Anime Christmas Special
Ch. 1; Yugi of the 3 Kings
Still we're right on the night of December the 12th. We return to see the gang on "Yu-Gi-Oh", including (we know him, we love him, it's——) Yugi Muto (still wearing the Millennium Puzzle and that hairdo, but in a cool Christmas outfit). (A/N: Too bad poor Tristan is forced into a Santa Claus outfit; we see him holding an ice pack on his head.)
Joey taps Yugi's shoulder, "Hey, Yugi." Yugi asks, "What Joey?" Then he sees us, "Oh! You're still here, that's great! If seen the title of the chapter, then you'd know that Star AJT 84 has placed the responsibility of "We Three Kings of Orient Are" on our shoulders." Joey began to sweat; "Geez, and that song's so old that this John H. Hopkins, Jr. wrote this song in 1857, I can't believe something so old would be so traditional and cool."
Mai said, "The whole 'Sha-Dooby-Doop' thing was just added in to put a little more beat in some of it." Mokuba wondered, "I wonder what the names of those kings are." Tristan said, as he recovered, "I think they are Malkiar, Caspar, Balthazar." Serenity said to him, "You can take that off now Tristan." Embarrassed, Tristan gave the spinning hand signal to tell Yugi to start the music. Yugi understands, "Now for the beautiful and haunting song; 'We Three Kings'."
——We Three Kings of Orient Are —— John H. Hopkins, Jr., 1857 ——
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Born a king on Bethlehem's plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign.
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Frankincense to offer have I.
Incense owns a Deity nigh.
Prayer and praising all men raising,
Worship Him, God on high.
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Myrrh is mine: Its bitter perfume
Breaths a life of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Glorious now behold Him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through the earth and skies.
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
——End Song——
Téa clapped her hands, "What a wonderful song!" Serenity cheerfully asked us, "Wasn't that delightful?" Joey was nearby, listening to the half-Jazz version of the song on a headset. Mai pull an earpiece out of his ear and shouted, "Didn't you pay attention, Joey?" Joey explained, "The readers are allowed to imagine how it has to be played, so why can't we?" Mai sighed, "You have a point there."
Yugi thought of something, "Oh, yeah!" He holds up a red wristband full of silver bells and explains; "The author thought it would be delightful to write brief fan fictions about each of us on the Christmas holiday." Joey added in, "Yeah, like school being out until after New Years' Day and stuff like that." Tristan follows, "and spending time on dates." We see into his imagination of dating Serenity, Duke Devlin's suddenly interrupts his!
Yugi sighed, "Oh!" But he regained his composure, "Well, the short story tonight involves us enjoying Christmas after all the chaos of Duelist Kingdom, Battle City, & Dartz."
——Begin Short Story——
The holidays are starting. Pretty much of the entire town of Domino is decorated for Christmas. Téa Gardener is Christmas shopping, but she got caught to 'Once Upon A December' sung by Deana Carter. "It's beautiful."
Joey is doing Christmas shopping as well, he's glad to hear that his sister is coming for the holidays, but he's worried about what to give her. Pretty much he's not good of thinking about what to get her since they've been away from each other so much. Joey thought, "Aw man, and I thought it would be hard. Kaiba might be a wrong choice to ask for advice, I bet he'd be a real Scrooge."
He heard Tristan's voice behind him, "I wonder which Serenity would like." Snapping back into reality, Joey swiftly turned his head and found Tristan looking at light-type variety cards. Joey snapped, "Tristan!" Tristan swiftly turned his head towards Joey and said, "Joey? What are you doing here?" Joey explained, "Christmas-shopping, Romeo! What kind of idiot would give my little sister 'Duel Monsters' cards?" Tristan held out a piece of paper, "At least some people give out their wish lists, including letters to Old Saint Nicholas." Joey laughed, "Well, ho, ho. Ho!"
