Merry christmas Guys!
Well, here it is! The last ever chappie of sonic christmas carol!
Enjoy for the last time!
Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!
"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!,I will not be an emo!" Shadow repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Ivo Robotnik! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this. I say it on my knees, old Ivo, on my knees!"
He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.
"They are not torn down!" cried Shadow, folding one of his bed-curtains in his arms, "they are not torn down, rings and all. They are here - I am here - the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled. They will be! I know they will."
His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
"I'm alive!" cried Shadow, laughing in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as happy as a hedgehog!oh wait I am a hedgehog! Shadow laughs uncontrollably. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hello here! Whoop! Hello!"
He had frisked into the sitting-room, and was now standing there: perfectly winded.
"There's the saucepan that the gruel was in!" cried Shadow, starting off again, and frisking round the fireplace. "There's the door, by which the Ghost of Ivo Robotnik entered. There's the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat. There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits. It's all right, it's all true, it all happened. Ha ha ha!"
Really, for a hedgehog who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs.
"I don't know what day of the month it is," said Shadow. "I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hello! Whoop! Hello here!"
He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell! Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash! Oh, glorious, glorious!
Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious. Glorious!
"What's today?" cried Shadow, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.
"Eh?" returned the boy, with all his might of wonder.
"What's today,little boy?" said Shadow.
"Today?" replied the boy. "Why, Christmas Day."
"It's Christmas Day!" said Shadow to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Ghosts have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can. Hello, my fine fellow!"
"Hello!" returned the boy.
"Do you know the Poulterer's, in the next street but one, at the corner?" Shadow inquired.
"I should hope I did," replied the lad.
"Wow, your a smartster!" said Shadow. "A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they"ve sold the prize Turkey that was hanging up there - Not the little prize Turkey: the big one?"
"What, the one as big as me?" returned the boy.
"What a delightful boy!" said Shadow. "It's a pleasure to talk to him. Yes, buddy."
"It's hanging there now," replied the boy.
"Is it?" said Shadow. "Go and buy it."
"Walker!" exclaimed the boy.
"No, no," said Shadow, "I am in earnest. Go and buy it, and tell them to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it. Come back with the man, and I'll give you an extra life. Come back with him in less than five minutes and I'll give you my damn fourth chaos emerald!."
The boy was off like a shot. He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half so fast.
"I'll send it to Tails prower's!" whispered Shadow, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh. "He shan't know who sends it. It's twice the size of Charmy. Gerald never made such a joke as sending it to Tails' will be!"
The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down-stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man. As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.
"I shall love it, as long as I live!" cried Shadow, patting it with his hand. "I scarcely ever looked at it before. What an honest expression it has in its face. It's a wonderful knocker. - Here's the Turkey. Hello! Whoop! How are you? Merry Christmas!"
It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped them short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.
"Why, it's impossible to carry that to Emerald Town," said Shadow. "You must have a cab."
The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the Turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried.
Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it. But if he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking-plaister over it, and been quite satisfied.
He dressed himself all in his best, and at last got out into the streets. The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and walking with his hands behind him, Shadow regarded every one with a delighted smile. He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, "Good morning, sir. A merry Christmas to you." And Shadow said often afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.
He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, "Shadow and Eggman's, I believe." It sent a pang across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it.
"My dear hedgies," said Shadow, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands. "How do you do. I hope you succeeded yesterday. It was very kind of you. A merry Christmas to you, sir!"
"Mr Shadow?"
"Please," said Shadow. "Call me shads,shadie or shadster, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you. Allow me to ask your pardon. And will you have the goodness" - here, Shadow whispered in his ear.
"Holy Chaos Control and Merciful Mobius!" cried the gentleman, as if his breath were taken away. "Shadow the hedgehog, are you serious?"
"If you please," said Shadow. "Not a ring less. A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favour?"
"Shads.," said the other, shaking hands with him. "I don't know what to say to such munificence."
"Don't say anything please," retorted Shadow. "Come and see me. Will you come and see me?"
"I will!" cried the cheerful gentleman. And it was clear he meant to do it.
"Thank you," said Shadow. "I am much obliged to you. thank you fifty times. merry christmas!"
He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk - that anything - could give him so much happiness. In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house.
He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock. But he made a dash, and did it:
"Is mr. Hedgehog at home, my dear?" said Shadow to the girl. Nice girl. Very.
"Yes, sir."
"Where is he, my love?" said Shadow.
"He's in the dining room, sir, along with mistress. I'll show you upstairs, if you please."
"Thank you. He knows me," said Shadow, with his hand already on the dining-room lock. "I'll go in here, my dear."
