Oh no! The Christmas chapter was late, just like the Thanksgiving one! Ok not as late, but still one day late.
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Lilikoifish: Yeah. The idea for the Revenge of the Turkies was really fun to type up. Thanks for helping me get the evil disclaimer turkey.
StrawberryEggs: Glad you liked it. The main part I wanted to put in was the DPLS in the Thanksgiving chappie.
Ginki: Quote from Ginki: "(But I agree with this turkey. Kratos is an idiot. (Runs away, taking some DPLS with her)" Unquote. -.-x I'm not angry. I'm not angry. But I'm happy that you liked it. continues to chant I'm not angry...
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Disclaimer time!
This chapter's lucky disclaimer guest is...Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
Lilly: First the turkey and now a Reindeer. This is going too crazy.
Me: This is a fanfic so anything can happen.
Lilly: Then why don't you have Kratos marry you?
Me: It's more fun to dream.
RTRNR: :Using Morse code with bright red nose: Can I say the disclaimer now?
Me: Oh yeah, go ahead.
RTRNR: Eastercat doesn't own anything that is related to Tales of Symphonia or any christmas songs that she didn't edit.
Me: Hey! you just added that last part. That was practically a spoiler.
RTRNR: I'm sorry :looks sad in a cute way:
Me: :feels pity: Awwww... how can I be mad at you...
Lilly: :rolls eyes: why didn't you give pity to the turkey?
Another month passed. The weather became colder, but didn't snow. The trees became bare and animals migrated away. Most of the families in town were away to visit families or go skiing in Hima.
Lloyd was visiting Genis at his house. "Genis, do you have something fun to do here?" Lloyd was lying on top of Genis's bed, bored to death.
"Genis was reading a book. "You can pick out a book to read."
"But reading is boring." Lloyd whined.
Genis closed his book. "Stop whining Lloyd."
Something caught Lloyd's eye. "Hey, what's this?" Picking up an odd looking toy, it looked like a cross with a hard ball attached to it by a string.
"Don't touch that!" Genis grabbed the thing in Lloyd's hand. "It's a weapon called a Kendema."
Lloyd looked at it with interest. "Can I play with it?"
Genis had his eyes half closed. "Lloyd…I just told you it's a weapon."
"It looks like fun. Lemme try it. And how can it be dangerous?" Lloyd grabbed for it, but Genis whapped him with the ball of the kendema.
"Ow…" Lloyd rubbed his shoulder.
"See? That's how it's a weapon. It can also do other things."
"Like what?"
There was a knock on the door. Genis answered it. "Hi, Colette. Come in."
Colette tripped in and quickly got up. "I'm going to have a Christmas sleep over on Christmas Eve. Can you guys come? I'll be really fun. We're gonna bake cookies, make ginger bread houses, am more. Make sure to bring some gifts because we're going to give them to one another. Also at night we're going to-"
"Wait..." Genis stopped her. "How many people are coming?"
Lloyd asked, "Why do you need to know that?"
"We'll I want to give a present to whoever is there, so I need to know how many people are coming to get the right amount of presents."
Colette answered the question. "Only you two are invited."
Lloyd smiled, "Good thing Jake is not invited."
Colette continued explaining about the sleepover. "So anyways, at night we're going to stay up to see Santa Claus."
Genis laughed. "You still believe in Santa Claus!"
Lloyd slapped Genis on the head. "She could believe in what ever she wants."
Genis rolled his eyes as he rubbed his head.
Colette put her head down. "I know that some people don't believe in him. But if we do believe in him, Santa will come!"
She walked out of the house with the face of faithfulness. Genis and Lloyd were a bit stunned by Colette's sudden exit. "Sooo…" Lloyd broke the silence. "I'm going. Are you going, Genis?"
Genis sighed, "Yeah…I'll just go along with the whole Santa thing."
Lloyd smiled, "Thanks, Genis. I gotta tell Dad about the party."
As he left he told Genis. "Bring a good gift."
Genis called after him, "You too."
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Raine was grading some papers at the schoolhouse. "Let's see, ok, so Lloyd wrote a short essay about stars." Raine muttered to herself as she read the essay.
When she finished she had a surprised face. "Lloyd actually did a good job. He even named over 20 stars. He deserves an A."
She wrote (for the very first time) an A on Lloyd's paper, as Frank walked in. "Hello Miss Sage."
Raine put her paper's down. "Why hello Frank. You can call me Raine if you want to, you know."
"Sorry to bother you, but I have a huge favor to ask you."
"Is this about Colette? She's doing very fine in class."
Frank shook his head. "I'm not worried about Colette's grades. I'm just worried about Colette being disappointed on Christmas Eve. See, she believes in Santa."