Yugi is doing Christmas shopping too. He's got Joey some rare and strong 'Duel Monsters' cards, and some good gifts for everyone as well. As he returned to the Kame Game Shop; he said, "I'm home, Grandpa." Solomon Muto (wearing a Santa Claus hat over his bandana) said, "Ho, ho, ho! Hello, Yugi. Have you read the papers lately? They say that a Duelist dressed as Santa Claus is coming to town."
Yugi smiled, "Very funny, Grandpa." Solomon said, "No, seriously. A Duelist dressed like him just came by at the shopping mall and said you're on his naughty list. Like that's easy to believe."
Yugi didn't believe his grandfather, but above on the rooftops of the Domino district, a Duelist dressed as Santa sternly said, "Soon, Yugi, I'll have the power you carry around your neck."
It soon became December 24th; Yugi got Téa out for a date with Yami for Christmas Eve Morning. Yugi got Yami in the usual outfit; blue jacket, black muscle-shirt, black khaki pants, black leather shoes, and Duelist belt. Téa dressed in the best looking, warmest, coolest, and most bodacious Christmas dating dress she could find; which includes a pair of high-heeled silver dancing shoes, white garter-length leggings, a green short skirt, a red tank-top, and a nice warm snow-white winter jacket.
She waited for Yugi to arrive patiently. As soon as Yugi arrived, he switched from Yugi to Yami Yugi. Surprised by the weather, Yami shouts at the Millennium Puzzle, "What? Yugi! You can't! Not again!" Then he saw Téa before him and he said, "Hello."
The first thing they got to was a pre-Christmas lunch, Yami has been quiet recently. Téa asked, "What's on your mind, Yami?" Yami pulled out a newspaper he picked up, "Yugi's grandfather had the most unusual information about a Duelist that imposes as someone called Santa Claus. And this man says Yugi is on his naughty list. Who is Santa Claus anyway?"
Téa giggled and explained, "Santa's name is short for Saint Nicholas; we imagine him as a fat, bearded man with a kind heart who makes toys for children and gives gifts for children who have been good. He rides in a flying sleigh pulled by eight reindeer around the world to get there. Usually kids who have been really nice offer him some milk and cookies. He comes around each place one night each year, and those nights are the nights of Christmas Eve."
Yami asks, "Christmas? What's that?"
Téa laughs again, "Apparently this is going to be your first. Christmas is holiday observed for the memory of celebrating the birth of the Christian god, Jesus Christ." Embarrassed, she quickly covered mouth. Yami said, "I'll forgive you, I understand that you were saying the name of birth child. Please continue." Téa complied, "It's over 2000 years old, younger than you in fact. People around the world celebrate it by decorating the streets, the homes, the trees, giving presents to the people they love a lot, and other things as well. But the most important thing is this; Christmas is not the getting, it's not the giving, it's the loving."
Yami laughed, "I don't consider myself much of a god, at all." Then he thought about something, "I wonder if this Christmas holiday spirit would be too much for me to overcome." Téa became confused, "Why do you say that?" Yami explains, "If Christians celebrate this holiday, why do non-Christians do so as well?" Téa said, "Like I said, people love it for just the reasons of loving. Let's go and see more, wherever we feel like doing now."
First they stopped at the music store Téa stopped at recently, Yami decided to give her the CD. Then he noticed some of the holly and mistletoe, Téa explained that most of it is usually for decoration. Then Téa said, "But the most traditional thing about mistletoe is this; men are privileged to kiss girls standing under it. Or vice versa." She kissed Yami on the cheek, and then he blushed.
Then they heard Joey's voice, "Whoa! That was kind of—— sweet of you, Mai." They looked and found Joey, Mai, & Serenity walking around, with Tristan & Duke Devlin following them in tow. Joey looked dizzy, Yami asked, "Uh, who kissed you under the mistletoe, Joey?" Joey got out of his daze and said, "Mai & Serenity." Serenity chirped, "I kissed him on the cheek." Duke followed, "And he got the full force from Mai." Tristan quietly grumbled, "I wish I got a kiss from Serenity."
Serenity is reading a novel called 'A Christmas Carol'. Yami wondered, "What is a Christmas Carol?"
