I am sorry for the bad grammar. I just wanted to update this, and didn't go over it how I should have.

If things couldn't get worse, on the walk home it started to rain. No one said a word.

What was there to really say? It was all over. All hope was gone. As of tomorrow at noon, Jack the pumpkin king was history. It was enabled.

Once they got home, Jack scooped up all three of the trick or treaters and walked upstairs.

Genitally he plopped them on Barrels bed and wrapped his long arms around them, giving them a hug.

Sally came stepping in, putting her hands on Jacks shoulders.

"We've ruined everything haven't we Jack?" Barrel said sadly.

"No," Jack said, pulling them into another hug. "Now the three of you just get some sleep okay. And don't worry about a thing." He said, before pulling them away from the hug.

"What about the election tomorrow?" Barrel sighed.

"Whatever happens, happens. And all of us are going to figure it out."

"Everything just happened so fast," Lock said, remembering what had happened, trying to wrap his mind around it. "We were setup."

"We know." Sally said, giving Lock a kiss on the forehead, and doing the same for Shock and Barrel.

"Get some sleep you three." She said softly.

With that Jack and Sally tucked the three of them into bed, and just before closing the door, zero came in to the room to sleep at the foot of the bed with the children.

For a brief second both Jack and Sally smiled before closing the door.

The couple walked quietly to the living room.

Jack sunk in his chair, putting his head in his hands. "Everything is a mess."

"Oh Jack, there has to be a way to fix this." Sally said.

The master of fright got up and just sighed. "Hope, I guess." He sighed, "Good night my dear," He said , sadly walking up the stairs.

Sally sat down. Thinking for a couple minutes, before picking up the phone, and dialing.

"Hi," Sally whispered, "Listen,me and Jack need your help..."

The votes were in. To no ones surprise Jack had lost. The hammer was about to come down, and Corpse dad was just about to be elected the new Pumpkin king, when the town hall door wiped open.

Everyone in the rooms mouths dropped at who was standing in the doorway.

The boogie boys, and the other kids in halloween town seemed to be the only ones confused on who they were.

A tall man, the same height of Jack but stronger build, and a Jack-o-lantern for a head, with a red glow coming out of him pumpkin head, making him much more terrifying then Jack. Which no one believed could be possible, but was.

And a woman, she looked almost perfectly human, and was as pretty as a picture.. Young, blonde, green eyes. Though due to her many years, she had the pale skin, and spooky eyes that everyone knew belonged to halloween town. She worn black and red, and a trail of smoke, signify she had some supernatural ability.

Lock didn't say it out loud, but thought for sure if you put her in some dumb christmas clothes she could almost be a hybe of christmas and halloween town. But he'd save that thought for a less important day.

Jack like the rest of the adults in the room recognized them right away. The man was famously know for being "The Slaughter Slasher. Aka, the first and original pumpkin king to Halloween town, or also know for his actual name, "Linus."

The woman was know for being, "The Shadow of the terrors." Being the original Pumpkin Queen, Earning the equal title before actually marrying the pumpkin king. Beatrice was her real name.

Jack hadn't called them either of those names though, not since he was about Locks age. To Jack they meant a much higher status to him then just being king and queen, but for being the two people who raised him, and Oogie Boogie when they were only small.

"My what a surprise," The Mayor stuttered, "If it isn't," He guplted, "The Slaughter Slasher, and The Shadow of Terrors."

"Having a party?" Linus asked. The red glow, came out of his pumpkin head, and a red ghost began drifting around the room. While The Slaughter Slasher walked up to the front of town hall.

The red ghost came over and looked at all three of the trick or treaters. It's face was just like the ex pumpkin kings. And the trio sat stupidly, too afraid to even scream at the horrifying sight. They never in their lives seen anything in all of halloween town that could be in both body form, and ghost form. And never at the exact same time!

A shadow appeared just behind the mayor, a silhouette of what looked just like a woman holding balloons.

Lock, Shock, and Barrel watched in amazement as the Shadow of Terrors dispeared in a pixal like way, and the pixals repeared over to where the shadow had formed. The pixals quickly became Beatrice reapearing in 3D form, coming out of the wall, and now holding balloons.

"I love parties." She said in a sing song voice, giving a grin.

"My, what a-a pleasant surprize!" The mayor said with a gulp.

"You all weren't in the middle of something?" Linus asked, showing off his pointed teeth, and sharp long claws, and turning to the audience.

Everyone fearfully shook their heads.

"Great!" The Shadow of the Terror's said, "Because we brought you all a little slide show! Just for fun! Ghosts!" She snapped her long fingers, like she was still queen, and the ghosts quickly set up for her. "Lights, Mayor." She said pleasantly.

