Disclaimer: Life FAR from Normal is a story set in an alternate universe of Kingdom Hearts, set after the Epilogue of my previous story, "The Betrayal of Light", also featuring many characters from Disney and Final Fantasy that haven't made it to Kingdom Hearts games or Manga yet.
Author's Note: A Christmas chapter in August...well, I'm running out of ideas. This is a special and somewhat whacky chapter that a little bit of it is from a christmas episode of Mickey Mouse Works. I don't own anything.
EP 14: Christmas Time!
It was December 24th, Christmas Eve...it was the winter break for the students of Radiant Academy. Some of the students have been waiting for this moment, especially for certain students that are also the ones who went on many crazy adventures since venturing into the Jungle.
"YES!" Lea cheered as he was in the lounge area with his friends and cousin who cringed on how loud the young obnoixous teen was. "Finally we get a break!"
"What? Not interested in presents this year?" Reno joked.
Lea glared at his cousin, saying, "'Course I am. I mean, seriously, I'm probaby on the nice list this year."
Reno doubted that. "And what makes you say that?"
"The things that we've been doing this year." Lea shrugged. "If you count our adventures, that would keep me on the nice list, right?"
As the two redheads talked, the others were having their own conversations about Christmas, as everyone was glittered and beautiful with the decorations, and lots of presents that were already gathered underneath the large main christmas tree from everyone to each other as they were doing the secret Santa.
It makes you wonder who would count and describe all of these?
"I can!" Ludwig Von Drake, who broke the fourth wall, exclaimed to the audience, picking up each toy as he went along, "Now, this here, is a nice little dolly! And here is a kooky Coo-Coo Clock! Oh, and look! It's a choo-choo train!"
And at that point, I butt in just like several chapters ago, and cleared my throat to get Von Drake's attention. "Excuse me, I'm writing here." I said from my computer.
"Well, you said you wanted to count and describe all of this stuff here." Von Drake pointed out.
"I didn't mean it like that." I stated. "Pretend that I don't exist."
Von Drake was skeptical, "How do you expect to ignore a giant pair of eyes and fingers that's blabberty blabbering all the time?"
"Just ignore me." I said.
"All right, have it your way." Von Drake said, grumbling to himself, "Ooh, somebody should get a christmas tree intrastate."...whatever that last word meant.
Now, back into the story. Anyway, Von Drake approached Lea, Reno, and their friends, Isa, Rude, Ven, Terra, Aqua, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and the young children and some of the other students for an announcement...and just as Von Drake would try and ruin the story, ahem, he told everyone that they're all going to head out for Christmas Land theme-park for a little late-night fun before Christmas Day.
"Oh you're no authoress!" Von Drake exclaimed to me, once again, breaking the fourth wall. "You're just a great big surprise spoiler!"
"WILL YOU JUST IGNORE ME AND LEAD THE STUDENTS TO THE BUS FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!?" I yelled out to him.
"Fine, fine, fine." Von Drake replied, before getting back into the story, but still unknowingly breaking the fourth wall, "We're heading out to the no longer surprise theme park. Go get your warm winter gear already."
Lea shrugged, "Whatever you say." standing up as he whispered to Isa, "Geez, and I thought Xehanort was a Bah Humbug." to which his best friend snickered in amusement.
Once the students got outside, they waited for the bus and one of their teachers who would go with Von Drake, some of them decided to play in the snow, which little Kairi made a snow angel on the snow, Sora and Riku both made a snow man, and Ven and his friends were playing snowball fight or snow tackle or just having fun.
Zack then caught Reno off-guard and smashed a snowball right into his face. "Hah! That's payback for dumping dirt on me two weeks back, Reno!" Zack laughed.
Reno stared at him, shocked, before he pointed to the right, asking, "What's that!?"
"What?" Zack asked, looking in the direction, only to be pushed into the snow by Reno who laughed. The two of them laughed.
Aqua accidently tripped and landed in Terra's arms, though the two of them smiled, before playing again. Ven, Lea and Isa noticed Rude who had a smile approach Reno, and the three of them bursted out laughing as the taller teen picked up Reno and held him over his shoulder, the redhead trying to escape.
"Rude, what the heck man!?" Reno exclaimed as he pounded on his best friend's back to be let go.
"I'm getting a little payback too." Rude replied as he threw Reno into a large pile of snow, and knocked on the wall of the school, causing more snow to fall onto the redhead and bury him briefly. "That's for scaring me from that Haunted Mansion movie."
Reno digged himself out, and then tackled his best friend, the two of them fighting and playing in the snow.
"Those two would make the weirdest brothers." Aqua giggled as she and Terra also noticed, along with Cloud, Tifa and Aerith who all also laughed.
"No doubt about that." Terra laughed.
"You don't see them seperated for long, huh?" Cloud asked.
Tifa nodded in agreement, "Yeah, those two are very close to each other."
"Just like Lea and Isa." Aerith added.
Von Drake, who was waiting, wasn't impressed as each time a student or two would play snowball or ect, for some reason, snow would land on top of him and bury him in a snow pile, despite that he tried to protect himself with an umbrella.