Téa and Yami continued on their Christmas Eve date, as well as explain everything there is to Christmas. After seeing 'A Christmas Carol' in a theatre, Yami said, "I wonder if those spirits are capable of bringing out the good spirits out of everyone." Téa agrees, "I hope Seto Kaiba can warm up at least a little more."
Back where Joey & the others are, Tristan smelled the air, "Smells almost like someone's drinking." He followed his nose to a bar and together they all found Rex Raptor & Weevil Underwood; both of them are drunk as idiots can be. Joey said, "They must have it bad." Tristan smelled what they were drinking, "A steaming hot alcoholic orange-flavored drink."
Rex drunkenly belched out, "Look out, Santa Claus is coming to town." Weevil followed, "And he'll be gunning you down." Confused by what they meant, Joey joked, "Have you two been naughty or nice?"
At Kaiba Corp., Seto Kaiba is still at work in his company. Mokuba is away doing some quick Christmas shopping (like Seto still believes in the holiday spirit, let alone like it). At a shop window, Mokuba saw a poster depicting Yugi, Seto, & Joey as this years' Three Kings. Mokuba laughed and said, "Yugi Muto, the King of Games; Seto Kaiba, the King of Business; and Joey Wheeler, the King of the Dark Horses."
The Santa Claus imposter was watching the scene, he said, "Time for the sleeping bomb to take effect." He pulled on a cord hard, and that cord lead to small bombs throughout Domino and Battle City! From the bombs came out chloroform spray, knocking out almost everyone in the district.
Joey & the others noticed the gas first and covered their mouths and noses as they fled to the streets! As soon as the gas lifted, Yugi's friends picked up the unconscious and brought them into the warmer indoors to be safe from the cold.
Mai said, "Who could drug the entire city to sleep?" Mokuba, who made it out, guessed, "I believe it was that Santa Claus imposter Duelist we've read about in the newspapers that's after Yugi." Joey groaned, "Everyone's after Yugi." Tristan said, "By the amount of victims who survived, they should wake up by some time tonight."
Even Seto Kaiba was placed in a drugged sleep. Luckily, Yami & Téa weren't that ignorant, they came through the gas.
The imposter Santa said, "Not even the Pharaoh can wake up from that. For his Millennium Puzzle is mine!" Another voice was heard, "Ho, ho, ho!"
The imposter turned around fast to see someone else in a Santa Claus outfit, the other Santa said to the imposter, "Merry Christmas and——" A quick-change out of that Santa Claus costume to reveal Yami Yugi, who finished in his normal voice, "A happy new year!"
The imposter Santa Claus growled, "You!" Yami Yugi asked, "Was there something I did to you in your past life?" Joey came up, "Laugh it up all you want Fake Santa! Tell us who you really are!" Téa followed, "Even if you are the real Santa Claus, you wouldn't do this to the whole city!" The imposter Santa shouts, "I am Santa Claus!"
Then he smirked, "The evil part of him anyway, the darkest part!" Then the outfit exploded to reveal a young man with dark black hair with the same looks as Yami Yugi's! He's dressed in a gray overcoat with white fur-covered collar, a black muscle-shirt, black leather pants, and thick-heeled heavy boots. Mokuba comments, "This reminds me about Duelist Kingdom."
The Dark Santa began to talk in a gruffer and younger voice, "The name's Nicholas Santos, the name Saint Nicholas would go by. A long time ago, before Christmas was formed, a great shaman came around giving handmade gifts to those who were worthy of worshipping Christ the Savior. The one you know as Santa Claus was that very shaman, he traded in his very dark half of his soul away, and he recovered through all the kindhearted energy that was gained over the years."
Santos continued to talk, "Even when the air is cold and when the sun was dying, all spirits' powers were still strong, including my own. But those accursed blessed bells drove all evil off, including me! When you've finished your Millennium Puzzle, I awakened in that very year's December, giving me a body of my own. Once I get my hands on your power, Pharaoh, I can rejoin myself to my other half and begin a war against the Christian God!"
Yami Yugi said, "You will do no such thing! You have to beat me for it, and during my time with Téa, I've reorganized my 'Duel Monsters' deck to fit this holiday! Let's duel!" Santos said, "Gladly."
