A/N: Peabody had explained that Krampus was to the kids, but Kevin refused to believe it, but he got what he deserved, he got tied up by evil Transformers action figures and dropped down a dumbwaiter to be delivered to Krampus himself. The adults and other kids tried to help, but their path was blocked by a large evil teddy bear with teeth and claws like the Elmo doll, which got killed by Peabody after it pushed Sherman into the coffee table. Now, will the adults get down in time to save Kevin from Krampus? Read to find out. Enjoy!
Caleb was swinging at the Transformers action figures, beating them into little plastic bits. Soon, all that was left was the action figure of Bumblebee. Sherman stomped his foot on the toy's back and held it down so Caleb could bash the toy's head off.
"All clear guys" Caleb said, giving everyone else a good glimpse of the destroyed toys.
"Well, there goes Sherman's presents for Christmas morning" Peabody said in his mind as he gazed upon the sharp plastic pieces on the floor. A loud muffled scream came from below them and Katie recognized it in an instant.
"Kevin! He's down in the basement!" Katie said running to the door that lead straight to the basement.
"Stay here" Tim told the other kids, Sherman insisted on going with Peabody down there with everybody else. Once everyone was downstairs, everyone saw that there was a huge hole in the wall that lead to the freezing outside, and half of a dozen candles that were blown out and smoke came from the wicks and others were still lit but were dying slowly.
"What could have made that?" asked Caleb.
"Krampus" Peabody snarled at the broken down wall. Katie was calling out Kevin's name looking all around the room, but started to get even more scared when she began getting thoughts that Krampus took her son.
"I don't see him anywhere" Tim said also looking around the room. Before anybody could say anything else, a chain came through the hole in the wall and tied itself around Katie's midsection and she screamed as she felt herself being pulled towards the hole.
"Katie!" everyone screamed and grabbed Katie's hands, trying to pull her back inside. But the chain's pull was exceedingly stronger than anyone had anticipated, causing Katie's grip to loosen and her being pulled even further towards the hole.
"I can't hold on!" Katie said before letting go and screaming as the chain pulled her outside into the blizzard.
"This is turning out to be the worst Christmas ever" Tim said in shock as Katie was taken. Cries of pain and suffering were heard upstairs and that was enough to get everyone to go back upstairs.
As soon as they were upstairs, they saw little army men and a couple stuffed animals that looked like they served Krampus trapping Toby and Jacob in a large net made of red and white ropes and attaching it to a metal toy helicopter with a real working propeller and was flying in the air with the net attached to the bottom and all the army men clung onto the net and the two boys cried as the helicopter took them away.
"Toby!" Tim cried out running after him, as well as Caleb running after them. The door opened by itself to let snowflakes and cold air into the house, causing the fire to die within a matter of seconds. Caleb remembered he had his gun in his pocket and tried shooting at the operational toy helicopter but all the bullets missed and hit the ceiling light, which made it fall to the floor and break into jagged shards of glass.
"DAD!" both boys called out at once as they were now out the door and it shut just as the helicopter that was carrying them was halfway down the brick path that lead to the sidewalk.
"Toby! Jacob! No!" Caleb cried out as he tried opening the door but it wouldn't budge. After a few tries, the door finally opened to reveal that the boys were nowhere in sight and an army of menacing looking snowmen with thorny branches for arms and no mouth with coal for eyes and an icicle for a nose instead of a carrot.
"How did these things end up out here!?" Peabody said as he got a glimpse of the snowmen. Several silhouettes of hunchback-like beings that had horns on their heads and they were hooded as well were running past some of the snowmen and making the sounds that sleigh-bells would make as they ran, and making spine-tingling laughs as they peered their heads behind some of the snowmen and revealing their glowing yellow eyes.
"Get back inside now!" Peabody said grabbing their wrists and pulling them inside the house, shutting the door and locking it as well. The white furred beagle now had his back against the door with everyone, even Sherman looking at him.
"Don't open the door" he half spoke, half whispered to them.
"Why? What's back there?" asked Sherman as he walked up to his dad.
"Remember the stories about Krampus that we read yesterday? About, how he had helpers, like evil toys and... dark elves?" asked Peabody, making the redheaded boy shiver in fear.
"There are dark elves out there!?" Sherman asked in total fear, in which his dad only nodded.
"Well... what are we gonna do?" asked Leah.
"We're gonna put on our coats, and we're gonna fight our way past those elves and make a run to the nearest house that has some form of power" Peabody said with a serious face taking the fireplace poker off the floor.
"No, we're not! I don't know if you just saw what I saw, but I'm not willing to die in the cold at the hands of an ancient Christmas demon!" Caleb said blocking the door.
"If you wanna stay here and freeze to death, that's fine. But the rest of us aren't wanting to die being frozen inside this place" Charlie said in defense of Peabody's idea.
"Besides, what if they're still alive? We have to go out there and save them before something terrible happens" Tim piped in standing beside Charlie.
