Hurky: It's the last chapter of 3 Holiday Wishes!
Readers: Awww...
Hurky: But you won't be disappointed!
Riku: What makes you think they'll enjoy it? Someone always reviews to complain about something.
Hurky: Riku, will you shut up? People want to enjoy the last chapter without you making a remark!
Sora: Can we end the story, now?
Hurky: Fine. And now, without further ado, here's the last chapter of 3 Holiday Wishes!
Readers: YEAH! (applaud)
Sora didn't go back to sleep after he finally woke up from his coma. That was late last night. He stayed up the entire night, watching TV and the snow fall outside. Visiting hours started at 7:00, so his family showed up around six to be there with him for Christmas Eve. Little did they know, Sora was awake. So, they were in total shock when they came and saw Sora sitting up in his bed.
"Sora!" said his dad. "You're awake!"
"OMG, SORA!" cried Sora's mom as she bent down to give him a hug. Then, Sora's dad hugged him, and even Ethan gave his little bro a hug.
"When did you wake up?" asked Ethan, still in shock, as he pulled out a chair and sat down.
"Last night." replied Sora. "What happened? I mean...I was at home, hanging out with my friends, when I get up and decide to lie down, only to pass out. I woke up in the ambulance, and Riku and Kairi were freaking out!"
Mr. Hart also pulled out a chair and sat down on the left side of Sora's bed. Sora knew that he was dead and in a coma, and was out of his body granting wishes, but his family didn't know that he knew, so he had to act like he didn't know anything like that happened.
"Well, Sora, at first, you went into cardiac arrest and...well, you died." explained Mr. Hart as he scratched the back of his head. "We put you in the morgue and prepared you foryour funeral, but Ethan found your heart beating and you were breathing, so you were taken here."
"The doctor said you were in a coma, but you were fine." continued Sora's mother, with tears running down her tanned face in happiness. "The doctor also said that the cardiac arrest was unexpected, but you don't have a heart condition. Oh, I'm so happy that my baby boy's alive!"
She threw her arms around her younger son, but Sora had to pull her away from him because she was pulling the cords that were hooked up to him.
"Easy, Mom!" said Sora. "I'm hooked up to stuff!"
"Oh, sorry, Sora!" said Mrs. Hart.
"Hey dweeb, did you look outside?" asked Ethan with his arms folded across his chest. "It's snowing outside."
"Yeah, I saw on the news." replied Sora. "Look, can you guys get the doctor? I kinda want to get out of here!"
So, Sora's mom got the doctor, checked up on Sora, told his family that he was free to go, so he signed the release papers, the nurses unhooked Sora from the machines, got dressed, and was all set to go home early. Hecame out of the hospital in the same outfit he wore the day he died and came back to life in, which was his KH1 outfit. As Sora was wheeled out to the car in a wheelchair by the nurse, Sora shivered from the cold, snowy weather. He never thought snow would be this cold. His family got him into the car and they drove home.
An hour later, at 8:00, Kairi woke up shivering. She got out of bed, put on her pink robe and slippers, and went to the thermostat and turned it up a little bit, not caring that it would run up the heating bill. She went downstairs and to the living room, where she sat on the couch and turned on the TV. There were nothing but Christmas cartoons on, and she was sick of watching them. She normally spent every Christmas watching them with Sora and Riku since she moved to the islands at eight and they would all make fun of Rudolph's nose and laugh at Frosty melting. But this year, it just wasn't the same. Sora was in a coma and Riku was depressed over his best friend. Kairi was also depressed over Sora like Riku was. She listened to her siblings fight with their mom over presents.
"Mom, can we open the presents, now?" asked Kairi's eight year old sister, Alyssa, from the kitchen.
"The answer is no." said Mrs. McCormick. "We're waiting until tomorrow morning."
"Aw, no fair!" whined Jared, Kairi's nine year old brother. "We got to open them last year on Christmas Eve!"
"Well, I want to open them on Christmas Day like normal people." said their mom.
"We can never be normal." Jared said.
