The Mercury Nightmare Before Christmas ch3

Chapter 3

"Nice work, Bone Daddy!" Chiquon told Greg after the skellington tossed a coin into a bucket that sat in front of the band.

"Yeah, I guess so. Just like last year." Greg told them as he walked over to a metal gate causing it to rise up on it's own. "And the year before that, and the year before that." Greg sadly told the band as he walked through the now opened gate  and over to a large iron gate that led into a graveyard where Amy was hiding behind a tombstone and was putting more leaves into her ruined arm just as she heard the gate creak causing the rag doll to gasp in shock as she got up and saw Greg walk into the graveyard.

+Graveyard+

As he walked through the graveyard, Greg looked up at the starless sky and then tapped onto his leg as he passed by a grave maker causing a lava dog ghost to fly out of the grave maker just as Greg walked over to another grave and began to sing.

Greg: There are few who deny

at what I do I am the best

For my talents

are renowned far and wide

Greg as he walked around the grave stone: When it comes to surprises

in the moonlit night

Greg as he walked over to another grave: I excel without ever even trying

Greg as he lept onto another grave stone: With the slightest little effort

Greg as he began to leap across grave stones: of my ghostlike charms

I have seen grown men

give out a shriek

Greg the lept off of a grave stone and then landed inbetween two statues where he began to sing once more.

Greg: With a wave of my hand

and a well-placed moan

I have swept the

very bravest off their feet

Greg as he began to sing sadly as he walked away from the statues: Yet, year after year

It's the same routine

Greg as he walked through the graveyard: And I grow so weary

of the sound of screams

Greg as he growled: And I, Greg, the Pumpkin King

Greg as he began to sing sadly: Have grown so tired

of the same old thing

Greg as the ghost dog followed him up Spiral hill: Oh, somewhere deep

Inside of these bones

An emptiness

Began to grow

Greg as he walked to the top of the hill: There's something out there

Far from my home

A longing that

I've never known

Greg as he began to sing excitedly: I'm the master of fright

and a demon of light

And I'll scare your

right out of your pants

The sounds of moaning ghosts began to fill the air as Greg continued to sing.

Greg not knowing that Amy was watching him: To a guy, on Jupiter

I'm Mr. Unlucky

And I'm known

throughout Mars and Domino

And since I am dead

Greg as he took off his head: I can take off my head

Greg as he held his head with one hand: To recite Shakespearean quotations

Greg as he put his head back on: No animal or man

can scream like I can

With the fury of my recitations

Greg as he began to sing sadly: But who here

Would ever understand

That the Pumpkin King

with the skeleton grin

Would tire of his crown?

If they only understood

He'd give it all up

If he only could

Greg as he began to walk down the hill: Oh, there's an empty place

In my bones

That calls out for

Something unknown

Greg as he began to walk through the pumpkin patch: The fame and praise

Come year after year

Greg as he  walked into a forest with the ghost dog right behind him: Does nothing for

These empty tears

+Graveyard+

"Greg, I know how you feel." Amy sighed sadly as she came out from behind a grave stone.