I better finish this before Christmas or else I'm going to feel terribly awkward….this chap'll probly be crappy cuz I'm not too motivated right now…

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Dib shuffled his way through the knee-deep snowdrift in front of his house and walked up to his front door.

"I should really shovel that walk sometime today…"

He pushed open the door and stepped inside, he started stripping off his wet winter gear and dropped it on the tile floor beside the entrance. He scurried upstairs and into Gaz's room to see if she had any present ideas.

Dib knocked on the door and went in without waiting for an answer.

"Hey Gaz—"

"Shh, I'm in the zone…"

She was of coarse, sitting on her bed playing her GS2.

"This'll only take a second." He reached over and pushed the pause button, ignoring his sister's angry growl.

"What IS it?"

"Do you have any ideas what to get dad for Christmas, I'm drawing a blank."

"No." She unpaused the game.

Dib put it on pause again.

"Look, you think for a while then I'll come back later and check, we need to decide, I'm going to go shovel the walk now." He then turned and left, as Gaz resumed the game and continued to play.

Dib walked back down the stairs and into the living room, where he had dropped his winter gear. He pulled on his stuff again and went outside, around to the back to get a shovel.

Suddenly he heard a shuffling noise behind him, he spun around.

Nothing…

He shrugged and grabbed the shovel, then walked back to the front.

"That was close…" Thought Zim, who had dashed behind the shed when Dib had come around the corner, "I almost got caught..."

Zim came out from his hiding spot and looked up at the window above him, Gaz's window to be more correct. Hopefully Dib would be awhile shoveling the walk. Zim nodded and pulled out his spiderlegs and proceeded to climb up the wall.

He opened the window from the outside, thanked that it was locked, and crawled inside.

Gaz didn't notice him at all at first, until he stood in front of her, grabbed the GS2 and chucked it out the open window.

Gaz stood up. "What do you think you're doing Zim?!" She shouted.

She froze though when she saw the large knife in Zim's hand.

"Zim...what...what're you gonna do with that...?" She stuttered as she tried to back away.

"Why...I'm just going to get working on Dib's Christmas present..." he swung the knife and slashed at Gaz, he grinned when he saw the familiar red liquid splatter against the near wall. He raised the knife above his head and...

The shovel made a chopping sound as it cut through the snow-covered grass when Dib threw it down. "Whew...that was hard work..." Dib said, as he wiped the sweat off his forehead. He looked at his accomplished job and nodded.

"Gaz!" he shouted. When he heard no reply he sighed. "Probably playing her GS2 some more..." (A/N: Muahahahaha!)

He climbed up the steps and shouted again. "Gaz?!"

He stopped when he got to her door, there was a small folded piece of paper tacked to the door. He pulled it off and opened it. On it were the words "Merry Christmas" written in some drippy red liquid.

He put his hand on the doorknob, but some strange force inside told him to run, and fast.

He gulped and opened the door slowly.

20 seconds later, Dib's next door neighbor heard the screams coming from Dib's house. She called the police, and an ambulance came as well in case anyone was hurt.

Unfortunately, Dib couldn't stop screaming....

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Well, another chapter down. R&R pleasie please!