SAILOR MOON'S CHRISTMAS CAROL.
A/N: Not much to say here except that this is another Christmas special set within Sailor Moon Continuum, even if this is more of a bed-time story sort of thing in regards to this. The story itself is told by Serena/Sailor Moon, accompied by Crash and Eddie and someone else.
This is set after the final battle against Xehanort, but only half-head canon due to KH3 still being in development. So...yeah.
I don't own Sailor Moon, Disney, Ice Age, Pokemon, Shrek, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Cardcaptors, or Pirates of the Caribbean, only my Ocs. The rest belong to Toei/Naoko Takeuchi , Disney, Square Enix, Dreamworks, CLAMP, Nintendo/Pokemon Company and 20th Century Fox/BlueSky.
Okay, let's onward with the story!
Chapter one: Story-Time.
Year-2000: December 24th. Six months after the final battle...
The Sailor Team, now accompined by new members which included some of the former enemies, save for a trio who were in another world somewhere, but Serena was confident that Team Rocket were still alive, just having found a place to finally to feel they belonged somewhere. In the meantime, it was Christmas Eve and Donkey had hosted a Christmas party, and so everyone that survived the war against Xehanort/Chaos had arrived at the Christmas Apple, the parody bar of the Posioned Apple in Far Far Away.
"Okay now, the Apple pie goes here, and the Bog-Nog goes over there." Donkey instructed as everyone else were decorating for the party.
He then went over to Serena who, along with Darien, was putting up the star on top of the Christmas tree, saying excitedly, "Oh man, Serena. I just love this! Don't you just love this?"
"Totally loving it, Donkey." Serena winked, happily.
"This is gonna be the best christmas party ever, because this year everyone's gonna be singing and storytelling their favorite Christmas Carols." Donkey said, before saying with a slight happy suspicion, "I hear even the Sailor Moon family's gonna sing." gazing at Serena, Darien, Rini, Lusie, Shrek, Fiona, Farkle, Fergus and Felicia.
"You heard right." Serena replied.
"YEAAAAH! YEE-HA!" Donkey cheered, rather too ecstatically, which was freaking out his friends a little.
Shrek then muttered and mouthed to the others, "No more Bog-Nog for him."
"I'll say." Darien muttered in agreement, causing Serena, Fiona, Rini and Lusie to laugh while Donkey sang a parody version of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" as he went around the building happily.(A/N: Forgive me for being unable to find the lyrics)
"Hey, Manny! Check this out!" Sid called out as he went up to a caged Rumplestilskin, saying incorrectly, "I found one of Santa's Elves out of the trash can!"
In sheer annoyance, Rumple grabbed hold of the bars, yelling in frustration, "I'm not a Elf! I'm Rumplestilskin! Now let me out of this cage!"
Sid wasn't buying it, and said a little smugly, knowing how much trouble Rumble had caused a few months ago, "Oh, so you can run away? Not happening, pal."
"Oh, hey Lea and Isa!" Donkey went up to the two former Nobodies who were staring at the most creepy Santa statue the two men had ever seen as Donkey said to them happily, "You like it? It's a mega sized Santa replica! Made from Modern Magic called...Plastic!"
"Yeah...It's the creepiest thing I've ever seen." Isa muttered, eye brow and eye-lid twitching.
"Ya got that right." Lea nodded in agreement with a freaked out expression.
While the group were busy finishing up the decorations and party things while singing Christmas Carols(and Gingy trying to keep the un-living GingerBread Cookies from getting eaten by his friends even though they weren't baked by the Muffin Man who had some kind of magic within him to bring Gingerbread People to life), by the end of the afternoon, Serena stepped outside to check out the sunset, watching it sink from the hills, making it and the snow around her a beautiful sight.
She then noticed she was being watched and, being made a Narratoress of this story, Serena gazed at the readers/audience and said, surprised and then happily, "Oh, hi! I guess you're wondering why I'm on my own thoughts. Well, let me just say, welcome to the "Sailor Moon's Christmas Carol" story. I'm here to tell a story that is a parody of the famous old story which is one of my favorites!"
