Halloween town and all the other Holiday worlds turn into normal everyday towns! Jack, Sally, Sandy, and all the others loose every ounce of magic inside them and are forced to life as we do? While Oogie Boogie gains all the magic they have lost! Is there any one in any Holiday World that can reverse this crazy spell!? Read to Find out!
"You want us to do what exactly?" Trouble asked uncertainly. Had she just heard her sack-like boss correctly? No, she told herself calmly, there was no way he could be that crazy. She had agreed to become Oogie's new minion only because she was told to. It certainly was not up on the top of her to-do list, she thought pushing a piece of her black and green hair behind her ear. She, Toil, and Double sat before Oogie Boogie listening to his latest ingenious plan wondering when he was going to get to the ingenious part. Oogie smiled menacingly.
"You heard me correctly Trouble." Oogie said with an evil sounding chuckle. "I want you three to use your magic to drain the Holiday Worlds of all of their magic and give it to me." Oogie explained calmly ignoring the stunned looks he was getting from his two female minions. Double, of course, was looking at him with complete indifference. His dark eye sockets illuminated by the glowing blood red orbs that everyone assumed to be his eyes.
"Yes and I want a giant spider but we can't all get what we want." Trouble responded irritably. She looked to her older brother and younger sister for some kind of back up but all Double did was stare straight ahead and the only help she got from Toil was a loud moan.
"I understand." Oogie said with a sigh, but something told Trouble that this wasn't exactly over yet. She stood up to go but her old boss once again managed to bring her back. "If you can't do it then I understand." Oogie said calmly. Trouble stopped where she was.
"Can't do it! What are you talking about Sack Boy! Of course we can do it! We're Double, Toil, and Trouble the best spell casters you'll get you bug filled hands on." Trouble said angrily. Her temper had always been a bit out of control and Oogie, having worked with Lock, Shock, and Barrel knew exactly how to use this minor flaw to his advantage.
"Great then I hope to start seeing results by Monday." Oogie said sounding rather pleased with himself for tricking Trouble into helping him. Trouble stood there for a bit trying to piece together what had just happened.
"Hey wait a second I-" Trouble stuttered as Oogie left feeling quite pleased with himself. "HEY GET BACK HERE I'LL-" She cut off as her brother rose you his feet the blood red orbs in his eyes flashing brighter illuminating his paper colored skin.
"Silence dearest sister, thou art to quick to speak." Double replied calmly his voice as dark as a starless night his pale fangs gleaming in the dim manor light. "This task presented to thee, might be of some mild entertainment." He said with a chuckle. His laugh was cold, the sort that scared children into insomnia and echoed through the minds of the crazed.
"But I don't wanna help Oogie!" Toil whined. "And plus, all that power could overwhelm him. He could explode." Toil continued folding her arms and shaking her head so furiously that her black and red pigtails lashed around like weapons. "I don't wanna! I don't wanna! I don't wanna!" Toil whined. Her older brother simply waited out the tantrum; the cold and deranged smile still plastered on his pale face. When at last she had calmed Double approached the subject again.
"Care you what happens to our Master?" Double asked his voice never changing from the frightening monotone. Toil shook her head. "Then why dost thou object?" Toil opened her mouth to object but fell silent. Once again her older brother had put a stop to her complaints. "Come thus sisters. There is much preparation to be done. "
"Fine I'll get the ingredients. Just don't blame me if this blows up in our faces." Trouble grumbled, sometimes she sincerely hated pretending to be loyal to Oogie Boogie. But every so often, when Oogie had a good idea, the screams of terror from the people around her made up for the times his ideas had backfired, which was more often then not. "A magic draining for all seven holidays is messing with forces Oogie can't even begin to comprehend." she said out loud. "Maybe this will help us with our plan but I don't see how this can-" she looked around both her siblings had left. "I really need to stop talking to myself." she said with a sigh. This was going to be one interesting adventure. But like Double had told her countless times: Every failed mission from our boss brings us closer to our goal.
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"Sally, when our daughter said she wanted a couple of friends over to study I thought she meant only two or three." Jack said as he helped his wife around the kitchen. Sally didn't respond for a bit as she worked on cooking about four different things at once.
"Yes, well in comparison to how many our son brings home almost daily this is only a couple." Sally replied. "Now what was the next ingredient in that cookie recipe? Was it Worm's Wart or Eye of Newt?" Sally asked uncertainly.
"Neither, it was Wing of Bat." Jack replied looking at Sally's recipe book. "Speaking of our son, we've been called in for another meeting with Jake's teachers." Jack said grabbing Wing of Bat from the shelves and handing it to Sally.