The Mayor spoke up,"Well actually we were in the middle-"

"She said lights!" Linus growled.

Right away the Mayor scrambled to flicker the lights off.

The boogie boys were quiet impressed. What was Jack talking about manners for? These people could get things moving in a matter of seconds and no one blinks an eye. That's real power!

Everyone looked at the big screen, illustrating a black and white photo of Halloween towns fountain blown to bits, water squirting in every direction, and a kid that looked strangely familiar.

Linus spoke first, "Maybe some of you remember this Halloween, it was over a thousand years ago, but this photo right here is a picture of a very young Dr. Finkelstein, after he destroyed Halloween towns water fountain just one week before Halloween. And as all of you should know, THIS spot is where we have always finished our Halloween celebrations."

The Doctor sunk in his chair, with his checks now on fire. Remembering that day in his childhood when his experiment went horribly, horribly, horribly wrong. "Hehe," He laughed awkwardly while everyone was staring at him, "Those were the days."

"He used to be young?" Shock whispered to her friends in astonishment.

"This was what the fountain looked like on the day of Halloween," Linus said, flickering to the next slide, which showed the fountain looking just as it does now.

If it wasn't for the dates in the corner of the photos, Jack wouldn't have believed him. That seemed like mission impossible to repair that in that short of time.

"And here," Beatrice said, flipping the slide, "Is a photo of your wonderful town witches, after they put a spell on the pumpkin patch, causing flesh eating pumpkins to come rummaging through our lovely town," She smiled cheerfully, "Remember that ladies?" she said, calling all of them out, "Because I certainly will never forget the disaster that you all all caused to our town, especially the spice market." She said, still smiling.

The photo looked worse then how she described it. The town was WRECKED.

The witches all sunk in their seats, remembering that day a little more then clearly then they had wanted to.

"And they threatened to whip me for knocking over some potions," Barrel murmured.

"And here," Linus said, "Is a photo of your Mayor when he was just a small child after he put shreds of garlic in the vampires blood punch," He glared at the Mayor, "Do you know what third degree burns feel like on the insides Mr Mayor? Because the vampires certainty do."

The Mayor just sheepishly sunk in his seat like the witches. To be honest, he still felt bad about that prank.

Beatrice smiled wickedly at Jack before flipping to her next slide. The master of fright started to shift uncomfortably in his seat.

"And here, ladies and gentlemen, is a photograph of a very young Oogie Boogie which i'm sure all of you are familiar with, and his partner in crime, yours truly, Jack Skellington."

The Trick or Treaters whipped their head around to look at Jack, even Sally stared at him in shock. Jack, and the Boogie man used to be FRIENDS?

"It was a long time ago," Jack murmured.

The trick or treaters turned their eyes back to the picture on the screen. Both Oogie Boogie, and Jack looked so weird as kids. It was hard to ever imagine them being little like the three of them.

"The WORST set of kids this town ever saw in my two thousands years," Linus growled.

"Here's a photo of one Halloween when Oogie, and your pumpkin king thought it would be a funny joke to put grease on all the stairs in Halloween town." She said grinning at Jack.

"Breaking everyone legs just 5 hours before Halloween was going to start!" Linus snarled, glaring at Jack.

Lock could have sworn he saw the master of fright flinch.

"Do any of you know how to fix broken legs in 5 hours?" Beatrice said cheerfully, "Because now we do."

They switch the screen from seeing almost everyone in town with a broken leg, sitting in town hall like it was a hospital. And then switched it to the screen showing Halloween 5 hours later. It clearly worked out somehow, because it looked like a normal Halloween night.

The screen switch again to a picture of what looked like something that was once shoes, completely destroyed.

"Or what about the year..." Linus spoke, but then turned his attention to Beatrice, "Did you really have to add this slide?"

"Yes!" She argued back, "This was the year Jack destroyed my shoes with aid!"

"Nobody cares about your stupid shoes!" Linus yelled.

"I do!" She turned back to the audience, "Yours truly over there, spilled aid all over my shoes the day of Halloween, when it was my year to do the grand finale!"

"Yes," Linus said, clearly annoyed, "How tragic, the original plan that year was Jack and Oogie were going to go throw aid in humans faces while trick or treating, but we caught them from an apparently more tragic storey where Jack spilled aid on her shoes while he was trying to leave for the human world! Oh the horror!"

"They were one of a kind!" She argued back. "Irreplaceable!

