Silver: This time, everyone is celebrating at my house with the family's annual Christmas party; including Lisa's family, who haven't made an appearance since Double Birthday Surprises, but when Santamon suddenly has an injury, can the gang help deliver the presents in time? And of course there will be more surprises this year, so let's get started!
14. (Here Comes Santamon!)
It was Christmas Eve at last. The snow was gently falling as a beautiful blanket of white completely covered the ground. All of the cottages in the village were brightly decorated with red, green, gold and silver lights, all of which twinkled in the evening sky. The tamers and their digimon made their way from shop to shop, all of them carrying many gifts for their families as children looked in the different windows, all of them admiring all of the holiday displays that were there.
Meanwhile, I was at Silver's house, with the rest of the gang, minus Kuri and Sakuya, helping her family decorate the house. Everyone was practically brimming with excitement as we hung the decorations all over the house, from roof to ceiling, and even the front and backyards were decorated with just about every Christmas decoration you could think of.
Silver smiled as the two of us put garland over the fireplace. "Thanks for helping us decorate, you guys."
I smiled back. "Hey, no problem, Silv; we're just as excited as you are about tomorrow." I giggled softly as everyone agreed with her.
" It's almost hard to believe that an entire year has gone by already...so much has happened this year; of course we had a lot of good times as well." Imani said as she started to hang a beautiful wreath over the family's door; the outside of the wreath was green and it had gold and silver ornaments all around it; underneath the wreath, was the family's last name on a special plaque which was tied to the wreath with a gold bow.
Natsuke nodded as he, Maliha and Tayla helped to put some tinsel on the staircase. "Yeah, that's for sure." he hopped down from his ladder; he grinned as he playfully brought me to the doorway.
" Hehe, of course a lot of couples were formed this year, too." he soon gave me a loving kiss on the lips. I blushed deeply, but soon fell into it as the rest of the gang smirked. Silver giggled as she watched us break the kiss, pointing up as I looked at him with a "What was that for?" look on my face. I soon looked up, blinking as there was a sprig of mistletoe now hanging over the doorway.
" Sorry, Lisa; we couldn't resist." she smirked as she gave me her own kiss on the lips. I laughed softly as they hugged me, the three of us going back to putting up the rest of the decorations, but not before Edwardia had taken a picture for our scrapbook with her camera.
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Soon, little Lyoko, who was working on her Christmas list at the time, finally looked up to Imani, showing her what she had done. "I'm finished with my wishlist for Santamon, mommy." she grinned, her tail waving excitedly as Imani looked over the list.
" That's wonderful, honey; you can use the computer to send the list to him to make sure he gets it in time for tonight." she smiled.
"Ok; I won't take long, 'cause I want to help decorate the tree when daddy brings it."
Imani chuckled softly. "Don't worry; that won't be for a little longer, sweetie, now you'd better get going." she smiled as Lyoko hurried into the family room to send her list.
I blinked softly. "Santamon? I don't think I've heard of him..."
Ayame, Sasami and Sarabi giggled to themselves. "He's the digimon who brings all of the little ones presents every year at Christmas time; Lyoko's been working on her list for weeks now, trying to decide exactly what she wants. She always sends it on Christmas eve, to make sure he gets it."
Mike nodded. "Heh, in other words, it's the digimon version of Santa Claus-he's the one that brings gifts to all of the good kids on Christmas eve...at least that's what your parents tell you when you're little..." he finished, his eyes closed as he folded his arms.
Edwardia shook her head. "Oh, Mike; not this again-you go into that every year..."
Taka nodded. "Yeah, ever since you parents told you when you were 10 who had been putting presents under your tree..." he stopped as Mike sighed.
"Look; I just don't Lyoko's feelings to get hurt when she gets older and she finds out Santamon's not real-."
"Ah, that's not true, Mike; even though your Santa Claus might not be real, Santamon is..." Tayla turned to Natsuke. "Can I see your digivice for a sec, Natsuke?"
He blinked softly. "Sure, Tay; here you go." he said handing it to her. After pressing a few buttons, she finally brought up the digimon's profile.
"Here, Mike; take a look for yourself." she replied as Mike blinked softly; the rest of us decided to get a closer look as he read the description; the digimon looked much like Guilmon without the hazard signs, except he was much larger, and he had the same clothes as our Santa had, boots and all.
" Heh, it says here that Santamon's a Mega level digimon and he's only been seen at his home at the most northern point of the Northern Hemisphere, but he delivers presents to all of the good digimon of the digital world on Christmas Eve, and he's also known to give gifts to their tamers as well...wow; I guess I was wrong..." he admitted, blushing slightly.
Maliha smiled. "It's ok, Mike."
"Yeah; everyone makes mistakes. Besides, no one's against you." Natsuke smiled as he nodded softly, placing a paw on his shoulder.
Just as Lyoko came back from sending her list to Santamon, Mohatu, Kuri and Sakuya made their way through the door carrying a huge pine tree.
"Watch your heads there you two." Mohatu warned Kuri and Sakuya as they carried the other end.
"Don't worry Mohatu, we've got it covered." Sakuya chuckled softly as we made a path for them to get through.
Lyoko's tail twitched excitedly as they brought the tree in. "Oh, wow-is that our tree, daddy?" she grinned as Mohatu laughed a bit.
"Yep, it sure is, honey; now let's get it decorated!" he smirked as he and the others put it in the tree stand. Mike and Taka soon put on some Christmas music as Ayame, Luna and Sasami got out the decorations for the tree.
"Man; I don't know how in the heck these lights get so tangled up every year?" Silver complained as we tried to get the rest of them untangled.