"And we're here to help out!" Crash and Eddie both appeared out of nowhere, scaring Serena out of her wits.
"And I'm here to also tell the story, even if I'm not supposed to come back until the first movie of the third saga of the franchise." Buck added as he appeared out of nowhere as well, startling Serena again, while Crash and Eddie both smile happily in seeing their 'master' again.
"Hi, Buck!" Eddie said happily.
"Hi!" Buck waved, but was then pulled into the hole in the snow by something as he screamed.
"Goodbye, Buck!" Crash waved, stupidly.
Serena stared weirdedly as Buck then pulled himself up halfway, before the latter asked, sheepishly, "Uh, a little help?"
Sighing, Serena pulled him up and out of the hole, leaving behind a spider that retreated back into the hole that closed up back underground. She then helped the weasel up, asking, "Uh, Buck? What are you doing here?"
"Well, I guess the authoress decided to put me into this new christmas special since I'm one of her favourites." Buck shrugged casually, crossing his arms. "Thus, this makes me, Buckmister, a narrator!"
Chuckling with a sweatdrop, Serena then turned to the audience again, continuing, "Anyway, you already know me and my friends. But just in case, I'm Serena, Princess of the Moon Kingdom, leader of the Sailor Team, and just recently with the help of my friends and family saved the Realm of Light from Xehanort."
"And I'm Buck, the Dino-Hunting Weasel." Buck added to the audience, but whispering, "But in case you don't know me, I suggest you go read "Sailor Moon and the Dawn of the Dinosaurs" to know me better."
"And I'm Crash, and this is my brother, Eddie." Crash concluded.
"Wait a minute." Eddie spoke up, confused and in realization. "The storylines of the Xehanort confrontion hasn't even been made yet."
The four of them realised this, and glanced at each other, before Serena waved it off, saying, "Well, this is the future so I guess everybody's waiting for the results and well, this is the result so far until the time comes. And since we're here, I'm gonna tell the story of the Christmas Carol, since I know it like the back of my hand."
"I know that story too at the back of my hand." Buck pointed out.
"Oh yeah? Prove it." Serena dared.
"Very well, my lady." Buck bowed, before he extends his right hand, closing his eyes and says, "Hmm...there's a tiny cut just about the inch of my thumb, a scar on my palm which I rechieved from Rudy-"
Serena slapped her face, before correcting, "No, no! I didn't mean your hand! I meant the story with me!"
Realising this, Buck laughed, "Sorry. I just love explaining about myself," adding in a sing-song tone, "And looking fabulous!"
Sweatdropping, Serena then continued to the readers, "Well, anyway, as all versions go with the story...let's just say, the Marleys were dead to begin with."
"Marleys?" Crash asked, dumbfounded.
"That's the beginning of the story?" Eddie asked, just as dumbfounded as his brother.
"...Dead as a doornail." Buck added, as he then snapped his fingers and instantly, the scenary around the four of them changed. Instead of being in the Fairytale world, Serena, Buck, Crash and Eddie were now on Earth in London, while the said weasel continued, "The year was 1843, and it was on Christmas Eve, just like when the four us were in just moments ago."
"How did he do that?" Crash asked, astonded as he and Eddie gazed around in awe, even as the many people's, humans, animals, fairy-tale people and Pokemon that resembled to their friends in the real world were.
"Well, this is the story-world we just entered." Buck said proudly.
"Thanks, Buck. Makes things easier for all of us." Serena smiled after understanding what happened, before she continued to narrate, "Anyway, the Marley's were dead to begin with, dead as a doornail."
"Okay, that's just creepy." Crash muttered.
"And kind of spooky." Eddie added.
"Thanks, guys." Serena said, dryly.
"In life. The Marleys had been business partners...with a shrewd moneylender named Ebenezer Scrooge." Buck continued to narrate.
