“Fine then be that way.” came a voice from above Oogie.
Oogie’s eyes went wide and he looked up, there,
hovering above him, were the witches.
“We’ll do better than banish you this time Oogie!”
Came a voice to his left.
Oogie turned in shock to see the vampire brothers.
“We’ll crush every last bug!”
Said another voice, Oogie turned to the speaker and saw the hanging tree with his hanging men.
“This time, you’re finished!”
Came another voice, this time from the water demon, accompanied by several other monsters.
Oogie’s eyes went wide.
“You will not get away!” Said the corpse child, blocking the exit with him and his family.
“This year, you will not interfere!”
Came a tiny voice, Oogie looked round and saw an army of elves accompanied with a few lepricons.
“You’ve been a very naughty boy…”
Oogie turned to see Santa and the other holiday leaders he’d kidnapped, blocking his last escape route.
Oogie backed towards the middle of the circle,
Surrounded by the large mob. Then he noticed Sackkey, who was somehow still holding onto the edge of the pit.
Oogie grinned and placed a foot on Sackkey’s hand.
Sackkey winced in pain and let go of the edge.
Oogie did the same to the other hand, but kept his foot on, stopping Sackkey falling.
The town’s people gasped, realising what was
happening.
Jack took 3 steps towards Oogie but then Oogie yelled so everyone could hear “Not one step further! Or I let her fall.”
Jack stopped, still too far away to do anything to help.
The witches shook their heads at the town’s people, answering the unasked question “We’re out of magic, we didn’t think we’d need it!”
Oogie leered and looked at Jack.
“Now what, pumpkin king?”
All heads turned to face Jack, who looks at his feet, thinking.
Oogie laughs “It’s simple, isn’t it? Make me kill the child, then you can all rip me apart however you like.”
Jack sees a red glow coming from a corner of the lair he moves his head slightly to look at the source of the light, it’s coming from a pair of Blue dice.
A few people turn to look at the dice, a few more look at what they're looking at and so on, until they’re all looking at the dice.
Oogie frowns “What are you all looking at?!?!?”
Oogie looks at the dice, and Jack lunges forwards and grabs Sackkey’s other hand.
Oogie realises what’s happened and aims a kick at Jack.
Jack ducks the hit and tries to pull Sackkey up,
Suddenly everyone realises what Jack’s done, and rushes to help, over whelmed by people Oogie falls backwards and almost gets crushed by the wave of people.
Sackkey feels over 15 hands grab her and pull her out of the pit and then carefully onto the floor next t the pit, suddenly and all at once, many different voices were asking her all sorts of questions.
“are you ok?”
“why are you here”
“who are you?”
And so on.
Sackkey’s head turned to and fro, not used to so many people, her bugs decided to do something that made absolute sense, Sackkey fainted. Many hands caught her as she fell.
Jack wormed his way out of the crowd, looking for Oogie.
Santa had already seen Oogie, but was unable to get out of the crowd “Jack!” Santa called, then pointed to where Oogie was creeping away.
Jack ran great long legged strides towards Oogie, who ran faster, but with his short legs he stood no chance, seeing this Oogie lunged for a nearby lever and pulled it. A great roar of sound engulfed the lair. A great
sloshing, hissing noise.
Jack stopped running, and looked around, confused.
Oogie grins at Jack and grabs a chain that falls from the ceiling, he tugs on it and it pulls him up onto a high up
Ledge out of reach of everyone.
Oogie laughs “Have fun with your little, ‘bath’ !”
Jack’s eyes go wide as he sees lava start to trickle through the entrances and exits of the lair.
The town’s people gather together in a big group,
edging away from the lava. Jack looks at the crowd,
“Ok everyone, don’t panic! All we need to do is find the right lever to stop the lava.”
The smaller witch pointed to the lever Oogie pulled “What about that one?”
“I’m not sure I should, what if more lava comes?”
Said a demon is a high pitched voice.
Jack looks around, then rembers Sackkey.
“Has anyone seen Sackkey?”
“Who?”
“The little sack-thing! Like a smaller version of Oogie.” Jack walks into the crowd and weaves around.
Most of the town’s people are confused. Then the Easter bunny jumps up and down, pointing to someone by his feet.
Jack sees the easer bunny and walks towards him, at his feet is Sackkey, still fainted.
Jack groans.
“Why do you need her Jack?” asks the second witch.
“Because she’s the only one apart from Oogie who knows what levers do what.” Jack explains, and Shakes Sackkey a bit, trying to wake her up but gets no response.
Each of the hanging men are monitoring a part of the lava flow, they whisper their results to the hanging tree.
The tree nods to the hanging men then says “We have approximately 10 minutes before the lava reaches us.”
Santa’s elves panic, but Santa manages to calm them down.
The lepricons are looking at each other and whispering, thinking. Then they throw piles of gold at the lava, slowing it.