Santos pulled out a Duel Disk on his wrist and activated, luckily Yami Yugi always carried his Duel Disk in case of emergencies.
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Yami Yugi: 8000 LP
Santos: 8000 LP
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Santos drew five cards and said, "My move, and I play the Field Spell Card, Antarctic Wasteland!" A Spell Card depicting a snowy desert of ice, the whole field turned into a huge iceberg field! "As long as this Field card is in effect, all cards of the name Penguin or anything like that get a nice power boost; their Attack and Defense power gets increased by half! I also play Cost Down!" A Spell Card depicting two daggers stabbing into two Level Stars of a monster card, "This Spell Card can drop the cost of summoned a high-leveled monster by 2 levels, I take this turn to set one monster in Defense Mode." A facedown defense card formed before him. "Make your move, Yami."
Yami Yugi says, "With pleasure, I play Continuous Polymerization (Spell Card/Continuous), a Spell Card that will allow me to continuously go on fusing monsters together as if I had unlimited Polymerization, to fuse my Giant Soldier of Stone (Type: rock-earth/L: 3/A: 1300/D: 2000) & Ceremonial Bell (Type: spellcaster-effect-light/L: 3/A: 0/D: 1850) from my hand together, forming Notre Dame in defense mode!" The three cards came together to form a church-like monster that totally resembles Notre Dame (Type: rock-fusion-effect-light/L: 6/A: 1300/D: 3850)! Yami explains, "This card has the power to give light-type monsters power, that is if you dare destroy it. I also summon, Breaker the Magical Warrior, and place 1 card facedown and end my turn." A red-and-gold Dark Magician-like warrior with a sword and shield appears (Type: warrior-effect-dark/L: 4/A: 1600/D: 1000), and then his sword's gem glowed blue (A: 1900/D: 1300).
Santos shouts, "I'll smash through your Life Points, with my Penguin Torpedo!" A penguin-like torpedo formed before him (Type: aqua-effect-water/L: 2/A: 550/D: 500). The ice glowed blue and powered up the mechanical bird (A: 925/D: 750). "Go, torpedo attack!" The mechanical bird charged for Yami's Life Points and Kaboom!
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Yami Yugi: 7075 LP
Santos: 8000 LP
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A familiar feeling ran through Téa's mind, Yami's feet began to freeze, not just freeze; they're locked in a solid block of ice! Yami shouted, "What have you done?" Santos explained, "I've doubled this Duel as a Shadow Game, now whenever we loses Life Points, we gain something else in return; we freeze up from our feet until we're dead from the amplified cold around us!"
Santos continued, "In offering for Penguin Torpedo's self-destruction, I'll play Graceful Charity to draw 3 cards." An angel appeared and created rain that sprinkled over Santos' deck, he drew three cards, "And discard 2. Now I play Pot of Greed, to draw 2 more cards." A green pot with a smiling face appeared on top of his deck. He drew two cards from it. Now he's holding five cards. Santos looked at Yami's Dueling Hand, now he's holding six! Santos freaked, "How did you gain a hand of six cards now?"
Yami explained, "I had a Continuous Trap Card set for that; a card called Appropriate; it allows me to draw two cards from my deck whenever you draw outside your Draw Phase. My move." He draws a card and says, "I summon another Fusion Monster, thanks to Continuous Polymerization." His Dark Magician (Type: spellcaster-dark/L: 7/A: 2500/D: 2100) & Buster Blader (Type: warrior-effect-earth/L: 7/A: 2600/D: 2300) appeared and fused into one monster: Dark Paladin the Ultimate Magical Swordsman (Type: spellcaster-fusion-effect-dark/L: 9/A: 2900/D: 2400).