"Ebenezer?" Crash and Eddie both snickered, before bursting into hysterical laughter, which caught sight of many bypassers, making Serena nervous and Buck a little uncomfortable.
Serena sighed, before continuing to narrate, "It's best be careful, because he's just around the corner over there." pointing.
"What corner?" Crash asked, after he and Eddie stopped laughing.
"That corner." Serena grumbled.
"When?" Eddie asked.
"Right on cue, mammals!" Buck proclaimed, as a old man in a long back coat, top hat and a cane, even though he didn't need one, came around the said corner, having a murderous and cruel look in his eyes that were filled with hate as he walked along the streets of london.
"There he is! Ebenezer Scrooge, the grouch of Christmas! Even his own family can't even get the Christmas spirit out of him." Buck introduced, crossing his arms against his chest as though it wasn't anything to worry about.
Crash then rubbed his arms, shuddering, "Hmm...is it just me or is it getting colder?"
"That's the thing with Scrooge." Serena narrated knowingly, "Whenever he's around, the air gets colder and that's a tale sign that he likes while everyone else dislikes."
Soon, everyone in the streets of London began to sing, which confused the Possums while Serena and Buck gazed around, following as they went as they both knew how the story goes.
A dark gray Mouthdigger was to sing the song, "~When a cold wind blows it chills you, chills you to the bone!~"
A thirty year old human woman in rags continued to sing, "~But there's nothing in nature that freezes your heart, like years of being alone!~"
A noble-man that was dressed like a Commondore sang next, "~It paints you with indifference like a lady paints with rouge!~"
"~And the worst of the worst!~" Sang Mouthdigger.
"~The most hated and cursed!~" Sang the ragged woman.
"~Is the one that we call Scrooge!~"
Suddenly Brock, or someone that looked just like him, nodded in agreement, "Yeah."
"~Unkind as any,~" A wooden boy that was like Pinocchio sang.
"~And the wrath of many,~" Sang another Gingy.
"~This is Ebenezer Scrooge!~" An Orge that resembled to Shrek sang, before he, and the other five along with other people and citizens in the streets all sang together.
They, including Serena and Buck all sang in unison, "~Oh, there goes Mr. Humbug, There goes Mr. Grim! If they gave a prize for bein' mean, The winner would be him!~"
"~Old Scroogey loves his money, 'Cause he thinks it gives him power!~" A mammoth that resembled to Manny, a tall young man that resembled to Terra, and a silver-haired teenager that resembled to Riku sang in unison.
"~If he became a flavor you can bet he would be sour.~" Sang Oscer, Zeke and Lenny before all four of them cringed in disgust,"Blegh!"
Eddie blinked at the three Sabors being there suddenly that nearly vomited as he comments, "Even the carnivores don't like him!"
"~There goes Mr. Skinflint, There goes Mr. Greed!~" Sang Delia, Jessie, Aqua, and Darien sang as they appeared as citizens as well as they peered out of the window as Scrooge passed them as he was oblivious to the song that was about him and his bad attitude.
As Scrooge passed another building, Isa, Diego and Puss all sang in unison, "~The undisputed master of the underhanded deed!~"
A group of young men and women near another building sang in unison as Scrooge walked passed them as well, "~He charges folks a fortune, for his dark and drafty houses!~"
"~As poor folk live in misery,~" An elderly man whimpered.
"~It's even worse for mouses.~" Ven sang as he stood near a female little mouse that came from Cinderalla's world.
"Please, sir. I want some cheese." The little mouse begged, but she was ignored, in which Serena, Buck, Crash and Eddie felt sorry her, while everyone else continued to sing.
"~He must be so lonely, he must be so sad. He goes to extremes, to convince us he's bad.~" A group of people and such near a church sang calmly and slowly in a choir.
"~He's really a victim of fear and of pride.~" A trio of female Dodos in Opera singing voices sang.
