A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it took so long to update, but writers block is a deadly killer!

This one is a story of the Hogwarts Ghosts taking over Christmas, like the people from Halloween Town tried to do with Christmas in the movie 'Nightmare before Christmas'. It's one of my favorite movies.

I thought that this was very suitable for the time of year. Enjoy!

Nightmare before Christmas:

It was the night before Christmas. Peeves had called a meeting with all of the ghosts to take place in Myrtles' bathroom.

"No, you can't take over Christmas." Moaning Myrtle told all of the ghosts who occupied Hogwarts "It is a day that everyone enjoys. If ghosts took over it, it wouldn't be such a joyous day."

"I agree with Myrtle. The definition of Christmas is given as…" Professor Binns kept rambling on in a monotone, but like his students, the ghosts ignored him.

"Come on Myrtle. It will be fun!" Nearly Headless Nick said "Don't you remember being alive and celebrating Christmas?"

"Now that we're ghosts we've been told to mind our bees-wax during Christmas, and miss out on all the fun! It's not fair!" Peeves said.

"Well, I guess it would be good to have a Christmas for us as well as all the living people." Myrtle said.

"So it's on then!" The Bloody Barron said.

"This year, Christmas will be ours!" Peeves cried.

"Haven't you been listening to anything that I've been saying?" Professor Binns asked in his usual monotone.

"No!" All of the ghosts said at once.

"Dumbledore won't be happy if he finds out. Dumbledore will punish you all." He told them.

"So? We might as well have some fun!" The Bloody Barron said.

"Yeah, we've been living for a really long and haven't had a Christmas since we died!" The Fat Friar said.

"Please don't spoil our fun!" The Grey Lady begged.

"As long as you don't include me and don't get out of control, I guess it would be ok." Professor Binns said.

"We won't." The ghosts said, but they had crossed their fingers behind their backs.

Professor Binns floated threw a wall to attend to some grading.

"OK, now to business." Peeves said "As leader, I will appoint jobs for all of us to do."

Peeves continued to hand out the tasks he had decided that each ghost would be able to do.

Once they had their task, the ghosts started to leave.

"Peeves? Are you sure this is a good idea?" Myrtle asked him.

"Of course it is! We haven't been able to celebrate Christmas since we died! It's about time that we could celebrate it with all of these pesky kids." Peeves replied. Then he flew off to see to some, err… decorations.

"It just seems so wrong." Myrtle sighed.

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The morning of Christmas came fast. Every occupant of Hogwarts went into the Great Hall to have a nice Christmas breakfast, but found that the food was all off, mouldy and smelly!

"Eww! That's so gross!" Some of the students cried.

"Does this remind you of something?" Harry asked Ron.

"Umm, Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday Party?" Ron asked.

"Exactly." Harry replied.

Once everyone was in the Great Hall, every ghost in the school came out of the floor. Peeves stood at the front of the hall and spoke to everyone.

"Hello kiddies! We ghosts have decided that we're sick and tired of not having a Christmas, so we're taking over!" He cried out.

"But I thought that we were just going to celebrate Christmas with them all." Myrtle said.

"Of course not!" Peeves replied "Come on, ghosts, let's have some fun!"

Every ghost except for Nick, Myrtle, Professor Binns, and the Grey Lady took up some sort of weapon and started slashing at the Christmas decorations that the living had put up in the hall, and replaced them with ones that were probably more suited to Halloween.

"Ghosts! Stop this nonsense at once!" Dumbledore commanded.

"Shut up, old Dumbley-dore!" Peeves shouted back. He continued to throw some of the off food at the teachers. They all got up and screamed as if they were students in the school.

Some of the more troublesome students (mostly the Slytherin's) picked up the disgusting food and threw it at the teachers. Fred and George didn't attack the teachers, but they did throw the food at other students (mostly the Slytherin's).

The students and teachers screamed and tried to run out of the Great Hall, but more of the ghosts slammed the doors and trapped everyone in the Hall.

Students were now hiding under the tables.

"Harry, what should we do?" Ron asked from beside him.

"I have no idea." Harry replied "Hermione, what should we do?"

"I have an idea." Hermione replied.

She crawled under the tables to get to the teachers table. When she had located Dumbledore, she crawled up to him.

"Professor, we must make peace with the ghosts." Hermione told him.

"I realise that, Hermione, but I have no idea how to do it." He replied.

"They want to be included in Christmas." A voice said from next to Hermione.

She turned around and saw that it was Moaning Myrtle.

"So do you know how to resolve this?" Hermione asked her.

"Yes." Myrtle replied.

Hermione got Professor Dumbledore to quieten everyone in the hall; students, teachers and ghosts.

"Everyone, please be quiet!" Dumbledore yelled "Myrtle and Hermione wish to speak to you all."

"Ghosts, Myrtle told me why you are doing this. I know that Peeves is the ring-leader of this, although it was kind of obvious." Hermione started "I know that you all want to be able to celebrate Christmas again, and I know that Peeves couldn't resist the temptation to get everyone in the school with one of his pranks."

"But we need this to stop!" Myrtle said "I didn't think it would be like this. Peeves, you said that this was to be involved in Christmas again like we use to, but this nothing like what it used to be."

"I told them not to. I told them not to get out of control." Professor Binns muttered under his breath.

"What if we had a compromise?" Hermione suggested.

"What's that?" Peeves asked.

"When we negotiate and agree on what to do." Hermione explained.

"We want Christmas!" One of the ghosts shouted.

"We want to have fun, not be told to stay away!" Another shouted.

"Then how about this. You stop attacking us and join in with the Christmas celebrations as you all remember them. No fighting, just all of us getting along?" Hermione suggested.

"That could work." Another ghost said.

"And we can celebrate Christmas together; teachers, students, and ghosts. All together." Hermione said "Professor Dumbledore, will you allow that?"

"That was very good Hermione! Of course I will." He replied. Then he addressed everyone in the Hall "A headmaster from long ago banned the ghosts from joining in with Christmas. I never agreed with the banning, but I never changed the rules. It is down to Peeves who came up with the idea of a Christmas for the ghosts, Myrtle who told us what was happening, and Hermione who suggested a change. Thank you to all three of you!" Dumbledore finished with applauding them, and everyone in the Great Hall joined in too.

Well, everyone except for Professor Binns, who looked very annoyed. For once a prank that Peeves had pulled worked out for the best. This was not a good thing!

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Later that afternoon in Myrtles' bathroom, Myrtle and Peeves were talking.

"Are you happy now that we get to celebrate with them all? "Myrtle asked him.

"I guess, but I prefer to cause trouble!" Peeves said "Did you see the look on the teachers' faces when they got food on them! It was so funny!" Peeves burst out laughing, and Myrtle joined in politely.

And then they kissed. Nah, that was a joke. Peeves flew off to cause some trouble somewhere else in the castle, and Myrtle was left alone in her bathroom.

A/N: Kinda a sucky ending, but I couldn't think of what else to write. Please tell me how I can improve my chapters, and any ideas of what you would like the next fairytale to be.

I'm going away on the 27th of December (3 days from now) so I won't have any more chapters posted until after the 24th of January, which is when I think I will be back. I will try to write more while I'm away, although I can't promise anything.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Angel-of-vampires