironwood said.
"As do I" Winter said.
"And here I thought the other versions of them were evil but these guys are just loco" Coco remarked.
Cinder then grabbed the cage and stood before a hole that led to a vent that was shaped like a monster's face. Roman and Mercury were bowing before it as Cinder threw it in.
[Cinder]
Then Mr. Oogie Boogie man
"Wait, so this is also where this Oogie Boogie lives?" Weiss asked.
"It appears so" Blake said as she kept watching.
"I'm wondering what they're doing with that bug." Ren said.
[Mercury & Cinder]
Can take the whole thing over then
He'll be so pleased, I do declare
[Mercury, Cinder & Roman]
That he will cook him rare
Wheeee!
The cage went down a large pipe and down below the house. It entered a dark room and the cage landed on a table. A large shadow gave a dark laugh as he went closer. As his shadow appeared on the table the bug was scared before it was sucked out of the cage with so much force the metal ripped.
"I guess that's him." Ozpin said.
"Wait, I remember him!" Pyrrha called out. "That's the same shadow from the beginning!"
"Hey your right!" Ruby said as a she remembered the first song and he was there.
"Well I can see why he isn't with the others" Velvet said, a little intimidated over the shadow. "He seems like he's intentionally scary."
Mercury carried Roman onto a catapult as he sang,
[Mercury]
I say that we take a cannon
Aim it at his door and then
Knock three times and when he answers
Sandy Claws will be no more
He then pulled the level to get the catapult tense before he launched Roman. He crash right through a door that lead into another room.
"Ha!" Yang laughed at the sight of Roman getting shot into the next room. Even Ruby found it funny as well.
[Cinder]
You're so stupid, think now
If we blow him up into smithereens
We may lose some pieces
[Mercury & Cinder]
And the Jaune will beat us black and green
"I hope he does" Saphron said as her son Adrian was glaring at these bullies for daring to hurt Santa or his uncle.
"Me to" Terra said in support of her wife.
Roman came through the now open down with a cauldron on his head. He fell over upside down with the cauldron in the floor.
"And here I think bowler hat couldn't get ridiculous" Qrow smirked at the sight.
"Ha! Bowler hat" Ruby giggled at the nickname her uncle just gave.
[Mercury, Cinder & Roman]
Kidnap the Sandy Claws
Tie him in a bag
Throw him in the ocean
Then see if he is sad
Mercury and Cinder pulled Roman free by grabbing his arms and pulling. Then they carried him upside down to a bathtub and threw him into the water.
"Well, he's gonna drown" Tai said.
"I doubt they would care for one another" James said." Especially how they treated each other here."
[Mercury & Cinder]
Because Mr. Oogie Boogie id the meanest guy around
If I were on his Boogie list, I'd get out of town
The vent that led to Oogie Boogie made a sound and the ripped up cage flew out of it. The pair then jumped into the bathtub. However the water was gone as Roman drained it and they hit the bottom.
"Ouch" Coco cringed. "But then again these guys are jerks." Coco thought to herself.
[Roman]
He'll be so pleased by our success
Roman turned a knob and the tub reared up like a horse and started to walk.
"Well, that is certainly something" Ozpin hummed as he drank his coffee.
"Man, those little legs are just weird" Tai said.
"This whole world is weird, Tai" Qrow said.
[Mercury]
That he'll reward us too, I bet
[Mercury & Roman]
Perhaps he'll make his special brew
[Mercury, Cinder, & Roman]
Of snake and spider stew
Ummm!
"I highly doubt that would be edible for one's person" Penny said.
"Plus, it's gross" Sun said.
The tub took them into a room with all kind of weapon and dangerous things.
"I'd be really impressed but I know they're gonna use those to do bad things to Santa" Ruby pouted.
We're his little henchmen
And we take our job with pride
We do our best to please him
And stay on his good side
Cinder open a curtain and grabbed a bunch of weapons and carried them to the tub.
[Cinder]
I wish my cohorts weren't so dumb
Roman was now being dragged by his ankle which was trapped in a ball and chain. Mercury was pulling the ball end.
"I can see where she's coming from" Glynda sighed.
[Roman]
I'm not the dumb one
"You kind are." Ruby remarked, making her sister grin and put her arm around her.
[Mercury]
You're no fun
[Cinder]
Shut up!
[Mercury
Make me
Cinder came over with a box which made Mercury drop the ball so he could have a closer look.
"I doubt that box will be intend for anything good" Ren said.
"With all we've seen from then, I agree." Blake said.
[Cinder]
I've got something, listen now
This one is real good, you'll see
We'll send a present to his door
Upon there'll be a note to read
Now, in the box we'll wait and hide
Until his curiosity
[Mercury, Cinder & Roman]
Entices him to look inside
And then we'll have him
One, two, three
Roman tried to look inside but Cinder pulled the box back. Then she showed the box and opened it. Three pair of small red eyes appeared before they jumped out and landed on Roman's head. He did not seem too worry at that three black scary scorpions were now on his head.
"Ergh!" Weiss shivered at the sight of the scorpions just sitting on Roman's head.
"How can he be okay with that!?" Velvet asked as she wasn't exactly fond of Scorpions.
"Considering they all monsters, it pretty much seem minor to them" Coco said.
Kidnap the Sandy Claws, beat him with a stick
Lock him for ninety years, see what makes him tick
The trio started to gather all kind of things they think they needed including a box with a skull and crossbones one it, a bear trap and a large black sack with different orange Halloween symbols. They threw everything into the tub; Roman threw the ball still chain to him and sent him flying into the tub. The tub moved again and went out a draw bridge and walked outside. The tub climbed down the tree house as the trio put their masked on.
Kidnap the Sandy Claws, chop him into bits
Mr. Oogie Boogie is sure to get his kicks
Kidnap the Sandy Claws, see what we will see
Lock him in a cage and then throw away the key
The trio rode the tub into the woods laughing all the way.
"Well, I already don't like this" Weiss said.
"Indeed." Winter said in agreement.
Back in his lair Oogie Boogie was plotting, "Sandy Claws eh?" the tossed a pair of dice. After they rolled to stop a pair of tiny snakes slithered in and out of the holes in the dice.
"And something makes me think that this "Oogie Boogie" does not have good intentions with Mr Arc celebrating Christmas" Ozpin said as the screen turned off.
"I understand that Arc wants to celebrate something new, but he's doing something too risky" Weiss said.
"I just hope my counterpart can do something about it." Penny said.
"And stop those brats and that shadow guy" Qrow added.
"Well...I gotta say." Yang said. "Those guys are sure ghoulish!" Yang punned in the hopes to elevate tension but all it did was cause groans around the theatre, expect for her father.
"God damn it Yang..." Qrow said in an annoyed tone.
Thanks for reading this chapter of Worlds of Arc.
Now you may or may not be able to tell, but this chapter was very different then the last ones. Well, that's because this chapter and all the rest of the Nightmare before Christmas Chapters were provided to me by one Shadowwriter329, helping me speed things up.
Next chapter will be the second and final part of the Christmas Tree of Might. Thanks and see you around!