When Jack the Cannibal was eaten, he became a ghost and declared revenge. Ever since, the giant has been avoiding humans and trying to protect himself from Jack.

  Jack woke up to yet another horrible day in the underworld. No one in the underworld needed sleep, and nobody had houses, but they still slept on the ground after work. The section of the underworld that he lived in was for evil people. It was very fiery, and was more like a cavern world. In this world, everything hurt more and for longer than in the human world, and his red hair and green eyes were paler, as was his skin. He newest dream had been part of his revenge plot on the giant. Since both of them were familiar with each other, the giant could suspect his plan, so it would have to be a good one. This last dream was about ensnaring the giant in a very large net then dropping him into a chasm with TNT. This, he sadly concluded, was not a good enough plan, as it was too nonviolent and easy to suspect. He needed a plan that would go out with a bang, and would make him known as the best evil Cannibal-Ghost in the world. Still, he couldn't do any good plotting if he was being punished for not getting to work on time.

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  Meanwhile, the giant was harvesting the crops and mowing with his John Deere tractor. He had basically forgotten about Jack except for every time that there was a storm, or when he felt like he was being watched, or when the shadows moved in weird ways, or when...well, maybe he hadn't forgotten him. When he had called to have his giant beanstalk cut down,the landscapers came, but told him that they did not have the heavy duty tools for it with them and went back for them. Three hours after they came back, the beanstalk was down and the giant world was protected from other possible cannibals. Now, although Jack was dead, the giant still would not grow any beans that had been genetically modified to grow larger, just in case. At Price Chopper, though, his beans sold for a pretty good price-S2 a piece, considering that they were as long as his arm, and he was a giant. He decided that he would try to grow giant carrots instead. After all, no one could climb down a carrot, right? Luckily for him, he lived in the country, so if someone did, the only other things harmed would be the trees.

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  The work took forever. Even the optimists, which were few, could never continue this for eternity.

"Hurry Up! If you don't want to be degraded to an even worse job, you will work until WE say to go!" said one official.

  The line was almost years long, but technically there wasn't really time, so it could be minutes or centuries of Earth-time before you got to the work site. If you ever got out of there without being eternally scarred, you could get paid. The job was to keep all 1,000,000 Thanatian Cats out of the overworld, without getting clawed, burned, speared or sliced a million times. This was very hard, as Thanatian Cats were each the size of an elephant and had all sorts of powers. They couldn't be let into the over world or chaos would reign and everyone would die.

  Now, why would all the criminals be doing this job? Simply because the next level of pain was eternal punishment. This was why 100,000 Thanatian Cats had been employed to actually deal pain, and their reward was that they got to eat a victim. I haven't been inside one of those cats, but they are fiery and hell-ish enough on the outside that the mere thought of their insides can stop any evil thought.

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  When the giant arrived at Lowe's, he went into the gardening section and bought some nice carrot seeds. They said "Gluten free, non-GMO, whole-grain, giant carrots." This sounded appealing so he got those and some bananas from an Arctic island. He wasn't sure about them, but the packaging looked so cool that he had to get it. When he was cashing out, the cashier said, "I'm not sure if you want to buy those carrots sir. Last time I checked, carrots don't have grain in them."

"No, it's fine," said the giant. "I'm telling you, anything is better than giant beanstalks!"

After that, the giant went back to his garden and got his plants ready. Today would be a great day for growing carrots! Imagine, he thought. What if I brought one of my vegetables to a human growing contest? Hah!

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Jack was finally done, and he only had minor scarring of the souls, and some burns, but who cared? It's not like it hurts as much as eternal punishment, and plus, it wasn't eternal. Good thing that he had enough time to think of a plan while he worked. This one was really going to work, he just needed to add a little more pain.

"Hey, what're you doing later, Jack?"

  It was one of his fellow cannibals, and he seemed hungry for flesh. The worst part about the underworld was that one couldn't eat. This was another reason that Jack needed to get out, and quickly.

"Just working on another revenge plan, and if it works, you will have plenty of flesh to make up for what you've missed here."

"You mean-"

"Yes!"

  Not everyone knew it, but there was a way out of the underworld. After all, why would the Thanatian Cats need to be held back? Then again, nobody really asked questions, because who wants to be stuck in eternal punishment? There was a large, concealed tunnel underneath the giant world, and if you could find the hidden staircase, you could also exit into the human world. One exit to the giant world came out underneath a giant's garden. Specifically, his giant's garden.

