Jack slowly backed up untill he was aginst the wall. What he saw wasn't anything he'd seen there before. Although, he had only only been there 1 day.
The pumpkin king was tall and dark, with what looked like a huge burn on the side of his face. He also had a long scratch on the side of his face, goin from his left ear, to his chin.
But if you took all that away, he almost looked... well... human. "So, Jack," The pumpkin king said. "I bet you have some questions for me, hmm?" "W-well, uh, if you don't mind me asking, how did you become pumpkin king?"
Tyler paused for a moment, as if trying to recall how he did it. "That is a verry good question, Jack. Well, lets start from the begining shall we?"
He told a long story about his strugle with John bee, the notorius zombie who tried to take over the city by turning all the citizens into zambies as well!
Jack sat and listened to his story, feeling just as entranced in his story as he was in his grandfather's stories about war times. Jack imagined himself fighting an ugly horrid zombie.
After Tyler grew silent, Jack was about to say something, but Tyler's hand silenced him. "Now you are wondering what I am, are you not?" Jack was amazed. That was exactly what he wanted to know.
"I am human Jack, but not the normal kind of human you are used to." Jack was completely confused. " What kind of human are you then?"
"I was a human just like you used to be, but I wanted more in life. One day I was walking in a graveyard, and I sat on a thing that looked like a cellar, and , well, I fell in. At first. the citizens didn't trust me, thinking I was just going to tell all my friends, but I didn't."
"After I saved the town, Dr. Finklelstein gave me a potion. I didn't know what it was, but I wasn't afraid. I drank it, then asked what it would do, and he told me that I now had ever lasting life."
Jack was dumbfounded. That stuff couldn't happen! He was sure of it! "So, how did you-" "Ah, yes, the burn!" Tyler interupted. "While I was doing my final battle with John, he blew fire in my direction, thus brunring my face."
"Oh." Jack said. Just then, there was a knock at the door. "Come in." Tyler said seriously. It was the mayor. "Tyler! Come quickly!" Tyler jumped up quickly, then asked the mayor, "Is it John?" The mayor looked scared. "Worse! Much, much worse!"
"Jack, come with me." Tyler said. Jack did as he was told. As they ran outside, the mayor ducked behind a stone wall and pointed at a giant sack with glowing green eyes, and a booming voice.
"Jack, get down!" Tyler hissed. But he couldn't move. He was frozen with fear. He knew that voice all to well....... OLIVER!
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For all of you Cirque Du Freak fans reading this, Tyler is based on Mr. Crepsley. Oooh cliff hanger time!
What will Jack do? Is that really Oliver Boogie, Jack's former best friend? Will Tyler remain the pumpkin king?