"Heh, well maybe if you had one of those wheels to wrap the lights around them, they wouldn't get so tangled ,Silver; that's what our family has back home." Edwardia giggled softly; unfortunately for us, we all got so tangled, the lights were wrapped every which way inside them.
Sakuya and Sakura giggled to themselves as the little kit clapped her paws, obviously amused by that. Little Sasha couldn't help but laugh, too, her tail waving all the while.
"Very funny, you guys." I scowled at them.
Sakuya smirked. "Here, let me help with that." she then closed her eyes, using her psychic powers to unwrap everyone from the lights, soon wrapping all of them around the tree.
" Phew; thanks, your highness."
" Yeah, we needed that."
"No problem at all." she smiled as we finished wrapping the lights around the tree. Soon Ayame and Sarabi got out the boxes full of the other ornaments for the tree, varying from the more traditional ornaments, such as gold and silver balls, while others were more updated, such as Fridgimon and Angemon.
We talked amongst ourselves as we placed all of the ornaments on the tree, some of which were our favorites. Natsuke and I had a special ornament made for Sasha's first Christmas this year, the little one was sitting happily on Santamon's knee as the date of her first Christmas was embroidered in gold in his chair. There was another one of Santamon flying in his magic sleigh, which was obviously Lyoko's personal favorite as she hung it up next to the ornament given to baby Diamond. It had a little reremon who's fur was just like Diamond's cream color, whose little tail was curled around her body as she was sleeping in her little crib which was also decorated in tiny Christmas ornaments; and on the crib itself, was the date of Diamond's very first Christmas, which was embroidered in gold as well, similar to Sasha's. Maliha smiled, looking at the little ornament.
" Awww, it's so cute; is that Diamond's ornament, Mohatu?" she asked, wrapping some tinsel around the top of the tree.
Mohatu nodded, a musing smile now coming across his face. "Yes; we gave it her for her first Christmas just last year."
Imani smiled as well. "It's amazing how much she's grown over the past year; and to think she'll be two next month, too." she chuckled as the little kit in question had accidentally gotten tangled up in the tinsel for the tree.
Diamond looked up at her parents, whimpering softly obviously needing some help. "Mommy! Daddy..!"
We couldn't help but laugh to ourselves as the twosome helped their youngest daughter out of her mess.
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We had finally finished decorating the tree just in time for our guests to arrive; we were having a big Christmas party that night and all of our friends and families were invited. Of course our parents were there, and even my family had come through Kuri's special gate to spend the night with us. Needless to say, everyone was having a blast dancing to the awesome Christmas music Taka and Mike were playing, as they were the DJs for that night, and everyone was enjoying the great food Kuri and Sakuya's chefs had prepared for us.
Silver grinned as she ate some of the gingerbread cookies that were on the buffet table. "This a great party, isn't it?"
"Hehe, it sure is, Silver." Edwardia smirked as she had some of the eggnog that was there. "I can't wait until tomorrow ,though; I know it's gonna be awesome!"
Lyoko giggled to herself. "Yeah; I can't wait to see what Santamon brings for us. I did tell him to give all of you guys presents, too."
"Aww, thanks, Lyoko." I smiled, giving her a hug.
"Hehe, yeah; thanks for putting in a good word for us." Natsuke agreed, chuckling to himself as he watched Maliha and Tayla dancing with my aunt Susie. "Heh, who knew your aunt Susie was such a good dancer for her age, Lisa."
"Yeah; you wouldn't believe it considering how old she really is; then again, she's always a big hit at all of our parties."
she smiled as she soon looked over to her parents who were kissing under the mistletoe. "Looks like even though they're not together anymore, my parents still give into the Christmas spirit."
" And that's always a good thing to have." Luna smiled in agreement.
The party lasted through the evening as even my younger cousins and Sasha were playing with Silver's sisters and the rest of Lyoko and Kenny's friends that had come, all of them having a great time. "I almost forgot my cousins were huge digimon fans; heh, you guys should've seen how they reacted when Silver was first welcomed into the family two years ago."
Natsuke laughed. "I bet Silver was surprised, too; but at least things all worked out for the better."
She nodded. "Yeah. That's true."
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Later that evening my cousin Thomas treated us to a few Christmas songs while playing his keyboard, and even Mohatu joined in with his own as he and Imani performed a duet; a few of my relatives even decided to exchange gifts a bit early since some of them were going home after the party, but Imani had invited some of the others, including my aunt Susie to spend the night since they decided to stay with us for Christmas.
" That was a wonderful party, Imani." Susie smiled as she helped us clean up.
"Thank you, Susie; we're glad you and the rest of Lisa's family was able to come tonight."
" Yes; we knew it would be a nice change of pace from staying at home." Mohatu replied.
Sakuya then looked over to Lyoko and Kenny, who were snuggled together fast asleep in Mohatu's easy chair. She chuckled softly. "I think we should follow their example and get some sleep."
Imani nodded as she and Mohatu gently picked up the twosome up into their arms and carried them out of the room as Sakuya turned out the light as little Sakura and Diamond fell asleep soon after in hers and Kuri's arms; meanwhile, Sasha fell asleep in mine as we carried the little ones off to bed.
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ooo Lyoko's POV ooo
It was almost ten 'o clock when I woke up and found myself in my bedroom; I hopped out of bed and opened my bedroom curtains, looking out the window, keeping an eye out for Santamon's sleigh like I always do every Christmas Eve. I usually miss it because I fall asleep from staying up too late, but this time would be very different.
A few minutes later, my ears perked up as I heard the sound of jingle bells outside ;I blinked softly as I thought I was hearing things at first. Soon, however, I heard it again, this time gasping at what I saw. Santamon himself, flying in his sleigh, and his eight little Unimon pulling the reigns. I rushed over to Kenny, who was still sound asleep, shaking him awake.
