Guess what!? I finally had a candycane! :D SKLEENESS!!!! n.n
...I own nothing? ...n.n'
CANDYCANE!
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"It looks gorgeous!" Anna grinned.
Kratos smiled softly as his wife held their son up, looking upon the tree they had decorated. It sat tall, supple, green, glinting and all around
beautiful. The ornaments sparkled in the light and the entire object appeared as if it was glowing..
"Now we just need to put up the star!" Anna said.
"Stawr?" Lloyd asked.
"You put a little star on top of the tree," she said.
Lloyd's face lit up.
"I LIKE STAWRS! I WANNA PU' UP THE STAWR! I WANNA!"
"But Lloydie, you can't reach..."
The child began to whimper.
"...No...stawr...?"
"Daddy's going to put up the star-" she stopped.
She had another idea.
"Kratos! Why don't you pick Lloyd up so he can put the star on?" she grinned.
Kratos paled.
"What? But what if I drop him?" he said, trying not to stammer.
Anna smiled and handed Lloyd to him.
"Oh be realistic, you dropping ANYTHING is impossible," she smirked.
"B-but-"
"YAY! Daddy gonna help me! Daddy and mes gonna put up the stawr!!"
Lloyd hugged his father and the expression on Kratos' face told Anna she had won.
"..A...all right," he sighed.
"YAY!" Anna and Lloyd cried in unison.
So Anna handed Lloyd the star, instructing him to be very very careful with it. Kratos brought Lloyd to the tree and then slowly lifted his child
up, the usually stoic man looking nervous as the toddler fiddled with the object before setting it at the top.
"YAY!"
With a sigh of relief the Seraph quickly brought his little cherub down into his arms, smiling at him.
"I put up the stawr!" he grinned. "Don' you wike stawrs, Daddy?"
"...Yes, I do," Kratos smiled. "...In fact, I have a story about a star-"
"NO FAIR!" Anna shouted. "It's my turn!"
Kratos looked at her.
"I wasn't aware we were taking turns-"
"Well we are! Give me the kid!"
Anna snatched Lloyd from Kratos and stuck he tounge out at him, going over to sit down on the sofa. Kratos 'dot dot dot'ed before walking
over to sit by her.
"All right, I'll tell you one of my favorite stories," Anna smiled.
"Stawr?" Lloyd asked.
"Well, this one does involve a star..." Anna grinned. "All right, once upon a time there was a young girl named Clara, was waiting for her
parents to come home Christmas eve-"
"Are you sure you don't want to name her 'Anna'?" Kratos smirked.
"I-! ..." Anna smirked.
Oh no, she had another idea.
"Yes, There was a beautiful, intelligent, awesome girl named Anna," she grinned
Their living room turned into a parlor of sorts, the area mimicking that of a more wealthy family and Anna wearing a fine dress standing by the
window.
"I've never been in a story I told, but what the heck," she grinned. "All right, so the beautiful young girl was waiting for her parents to come
home when-"
I know this story, Kratos said then her little brother Fritz came in-
"Hey! I'm telling this st-!"
A young boy raced in, making loud noises as he made his toy soldiers 'fight'.
"No fair!" Anna scoffed at the ceiling then turned to the boy. "Fritz! Can't you quiet down?!"
"Nyeh," the boy stuck out his tounge, "make me."
"Gladly you little-"
Anna, are you telling the story or not?
"...Fine," Anna stopped, as did the story, "but the fight was interrupted when her Uncle Droisselmeir came in."
An aging man with a beard came in, smiling.
"Uncle!" both Anna and Fritz cried.
"I figured I'd come check on you two," he smiled, "your parents are running late because of the storm, and all, I thought I should come make
sure you were all right."
"Ahem...Anna scoffed," Anna said, "...boy that sounds weird, anyway..."
She scoffed.
"I'm spending Christmas eve alone with this little brat, what makes you think I'm not all right?"
"Don't be like that," her 'Uncle' smiled, "look, I've brought something for each of you."
"AWESOME! PRESENTS!" Fritz cried, snatching the box.
"Fritz! Say thank you-! ...Oh what the heck, thanks!" she chirped, taking her own box.
Fritz opened the box and found a toy canon, grinning.
"Awesome! Thanks, Uncle!"
"And yours?" he smiled at Anna.
Anna cleared her throat.
"She hesitated a minute before she tore off the wrapping," she said as she tore off the wrapping.
I thought you were supposed to hesitate?
"Shut up, Kratos,"
That's not nice, Mommy!
