KawaiiGameFreak:This chapter is going to be one of the longest one yet, so be prepared. Thanks for the reviews everyone! Ja ne!
Ch15:We Wish You a Screwed Up Christmas
LAURA'S POV
I knew the day was going to be a disaster when my mom called. "Hello?"
"Laura BZZT BZZT, kindly explain."(I'm not telling you my middle and last names)
"Explain what?"
"Explain what you're doing living with 26 others and more importantly, dating."
"I'm not quite sure how to explain how they got here, as for the whole dating thing…"
"Why didn't you tell us this?"
"I wasn't sure if you wanted me to call and say, "Hi mom, guess what? I got a boyfriend."…wait a second, how do you know?"
"That's not important, now, before I forget, I'm sending you some presents but they won't get to you till the 28th."
"No problem. See ya later." I hung up. I could hardly believe it's been a whole year already. All the stuff that's happened, all the memories and all the therapy I'm gonna need. For now, I'm just gonna enjoy the holidays, get to shopping, and ignore the fact that a physic clone cat from an alternate dimension has a crush on me. I'd made up my wish list and was trying to figure out what to get for everyone. "I'll get him a muzzle, him a brain, her some non-pink stuff, her some sports equitment…" As I babbled on, my phone rang. "Hello? Hi Ash, what's up? Ya I saw that to, what's it called again? Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness or something like that? Shadow Lugia looks sooo awesome! Ya know what sucks? Twilight Princess was delayed till next year! It was supposed to be out this November. Anyway, gotta go, bye." I hung up and looked at my list. "Now…what to get YL?"
MEWTWO'S POV
I hated listening in on her phone conversations but I had to figure out what to get her. "Maybe that game she was talking about? But I can't afford that…" I walked into the kitchen, and something caught my eye. A thin plastic card was just sitting there on the counter. I've seen humans pay for things using cards like these. I hope she won't mind be, borrowing it, for gifts.
EXPLOITS VALLEY MALL
LAURA'S POV
"Now everyone knows what to get, right?"
"Right."
"And we aren't going to have a repeat of last time, are we?"
"Nope."
"Good, you have three hours to get any last minute gifts, wrapping paper and alike, the world is waiting for you. Good luck, travel safe…GO!" In a flash, everyone was speeding off, looking for gifts and junk. Since tomorrow was Christmas, I ran to the grocery store to try and get a half decent turkey. Hopefully this will turn out better then Thanksgiving.
FLASHBACK
"Now you all better appreciate me, I worked hours on this thing, so…dig in." As I opened the lid of the large black pot to revel the steaming turkey, Link jumped about six feet in the air and clung on to the ceiling fan.
"Keep that thing away from me!"
"What's wrong with him?" YL leaned over and whispered,
"He has a chronic fear of turkeys and chickens."
"Don't you? I mean, you're practically the same person."
"No…I have a chronic fear of pigs." I just smiled and sweat dropped, then Link pulled out the Master Sword and impaled the turkey.
"DIE EVIL CREATURE! DIE DIE DIE!"
END FLASHBACK
MEWTWO'S POV
Why did the stupid electronics department have to be in the back of the mall? Even though the others waltzed around in their regular wears, I at least tried to keep low. I scanned the rows of video games for that one Laura mentioned. "Need any help, sir?" One of the employees asked. I had to use my non-physic voice.
"I'm just looking for a game for my…friend." I hadn't used my real voice since July, so I wasn't used to it.
"Which one?"
"Gale of Darkness."
"It's right here." She opened the glass case and pulled out a purple and white game case with 'Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness' on the top and what must have been 'Shadow Lugia' on the front. "Will that be all, sir?"
"Yes." I paid for the game and walked out.
"Hey! Mister!" I turned around to see some little kid staring up at me. "You sound like Mewtwo." I just walked away. "HEY MISTER!" The kid was attracting all the attention the mall could give him.
"If you promise to be quiet I'll give you a candy."
"O-K. I was just wondering why you're wearing that funny looking cape and why do you sound like Mewtwo and why is there a big bump in the back of your cape and why is your face covered up and…"
"Look, kid, I'm very busy, so kindly go back to your mom and…"
"I can't, after we came back from Japan Mom and Dad took me here and I ran for the compeuter place and now I can't find them."
"…by any chance is your big sister Laura?"
"Ya, she's pure evil." I chuckled a bit.
FLASHBACK
"Do you live alone, kid?" Fox asked.
"Na, my parents left for vacation last night before you guys showed up, they took my little brother Cameron with them. He's pure evil."
END FLASHBACK
"I'll take you back home."