"Kenny! Kenny! Wake up!! Santamon's here!!"
"Huh-? Lyoko...are you sure you're not dreamin' all this..." Kenny said, still half asleep.
I shook my head. "No way! Come see for yourself!!!" I replied, pulling him out of the bed as he quickly rushed beside me.
"I don't see anything..." he said, starting to look around outside the window, as I did the same, but to my surprise, he wasn't there anymore...
" I'm telling you I saw him!" I said in disbelief. Suddenly, we heard a loud crash on the roof top, followed by a loud yell as we saw something fall outside the window. "Woah...it is Santamon! And it looks like he needs help!!" Kenny said with widened eyes.
"Yeah; we'd better get the others!!" I agreed, as we ran out the bedroom door.
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A few minutes later, everyone was with us as we told them what had happened. Lisa shook her head.
"Uh, are you sure that was Santamon you saw...?"
"Yeah, he only comes when you're asleep, you know..." Natsuke added. Kenny turned to him.
"We're sure if it, Natsuke; Lyoko saw his sleigh in the sky, and we saw him falling somewhere around here."
"Hey you guys! Over here!" Sasami called, looking up at the rooftop, everyone else looked in shock as they saw Santamon's now broken sleigh and his Unimon, which had somehow managed to make it out okay, only a bit worn out as they rested on the roof, trying to catch their breath.
"Well, that's Santamon's sleigh, alright..."
"Yeah, but where's Santamon?" Daddy and Mommy blinked softly as little Diamond and Sakura cooed softly, getting their attention. Sasha suddenly hopped out of Lisa's arms, soon rushing behind the shrubs in front of the house. She lowered her ears, whimpering softly as we rushed over; and to our surprise, Santamon himself was knocked out unconscious. Mike blinked in surprise.
"Woah..it's Santamon..."
"Man, it looks like he took a pretty bad fall..." Ayame said; suddenly, Santamon began to snap out of it.
"Ugh...where am I?" The old digimon said as he opened his eyes.
"You're in Foxwood Village, Santamon; the Kitsune household if you want to be more exact..." Sakuya replied.
"Ah, yes; it's always my first stop here...Lyoko Kitsune's been on my good list for the past 6 years in a row." he smiled, looking at me."Nice job, by the way. Keep it up."
I blushed slightly. "Thanks, Santamon; but are you ok?"
"I, I think so..." he started, getting up. but everyone gasped as he soon groaned,falling back down and holding his leg.
"Woah; I got you, sir." Kuri replied, just barely catching him before his back hit the ground. Maliha sweatdropped.
"Sure doesn't look like he's ok to me..."
Santamon grunted, closing his eyes tight in pain."My leg...I think it's broken...and what's worse, I think my sleigh broke down, too..."he frowned, seeing the now battered sleigh on the roof.
"We'd better get him inside, you guys." Taka lowered himself down as Natsuke and Mike gently and carefully lifted Santamon on his back as we headed back inside.
"You do that, guys; and I'll see what I can do with Santamon's sleigh." Kuri said. He leapt up to the rooftop, taking a look at the old sleigh, smirking as he soon got a big idea...
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Once the rest of the gang and I got inside, Daddy started a fire in the fireplace for Santamon while Luna and Silver gently placed a blanket over him after Taka helped him lay down on the couch. "Oh, what am I to do...of all the nights to break a leg, it had to be on Christmas Eve..."
" How long does it usually take your leg to heal, Santamon?"Sarabi asked.
"I'm usually a fast healer, Sarabi, but I know it won't heal in time for me to deliver all of the presents all over the digital world before dawn tomorrow morning..." he replied sadly, lowering his ears slightly.
"How exactly did you have your accident, Santamon?"
"Well, you see, Natsuke, I was flying towards the village, when my Unimon got spooked by something that hit them."
"What was it exactly?"
"I'm not entirely sure, but whatever it was it caused them to go out of control and crash. Now billions of digimon and their partners will be so disappointed..."
Diamond and Sakura couldn't help but feel sorry for the old digimon as they whimpered softly; and we felt the same way. Suddenly, Maliha got an idea.
"Hey! I've got an idea, guys. Why don't we deliver the presents for him!" All of us instantly turned to her with widened eyes.
"Wha-? Are you crazy, Maliha! We can't possible deliver all of those gifts around the digi-world in just one night..."
"Hey, if Santamon can do it, why can't we?" I replied, glaring at Mike, who was shaking his head in disbelief.
Santamon looked to Mike, a slight frown upon his face. "Is all of this because Santa Claus let you down back when you were 10 years old, Mike? Because if it is, he only did because you were on the naughty list that year; not because Santa Claus isn't real."
Taka blinked a bit. "Huh? How do you know all of that, Santamon?"
" Santamon knows everything, Taka. And he helps Santa Claus since he's too busy delivering gifts in the real world on Christmas Eve."Sakuya smiled as the old digimon nodded.
" She's right; and Lyoko's right too, Mike. We've got to help Santamon deliver the presents. Like he said, all of the digimon and their humans are counting on us." Natsuke said as I nodded.
"So; will you do it for me, everyone?"
"Of course we will, Santamon! I know this'll be our biggest mission yet, but it's nothing we can't handle, right gang?" Lisa smirked as everyone agreed. Tears of happiness flowed out of Santamon's eyes.
"Thank you all so much; I knew I could count on you. Now, there are a few things you'll need to know before you get going, so gather 'round." he said as we listened carefully to Santamon's instructions.
