Disclaimer: I do not own King of the Hill.
I know it's early for Christmas but hey, it's going to be July soon so I guess it's Christmas in July (YEAH!). Enjoy.
(December 17th: 8 days until Christmas)
Bobby and Berry were at the mall looking for gift for there friends and family while Christmas was playing and they were talking about the best Christmas movie ever.
"It's just amazing that John McClain managed to take 12 terrorist by himself." Bobby said
"Well he had some help." Berry pointed out
They walked through the mall they spotted a store they never seen before.
"Xavier's Christmas Warehouse." both of them read aloud
"We might as well check the place out." Bobby said
They walked inside to see that the store was packed full of people.
"Why is it so crowded in here?" Berry asked
They looked all around seeing signs that read 85% off to 95% off.
"That can't be good for business." Bobby pointed out
After a few minutes they finally broke through the crowd to see that some of the people were standing in front of the counter where a man in a red suit (not Santa Clause but a business suit) was standing helping people out. He was 6ft tall with short black hair.
"Here you go Miss, Martin," the man said, "have a lovely Christmas."
The woman left and the boys made their way to the counter. The man looked at them with a smile.
"Welcome to Xavier's Christmas Warehouse, I'm the owner, Xavier Chance, how can I help you?"
"Honestly, we just came in to look for gifts like everyone else." Berry said
Xavier smiled.
"Well I can save you the trouble, just tell me who the gifts are for and I bet I can find the perfect ones." Xavier promised
Berry decided to go first, while he read his list Bobby looked down at his hand where we see now that he has 5438 days left, he then looked at his list and began to fell sad for this would be the first Christmas with out mother, so that meant he had only had to buy gifts for his dad, his cousin, her husband, their kid, Berry, Cameron, and finally Jade whose name he had drawn for the Secret Santa during his dad's annual Christmas party at their house. He looked back up to see that Xavier had written the names of everyone on Berry's list then got a separate piece of paper.
"Ok kid, who's on your list."
Bobby read all the names on his list to the man who then gave them a number and went into the back.
"I assume we wait until are number is called?" Berry asked to no one in particular
They made their way once again through the crowd to see what was all in this store. What it turned out to be was different kinds of object some old others looked new.
"These are some pretty weird Christmas presents." Bobby pointed out
After five minutes they heard there number being called. When they got up to the counter they saw Xavier with two large boxes one marked with Barry while the one under it was marked with Hill.
"Here you go boys, that'll be 21.25 for both of them." he said
The boys paid for each of there boxes which inside contained gifts that were already wrapped and labeled with the proper person.
"He even remembered to leave my name off the Secret Santa one for Jade." Bobby said impressed
As they were going to leave the mall they walked past a large stage with the banner that read Serizawa Turbines, Harness the wind for cleaner and more efficient future. Over sixty people were standing in front of the stage.
"I hope my dad never find out about this." Bobby said
"Come on it's just some wind turbines," Berry pointed out, "I mean unless they find a way to use the wind to cook steaks, then your father has nothing to worry about."
A moment later Japanese man who appeared to be in his 40's, standing at 5'7, thick black hair, and green eyes, wearing a green business suit walked up onto the stage. The crowd cheered.
"I think this guy and that Xavier dude bought their suits at the same store." Berry joked
The man waved as the clapping died down.
"Hello, and thank you," he said with a slight bow, "I am Shouta Serizawa, owner and CEO of Serizawa Turbines."
As Shouta was talking, Bobby noticed two large men at both ends of the stage.
"They must be his bodyguards." Bobby thought while Serizawa was talking
"Now you can enjoy good clean energy all year round, not just during the spring and summer."
"Excuse me sir," A random person shouted, "but don't all wind turbines do that, what makes yours different?"
Shouta smiled.
"Let me show you."
He motioned for a young Japanese woman that looked to be in her twenties wearing a sparkling silver dress. With her she brought out a box with a picture of a wind turbine on it. She placed it down on a small table next to him. He then reached into the box and pulled out what appeared to be a miniature wind turbine.
"Thank you Asuka, "Shouta thanked, "As you can see, I have made it so that you won't need to buy wind turbines that tower 50 stories above your house (height maybe exaggerated but hey he's trying to sell something), so with these easy to install instructions you'll be able to light your Christmas tree 24/7 without paying the electric company a single dime, so this can be yours for only $1200."
The crowd began to cheer louder as they stared to get out their credit cards.
"I can't people are falling for this." Bobby shouted
"People will do anything to save money." Berry said
"They must, because this is just nuts, let's get out of here."
They walked back out to Bobby's car and drove off. While they traveled home, we go back into the mall where Shouta was in a small temporary shop which was filled with people buying his product. As he gave away the 40th one the girl from before (most likely his assistant) walked up to him.
