One week later
James woke up the one early morning to find himself covered in bandages. His fight with Oogie had resulted in two broken ribs, a broken leg, and a uh...how do you explain it if something sharp had pierced straight through his arm..? (I'll just call it a broken arm, since it had fractured his collar bone…Agh; I'm not a doctor Dx)
"You can see him now, Jack!!" The doctor's voice rang through the tower. A few minutes later, Jack had come running up the stairs, followed closely by Sally, a moving and talking ragdoll.
"James, oh my goodness, are you alright?" Jack asked upon reaching the bed.
"I'm fine, Jack, really." James replied as he tried to sit up, but failing (obviously, his ribs haven't healed yet. Poor James
). He winced and fell back onto the bed. Sighing, Jack looked at James doubtfully.
"You sure?" He asked jokingly.
"No. I was just kidding." James muttered. Sally lightly tapped Jack's shoulder.
"Hmm? Oh yeah! James, this is Sally. Sally, this is James, my son."
"Son?" Sally asked, interested. James and Jack nodded in unison.
"Oogie pushed him into the Holiday door, Sally." Jack said, acknowledging her unanswered question. James looked at Jack, giving him a "who-is-she-supposed-to-be" look. He looked back at James, mouthing the words, "Your Mother." James's eyes widened.
"Mother...how, Jack?" James asked.
"I married her. Simple as that, isn't it?"
"So we're going to have a few half-breeds in our family, huh?" James muttered under his breath.
"Alright, alright, leave him alone, you two. The boy needs his rest. He deserves it after all. He saved Halloween Town." The doctor came back from his experiments. Jack and Sally looked at James and mouthed, "We'll See You Tomorrow." James merely nodded.
The next day
Once James woke up, he unwrapped the bandages around his chest. His ribs were healed, but his arm and leg were still broken. As the days passed by he learned to get used to the food served here, although he didn't enjoy as much. He limped down the stairs to find a bowl of snake and spider stew waiting for him on the counter. Just like last time, James thought.
"Ah, James, you're up." Doctor Finkelstein's second ragdoll, Sarah, said with an icy cold glare. Sarah took Sally's place soon after Jack had proposed to Sally. James just couldn't get along with her though. She reminded him of Jenna.
James returned the glare. "Yes, yes I am up. Is there something wrong?" His glare changed to a fake doubtful look.
Sarah kept her glare on. "No, nothing's wrong." James ignored her attitude and turned to the doctor.
"Where are my parents, Doc?" He asked, with a more polite tone.
"They should be coming; they're going to introduce you."
"Introduce me to what?"
"You'll see." Just then, Jack and Sally came in.
"Ah, Sally. ~" Sarah acknowledged the ragdoll's presence with a sassy voice.
"Hello, Sarah." Sally said, ignoring her tone. Jack turned to the doctor. “You will be coming, right?” He asked the doctor doubtfully.
“Yes, I will be coming, Jack.” Jack nodded and looked at James. “Ready?” James looked at him; he didn’t know what Jack was talking about. However, he nodded and limped towards them.
The three walked into the town hall, followed by Igor, Sarah, and Dr. Finkelstein (If you don’t know who Igor is by now, why would I waste my time telling you?), to find all of the denizens were waiting politely in their seats. They all greeted Jack with bows, (you know what I mean) waves, and nods. Jack, Sally, and James proceeded to the stage.
(Author’s note: Ugh, I ALWAYS wanted to skip speeches including Jack D=, anyways, just for your comfort, I’ll skip only the beginning.)
Jack walked to the podium. But when he spoke, he was dead serious (ha-ha get it?).
(Speech [If you guys don’t want to listen to this, use CRTL + F and type in (End Speech))
“Yesterday, we were all victims of a terror that haunts us all. Its name; Oogie Boogie. On that day, we know now he attempted to take over Halloween Town, almost doing so by nearly killing (motions to James to go over to the podium) this boy, who is devastatingly, my son. (Gasps) Oogie Boogie was defeated, you all know, but by who?”
-James faces the podium- “I did.” (More gasps)
“As in tradition, the Pumpkin King’s son is the heir to the Pumpkin King title. Therefore, I present to you your Pumpkin Prince, James Skellington!” (Cheers and etc.)
(End Speech)
Ugh, I’m so sorry if this chapter is shorter than the rest! And the speech UNREASONABLY short. It was on MSWord, so it looks long o.o” to me. I will make a next one :3 Don’t worry<3 Preview on the next one:
Fourteen year old James Skellington looked at his bloodied right hand and asked himself again, "Why me?"
Yeah, yeah, short preview, I just couldn't get the italics going for some reason O.O".
Well uh, I hope you liked this story and I hope that the sequel to this one will be good as well ^-^