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After a while, the gang, minus the babies, went outside, spotting Kuri above us as he was still on the roof.
"Hey, you guys! Come on up here!" we blinked softly as we all got on the rooftop, seeing something underneath a large sheet.
"What's up, Kuri?"
"Yeah, did you fix Santamon's sleigh?"
"Not just fixed-improved!" He whipped off the sheet. We gasped seeing what was under it. It was a halftrack as he called it. The inside was a pretty red and green ,the gages were the screen with snow in them, and the bode was blue with snowflakes in the designs, and a pentagram on the hood, made from holly vines, the headlights the same red as a certain reindeer's nose, and it had the normal lights, and it had Christmas lights along the body trip, and red chrome.
"Woah...you did all this in the 10 minutes we were inside??" Taka said in disbelief.
"Wow, Kuri; is there nothing you can't do?" Silver grinned. Kuri chuckled.
"At this rate, I don't think so." He smirked, hitting the horn, the song Jingle Bells playing.
"Awesome. Well, let's get this show on the road."
ooo Natsuke's POV ooo
Soon, everyone was on the roof top as we got into Santamon's new sleigh. "Ok; who's going to fly this thing?"
"How about we all take turns driving it? That way everyone gets a chance." Sasami replied.
"Good idea, sis; why don't you fly it first, Natsuke. Then we can choose who'll fly it after we leave Foxwood."
"That's very sweet of you, Lyoko." Sarabi smiled as everyone got ready. The Unimon all looked back at us, obviously showing they were ready to go.
"Looks like everything's in order here." Kuri smirked as he got the last of the presents into the sleigh.
"Ok...um, how do we take off again?" I asked, blinking softly as Lyoko giggled softly, shaking her head.
"Don'tcha remember, Natsuke? You've got to say their names first."
"Oh, right...um, on Sheila, Sarah, on Brock, on Mickey, on Jenny, on Gary, on Stanley and Sandy!" With that, the Unimon ran off the rooftop and launched themselves into the air, and soon we were off on our adventure.
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"Woah! This is awesome!" Taka smirked as he looked down upon the village below.
"We'd better do a present drop here to make up for lost time, you guys; then we can head towards the next stop on Santamon's list." Silver replied as everyone nodded.
"Alright...uh, what button does that again??" I asked as everyone sweatdropped.
"It's the one with the candy cane on it." Maliha chuckled softly as I nodded, pressing it. Suddenly a special hatch opened underneath the sleigh and a selected bag of presents was instantly opened. As we flew over the village, the presents were unleashed from the bag as they magically disappeared into each house in the village.
"That is so cool!" Kenny grinned as his tail waved excitedly.
"So that's how Santamon delivers the presents so fast every year."
"Actually, Tayla, he only does that whenever he doesn't have much time. He still gets to deliver the presents the same way that Santa Claus does in the real world."
"Wow, Sakuya; you sure know a lot about Santamon." Lisa replied. Sakuya nodded as the last stop in Foxwood was the palace; we all decided to deliver the presents by hand there since we made up for lost time in the village.
A few minutes later we all got out of the sleigh, taking two huge bags of presents. Kuri smirked as we all held paws and he started a chant, and within seconds, we were all inside the palace living room with no problems.
"We'd better keep it down, everyone; there are a lot of kits asleep here tonight." Sakuya said as everyone nodded, instantly getting to work. The room was decorated with many various Christmas decorations, including large garlands that were hanging over the fireplace, and the spiral staircase that lead to the rooms upstairs; there were also gold stars hanging from the ceiling. There was a large wreath above the palace grand ball room and there were various model trains going around the room, all of them beautifully decorated. There was a gigantic Christmas tree that almost touched the ceiling that Kuri had erected days before; it was beautifully decorated, too with ornaments, including some of Kuri and Sakuya's favorite ornaments from their past Christmases, too, and even the kits' favorites, too. Lastly, there was a large silver pentagram topping off the towering tree as a special train circled the tree's skirt.
"Oh, wow...you guys really went all out with the decorating this year." Silver replied as she, Mike and Luna started placing gifts underneath the tree.
"Thank you. We wanted this to be a Christmas the kits would never forget."
"That's right. Apparently this will be one we'll never forget, either." Kuri chuckled as he, Kenny and I were working on filling the many stockings that were hung along the fireplace. Sakuya even added a bit of her own magic to fill the other stockings that were hanging along the walls and the staircase as the rest.
"Well, that should just about do it." Edwardia grinned as everyone was finished within 10 minutes.
"Yeah, if we keep this up, we'll have the rest of the digital world done in no time at all."
I nodded. "Ok, let's get out of here before the kits wake up; you know how they get on Christmas Eve..."I smirked looking at Lyoko and Kenny.
"Hey! We're not like that every year!" Kenny shook his head as everyone laughed softly as we headed out the door. Suddenly, we spotted a large platter of cookies by the doorway.
"Hehe, it wouldn't hurt to have a little snack before we go to the next village." Taka smirked as we all agreed, taking the platter to go as Kuri said his chant once again, all of us instantly disappearing from the palace.
About a few seconds later, quite a few of the kits came out of hiding, rushing to tell the others that Santamon had arrived, not even realizing it was us who had delivered the gifts, just as I had predicted.
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ooo Kenny's POV ooo
After we left Foxwood Village, Natsuke let Lyoko handle the reigns, since she was nice enough to let him go first. Everything was going all according to plan as we went from place to place, delivering the presents(and stopping for milk and cookies along the way).
"So, what's the next stop on the Christmas Eve Tour?" Silver joked as Lisa sweatdropped. Ayame pressed another button, this time a Christmas tree shaped one, and a computer screen came up with the list of villages and cities Santamon stopped at every year.