"A woman is here to see you." Asuka informed
"Tell her to come back, I'm busy."
"She said that it's really important."
Serizawa sighed.
"Fine, tell her to wait in my office." he said
After half hour Shouta walked to his office where Asuka was keeping them busy. He opened the door and stepped inside to reveal Anna and her bodyguard Fintan sitting in front of his desk.
"How can I help you today, Anna," Shouta asked as he sat down in his chair, "you may have not noticed but I'm busy."
Anna leaned back in her chair.
"I noticed it's just funny to see you become a common rip off artist."
Shouta chuckled.
"Look, those people give me their money and in return I give them a wind turbine that works only for five weeks before it breaks down and all I have to do is blame it on their low I.Q."
"As fun as that sounds, I like to offer you a trade." Anna revealed the reason for her presence
"I'm afraid I'm not in the trading business."
"You will be when I offer the thing you want most."
Serizawa dismissed Asuka who stepped outside.
"You're telling me you found it?"
"Yes, and all it will cost you is that ring of yours."
They both looked down on his right hand to see a silver ring with glass on top which was hold some kind of water.
"What is my ring to you?" he asked curiously
"It holds one of few known mermaid tears in the world."
"Oh I see, you're trying to make the potion that will break the spell, but my answer is no."
Anna leaned forward in anger.
"Look the mermaid tear is one of three items I don't have and I've been everywhere else, hell I even made a deal a while back that was suppose to get me the tear and a werewolf but that went south." Anna explained
"My answer is still no; you can not have my ring." Shouta said
"How can you still be loyal to Amaterasu after she agreed to the "spell" in the first place?"
Serizawa leaned forward.
"She only agreed to it because her father, Izanagi was one of the first gods to vanish."
"Sad as that may be, she along with the other higher gods didn't even think twice about what the spell would do to us," Anna said, "they might enjoy blending in with mortals but there are some of us that are tired of hold back who we are in fear of vanishing forever, so the potion is the only thing that will let us over come that."
"If I give you my ring, how many others will be free?" Shouta asked
"I can tell you this; if you cooperate you and your assistant can be free."
Shouta sat there deep in thought asking him self if he should do along with Anna's offer or stay where he is at.
"Take me to what I want most and I'll think about your offer."
Anna smiled with delight.
"Good, now if you follow me I'll take you to it."
The three of them left Serizawa's store and walked through the mall until they reached Xavier's Christmas Warehouse. Thy stepped inside and walked up to the front desk.
"Hello, Xavier." Anna greeted
Xavier who had just gave a costumer their gifts looked over to see her.
"Anna," he said shocked, "I'll be right with you."
Few minutes later, Xavier had finished up with the rest of his costumers and closed down the store for 10 minutes.
"Ok you got 10 minutes to tell me why you are here." Xavier demanded
"I came here to get something from you." Anna said
"I already gave you Merlin's orb and that staff made from a branch of the tree from Hesperides, what else do you want?"
"It's not for me but for my friend Mr. Serizawa here."
Xavier looked at the mentioned person.
"So what can I help you with?" Xavier asked
"I was told that you have my bag."
"You're what?"
"My bag, it's white with words writing in kanji on it."
Xavier grabbed a list of his inventory and scanned through it.
"Sorry pal but I don't have that."
Serizawa slammed his hands on the desk.
"You shall return what's mine or…."
"Or what, as far as I can tell, you can't use any of your powers or you'll go bye-bye." Xavier pointed out
Shouta took his hands of the desk then straightened his tie before he turned to Anna.
"He had it the last time I came to see him." Anna defensively said
"Hey I'm just a Merchant, you know we'll buy and sell just about any neutralized magical object we get are hands on for a good price."
"And just how many of these objects walked out of here in colored boxes?" Shouta asked
"Please, like I would sell the real thing to a couple of rednecks, what I gave them were copies."
"Not all the items are neutralized," Anna pointed out, "some of them can be activated by anyone."
Xavier opened his desk door and grabbed a medium size box.
"Why do you think I give out copies for," he asked as he took something out of the box, "imagine what would happen it some hillbilly got his hands on Hermes' winged sandals." Xavier said before putting the shoes away
"I'm not going to ask again, where is my bag?" Serizawa asked
"Ok, here's the truth and please don't get mad, but I think I might have sold it."
Serizawa ran up and picked up Xavier by the lapels of his suit.
"Who did you sell it to?"
What could be in the bag that Serizawa wanted I bet anything that Bobby has it. FYI the last name Serizawa comes from the original 1954 Godzilla movie in which that was the last name of the scientist that made the device that killed Godzilla. P.S. I'm planning to make a cast list for the story which will appear at the end of the final episode of the season, so let me know if there is anybody that you think would be perfect to voice one of my OC from the first 5 episodes and this one along with future episodes as i post them. so let me know. Thank you and stay tuned.