This is the final part of the holiday story of the Holiday village build and hopes to tie this will conclude this year's holiday stories for another year.

I do not own any part of Thomas the tank engine & Friends they are owned by the following.

Thomas the tank engine & Friends

By the rev W Awdry

Developed by Britt Alcroft

Owned by Mattel

Origninal characters owned by Pinkninjaprime and blackboard26

The Holiday Village part 3

Dawn opens on a new winter's morning on the Island of Sodor in the barn located on Thomas's homestead both he and fellow former steamer Edward are busy at work preparing Tick and Toc to take visitors a trip through the back country of Sodor at the Fairgrounds. Previously Thomas his sister and all of their former railway and High school friends had combined their efforts to bring a special attraction to the Island in hopes to raise money for a Charitable cause. Providing funds for the homeless and providing warm meals for struggling families. The opening ceremony was about hours away and Thomas and Edward wanted to make sure the sleigh and the horse team will be there safe and sound. The two waited at the platform that connects their farm loading platform from their homestead where Thomas and Edward a wait for Gavin and his fireman Fred, to arrive with a flatbed truck and livestock wagon to bring the animals to the fairgrounds safely with the blue E2 that was once Thomas before his humanization.

Thomas Checking his watch in making sure his old self comes by soon. "My former self should be here soon Edward, I hope it comes here without delay." Edward could not help but to laugh at the thought of Thomas worries about his former self becoming late.

Edward. "Ha, ha, do not worry Thomas I am sure your former self will be coming along soon, just remember how long it would have taken any of us to reach any part of the line where everyone who counted on us to take them to their choice of destinations."

Thomas. "And the fact that Gordon's hill is on the way here, I hope it has not gone into trouble just yet." Then both he and Edward heard a familiar whistle. It was Thomas's old self with Gavin and Fred inside of the cab of the blue E 2. "Gavin, Fred what timing."

Gavin. "We are right on time Thomas, just like old times buddy."

Fred. "We are here to bring you and your special attraction for the Holiday Village on its way to the Fairgrounds." Then with the help of Thomas and Edward everyone got the animals in to the livestock truck while the sleigh was loaded and secured tightly onto the flatbed. Then after everything was secured and with the wave of the green flag by the guard the train was on its way and Thomas and Edward managed to get back to the homestead and gathered everyone who will be attending the village venues during the event. Rosie, Ariel and Rebecca will be in the refreshment villa and there will be a variety of woven baskets, serving platters, and art pieces that Percy had created especially for the Village guests to pick and choose for their homes. Henry found his other passion as a master gardener and decided to bring with him the variety of floral arrangements, greenery, and holiday center pieces for the homes of the visiting patrons. Those who are going are Thomas, Edward, Rosie, Ariel, Emily, Rebecca, Gordon, Percy, Polly, and Henry. Everyone else will be at home tending to things on the homestead before heading out for the holiday Village later that day. Thomas and his party arrived first to make sure they were present when the E2 and its train had arrived with Tick, Toc, and the sleigh. While he and Edward wait for the Train to arrive, the girls found their venues and hurried to make the refreshments and edibles ready for their first guests to arrive. While Percy found a place to set up his display of special woven art pieces, and Henry found where he can have his displays of planted plants, floral arrangements and holiday green gifts for when people can come and marvel his displays and may want to purchase for their homes. Then at the platform the E2 had indeed arrived and came to a complete stop enough for Thomas and Edward to unload the sleigh first and set it beyond the loading platform, this reminded Thomas about the time when he was asked to bring a Santa's Sleigh for the Earls Christmas Fair and The controller was asked to be in the place of Santa Clause or who he was know in the British Isles Father Christmas. It was almost a disaster when he accidentally slid into the sleigh that was touching the track and almost sent the sleigh and the controller who was in the sleigh down the mountain tack into the siding and had to haul the sleigh and the controller with some of the lower branches that got caught on his funnel that made him looked like a reindeer, and the earl had placed a red dot on Thomas's nose to make him look like a red nosed engine. The thought of that just made him chuckle about it and Edward could not help but wanting to know what was funny and Thomas just told him and the two had to chuckle on the thought of it.

