Part 9: The Ultra Special Christmas Edition!

"Aunty Paige, can we go see Santa Claus?! PLEAAAAAAASE????????" Cole begged, turning on the Cute Eyes of Doom.

"Umm, go ask your Aunt Piper."

"Aunty Piper, can we go see Santa????????" Cole asked the older sister, still using his Cute Eyes of Doom.

"Go ask Aunt Paige." At this, Cole stared, wondering at the stupidity of grown-ups.

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A couple of tantrums and a car-ride later, Cole and Leo were standing in line to sit on Santa Claus's lap, bouncing with childish enthusiasm. Cole was first, and bounced up to Santa like yours truly after eating chocolate. In other words, oh lordy was he hyper!

"So little boy, what do you want for Christmas?" the mall Santa asked dully, thanking all the gods of every culture that it was Christmas Eve and he would soon be released from Santa-dom.

"I want a pony, no wait, a red wagon! Or a dragon, dragons are cool...Or can I have a ride in your sleigh? Or a..."

"Your 30 seconds is up kid, let's get the picture taken and get this over with!" the Santa grouched.

"You're a GRINCH!" Cole declared, pouting. The flash camera went off and Cole toddled back to Piper, being sorely disappointed by his Santa experience. Leo went up next, but the second the elf-attendant set the child-Whitelighter on Santa's big red lap, he started howling. And thus, a new Whitelighter power was discovered: the ability to give ANYONE an instant earache just by yelling! However, when Leo accidentally reached up and pulled Santa's beard straight off, he stopped crying and started laughing hysterically. And thus Leo's picture with Santa turned out with the mini-angel *cough* holding Santa's beard in victory, managing to look smug yet innocent at the very same time. And when Leo ran off still holding Santa's beard, the whole trip ended up to be very much worth it for the two tots, and a giant headache for the poor Santa-impersonator.

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Leo was still wearing Santa's beard when Cole approached him with a decidedly 'evil' idea, worthy of a mini-Belthazor himself. Which was, in fact, Cole himself, but we're not going into that!

"Leo, why don't we orb to the North Pole so we can visit the REAL Santa??" the little demon proposed.

"You can shimmer, why don't you go? I don't wanna. Santa's scary."

"No, clowns are." (WHO CAN DISAGREE?? ANYONE? ANYONE AT ALL??) "Plus, I wanna see Rudolph! And all those other reindeer, I can't remember their names."

"Okay, okay. Let's go." Leo was obviously a big fan of the red-nosed, sleigh-pulling reindeer.

The two magical children appeared right in the middle of Santa's meeting with his elf army. Apparently the jolly old man had gotten quite sick and tired of spreading joy on Christmas, and now was plotting to take over the world! (Never saw that coming, did you? xD)

"What are those KIDS doing here??" Santa roared, being quite put-out with the interruption to his brilliant scheming. (He was gonna start his world conquest with Canada, if you were wondering.)

"Santa, what are you doing?" Leo asked, his little pacifist heart quite shocked by the sleigh and 12 tiny reindeer, who were currently being outfitted with all kinds of machine guns and rockets. Talk about being a Grinch...

"I'm going to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

"Why?" Cole asked.

"Because I want to."

"Why?"

"Because I'm tired of no one appreciating me."

"Why?"

"Because they think I'm just here to bring them gifts. And all I get in return is lousy milk and cookies! I'm lactose intolerant, for crying out loud! And I'm allergic to cookies." (Poor guy...)

"Why?"

And we all know where this is going. Santa was getting quite frustrated after about 20 minutes of this had gone by. And Cole was just getting started!

"ENOUGH! I'm going to take over the world and CHRISTMAS WILL NEVER COME AGAIN!"

"Can't you even think of something original? The Grinch already tried to stop Christmas from coming! And he couldn't do it!" Cole declared, crossing his little arms.

"Yeah," Leo chimed in softly, still afraid of Santa. Well, in this case it was justified, you'd be scared too if you were facing off against a big fat man dressed in red who had Rudolph the Rabid Reindeer ready to attack you.

"We're gonna stop you from ruining Christmas!" Cole threw a fireball or two at Santa's new sleigh, completely frying all the circuitry that worked the weapons arsenal. "And we'll tell Aunty Piper to leave you some spaghetti and meatballs or something. She's a really good cook."

Santa was not one to have his plans thwarted so easily though, least of all by a couple of upstart kids. He ran at Cole, who stuffed his fingers in his ears and yelled at Leo...

...who started crying. All the glass in the North Pole was INSTANTLY shattered, and Santa was knocked across the room by sound-waves.

"Santa, we can help you deliver presents, as long as you promise to be nice again!" Cole said, turning on his now-infamous Cute Eyes of Doom. Oh, can anyone resist those Cute Eyes of Doom?

Obviously Santa can't, because all the presents were there by the time all the good little boys and girls woke up the next day.

And of course, the Source of All Evil got a giant lump of coal. Good thing he collects the stuff, huh?

When Cole and Leo got home on Christmas Day, they were suprised to find another person in the Manor...

...their 'Aunt' Prue.

-End Chapter 9-

Yay, everyone got what they wanted. Well...Santa didn't get to take over the world, but at least he didn't have to feed all those plates of cookies and glasses of milk to his reindeer. Piper and Paige had to deal with two VERY hyper tots the next day...

And the readers got Prue. Gonna have to think of a logical reason to fit her in. But as seeing I've already messed with pretty much everything in the Charmed universe, I can screw a few more things up to give her a purpose. xD Which will probably involve lots and lots of chaos.

This chapter is brought to you by...the letter P. Without which, Charmed would be in chaos. ^_^

See y'all next time!