"~Look close and there must be, a sweet man inside~." The group sang once again.
Scrooge suddenly paused and Serena and her friends flinched, before hiding behind a lamp post before he could catch them. After a few moments, he grumbled before turning around and continued on his way. Serena, Buck, Crash and Eddie peaked again, before sighing in relief and came out of their hiding places.
"Naaah!" Crash and Eddie both said in unison.
"Nope." Buck agreed.
"No way." Serena shook her head, in full agreement, and everyone else reconsidered their song upon seeing this as well, going back to sing about how bad Scrooge was. By now, a very large crowd were assembling to sing about him while Serena, Buck, Crash and Eddie were steadily following his lead.
"~There goes Mr. Outrage! There goes Mr. Sneer!~" Raye, Amy, Lita, Mina, Kairi, Xion, Namine, Kristen, Tiffenie, Amelia and Luna sang.
"~He has no time for friends or fun." Ash sang with Pikachu nodding, muttering, "Pika."
"~His anger makes that clear!~" Donald appeared as he sang as well.
"~Don't ask him for a favor, 'cause his nastiness increases!~" Donkey sang.
"~No crust of bread for those in need.~" James sang while whimpering.
"~No cheeses for us meeses.~" The three blind mice sang in unison.
Serena and her friends continued to pass the towns people while she narrated, "But what did he care? Scrooge liked the cold. He might as well build a fortress for solitude if he wanted to avoid everyone as much as possible." shrugging.
By now a very large crowd was so big that it was impossible to tell who was singing and who wasn't. "~There goes Mr. Heartless! There goes Mr. Cruel! He never gives. He only takes. He lets his hunger rule.~"
A choir of Yuffie, Namie, May, Sakura, Misty, Madision, Dawn, Casey and Lusie sang in unison, "~If bein' mean's a way of life you, he's practice and rehearsed!~"
Cloud and Roxas then appeared as they sang as well, "~Then all that work is paying off, 'cause Scrooge is getting worse!~"
"Yeah." Brock agreed again with a nod.
The crowd then nodded in unison and concluded the song all together, louder than ever, "~Every day! In every way! Scrooge is getting worse!~"
Scrooge finally turned around sharply, raising his cane, just seconds after everyone else gasped and dashed away to avoid in getting caught by his anger and pretended that they haven't said anything about him or knowlaged his pressence what so ever. He is revealled to be played by the late King Harold in this story. Grumbling, he groaned to himself, "Humbug." before retreating into his office, slamming the door shut behind him.
Serena, Buck, Crash and Eddie all stood outside of the door once they knew the coast as clear safe enough for them to arrive, as the latter two glanced at each other in disbelief, stunned by the cruelty of Scrooge.
"Scrooge had a real mean attitude and a temper that was almost as bad as anyone that I've met." Serena narrated.
Buck nodded in agreement, narrating, "He was tightfisted and cold hearted. Scro-" before cutting himself off when he noticed how grimy and disgusting the windows where in the combination of fog, frost, and dust that mixed in together.
"Blimey. This really is a dirty city." Buck thought as he ran his ringers against the window, cringing in disgust as he wiped the grim off against snow, groaning, "Ugh, yuck!"
"You're tellin' me." Serena shuddered in agreement. She then had an idea as she saw Crash and Eddie play in the snow behind her and Buck, calling out to the twins, "Hey, Snow-Heads."
When Crash and Eddie both looked up, Serena instantly grabbed of them and slammed them against the glass while using their backs and their fur to wipe the window clean so that they could all see. Once she was done, she dropped the twins into the snow, where they glared up at her in annoyance.
"Much better." Serena said, sastified.
"Thank you, Serena." Buck smiled, before clearing his throat and tried again, "Ahem. He was tightfisted and cold hearted. Scrooge sat by his desk, money loving, but people hating, even towards his over-worked, underpayed employee, Bob Cratchit."
