Disclaimer: I do not own YGO, nor do I own this poem, NOR do I clam to own them, so please don't sue me.

Duet: Hello! I've decided that, in the holiday spirit, I should write a mockery of "was the Night". And to help me are the YGO gang. The Yami's are not here because (1) I have enough trouble writing the others, I don't need more. (2) Can you _imagine_ them snuggling down for this? Anyway, here's the ficcie and I hope you enjoy it.

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//'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house//

//Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse//



Tea: Except for Joey and Tristan, who were downstairs, pigging out.

Joey/Tristan: Oi! *are insulted*

Seto: Here, eat these and _shut up_. *Tosses Candy Canes*

Joey/Tristan: *are crunching happily*

Yugi: That's not how you eat them!

Duet: Let it go this time. It won't do you any good.



//The stockings were hung by the chimney with care//

//In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there//



Yugi: Do we even _have_ a chimney?

Duet: I do! ^-^

Bakura: Don't worry about it.

Joey: I'm hoping the _piazza guy_ soon will be here!!

Tristan: Mmmm, our large pepperoni, anchovy, and pineapple piazza!

Both: *are drooling*

Tea: That is _gross_!

Mai: What? The guys, the drool, the piazza, or the fact they "borrowed" your cash to pay for it?

Tea: WHAT?!



//And all the duelists were nestled, all snug in their beds//

//While visions of Sugarplums danced in their heads//



Mai: I'm _not_ tucked into bed! Ever!

Seto: Ditto. And I've _never_ had _Sugarplums dancing_ in my head.

Yugi: Well-- I don't dream of Sugarplums!

Bakura: *is patting Yugi's head* Of course m'dear.

Joey: What _are_ Sugarplums anyway?

Tea: Fairies!

Duet: Wrong story.

Tristan: Sounds like candy!



//Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap//



Tristan: A baseball cap?

Bakura: No, a sleeping cap.

Mai: Sounds tacky.



//Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap//



Seto: And apparently didn't bother to wake it up before writing this.

Yugi: That's mean.

Mai: It also explains a lot.

//When out on the lawn arose such a clatter//

//I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter//



Mai: Still in the tacky cap?

Duet: How can you _spring_ from bed? I can barely _crawl_ out.

Yugi: Actually you spring from bed a lot when you've overslept again.

Duet: O. *is annoyed*

Bakura: And meanwhile, the oblivious Mama continues to have her winters nap.



//Away to the window I flew like a flash//

//Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash//



Seto: O.o And since when do windows have sashes?

Mai: Sashes don't look nice at _all_.

Tea: I think the meaning's different.

Bakura: *writes down "window sashes" next to "Sugarplums" on his List-of- Things-to-Look-Up*

Tristan: *as Mama* You baka! Have you torn my shutters again??

Joey: *as author* But-But-there was this _clatter_! Honest!

Tristan-as-Mama: Are you drunk again?

Joey-as-author: Hiccup! ^-^



//The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow//

//Gave a luster of midday to objects below//



Tea: Not a _word_. *is swinging her hentai-bashing-purse*

Joey/Tristan: .*are cowed*

Duet: Except it would be whiter!

Bakura: What?

Duet: The luster. Midday luster is yellowy and Midnight luster is whiter. . Bakura: Ooookaaaay.



//When what to my wondering eyes should appear//

//But a minature sleigh with eight tiny reindeer//



Yugi: But Santa couldn't _fit_ in a mini sleigh anyway, could he?

Bakura: I feel sorry for those reindeer.

Duet: Don't worry, it's magic!

All: *are happy*

Others: *sweatdrop*



//With a little old driver so lively and quick//

//I knew in a moment in must be--//



Seto: A dueling monkey.

Joey: What! You _jerk_!! *lunges at Seto*

Yugi: *is holding Joey down*

Tristan: Really? I was hoping it was the piazza boy.

Mai: I think the line goes "Saint Nick"

Tristan: Ooohhh.



//Swifter than eagles his coursers they came//

//And he whistled and shouted and called them by name//



Seto: Coursers.?

Tristan: I think you've got another for your list Bakura.

Bakura: *writes it down* Check! ^-^



//Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen!//

//On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blitzen!//



Tea: Dancer! *is sparkling*

Mai: And Vixen too! ^.~*

Joey: *Snort*

Mai: . *slaps*

Joey: @.@ *is in pain*

Yugi: What about Rudolph?

Seto: *sweatdrop* Um, he came after the poem.

Yugi: Okay! *is happy*

Bakura: I thought it was _Donder_? *is confuzzled*(1)



//To the top of the porch to the top of the wall//

//Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!//



Mai: Dash away! *whipcrack*

Joey: O.o* Oookkaay, Mai is a _bad_ Santa Claus.

Seto: *is plaintive* Can _I_ dash away now?

Duet: Hmmm, NO! Next verse! *whipcrack* ^.^

//As the dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly//

//When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky//



All: ..

Bakura: And that means..?

Seto: They fly over stuff that's in their way.

Others: O.o Oh



//So up to the house-top the coursers they flew//

//With the sleigh full of toys and Saint Nicholas too//



Seto: _What_ are_coursers_! *is twitching*

Yugi: Up on the house-top

Duet: Click

Bakura: Click

Mai: Click!

Joey: Down through the chimney Tristan: With Old Saint Nick!

