"Man, I hate when they do this!!" Jess complained, changing into her pumpkin king form. She lit the room with her jack-o-latern glow. Dark creatures surrounded the three heroes. Once the three defeated them, a wailing sound was heard. Someone spoke in the loud speaker.
"Testing...testing...1, 2, 3. Am I on? Greetings pathetic humans of Dark City. This is Dark Kyuubi, your king speaking. I have an announcement to make. First of all, the one you call Jess is never going to save you. She's too busy being scared to death. Barrel, my star pupil, my number one lackey! Succeed and conquer unlike your half-pint, half-witted, and half-alive playmates of yours. If you don't, you can be half sure that I will be very, very ANGRY!" D.Kyuubi laughed, then stopped speaking.
"How dare he call me weak?" Jess punched the air. Then she had an idea.
"We will trick Barrel to death in order to beat D. And I know just the demon for the job!" Jess said happily.
[With Barrel]
Barrel snickered at his plan. He was very happy indeed.
"C'mon skeletons! Now that we finished the job, we can have some fun, then we report to Mr.D!!!" Barrel led his army of colorful skeletons. A purple one, a yellow one, and a red one followed as well.
"Celena, I can hear your jaws chatter." The purple skeleton said to the yellow one.
"Sorry, I just have a scare when it comes to castles." Celena said.
"Let's hope *hiccup* these transformations work..." Taro, the red skeleton sighed. Barrel stopped and looked at the three skeletons.
"Why hello there. I didn't see you standing there..." Barrel blushed when he saw the purple skeleton. If Jess had eyeballs, they would be widened by now.
"You two, go and report to D! I'm going to hang out with my new girlfriend." Barrel growled playfully. Celena and Taro nodded, then winked at Jess. Jess followed Barrel into a pumpkin patch.
"So you are small too, just like me? I know what's it like, being the dumb, little guy." Barrel said sadly. For once in Jess's life, she heard Barrel speak the truth. Jess put her bone arms around Barrel.
"Thank you. It's a good thing that Mr.D let's me keep Mr.Oogie's skeletons or I would had never found you. I got you something to eat." Barrel pointed to all the pumpkins in the patch. Jess had to go along with it.
[a half hour later]
Barrel looked up at the now 10 story high skeleton. Jess gulped down another pumpkin.
"I'm glad you like them. I have one more treat for you, my love. It's snake and spider stew. I added pumpkins in it and look what Lock is putting in the stew." Both looked to see Lock smiling, holding a tied up Deiara. Jess's jaw dropped to the ground.
Please continue?
~Zizi the Boogie Skeleton(Jess)
~Shukaku