"Hmm...looks like the next stop is Primary Village, but first we have to do a present drop for the sea that's across from here."
"Well, let's get to it, then!" Taka replied as he pressed the button for the present drop, once again releasing presents.
"Say, I just thought of something...won't the presents get wet once they go into the water???" I blinked as I watched the presents drop. Suddenly a flash of light appeared over all of the gifts that were heading towards the ocean, instantly creating a waterproof shield before they disappeared under the water."How the heck-?"
"Yeah, how'd that happen??"
"Well, Maliha, Santamon's prepared for everything. He created that spell himself so the presents meant for the digimon of the sea won't be ruined when they open them, and they're permanently waterproof as well." Sakuya replied.
"Wonderful. Now on to Primary Village!" Sasami smiled as the Unimon continued to pull the halftrack over the sea towards the village.
"I've never been to Primary Village before...isn't that where most of the baby digimon of the digital world are born?"
Tayla smiled. "That's right, Edwardia."
"You guys are getting to know the digital world very well." Maliha replied as the village came into view.
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We finished delivering the presents for each house of the village within 30 minutes; luckily there weren't that many, so it didn't take long.
"Well, scratch this place off the list, guys." Taka said as he popped another cookie into his mouth.
"Not quite, Taka; we still have to take care of the babies of the village; and there's quite a few of them to give presents, to."
"Ok, so we'd better take care of that, too." Luna smiled as we flew off the last rooftop of the village and headed towards the digimon nursery.
The entire nursery was beautifully decorated for Christmas, even the colorful building blocks had pictures of Fridgimon and Santamon himself, and all of the cribs in the nursery had wreathes in the front and stockings with the babies' names sewn on the top were hanging on the sides as they slept soundly in each of them. A tall Christmas tree was beautifully decorated as well, with ornaments of all of the babies hanging on the branches. A star was shining brightly on top of the tree as the lights twinkled around it, making it even more gorgeous.
"Aww, the babies all so cute." Maliha whispered as we entered the nursery.
"Yes, they are, Maliha; and King Elecmon takes care of all them."
"King Elecmon?" Edwardia inquired.
"That's King Elecmon." Lady Sakuya pointed over to the rabbit digimon, who was sound asleep near the gate. A blanket with the town's coat of arms was draped over him. And a stocking with his own name was hanging above him on one of the blocks near the gate.
"Heh, I guess he was waiting for Santamon to arrive, since he's out of his palace. He usually does it every year with the babies, anyway." Taka smiled, hearing the king snoring a bit before he turned around, going back to sleep.
"We'd better get started before those little guys wake up and find that there aren't any presents under the tree or in their stockings." Silver giggled softly as we all got to work, Kuri and Lady Sakuya using their magic to fill each of the stockings to save time, while we placed all of the presents underneath and around the tree.
"Well, that's the last of them." Natsuke smirked as the last bag of presents for Primary Village was emptied. Luna smiled as she got the cookies King Elecmon had left for Santamon, passing them around for everyone.
"That's great, guys; now we'd better get going before anyone wakes up. Besides, we've got other villages to go to."
We nodded, smiling as we tiptoed out of the nursery and back to the sleigh, flying off to the next village on our list, but not before doing another present drop for the digimon living in Infinity Mountain.
"Heh, it's hard to believe Devimon used lurk here, huh...?"
"Yeah, this place is a lot more peaceful now since he's been destroyed by the first digidestined."
Lyoko smiled. "That's for sure; and now all of the digimon here can live without worry."
"So what's the next stop, Kuri?" I asked.
Kuri pressed the same button as before, the computer showing the list of the villages and all of the citizens that lived there."It looks like the next stop will be Tomi Village."
"Tomi Village?"
"Yeah, that's the village where I was born, guys; it's also where digimon of my kind live." Taka smiled.
"That's cool; I always wondered where you lived before you came to the real world, Taka." Mike smirked, petting his partner's fur.
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ooo Santamon's POV ooo
Meanwhile, at the Kitsune family home, I was entertaining the little ones with some of my special magic tricks. I chuckled as they gurgled happily, their eyes sparkling all the while.
"So you liked that, did you, kits? Well, how about this?" I then snapped my claws, making lots of candy canes appear in front of them. I smirked as they looked up, cooing as the candy canes magically floated in the air, going into different shapes, including a circle, a star and even a snowflake. The little ones clapped their paws as I then made half of the candy canes go on the branches of the Christmas tree, and the other candy canes went into each of the stockings on the fireplace. I then waved my arm, making brightly wrapped presents appear in front of them as they floated around the room.
The babies' little tails waved excitedly as I finally made the presents go underneath the Christmas tree, and having them placed around the room and the smaller ones inside the stockings with the candy canes. I smiled warmly as Sasha snuggled next to me; I couldn't resist petting the little one's fur as she purred softly.
Imani and Mohatu smiled as they came into the room with some hot cocoa. "Well, it looks like you're having fun in here, Santamon." Mohatu said, placing the teacup at my side.
"Well, of course; I was keeping the little ones entertained while everyone else was gone delivering the presents."
"I certainly hope everyone's alright out there..."
I could sense some worry in Imani's voice as she looked out the window."Don't worry, Imani; they've faced more challenges than this one. I'm sure they're doing just fine...as a matter of fact..." I then conjured a special laptop that would help track my sleigh's position."We can check on them using this computer. I sensed Kuri had updated my sleigh after it broke down, so this will make things easier for us to track them down."
Imani blinked softly as I typed on the keyboard, trying to locate the gang's position. "So where are they now, Santamon?"
