Chapter Six

They went back to Doctor Finklestein's lab as Jack gives him the sack.

"Here are all the ingredients you need, Doctor," Jack said.

"Excellent," Doctor Finklestein said. "Hopefully it should work."

"What are you experimenting on?" Gwen asked.

"Oh, you'll see soon enough, young ones," Jack said. "Which reminds me..."

"Reminds you of what?" Ben asked.

"Didn't you say that you need to get home?" Jack asked.

Shocking looks then came to both Ben and Gwen's face.

"THAT'S RIGHT!!" they shouted.

"Grandpa must be waiting for us for hours!" Ben said.

"We have to get home!" Gwen shrieked.

"Let's talk outside," Jack said. "If you don't mind."

"Not at all," Gwen said.

"It was nice meeting you two," Sally said.

"It was nice meeting you too, uh..." Gwen tries to remember.

"It's Sally," Sally said.

"Beautiful name," Gwen said.

"Thank you, Gwen," Sally said.

"Come along, you two," Jack said.

They then followed Jack outside. They then stopped at the gates of Halloween Town so no one could see them.

"Something wrong, Jack?" Gwen asked.

"You said you two are not from around here," Jack said. "I noticed something the very first moment I laid eyes on you two. Both of you are human...aren't you?"

Both Ben and Gwen gasped. They then looked at each other and then took off their masks.

"You guessed it," Ben said.

"Unbelievable!" Jack shrieked with surprise. "We never get humans here in Halloween Town before!"

"Wait, so you're okay with this?" Gwen asked.

"I am!" Jack said with a thrilled voice. "For quite sometime now, I always dream about meeting humans and how the human world is like."

"Cool!" Ben said. "It was nice to meet you!"

"We better hurry, Jack," Gwen said. "We have to get back to our own home."

"Say no more," Jack said. "I'll take you home. Now tell me, how did you come to my world?"

"There were these doors with different holiday symbols on them," Ben explained.

"Do you happen to go through the one with the pumpkin on it?" Jack asked.

"Guess so," Gwen said.

"I completely understand it, now!" Jack said. "You two found the holiday doors that would lead to other worlds of holidays!"

"So there are different worlds like this!?" Ben asked.

"Precisely," Jack said.

"Cool!" Both Ben and Gwen said together.

"Our Grandpa Max must be there," Gwen said. "No offense, Jack, but he would have a heart attack if he sees you."

"I understand, Gwen," Jack said. "I'll show you a path to the Holiday Doors. After when I'm done, you two will have to go alone."

Both of the cousins then looked at each other and then puts back on their masks.

"We understand," Ben said.

"I'll show you," Jack said. "It's right past the cemetary."

He then led both of them to an entrance, leading to the woods.

"Here's the path," Jack explained. "Just keeping going straight up the path then you'll see the Holiday Doors. But remember, once you go back, everything will be just the way it is before you left."

"What do you mean?" Gwen asked.

"I meant that when a human comes to Halloween Town," Jack said. "Time stops in your world!"

"Wow!" the both of the cousins said together.

"How's that possible?" Ben asked.

"I'm not quite sure," Jack said. "Maybe that was the way it goes."

"But...will we ever see you again?" Gwen asked.

"Maybe," Jack said. "But maybe if you two do, the whole thing would start all over again."

"You make an excellent point, Jack," Ben said.

"I'll sure miss you two," Jack said.

He then kneeled down right in front of both Ben and Gwen and wrapped each of his arms around one another, giving them a hug. Ben and Gwen then returned the hug.

"Don't worry," Gwen said. "As long as we don't forget each other, we'll always see each other in our memories. We'll make sure it'll be in our most deepest memories, yet."

"You sure?" Ben asked.

"Of course, doofus," Gwen said. "What else?"

The three of them then separated.

"Until we meet again, young ones," Jack said, waving goodbye.

Both Ben and Gwen waved goodbye back to Jack.

"Yeah," Ben said.

"We'll always think about you every day, Jack," Gwen said.

"And don't worry," Ben said. "We'll keep all of this our little secret. No one would know."

"Thank you," Jack said. "For everything. I wish there was someway I could repay you two."

"There's no need to repay us, Jack," Gwen said.

"We're heroes," Ben said. "It's what we do."

"We'll see each other again, soon," Gwen said.

"And it's not just something we could wish," Ben said. "It's a promise."

The both of them then headed for the pat.

"Goodbye Ben, Gwen!" Jack said.

"Goodbye, Jack!" both Ben and Gwen said together.

They then headed down the path. Zero flew in just in time to see the both of them go.

"Don't worry, Zero," Jack said. "We'll meet them again, soon. It's a promise!"

Both Ben and Gwen then headed down the path, until they spotted the sun in the sky. They then reached to someplace familiar.

"I think I see the RV up ahead," Gwen said.

"Me, too!" Ben said. "We're getting close!"

They then ran until they were in the center of the seven Holiday Doors.

"We're back," Gwen said.

"What a relief!" Ben said, stretching out his arms.

"How did you two show up?" a voice asked behind them.

They then spotted their Grandpa Max.

"Grandpa!" both Ben and Gwen said.

They then ran into their Grandpa's arms.

"How long have we been gone?" Gwen asked.

"What are you talking about?" Grandpa Max asked. "You two have been gone for five seconds."

"WHAT?!" both the cousins shrieked.

"But we've been away for like all night!" Ben said.

"I'm sorry," Grandpa said. "But it's just like that. Now into the RV, you two. We still have time to go out Trick-or-Treating."

Both of the cousins then stared at each other.

"Maybe this is what Jack Skellington was talking about," Gwen said.

"I'll sure miss that guy," Ben said. "He's a really cool skeleton!"

"Come on, you two!" Grandpa called out.

They then took one last look at the holiday doors. They both nodded and then headed into the RV, as it drove off from the forest...

That Night...

Ben and Gwen were on their way back to the RV after they were done Trick-Or-Treating.

"I am SO going to be sick tomorrow!" Ben said with excitement.

"You said it," Gwen said.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!!" Ben screamed.

"What?" Gwen asked.

"Look at the moon!" Ben shouted, pointing right at the moon.

Gwen then looked at the moon and screamed as well. On the moon...was a shadow of Jack Skellington. It then disappeared a few minutes later.

"Maybe that's the surprise from that experiment," Gwen said.

"Good old Jack Skellington," Ben said.

"Come on," Gwen said, running up ahead. "We got to get to Grandpa before he get's worried, again!"

She then ran off, as Ben looked at the moon one last time.

"Good old Jack Skellington..." Ben whispered.

The End...