The Night Before Christmas ~ TRIGUN Style By: Rachia

Disclaimer: Don't own Trigun, don't own TNBC, don't even own my soul (damn you, Miroku-chan! Sellin' my soul on Ebay...)

Summary: The cast of Trigun performs The Night Before Christmas... or at least, they try to.

A/N: Expect OOC-ness and not a lot of Gung-Ho Gun lines.

WARNING! Contains swearing, mild violence, smoking, Vash being a pervert, Wolfwood Abuse, random Japanese, and more general insanity than you can shake a stick at!

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*A girl with violently red hair and turquoise eyes sits in a directors chair in the middle of a stage in an otherwise empty white room*

Girl: Hmm... I'm bored. *snaps fingers and Wolfwood, Knives, Legato, Meryl, Milly, and Vash fall from the sky in a heap*

Vash: Where are we?

Girl: My room of eternal torture -- I mean my little niche of hell -- I mean the set for my fanfic.

Wolfwood: O.O_? FANFIC?! SHIT! *tries to run away, but not only is he at the bottom of the pile of people who fell from the sky, but there are also no doors*

Girl: *cackles evilly*

Meryl: Who ARE you?

Wolfwood: She's probably the authoress.

Girl: That's right Wolfie! I'm Rachia!

Wolfwood: *blinks* Wolfie?

Rachia: You guys are gonna perform "The Night Before Christmas"!

All: *unpile, then give Rachia a blank stare*

Rachia: Err... *snaps her fingers and a stack of scripts falls from the sky and lands on Wolfwood's head*

Wolfwood: @_@_? Itai.

Rachia: *grabs a script from the stack* Now to assign parts... Lessee... Vash will play the narrator...

Vash: *grins*

Rachia: Milly and Legato, you will play children.

Milly: *looks happy*

Legato: *shrugs*

Rachia: Wolfie, you'll play Santa...

Wolfwood: O.o_? Santa? Me? Why?

Rachia: Ya know... "Saint Nick" ... you have the same name...

Vash: *snort* Our terrorist priest isn't even CLOSE to being a saint!

Wolfwood: *glare* Can it, Tongari.

Rachia: ANYWAY! Meryl will play the narrator's wife...

Meryl: Wait... isn't VASH the narrator?

Vash: ^_^. *sparkles* Hai!

Meryl: -_-;

Rachia: Hmm... We're sort a few actors...

Knives: You missed ME, spider.

Rachia: Hold on plant-boy, I'm gettin' there! *snaps fingers and 7 Gung-Ho Guns (Dominique the Cyclops, Monev the Gale, Zazie the Beast, Midvalley the Hornfreak, Rai-dei the Blade, E.G. Mine, and Caine the Longshot) fall from the sky* Now! Knives, you and the Gung-Ho Guns will play Santa's Reindeer!

Knives: YOU CAST ME AS A REINDEER!?

Rachia: Hai.

Knives: I AM A SUPERIOR BEING, DAMNIT!

Rachia: And now, you're a reindeer. *Snaps fingers and Knives has antlers* You're playing Dasher. Hornyfreak is Dancer.

Midvalley: That's HORNfreak.

Rachia: Sorry, right... WHOREfreak is Dancer

Midvalley: -_-

Rachia: Monev is Prancer, Domi-chan is Vixen.

Vash: That makes perfect sense! *grins perversely at Dominique* ^_^.

Dominique & Meryl: *Smack Vash* Hentai!

Rachia: ANYWAY! Caine is Comet, Zazie is Cupid, E.G. is Donder, and Rai-Dei is Blitzen.

Gung-Ho Guns: *shrug, not entirely sure why they're there anyway*

Vash: What about Rudolph?

Rachia: He's not in this.

Vash: Aww...

Rachia: ANYWAY! You'll find your costumes in the dressing rooms. *points to two doors that weren't there a moment ago*

Dominique, Meryl & Milly: *head for one room*

Knives, Legato, Midvalley, Wolfwood, Caine, Monev, E.G., Zazie, and Rai- dei: *head for the other room*

Vash: *glances between the two rooms, then heads for the one the girls went into*

*Loud yelling and slapping noises*

Vash: *walks back out with slap marks across his face, grins sheepishly, then goes into the other room*

Rachia: *shakes head* I must be out of my mind trying to pull this off... this is going to be a LONG day...

~Later~

*Legato and Milly are dressed in children's pajamas with pudding cups and Kuronekos on Milly's, and hot dogs and skulls on Legato's. Meryl is in a VERY skimpy nightgown. Vash is in bright red pajamas, and still has a slap mark across his face. Knives and the Gung-Ho Guns are dressed in reindeer costumes and antlers. Wolfwood is still in the dressing room*

Rachia: *taking a head count* 10, 11, 12... We're missing someone... Where's Wolfie?

Knives: Chapel refuses to come out of the dressing room.

Rachia: Grr... *stomps up to the door and bangs on it* NICHOLAS DOKONOKUMINOMONJAWARESUMAKINISHITESHIZUMETAROKAKORA [1] WOLFWOOD! GET YER ASS OUT HERE!

Wolfwood: *from inside* NOT A DAMN CHANCE, YOU PSYCHO BITCH!

Rachia: Complementing me won't do you any good, Wolfie!

Wolfwood: ... ... I'm not comin' out!

Rachia: Grr... Oi! Legato! C'mere!

Legato: Yes?

Rachia: If you use your powers to get Wolfwood out here, I'll take you to an all-you-can-eat buffet when we're done.

Legato: O_// ... ^_// YES MA'AM!

Wolfwood: *walks out the door, fighting against moving. He's dressed in a bright red version of his usual suit, complete with a Santa hat and a beard. He looks seriously pissed* Damn blue-haired, insanely thin, gluttonous, psychic, psycho musical notation! This costume looks ridiculous!

Rachia: Arigato, Legato. ... *blinks* ... that rhymes ... *blinks again* ... Anyway...

Wolfwood: *turns to run back into the room & hits the wall. The door disappeared again* @_@_? Itai.

Rachia: Now that that's settled... *yells* PLACES, MINNA!

Everyone: *goes to the various places on and off stage as the stage changes from plain white to a set of a house decorated for Christmas*

Rachia: *walks off stage with her director's chair and watches*

Vash: *stands in the middle of the stage with a script* *clears his throat* Twas the Night before Christmas...

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End Chapter 1

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[1] Apparently, this is what the "D" in "Nicholas D. Wolfwood" means. It's Japanese for "Daily Cigarette Consumption" or something very similar.

A/N: There is an actual chapter two to this, but I'm too tired to type it right now, so it'll be up tomorrow. In the mean time, review please?

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