Danny nudged Peter, “Wake up!” she hissed.
Peter’s eyes flew open “Huh? Where am I?”
Danny frowned “I’m not sure, Oogie’s lair I think, if what my parents told me is true…”
“Is that a bad thing?” Peter asked.
Danny nodded “Yes.”
Peter closed his eyes, thinking, one moment he’d been stepping out of the Dr.’s lab, the next, he’d been hit over the back of the head. Suddenly a voice pierced the gloom “PISSTTTT!!! HEY! Down here!”
Danny looked down, and saw Oogie, no it was too small to be him…
“Who are you?” Danny called back
“SHH!” the smaller sack placed a finger to it’s mouth, motioning for them to be silent, “My name is Sackkey, I’m here to help.” Sackkey walked towards a lever, and softly pushed it.
Danny felt a jerk as she was slowly lowered to the ground. “Thanks”
Sackkey nodded and did the same with Peter’s lever.
“Thank you.” Peter bowed to Sackkey.
Sackkey nodded “Keep quiet, if my dad hears it won’t just be you whose in trouble.”
Danny raised an eyebrow “Your dad?”
The top of Sackkey’s head glowed “Oogie…”
Peter looked at the top of Sackkey’s head with wonder “How do you do that?”
Sackkey looked confused then looked at the tip of her head, the glow increased as Sackkey tried to hide the
Glowing tip. “Nothing…”
“Is it blushing?” Danny asked.
Sackkey’s glow increased “No…”
Danny smiled “It is isn't it?”
Sackkey’s glow grew very bright “Stop it! Do you want to give us away!?”
Danny frowned “Why are you helping us any way?”
Sackkey’s glow stopped and she looked at Danny “my dad has an addiction to torturing people.” Sackkey sighed “and for some reason people keep killing him…”
Danny and Peter exchanged a look “so, your not helping us to be nice?”
Sackkey raised an eye-brow “Of course not! Who do you think I am?”
Danny looked back at Sackkey “I just thought you’d be different to him.”
Sackkey placed her hands on her hips “I am! I helped you down, didn’t I?”
Peter made frantic motions and tugged on Danny’s sleeve, Sackkey frowned “What's up with you?”
“Ahem!” a voice called out, ringing through the damp chamber.
Sackkey and Danny’s eyes went wide and, as one, turned to face the person who spoke.
Oogie was looking right at Sackkey, frowning, hands on hips “And what, young lady, do you think you’re doing?”
Sackkey spun round to face Danny and tackled her.
Peter rose and eyebrow and looked at Oogie, who was
As confused as him.
“Play the part!” Sackkey whispered to Danny, who understood and pretended to struggle.
Peter just stood still and watched as Danny and Sackkey rolled around on the floor, pretending to be locked in a major fight.
Oogie raised an eyebrow and grabbed Sackkey by the scruff of her neck. “Do you think I’m that thick?”
Sackkey’s dice glowed softly as Sackkey shook her head.
Danny scrambled up and backed away from Oogie, pulling Peter with her.
Oogie glared at Sackkey then threw her across the floor to join Danny and Peter.
Danny cringed as Sackkey hit the wall with a thump.
Oogie walked over to a switch and kicked it, immediately a single large cage fell on top of Danny, Peter and Sackkey, imprisoning them.
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But now, allow us to come back to real time events, where the Poor Dr has just been found, and a town meeting is taking place…
“alright everyone, calm down.” Jack addressed the crowd
“But Jack! What shall we do with out the princess!” Two face asked.
Sally sighed “Jack, why can’t you just go to Oogie’s lair and kill him again?”
“Because, my dear Sally, he will come back again. And again, and again. I plan on finishing this once and for all.” Jack held Sally’s hands, but she turned away.
“Oh Jack, I just don’t know what to do…”
“Neither do I Sally”
Suddenly, there was a small polite cough from over at the back of the hall.
Everyone turned to face the person who had coughed.
She swept back her hair and walked towards Jack, then she bowed, “I’m assuming you rule this town.”
Jack nodded, looking at the woman’s wings “yes, I’m Jack, Jack skeleton, who might you be?”
“My name is Jet.”
At that, people started whispering
“but she’s only a girl!”
“That can’t be her!”
“are all the stories about her really true?”
Jack waves them quiet then turned back to Jet “are you really who you say you are?”
Jet nodded “However, I may be a different Jet, there are plenty of people called that from my planet.”
Jack nodded “well, I’m very pleased to meet you, however, this is not a good time.”
“I know, that’s why I came.”
Jack paused, had he heard her right?
Jet turned to the townspeople “and I have a plan…” She looked at Sally, who nodded and asked “what is it?”
Jet smiled, spread her wings and proclaimed to the towns people, just what she, Jack, Sally and the towns
People would have to do to finally get rid of Oogie one and for all.
Then, when the crowd were talking about it, she crept out
Sally beamed and looked at Jet, then noticed that she had gone. Sally walked out of the town hall, and saw Jet sitting on the fountain, her wings had drooped and she was crying slightly.
Sally walked over to Jet and sat down next to her
“are you alright?”
Jet looked up, startled, then saw it was Sally, she looked back down at her feet “yes, I’m fine…” she lied.
Sally sighed “you can tell me you know.”
Jet looked up at Sally then said, in a low voice
“Oogie and I, we went out for a while…
Sally paused, not knowing what to say, but Jet carried on.
“One night he persuaded me to create a child of cloth and bugs… I spent 3 weeks, finding the material, and sewing it altogether. But, in the end I managed it…”
Sally’s eyes went wide “So, Oogie has a daughter?”
Jet nodded “yes, but he’s not exactly a good
role-model, when I finally worked out why he wanted a child, it was too late. All I’d done was create a heir to his evil family…”
Sally nodded and waved to Jack when she saw him walk out of the town hall.
“Jet! That was fantastic!-” Jack stopped when Sally made a ‘shhing’ gesture, then he noticed something was wrong “Jet, are you ok?”
Jet nodded, got up and walked away.
Sally quickly told Jack that Oogie had a daughter and that Jet and Oogie had briefly dated.
Jack pulled a face when Sally told him about Oogie and Jet, then frowned as he worked out the link, and finally rested on gob-smacked “you mean…?”
Sally “Yes, Oogie has a heir, and we’re going to have to kill it…”
Jack frowned again “no, what I meant was, did they really date?!?!”
Sally sighed and slapped her fore-head “oh Jack…”
Jack shuddered at the thought, then pushed it away, “but, why didn’t Jet tell us?”
Sally sighed “I think she didn’t tell us because she hoped no-one would notice the child… She did create it after all…”
Jack looked at Jet’s distant figure. “what should we do?”
Sally hang her head “I really don’t know Jack… I really don’t know…”
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