Kairi giggled. She was just like Alyssa and Jared years ago, asking her mother impatiently with her older sister, Lani, about opening the Christmas presents, but now Kairi had enough patience to wait until Christmas. She changed the channel to the news, where they were yakking about politics until they got to the weather.
"Can you believe all that snow that fell on the islands overnight, Tom?" asked the anchorwoman to the morning weather guy.
"No, I can't, May!" said Tom. "The sea has frozen over, yes, it's frozen solid! So solid, you can ice skate on it! I'm serious! People are ice skating on the ocean and I have live footage of it from the camera hooked up by the Seaside Shack!"
This caught Kairi's attention. Snow? On Destiny Islands? Kairi put down the remote on the comfy white couch and opened the door to check that the weatherpeople weren't screwing around with everyone, only to find...
"Sora?" asked Kairi.
Sora had his finger on the doorbell, right about to ring it. He was dressed in a blue jacket, gloves, and jeans. He grinned his trademark grin. "Hey Kairi!"
Kairi smiled and threw her arms around Sora. "OMG, I can't believe you woke up!" she said in a muffled voice from Sora's jacket. She let go, and they blushed.
"Surprised to see me?" asked Sora.
"Are you kidding?" asked Kairi. "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"
The two just stood there, laughing in the snow until they heard a voice.
"SORA!" called Riku.
Sora and Kairi turned to find Riku, running up to them, wearing a dark blue parka, jeans, boots, gloves, and a beanie over his long, silvery hair. He caught up to them.
"Is that really you, Sora?" asked Riku.
"Yeah, it's really me." said Sora, still grinning like a jack-o-lantern.
"Come here!" said Riku as he threw his arms around Sora and patted him on the back. "Aw man, I can't believe it! You finally woke up!"
"And just in time for Christmas!" said Alexa as she ran to them, wearing a pink parka, a pink skirt, and white leg warmers. She went to Sora and hugged him as well.
"It's great to see all you guys!" said Sora. He noticed the absence of Hurky and Ryo. "Hey, where are..."
"Hurky and Ryo?" asked Riku. "Hurky went to Wonderland to see her family and Ryo went to her home world as soon as she heard about the snow to get that sled thingy she was talking about. The second Ryo heard the word 'snow' on the news, she rushed to her gummi ship and blasted off. Hurky won't be back until at least two or three this afternoon and Ryo should be back at least ten or eleven this morning."
The four stood there in the snow, until a wind blew, making Kairi realize that she was in her PJs and not in a warm outfit.
"Brr! Can we get inside?" asked Kairi.
"Oh, right!" said Riku as he pushed Kairi aside and went inside the house. "I'm freezing my ass off out here!"
Kairi, Sora, and Alexa trailed in behind Riku and Kairi shut the door. They all went to the kitchen for some hot chocolate and found Kairi's mother sitting at the table, reading the newspaper while chewing a bagel and holding a mug of coffee in her other hand.
"Mom?" asked Kairi.
Mrs. McCormick looked up, saw Kairi and everyone else and looked down. "Oh, hi kids." she said and looked down at the department store ad she was reading, but looked up again and jumped. "Sora!"
Everyone but Kairi's mom laughed.
"Yeah, it's me." he said.
"I thought you were in a coma!" said Mrs. McCormick, still in shock.
"I was, but I woke up last night." explained Sora.
"Well, they let you out early." said Mrs. McCormick. She turned to everyone else. "There's some hot chocolate on the stove, help yourselves. I'll be in the living room. Lani's supposed to call, anyway."
"Who's Lani?" asked Alexa.
"My older sister." replied Kairi. "She goes to Hollow Bastion University. She's coming home for Christmas."
"It's nice to have family coming home for Christmas." said Alexa as she poured herself a mug of hot chocolate. "But this is my first Christmas away from my other relatives, since we moved to the islands. It's totally different."
"Well, Alexa, holiday traditions can't stay the same forever!" said Riku. "My family doesn't really have that many traditions. We open our presents and then do whatever we want until dinnertime. My dad watches football, I go with my friends, and Rep retreats to his lab. Sometimes, I hang out at Sora's house one year, Kairi's another, or we hang at my house."
