'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the abandoned studio that was currently the headquarters of the production of Prince Crawford, not an idiot was stirring, not even Schuldich (who had found a rusty pair of scissors during our ahem... "short" [yeah, right] break and was now devoted to terrorizing everyone with them).

No stockings were hung by the chimney with care, because for one thing, production studios (even abandoned ones) don't have chimneys. And Verie's too cheap to buy stockings anyway.

All of our favorite morons were snug in their beds, with really stupid dreams dancing in their really stupid heads.

Then suddenly, the moronic author awoke with a fright! .. And started screaming bloody murder. Oy vey.

"What the hell happened?!" Schuldich demanded, as everyone barged in. "I've been STABBED. In the *EYE*!" Verie screamed. Everyone looked around for Farfie, who was nowhere to be seen.

"... I mean, by my bangs." Verie said, pointing to her heavily gelled bangs. "... You woke us up for THAT?!!" Schuldich demanded, you see, Schuldich is very fond of his sleep. "... Well, it HURTS." Verie whined. Schuldich waved his rusty scissors threateningly. Verie cowered behind Shinigami. Suddenly, a revelation struck her!

".. Guys.. where's Brad and Nagi?" Verie asked. ".. They're onstage, where they've been for the past month." Ken said. Verie sweatdropped. "Eh.. heh.." "... You mean it wasn't your cruel, horrible, plan to leave them out there for Christmas?" Schuldich asked. "'Course not! I'd only do that to you! ... And probably Brad! But not Nagi! He's an innocent bystander in all this." Verie exclaimed. ".. You'd better go get them, then. I, however, am going to sleep." Schuldich said, and walked back to his room.

So Verie ran onstage, and woke up Brad and Nagi, who were sleeping (.. obviously.. because you can't wake up someone who's already awake..).

Brad jumped up and glared at Verie angrily. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG WE'VE BEEN SITTING HERE?!!!" He demanded. ".. Erm.. do you?" Verie asked. ".. No, I gave up counting. That's why I was asking." Brad glared. ".. Ah.. ha... erm.. a little more than a um.. month..." Verie sweatdropped. "A MONTH?!!!! WE'VE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR A CENSORED MONTH?!!!!!" Brad yelled, waving his glowstick threateningly. "... Yes." Verie whimpered. "I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Brad yelled, advancing on Verie with the glowstick. Verie, knowing there was only one thing that could stop this, started screaming bloody murder again. She's good at that.

"FOR CENSORED SAKE, CRAWFORD! LEAVE HER THE CENSORED ALONE SO SHE'LL SHUT UP!!!" Nagi yelled. Brad decided that, for the sake of his ears, he would do so, and put the glowstick down. "Ok, you see.. I have something else to say." Verie said, backing away from Brad.
".. I have a feeling this is something that will make me want to brutally slaughter you." Brad glared. ".. Most probably. You see.. um... it's kind of.. Christmas.. tomorrow... and.. um.. jah." Verie nodded.
".. .. I'm going to kill you." Brad stated. "PLEASE! DON'T HURT ME!" Verie sobbed pathetically. "You're only making me want to murder you more." Brad glared. ".. Erm.. right. Anyhow, you can't kill me because it's Christmas and that would be UNCOOL. ... And plus, you'd all be stranded here forever." Verie nodded. "... Good point." Brad blinked. "Anyhow, since I'm such a wonderful loving person, I'm letting you come offstage to join us for Christmas! Aren't I great?" Verie asked happily. "... I'm going to kill you." Brad said. ".. Right-o." Verie declared, and they all got to go offstage.

"Anyhow... AHEM! Everyone! I have an anouncement!!!" Verie exclaimed, then frowned when no one came out of their rooms. Because they're asleep, and Verie's an idiot.

"... Leave me alone, and wake everyone up." Verie glared. Fine, I WILL. AND EVERYONE WOKE UP.

"... Censored narrators..." Schuldich mumbled as he woke up and gathered in the main offstage area.

"Anyhow, everyone, since it's officially Christmas... because you see, it's midnight. So it's Christmas, we can all have presents and stuff!" Verie exclaimed happily.
"... .... Riiiight... I'm going to go sleep now..." Schuldich mumbled, but Verie used her evil death glare on him, so he stayed. Yay.