"We should find out right about...now!" I then pressed a button, an image of their location coming into view. The village looked similar to Foxwood, except it had more of an African feel to it. I grinned, seeing Silver having taken over the reigns now as they stopped at the first house in the village. Little Diamond cooed softly in confusion.
"Where that, Santamon?" she asked.
I chuckled. "That's Tomi Village, little one; it seems they're making great time, too. Oh, I knew I could count on them!"
Mohatu smiled, sitting down as he watched the screen. "Well, it seems things are going smoothly so far for them, then."
"Yes, so far so good, Mohatu; at this rate, this'll be the fastest time anyone's ever delivered presents on Christmas Eve; not even I could do a better job myself." I smirked, starting to feel better already as I took a sip of hot cocoa.
ooo Silver's POV ooo
I smirked to myself as we finished delivering the presents in the first house in the village, soon moving on to the next one.
"We're doing great, guys!" Lisa grinned as we flew over the village.
"Yeah, this is fun! I wish we could help Santamon every year!" Lyoko giggled as we made it to the next house, the Unimons' hooves thumping on the rooftop as the sleigh came to a stop.
Soon we were inside the house, finding it beautifully decorated as well, the lights on the tall Christmas tree being the only source of light in the den.
"We'd better be quiet, guys; there's 3 cubs upstairs sleeping." I whispered as everyone went straight to work, checking Santamon's list to make sure to give the presents accordingly.
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We had placed many presents piled around the tree and in the cubs' stockings. However, as soon as we were about to finish, the sound of footsteps could soon be heard coming from the steps.
Tayla gasped."What was that?"
"I don't know, but we'd better get out of here-!" Before we could even make a move, a little Leormon poked his head into the room, catching us in the act.
'Uh-oh...busted...' was the thought on everyone's minds.
"Hey! How'd you guys get in here? Are you trying to steal our presents from Santamon...?" He asked, whimpering sadly, lowering his ears; by the way he was talking, he sounded like he was at least 3 or 4 years old.
I frowned, kneeling down as I tried to set the little cub straight. "No, we're not stealing your presents, little one."
"She's speaking the truth." Sakuya explained. "In fact, we're helping Santamon deliver them."
He blinked softly. "Hey, aren't you the Empress of Foxwood Village??"
"Yes, that's right; and I was saying, my friends and I have been sent by Santamon to help deliver the presents since he was unable to this year."
"How come?"
" Well, you see...here's how it went..." Lyoko started to explain what had happened in the last few hours as we finished placing the presents under the tree, after a few minutes, the little one nodded his head.
"Oh, okay; I hope Santamon feels better real soon. Oh, my name's Tommy, by the way."
"It's nice to meet you, Tommy, and good job on getting on Santamon's good list this year." Kuri chuckled softly as Tommy beamed, his tail waving excitedly.
"Thanks, Kuri; and I promise I won't tell my big brother and sister that you guys were here."
"Thanks, now we've got to go-we've still got to give presents to the other digimon." Natsuke smiled as we started to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Tommy soon carried a plate in his mouth, the plate being filled with gingerbread cookies. The cookies were made to look like little Leormon. "We made these for Santamon, but I'm sure my brother and sister wouldn't mind if you had them instead."
Ayame giggled softly. "Aww, that's so sweet."
" Thanks, Tommy." Mike smiled as we each got a cookie from the plate. The little cub grinned.
"You're welcome. Merry Christmas." I blushed as he nuzzled me.
"Merry Christmas, Tommy." I smiled, nuzzling back, purring softly.
"C'mon, Silv; we've gotta go." Lisa smiled as the rest of the gang was near the fireplace. I walked over to them, soon holding onto Lisa's paw as everyone formed a circle as Kuri said his chant again, everyone soon leaving the house. Tommy smiled to himself as we left, before going back to his bedroom before he was missed by his brother and sister.
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ooo Mike's POV ooo
To make up for lost time at Tommy's house, we decided to do a present drop over the rest of Tomi Village before moving on to the next stop on our list. We had finally managed to get back on track when suddenly, Taka started growling loudly, static electricity flowing through the tuft of fur on his head, then the rest of our partners started to growl, too.
I shuddered at that, my voice filled with worry."Oh, boy..."
Natsuke nodded. "I know...they only start to growl whenever an evil digimon's in the area...and this is a very bad time for that to happen."
"Everyone! Keep a sharp eye out, and be prepared for anything!"Kuri said as he and Sakuya quickly donned their armor. At that moment, bright blue flames came shooting up towards us, blinding the Unimon. They all whinnied in fear as they suddenly flew extremely fast trying to get away from whatever attacked them, almost crashing into a nearby mountain. We yelled out, holding on to the sleigh as Lisa and Natsuke quickly grabbed hold of the reigns, steering them in the right direction.
"Easy there, guys; it's okay..." Lisa said as she tried to calm them down, the rest of us tried to regain our balance after that wild ride.
"Woah...what the hell was that!?"
"I don't know, but that last move got me sick..." Taka said, his face suddenly turning green.
"Well, at least now we know what spooked the Unimon before, but who did it-?"
" COLD FLAME!!"A loud voice cried out, suddenly blue flames came shooting up at us. The Unimon whinnied loudly again, luckily Lisa and Natsuke were able to quickly steer them out of the way without them getting hit. Luna growled out, soon spotting the source of the attack.
"You guys, down there! It's a BlueMeramon!"
"A what!?" Ayame said as the voice cried out again.
"COLD FLAME!!"The same blue flames came at us again, but we were able to dodge them for a third time. Kuri took out his digivice to get a better look at the digimon.