Yami smirked, "And you're not the only one with an ice-related monster." Then he showed the monster; a handsome young man with pale skin and blue hair dressed in white fur (Type: spellcaster-effect-water/L: 3/A: 1200/D: 2000), "The Glacier Shaman and I fuse him with Neo-Aqua Madoor (Type: spellcaster-water/L: 6/A: 1200/D: 3000) making the Great Ice Magician." The two monsters fuse together into another Dark Magician-like monster, only he's in garments colored in white & blue and his staff is like a huge icicle (Type: spellcaster-fusion-effect-water/L: 9/A: 3650/D: 3350)!
The icy field gives Yugi's new monster a major power boost (A: 5475/D: 4825)! Santos became devastated, "That ice-related monster is unstoppable!" Yami smirked, "And it gets worse from there; your cards become frozen so it's now easy for my monsters to bypass them and go straight for your Life Points!" Santos' eyes twitched as he saw his Defender Iceberg monster (Type: aqua-water/L: 5/A: 1100/D: 2450) become incased in more ice, "Oh, gosh!" Joey shouted, "That's a good boy!"
Yami says, "I also play Book of Dark Magical Dreams!" He places a Spell Card down; it depicts a Dark Magician with a phantasmal Dark Magician Girl beside him. "This card allows me to Special Summon a Dark Magician Girl from either my Deck, my hand, or my Graveyard, as long as I have a Dark Magician or any card relating to him on the field." Yami Yugi's Dark Magician Girl (Type: spellcaster-effect-dark/L: 6/A: 2000/D: 1700) appears next to Dark Paladin and points her wand angrily at Santos! Her power goes up (A: 2300)!
Yami shouts, "Go, my monsters, put Nicholas Santos on ice!" Notre Dame rang its bells, Breaker sent a crash wave from a single slash of his sword at Santos, Dark Paladin slashed Santos, Great Ice Magician places his hand to the ground and sends thousands of pillars of ice into Santos, & Dark Magician Girl fires a pink ball of energy at Santos' body!
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Yami Yugi: 7075 LP
Santos: 0 LP
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Santos felt doomed. He looked at his feet and screamed! Ice conquered his body, his Duel Disk and 'Duel Monsters' cards abandoned him, and he shouted, "Curse you!" Yami held out his hand and shouts, "For trying to destroy the spirit of Christmas, I banish you to oblivion!" The ice shattered and Nicholas Santos' body is no longer in existence anymore. Yami broke the ice on his feet and collected the cards; he watched them as they changed into a more innocent form.
Téa came to him and glomps him, "You're okay!" Joey cheers, "Yeah! You've just saved Christmas! Three cheers for Yugi! Hip-hip!" Everyone else cheer, "HOORAY!" "Hip-hip!" Everyone else cheer, "HOORAY!" "Hip-hip!" Everyone else cheer, "HOORAY!"
Mokuba realizes, "Oh, what about those who got a whiff of the chloroform bombs?" Téa realizes something, "Oh, no! Our date!" Mai calmed down Téa, "Téa, do as that Santos guy did, well almost, just chill. You get what I mean."
Later that night, fireworks exploded above the night sky in Domino (Kaiba ordered them (why did he do that? Did he have a run in with his own Christmas Carol ghosts?)), Téa & Yami were glad about their first Christmas date.
——End Short Story——
Serenity claps and cheers, "What a wonderful story!" Mai said, "I wonder who locked that Santos guy up." Téa said, "Who cares, it's just a fan fiction." Duke asks Joey, "How does Yugi do that?" Joey got confused, "Do what?" Duke explained, "One minute, he actually looked like Santa, the next he's himself again. He did a quick change well."
Yami Yugi (since when did he change between forms?) came by Téa and patted her on the shoulder. She asks him, "Yes?" Yami Yugi points up, we look up above Téa's head, mistletoe is over her head! As she looks down, Yami kisses her on their on the lips. They both blush.
Joey calls to us, "Hey, readers! Don't forget to call in other readers to read this and inspire the author, Star AJT 84 into writing the other characters you like day-by-day before December 23rd!" Mai backed him up, "Merry Christmas!" Serenity joined in, "And a happy new year!"
(A/N: You've heard Joey, please review me some ideas for brief Christmas fan fictions, and I have some more characters for you to see. Happy Holidays!)
To be continued…