"Uh, nobody's listening to you." said Sora. He was right. Kairi and Alexa were drinking hot chocolate and looking through the magazine Kairi's mom left behind.
"Screw you guys!" said Riku.
Suddenly, a gummi ship horn was blaring outside and Ryo's voice yelled, "HEY RIKU! I'M BAAACCCKKK! AND I HAVE A SLED!"
Everyone went outside and found a huge, pink gummi ship with the headlights on. The lights revealed that a light snow was falling. The back door to the ship was open and Ryo, dressed in a huge, fuzzy white coat and fuzzy boots, was pushing a large, white sled out of it. Ryo had powers and stuff and she was the oldest of everyone, being 1,103 years old and looking only ten years old (in her world, people age one year every 100 years), was also the strongest. She was able to pick up Riku without breaking a sweat, and he was heavy with all that muscle.
"Whoa, that's one big assed sled!" said Riku in awe as he stared at the sled. "Ryo, do you need any help?"
"No, I'm fine!" yelled Ryo as she kept pushing the enormous sled onto the snow.
"She's gonna end up breaking her back or something." said Alexa to Kairi.
Right when Alexa said her comment, Ryo got the sled onto the snow and grinned triumphantly.
"And I did it without breaking my back!" she said gleefully.
"That's a big assed sled!" said Riku.
"That's not all!" said Ryo. She turned to the gummi ship and called to it. "Oh, Sugarplum! Come on out!"
A snow white horse walked right out of the sled. Kairi and Alexa nearly died from the cuteness of the horse.
"OMG, that is such a cute little horsey!" said Kairi as she and Alexa ran to pet it.
"Had to borrow the sled from Zoge." said Ryo.
"Are you sure you 'borrowed' it?" asked Alexa.
"Okay, I stole it. Varan helped me, but Varan let me borrow Sugarplum." said Ryo as she stroked the hair of the horse.
"Can we feed it?" asked Riku.
"Knock yourself out!" said Ryo, fishing a carrot out of her pocket and handed it to Riku, who fed it to Sugarplum.
Hurky came back to the islands several hours later and gave Sora a big hug the second she saw him, said she couldn't believe that he was awake, blah blah blah...lol.
"My niece just learned how to do the Cheshire Cat disappearing act." said Hurky as she walked into her house with a backpack full of sweets from Wonderland. "She's good at it! She popped up in front of me when I showed up there!"
Everyone laughed.
"You can do the Cheshire Cat disappearing act?" asked Kairi to Hurky.
"Yeah. It's required that you learn it by the time you're in the first grade." replied Hurky.
"Can you show us how to do it?" asked Sora enthusiastically.
"Sorry, Sora, but it takes a lot of time and concentration. I was nearly eight when I learned how to do it. I still can barely do it." said Hurky. She put on two sweaters and a pair of gloves. "Hey, let's go to the mall!"
"Are you crazy?" asked Riku. "That place must be packed!"
"But Riku," said Sora. "What about pulling Santa's beard like we do every year?"
Riku's face brightened up. "Hey, yeah!" he said. "I forgot all about that! Let's go!"
And so, they were going to go to the mall, but Riku had to put chains on the tires of his car and then they finally got to the mall. Sora and Riku recognized the guy in the Santa suit who they thought was from last year and to be safe, they voted to have Ryo pull Santa's beard, since she looked young enough to sit on Santa's lap.
"Why me?" asked Ryo as she stood in the long line to see Santa Claus.
"Because Santy will get pissed if he sees me and Sora again and chase us out of the mall." said Riku.
Ryo pouted.
Riku sighed. "Ryo, if you do this, I'll share a milkshake with you." he said, taking off his beanie.
Ryo gasped. "You really mean it?" she cried excitedly.
Riku nodded.
"Awwww, I wuv you soooo much!" said Ryo as she wrapped her arms around Riku.
"Hey, line's moving!" said Sora.