Then the two managed to bring Tick and Toc out of the animal wagon and had the two hitched up to the sleigh and had brought them along with some straw and hay bales for the horse so they will not get too hungry while they give the Visitors the ride. And managed to bring with them from the road to the village, extra horses from the homestead. They had brought along Nugget, Diamond, Bullet, and some of their newly required riding ponies for pony rides. They had brought with them a variety of Shetland ponies a small yellow and white patched pony who goes by the name of Butterscotch, A small light brown pony by the name of gingerbread, a small brown and white pony by the name of Brownie, a small all white pony by the name of Sugar Sweet, and a small all black pony by the name of Liquorish. All five ponies are ready to be hitched to a rotating wheel where they will be hitched in between the poles that will be far enough for each of the ponies are to be placed and allow for only young children to ride with the parents near by to make sure the young ones stay safe and watched over them as they enjoy the pony rides. Other people who are taking part in the Holiday Village made it to their venues and started to make and bring what they had to offer. Some of the other buildings are just small enough to act as a inside view of Santa's workshops where little figurines of the helpers of the big man, were at work making the toys to all the little boys and girls all over the world. In the center of the Village is a square where there is a gazebo where a gathering of musicians will play holiday music and have a choir sing to the public as they stroll along the Village and view all they wanted to see and come to the square as a meeting place. Soon the trains full of visitors started to gather in the front gates and with the presents of the Mayor of Sodor present to represent the opening of the Holiday Village.

The Mayor. "Greetings to one and all, welcome to the Island of Sodor and the new Holiday Village brought to you by some of our residents to the Island of Sodor including the student body of Northwestern High School and with the assistance of the Northwestern Railway we declare this Holiday Village open to the public." Everyone had cheered, after the mayor had cut the ribbon to open the village as the first visitors ventured forward marveled and see what the village had to offer. Some went into some novelty shops where they see some of the trinkets and other things would be available for the visitors to purchase. Some of the other venues had the International Students to make Homage of their homelands into holiday festive creations for their visiting guests. Frieda managed to bring with her some German inspired Christmas ornaments and offered some German Chocolate cake as a special treat. Gina from Italy had brought with her some of her homeland Christmas traditional cookies and decoration for the Italian in the visitors, Even Shane from Australia had opened a venue to allow for visitors to see what the his country would celebrate Christmas since it is on the other side of the world and it is considered Summer while everyone north of the equator will be experiencing winter at the same time. Then the visitors came and see the goings on in the workshops of Santa's little helpers, they can see where the elves sort out the materials make little dolls, cars trucks and there was one who looked like he was finishing a toy version of Thomas when he was still the tank engine. The Children were having a wonderful time. In the Venue where Rosie, Emily and the other girls were hard at work serving out to their visiting guests the baked treats and the various sweet candies, and hot warmed up drinks like coffee for the adults and hot cocoa for the others who wanted a warm belly after wandering the village grounds. Then they next came up to father Christmas's throne and who was sitting there, non-other than the controller acting as Santa clause as each child climbed up on to his lap and have a camera man on site to take the pictures for the families at home and a far to marvel this special occasion. Then it was time for the first visitors to see the horse drawn sleigh and the sight of the pony rides for the small Children, Gordon was attending the smaller horsed while Thomas and Edward helped the visitors to the loading ramp to the horse drawn sleigh. Then Thomas sees that they have enough for this first ride decided to make it a ride for them to remember and remembers to make sure he doesn't go to fast for the visitors to see as they ventured through this winter wonderland of Sodor.

Thomas. "Alright everyone, this is all for the first ride. Do not worry, everyone will take a turn during the opening hours of the Holiday Village time." Then he and Edward settled down on the driver's seat and with the crack of the reins allowed for Tick and Toc to start off with Thomas chanting. "Tick and Toc, Tick and Toc, let us venture down with a Clip and a clop." The horses do not mind this little chant they know that when Thomas says this, he means to have fun while giving the visitors rides while riding in the sleigh. The route they were given was a sight seeing route where the visitors can have a view of a wintery Sodor while traveling down the snow-covered country side. Some took pictures, while other marveled at the scenery while video taping it down on their smart phones for the relatives back at home can see and marvel over. They even ride under a still waterfall where the ice seemed to form some sort of arch over the pathways. This part of the path worries Thomas and Edward, knowing if those towering pillars of ice was to give way, they will surely block the way back down the village and the path took a narrow pass. Soon they cleared this part of the trail and the mange to return to the Village with their first ride a success. All day long everyone took part in the Village was busy making the visitors welcome while the children were kept busy watching the animatronics of Santa's workshop, or watching Thomas and his friends man the Horse drawn Sleigh and Gordon helps the younger children as they ride the smaller ponies, as their parents took pictures of their child before sending the images to their loved ones who are not present at the Holiday Village.

