He ran as fast as he could away from it all. Away from the people,
away from the fame, away from Halloween. He ran and ran, but no matter how fast he went, everything seemed to stay still.
That is, until he reached THE forest.
He remembered this forest from five years ago, when he had tried to
run from his problems. That's how this whole fiasco started. Because he wasn't happy being himself. He was tired of being
Jack, the Pumpkin King. He just wanted to be Jack Skellington. That's all. And for a few short days, he got that. But, he
still wasn't Jack Skellington, he was Jack "Sandy Claws" Skellington. And it still wasn't what he was looking for, until he
had to go and rescue the REAL Sandy Claws from the terrible Oogie Boogie Man.
That's where he FINALLY felt like the Jack he was looking for so much.
And all because of Sally. She risked her life for him, JACK. Not the Pumpkin King or Sandy Claws or any of that stuff that
people associated him with. But Jack Skellington.
But now he was running again. Not because he didn't know who he was,
but because he knew too much. And it scared him. A lot.
He made it passed the forest, and to a cliff. There stood a young
girl. He recognized her, but somehow couldn't, for the life of him, figure out who she was. She couldn't be Sally, for Sally
was taller than this girl. She had to be at LEAST 15 years old.
But what was more puzzling was the fact that he had no idea why ANYONE
would be this far out away from Halloween Town. He had his reasons, yes. He wanted escape. Could she want the same thing?
He quietly approached her, as though not to frighten her. He finally
made it to her side and was about to ask her what she was doing so far from her home when he heard a terrible, maniacal laughter
from behind them. He searched frantically for the origin of the laughing, but could make neither heads nor tales of the direction.
He left the side of the girl who still had yet to acknowledge his being there, when all of a sudden, she fell off the cliff
and into the jagged waters below. He held out an arm to stop her from falling, but felt something holding him back.
The laughter returned. He turned to yell at whoever stopped him from
saving the young girl, when his breath hitched, and his voice was lost. Holding him, and laughing, was none other than Oogie
Boogie.
"She's mine now, Jack! You can't save her. I was the one that brought
her here. And now I'm gonna be the one to take her!" he laughed. Then suddenly, he pushed Jack over the edge, with no one
around to help him, and no one but himself to blame for being there.
"I'VE GOT ONE, I'LL GET THE OTHER TWO! THERE'S NO ONE WHO CAN STOP
ME!! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
