Hello, hello, hello, what's happenin' readers?

First of all, I'd like to apologise for the delay. I've been ill recently, but I've made every effort to bring this special to you. I hope you enjoy it, and if you spot mistakes please point them out to me.

Disclaimer: I do not own Jagex, RuneScape, or any of the RuneScape characters. All I own is the plot of this fanfiction and some of the characters in the story. I am not making a financial profit from this story.

Thanksgiving Special 2010

"Die, beast!" I yelled. I swiped Silverlight towards the turkey. The turkey managed to dodge me. Brown feathers flew everywhere and the creature gave me what looked like a glare. The turkey let off a loud squawking sound, and jumped forward. I held Silverlight out in front of me and the turkey jumped straight through it. It screeched one final time, and slumped to the floor, dead. After a second it disappeared, and a pile of bones and a raw turkey breast materialised. I scooped up my winnings and put them in my bag.

Today was Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, turkeys appeared all over RuneScape and remained for a few days afterwards. I quite liked turkey, so I decided to take advantage of the turkeys appearing to take their meat. Turkeys were a lot bigger and more aggressive than chickens, and were a lot harder to kill. They were quite annoying creatures, but they were very delicious. To celebrate Thanksgiving, people all over RuneScape held feasts, usually with turkeys being the main attraction of the feast.

I'd been invited to several different feasts this year. Sir Amik Varze had invited me to the annual white knight Thanksgiving feast. Duke Horacio had also invited me to his feast, and I'd also been invited to the Falador party room feast as a VIP. I'd decided, in the end, to go to Sir Amik Varze's feast. It was being held in the night, so I'd devoted my day to killing turkeys and storing the meat.

I'd recently closed off a second garden in my house, and I wanted to use this garden to keep pets in. I'd captured a turkey to keep as a pet. I figured that, with my pet garden, I wanted some pets it fill it with, and a turkey was a nice place to start with.

At that moment, I was in a clearing near the crossroad where I'd fought the highwayman a while ago. Everywhere else was packed with like-minded people, and it was quite quiet here. I was searching for more wandering turkeys. Just as I was about to go to a different area, I bumped into Osrie1 and Amy11. They told me they both had been looking for me, and that they wanted to go for food in the Lumbridge restaurant.

We passed the famous windmill, and we passed Farmer Fred's house. Farmer Fred was outside, feeding his chickens. He waved to us as we passed.

"Hello!" he called. "I haven't seen you for a long time. I was going to go in for some lunch now. Would you like to come in and join me?" We all nodded enthusiastically, and followed him inside his house. I eyed the chickens nervously. Farmer Fred was attacked by one of these.

We stepped inside his house. Not much had changed since I'd last set foot inside it; there was a sink and a stove in the corner. There was an open door with two small beds and two large cupboards behind it. There was a barrel with a pair of shears on top of it. There was a small table with a stack of plates on it and a small box full of pie dishes next to it.

Farmer Fred pulled several turkey drumsticks from one of his cupboards, and he put them on a saucepan. He put that on the stove, and he turned the stove on. Once the drumsticks were sizzling and the small house was full with the sweet smell of cooking meat, he pulled a small bottle full of some sort of red sauce from one of his cupboards, and he dripped the sauce all over the drumsticks. He gave us two each, smiling.

I took one bite from the drumstick. The sauce had made the already delicious, succulent meat transform into an explosion of tastes and sensations. Both drumsticks had been reduced to bones in seconds. I thanked Farmer Fred repeatedly for the delicious drumsticks.

Just as Farmer Fred was cooking more drumsticks for us, somebody ran in. It was a young Lumbridge guard, who was panting heavily.

"Fred!" he gasped. "Could you please come with me? We have a little emergency in the Lumbridge square and we need all the men we can get." His eyes widened when he saw me. "Mainiac97! I never expected to see you here, of all people! How would you like to come with us? I've heard a lot about you. Judging by what I've heard about you, I can safely assume that you can be our saviour." We all stood up, and followed the guard out the door curiously.

I didn't know what to expect, but I was not expecting to see what I saw in the square. Several absolutely massive turkeys were running around the square, smashing everything and everybody that stood in their way. One of the fountains had collapsed and water was leaking everywhere, while the statue lay on the floor. These turkeys were colossal. They towered above me, and there was enough meat on one turkey to feed two hungry dragons.

Lumbridge guards, citizens, and Glory Troopers were surrounding the gigantic turkeys and trying to attack them. I saw Sin nearby. He was struggling against a particular turkey. This turkey was almost dead but was putting on a tremendous fight. I sent a fire strike at the turkey, and it was enough for Sin to kill the turkey. With a final screech of defeat, the turkey collapsed, and one enormous turkey breast, two gigantic drumsticks, and a large pile of bones materialised. Sin scooped up his winnings. He walked towards me.