"I-...oh fine, sorry," she said, "anyway, she opened her gift to find a beautiful nutcracker."
She opened the box and as she said, inside lay a nutcracker.
"Oh, I love him!" Anna said, hugging it. "It's the best gift I've ever received!"
But then Fritz snorted, grabbing the nutcracker.
"So what? He looks like a soldier, can he act like one?!" he grinned.
"Fritz, give him back-!"
"Can he make quick decisions and daring commands?!" the boy laughed, racing around.
Anna coughed.
"So she chased her brother around the house, trying to get her nutcracker," she said, "but when she caught him..."
She raced after the boy and grabbed him by the collar...and he dropped the nutcracker and it fell to the ground, breaking one of its arms.
Anna yelped.
"You BROKE him!"
"I- I'm sorry-!"
Anna glared and took her nutcracker, walking away in a huff.
"You forget, your brother is young," Uncle Droisselmeir said, "be patient."
Anna snorted and walked off, once she was out of the room she began to speak again.
"Her Uncle thought to himself, that maybe he would give her 'one more gift' before the night was over..."
How'd mommy know that?
"I'm the storyteller, I know everything," she said.
Cool!
Indeed, let us let your mother continue.
"Right, anyway, she was so upset that she went to her room and took some cloth, 'bandaging up' the nutcracker," Anna said as she made a
sling for the doll, "once she was done she went back into the parlor and placed him on a shelf where her brother could not get it."
She did so.
"Good night, nutcracker," she smiled, "of all the gifts I've received, I love you the most."
She blew it a kiss and then yawned loudly, laying down on the couch.
"Now," she said as she laid down, "she fell fast asleep so she didn't see when the mice came..."
She pretended to sleep-
Mouses?
Mice, Lloyd, watch.
...Kay...
A bunch of mice marched into the parlor, a very large on heading them.
"I am the mouse king!" he shouted. "I want the Star of Christmas! With it, I can steal Christmas forever!"
...Huh?
...I don't believe I know of this version.
Anna sat up, grinning.
"That's because I'm tweaking it," she said.
...Ah,
Tweaky...?
"Ahem, the Christmas Star will forever shine its light," Anna recited, "for if it should fade, Christmas would be lost forever."
...Anna, that's ridiculous-
"You're one to talk, Mister 'The angels bore the Chosen one'," Anna scoffed.
...Very well, continue.
Huh?
"See, the Mouse King wanted to take the star to take over the Christmas Kingdom! A place full of magical people and magical places!" Anna
chirped.
"Get the star, my minions! MWAHAHAHAHA!" the Mouse King cackled.
The mice advanced on the tree.
"Then suddenly, Fritz's toy soldiers came to life and began to fight the mice army!"
An 'epic battle' began between the mice and the toys.
Go toys!
"But the mouse army was too strong, and the soldiers began to lose!" Anna said.
"AHAHAH! Christmas will be mine!"
"But then suddenly, off the shelf came a voice!" Anna grinned evilly.
...Anna, why are you-?
"Yes, her nutcracker had come to life, but he was no longer a nutcracker! He was the Prince of the Christmas Kingdom, who had come to fight
off the Mouse King!" she cackled.
"The brave, strong, and ravishingly good-looking Nutcracker Prince, Kratos!"
I knew you were going to-
A miniature Kratos appeared on top of the shelf, sighing.
YAY! Mommy and Daddy both is in the story!!
"Yep! And then the brave Nutcracker Prince jumped from the shelf and- landing unharmed- confronted the Mouse King!"
"...Do I have to-?"
"YES!"
Kratos sighed, doing as he was instructed. He took out a toy 'sword' he had and pointed it at the Mouse King.
"Halt, fiend," he said completely unenthusiastically.
"Oh come on! Put some drama into it!" Anna whined from the coach.
"..."
Pwease, Daddy?
Kratos sighed deeply before he closed his eyes, took a deep breath and then attempted to 'dramatize it'.
"Halt, you vile vermin! You fiendish felon! Surrender or I shall cut you to ribbons!"
Anna stared and Lloyd made a sound most like a gasp. Kratos hesitated.
"...Was that too much?"
"That was HOT!" Anna grinned.
"..."
Daddy's a good awktor!
"Ah! Nutcracker, we meet again!" the Mouse King said.
"We've met before...?" Kratos muttered.
"This time I shall emerge the victor! Prepare yourself!"
"And so, the Mouse King and the Nutcracker Prince began an epic battle!" Anna grinned.