"So what do you want me to do?" Raine could see where this was going.
"I need you to dress like Santa and act like him for Christmas Eve."
Raine knew it. "Why can't you do it?"
"I'm not as young as I used to be. So please. Can you do it?"
Raine sighed, "Fine, I'll do it."
Frank smiled. "Thank you Raine, I'll give you the costume tomorrow.
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On Christmas Eve, Lloyd knocked on Colette's door; he wore a thick brown jacket over his red pajamas. Colette opened the door, she wore a white night gown with an angel on it and blue pants. "Hi Lloyd! You could put your presents under the tree. Me and Genis are making cookie dough."
Lloyd came in, but heard some whines behind him.
"Can Noishe come in?" Colette asked her dad.
He replied, "Noishe is too big to come in to the house, but you can let Kiki out to give him company."
Colette let out the little brown terrier to play with Noishe.
In the kitchen, Lloyd couldn't stop chuckling at Genis's PJs, which were light blue footies.
"Shut it Lloyd. It was the only pajama I had that was not in the laundry."
Soon the kitchen had the smell of cookies being baked. They put on aprons before making their gingerbread houses. Lloyd got three small milk cartons. Genis put bowls of various candies on the table. Colette got a bowl of icing, unfortunately she tripped and the icing hit Lloyd's face. Colette and Genis couldn't stop laughing, while Lloyd washed the sweet, white, frosting off his face.
After a few minutes making their houses, Genis asked, "Are you building a gingerbread version of you house, Lloyd?"
"Yeah," Lloyd made a little bridge over his blue sprinkle stream. "What are you making? It doesn't look like your house."
Genis put the carton on a raised platform made of gram crackers. "I know that. I have this house in my dreams and I really feel at home."
Colette broke their conversation. "How do you like my ginger bread house?"
"Umm… Colette? It looks like a dog more than a house." Lloyd commented.
Colette blushed a bit in embarrassment. "Well…it a dog-house then."
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Frank got on his piano. "Ok, time to open our presents, but you guys need to sing for your presents. You guys need to sing as a trio first, then do a solo each."
Colette, Lloyd, and Genis started to discuss which song to sing. "Why do we even need to sing?" Lloyd whined. "I just want to open my presents."
Genis shrugged. "I have no problem singing."
"Lets sing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. That's been my favorite." Suggested Colette.
"Did anyone answer my question yet!"
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Lloyd (looking embarrassed), Genis, and Colette stood in front of the fireplace to sing. Phaidra was at the kitchen table waiting to listen. Noishe looked through an open window with Kiki on top of his head. Frank played on the piano the intro music to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. The trio began to sing.
Rudolph the red nose reindeer ("reindeer" Lloyd added) (Note that the extra parts are said by Lloyd)
Had a very shiny nose ("Like a light bulb. Wait, what's a light bulb?")
And if you ever saw him ("saw him")
You can say it even glows ("Like a firefly")
All of the other reindeers ("Reindeers")
Used to laugh and call him names ("Like Pinocchio. Who's Pinocchio?")
They never let poor Rudolph ("Rudolph")
Play in any reindeer games ("Like Monopoly. What's Monopoly")
Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say. ("Ho Ho Ho")
'Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?'
Then all the reindeers loved him ("loved him")
As they shouted out with glee. ("YIPPEE!")
'Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer' ("Reindeer")
'You'll go down in his-tor-ry!' ("Like Columbus. Who's Columbus?")
Frank and Phaidra clapped while Noishe and Kiki barked. Colette, who was between the two boys, grabbed their hand. "C'mon you guys, we need to take a bow." The trio bowed, and unprofessional bow, and sat down at the kitchen table.
Frank got ready to play another song. "So who's going to do their solo first?"
Genis stood in front of the fireplace. "I'm going to sing 'Raine got ran over by a reindeer'. My version of 'Grandma got ran over by a reindeer'."
Frank started the intro music.
Raine got run over by a reindeerWalking home from our house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
but as for me and Lloyd we believe.
She'd been drinking too much potion,
and we begged her not to go.
But she forgot her books and tests, and she
staggered out the door into the snow.
When we found her Christmas morning,
at the scene of the attack,
she had hoof-prints on her forehead,
and incriminating Claus marks on her back.
At the end, everyone clapped. "Poor Professor," Colette had a sad face. "She got ran over by a reindeer."
Lloyd laughed. "Colette, it's just a song, so don't worry about it."
Next up was Lloyd. "I'm going to sing 'Jingle Bells'."
Frank started the intro music.
Jingle bells, Martel smells.
Mithos laid an egg.
One of his companions lost a legAnd Jake dances ballet. Hey!
Genis was laughing while everyone else was clapping. Lloyd did a little bow and sat down.