He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door. They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
"Sonic!" said Shadow.
Dear heart alive, how his niece by marriage started. Shadow had forgotten, for the moment, about her sitting in the corner with the footstool, or he wouldn't have done it, on any account.
"OMG, HOLY MOBIUS!" cried Sonic," who's that?"
"It's me, uncle Shadow. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Sonic the Hedgehog?"
"Let him in!" It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be heartier. His niece looked just the same. So did Scourge when he came. So did amy's sister when she came. So did every one when they came. Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, wonderful happiness!
But he was early at the office next morning. Oh he was early there. If he could only be there first, and catch Tails coming late! That was the thing he had set his heart upon.
And he did it; yes, he did. The clock struck nine. No Tails. A quarter past. No Tails. He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time. Shadow sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the Tank.
His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter too. He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.
"Your late MR Prower!" growled Shadow, in his accustomed voice, as near as he could feign it. "Care to tell me why?"
"I'm very sorry, sir," said Tails. "I am behind my time."
"You are?" repeated Shadow. "Yes. I think you are. Step this way, if you please."
"It's only once a year, sir," pleaded Tails, appearing from the Tank. "It shall not be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir."
"Now, I'll tell you what, my two tailed friend," said Shadow, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, Tails shook violently in his waistcoat while he sank that he staggered back into the Tank again; "I'm raising your salary."
Tails trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler. He had a momentary idea of knocking Shadow down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat.
Then,he stopped and gasped
"A merry Christmas, Tails," said Shadow, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Tails, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year. I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Tails. Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another , Tails Prower! Oh, and another thing, call me shads from now on alright?"
Tails was speechless, he felt like hugging shadow
"Thank you mr shadow! Oh I mean shads!"
"No problem! And also, look outside"
Without further ado, he looked outside and saw his family, sonic, his wife and his party guests !
"Merry christmas everyone!"Shadow said cheerfully
Tails rejoined his family and kissed his wife on the lips; the two little prower said : "eww yuck!"
Sonic was gonna do that aswell but shadow interupped him. "Yo sonic! Wanna go for a race?"
"You kidding me, unc?"
"I'm serious!"
"Okay then on the count 3! 1...2..."
But shadow was already off! "Catch me if u can!"
Sonic was astonished! "Hey! Not cool, uncle shads! And that's what I say!"
Sonic ran after him
"I don't care! I am the ultimate life form!" Shadow laughed hysterically
Both of them created sonic booms all over mobius
Amy, sonic's wife sighed and said: "there he goes again"
Once they came back to the spot they started from, shadow came first
"Whoo hoo I won! I am the ultimate!"
Sonic couldn't believe it
"What!? It can't be! I'm the fastest thing alive! I can't be beaten to my own uncle!
"Guess what faker, you was!"
Sonic was a bit annoyed that he lost but he accepted it
"Same time next year?"Shadow offered a handshake to sonic...
"Your on, unc!"...and sonic accepted it.
Then shadow came up with a song:
Have yourself, a super sonic christmas
Let your emeralds be bright
Then everyone joined in
Next year,we'll be back in the games again
Sonic sung solo
Have yourself, a super sonic christmas,
Make the rings shine of gold,
Everyone joined in the song again
Christmas lights, and christmas trees will shine for you,
Shadow,sonic,tails,amy,cosmo,charmy, and everyone else sang the last verse together
So,have yourself a super sonic christmas...Now.
Charmy shouted: "God Bless Us Everyone"
And then everyone shouted "God Bless Us Everyone!"
From there on out, Shadow was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Charmy, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. May that be truly said of us, and all of us: and as charmy bee said "God Bless Us everyone!"
The end!
*sonic 1 credits music!*
There you have it folks my first fanfic complete! I'm so proud of myself!
First of all, thank you for all the people who reviewed my first fic so appreciated of you!
And this fanfic has over 750 views! Impressive
I wanna call every sonic character out who has role played dicken's characters:
First of all,In order of appearance:
Shadow the hedgehog as Ebenezer scrooge
Dr. Eggman as jacob marley
Miles 'tails' Prower as bob cratchit
Sonic the hedgehog as Fred Scrooge
Silver the hedgehog as The Ghost of christmas past
Knuckles the Echidna as The Ghost of christmas present
Mephiles the dark as The Ghost of christmas future
Amy rose as Sonic's wife
Cosmo the seedrian as Tails' wife
Charmy bee as tiny tim
Scourge the hedgehog as tupper (or topper)
Rosy the rascal as florence
Well,that's all the characters I can think of plz tell me if I missed out any.
Well that wraps it up for this fanfic
Have a super sonic christmas and a hyper new year!
See ya next year!