So, it took about ten minutes for Ryo to finally get to Santa Claus. Finally, the pimply teenager dressed like an elf picked Ryo up and put her on Santa's lap.
"Ho ho ho!" bellowed Santa. "And what's your name?"
"Ryo!" said Ryo.
"And what would you like for Christmas, Ryo?" asked Santa.
"I want-" said Ryo until she saw Riku, who was shaking his head no and holding out his hands, signaling her not to say Riku.
"Ummm...I want a pony!" said Ryo.
"Ooh, a pretty one with long, shiny hair?" said Santa with a grin on his kind face. Ryo nodded.
"Smile for the camera." the pimply teenager said as he held the digital camera out. Right then, Ryo picked that moment to yank Santa's beard down, but it was stuck.
"What the-?" asked Riku.
"HO HO HO!" bellowed Santa once again. "You cannot pull my beard down, since it's an actual beard!"
"Well, he's not the guy from last year, that's for sure." commented Hurky as she watched Ryo get off of Santa's lap and go to her friends.
"You know something?" asked Ryo as she walked up to them. "I think that was the actual Santa."
"No way!" said Sora.
"He might have been." said Alexa. "He didn't freak when Ryo tried to pull his beard."
"True..." said Riku. "Come on, guys! Let's get some pretzels!"
"Sweet!" said Hurky. "I love pretzels!"
After an uneventful afternoon at the mall, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Hurky, Alexa, and Ryo separated after leaving and went home...
The next morning, Sora woke up in his own bed. He got up and looked out the window to find the islands around himstill white with snow. Sora went back to bed and just lied down. It was nice to be in his own bed again. First,he had to sleep on a cloud in heaven. Then, a hospital bed, which wasn't exactly the most comfy bed to sleep in. Now, he had his comfortable bed with the big, cozy blankets and soft pillows. He stared at the ceiling and thought about the dream he had during the night. He saw Joel, who was talking to him, but he couldn't hear a word he said.
After lying and staring at the ceiling for about twenty minutes, Sora decided to get up and get dressed. Then, he got downstairs to find his mother working on the last minute preparations for the Christmas party she was holding that day, but Ethan and Mr. Hart were just about to open presents.
"Hey dorkus!" said Ethan as he picked up a a silver wrapped box and tossed it to Sora.
"Thanks, Ethan." said Sora as he turned the box over and began to unwrap it. It turned out to be a PSP(I do not own the PSP. The people who make the PS2 and soon the PS3 own it). "Whoa, this is awesome! Thanks, Mom! Thanks, Dad!"
Sora's parents grinned.
"You're welcome." said Mrs. Hart.
Ethan received a laptop from his parents, some clothes, and Gran Turismo 4 (I do not own it. I wish I owned a copy of it. I haven't even played it, yet). Sora also received clothes, aMy Chemical Romance CD (do not own My Chemical Romance) from Ethan,and a few games for his PSP, which his parents almost gave the PSP to Ethan when they thought Sora was dead. Sora's mom got an apron from Ethan, a new non-stick pan set and a tennis bracelet from Mr. Hart. Sora's dad got new golf clubs from Mrs. Hart and a watch from Ethan. It was fair for Ethan to get his dad a new watch, since he accidentally submerged it in water while helping his dad wash the car a few weeks ago.
When all the presents were unwrapped, Sora and Ethan helped their parents clean up and then they were told to get ready for the party. It was going to be a formal party, so Sora had to wear a suit.
Sora got ready for the party, and he got almost his entire suit on, except that he had no tie. He went to go put it on, when he noticed a small pile of boxes wrapped in fancy paper and ribbons. He saw a note next to them. He picked it up and read it.