  Jack decided that if he waited, he could probably climb up a long carrot that he planned would be there, which would stick out the tunnel roof. Then, he and a couple of other ghosts would turn human and he could carry out his plan from there.

"Well, I'll let you get to work on that plan, text it to me later!"

"Yeah, sure."

When Jack got home, he started thinking. He knew what he was going to do, but how would he get it to work?

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Ah,these carrots were turning out beautifully! They were large, plump, and juicy, at least from the looks. When he sold them, they would make him so rich that he would be able to build a mansion with an even bigger garden! He could sell more and more until he was able to buy a longer life from the grim reaper, or Thanatos. But, the giant reminded himself, he still needed to read the instructions and give them proper care. It said-"These carrots are the most interesting carrots you will ever buy! They-" blah, blah, blah. Where ever were the instructions? He kept reading. "To grow your giant carrots, plant them in a large field." Check. "Make sure that they are over an underworld tunnel," um, okay..."And wait for a cannibal to get his revenge!" Great. Now he was going to die. Actually, Jack technically died ten years ago tomorrow, so if he was going to come back it would be tomorrow. The giant still had time to plan, but what to do...

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  The carrots had been a great idea, all Jack had done was climb the staircase to the human overworld and tried to land yesterday. He had only needed to get the carrots packaged and sent to the giant world. He knew that the giant would steer clear from beanstalks, so he just had to find another plant, one that grew downward. After he made the packaging, he was gleeful. No one reads the fine print, so the giant would be dead in no time!

"How's the plan?" A text flashed across his iPhone 77's screen,

"Great, just fixing up the last part. Got all the others?"

"Yeah, they're real excited."

"K. We're gonna have so much fun 2nite."

  Jack was going to be the best revenge plotter in the world. People would come from far and wide, whether living or dead, to ask him to plot their revenge plans. He was this close to teaching the giant his lesson. He just had to put the rest of his plan in place.

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  The giant decided that he would put TNT on the field. It would be easy, quick, and could be explained off as a UFO. Although the ufologists would flock to him and smother him with questions, he could easily spin a tale. He didn't know why Jack was so angry; he was evil, and he needed to be destroyed. Giants protect people, so that's what he did. Anyway, Jack would be up tomorrow, with who knows what with him. He needed to be ready...

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  Finally, after two hours of sneaking around in the dark, Jack got to his work.

"Come on pretty," he whispered to the Thanatian Cat. "We have work to do. Once we're done, the whole world will cower at my feet."

  Sadly, Thanatian Cats don't talk, so it just grunted in appreciation. Still, it looked like an impatient bull when it was close to dinner time.

"Aww, it's okay. You will get plenty of flesh once I unleash you."

"MEWWWW!!"

  Fine, he thought. Be that way. Actually, he thought. The guards are likely to notice one Cat missing, so why not take the whole lot of them? If anyone noticed, they would surely be trampled, sliced, and/or burnt to double-death, and if the cats were hungry, they could just eat the souls themselves and save Jack from any explaining.

  Sadly, no one noticed him on they way out, so the Cats were still hungry when he met up with the team. When they got to the tunnel, the cats were salivating and were minutes away from eating the group of ghosts. Finally, they found the giant's garden and climbed up the carrots, the Cats last since they would slice the carrots to smithereens.

  When they got to the giant world, they stretched out their now-mortal bodies.

"Get used to this guys," Jack giggled gleefully. "We're human again!"

"Um, Jack, what's this?"

  Everyone started asking questions, forgetting where they were. A Cat breathed fire at the ground.

"Shh! Guys, it's fine!" Jack whisper-shouted.

"Well, what is it?!" Demanded a chorus of whispers.

"Nothing! Wait-" the Cat's breath had caught something on fire. "I know what it is! RUN!!!"

It was just turning dawn when the fuse finished burning. Then, BOOM!

The End

Moral of the story:

Fine print saves lives.

Yay! So I just wasted 15 minutes of your life! Please view the excerpt of my other short story that I put up, The Lightning Princess. I will publish the rest of it soon, once I find it. That's how I came across this story in my files, well, I hope you're having a nice week(end) and good(morning/night).