"Fine, but leave me out it. I wanted none of this from beginning" said Caleb.
"None of us did!" exclaimed Peabody before turning to Leah and Sherman.
"Go get your coats and snow-boots. We're leaving in just a few minutes" he instructed. Sherman went up the stairs and came back down a few minutes later with a blue heavy weather jacket with the hood over his head that showed a brown trim, and black snow-boots on his feet. Leah had a pink jacket with a pink beanie over her head as well as white fuzzy snow-boots as well. Soon, everybody else except Caleb got dressed in their winter gear as well.
"Everybody hold onto each other's hands. We can't risk anybody getting lost in the middle of this blizzard" Peabody said going ahead of everyone else with Sherman holding his paw and the other paw holding both the fireplace poker and a flashlight.
"Stick together at all costs" Peabody said before signaling Sherman to open the door. Before Sherman could place his hand on the knob, a loud thump was made on the roof. The lamps on the ceiling swung back and forth, and side to side, some small chunks of debris fell from the ceiling as well.
"What was that, Mr. Peabody?" asked Sherman in a frightened whisper. A large crack in the ceiling that lead from the living room exit to the fireplace was made when the next loud thump was heard. The next thump that was made resulted in another large crack that was continued from the crack in the ceiling, only it went down the wall and made a large crack in the fireplace. The fire then put itself out after a large gust of wind with snowflakes in between.
"That doesn't just happen by itself" Charlie said. Glowing red eyes and a sickly sinister smile appeared with a low growl and a chuckle that echoed came from inside the fireplace.
"It's him" Sherman whimpered as he now hid behind Mr. Peabody, scared for his life. Out of the shadows now came Krampus' thin-fingered hands with black sharp claws on the tips and they touched both sides of the fireplace, digging the claws into the brick and making scratch-marks on them and making small pieces of brick to fall down onto the floor as the claws scratched the bricks.
"Stay close to me" Peabody advised to Sherman as he stood in front of his son. The auburn-haired boy peeked his head over the beagle's shoulder to try and get a full view of Krampus. The next thing to come out of the fireplace was Krampus' large horns on his head to show his hooded head with his white beard with gray highlights. Now, the shadow of St. Nicholas himself was standing in the totally dark living room snarling, clad in his red cloak with white fur trim on the sleeves and hood, and giving off low growls at those in front of him, small puffs of steam coming out his nose that was hidden in the shadows that his hood gave off.
"T-T-That's... Kr-Kr-Krampus?" Sherman asked in fear, in which Peabody only responded with a nod, giving off a look showing he was scared too. Caleb walked slowly into the living room and looked to the others.
"Caleb, what are you doing? Get back in here" Charlie whispered/shouted to the other adult male that approached Krampus slowly.
"I'll keep this guy occupied. You guys make a run for it, just leave me here. I'm gonna be okay, I promise" Caleb said whispering and looking to Krampus as he spoke instead of looking back to the others.
"No, we're not just gonna leave you here to face this thing alone" Peabody said.
"I know what I'm doing, just go" Caleb said with a more serious tone in his whisper, making it sound more intense. Peabody then just decided there was no changing Caleb's mind into running away with them to get away, so he just opened the door and ran out with Sherman, Leah, Tim, and Charlie before slamming it shut.
"Give me back my son you horned freak" Caleb said clenching his hands into angry fists that were shaking, a mix of fury and anger. Krampus reached his right hand to Caleb, extending his index finger and leaving a scratch on his cheek with a gentle stroke before pulling his hand back slowly. Caleb hissed in pain and groaned a little as he felt the stinging pain in his cheek and felt blood leak down and drip onto the shoulder of his shirt.
"Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe" Krampus chuckled before letting out a roar that sounded a lot like the T-Rex roar from 'Jurassic Park', leaving Caleb shivering and whimpering in between chattering teeth.
"Please, just leave us alone. I want my little boy back" Caleb whimpered. Krampus only responded by reaching into his cloak and pulling out a large red velvet felt bag that looked like it had something in it. He used both his clawed hands to open up the bag in front of Caleb and gestured it towards him, telling him to look inside it. The man hesitated but looked down to see toys with glowing red eyes moving around, laughing, and looking up at him.
"Oh my God" Caleb said now trickling sweat down his forehead. He then heard a a screech-like roar as a life-sized plastic jester doll wearing clothing made from real life fabric grabbed Caleb by sides of his hair and making him scream with his eyes wide. Caleb then felt himself being pulled into the bag by his hair with Krampus and the jester doll laughing as Caleb met his demise. When the jester had finally pulled Caleb into the bag, Krampus closed it and placed it back in his cloak before climbing back up the chimney to try and catch the others.
A/N: So Krampus has now taken down most of the house's occupiers including Toby, Katie, Jacob, and Caleb. Now Peabody, Sherman, Leah, Tim, and Charlie are the only ones remaining against Krampus and his army of toys and dark elves. What will happen next? More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!