Last to sing was Colette. "I'm going to sing 'Deck the Halls'."
Her father started to play on his piano.
Deck the Halls with bowels of holy.
Fa la la la la la la-la la la
Tis the season to be jolly
Fa la la la la la la-la la la
Now we dawn our gay apparel
Fa la la la la la la-la la la
Tis the time for yule time carol
Fa la la la la la-la la laaaaaa
Everyone clapped as Colette, the only person to sing the Christmas song correctly, ended.
Lloyd cheered. "Now it's time to open presents!"
Frank handed out the present and there were sounds of paper being torn apart. Colette hugged her new dog plushie from Lloyd. "Thank you Lloyd for the cute plush and thank you Genis for the book about the Chosen's regeneration journey."
Genis was already skimming through his new cookbook from Colette. "You're welcome Colette and thanks for the cookbook. Thank you Lloyd, for the new cooking utensils."
Lloyd was trying to play with the toy version of a kendema from Genis. "You're welcome. Thanks for the kendema. Thank you Colette for the chocolates."
Noishe and Kiki were playing with their new chew toys and barking their thanks.
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The trio slept in Colette's room. Colette woke up hearing footsteps down stairs. "Lloyd," Colette whispered as she shook the snoring Lloyd awake. "I hear something downstairs."
"What?" Lloyd woke up with a tired face as Colette shook Genis awake.
"Don't tell me," Genis yawned with his hair messier than usual. "Santa is here."
Colette tiptoed to her door and opened it a crack. She beckoned Lloyd and Genis to come and see. "Santa's here!"
Lloyd and Genis looked through the door and couldn't believe it. They saw a person dressed in red with white hair and a matching beard. Colette crawled out the door with Lloyd and Genis behind her. They tip toed downstairs, where Santa was just putting their presents under the tree. Lloyd and Genis were too amazed to speak, but Colette spoke up. "Hi, Santa!"
Santa turned around, "Why hello Colette. I didn't know you would be up at this hour."
Colette hugged Santa. "I knew you would come." She noticed something. "Santa? Did you lose weight?"
Santa did his famous laugh. "Ho Ho Ho I didn't know you would notice. I…uh…went on a diet. Mrs. Clause told me to. I mean for Thanksgiving I was served tofu turkey."
Colette giggled as Santa gave her a wrapped present. Santa walked over to the two stunned boys and gave them each a present. "You've been very good boys this year, Lloyd and Genis."
Lloyd didn't know what to say. "Th…thank you"
Genis was in the same condition as Lloyd. "Th…Th…Thanks."
Santa walked towards the chimney taking a cookie from the table with him. "Ho Ho Ho. Merry Christmas and hope you stay good."
Santa, somehow, jumped up the chimney and disappeared.
"I told you he's real." Colette said as she opened her present containing two Frisbees.
Lloyd opened his present containing a wooden sword. "I'm sorry that I didn't believe you at first, but I'm just wondering. Why would Santa give me a wooden sword."
"Maybe you're meant to fight with swords when you get older."
"I dunno about that."
Genis opened his present containing a book titled 'Battle Magic for beginners.' "I dunno if that Santa was real, I mean you said he was different."
"He is real!" Colette yelled. "You saw him with your own eyes."
"But…"
"Who's yelling?" Colette's father walked downstairs with his pajamas on. "There's no need to be yelling at this hour."
"Dad!" Colette hugged her father. "I saw Santa. He was right here, but Genis doesn't believe in him still."
Genis shrugged. "It's possible to have someone dressed up as him."
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Frank opened it. There was Raine with her Santa Claus hat and normal clothes on. "I'm sooo sorry, Frank."
Frank looked confused. "Why are you saying sorry? You did a great job being Santa."
Raine became confused. "But…But…But I didn't give the gifts yet."
Frank was surprised. "What do you mean?"
Raine explained. "I was going to get dressed as Santa, but I saw a book on Genis's bed. I never read it so I started to read it. It became dark. Suddenly, I remembered the favor to do for you. I was about to change, but the Santa suit was gone. The door was open and I saw Kiki and Noishe chewing of the suit. It took me a while to get it back, but when I finally got it back." She held up a greatly damaged Santa Suit. "I couldn't wear it anymore."
Everyone in the house was surprised. Genis started to stutter. "But…But…if that Santa was not Raine, th…then who was the Santa?"
Colette, Lloyd, and Genis raced to the window. They saw a sleigh being pulled by reindeer in the sky. It flew across the face of the moon and disappeared over the mountain, leaving behind a trail of shining dust.
The part with the singing for christmas presents idea was from a Christmas tradition my family does. I just couldn't leave it out.
I did not get any ideas for this chapter from anyone else's stories. So don't blame me.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!