Anyhow, so our favorite morons opened their presents, (which included the tie Shinigami got Verie for Christmas, and Verie is rather happy about that, and she WON'T SHUT UP about it, so shi-ne Shinigami), and Schuldich got a non-rusty pair of scissors, and Brad got a new glowstick (because his old one had stopped glowing, you see) and everyone was happy.

Especially Jimmy Sprinkles, who, since the sudden disappearance of her sister, Shinigami, had moved into Shinigami's room (and thus, moved out of the "closet with a closet") and proceeded to read all of Shinigami's graphic novels. The only clue to Shinigami's disappearance was an odd message only the answering machine, which was in German. Luckily, Shinigami's dad knows German, so they managed to decode most of it and stuff. Jimmy wasn't really worried, because she recognized the insane rabid squirrel laughter at the end to be Schu. .. Why she wasn't worried, we may never know. BUT OH WELL.

Anyhow, back to the studio, Schuldich was chasing Verie with his new scissors, because her bangs had stabbed her again, and he wanted to chop them off so he wouldn't be woken up by her screaming anymore.

And Brad was chasing Verie with his new glowstick, because of the whole leaving him out in the middle of nowhere for a month thing.

And Aya was chasing Brad, because he got a spiffy new katana he wanted to try out.

And Ken was playing soccer, and successfully breaking all the windows.

And everyone else was wondering why the angel on the Christmas tree was a guy, had silver hair, and only one wing....

.. Because no one gets Verie's blatant references, and frankly, we don't want to know.

And so, as this chapter comes to and end....

Omi: Merry Christmas to all!
Verie: And feliz navidad!
Brad: I bet you feel real clever.
Verie: Yup ^_^ I can speak random bits of Spanish! SQUEE!
Shinigami: Meri kurisumasu no da!
Brad: -.-;
Verie: LET'S SING RUDOLPH IN JAPANESE!
Brad: Let's not.
Ken: Wait... isn't saying "Christmas" a reference to a religion, and thus should be censored?
Verie: .. Shut up. Um... happy late Hanukkah! Happy Kwanza! Happy Emperor's Birthday! And um... Happy holidays! And for those of you who don't celebrate any winter holidays.. um... ... sorry, I can't think of anything to say. Erm... happy average day!
Brad: Clever.
Verie: ... Shut up -.-;
Schuldich: Frohe Weihnachten!
Shinigami: Joyeux Noel et Bonne Année no da!
Verie: .. damn your French.
Farfie: I was neglected in this chapter... Nollaig Shona duit!
Verie: ... Damn your Gaelic. ~runs off and comes back with a list~ MWAHA!
Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta!
Shen tan jie kuai le!
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Vesela Koleda i chestita nova godina!
Geseknde Kersfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar!
Vesele Vanoce!
Others: WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP ALREADY?!!
Verie: ^_^; Merry Christmas, and happy new year! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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Verie: eh.. heh.. Sumimasen for the lack of new chapters.... school's been kinda busy and I've had writer's block. I've actually started a new chapter, but I'll probably scrap it and start over ;_;' So here's a special holiday chapter ^_^ about that last part... um... that's me being an idiot ^_^; I believe all of that says "Merry Christmas" or "Merry Christmas and happy new year" because I got it all off of this site... which is here: http://www.travlang.com/xmas.html if anyone wants to figure out what langauges I used. .. I honestly couldn't tell you, I just picked some langauges that I've actually heard of off of there and stuck them in... some of them are fairly obvious, though. Like the Hawaiian one. ^_^ Anyhow... I'll try to get a bunch of chapters uploaded now that it's vacation, but I'm not promising anything... mwahaha... there's a Gamecube waiting for me under the tree.... oooh.. merry Christmas indeed ^_~ I can play it while wearing my UBER-SPIFFY-TIE! ~cackles~ MWAHA!!!

.. By the way... does anyone get my blatant reference? With the angel? ~sniffle~ Final Fantasy fans seem to be very hard to come by around here...