Dear Sora, it said, I'm glad that you granted all 3 holiday wishes and you came back to life. Thanks to you, I got promoted to be a guard and I get kick the butts of anyone who doesn't belong there, hee hee. Plus, I get more free time. To show my gratitude, I have selected some presents for you to give to your friends, with the help of Santa, whom your friend Ryo tried to pull his beard off, but don't tell her! And don't worry, there's a present for you, ha ha! Thanks again! Have a safe and happy holiday, Joel (the guy from heaven)
Sora smiled when he read the note. He turned to the presents. Sure enough, there was one for him, Riku, Kairi, Hurky, Alexa, and Ryo. He took the shiny red one that said Sora on it and opened it to find a new crown necklace. Sora remembered that the EMTs broke the chain of his necklace when they were trying to get him back to life the day he died. He put the chain around his neck and looked at it in satisfaction. Then, he remembered that he needed to put on his tie. So, he quickly put on his tie and put all the presents in the hallway closet. Right when Sora closed the door, his mother called to him and said that Riku and his family showed up.
Sora ran downstairs and found Riku, in a suit but with no tie and Ryo, wearing a pink Chinese dress and her hair was done in a bun with two chopsticks in it, both holding presents. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were with Sora's parents, while Rep was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Rep?" asked Sora.
"He stayed home with his precious lab." scoffed Riku. "He said he had better things to do than hang out with a bunch of dumb losers like us. He also said, 'I can't believe Sore-ass came back to life. Damn it!'"
"Well, I'm not dead, yet!" said Sora.
Alexa and her family walked in the door and Alexa joined Sora, Riku, and Ryo by the stairs, also carrying gifts.
"OMG, Sora, Riku! You guys look great in those suits! Especially with that tie, Sora!" said Alexa. "And Ryo! That is such a gorgeous dress!"
Ryo smiled. "Kairi helped me make it!" she said. "I like how you did your hair!"
Alexa's pink streaked hair was still streaked in pink, but it was now layered.
"Thanks! I got it done just this morning!" said Alexa.
"Wow, I didn't think anyone would be open today." said Ryo thoughtfully.
"Uh, Sora?" asked Riku, with a little weakness in his voice. "Where can we put our gifts? My arms are killing me!"
"I thought you had the strength to hold all those presents!" joked Alexa.
Riku tried to playfully slug Alexa, but he nearly dropped all his presents.
"Just put them on the table in the TV room."Sora said with a laughas he pointed to the room next to him.
As Riku, Ryo, and Alexa put the presents in the TV room, Kairi and Hurky showed up with presents as well. Kairi was wearing a black and pink dress with high heels with buckles, while Hurky wore ablue dress, a black sweater, and boots like the ones Aerith had. Kairi's hair looked the same, but Hurky did her straight hair Goldilocks style. After everyone was in the TV room, they all sat down and started to distribute the presents and opening them.
"OMG, Hurky!" said Kairi as she held out a pink t-shirt that said, I'm with stupids and two arrows were pointing both left and right. "Thanks for the shirt! It's hilarious! When I wear it, I'll stand next to Sora and Riku!"
"I got t-shirts for everyone." said Hurky. "I know how you all love shirts that say stuff.
Riku held out a black t-shirt that saidThingsYou Should Never Say or do to a Cop, and there was a list ofstuffyou should never say or do to a cop. He laughed, but then his laugh went away as he pulled out asmall box with a little red bow from his back pocket and handed it to Ryo.
"Here, Ryo." he said. "I got this for you."
Ryo looked down at the box, took the box from Riku's outstretched hand and untied the ribbon. She opened it to find a heart shaped locket with a diamond on it.
"Open the locket." Riku said with a grin.
Ryo opened it and found a small picture of her and Riku. Ryo had her arms around Riku, who was just smiling a small smile. Tears of happiness welled in Ryo's eyes and she stood up and glomped him.
"Oh, this is the best Christmas present EVER!" she said.
Riku chuckled. "I figured you'd like it." he said.
Ryo let go of Riku and she gave him his present from her. Riku opened it and totally flipped out when he saw it.
"HOLY SHNIKEY! DRAGON QUEST 8!" he yelled excitedly. "THANKS A LOT, RYO!" (Shnikey is pronounced Mikey but with a Shnike instead of Mike)
Then, out of nowhere, he threw his arms around Ryo. Even she was surprised, since he rarely hugs her on his own.