Mickey in the meantime, made a special snow-man and called out to Minnie. "Madam. What do you think?" Mickey asked.
Minnie saw that the Snowman was a snowlady of herself, and she smiled lovingly, and hugged Mickey, saying, "Oh, Mickey! It's wonderful!" and she kissed him on the cheek.
"Wait a minute!" Von Drake called out as he approached the snowlady, not impressed, "That's not how you make a snowlady! Allow me to show you." and he unexpectedly smashed it into a pile of snow, much to Mickey's and Minnie's anger.
"Hey!" Mickey exclaimed.
"You smashed it!" Minnie exclaimed.
Right, just for that, Von Drake, I'm kicking you out of the chapter.
KICK!
"WHOOOAAAAAAOOH!" Von Drake screamed as he was kicked by me(the authoress) away from the Academy and landed into a pile of Snow, "Omph!" with a hole shaped just like him.
Back to the story.
After a little bit of fun, and Mickey making a new snowlady for Minnie, they and their friends and other students were on their way to Christmas Land with Eraqus and Braska joining them for a little bit of holiday fun. Xehanort and Ansem stayed behind for a quiet evening of hot chocolate with ice cream(What? It's nicer than with mashmellows).
On the bus, the students were singing one of the Christmas carols...in their own version.
"~On the Twelveth Day of Christmas my true love gave to me,~" Ven sang.
"~Twelve Twinkling Stars,~" little Kairi pointed at the stars in the sky as the bus drove.
"~Eleven Passing Christmas Trees~" Minnie sang, gazing at the Christmas trees on the streets in the mall-streets.
"~Ten Chocolate Puddings~" little Sora sang.
"~Nine Coloured Scarfs~" Mickey sang.
"~Eight Red Ribbons~" Daisy sang.
"~Seven Colouring Pencils~*Snap!*" Donald's colouring pencil he was busy with broke and he exclaimed, "Hey!"
"~Six Colouring Pencils~" Lea laughed to tease Donald and changed his lyrics.
"~Five Golden Stars, (Five golden stars)~" The whole group sang on the bus.
"~Four Silver Dresses~" Aqua sang.
"~Three Children Stories~" Terra sang.
"~Two Close Cousins~" Isa sang.
"~And a Happy Friendship~" Everyone concluded the song, and were now exhausted from all of the singing, some of them slumping into their seats.
Reno sighed as he layed on his back on his seat, "Man, that song is exhausting."
"Yeah, no kidding." Zack agreed, "Maybe we should cut it down to Five Days of Christmas." he joked.
Aerith was the first to playfully protest, "Oh, you!" at her boyfriend.
"CHRISTMAS LAND!" Sora, Riku, Kairi and little Yuffie all exclaimed happily as they noticed the Bus approaching a large themepark of Christmas Land. They arrived at the destination. Everyone else were excited that they finally arrived, and as the bus stopped, a short guy who was dressed up as one of Santa's Elves, welcomed them, telling them to watch their step and ect.
"Wow!" Ven said with excitement, rushing inside and looked around happily. "This is like we arrived at the North Pole!"
Mickey looked around happily, "Hot-Dog! This place is already fun!"
"It's beautiful!" Minnie added.
"Gawrsh." Goofy muttered, amazed.
Everyone was quite amazed at their surroundings...well, except Donald who was still, and I do mean, still, busy with his Christmas List, muttering to himself, "...A new sweater...uh, a sailsboat...uh...oh, and a Beloney Sandwich."
"Uh...you still haven't delievered your Christmas list to Santa?" Lea asked as he and the others noticed.
"I'm still busy with it." Donald answered without looking away, and surprisingly, his christmas list was very long that it rolled away freely to Santa's attraction chair was was three feet away from the others.
Mickey blinked, "Gosh, that's a long list ya got there, Donald."
Genie appeared from Ven's Lamp and also looked at the long list, and muttered, "Whoa, and I thought Iago's list was long." recalling back from years ago, before poofing back into the lamp.
"No offence, Donald, but you do realise that it's Christmas Eve." Ven gently pointed out.
"I can still send it off to the North Pole." Donald absently muttered, still making up his choices for presents.
Lea shrugged, "Too bad. It's only five hours 'til Christmas." as he and the others continued to wander around Christmas Land, the younger children having a field day, and even got to sit on Santa's lap...well, a guy in a Santa Claus Costume, but the little children didn't know that yet as they were still young.
An hour later, as they continued to have fun, before they would leave, all of the sudden, Donald accidently walked in front of a sledge with a driver telling him to look out, and he noticed, screamed and jumped out of the way, but ended up getting his Christmas list blown by a sudden wind.
"My Christmas list!" Donald cried out.
"Somebody grab it!" Mickey called out, giving chase.
Lea was already in line of the list and with a quick reaction, quickly stumbled, calling out, "I got it, I got it, I got it!" and managed to finally catch it, but ended up losing his balance and accidently fell right into the door of one of the fake attractions that resembled to Santa's workshop, accidently breaking down the door and landing right inside.