"Looks like BlueMeramon's an Ultimate level digimon, and he's capable of attacking with ice and fire attacks."
"But why would he want to attack us? We didn't do anything to him?" Kenny said.
"It's what all villains want to do this time of year, Kenny." Silver said bluntly."To try and stop Christmas from happening altogether."
"Well, we're not going to let that happen! Santamon's counting on us to finish this mission, and that's just what we're gonna do!"
I nodded, looking down, seeing BlueMeramon smirking evilly at us. "Taka's right, guys; so let's do this!" I looked on as all of our partners, except for Sakuya, digivolve, all of them heading down towards the BlueMeramon; all of them being able to get down safely thanks to her psychic powers as we quickly followed them, Lyoko ,Kenny, and Luna(A/N: Remember, she's pregnant) staying in the sleigh.
" ICE FIREBALL!!" BlueMeramon suddenly threw his blue fireballs at the digimon.
"Scatter!" Tayla shouted as they narrowly dodged the attack. "TALISMAN SPELL!!" She formed a talisman in her paw, tossing it, but BlueMeramon dodge her counterattack.
"Not so fast! SPIRIT STRIKE!!" Sakuya launched her attack at him, but he was able to dodge that move, too.
"ICE PHANTOM!!" Suddenly, he engulfed himself in ice fire, charging at her, causing a direct hit. Sakuya yelled out in pain as she fell hard on her back.
" SAKUYA!" Kuri immediately ran over to her side as Taka charged him.
"THUNDER OF THE KINGS!!" He cried out as he launched his attack, but BlueMeramon dodged that one, too. "Damn, this guy's quick!"
" VISION BLINDER!!" BlueMeramon soon pulled the same move he had used on the Unimon before, blinding Taka's eyes.
" Hey! I can't see-!" Taka grunted as BlueMeramon kicked him in the side, then used an uppercut to his chin, sending him flying.
" TAKA!" I ran over to him, checking to see if he was okay. He growled.
"Yeah, I'm okay, Mike." I glared at BlueMeramon as he launched attack after attack on my friends, most of them missing. 'Damn, I wish I can digivolve to ultimate, that way I'd be able to help them instead of getting in the way all the time...' Taka closed his eyes in shame.
Kuri closed his eyes, flames engulfing his armor as he charged at BlueMeramon and making a direct hit, causing a lot of damage.
"Taka; you've got to snap out of it, man!" I said, getting him out of his trance. "Our friends need our help!" Taka nodded, getting back into the fight. Blow after blow, our partners launched their attacks on BlueMeramon, and with him dodging many of the blows, too; this is how the fight went for quite awhile, until-
"ICE PHANTOM!!" He suddenly charged at all of us, at his full strength, making a direct hit. We all yelled out, most of our energy drained from the attack. Meanwhile, Luna, Kenny and Lyoko were watching all the while.
"This is terrible!"
" Yeah," Lyoko agreed."We need to finish delivering the presents, but BlueMeramon keeps getting in the way!"
"What are we going to do??" Kenny frowned, seeing us get up from his last blow.
" I can't just sit here and watch anymore!" Luna immediately leapt out of the sleigh, digivolving to Angewomon.
"CELESTIAL ARROW!!" She quickly fired one of her arrows at him, making a hit in his shoulder. He cried out in pain, glaring angrily at her.
"COLD FLAME!!!" He then launched another attack, aiming straight for her, making his own direct hit, knocking her out of the sky. Seeing this made Taka's blood boil.
"NO! LUNA!!" Taka immediately ran to her, trying to catch her before she hit the ground; just then, a bright light started to shine brightly from my digivice, shooting out directly at Taka.
Maliha gasped as we all watched this."No way..."
"Do you think Taka's finally going to-."
" I think he is, Tayla..." Edwardia said with widened eyes. My own eyes were as wide as saucers as the light finally hit Taka, catching the lion digimon by surprise.
'Woah!' He thought, feeling a new energy flowing through him."Taka digivolve to..." Everyone watched in shock as Taka was engulfed in a cocoon of data, changing into his new form; when his transformation was complete, it left as quickly as it came.
"LOADERLEOMON!!" Taka let out his loudest roar ever as he took a mighty leap in the air, catching Luna just before she hit the ground. We couldn't believe our eyes as Taka gently laid Luna on the ground. Taka's body, including his mane, was made completely of armor. His claws were now razor sharp, made for cutting through iron. Lastly, he had a wrecking ball with spikes in his tail, obviously meant to do a lot of damage. He nuzzled Luna, but she was unconscious for the moment. He growled angrily, glaring at BlueMeramon, charging at him with all his might, his mane starting to spin rapidly.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" Silver cried out as everyone quickly got out of Taka's way before they could get hit, but fortunately, he wasn't heading for us.
"BORING STORM!!!" He then gave BlueMeramon a huge headbutt, sending him flying.
"Woah...!" I watched in disbelief as BlueMeramon landed hard on his back, and before he could even get back up on his feet, Taka swiped at him with his claws, sending him even further.
"ICE FIREBALL!!!" BlueMeramon launched his fireballs at Taka again, but he swiftly dodged that attack, too.
'This is for you, Luna...' he thought, closing his eyes, concentrating on his target; he then took a huge leap into the air, swinging his long tail at BlueMeramon. "LOADER MORNING STAR!!!!!" With a huge roar, Taka whirled around, his tail making its mark in BlueMeramon's side. With that, he cried out in pain one last time, his data finally dissolving, as Taka took it in, to make sure he wouldn't cause any more trouble.
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We all watched in awe, not having believed what we just saw.
"That was incredible..."
