Takes place ten years after the Christmas incident. Things seemed fine, until a certain jester girl arrives...
Chapter 1
This is Halloween
A Nightmare Before Christmas Story
“WHEE!” The crowd cheered as they finished celebrating another successful Halloween. The town was flooded with lights and noises from the noise makers, and cheers coming around every corner. Jack and Sally Skellington made their way through the crowd and stood by the fountain as they waved at the roaring crowd.
“This, I must say is our most horrible yet!” Jack yelled as he put an arm around Sally. “Thank you everyone!.” Sally smiled at him and wrapped an arm around Jack’s waist. “Indeed it is.” She whispered.
“Oh how many times do I have to say this!” Mayor said as he climbed on top on his hearse. “It was because of YOU that this Halloween was a great success. Without your brilliant leadership, we couldn’t have pulled off what we did back there!” Everyone laughed as the Mayor looked at his watch, switching to his worried face. “Well it’s that time of year again.” He thought to himself as he grabbed his megaphone and switched his face back to normal. “Alright everyone lets head into the Town Hall, we have awards to give out!”
The Town Hall was busy and loud as usual. Everyone was chatting about the events and making bets on who will win which award. Dr. Finklestein, with the help of Jewel, was wheeled over to the front row where Wolfman and the Devil were sitting. Poor Hanging Tree, as usual, had to stand in the very back row with the two witch sisters sitting in front of him. Along side them were the Corpse Family and sitting in front of them was Mr. Hyde and Harlequin and sitting on his lap was little Cindy, Jack and Sally’s four year old daughter. Harlequin was watching her while Jack and Sally went to execute the Halloween Celebration.
“Alright everyone settle down now.” The crowd fell silent as Jack took stage. “Now I know everyone is still excited from this years events, but as the Mayor said, it’s that time of year to hand out awards. So now I’ll leave it to Mayor.”
Everyone applauded as Mayor took stage. “Alright everyone now for our first award.” He took an envelope from Jack and opened it up. “Most blood drained in a single evening.. Like always..” He chuckled “goes to the vampires!” The crowd applauded once more for the vampires as came up and took their trophy. The awards ceremony lasted a good while. Wolfman won award for Loudest Howl in a night, The Witch Sisters won an award for Strongest Spells, and the Undersea Gal won and award for Fastest Swimmer.
“And now the award for pulling the Most Pranks goes to.” He opened up the envelope. “Lock, Shock and Barrel!”
From the middle of the row, three figures got up, one wearing a witch hat, one with hair gelled to horns, and one with a head almost as round as Jack’s. They came up in line and claimed their trophy as the crowd applauded for them.
“I say the prank you pulled on that one rich woman almost gave me a non-existed heart attack, I was laughing so hard.” Jack laughed handing the trophy to one of the trio.
“Why thank you, I almost though we couldn’t do it.” Shock giggled as she took the trophy. “But then again, we aim to please!” Tilting her hat forward. The trio laughed as they got off the stage and exited Town Hall.
“What do you suppose they’re gonna do now.” The Mayor asked nervously to Jack.
“What they do best.” He said as they continued on to with the ceremony.
Lock, Shock and Barrel walked out of the Town Hall and towards their tree house checking out their trophy. They look much different then they did seven years ago. Shock now takes good care of her hair, it’s now past her shoulders, almost to her waist, and smooth and shiny instead of stringy and wild. Her face is more formed, allowing her nose to grow in more fitting, making it look more like a normal one. Her attire was still a lavender dress, but this one was much more tighter and shorter to give her more of a figure, replacing her curved up boots with high heeled-pointed ones, and, well she still wears a big pointed witch hat.
Lock, shall we say, grew to be a handsome young man. With real horns growing in, and his tail much longer and stronger than before. His hair was a little bit longer, but stilled gelled it in horns, even if he had real ones growing. He wears a red dress shirt with a black low V-neck vest, and black trousers with black dress shoes. Also because of all the fangirls he had in town, he started growing a little facial hair.