Everyone in town who was an adult remembered that Halloween. Jack especially. He always as a kid remembered the shadow of the terrors being the much more nicer one of the two, never getting really mad or upset about anything. Until that Halloween. It was true, him and Oogie were about to leave for the human world to go trick or treating, while also having aid in their pillow cases to throw in humans faces as a prank (thank heavens they were caught) but the reason they got caught was when they were just about to leave through the portal, and Jack simply bumped into someone else, dropping his pillow case, and causing one of many bottles of aid to come flying out of his bag and one busting opened right on the Shadow of Terrors feet, destroying only her shoes.

She flipped. Yelling at Jack how they were one of a kind and couldn't be replaced, and how Jack completely ruined her entire outfit because it was the shoes that brought it all together. Then storming off in a fit how Halloween was now cancelled because she wasn't going to do the grand finale dressed like a fashion disaster and how she refused to change because her makeup and hair all matched the whole outfit, and it would be impossible to get ready in time. When the previous year it was her that fixed everyone's broken limbs, and kept being level headed hours before Halloween.

Jack took the blame for almost ruining Halloween that year, but really everyone in Halloween town would agree it was her being a total diva about the whole time that almost ruined it. No one also ever talks about how it was also Jack who later suggested when they were running out time that everyone wears a costume so they all look silly and badly dressed so the Shadow of the Terrors wouldn't feel so insecure about it. She agreed to it, but she wasn't happy about it. She also allowed Jack and Oogie to go trick or treating, never really being punished for almost throwing aid in peoples faces, but it did get the point across and they never tried to use aid again. Plus it was what started the whole tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween.

She never got mad like that again, but she was and still is pretty bitter about what happened to her shoes.

Slaughter Slasher just rolled his eyes and switched the slide.

This one was by far the worst picture of the slide show. Everyone's mouth dropped opened from the horror.

"Aw yes," The Slaughter Slasher said, "My personal favourite. The year, 20 minutes before Halloween Oogie and Jack thought it would be super funny to dump gasoline in town hall and light it on fire, destroying all of our Halloween plans that were were just about to grab! Along with all our props! And the entire town hall! They always seemed to have a talent for trying to screw up Halloween on the day of HALLOWEEN!" He glared at Jack again, "And we all know it was on purpose because The Shadow of Terrors things were all neatly outside while the rest of town hall was BURNING DOWN!"

"Sucks when people destroy the things that are important to you huh?" Beatrice mumbled sarcastically.

"Because everything we worked so hard to plan for 365 days being destroyed, and having to replace in 20 minutes is comparable to a pair of shoes!"

"Well maybe if everyone had my back the previous year it wouldn't have happened to all of you." She snorted.

That was another Halloween that stuck out in everyone's minds. Jack being a kid at the time justified his actions at the time because the previous day the Slaughter Slasher banned Oogie and Jack from going trick or treating that Halloween because they were using their sling shots to hit people with explosive rocks they stole from the doctor. It didn't seem fair to either one of them, so they decided if they couldn't have Halloween, no one else could so they burned everything. They weren't totally irrational though, remembering the drama fest from the year before making sure not to destroy Beatrice's stuff.

That Halloween actually turned out to be one of the best Halloweens in history in the end. They completely winged it, made everything from scratch last minute, which was a huge hit for poorer humans because they were able to participate into the festivities more then usual.

Everything was almost perfect, other then the fact that the Slaughter Slasher spanked both Oogie and Jack in front of the entire town with his belt.

But after Halloween got going, and Oogie and Jack tried to cool down the burning of their behinds, The Shadow of the Terrors thanked them for trying to teach a lesson to the rest of the town for how she felt the previous year (which wasn't their intention, but they went with it anyways) And she convinced Linus to allow them to go trick or treating anyways.

"They destroyed town hall," Shock said, completely stunned by what she was seeing.

"Yep! Completely ruined!" The Shadow of the Terrors said happily, "But on the bright side it was a good opportunity to rebuild, and get newer, and nicer equipment for the next years of Halloween!"

"I do like this building much better," Linus said honestly.

"Okay! One more slide!" Beatrice said with a smile.

She switched the slide to a much more resent photograph. One with Lock, Shock, and Barrel, destroying town hall just a couple weeks ago. "I love this picture," She said, "It's so adorable!"

The Slaughter Slashed nodded in agreement.

Normally Lock, Shock, and Barrel would have protested about being called cute but they weren't stupid enough to go against two people how could make Jack Skellington flinch.

"This is apparently the most resent thing to have your town all upset," Beatrice said, pointing to the screen.

"Newsflash people!" Linus barked, "Trick or treaters have been trying to ruin our Holiday since the beginning of time!"

"If they didn't pull pranks, and try to ruin everything we never would have came up with new traditions for our Holiday." Beatrice said softly.

"You're all grown ups! It's your job to clean up the messes they made! Like the two of us did for all you for hundreds upon hundreds of years!" Linus yelled.