Kratos rolled his eyes and attempted to 'fight' the mouse instead of slaughter it. Anna pretended to sleep a second before pretending to wake
up.
"What the-? My nutcracker! It's alive! ...And fighting a mouse?" she said. "Get away from him!"
Anna took off her shoe and hit the mouse with it, causing him to squeak and glare up at her.
"How dare you! You-! ...You large, giant, freakish-...beautiful, hunk of woman!"
Kratos' eye twitched and Anna grimaced.
"...Ew," she said simply.
"Ew?! I may be a mouse, but my love for you blind! Mad with passion!"
The mouse kissed her feet.
"EW! GET AWAY FROM ME!!" Anna cried.
Anna began to climb up the ladder that lead to the top of the tree, trying to get away from the mouse. Kratos, beyond irritated by this point,
tried to stop him but was busy trying to fight off the rest of the mice.
"And so," Anna smiled, "the girl climbed the tree and began to throw ornaments at the mouse....TAKE THIS! RAT!"
She flung a glass bulb right at the mouse, who yelped.
"I'm a mouse!"
"Whatever!"
Then she grabbed the star.
"YES! The star! Give me the star!" the mouse said.
No! Don' give him the stawr! Lloyd cried.
"It was then that her Uncle came in," Anna said, the scene freezing.
Uncle Droisselmeir came in.
"Uncle!?" Anna cried, pretending she hadn't just said he would come in.
"It's time for a little Christmas magic," he smiled.
Then he disappeared and the star began to fly out of Anna's hands.
"Before she knew it, she found herself floating down the ground, shrinking down the size of a mouse," Anna smiled, then stopped, "...hey! Wait
a minute! I don't want to be small-!"
It was too late, however, seeing as her might authoress powers kicked in. She landed on the ground and growled, crossing her arms in a huff.
"Sure, now I'm surrounded by a bunch of rodents," she muttered.
"Karma," Kratos stated, standing next to her.
"SKLEE! KRATOS!" she cried, hugging him tightly.
"..."
"Get them! Get them!" the Mouse King said. "She still has the star!"
"Huh?" Anna blinked, noticing she was holding a now even smaller star. "..Oh yeah, I forgot about that."
Kratos sighed.
"It appears we are surrounded," he said flatly, looking at all the mice.
"Yeah, what else is new?" Anna shrugged.
"..."
"You'll just have to gallantly fight them off!" she grinned.
"...JUDGMENT!"
Almost all of the mice disintegrated. The remnants looked at the ashes, then at Kratos before screaming like little girls and running back to the
mouse hole they came from with their king.
"Done," Kratos said simply.
"...Of course, in the real Nutcracker the Prince couldn't use 'judgment'..." Anna muttered.
Kratos shrugged.
What abou' the stawr!?
"Huh-? Oh yeah!" Anna said. "We need to get the star back to the top!"
Kratos said nothing.
"...That's your line," Anna said.
"..." Kratos sighed, "I know of a way to get the star back, we must seek out the-..the.."
"Come on, say it," Anna poked him.
"...Must I-?"
"Yes,"
"...Seek out the sugar plum fairy," Kratos muttered.
Anna grinned.
"Right, so then they went through the mouse hole into the Magical Christmas Kingdom!"
The pair appeared in a place that appeared to be made of frosting, candycane forests, gumdrop hills-...cavity central, in layman's terms.
....Needless to say, Anna was ecstatic.
"AWESOME!" she grinned.
Mouseholes go to candy lawnd?
"Here they do," Anna grinned.
I wanna go! I wanna go!
"Well...all right," Anna smiled, "then the girl and the Nutcracker Prince met a cute little boy from the Christmas Kingdom named Lloyd."
Lloyd appeared by his mother, wearing an adorable little Christmas outfit. Anna picked him up.
"Yay!" Lloyd grinned, hugging his mother.
"And so," Anna smiled at her son, "they began their search for the Sugar Plum Fairy!"
"...Heh," Kratos smirked, ruffling Lloyd's hair.
"Well, let's go!"
The family made their way down the paths without much trouble, gawking at the various candy formations and saying hi to a few pixies and
Christmas animals including seals, penguins, puffins and a baby polar bear. Though Kratos found the whole thing...irritating, Lloyd and Anna's
unending enthusiasm forced him to keep quiet.
"After a while, they saw the Sugar Plum Fairy's castle on the horizon!" Anna chirped.
A palace that looked as if it was made of glass appeared.
"Pretty!" Lloyd said.
"...Kratos, hold him," Anna said.
"What?"