"We're having major problems today," Sin grunted. "A dozen of these beefed-up turkeys appeared here in Lumbridge. The turkeys have been extremely destructive, and it's immensely difficult to get rid of them. Turkeys don't normally group and attack like this. The biggest turkey in the centre there is causing the most mayhem."

I nodded seriously. I realised that this turkey attack was no laughing matter, no matter how ridiculous it looked from a distance. If the turkeys got into the castle, there would be problems. If these turkeys started appearing in more towns nobody would be able to tell how much damage they would do.

Osrie1 and I decided to try and approach the big turkey to try and take it out. Together, we managed to take down about two turkeys, but it was very difficult and drained me of loads of hit points. They were so gargantuan doing damage to them was practically impossible. I soon realised, if I was to defeat any of them, I'd have to aim for the neck/face.

I managed to get fairly close to the biggest turkey. While its back was turned, I jumped on its back. It turned around, and grabbed me by the hair with its beak. It shook me around so violently I almost vomited. It threw me up and pecked me aggressively in the back. I heard a click, and pain filled my body. I squealed with pain. I fell on the floor by its feet. It gobbled angrily. It ran towards the Lumbridge castle, and started pecking the wall. Massive chunks of stone were falling to the floor. I was panicking.

I didn't know what to do. Whenever I tried to take down this turkey, it knocked me back. I needed to think of a strategy, and quickly. Suddenly, an idea occurred to me. I used my 'give thanks' emote, and I turned into a small turkey. Gobbling madly, I ran forward, towards the massive turkey. It ignored me. I jumped up and halfway through jumping I turned back into a human.

The giant turkey screeched wildly and tried to attack me. Before it could do anything, I successfully managed to stab it in the neck. With a final cluck, it collapsed into a heap, and transformed into the largest turkey breast I'd seen in my life, along with two gigantic drumsticks. There was also a large beak.

I examined this beak curiously. It was quite sharp, and it fitted around my nose and mouth perfectly. I figured it could make a mask of some sort of I found some string to attach to it. The lot barely fit in my bag. Sin approached me, clapping happily.

"I think you just managed to save the castle," he told me happily. "Now that that particular turkey is gone a large weight has been taken off my chest. We may be able to overpower these turkeys now thanks to your contribution." I high-fived Osrie1. After a little more turkey-killing, Osrie1, Amy11 and I decided to visit Sir Amik Varze and the White Knight Castle. I wanted to help out with their feast.

I showed up and Sir Amik Varze greeted me cordially. He said that if I wanted to help I could help out the chefs. Apparently they were having a disaster. I spent the rest of the day helping out some of the chefs (fetching ingredients, utensils, getting them some additional meat, etc). I donated one of my giant drumsticks from the giant turkey to the feast.

The feast arrived, and it was very, very similar to last year's. It was grander, if possible. A huge table filled most of the hall, and this table was absolutely crammed with the most delicious of foods. Several huge turkeys lay there on large golden platters. Plates of bread, hunks of meat, and several huge platters of vegetables and potatoes covered the table. A band was performing on the stage on the far end, and on the end closer to me the drinks stall was open. People were dancing, eating, drinking, cueing to buy a drink, or talking.

As I sat myself down and helped myself to food, I thought about my day. I'd gathered quite a lot of meat today, probably enough to last me a while. I'd also captured my pet turkey. I was debating with myself over what to call it. However, after the events of today, I was frightened of turkeys. I was already wary of chickens, and then turkeys had to go and rebel. I would soon develop a fear of all birds in general soon.

I didn't know turkeys could grow so big. Turkeys didn't look like creatures that were smart enough to gather together; as a matter of fact, they looked ever so slightly stupid. It was like the chicken that attacked Fred a while ago. It was scary that they were going to attack the Lumbridge castle. If they'd succeeded, goodness knew what destruction could be unleashed. Although I'd enjoyed my Thanksgiving, and I'd gained quite a lot out of it (a lot of meat, a pet turkey, a beak), but I'd learned how truly wicked turkeys could be. They'd seek revenge one day for us eating them. I knew it.

I hope you liked that, and I hope you all had a happy Thanksigiving!

Let's simply say that I was dissapointed with Jagex's event. The fact is, there was no new event really. They just re-used last year's for those who don't have the emote, so I've taken a lot of creative licence with the event and the rewards. Again, I apologise for the delay. My question to you is, what should I name Mainiac97's turkey? LOL. Please review with your ideas!

Expect some Christmas special chapters soon! :D

Until next time, toodles!