Chapter 3: Ghost of Christmas Present and the Future

After the bizarre event of being taken the past by Young Link, Ganondorf returns to bed to continue snoozing. Right when he is about to fall asleep, he hears a jolly Italian voice coming from downstairs, so he got out of bed and goes to check on whatever it is.

The source of voice is coming from the kitchen, so he goes there and peeks inside, and sees an oversized Mario sitting on a pile of food while singing and eating like a pig. The giant Mario sees Ganondorf and says to him, "You're here! I am da Gghost of Christmas Present!"

"Have you overdosed on mushrooms, Mario?" asks Ganondorf.

"You're not-a supposed to know me," Mario tells him. "Theez eez a parallel universe where we do not-a have anything in common."

"Right… So I bet you have something to show me, right?"

"Right-a! Come along with me!" Mario picks up Ganondorf and places him on his shoulder, and then Mario jumps up and smashes through the ceiling and lands outside the mansion.

"Hey! You'll pay for the hole you made on the roof!" says Ganondorf angrily.

"Relax! Theez eez only a dream! It'll return to normal afterwards," Mario assures him. "Come, I'll take you to see how your friends are celebrating Christmas!" Mario walks through the streets of present day Onett and eventually stops at a normal house. He places Ganondorf on the street so he can look into the window.

"This is the house of my nephew Falcon!" he says.

"Right-a! And they are having a party that he told-a you!" Mario tells him.

"But I thought he said it wasn't until tomorrow!"

"You're actually seeing the tomorrow."

"Wouldn't that make you the Ghost of Christmas Future?"

"I mean I'm da ghost of theez year's Christmas! Now just-a watch."

Ganondorf looks into the window and sees CF and his friends eating, singing, and playing happily. CF is currently playing a game where he has to guess an animal. The animal, he found out, lives in Onett. It doesn't walk on four, it isn't nice, and it's neither a dog nor a kitten, and surely not related to Godzilla, though the attitude is similar. What is it?

Then CF's transvestite sister-in-law, Susanna Luvly, shouts out the answer, "I know! It's your uncle Ganondorf!"

And so it is! CF is laughing so hard that he fell off the chair and rolls around madly.

"This party looks fun…" says Ganondorf. "I wish I could go in there right now."

After the partying, CF and everyone else got up and pick up their cups, and they all give a toast to Ganondorf, for he is unable to come.

"Let's-a go to another place," Mario tells Ganondorf, and then they head to another house. It is the house of Luigi Mario.

"Luigi… I wonder how he is celebrating Christmas," wonders Ganondorf. He looks into the window and sees his wife, Peach, and his daughter and son, Nana and Popo, preparing dinner.

Peach takes out a rather small turkey and places it on the table to let it cool while her two children prepare the smaller dishes and clean the place. The door then opens and Luigi comes in and shouts out in a happy voice, "Merry Christmas!"

"Merry Christmas!" shout his happy family as they run to embrace him.

"Now where's my favorite son, Petit Pichu?" asks Luigi. Then Pichu, small and feeble-looking, walks in from another room.

"Merry Christmas, daddy!" shouts Pichu in a tiny voice.

"My son! How are you?" asks Luigi as he runs to embrace him. "Come! Let's have a wonderful dinner, even if it's not enough for us!"

Pichu is his youngest son, and he is diagnosed with a sickness where he will not live long. His life on earth has been numbered.

"This is bestiality to have a non-human son from a human couple…" says Ganondorf. "But I wonder if Pichu will make it through another year."

"I see an empty chair in the future," says Mario. "Pichu will not live long, but who cares? Just let him die! Aren't these your words?" Ganondorf lowers his head in shame at hearing his own harsh words.

After this, Mario takes Ganondorf to various places. To the sea where the Straw Hat Pirates are celebrating happily, to a burning desert where Digimon are having lots of fun, to a country of ninjas where they are holding a large Christmas celebration, and into a sewer where the ninja turtles are enjoying the celebration.

"It seems that Christmas indeed is a time for happiness," says Ganondorf. "I always find it to be a lousy day for pointless happiness. But now I'm beginning to think differently…"

"But not-a everyone eez able to have such fun," says Mario, and he begins to shrink in size until he's back to his normal height.

"Is your life so short?" asks Ganondorf in concern.

"Yes, eet eez ending now…" replies Mario in a sad and weak voice. Then Pokey and Billy the Bully, in ragged clothes, appear from behind Mario and look at Ganondorf with a grumpy face. "Theez are poor children who have neither parents nor anyone to look-a after them. There lives have always been horrible."

"Don't they have anywhere to go?"

"Are there no prisons? The world eez too filled with poor people…" After saying all these Mario continues shrinking until he becomes too small to be seen, and the two kids disappear with him as well.

Ganondorf continues to stand there, motionless and without a thing to say after seeing what happened before his eye. Then the cold wind blows past him and makes eerie howls as the sky darkens and the atmosphere becomes gloomy and dreaded.

