December 3, 2008 - 22 more days to go!
Link hated Christmas shopping.
For one, he never knew what to get anyone. Buy Mario a pizza and he loved you forever. Same with Luigi. That was pretty much all he knew. But he was extremely annoyed at everyone dragging him in, then running off in seperate directions to shop till they dropped. Link sighed, and sloped off to the record store. He was in there often, when he wasn't fighting.
"Link!" the owner, Michael, laughed. "Main customer. How've you been?"
"I've been alright. Just annoyed," Link sighed. "I don't really like Christmas much."
"You sure?" an astonished Michael said. He held up a small CD. "Very rare, this one. Van Halen made a new song called Proper Crimbo, parody of the Bo Selecta one. Fancy it?"
"No thanks," Link shook his head.
Mario then ran in, throwing a mountain of random CDs and DVDs into his bag, then giving it to Michael and handing him money. Michael stared after Mario as he ran off. The same process happened with everyone, and Link eventually left, deciding not to get murdered on Christmas Day since he didn't want to get anyone anything. After all, why should he buy Kirby a present after hair dye went horribly, horribly wrong?
Then, he had the sneakiest idea known to man.
He would simply buy something they hated. And that was easy enough - they were forever complaining! Mario moaned about chocolate. Luigi lamented over computers. Sonic sighed over cold showers. It couldn't have been simpler.
Chuckling to himself, he jingled his heavy pockets and ran to a makeup shop, thankfully not bumping into Peach on the way.