"Awwww..." cooed Kairi, Hurky, and Alexa.
Sora just grinned. He picked up the presents from Joel and Santa and gave them all to his friends.
"Presents?" asked Alexa. "Sora, how did you find time to get us presents?"
"Oh, with the help of some friends," lied Sora, thinking of Santa and Joel.
Riku opened his. "Nice! A watch!" he said. "Thanks, Sora! I needed one after Rep used mine for an experiment..."
Ryo opened hers to find..."OMG, the whole collection of Rurouni Kenshin mangas! Thank you Sora!" she said.
Hurky opened hers to find a pink skateboard. "Cool!" she said. "Thank you so much, Sora!"
Alexa opened hers to find..."Wow, PSP games for my PSP! Thank you, Sora!" she said.
And last but not least, Kairi opened hers to find a diamond ring.
"Whoa..." she said."A diamond ring?"
Sora nodded.
"Are you proposing to her?" asked Riku jokingly.
Everyone laughed.
"No!" said Sora. "I just happened to have gotten her a ring."
Kairi hugged Sora. "Well, this is the best present I've ever gotten from you." she said.
"Can we go eat now?" asked Riku.
"I baked cookies!" said Ryo.
"No!" cried Riku. "You cook terribly!"
"Don't worry, I baked them at Varan's house, getting the horse and the sled." said Ryo. "She helped me out."
"And I baked a cake!" said Hurky.
"NO!" yelled everyone.
"My sister, Neo, helped me bake it!" said Hurky. "Okay, she just mixed the ingredients..."
"Who cares, I'm starving!" said Alexa.
Everyone got up and went downstairs to find a surprising amount of people. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Gretchen, Max, and others from the Disney castle were there, Axel and Larxene were also there, but with them stood a man and a woman who must have been about sixty, with red hair. Then, Sora remembered that they were Axel's parents, who finally got in contact with him right before he came back to life. Axel stood there with Larxene, laughing with his parents. He looked so happy.
"Hey, why is Axel here?" asked Alexa.
"Because my parents decided to befriend him when he moved to the islands about a year ago." replied Sora.
Also, Ansem, his wife, and Oarah were there, too. Sora's parents were also friends with them.
Sora and his friends went downstairs joined in on eating the food. Sora was about to walk into the kitchen when suddenly, out of nowhere, Kairi took him by his tie and kissed him on the lips for a long time in the kitchen doorway. Finally, they let go.
"What was that for?" asked Sora. "Was that to thank me for the present?"
"No silly!" she replied with a smile. "Well, yeah, that, but look above."
She and Sora looked up to find mistletoe. Ethan, also dressed in a suit, stood next to his brother and Kairi, away from the mistletoe.
"Hmm. Wasn't there a minute ago." he said thoughtfully. He shrugged his shoulders, took a drink from his glass of egg nog, and walked off.
"OMG, misletoe!" yelled Ryo as she took Riku by the arm and shoved Sora and Kairi out of the way of the mistletoe to be under it.
"Ryo, I am not going to kiss you!" said Riku.
"Aw, come on!" pleaded Ryo.
Riku sighed and kissed Ryo on the cheek. Ryo squealed. Riku smiled.
"Come on." he said. "Let's go for a ride in that sled with Sugarplum."
He held out his hand and Ryo happily took it and together, Riku, and Ryo walked off.
Sora and Kairi stood there and laughed. Sora could never be any happier to be alive...
Hurky: And that's a wrap!
Sora: Christmas wrap, that is, ha ha!
Hurky: Well, that was fun while it lasted. Remember to have a safe and happy holiday!
Sora: Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
Riku: What about Hannukah? Or Kwanzaa?
Sora: Oh, and have a Happy Hannukah and a Happy Kwanzaa everyone!
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and all the other people who reviewed! Thanks a lot guys! Without you, Hurky would never have gotten this far!
Sora: You know, this is the longest chapter Hurky's ever written.
Riku: I get it, Sora. Once again, Happy Holidays from Hurky and friends!