A while later some of their fellow homesteaders and international friends started to appear and wanted to lend a hand in some of the venues with their friends. James and Molly came over where Gordon was busy with the pony rides and had offer to take the place of Gordon while he get some rest before he returns after his break. Ryan and Ashima came over to where Gina was hard at work and offered some assistance while Gina showed the two what each item is and what was the story behind some of the foods she was offering. Then Gina gets to have her break just as Frieda was given a break after Axel offered her a hand in her venues and explained how both countries have similar interest even if he speaks French while the other is more German. Then at the Horse drawn carriage coral Donald and Douglas had arrived with their Clydesdale horse team to help bring a bit of break for Tick and Toc. Thomas sees this and knows that the Scottish twins want to take part after learning how to handle Scotch and Whiskey pull their large sleigh.

Thomas. "Donald Douglas, you two managed to bring Scotch and Whiskey over to allow for Tick and Toc a bit of rest for a while?" Then as the twins came over and shook hands with their host and friends just before replying to his question.

Donald. "Aye, my brother and I just wanted to see if these two can do as much as Tick and Toc can, so we decided to come over and offer some of our founded efforts in these two."

Douglas. "We wanted to be part of this venue too, so here we are and Tick and Toc surly look like they could use a breather or two." Then the three looked over at tick and Toc and agreed they could use a rest for an hour.

Thomas. "Yes, they can use this time off for now." Then turns to the twins about how the trail goes. "OK listen, most of the pathway runs smoothly at first then you will see this narrow pass near an ice arch made from a frozen waterfall, make sure to take care when you take these two down that path." The two listened very carefully and was acknowledge about the way down the Sudrian country side.

Donald. "Thank yee Thomas."

Douglas. "Ack aye, wee have our best eyes open along our way Thomas." Then Thomas stepped aside and escorted Tick and Toc away from the main body of the coral for a rest while waiting for the return of the Scottish twins with their Clydesdales.

While the twins rode down the trails Thomas decided to visit the venue where Rosie, Ariel, Emily and Rebecca are and see how they were getting along. He was joined up by Edward and Gordon as the three former blue engines went in and visited the girls. And decided to make a seating at the far end of the venue as Rosie and Rebecca had seen their men came in and decided to have a break of their own while Emily, Ariel and Polly continued to serve out to the visitors to the village. Rebecca and Rosie came over with some offerings of warm hot Cocoa and fresh cookies to bring in a smile to their faces.

Rosie. "I just hope these will give you handsome boys a warm feeling after a long day on the trails today."

Thomas. Just smiled and replied. "You warm me up every day my beautiful Rosie Rose." Then he gave her a peck on the cheek as Gordon did the same for Rebecca.

Gordon. "I just hope the visitors are enjoying this warm feeling we are experiencing."

Rebecca. "They are enjoying the venues, I am just enjoying my time with you handsome." Then she and Gordon came together for a lovely kiss where everything was amusing to Edward about how the two have girls in their lives and is wondering if he will find something in someone, all he can do is wish and hope.

After the break was over the three former blue engines came over to the horse drawn ride venue and had managed to meet up with the Scottish twins as they returned with Scotch and Whiskey unharmed and in good health. Then Thomas and Edward came up and seen the two about how the trip went specially with the Frozen waterfall arch.

Donald. "It was still holding itself, but we did hear a few cracks and it had seemed that it may come down before long."

Douglas. "Aye, we managed to go through the gap completely, but judging at the look of that pillar of ice, may not be so good going down until it is clear." Hearing this Thomas and Edward wanted to see this part of the passage before they ventured down with a sleigh full of visitors to get hurt by so the two decided to use Nugget and Bullet to ride down to where the ice arch is and check to see if it was safe enough for another ride or wait until the ice had completely fallen down to make it safe again.