Then dark mists gather together and start the take the form of a human being. From amongst the mist, a cloaked being appears. It is a hooded cloak of pure blackness, and only two piercing eyes can be seen from within the hood, and from the back of the cloak extends a long purple tail.

Ganondorf watches with fear at the mysterious and frightening cloaked being. "Are you the Ghost of Christmas Future?" he asks the being.

"Yes," replies the ghost.

"I thought the Ghost of Christmas Future isn't supposed to talk."

"Oops… Pretend I didn't say anything…" says the ghost, and then he kept his mouth shut from now on and only used gestures and hand signs.

The ghost takes Ganondorf to the darkest and poorest slum area of Onett and enters an old warehouse with the sign "Cranky's Junkshop" next to it. Inside, an old bearded monkey is sitting on an old rocking chair and taking a snooze. Then the door slams open three people—one Space pirate, a girl, and a middle-aged woman—step in.

"So, what have you guys got for me?" asks Cranky.

The Space Pirate, Punk, places a large sack he was carrying on his back. "These are the daily equipments he used," he says.

The girl, Kazena, tosses some ragged clothes onto the floor before Cranky. "And these are his bed sheets. From the smell, he probably wetted his own bed too. What a jerk…" she says disgustingly.

Cranky counts out the price of these stuffs and got out some money and tosses it to them. "Here ya go," he says. "These are the prices for them."

"Poor old man," says the woman, who is the landlady of 10 Lives Apartment. "If he were nicer in his living days, then people would've gone to his funeral. He did not have anyone to pass down these fortunes too and no one was there too see him when he was dying."

"Nobody would pity a grumpy old jerk like him!" says Kazena.

"True, this is what he deserves," says Punk coldly.

Ganondorf and the ghost watch from the side in silence. "Who is it that had died but nobody cared?" asks Ganondorf. "How can these people be so heartless?"

The ghost then takes Ganondorf out of the place and heads to a random house. Inside, they see Roy talking with Lilina over something. "So are you able to pay the debt?" Lilina asks him.

"No," says Roy, shaking his head. "But it's good news, because that dude is dead."

On hearing this, Lilina jumps up and down with joy and exclaims, "YES!!!! EVERYONE!!! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!" Then almost magically, several people, consisting of my past story characters, pop out from nowhere and dance, sing, and celebrate like wild over the death of this person.

"How can these people be happy over a dead man?" asks Ganondorf, sounding rather angry. "They have no remorse!" He turns to the ghost and asks him, "Please show me someone who actually cares about this dead man."

The ghost takes him out of the house and to Luigi's house. Inside, the whole family is sitting at the dining table with their faces looking down. "That old man is dead…" says Luigi. "Though he wasn't a nice man, I still couldn't help but feel sorry for him."

"Right," agrees Peach. "Come to think of it, he was actually a poor guy after all."

"But the saddest of all is that we lost our youngest child, Pichu," says Luigi as he begins to cry. The whole family begins to cry also. "But everyone, we must live on happily. Pichu told us that we should give grace to God and be a happy family. Let us live on a happy life and we will go to his grave daily to share with him our happiness!"

"Well, Luigi sure is a nice guy," says Ganondorf. "Ghost, I want to see myself in the years to come."

The ghost takes Ganondorf out of the house and enters the graveyard, where it is dark and gloomy.

As Ganondorf walks through the graveyard, he asks the ghost, "May I ask something? Are these things you're showing me the events that will surely happen or it might happen?"

The ghost said nothing and lifts up his hand and points to a tombstone. Ganondorf approaches the tombstone and reads the writings on there, and a huge shock comes to his face. "WHAT?!"

On the tombstone, it writes, "Ganondorf Dragmire RIP. This sucker deserves it, hahaha!"

"How can this be?!" he gasps. "Surely this is not I in the future, right?" He turns to the ghost and kneels down before him. "Surely this isn't something inevitable, right? I can change the future, right?" The ghost remains silent and stares at him with piercing eyes. "I have regretted! I will follow everything you taught me! I will keep Christmas with all my heart! I will live a new life from now on and keep my word till the end!"

The spirit takes off his hood and reveals himself to be Mewtwo, and he uses telekinesis to lift Ganondorf into the air. "If a loser like you can say something like this," he says in a threatening voice, "then show me, or else go to hell!"

The ground below Ganondorf rips open and Mewtwo tosses him down. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" screams Ganondorf as he falls down into the darkness below.

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"What?! YAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" screams Ganondorf as he shoots up from bed. He looks around and finds himself back in his bedroom. "Phew… I'm still alive!" He looks around to make sure none of his stuffs are gone, and then he runs to the window and looks outside. "It's still Christmas out there! The ghosts did everything in just one night!" He takes a deep breath and then shouts out loud, "MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

TO BE CONTINUED…

Susanna Luvly and the landlady (I called her landlord though) are my OCs who debuted in Times in 10 Lives Apartment. Kazena appeared in Super Smash Racing 2. Punk is common face to those who have been reading my stories.

One Piece, Naruto, Godzilla, and Ninja Turtles all appeared in Darkling. Cranky also made his appearance there.

Lilina appeared constantly in my SSB stories.