My first fic.
Enjoy!
It was 5 days to Christmas in the middle of no where. As Courage got up, he smelled freshly baked gingerbread cookies. "Mmm." he thought. Suddenly he looked at his calendar. "5 Days to Christmas!"
Courage rushes downstairs and rushed out the door to the bus stop. Of course he said goodbye to Muriel and had some cookies to go. While on the bus he started to count his money. "Only $35?!" Courage sighed. When he got off the bus, he headed toward the paper shop. "I wonder if they have great Holiday cards." Courage thought happily.
"May I help you?" The Store Clerk asked.
"No thank you. I'm just looking."
"Well then I suggest you look somewhere else." The Store Clerk said in a snooty attitude. Without saying another word, Courage left the store.
"That wasn't very nice." Courage said to himself. As Courage walked down the street he saw another shop that looked interesting. "The Gift Company? Sounds weird." Courage opened the door and noticed the shelves were full of all-ready wrapped presents.
"May I help you?" An old man with a very long beard.
"No thank you. I'm just looking."
"Go ahead, but don't look inside the boxes it will ruin the fun." The old man chuckled. As Courage looked and walked up and down the aisles he noticed this certain box which looked fairly large. It looked like it could fit a size 12 pair of shoes. The paper wrap was bells and feathers with snow all round it.
"I wonder what's inside." Courage thought to himself. Courage picked up the box and shook it. It was almost a pound which was really light for a big box. Soon Courage got the temptation of opening the box. He put his paw on the lid and slowly began to open it when all of a sudden, SHUT! The old man took away the present.
"What did I say about spoiling the fun?" The old man looked at the box. "Oh no…you don't want this one." He said while returning to his desk.
"Why? What's inside?" Courage said impatiently. The old man fingered in Courage and said in a whisper;
"Some people say this gift is cursed. It brings you bad luck and will never stop."
"Really you've seen it for yourself?!"
"No…I read it in a fortune cookie before, anyway lot's of people buy it because of the wrapper but it always ends up back in this store waiting for new victims." The old man put the gift under the desk. "Are you still going to look around? We close at 5:00pm."
"I'm going to get a bite and then come back." Courage left the store thinking, "Cursed? I wonder if it really is." After 30 minutes later Courage returned to the store, went up to the desk and faced the old man, "I'd like to buy the gift with the bells and feathers, please."
"Didn't I say it was cursed? Why in the world would you want to buy it now?!"
"Just for once I want to prove someone wrong." Courage said in a strong voice.
"Well I have two things to say, one your crazy, and second, someone already bought it. Just hope it doesn't come back." Courage left the store and went back home on the bus. He was kind of sad but very happy he didn't have to know what was in the box. Once he was home and on the porch he started thinking.
"Wasn't I supposed to get something? Oh well." Courage opened the door and saw the Christmas tree already up when it came to him, "Oh Yeah! Presents!" Courage hit his forehead when he heard someone in the kitchen. Courage followed the noise when he saw the bells and feathers gift wrapping in the trash. Before he could react he saw Muriel walk.
"Oh Courage! Doesn't look lovely?" Muriel said showing off a ring on her finger that had a sparkly green jewel in the middle. When Courage looked at the ring then back at Muriel, he saw that her hair was green. Courage started to panic and looked at the floor thinking it would go away but when he looked again he saw that she was all green. "What's wrong Courage? Looks like you've seen a ghost." Courage was so shocked that all he could do was scream.
Thanks for reading. Please review.
I'll get part 2 up soon.
