Jack returned around noon for some lunch and promised to meet Oogie back in the graveyard.
When he arrived, his father was standing in the hall, leaning up against the far wall, a pocket watch in hand. He looked up when Jack shut the door.
"Hello my boy!" he said, sounding over excited.
"Umm...Hi" Jack said, a little put off.
"So, how'd the games go?"
"They went great!" Jack said, now also getting over excited.
"Oogie and I played Hide and Go Shriek, we played tag and we even sang and danced together!"
His father gave him a displeasing look. "You
danced?"
Jack suddenly felt hollow inside. "Umm...yeah..."
His father didn't speak and just stared at Jack with the piercing look of disappointment Jack hated.
"Tell me..." he said, breaking the silence between them. "What is your friends second name?"
"Boogie, I think." Jack said quietly.
Rexus's eyes narrowed. "Jack...let me tell you something..." he said, walking over to a large chair in the corner.
"Once upon a time there were three friends. Ozmando, Funerelly and Rexus"
Jack listened carefully.
"They did everything together, they played together as children, walked with eachother when they were older and Rexus and Oogie began to play poker when they were old enough to..."
"But" Jack interrupted. "I thought poker was banned!"
"It wasn't back then." Rexus continued. "One day, Rexus was checking plans for Halloween when he saw Funerelly's name on the list for a dance that she was going to perform later that night.
"Now, Rexus had developed strong feelings for her, of love, as had Ozmando, but neither of them knew."
Funerelly was listening from the kitchen and put down the spoon she was using to stir the lunch she was making.
"Then, when the dance happened, Ozmando found out and was outraged. He left the room in a flurry of anger and retribution."
"That means revenge, right?" Jack said.
"Yes..." Rexus said, a little annoyed by Jack's constant interruptions.
"So Rexus and Ozmando fought. Ozmando won and kidnapped Funerelly, but Rexus did not give up and won the woman he loved. For kidnapping Funerelly and assaulting the King, Ozmando was placed under house arrest..."
Jack's eyes widened then changed to the shape of rectangles. "But, he never did anything wrong! He wanted the woman he loved...he wanted mother..."
"Didn't do anything wrong?!" Rexus boomed, getting up from his seat. "He did
everything wrong!"
"Rexus!" called the voice of Funerelly from the kitchen doorframe. "That's enough..."
Rexus looked at her for a moment, then back at Jack's sad face and he stormed out, leaving Jack confused and on edge.
Oogie returned home around the same time and, like Jack, his father was waiting for him.
"Where have you been?" he groweled.
"With Jack...I mean! The Kid..." Oogie said, correcting himself quickly to avoid being found out.
Ozmando huffed. "Did you kill him?"
"No" Oogie breathed.
"WHY NOT?!" Ozmando bellowed, his bug breath showering Oogie.
"These things take time, you can't just assassinate someone without being close to them, can you?"
Ozmando thought for a moment, while that was true, he was still incredibly impatient.
"Give me a few more days to finally lure the kid here and then you can have your god forsaken revenge, okay?"
Oogie slumped next to the turn table in the middle.
"Okay..." Ozmando breathed, just as a shout came from outside.
Rexus wandered across the misty plains of the graveyard until he came to the gate outside Ozmando's house.
"OZMANDO!" he shouted. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR PLAN IS BUT YOU WILL NEVER HAVE MY SON, DO YOU HEAR ME? I WILL DEFEND HIM UNTIL THE DAY I LIVE!"
"It appears we have a guest, Oogie. Prove yourself to me, challenge him."
"Challenge him?" Oogie gasped.
"OZMANDO!" Rexus screamed from above.
"Just do it" Ozmando hissed.
Oogie couldn't argue so he made his way out of the pit and back up into the open.
"OZ-" began Rexus, but he was interrupted by Oogie.
"Can I help you?!" Oogie shouted from behind the house.
"Ozmando?"
"No, I'm Oogie."
"Oogie Boogie?"
"Yes, why are you calling my father?"
Rexus's eyes widened. "You're father?"
"Yeah, he's my father, who are you?"
"I'm Rexus, Jack Skellington's father"
"My mate, Jack?"
"Yes..."
"Okay, you're the king, aren't ya?"
"I am indeed"
"Sorry,
your majesty"
Rexus's eyes narrowed, he had the wit of his father, that was for sure.
"Tell your father I visited, won't you?" Rexus breathed.
"Sure, whatever."
Rexus took one more look at Oogie and began to walk away, but he stopped and turned around again.
"Oh, and Oogie"
"Yeah?"
"Tell him I know his plan and he'll never take him"
"Right"
Rexus half smiled and walked away again.
Jack walked out of the house a few minutes later after eating his favourite meal of Dead Fish and Pumpkin Fritters.
His father was sitting on the fountain edge, playing with a flame ball in his hand, he retracted it when he heard Jack's footsteps.
"I'm sorry" was the first thing he said to him.
"What for?" Jack asked, forgetting what his father had done before.
"For shouting at you. I am a terrible father to you, I could never deserve a son like you..."
Jack sat next to him and hugged him. "Don't ever say that! You are the best father ever, and you know it!"
Rexus smiled weakly. "Thank you" he said, ruffling Jack's invisible hair.
"Well, how about you and I play for a while, eh? Father son time?"
Jack thought about it for a moment. Oogie would be waiting for him, but he loved the thought of playing with his father for once.
"Sure" he said with a smile.
Oogie waited in the graveyard until it got dark and he returned back to the lair.
Ozmando welcomed him with his signature smirk.
"Well, was he there?" he asked.
"No..." Oogie said sadly.
"Well you'd better get 'im tomorrow or so help me..." Ozmando breathed evilly.
"I will get 'im. He just wasn't there for once." Oogie said, feeling terribly hurt inside but showing no signs at all of this.
Ozmando huffed and walked into the shadows.
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Hi!
Video's done. But, I'm gonna upload it when this fanfiction is done because there are some spoilers in the storyline >:3
Hope you liked it and be sure to check out:
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