Barrel is still developing a bit. He’s no longer the chubby little boy, he’s actually quite built, wrestling with Lock all the time toned him up a bit. He wore a grey hoodie with loosely fitted black jeans, and wears shoes, yes, he wears shoes now. He kept his hair short and gelled back, and is always obsessive went it comes to lollipops.
“Do you think we should’ve stayed, we could have one more awards?” Barrel asked as he watched Shock tip the trophy upside down and right side up again.
“Nah, there were only three awards left to give out anyway, we all know who those are going to.” Shock said as she opened the door to the elevator.
“Yeah, ain’t that a surprise.” Lock answered following the other two in to the elevator.
They finally reached home, they put the trophy on the shelf next to the three other ones they won in the past year, then Lock and Barrel ran into the dining room, pulled out a huge bag, and out came mounds of candy onto the table.
“Heaven to my eyes!” Lock said as he took a handful and started munching. Barrel took a seat at the other end of the table, grabbed a handful and went at it, moaning in delight. Lock gave Barrel an evil grin. “Bet I can eat more than you can!.” Lock dared at Barrel. “Oh yeah we’ll see about that.” They started eating the candy faster and faster, wrappers flying everywhere on the floor, on the counter, and by Shock’s feet. She stood at the doorway rolling her eyes at the pair. “How long still they start puking it all up again.” She thought to herself. “Well I’m going to bed now, don’t wake me up when ya get sick.” She turned and walked over to her room.
She closed the door lightly and let out a sigh. The event was more exhausting than ususal. Never in a million of years had she and her friends pulled so many pranks in such short time. She went to her drawers and pulled out her MP3 player and started to listen to it. Walking over to the window and opening it to let the cool breeze into the room. She leaned on the window ledge and gazed into the sky while listening to her favorite song. Then she looked down over at Spiral Hill and noticed something odd. It looked like a slim figure with an odd shaped head was standing on the hill. “Huh?” She tried to make the figure out, but couldn’t, she didn’t recognized anyone in the town with that shape.
“LOCK! BARREL! COME HERE REAL QUICK!” Both boys looked at each other with wide eyes then to the direction of Shock’s voice, quickly swallowed their half-chewed candy and both dashed over to Shocks room. “What’s going on?” Barrel asked.
“Look,” She signaled them to come over to the window “Can you make that out?” She pointed over towards Spiral hill.
“Mmm could be a new resident.” Lock stared out. “Let’s go over and give em a ‘welcome present’.” He grinned as he headed out to the elevator.
“Good idea.” Both agreed as they followed Lock to the elevator. “We’ll scare the shit outta whoever it is.” They laughed as they went down.
They rushed out of the elevator and into the gates to the Graveyard. “Last ones a rotten egg!.” Lock said as he started dashing towards the gates to the Spiral Hill. The three ran as fast as they could, down pass the graves and around the big tree and up to the gate.
“Wait a minute!” Barrel yelled, stopping in his tracks. Shock and Lock looked back still running and suddenly ran straight into the gate. “AH! Shit my head! What the fuck was that for!?” Lock yelled as he sat up glaring at Barrel while rubbing his head.
“Yeah!” Shock agreed rubbing her head as well.
“It’s gone, the shadow, it’s gone.” Barrel pointed. They all looked up to see that the shadow had indeed disappeared.
“Must’ve heard us coming.” Lock said as he help Shock up from the ground.
“Oh well, we’ll get it tomorrow, we have to be more sneaky next time.” Shock suggested. “Well lets get back I’m wiped, plus my head hurts.” Both boys nodded and headed back.
Once back at the tree house they all parted off for bed. Shock laid in her bed, thinking of what that shadow could be. “Well it could have been Sally wearing a new outfit....no....maybe it is someone new...but....where did it go...has it always been here?” She thought deeply and as soon as she knew, she drifted off to sleep.