"This is the part where the girl gets kidnapped by the Mouse King," Anna smiled.
No sooner had she spoken, mice appeared and snatched her.
"Mommy-!" Lloyd cried.
"Don't worry sweetie! Daddy will save me-! HEY! KEEP YOUR GRIMY PAWS OFF THERE!" Anna snapped, stomping on one of the mice's feet.
Kratos sighed as they disappeared.
"Well, let's go save your mother," Kratos said, putting Lloyd on his shoulders.
They made their way to the Mouse King's fortress, where Anna was sitting inside waiting to be rescued.
"Ahem," she said, "the poor girl was trapped with no hope of escape, doomed to become the Mouse King's bride."
She looked to her left, where said Mouse King was puckering up.
"...Anytime now, Kratos!" she shouted.
"Don't be like that, sweetcakes-!
"Get AWAY from me!" Anna shouted, running away.
"But I love you-!"
"WHY the heck would you think I'd like you when I've got KRATOS!?"
"He's not that great!"
"BLASPHEMY!" Anna shouted as she ran away.
When Kratos and Lloyd finally got there, they stopped and stared a minute as Anna chased the Mouse King around with a lead pipe she had
gotten somewhere.
"..." Kratos said.
"...Mommy's scarin' the mouse," Lloyd said.
Kratos sighed, waited for the mouse to run by then stuck out his foot, tripping the mouse and then watched as Anna knocked him out with the
lead pipe.
"HAH! I win-! Oh, hi you two!" Anna smiled.
"Hi, Mommy!" Lloyd waved.
"Okay, let's go see the Sugar Plum Fairy!" Anna chirped, like nothing happened.
"..." Kratos said again.
"Yay! Fawy!" Lloyd said.
So then they went all the way back to the Sugar Plum Fairy's castle, finding her sitting on a throne. Surprisingly, she looked a lot like
Martel...possibly because Kratos had barely contributed any 'imagination' to the story thus Anna probed his mind for this character.
"Welcome!" she chirped.
"Martel?" Kratos stared.
"Who? I'm the Sugar Plum Fairy!"
"...Of course,"
"Sugar Plum Fairy, how do we get the star back to the tree?" Anna asked.
"Easy," she smiled, "just close your eyes, click your heels together and say 'there's no place like home'!"
"...Isn't that 'Wizard of Oz'?"
"...Oh yeah, sorry," Ma- the Fairy smiled apologetically, "make a wish on the star and throw it up into the air! Imagine it back where it's
supposed to be and everything will go back to normal!"
"Right!" Anna smiled.
So she took the star, closed her eyes and then threw it up-
"And then suddenly the girl found herself back in her house, waking up to see her parents," she said.
"Anna!" her 'mother' said. "You're awake, sweetie! We're home!"
"Oh mom! There was a Mouse King and a Christmas Kingdom and a Hot Nutcracker-!"
Anna's 'mom' looked at her like she was crazy.
"Oh nevermind..." Anna sighed, "it was just a dream..."
No it wasn't...
"Then suddenly, her Uncle came in smiling," Anna grinned.
"Why hello, Anna!" he said. "I've brought someone I want you to meet."
A full-sized Kratos walked in somewhat nervously.
"SKLEE!" Anna clung to him.
"...Merry Christmas..." Kratos smiled weakly.
"And then they lived happily ever after!" Anna chirped, kissing him.
They all appeared back in their own home.
"...That was bowring," Lloyd muttered.
"What?!" Anna gasped.
"It was gwoss, yucky..." Lloyd pouted, "kissin's gwoss."
"Oh? Like this?" Anna kissed Kratos suddenly.
"EW! YUCKY!" Lloyd shouted.
They laughed to themselves and then Anna hugged Lloyd.
"Well, okay, but you liked the part with the candyland though, right?"
Lloyd nodded enthusiastically.
"See? It wasn't THAT bad," Anna grinned.
"...Now I believe it's time for bed," Kratos said with a smile.
"Nooooooo!"
"Lloyd, if you don't go to bed I'll kiss Daddy again," Anna warned.
Lloyd yelped, jumped off the couch and ran to his room. Anna and Kratos laughed.
"He's so cute, isn't he?" she grinned.
"...Yes," Kratos admitted.
"...Y'know, you're cute too," Anna smiled at him.
"..."
They kissed again...
"EW!"
"Go to bed, Lloyd!!"
n.n Cuuuuuuutteeee...n.n
....Now I must find another candycane, even if I just had one...(shifty eyes)
Merry Christmas! :D