"Ok, I tried but I got lost." I turned around, and smacked into Laura.
LAURA'S POV
I bumped into this weird looking guy. He wore a shabby brown cloak that covered his entire body. Next to him, I saw my little brother. His short, brown hair was stuck up in the back and his blue eyes looked like they hadn't slept for a while. "Cameron? What on Earth are you doing here?"
"Mom and Dad are here; they're home for Christmas."
"Well, doesn't that just suck? Oh well, come one, I've got shopping to do. Thanks for finding him…" I turned to face the odd man, only he wasn't there. "Do you know who that man was?"
"Nope."
YL'S POV
I looked at the crowed mall. "Oh man, we can't get through here."
"Yes we can," Ness had a certain look on his face…we're doomed. "all we need to do is clear traffic."
"And how, dare I ask, are we going to do that?" Ness ran over and stole a cart from in front of a store.
"Climb on!" He picked me up (mentally) and put me in the cart while he rode on the handle bars. There was a large ramp with two sets of stairs on opposite sides of it that led into a bustle of people. Ness started pushing the cart over the ramp.
"NESS ARE YOU CRAZY?"
"…yep." With one final push, we were sent flying. "OUTTA OUR WAY!" People ran into nearby stores as the cart swerved past benches some idiot put in the middle of the lane. We were out of the hallway of smaller stores and into the main Wal-Mart. "YAH-HOOOOOOO!" The isles were narrower and we knocked down a couple of displays. "Hey, Link One?" Because me and my 'bro' are practically the same person, we have a ridiculous amount of nicknames, Link One and Link Two are the most common.
"Ya?"
"Where's the brakes?" Before I could answer, we'd swerved in front of the electronics department and crashed into a CD display.
"Are you guys ok?"
"Wazafrazza…" I poked my head out of the piles of CDs now scattered all over the floor. "Oh…hi Laura!" I noticed a 7 year old boy standing next to her. "Who's he?"
"My little brother, otherwise known as the demon. Get used to life in hell, bys."
BACK HOME
LAURA'S POV
After we got our shopping done, we went home and started to decorate the tree. Roy picked out a good one, after the fact…
FLASHBACK
"Which tree should we get?" Roy asked.
"Just make sure it's not too tall and the top is straight to we can put the angel on top."
"Ok." He looked through just about all the trees on the lot. "Found one!"
"Well cut it down so we can go home, my feet are frozen!" He readied his sword and took one swing at the tree. It was supposed to go down, but the tree went up, in flames that is. "…was that supposed to happen?"
"Keep trying!" He kept trying. Every time he'd find a half decent tree, he'd go to cut it down and end up scorching it. After a half an hour of this, there was only one tree standing. Roy was about to cut it down when I yelled out to him. "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I'M GETTING THE CAINSAW!"
END FLASHBACK
I think Roy broke the sound barrier that day. While we were putting the decorations on the tree, Peach asked if we could sing some carols.
"Ok with me…deck the halls with gasoline, falalalalalalala, light a match and watch the scene, falalalalalalalalala, everybody dances 'round, falalalalalalalala, as EVI burns down, falalalalalalalala."(EVI is the name of my new school btw)
"I don't think that's the way it goes."
"Ok…dashing through the snow, on a pair of broken skis, over the hills we go, banging into trees…"
"Try again."
"…Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg…"
"Nope…"
"Joy to the world, Falcon's dead…"
"HEY!"
"The night, Santa went crazy…"
"THAT'S IT! NO MORE CAROLS!"
"Fine with me…A HUNDRED BOTTLES OF EGGNOG ON THE WALL…"
"…this is some twisted idea of a running joke, isn't it?"
8 PM
My friends came over for the Christmas party, and since my little brother was home, Ashley was on red alert. "If he comes up here, sick 'um."
"No problem. I'll go wolf on him."(private joke, don't ask) We'd just finished watching some ridiculously old Christmas specials on TV and were getting ready for the annual eggnog drinking contest.
"I'm not even going to ask." YL chuckled, then everyone started laughing. "What's so funny?"
"Look up." On the top of the doorway, above me and YL's heads, was the worst thing about the holidays, mistletoe. "That can't be good."
"What's so bad about that?"
"It's called mistletoe, during Christmas, when two people are under it…um…" The girls finished of my sentence.
"LAURA AND YOUNG LINK, SITTIN' IN A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…"
"Ok, gez…" I put my Raptors hat in front of the camera Ashley had and kissed YL for a good 20 seconds.
"Awwwww." We both blushed.
"How come you blocked the camera?"