"And believe me, we have photos and documents of every single one of you doing at least one thing to terrorize our town." Beatrice added.

"If you want another pumpkin king then fine!" Linus barked again, "But don't just vote someone out as pumpkin king just because you've all decided to act like a bunch of babies and not take care of the kids you're all supposed to be responsible for! Suck it up! It's only Spring, you all have lots of time to figure this out! You've all become spoiled with how easy Halloween has become to plan!"

Beatrice pointed at Lock, Shock, and Barrel, "If it wasn't for kids like them, you'd all still be soaping windows on halloween instead of getting candy."

"Punish them, or whatever! You can't just run them out of town!" Linus scowled. "Be adults! Grow up and act like it! Or end up like this!"

The Shadow or Terrors snapped her fingers once, and like before a figure formed. What formed though was much more shocking then anyone expected.

It was a pretty little heart shaped chair, with the wrists of Oogie Boogie tired to it in lacy pink ribbon. His mouth had a heart taped over it, and his green body was covered in kiss marks. He was struggling of course, and the boogie boys could see that wild, crazy look in his eyes that he was about to go nuts.

The trick or treaters were in pure terror. They thought he was dead! Everyone did.

Accept Jack. Jack knew after he, "killed" him his spirit would get sent to Linus and Beatrice.

"It's okay children," Beatrice said softly, looking at the boogie boys. "I stuffed him full of fluff and summoned him to valentines day land, where he's learning how to act like a real grown up," She said, pinching Oogie's check while he continued to struggle.

Seeing her do that WAS the bravest thing the boogie boys have ever seen.

She then pealed the sticker off his mouth, "Something you'd like to say darling?" She said sweetly to the boogie man.

He turned, looked at her, then the Slaughter Slasher. Looking almost terriflied with them as well.

"I hate my life!" He yelped, "I've had nothing to eat but CHOCOLATE HEARTS! NO POKER! AND PEOPLE KISSING ME ALL DAY! I'll do anything for my old life back!" He said, and like a little baby the boogie man busted into tears, bawling in front of everyone.

"Now, now," Darling, the Shadow of the terror's said, "Maybe in the next couple hundred to a thousand years we can talk about you returning to Halloween town."

"When you learn how to treat children properly," The Slaughter Slasher added. "And pay for what you have done."

"Lock, Shock, Barrel!" Oogie cried, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" He wailed hysterically before the Shadow of the Terrors put the sticker back over his mouth.

All the trick or treaters looked at one another. Did the two random people really just out boogie the Boogie man? They actually made him cry! And apologies to them in front of the entire town like a big baby!

All three of them used to think the best thing that could have happened was him being dead, but seeing him now was far more satisfying, and gave each one of them a bit more closure on everything that they never realized how desperately they needed. Oogie was being punished, and paying for the mistreatment of all three of them.

"Have fun back in Valentines day land, I'll see you later," She said giving him a kiss on the check, and snapping her fingers, making Oogie disappear.

"And if we hear tell of any of you mistreating children, you'll end up in the same position!" The Slaughter Slasher growled.

"Which includes destroying their home, and leaving them homeless," The Shadow of the Terrors added.

"And if we find out of anyone doing that, that matter will be taken up by us, not the town conceal." Linus said sharply, eyeing Corpse Dad.

"Anyways," Beatrice said, walking over to Jack, licking her finger and wiping a small red speck off his check while also fixing his bow tie, "We best be on our way back to the Valley of Death," She said, giving the pumpkin king a kiss on the check, "Nice seeing you dear."

Lock's mouth dropped opened. Jack just let some women kiss him right in front of Sally! Unbelievable to treat her like that! Lock always knew she could do better. Just a thought, but the young Devil would never treat the rag doll in such a way.

Barrels mind was thinking the complete opposite. Jealous that the pumpkin king just got kissed by such a beautiful women. Seriously, there wasn't enough blondes in Halloween town!

With a black flash Slaughter Slasher and the Shadow of the Terrors were gone.

Everyone in the room sat stunned.

The mayor cleared his throat, "Maybe we all should have a town meeting now."

Both corpse dad and Jack nodded in agreement.

I'm so sorry for promising to update sooner. I know it's been a year... Honestly my life has been so crazy since I started this story. When I started this ( maybe 5 years ago) I was taking a visual arts college course. After school waiting for a friend to pick me up I'd write this.

Since then, I graduated from a second visual arts program 2 years ago. May of 2020 I met the love of my life, and me and him have been so happy together (despite covid) and I actually just graduated a couple days ago from my fashion and design college program! So life for me has been wild. And I cannot promise when my next update will be. But I love all my readers, and i've read every review. So thank you guys for inspiring me 3.