All: O.o *are freaked*

Seto: That was _wrong_ and not the natural order of things.(2)



//And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof//

//The prancing and pawing of each little hoof//



Tea: Which would give you a migraine after a while.

Yugi: Not to mention wear and tear on the roof.

All: *nodnodnod*



//As I drew in my hand, and was turning around//

//Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound//



Joey: Waitwaitwaitwait. He had a _chimney_ in his bedroom?

Tristan: And wouldn't Mama notice the racket?

Seto: is sarcastic* _Maybe_ it's the _downstairs_ window.

Duet: You couldn't _bound_ down a chimney-no room.

Yugi: If you bound _down_.

Bakura: Super Santa. Leaps tall chimneys with a single bound.



//He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot//

//And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot//



Mai: Fur collects dirt _horribly_! Ugh.

Tristan: *whips out paper entitled "Santa's Christmas List"* 1. For people to start hiring chimney sweeps again.

Seto: A-choo! It makes me sneeze just thinking about the dust.

Yugi: Or maybe someone's talking about you.

*Somewhere, in the distance, we hear rabid Seto fangirls drooling over Kaibaboy*



//A bundle of toys he had flung on his back//

//And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.//

Bakura: *as peddler* And now for just $99999.99 you can have a brand new _car_!

Yugi: *sweatdrop* Um, no they can't.

Bakura: Oh. Oh well. ^.^

Joey: Doesn't he have a piazza box in there somewhere?

Tristan: Food.

Seto: Don't they have a 30-minute guarantee or something?



//His eyes- how they twinkled! His dimples how merry!//

//His cheeks were like roses! His nose like a cherry!//



Bakura: O.O And now I have exclamation point afterspots.

Yugi: If his face is that red, his cholesterol can't be good at all.

Tea: Maybe we should leave fat-free cookies.

Joey/Tristan: Eww! *make faces*

Mai: Maybe it just matches his outfit.

Duet: Maybe he's just Irish.

Others: ..

Duet: -_-0 Nevermind.



//His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow//

//And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow//



Joey: How is a mouth like bow?

Seto: Like this. *ties Joey's mouth shut*

Tristan: I think it _might_ have been the other kind of bow.

Mai: Of course! Haven't you heard of Cupid Bow lips? Like mine?

Tea: . Show off.



//The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth//

//And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath//



Yugi: Santa has some _bad_ habits.

Tristan: Maybe he drinks too.

Joey: It would explain why he's always so merry.

Bakura: No! Santa doesn't drink anything but milk!

Yugi: And Coca Cola. ^-^



//He had a broad face and a a round little belly//

//That shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly//



Yugi: Chol-es-ter-al.

Mai: There's nothing little about a jelly belly.

Tristan: Jelly Bellies? Please?

Duet: Sorry, fresh out of jellybeans.

Joey: _I_ _want_ _my_ _PIAZZA_!

Tea: Really it's _my_ piazza, since it was _my_ money.

Seto: You actually _want_ that taste monstrosity?

Tea: . Hmm, good point.



//He was chubby and plump; a right jolly old elf//

//And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself//



Yugi: So being fat automatically gets you laughed at?

Joey: That's what fatties are for.(3)

WHAMCRACKSLAM

Girls: *settle back down*

Joey: @.@ Owies..



//A wink of his eye and a turn of his head//

//Soon gave me know I had nothing to dread//



Seto: And he thought Santa might be something to dread-why?

Tea: Well, he _kinda_ looks like a clown..

Bakura: Nooo! The evil clowns!

Seto: Point taken.

Joey: Gave me know-is that English?

Tristan: English being defined as?

Yugi: Not this.



//He spoke not a word but went straight to his work//

//And filled all the stockings and turned with a jerk//



Tristan: What about under the tree?

Bakura: Egad!(4)

Others: What?

Bakura: That's why the tree presents are all from Parents, because-

Bakura/Yugi/Duet: -Santa only does _stockings_!

Others: *sweatdrop*



//And laying a finger aside of his nose//

//And giving a nod up the chimney he rose//



Tristan: I wonder if that would work?

Joey: *walks over and tries it* WOOSH!

Others: O.O!

Yugi: *runs over and pulls Joey back out*

Joey: *coughcough* Never try that at home.

//And he sprang to his sleigh to his team gave a whistle//

//And away they flew like the down of a thistle//



Tristan: Down of a thistle.?

Yugi: Like Dandelion fluff.

All: Ohhh.



//But I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight-//



Voice From The Sky: Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night!

YGO Gang: *Run over to window*

All: Oooooh!

Yugi: It's Santa!!

Seto: Santa _is_ real_! O_O!

All: *in awe*

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(1)- The site I got the poem off of _actually_ had a site page for the debate on Donner/Donder. And people say _I_ have no life.

(2)- I don't own this line. Xander says this after the Buffy gang sings the theory song for the "Once more with feeling" episode. (Bunnies!)

(3)- *ducks blows from angry Joey fans* He's not this mean I know! I lurve him too, but I needed to have _someone_ say it. I also don't condone the teasing of fat people, as I am rather chubby myself.

(4)- No, I'm not making fun of his accent. I was just watching "Pinky and the Brain", so. Egad! Zoinks! NARF!! *cackles*



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Ta-da! I hope you all like this! Some parts were better than others. O. Well, please review! Have Happy Holidays! ^.^