A/N:
kd: WOOT! Second chapter!
Masquerade: Big deal…
kd: Why do you have to rain on everybody's parade?
Masquerade: Because I don't like parades.
kd: But everybody like parades =D
Masquerade: Well then, I guess I'm not everybody.
kd: Okay okay, fine, but would someone please do the disclaimer?
Masquerade: *sight* kd doesn't own me or any other part of bakugan…
Later that night…
"NOOO! FROSTY! Don't go into the green house! You'll melt!" Hydranoid yelled at the Television. "How can she be cold when she's wearing all those layers? With mittens! NOOO! FROST'S MEALTING! GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!"
Masquerade couldn't stop himself from grinning listening to his bakugan weep for the life of a snowman. It seemed so unusual to him that children…and some bakugan…would get so attached to a pile of moving snow if you gave it fake human qualities. "Hydranoid…Hydranoid! Get a hold of yourself, man!" He yelled, picking up the crying bakugan. "It's just…a puddle -.-;;"
"He used to be more than a puddle! He used to be a person!"
"Ummm…he used to be a snowman…a formation of snow that looks like a person…"
"No! You don't get it! There was uh-um…oh yeah! There was this magic hat! And when they put it on his head he began to dance around! (now starting to sing) OOOOOOHHH! Frosty the snowman, was a very jolly—"
"Stop this Hydranoid! You're going to drive me crazy…if you sing one more note of any Christmas tune, I swear I am going to—"
"Wait! It's Santa :D! Shhhhhhh, he's going to do something important!"
"Who? The fat guy? Why would he be doing something important?"
"Because he's Santa Claus, he's always doing important things in the movies."
"Like what?"
"He has the most important job in the world! He lives in the North Pole and keeps an eye on all of the children of the world. He watches you all year to see if you've been naughty or nice. If you're naughty you get a lump of coal in your stocking but if you're nice you get lots of presents! He has a workforce of elves in the North Pole to make all the presents. Then on Christmas Eve he flies around the whole world with a sly flew by a troop of eight reindeer, nine if you include Rudolf."
Masky was silent for a moment then he started laughing his guts out, "Elves? Flying reindeer? AHAHA! Hydranoid…you do realize this is one giant fairytale that adults made up so that their children wouldn't misbehave, right?"
"What do you mean D: ?"
"I mean that Santa doesn't exist, it's all one big myth to stop children from fighting over candy canes."
"No! You're wrong!" Hydranoid said angrily, "Santa is real! You'll see once we get our presents from him!"
"Ummm…Hydranoid? We're villains, we're not going to get any presents because we're naughty." Masquerade said with a grin.
"You're the naughty one. You send bakugan to the doom dimension."
"Yes but you're the one who willingly helps me."
"But…" Hydranoid trailed off sadly. He jumped off the couch and rolled away in depression.
"Okaaay…that was totally weird." Masquerade said to himself. He turned his face toward the TV to see what had changed Hydranoid so much. He watched as Santa scolded the magician and said that he wouldn't get anymore magic tricks for Christmas unless he changed frosty back into a snowman. "Oh god, this is so lame…" he said before turning off the TV. He got up and looked for Hydranoid.
The downside of having a mansion? A game of hide-and-seek with a marble-seized living ball is like trying to find a needle in a twenty foot haystack. Hydranoid hides in a handful of places when he's angry at Masquerade but there are some highly reserved spots he has for when he was truly upset. Masquerade looked in the usual places first. He looked in all the potted plants. He thoroughly looked in any of the kitchen cabinets that were left slightly ajar. He looked inside his dresser drawers and the top shelf inside his closest but the black and purple bakugan was no where to be found…
Masquerade went to his bedroom window and sighed. Where could the nut job be? And how could this stupid human holiday hold any value to him? Masquerade thought as he watched a small black object struggling to push through the thick, powdery snow. Masquerade threw up his window to get a better look, "Wait a minute…Hydranoid?" he called in surprise. The bakugan did not reply. Masquerade closed his window and rushed down stairs to get his coat.
"Hydranoid? What in the world are you doing?"
"I'm making a snowman!" he said distantly.
"Hydranoid…you don't have opposable thumbs! And you can't even roll around without sinking into the snow!"
"Then you make a snowman for me!"
"Hydranoid…"
"PLEASE?"
"…Well…since you said please, no."
"D: Well at least tell me what happened at the end of the movie!"
"Oh yeah, the girl collected the water from his puddle and took turns drinking it with Santa in a sacred Eskimo ritual in which you drink the remains of a magic snowman to gain immortality."
"O.O…Hey! Wait a minute! That's not what happened!"
"You think so?"
"What really happened?"
"What else? Santa saved the day." Masquerade said as he picked up Hydranoid and walked back toward the mansion.
"…Can we decorate the house for Christmas?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because our 'house' is fifty feet tall and it would make the electric bill cost over ten thousand dollars."
"…You're just saying no because you hate Christmas."
"Exactly." Masquerade said with a grin.
A/N:
Masquerade: 'Tis the season to be someplace where they don't celebrate Christmas.
kd: Oh comon' Masky! Have a little fun with this!
Masquerade: And how do I do that?
kd: This is a time in which you can talk to the general public.
Masquerade: The general public? How does three readers count as the general public?
kd: I have more than three readers!
Masquerade: I only see three reviews so far…
kd: Not all my readers are going to review (though they should). Would you just say something useful already?
Masquerade: Fine. Ummm…hey all of kd's very few readers *dodges kd's kick*, don't be one of those obnoxious people who completely cover their yards in Christmas decorations, you know the ones that blind people as they drive down the street with all the lights and the giant inflatable snow globes, you know who you are. Well, STOP IT! There are a lot less annoying ways to express your 'holiday spirit' and think about what you're doing to the environment!
kd: Wow Masquerade…I didn't think you cared about the environment…
Masquerade: I don't, I'm just saying this in behalf of Hydranoid who of which I cannot find.
Hydranoid: Hi general public!
kd: Hydranoid! Where were you?
Hydranoid: I was hiding in Masquerade's closest.
kd: Oh, um, yeah…that doesn't sound weird at all O.O…