A demon looks at the lepricons “Isn’t that a waste of money?”
“Tis only fool’s gold me lad.” one of the lepricons says.
The demon’s eyes go wide and he looks at the money he took from the lepricons, frowns then throws it into the lava flow too, much to the merriment of the
lepricons.
The hanging tree’s men grins “we have 15 minutes now.”
Jack sighs and stops shaking Sackkey “Anyone know how to wake her up?”
“We could spook her.” Says a bat-like thing.
“ok, how do we spook her?”
“she’s a sack of bugs, how do you scare bugs?”
“bug spray?”
“who has bug spray on them at a time like this?!?”
“I don’t know!”
There was a small cough.
The crowd stop bickering and turn to look at the person who had coughed. Santa stood there, holding a can of bug spray XXX “It was in-case Oogie came back.” Santa explained.
Jack shook his head “I don’t want to hurt her.”
A Lepricon grabs the can from Santa, then runs up to Sackkey “Just a wee bit wouldn’t hurt.”
Jack shook his head and took the can away “I don’t want to risk it.”
An elf reaches up and grabs the can, then says “What if we sprayed it near her, not on her.”
Jack paused “but-”
Jack never got a chance to complain as the elf carefully sprayed the floor next to Sackkey’s head.
Sackkey’s eyes shot open and she backed away from the elf “What are you doing?!?!?”
A Lepricon smiles to the elf, who hands Santa the can back “We just needed to know how what lever we need to pull, we need to pull to shut off the lava, but you can lie there and snooze all you like.”
Sackkey’s eyes go wide and she gets up and peers over everyone’s heads, then she groans and points to a lever, which is separated from them by a pool of lava, far too wide to cross.
“That’s the lever we pull…”
Oogie laughs and everyone looks at him.
Then the Easter bunny stamps his foot.
Everyone looks at him.
The Easter bunny walks up to the edge of the lava, then jumps across to the lever, then pulls at it, it’s stuck.
Sackkey looks at the lever frowning “hey, rabbit-thing. Think you can take me across with you?”
The Easter bunny nods, then hops back to Sackkey, grabs her around the waist and hops back to the lever again.
Oogie frowns.
Sackkey goes on her hands and knees and puts her arm inside the machine and fiddles around.
One of the hanging men whispers to the hanging tree who states “Only 1 minute until the lava reaches us!”.
The crowd of people all turn to each other and shake hands, saying their final goodbyes, each of them trying not to cry.
Sackkey suddenly removes her arm from the lever, covered in grime and oil, and pulls the lever.
Nothing seems to happen, then one of the hanging men yells “The lava’s stopped moving!”
The Easter bunny hops around happily.
Jack grins.
Santa smiles.
The lepricons grin.
The elves leap with joy.
The towns people chatter happily to each other.
Sackkey frowns, then looks up at Oogie. Then, very slowly and deliberately, places her foot on top of a switch, not hard enough to activate it though.
Oogie’s eyes go wide.
“This is for all those years in a dark room…” and she steps onto the switch, activating it.
The ledge holding Oogie collapses, but he holds onto the edge of it and glares at Sackkey.
Jack turns, sees Oogie, then sees Sackkey. “NO!”
Everybody turns to see what Jack’s doing, then realises.
“A child should not see their parent be killed! Yet alone do the killing! That’s worse than what Oogie's done!” Santa exclaims. A few lepricons nod in agreement.
Sackkey looks at them, then at Jack “Maybe I am like him then.” and she moves towards another lever.
The Easter bunny grabs at Sackkey, to try to stop her, but Sackkey ducks the grab and throws him onto the floor in a judo-like style.
Jack looks at the lava, which is retracting at a slow pace.
Sackkey places both hands on the lever, and Oogie frowns, “That’s not one of my levers!”
Sackkey leers up at him, “I know, I created it.”
And Elf grabs Sackkey’s dice and holds them over a splodge of lava, then whistles to Sackkey, who looks at the elf, then her eyes go wide with shock and fear.
Jack looks at the elf, the elf shudders, then puts the dice down safety “I can’t do it…”
A lepricon picks the dice up and holds them over the lava “Move away from the lever, or I drop ya dice!”
The elf looks at the lepricon in awe and shock “You blackmailed her!”
The lepricon shrugs.
Sackkey pauses, looks at Oogie for a second, then moves away from the lever, glaring at the lepricon, utter hate in her eyes.
Jack walks up to the now clear exit to Oogie’s lair,
“Ok guys, the exit’s clear now, I suggest you all leave… In-case anything else happens.”
The were murmurs of agreement, and the people walked out, the only ones staying behind were Jack, the Lepricon holding the dice, Sackkey and Oogie, who is still hanging around.
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I'm sorry it took so long. I'm also sorry if I messed up with any of the charector's personalites. hope you like it anyway...-