"And before you ask, yes Mr. Cratchit does look like Mickey, and no, they're not the same...well, you know." Serena shrugged, continuing to narrate, "You see, unlike Ebenezer, Bob was a sweet, kind and caring young man who had strong beliefs in seeing the good in everyone. Even in someone as grouchy as Scrooge."
Serena paused, before shrugging and said, "I think it's safe to say to call this Bob "Mickey" too to avoid confusion." and her friends nodded in agreement, gazing into the window.
Bob Crachit, played by Mickey, who is also called Mickey and wearing a thin red jumper, brown pants, dark brown shoes, and a yellow scarf, attempted to silently place a piece of coal into the coal scuttle, when Scrooge had his gleaming eyes at him. Mickey gulped fearfully before turning and placed his hands behind his back.
"Crachit. What do you think you're doing?" Scrooge growled.
"I-I was uh...J-j-just tryin' to...thaw off the ink." Mickey replied, shaking the icicles that formed onto the feather pen in the ink holder that was frozen due to the frozen tempretures as the fire had gone out earlier but he hadn't been allowed to restart it.
"You used a piece last week!" Scrooge shouted, flinging the coal into a bucket, pushing Mickey back to the clerk desk, ordering him, "Get on with your work this instant."
Mickey nodded quickly, returning to his desk of stack of books and paper, before remembering something and asked nervously, "But what about the book-clerks? The poor fellas were so cold they can't even move."
Near a bookshelf were a group of five Mini Sloths were were jittering their teeth, trying to warm themselves by rubbing their arms, as one blue Mini Sloth shivered violently, "We can't do the book-keeping."
"Yeah. All of our pens have turned to ink-cicles." A yellow Mini Sloth added.
"Our assets are frozen!" A red Mini Sloth added.
Scrooge just continued to write, before shouting, his eyes narrowing dangerously, "How would the bookkeepers like to be suddenly unemployed!?"
"Heatwave!" The Mini-Sloths suddenly danced, suddenly wearing Alohan skirts, much to Mickey's confusion while the Book-Keepers sang, "Oi! This is my island in the sun!"
"Good point." Mickey muttered to Scrooge, before asking this time, "Speaking of work, Mr. Scrooge...tomorrow is Christmas, and...I was wonderin' if we could have...a day off?"
"Now why would I give you a day off on a workday?" Scrooge questioned grouchily.
"Nobody would come here tomorrow, sir." Mickey answered, nervously.
Groaning in realization that Mickey was right, Scrooge groaned, "Oh, alright. Just get back to work."
"And who in the right moment should appear, but Scrooge's two nephews." Buck narrated.
"Fred and Freddy. Freddy was Scrooge's real nephew while Fred was his adoptive brother, couple times removed." Serena added, before admitting, "Or maybe a couple of species removed."
"Isn't that Sid and Sora, though?" Crash asked as he and Eddie saw that it was indeed Sid, who was playing as Fred, and Sora who was playing as Freddy, enter the office, with a Christmas reef in Fred's hands.
"Merry Christmas!" Fred cheered happily.
"And a Merry Christmas to you and Freddy, Master Fred!" Mickey greeted to the two that entered. He always liked Scrooge's two nephews due to them being so kind and generous.
"Bah humbug." Scrooge muttered.
Freddy/Sora smiled happily, greeting, "Hey, Uncle Scrooge. Merry Christmas!"
Scrooge rolled his eyes before slamming his book shut, storming over towards his two nephews, saying angrily, "What's so merry about it? I'll tell you what Christmas is! It's just another day of life! If any foolish man say otherwise, they should be boiled in his own pudding!"
Fred and Freddy both gulped nervously at their uncle's words.
"But sir," Mickey protested, "Christmas is a time for giving. A time to be with one's family."
"I saw Bah Humbag!" Scrooge groaned.
"Oh, come on." Fred slumped, groaning. "Don't you at least have a little bit of a Christmas Spirit? Sora-Er, I mean, Freddy and I brought you this reef and to invite you for Christmas dinner."