Thomas. "Donald and Douglas please notify the Village Officers and let them know that we will be investigating the path ways for the sleigh rides we will be back to let everyone know how everything looks alright." The twins nodded yes before they went to find the officials for the village, while Thomas and Edward rode down on their horses to check out the trail and the towering waterfall with the ice arch from above. As the two came to the narrow path of the trail the came to the waterfall arch and viewed the arch from their horses' backs about the condition of the ice arch. The arch way did indeed have some troubling cracks in the trickling ice over the path, and if the sun was just right the ice arch would surely come down and hurt someone. Then both Thomas and Edward turned their horses around and went back the way they came and decided to cancel the rides for the rest of the day until the archway waterfall was considered safe to travel under. Then the two found the head of the comity and had informed him about the trail until the following day when the towering ice was cleared enough to venture down the pathway again. Then it was announced that the rides will continue the following day after the pathways was clear of dangerous ice pillars. There was still plenty of pony rides for the smaller children, but the older kids and the adults wanted to see the countryside on the horse drawn sleighs. When the workers for the village heard this, it gave them great wonder, then when Diesel heard about how the rides were going, this wanted for him to make a dangerous journey to the Ice Pillar and wanted to see if the ice can be removed in time for another sleigh ride. He allowed for Paxton Arry and Bert to follow him down the pathway to the ice waterfall and the tall ice pillar and see that indeed the ice pillar is ready to come down, all it needed was something to make it fall some where it will not hurt anyone. All around he and the other Diesel boys looked around and found some large stones for them to throw at the pillar of ice and decided to make huge snowballs to throw at the huge towering ice.

Diesel. "Come on let get this pillar of ice down to see if everyone can still enjoy a wonderful sleigh ride before the sun went down for the day." Then all at once they started to throw their snowballs to the ice sheet, they all were hitting their marks and more of the ice became lose after being hit two or three times before the last one to be thrown by Diesel knocked the towering ice pillar down, and with a crash the tower of ice was now gone and the pathway is now clear of a dangerous ice fall. After the ice was clear and no other form of ice was to come down, Diesel, Arry, Bert and Paxton came back and told Thomas and the Officials of the Village about the pathway was now clear and it was once again open to the public enough for two more rides until the sun goes down for the night.

STH. He had heard this and have much to thank the Diesel boys with. "Diesel, Arry, Bert, and Paxton you four did a marvelous thing by going down that path to make way for our best attraction to our island since the opening of Ulfstead castle. "

Thomas also wanted to thank them with a sleigh ride. "Diesel, would you and your friends want a trip in a two-horse open sleigh?" The Diesel teens looked to each other and nodded yes that they would want to ride in the sleigh.

Diesel. "Thank you, Thomas, and thank you for not being mad at me for not going down that path to clear away that ice for you."

Thomas. "That is alright Diesel, we would rather have it cleared under safe conditions, but you did a wonderful thing and now you and your friends can board the sleigh and we will be on our way on this magical winter wonderland of our Island home." With that the Diesel teens had boarded up on the sleigh and with Thomas and Edward on board the drivers' seat had cracked the reins of Tick and Toc, and down the pathway they went as once again Thomas made his chant to his horse team. "Tick and Toc, Tick and Toc, let us venture down with a clip and a clop."

Once again, they all ventured down the pathway and can see now that the pillar of ice is clean, knowing the way is again safe and everyone can see the wonderful site of Sodor in a blanket of white snow as they traveled down the way they can all see the far end villages looking festive as any other village across sodor. Then at last it was time for Thomas and Edward to pack up their animals and the sleighs and bring them home for the night so they can rest and the girls finished cleaning up their venues, Percy and Henry are also finished with their venues for the day and everyone was ready for home and was about to leave but not before they were met up with the Holiday Village officials about how the day had gone.

Official. "WE had a wonder full first day of our Holiday village and we can tell this will become a grand success, the many of us will be doing more until Christmas eve, then afterwards we can tally up the result and until then everyone will have a wonderful night and get some well-earned rest tomorrow will be another day of services to our visiting guest to the Holiday village." Then everyone had left for home, Thomas, his sister Ariel and Friends decided to bring everything they have and ventured back to the homestead with the animal trailers attached to the trucks and other vehicles in tow.

After returning home everyone gathered in the dining hall before returning to their homes for the night. They gathered around the lounge area and decided on how everything will be working through the next few weeks until Christmas week. Then after everything was settled everyone decided to return to their homes for the evening, as they all headed for home Edward could not help but to look up at the moon and made a wish of wanting to know who will he be able to meet that will make him feel loved and warmed like some of the others have been.

Edward. "I just wish there was some one wonderful to enter my life, and maybe become just as complete like the others are." Then he turned around and joined up with Bo Co and the china clay twin back to the hunter's cabin for the night.

Do we believe there is someone for Edward, does Bo co really have a heart for Daisy? Will Edward's wish for company come true? What do we believe can be possible, let us find out on the last part and the last day for the Holiday village on the journey through northwestern High School?