"Another one!?" Sally asked angrily. "If it's another meeting about him slacking off I swear I'll ground him till his six hundred." Sally vowed stirring the soup she was also working on so hard she broke the spoon in two. "Not again!" she muttered throwing the two pieces into the trash were a pile of spoon pieces seemed to have gathered. She grabbed a new spoon and stirred a bit more gently. "So which teacher is it? Sadako Yamamura? Hannibal Lector? Emily Rose? Carrie White? Dracula? We know it's not Freddy Kruger- oh! I know it's Lisa isn't it?" Sally asked.
"Actually it's all of them." Jack said with a sigh as he watched Sally scoop the black looking cookie batter onto a tray. Wings and eyes stuck out in every direction in the jiggling lumps. She leaned over realizing she was already using her oven she turned around looking at Jack her dark eyes gleaming. "Oh no!" Jack said shaking his skull furiously. "Last time I did that you promised me it was the last time! I am NOT doing it again!"
"Oh come on this time it really is the last time." Sally promised looking up at her husband hopefully. "And it's an emergency! And I helped you save Sandy!" Jack sighed turning Pumpkin King in burst of orange flame. He used us flamethrower over the cookies changing back the instant he was finished. Sally smiled at him knowing very well how much he hated that. "Thank you Jack." she said sweetly.
"That time really was the last time. I refuse to do it again!" Jack said irritably. "My Pumpkin Fire is a weapon, it is not around for your convenience!" Sally nodded as Jack continued his lecture on the fact that his Pumpkin Fire was not a cooking tool.
"I know, I'm sorry." Sally said taking the time to give her husband a brief apologetic kiss, before taking the newly baked cookies to the group of kids sitting in the other room looking at Chemistry books that lay scattered about the floor. "Cookies! I know you've been studying hard so I thought you might have worked up an appetite." Sally said cheerfully.
"Thank you Mrs. Skellington." replied a ghostly pale boy with no eyes, only black sockets, and sharp vampiric fangs. This boy was the Doctor's latest creation and "son". Nightshade Finkelstien, or Shade as he liked to be called, was the smartest of Hally's friends, and since he was the Doctor's invention it was no surprise that science was his best subject.
"Yeah, thanks. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde assigned up two different chapters to take a test on again." complained Junior, the Mayor's only child. He like his father, had two faces which he alternated between. Right now his happy face was the dominate one, quickly changing to sad at the sight of his books.
"Which one was teaching today when the test was assigned?" Sally asked trying to be helpful. The kids had a difficult time when two teachers happened to share one body and switched constantly throughout the school day and assigned them different things to do. There was a pause as everyone tried to remember which teacher had been the dominate one.
"Dr. Jekyll, then Mr. Hyde, then Dr. Jekyll again, then Mr. Hyde again." Miles said at last. Miles was a young boy who had made quite a name for himself having been in the mortal world long enough to have a book, The Turn of the Screw, written about he and his sister Flora.
"So we can't make the argument that we obeyed the dominate personality." complained Kaitlin flipping from Dr. Jekyll's assigned Chapter to Mr. Hyde's. Kaitlin had caused a bit of a turmoil when she had come to Halloween Town. No one knew how she and the other two mortals managed to get to Halloween Town and become students, and no one really wanted to ask how. Sally had heard it had something to do with Kaitlin's heritage, more specifically her mother, but since the girl never spoke of her family no one had ever managed to figure out how. Sally wasn't too surprised to see the three mortal girls: Kaitlin, Zoë and Page. After all, her daughter and Kaitlin were debate partners and Coach Emily Rose had the two working together after school all the time.
"Well, I suppose the only thing to do is study both chapters." Sally replied. "You never know who will be giving out the test." There was aloud moan and Sally couldn't help but chuckle. "Sorry I can't be of more assistance."
"Trust me, we're even more sorry." Samara Morgan replied. "I just wish for once Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde could just join forces and work together." Samara had also made a name for herself in the mortal world. She and Sadako Yamamura, the language teacher, had started some kind of killer videotape chain before coming to Halloween Town.
"Thanks for the food mom." Sally's daughter, Hally, said quickly. "You can go now." Sally shook her head, her daughter had taken after her only in appearance. She was stitched together but instead of red hair her hair was brown and her eyes were two different colors.
"Ok, ok, I'm leaving." Sally said with a laugh. It had been nice in Halloween Town ever since Lock, Shock, and Barrel quit. Knowing that Oogie no longer had those three to carry out his plans had given the town a since of security. It was a false sense of security, they were soon to learn, but it was a sense of security.