Serena facepalmed herself when Fred made a near mixup with his lines, groaning in dismay, while Buck sighed and Crash and Eddie both glanced at each other in disbelief.
"Even in the storyworld Sid messes up." Eddie thought, with Crash nodding in agreement.
"Yeah, we're having Christmas Turkey." Sora began saying the list of the Christmas dinner.
"Disaster." Scrooge muttered.
"Plum Pudding in Maple Syrup."
"Un-Digestable."
"Candy Fruit with Vanilla Custard."
Outside of the office, Serena sighed dreamingly at the mention of the Christmas food to the point of making her mouth water, saying almost hypnotizedly, "Talk about heaven..." earning disturbed looks from Buck, Crash and Eddie.
"Are you both daft!?" Scrooge growled, before shoving both Fred and Freddy back outside, slamming the door shut which made Mickey cover his head in fright, fearing that he would be attacked as well. Fortunately, Scrooge didn't bother as he groaned again, "Bah Humbug."
"Merry Christmas!" Both Fred and Freddy briefly came back in, bidding farewell and leaving the Reef behind before leaving to head back home.
"And A BAH HUMBUG TO YOU!" Scrooge shouted.
Mickey couldn't help but laugh and smile, as he continued his work, saying to Scrooge, "Ah, both Fred and Freddy. Always so full of kindness."
"Yes, yes." Scrooge said dismissivelly, before the door opened in which he glared a it for a moment, thinking that Fred and Freddy had returned. However, it was two men who were Jack Sparrow who was wearing clothes that made him look a bit like Sherlock Holmes, and Gibbs who was wearing similiar clothes as the Pirate Captain of the Black Pearl, because here, they were both acting as Fund collectors, nodding a silent greeting to Mickey who nodded in return.
"Ah, costumers." Scrooge said, smiling this time before approaching the two men, asking, "What can I do for you?"
Jack was the first to speak as he said, "Ah, Mr. Scrooge. It's come to my believe that you have enough fund which we would, kindly, politely and hopefully...honestly..."
"Jack, just get to the point!" Serena shouted, breaking the fourth wall.
"Sorry." Jack muttered, before clearing his throat and concluded, "...Ask you to help with the Fundraisers to lend some of your fortune to the Poor and the homeless."
"Aye, and it's also for the good of the people of London." Gibbs added.
Scrooge hesitated, before saying carefully, "Well, um, y-you do realise that if you gave the money to the poor, they would no longer be poor, right? And if where that to happen, you wouldn't be able to raise money for them, which would bring you out of the job." leading the disbelieved Jack and Gibbs back out of the door, concluding, "Please, don't ask me to put you out of the job, gentlemen. Not on Christmas Eve."
"Eh?" Jack blinked, just as the door was slammed right onto his face, and causing him to stumble back. The four narrators-Serena, Buck, Crash and Eddie all cringed in sympathy, feeling sorry for the fund raiser.
Even Gibbs flinched in sympathy, while Jack shook his head to rid the dizzy spells, holding his sore and slightly broken nose, cracking it back into shape, saying sheepishy, "So, should we call it square, then?"
"Scrooge didn't even realise just yet on how much the poor really depended on money and even for food and shelter. Only about himself and his lifestyle. If you ask me, that's the biggest mistake in his life that could land him into serious trouble." Serena narrated, with a shocked expression.
"But the good news is, he'll still die whether he was nice or not." Buck chuckled, which only made Crash and Eddie glance at each other in confusion while Serena slumped with a sweatdrop.
"Gee, that's comforting." Serena said sarcastically.
A/N: Since I haven't started a Christmas story earlier, I've decided to so now while working on my other project. This story may change in the future once I complete the Chaos Saga, but for now, this is the best Christmas fanfic I can come up with.
Not sure if I'll finish it on time before Christmas Day, probably not but it's better than nothing.