"Yeah, no kidding...I've never seen Taka fight like that before..." I said as Taka finally landed back on his paws, going back over to Luna, nuzzling her again; this time, she was able to wake up.
"Mmm...what happened...?" she gasped, instantly recognizing her mate. "Taka...you digivolved??"
"Yeah, I did while you were knocked out; I'm so glad you're okay." he smiled softly as she hugged him.
"There's nothing that would make me leave your side, Taka; remember that." she smiled, giving him a small but loving kiss on the lips.
Silver gasped, taking a look at the sky, seeing that there were few stars now in the sky. "Um, guys...I hate to break up this little love fest, but, we're WAY schedule here..."
We all looked at her. "Exactly how far back are we now???"
Natsuke looked up, meeping as he didn't see as many stars anymore, either. "Too far behind! It's going to be sunrise soon!"
We all fell over anime-style. "Oh, man; what are we gonna do now!??"
"Don't worry, everyone." Kuri reassured us. "It just so happened that I added a special feature to the sleigh for just such an occasion."
Sakuya raised her staff, quickly lifting everyone back to the sleigh. As soon as we got back, Kuri flipped open a glass container that had a special button; it was shaped like a rainbow colored star, similar to the one found in the Super Mario games.
"I came up with this feature just in case of an extreme emergency." He smirked, pressing the button; as soon as he did, seat belts came out from the seats of the sleigh. "Hold on tight, everyone!"no sooner did he say that, the Unimon whinnied loudly, feeling a huge burst of energy coursing through their bodies, as they took off flying at super-sonic speed.
We all yelled out, holding on for dear life as we zoomed across the sky; as soon as we came over a village, the hatch that carried the presents instantly opened, the right bag opening for that particular area, all of the presents going into the right houses down below; all before we moved onto the next one.
Finally, after just 15 minutes, we were finished and back in the skies of Foxwood. The second we made it back to Silver's house, the Unimon landed on the roof as things finally came back to normal.
Taka's face was even more green than the first time. "Damn...and I thought that last trip made me sick..."he said, trying his best not to throw up.
I meeped at that as his face was in my direction. "Hey! If you're going to throw up, don't do it on me!" scowled as everyone else laughed to themselves. Thankfully, Taka was soon back to normal, too as we got out of the sleigh. The stars were starting to fade as the first glimmer of sunlight poked through the sky.
"Well, gang; we did it! We saved Christmas!" Edwardia grinned as everyone watched the sun starting to rise.
"Yeah; now let's get back inside-Santamon's probably wondering what happened." Luna smiled as we got off of the roof, going into the house, seeing that Santamon had left us all presents underneath the tree.
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Santamon grinned from ear to ear as he saw us come inside."Great job, everyone! You did it!"
"Thanks, Santamon." Tayla smiled.
"Yeah, it was fun!" Lyoko said, going over to Mohatu and Imani, hugging them lovingly.
"Well, except for the part where BlueMeramon almost stopped us, anyway." Kenny sweatdropped. Santamon chuckled softly.
"I saw that happening from my computer...that's why I granted Taka's wish to digivolve to Ultimate level so he could help you all."
Taka blinked softly at that."That was, you who did that??"The old digimon laughed as he nodded.
"It certainly was, Taka; I know how long you've been wanting to digivolve to Ultimate like the others, so I decided to grant that wish to you tonight."
I smiled as tears of happiness started to fall from Taka's eyes. He went over and hugged Santamon.
"Thank you, Santamon; you have no idea what that means to me."
"You're very welcome, Taka. Now that you can digivolve, you can help Mike and the others out even more in battles with evil digimon that stand in your way." He smiled, gently wiping the tears from Taka's eyes.
Taka nodded, smiling.
"Say, how's your leg feeling, anyway?" Lyoko asked, curiously.
"It's feeling much better now, Lyoko; in fact, I think I'll be able to fly back home now." he smiled, getting off the couch. Sure enough, his leg was completely healed as he was standing upright again.
"Wow! You are a fast healer, Santamon." Maliha giggled softly.
"Thank you all again for helping me this year; since you all did such a wonderful job, how would you like to help out again next year?"
"You bet we would!" I grinned as everyone agreed. Santamon chuckled.
"I thought so. Well, goodbye, everyone." He smiled as he disappeared out of the room. The sound of jingle bells could soon be heard as we went outside, waving goodbye as Santamon left in his new sleigh. He looked down."Oh, and Kuri; thank you for this wonderful new sleigh! I really appreciate it!"
Kuri chuckled, smirking. "No, problem, Santamon."he replied as we all waved.
"Merry Christmas, Santamon!!"
"Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night!!" The old digimon laughed, disappearing out of sight. Silver grinned.
"Well, guys; what are we waiting for! It's Christmas, and we've got presents to open!" she laughed as we all raced each other inside to open our presents.
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As we opened our presents seeing what Santamon brought us and as the rest of the digimon in the digital world woke up to theirs, we all agreed that everyone would remember this special Christmas for years to come.
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The End
-Wipes forehead clean of sweat- FINALLY!!! That's the last one-shot of the past...and it took over a year to finish it....
Silver: -smiles- well, at least you got it out in time for it to be everyone's Christmas present this year.
Yeah, you're right there; and hopefully I can get back on track with the one-shots for 2010. But first: I'd like to give a special shoutout to ALL of the reviewers of my one-shot collection so far over the past few years!
Natsuke1985
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BlueRenamon
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Azure Ghidorah
All of you together had the one shot collection celebrate a milestone this year, giving it 50 reviews, which is the most I've ever received! And I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for reviewing the one-shots and being so patient when they were so late this year. Hopefully we won't have that problem next year, but until then...
SEE YA!!!