"…what kinda question is that?" I turned to YL, "Consider that an early Christmas gift." And I walked off.
YL'S POV
"Woh," I thought, "that was good." I really hope she likes the gift I got her, I need to make up for…
FLASHBACK
LAURA'S POV
I was up late playing Pokemon:LeafGreen. I'd spent an hour in the Safari Zone looking for a rare pokemon. "Found it!" As one approached me, I threw a pokeball at it and counted down. "3…2…1…BOH-YA! I FINALLY CAUGHT ONE!" I jumped out of bed and started dancing, forgetting what hour of the night it was. "CHAN-SEY! CHAN-SEY! CHAN-SEY! OH YA, DO THE BOOTY DANCE!(anyone who's seen Charlie's Angels would know what I mean) DO THE BOOTY DANCE! CHAN-SEY! CHAN-SEY…" I heard the door open.
"Laura, do you have any idea…" YL stopped in mid sentence and started blushing. I looked down. I'd forgotten a very important fact, I wasn't wearing any pants.
"Well this is embarrassing."
END FLASHBACK
LAURA'S POV
Everyone was getting ready for the contest. Me, Alecia, Ashley, Link, Peach, Mario, Luigi and Yoshi were all sitting at the kitchen table with at least 100 cartons of eggnog in front of us. Marth was the judge. "Ok people, here are the rules: next to your chairs are buckets incase you need to hurl, no making your opponents laugh, gag, etc, the last one chugging wins. Are you ready? Get set…CHUG!" On queue, everyone grabbed a carton and started guzzling. Alecia was the first one to hurl, followed by Peach. Seeing the two girls hurl made Link sick so he hurled. Mario took one chug and spat it out in Ashley's face which (needless to say) got her very ticked so she left the table and proceeded to try and kill Mario. After there were only 23 cartons left, me, Luigi and Yoshi were left. I made a funny face when Marth wasn't looking and made Luigi spew eggnog out his nose. I laughed so hard at the sight that I spewed eggnog out of my nose to. Yoshi won.
"No fair!" I yelled, "Luigi made me laugh!"
"So, you started it!"
"Did not!"
"Did to!"
"Did not!"
"Did to!"
"Did not!"
"Did…"
"I DON'T CARE WHO STARTED IT! JUST PLEASE SHUT UP!" Everyone fell silent. "I doesn't matter anyway, Yoshi is the winner!" Marth held Yoshi's arm up liked he'd just won a wrestling or boxing match. Yoshi started jumping up and down.
"Yoshi, yo…SHI!" Everyone looked at Peach.
"He asked where his prize is." Everyone looked at me.
"What?"
"Isn't there a prize for whoever wins?"
"Oh ya! I almost forgot! Everyone who takes part has to pay 5 bucks, the winner gets the pot." Everyone handed Yoshi 5 of whatever their currency was, whither it was Mushroom Kingdom coins, Canadian dollars, Rupees or whatever currency the Ice Climbers have. Yoshi looked at all the money he had in his hands, thought about all the things he could buy with it, then, he ate it.
11 PM
The girls had just left and everyone else was asleep. I don't know why I got him a gift; I guess I kinda feel sorry for him. I went outside and put my gift by the big tree in the backyard. I looked up. He was asleep on the branches, looking half frozen. "You should come inside before you catch a cold." He was still asleep. "Suit yourself." I shrugged my shoulders and walked back inside. I knew he liked me, I don't mind though, I mean he must be awful lonely, being the only one like him. I don't even think anyone besides me got him a gift. I looked back. "Good night, Mewtwo, see you tomorrow."
6:30 AM
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS! IT'S CHRISTMAS!"
"Why in Din's name are you up so early?" YL asked.
"You have to get up early on Christmas Day, it's an unwritten rule!"
"Whatever you say." Everyone got up and went into the living room. It looked like the toy department at Wal-Mart! "Now remember, Cameron, it's better to give then…"
"Ya ya, peace on Earth, give me presents!" Cameron yelled. He dove into the pile of presents looking for his. Everyone else did the same.
"Got one!" I yelled. I opened it and pulled out a coupon. "This coupon is redeemable for 1 year's supply of Slim Fast…what the BEEP?"
"Who's it from?" I looked one the tag and chuckled dryly.
"To Laura, From Mis.P.Each and Mr.F.Alco." I heard Peach muttering.
"I told you we should've picked better names."
