Allen: (with a tired expression on face) Must…figure out…Christmas…

Chowder: Glowworm, Allen's acting creepier than Komui.

GW: I can see that, Chowder. Anyways, enjoy the chapter.

A Huge Obsession

The next morning, Erol and Anya, the Maaka kids, and Duckula are passing by Allen's house, worried for the exorcist.

Vampires: Something's up with Allen

Something's up with Allen

Don't know if we're ever going to get him back

The vampires walk away as they shield away from the sun.

A teenage Frankenstein-like monster with a purple mohawk named Hayashida passes by.

Hayashida: He's all alone up there

Locked away inside

Mandy and Grim Jr. pass by.

Mandy: Never says a word

Junior: Hope he hasn't died

All: Something's up with Allen, something's up with Allen

Lenalee and her friends, who camped the night out at the gates, looked worried at the tower, remembering the burning tree last night.

Allen was just up in his tower, pacing back and forth. His brain ached all the way to the stem, still trying to get this Christmas thing. Naruto, Chowder, Bug, and Timcanpy looked in concern for their friend.

Allen: Christmas time is buzzing in my skull

Will it let me be, I don't know
There's so many things I cannot grasp

"Maybe it's because you can only understand Halloween," Bug mumbled with an eye-roll. Not hearing, Allen placed a final Christmas card that he had stacked together to form a house.

When we think we've got it, and then at last,
Through our bony fingers it does slip!
Like a snowflake in a fiery grip

Allen's card house fell down and he brushed them away, frustrated. Timcanpy chirped in concern.

Something here I'm not quite getting.
Though I try, I keep forgetting,
Like a memory long since past…
Here in an instant, gone in a flash.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?!

Allen looked all around his room, which was covered from head to toe with Christmas declarations and such. Chowder was once again eating a Christmas pie, mumbling, "This tastes better than Thrice Cream."

In these little bric-a-bracs,
A secret's waiting to be cracked
These dolls and toys confuse me so
Confound it all, I love it though!

Simple objects, nothing more,
But something's hidden through a door,
Though I do not have the key…

"Allen, uh, you're creeping us out," Naruto said uneasily as Allen picked up a doll and focused all his attention on it, trying to crack the secret of this holiday.

Something's there I cannot see
What does it mean?
What does it mean?!
What does it mean…?

He shook the doll before tossing it away and the toy landing in Timcanpy's food bowl. Allen then read a Christmas book.

I've read these Christmas books so many times,
I know the stories and I know the rhymes!
I know the Christmas carols all by heart
My skull's so full, it's tearing me apart!

Allen groaned, sitting down on a sliding ladder next to a bookcase.

As often as I've read them, something's wrong
So hard to put my finger on

Timcanpy hovered over to his friend with a picture of Allen in his mouth, which depicted an Allen back when he was still into all things horror and scary. "See, Allen; look how happy you were back then," Bug commented as Allen looked at his picture. "Go back to doing what you love the most before you kill yourself."

Allen, however, pondered and ignored Bug.

Or perhaps it's really not as deep
As I've been led to think
Am I trying much too hard?

Allen eyes began to widen in realization as he thought about the picture. Suddenly, in his mind, the picture changed itself, showing Allen dressed a certain guy in the certain guy's clothes. The ninja, purple creature, and knight are slightly disturbed by Allen's nearly psychotic look and are wondering what is going on in that boy's mind.

Of course! I've been too blind to see!
The answer's right in front of me
Right in front of me!

He chuckled, sliding down his bookcase on there ladder.

It's simple really, very clear!
Like music drifting in the air
Invisible, but everywhere…
Just because I cannot see it
Doesn't mean I can't believe it!

Allen hopped off the ladder and he dashed to his Christmas tree.

You know, I think this Christmas thing
Is not as tricky as it seems.
And why should they have all the fun?
It should belong to anyone!

He spun his tree, taking off the lights, and barely noticing that some of the ornaments went flying off and breaking at they collide with the floor.

Not anyone, in fact, but me!
Why, I could make a Christmas tree!
And there's no reason I can find,
Why I couldn't handle Christmas time!

"Allen…" Naruto, Chowder, and Bug said warily, realizing what Allen's getting at: Allen wants to take over Christmas!

The exorcist ignored his friends' wariness as he wrapped the lights around an electric chair and grinned as Allen pulled the lever, lighting the lights again, but far too powerful as the bulbs started bursting!

I bet I could improve it too,
And that's exactly what I'll do…

Allen cackled as he swung his windows open. "Eureka!!" he cried out so everyone could hear him. "This year, Christmas will be OURS!!!" All of the citizens whooped, cheered and clapped their approval. Lenalee, Misaki, Cream, Cheese, and Komui are nervous, still remembering that nasty vision.

"Oh, dear," they mumbled as Komui sighed, "I think the authoress has been reading too much crazy fics lately and has taken out that craziness on Allen."

GW: Oh, boy. Allen wants to take over Xmas. That's a crazy exorcist for you, folks. R&R and suggest, too.