‘Where’s Jack?’
Chapter 10
It’s me again. Jack.
I guess you’re all wondering where I ended up after falling down the rabbit hole. Well, I didn’t end up in Wonderland, I’ll tell you that much.
I ended up in another tunnel. But this one was more like and underground room.
I looked around me to see if I was alone.
I was not!
There were two little white rabbits, shivering in the corner. (I guess scaring people can have its disadvantages).
“No need to be afraid.” I said. I thought it best if I didn’t approach them. I might scare them even more.
I just sat where I was sitting, waiting for them stop shivering and come to me.
There seemed to be no way out of here but the way I came, or the way I fell. Those little white rabbits seemed to have got in through a smaller holes in the walls that I couldn’t fit through.
But then I heard scratching on the other side of the wall in front of me.
The wall started to crumble.
I then saw two black paws coming through the wall where the crumbling was.
And then, the wall shattered and something rather big came stampeding into the room.
It was a hare. A big, black, mean looking hare.
I felt a little bit like I was in danger.
“Err, hello there.” I said.
The hare stuck its nose out and sniffed at me. Wondering what I was, I guess.
It then stopped to ponder about what it thought of me.
It stared at me, eye to eye. Glaring.
I then looked behind to the hole in the wall it had just made and gave a call that sounded like a cat that had just had it’s tail trod on.
I covered my ears, (if I had any, but it doesn’t mean I can’t hear anything).
I looked down the tunnel where the hare called to.
What I saw was truly amazing.
I saw dozens of little creatures running towards me!
Rabbits, hares, beavers, mice, even chickens!
What kind of a world was I in? I’d never seen anything so bizarre in my life! This world was unpredictable.
It seems that all the little creatures all came to greet me. (I suppose their protector had to make sure I wasn’t dangerous first).
“Err…hello, there.” I said. “My name is Jack. Jack Skellington.”
Even the two shivering white rabbits how saw me earlier came to greet me.
“Thank you.” I said. “Please. It’s nice to meet you too.”
I then suddenly thought of something.
“Err…excuse me, does anyone know who’s in charge here?” I asked.
The little creatures all looked up at me upon hearing that question.
“Who is the leader of your holiday world?”
They all looked at each other. I guessed that they could understand me.
Two mice ran off back through the tunnel that had just been made. I then knew that the black hare wasn’t their leader like I thought.
They disappeared round the corner.
After a few second, they returned. And they returned with someone following them. Actually, someone I had seen once before.
The two mice were followed by a giant pink rabbit wearing a sash with the words ‘Happy Easter’ written upon it.
It was the giant pink bunny that Lock, Shock and Barrel accidentally kidnapped in stead of Sandy Claws. I remember.
No wonder they were a little uncertain of me.
The giant bunny came up to me with a basket in his hand.
“Hello there.” I said. “My name is Jack Skellington.”
I assumed that the rabbit couldn’t speak.
But he understood me. He nodded and smiled.
He then reached into his basket and took out an egg. A green egg with blue stripes.
He then passed it to me.
“I gift?” I said.
The bunny nodded.
I took the Easter egg from him
“Thank you.”
…
Meanwhile, little did I know at the time, Emma was on her way back with Sarmoo and Mathew.
Mathew chose to turn back into a rabbit because the other creatures didn’t know he was really a human boy.
“Mathew say’s that we must hurry. The open field is dangerous these days. That’s why everyone’s underground.” Sarmoo explained.
“So, Mathew thinks that Jack’s been taken to the Easter Bunny?” Emma asked Sarmoo.
“Yes. He was also trying to get you to go there too.” Sarmoo explained.
Mather signed something else to Sarmoo.
“Mathew say’s that you were too cleaver.” Said Sarmoo.
“Thanks, Matt.” Emma said.
They finally got to the burrow that we found earlier.
“Right,” Emma began. “Lead the way, Mathew.”
Mathew leaped in and hopped along the tunnel.
Sarmoo and Emma slowly followed, crawling in the tunnel before they could stand.
Mathew waited for Emma and Sarmoo to catch up before carrying on.
Mathew led them both to the hole in the ground that I fell through.
“Down there?” Emma asked.
Mathew nodded…and then jumped down…
…
Meanwhile, where I was…
“Have you seen any people about in this world?”
The Easter Bunny shook his head.
“Not even children?”
He shook his head again.
But suddenly…
“Ow!” Something fell on my head.
I looked to where it had landed.
“Oh!” It was the little grey bunny from earlier. “I wondered where you went.” I said.
But then…
“Aaarhhh…” “Oof!”
Some-ONE landed on me then.
“Ouch! That’s the last time I use falling as a mode of transport.”
“Emma?”
“Jack!”
“Tallyho…”
We both looked up..
#Crash# (And a lot of oohs and ows)
“Sarmoo!” I cried.
“Hey, would you mind getting of me!” Emma yelled.
Sarmoo crawled off and stood on his own two feet. And then so did Emma. And then me.
“Hi, guys!” I cried.
Emma just stared at the giant pink rabbit.
“Is that the Easter Bunny?” She asked Mathew.
Mathew nodded.
Sarmoo approached the Easter Bunny.
“It is so nice to finally meet you, Easter Bunny.” He said.
The Easter Bunny rummaged in his basket gave Sarmoo an Easter egg.
“Thank you.” He said. “But it’s not Easter.”
The Easter Bunny squeaked and chirped.
“Oh.”
“What did he say?” I asked.
“He said that it’s a welcome present.”
#Squeak, squeak#
Sarmoo continued. “And that we’re all to have one.”
“Well then,” I began. “Shall we be getting back to the surface? It’s getting rather crowded down here. It‘s much better in the open.” I suggested.
The creatures all squeaked and shrieked.
“What’s wrong?” Asked Emma.
The Easter Bunny squeaked again.
“Oh?” Sarmoo listened. “Oh!”
“What? What’s up?”
“The Easter Bunny says that there is a danger up on the surface.” Sarmoo translated as the Easter Bunny talked. “No-one has been on the surface for weeks. Only Mathew the little new one has dared to go and bring us back food and water.”
“But what’s the danger?” I asked. “Maybe we can help.”
“The danger,” Sarmoo began. “The danger is…a wolf!”
The creatures all shrieked.
Emma looked a little shocked.
“A WOLF!” She cried.
“That’s no big deal. We have a wolf-man in Halloween Town.
The creatures all shrieked again.
“I bet that’s what those scratch marks on the tree’s were.” Said Emma.
“Well, are we going to try to SCARE this wolf away.” I leered evilly with my fingers bent like claws upon speaking the word scare.
The creatures shrieked again and some hid behind the black hare and the Easter Bunny.
“Well, I could certainly take care of this.” Said Emma. “I’ll send music howling louder than any wolf dare…err…howl.”
“And no wolf can out scare the master of terror.” I boasted.
Mathew tugged at Sarmoo’s thick green Christmas trousers.
“Yes, Mathew?”
Mather signed to Sarmoo.
“Oh, you would like to come too.”
“No Mathew!” Emma stepped forward.
Mather signed something again.
“Ok, err, Emma. Mathew say’s that he can help.” Said Sarmoo.
“How?”
“I’ll explain on the way if you let him come.”
“Well…”
“I think you’ll like the idea. And it’s a really good one.”
“Alright. But the first sign of trouble, you’re going straight back in the burrow. Do you understand?”
Sarmoo signed what Emma had just said back to Mathew since he couldn’t hear her.
Mathew then nodded.
“Alright then.” I said racing to the tunnel in the wall. “Come on fella’s, let’s go!”