"Ow!" Lea cried out as he hit his head on the floor. Sitting up and rubbing his sore head, when Lea opened his eyes, he was in for a shock. Rather than inside the fake workshop, Lea found himself...
In the real Santa's workshop! Elves working in wrapping presents, machines that aided them, and the door was still down, and when the redhead looked, outside of the exit, it was just snow. Blinking in utter confusion, Lea rubbed his eyes, before checking again. Nope, this was real.
Standing up, both amazed and very confused, Lea couldn't help but utter, "Okay...Am I dreaming, or did I just ended up in Santa's workshop for real?"
"Ho ho ho! You must be Lea." a jolly voice spoke, causing Lea to turn around and saw the man himself. The jolly man in the red and white suit, the white beard, and the Christmas list of people's names. Lea couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"W-Wait a minute." Lea muttered. "Santa? Okay, now I know I'm dreaming. I was in Christmas Land with my friends and cousin, and, and..." stuttering.
Santa Claus smiled, saying, "Don't worry, Lea. You're not in trouble. In fact, you're already on the nice list..." checking up on his list again, before muttering as he gazed at the list in the boy's hand, "Though I'm surprised you have another list on you."
Remembering Donald's list, Lea muttered, "Oh, this? No, this is my friend Donald's Christmas List. He kinda lost it in the wind and I just caught in time to give it back to him, when I somehow ended up...here." still very confused. He was still convinced that he was dreaming.
Suddenly realising that Donald would miss out if he lost his list, Lea felt bad for what happened, and, nervously asked the Jolly wise man, "Uh, is it okay if I give you Donald's list so that he could get presents? He sorta missed out on mailing it to you."
"Of course, young man." Santa smiled, "You've been a good boy this year. A troublemaker, I can tell, but I think your good deeds are enough to make you on the Nice List." as Lea gave him Donald's list, before things strangely went white for Lea...
"...ea...Lea...Hey, Lea, wake up!" a familair voice called out, sounding distant at first.
"W-Wha?" Lea muttered, opening his eyes, and finding himself in bed. Sitting up and yawned, he found Reno, who was still in his jammies, smiling at him. "Reno?"
"Took you long enough." Reno laughed, "You were dreaming again, weren't ya?"
Realising that he indeed had a dream, Lea replied, "Yeah...I had a weird dream that I ended up in Santa's workshop..." suddenly he remembered Christmas Land and asked, "What about Donald's list, or Christmas Land?"
The slightly older redhead blinked, before answering, "Oh, we came back around Nine last night, and Donald didn't even mail off his list."
"Oh..." Lea muttered, feeling guilty that one of their friends would miss out.
Suddenly Goofy barged into the bedroom and cried out the two redheads happily, "Hey, fellers! You should come and see the presents!" practically dragging Lea and Reno by the arms and pulled both of them into the School's living area, where they gapped in awe, as were the rest of their friends and the school staff.
The three was practically surrounded by lots and lots of presents! All having everyone's names on it, and from Lea could see in his relief...Donald's name was on several presents too.
In relief and happiness, Lea didn't hesitate in getting hold of his presents, as did the others who all got wonderous gifts, and they also did the secret santa presents as well. Lea then noticed a letter that had his name on it that was for him. Curious, he opened it up, and blinked in surprise.
It was from Santa Claus.
Lea,
As a thank you for being generous for your friends, I've decided to give you and your family and friends extra gifts.
Oh, and I suggest you and Donald start working on your manners, just in case.
Santa Claus.
Despite the last part of the message, Lea couldn't help but smile. He didn't know if it was a dream or not, but at least he made a good deed.
"Say uh, Donald, you have one more present." Mickey said as he found a present that looked like a book.
Donald opened it up immediately, but his face fell, as the others also noticed, and Aqua read the cover out loud, with a slight giggle, "The Big Book on Manners?" as Minnie and Daisy also giggled. Even though Donald was disappointed at such a present, he was happy none the less as he got the rest of the presents he wanted.
All in all, it was the best Christmas eve-
"It seems I made it in time!" Von Drake suddenly appeared, with some kind of wand, much to everyone's sudden confuson. What? What the heck is he doing here?
"Wait a minute, I thought you were gone until the next chapter or two." I pointed out to Von Drake.
"Oh no, I just needed to make sure I delievered everyone's presents." Von Drake replied to me, causing me to literally facefault.
"YOU delivered everyone's presents?" I asked in disbelief.
Von Drake nodded, "Yes, it took me quite a while to retrieve my sledge scepter. Now that I got it back, I can presume my duties as the Christmas delievering Elf!"
I was not amused. "Oh now really, you are NOT Santa's delivery Elf!" I told him firmly.
"Oh I sure am." Von Drake said proudly, before walking out and used the scepter to summon a Turbo Charged Santa Slege and hopped into it, "Merry Christmas to All!" and flew away from the Academy.
That, my dear friends, ends this Christmas chapter, and, I have no idea what Von Drake was talking about or him being the Elf nonsense has to do with anything. I'm going to bed now.
To be Continued...
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter too. Things will somewhat return to normal in the next chapter. Please continue your amazing reviews, fellow readers, and I'll see you again in the next chapter when I get the chance.