"I thought it would be so obvious she'd never guess." In an hour and a half, almost every present was opened and wrapping paper lined the floor. I got Pokemon XD:Gale of Darkness from an unknown person, Peach got a dress from Link (and I thought I had the whacked up boyfriend), I also got Nintendogs from YL, YL a toy light saber from me, Nana and Popo got new hammers from Kirby, Marth got a tiara from Roy, Roy got a beating from Marth, Pikachu and Pichu got hats from Yoshi, Jigglypuff got a microphone and a pack of markers from Zelda, Samus got a punching bag from Falcon (who was later used as a punching bag by Samus), Mario and Luigi got each other new plungers, Ness got a book called "Getting a Life For Dummies" from YL, Falco got a laser from Fox, Fox got a recipe for French Toast from Falco and everyone got a Terry's Chocolate Orange from me.
There was one present left. I tore off the blue and red wrapping paper to reveal a plain, brown box. I opened the box…and went to heaven. Inside that box was a t-shirt and hat, but not just any t-shirt and hat. They were both white; the shirt had the Canadian Idol logo on it and the words 'Rex Goudie' below in blue letters. At first glance, they weren't that special, until you look on the corner of the shirt and the brim of the hat, both of which had the words 'Laura, all the best, Rex' written on them in black marker. "It's a shirt and hat, big whoop."
"Big whoop is right! Do you know what this is?" I asked as I held up the shirt. "This is a shirt, that Sexi Rexi Roudie Goudie signed himself! OMGOMGOMGTHISISTHEBESTPRESENTEVERIT'SEVENCOOLERTHETWO GAMESIGOTTHANKYOUWHOEVERGOTMETHIS…who did get me this anyway?" No one, not even YL, responded. "Hey, there's a note." I picked up the note from the bottom of the box. When I read the signature, I almost passed out.
Dear Laura,
I know how much you like this guy, so I bought the shirt and hat and got him to sign them. I was going to get you the CD, but they were all sold out. I hope you enjoy my gifts (they cost a hell of a lot of money). Happy holidays from,
Your real secret admirer
P.S: I hope you-know-who isn't jealous
"So who's it from?" YL asked. If I told him who really got me this stuff, well, I'm not sure I want to find out.
"I'm not sure, whoever they were never signed the card. Oh well, THANK A BILLION WHO EVER YOU ARE!" For some reason, Pikachu started laughing. "What's so funny?" He stopped laughing and just looked at me.
"Laura, why are Pikachu's ears different?" Cameron asked.
"What?"
"Look!" He pointed at Pikachu's ears. I've never noticed it till now, but the line on his ears where the color changed from yellow to black was supposed to be straight, but it looked slightly jagged.
"I swear I've seen that before." Pikachu noticed me looking at his ears and ran. "That was weird…now if you excuse me, I'm going to play my new games." I grabbed the case for XD and ran downstairs.
MEWTWO'S POV
I'd just woken up and I could hear shouting from inside. I looked at the ground and saw a package. It was wrapped in purple wrapping paper with a white bow and it clearly had far too much tape on it. I went down and opened it. It was a CD player and headphones. On the bottom of the box was a note.
Dear Mewtwo,
I hope you like my gift. I wasn't sure what kind of music you liked, so I burned off a 3 Doors Down CD, well most of the songs are 3 Doors Down but the last one I threw in just because. I'm not sure if the headphones are going to work, you can try if you want. Yours truly,
Laura
PS:Happy Holidays!
I didn't quite know what 3 Doors Down was, but it sounds like a band of some kind. "I wonder what the last one is." I put on the headphones and skipped to the last song on the disk. I almost burst out laughing. "I'll admit, you have a good scene of humor." I laid back and hummed the words. "Since, the moment I spotted you…" About thirty seconds into the song I was interrupted by a small zap to the leg. "Oh…hello, Pikachu." He gave me a sly look.
"You like her." He said in a sing-song tone of voice.
"How'd you know?"
"I saw the gifts. Where'd you get them?"
"You have no idea how expensive those were."
"How much?"
"The game was 50, the shirt was 27 and the hat was 15."
"So you got me that game. I was wonderin' 'bout that." I turned around to see Laura, smirking away without a care in the world.
"Um…hi…?"
"I just wanted to thank you for the gifts. I know it must have taken you a lot of trouble to get those. Ya like yours?" I nodded. "Kk."
"You're welcome, by the way…um…why'd you get me anything?" She chuckled a bit.
"You don't really need a reason to get someone something. Besides, after you got me that shirt and hat, I couldn't just give you nothing. Anyways, I noticed how you signed the card…'Your real secret admirer', does that mean what I think it means?" I slowly nodded. "K then, I never knew you were so sweet, thankies." She approached me and gave me a shy kiss on the cheek. As she started to walk back inside, she stopped for a moment. "By the way, you might want to get that CBS checked out."
"Excuse me?"
"Chronic Blushing Syndrome."
7:15 PM
LAURA'S POV
The entire day was spent playing my new games and calling all my friends to brag about the autographed shirt and hat ("I hate you" lol, Alecia). The funniest part of the day was convincing my grandma not to come over for dinner. "Um, I'm really sorry grandma, but…you see, I have COUGH COUGH, a really bad cold and…AAACCHHOOOO! Sorry 'bout that, anyway, I'm just worried you might catch it so…sorry, ok? Maybe next year…bye." I hated doing that, but I was worried she'd walk in the door and have a heart attack. All the older smashers were in the dining room while me, Ness, Nana, Popo and YL were in the kitchen watching Christmas cartoons on TV. I still don't know how Zelda managed to get two turkeys and the whole shabang in 4 hours. "Isn't there a tradition where everyone says Grace?" Nana asked.
"Um...I pledge alegence to the flag of the United...I mean...Canada..." After I finished(I don't know the pladge of alegence so I put in parts from O Canada), everyone just staired at me."...rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub,Amen."I almost literally slammed my face in the plate like a pig, but it was too much trouble to get bits of mashed potatoes out of my hair. Everyone was pigging out on the dinner. "Guys, save a bit, kk?" All I heard was 'Mrrrpphhh' as everyone was too busy eating to answer. At the 'Adult Table', all I could hear was Zelda yelling at everyone about proper etiquette.
"No! Use that fork for turkey and that fork for peas!"
"Aren't you supposed to use a spoon for peas?"
"No, you use a spoon for the mashed potatoes."
"But don't you use a fork for those?"
"AAARRRRGGG!" All of a sudden, Luigi zipped around the corner with Zelda in pursuit yelling "YOU WILL LEARN PROPER ETIQUETTE OR FACE THE PENALTY!" While everyone was watching Luigi get beat like a drum, Kirby sucked up all the food on the table along with the sliver wear, plates and candles, which turned him into Fire Kirby. Then he set the drapes on fire.
"KIRBY!" Everyone yelled.
"Why'd you set the drapes on fire?" Link shouted. Kirby just looked at him and smiled.
"Fiiirrrre!" Link ran to the kitchen sink (Hey! I rhymed!) and filled up glass after glass and poured it on the fire, while Kirby just kept burning the drapes. Everyone at the 'Kid's Table' was rolling around with laughter and the 'Adult Table' was thinking up ways to kill Kirby for eating all their food. In the midst off all this, a shout came from outside.
"STOP THROWING YOUR CAR KEYS AT ME!" Everybody stopped what they were doing and looked out the sliding glass door to the deck. Mewtwo was up the tree with a blue shield around him while a man and woman throwing car keys at him. For some reason, those people looked familiar, and then it hit me.
"…MOM? DAD?" They looked up at the deck where everyone was standing to get a better look at the scene.
"Oh hi, Laura, you won't believe this, there's a mutant cat up there!"
"I'd prefer not to be insulted, thank you."
"Anyway…" Dad noticed all the smashers on the deck, "…what's going on here?" Everyone went inside and I explained to my parents about how they got here and a bunch of other stuff (leaving out the whole 'love triangle' thing). Mom seemed to look at Link the whole time.
"And this must be the boyfriend you mentioned." Everyone in the room fell apart.
"Mom! That's my boyfriend's older self. This is my boyfriend." I gestured to YL.
"…How old did you say he was?" The entire room exploded with laughter once again.
"10…now before you say anything…Mom…Dad…are you ok?"
"I think they fainted."
8:01 PM
My parents had finally woken up and were asking a lot of questions. "I still can't believe that you survived all year, who did all the cleaning?"
"Zelda." Everyone muttered.
"Who did all the cooking?"
"Zelda."
"Who drove you everywhere?"
"Peach and Zelda."
"Who mowed the lawn?" Suddenly Link piped up.
"We couldn't get the turkey out." Me, Peach and Link fell to pieces while everyone else was in a state of 'WTF?' This year has been full of weird and wonderful moments, new friendships and great parties. But for some odd reason, I couldn't help fell a bit sad. Eventually the portal would open up, they'd have to leave and I'd be back to my boring old life. 'Maybe I could come with them,' I thought, 'then I could see what the Super Smash Tournament that they've been talking about is and I could still be with YL.' I knew that my parents would never allow it, but when you have a boyfriend with a sword; getting parental permission is all that easier.
KawaiiGameFreak:I don't have much to say except Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Ja ne!