Chapter 1
Kringle-Bot and the Lost Presents
It was a bright, white morning on Christmas Eve. The Sakura New Town's citizens were as busy as last year's holiday season. Some adults shoveled the snow at their home, and other adults were at the mall, buying last minute Christmas gift.
The young people, especially the children, did the one thing they always do every year around this time; playing in the snow.
"Kick this!" Keita threw a snowball at a fortified side, created by Kuma and Kanchi.
"Ha, ha! You can't beat us with our fort! Kick this!" Kuma threw a bigger snowball, hitting the side of Keita's fort. Ken was on his side, too.
"Oh no! Our fort!" Keita cried.
"Did you make sure to put on enough snow to make it harder?" Ken asked.
"I did, but I guess it was too...average," Keita said depressingly.
"Here we go!" Kanchi threw his snowball at Ken, but Ken dodged it.
He threw his snowballs, hitting Kanchi successfully.
Yuray and Whisper watched over the boys playing in their snowball fight. They were dressed in winter clothes. Whisper wore a pair of orange mitten, red hatwith white stars that rings around it, and orange scarf with darker shade of orange stripes (it looked similar to what Hogwarts student from Harry Porter book series wears). Yuray wore a green Christmas tree theme hat, pair of red mittens, and white scarfs.
"Ah, winter. This is my favorite time of the year. The snow, the festive feeling, oh it makes me feel like a child again!" Yuray cheered joyfully.
"Achoo!" Whisper sneezed. "I wish the weather was a different story, though!"
"Hey guys. What are you all doing?" Fumika came over to the boys as they stopped playing temporarily.
"We're playing the traditional game of the winter season," Kuma said dignifygly.
"Yup. It's an old game, passed down from generation to generation of kids throughout the ages," Keita stated confidently.
"We're just playing a snowball fight with a snow fort that we made," Ken admitted normally.
"Oh!" Fumika giggled. "That sounds like a lot of fun. May I join?"
"You can be on our side, Fumi-chan," Kanchi suggested.
Just before she answers that question, she looked up to the sky and gasped.
"Hey, what is that?" She pointed up to the sky.
The boys turned to see the sky, and there they noticed a flying UFO on smokes, crashing to the ground. It caused a loud boom sound when it did.
"What was that?" Kuma questioned.
"Something crashed down over there!" Keita said
"I know this is just my theory, but I think it was ah..ah..a UFO!" Kanchi exclaimed.
The boys and Fumika gasped, but Ken looked a bit doubtful.
"Come on, guys. A UFO? Here in Sakura New Town," Ken said.
"Master Ken, maybe perhaps it is a good idea to investigate whatever that crashed was a UFO or not," Yuray whispered to his ear.
"Good idea," he replied. "Hey guys. Let's go and check out whatever that just crashed landed."
They agreed on his idea, and went straight to the place where the "UFO" crashed landed.
They went to the nearby town's temple, and then saw a nearby smoke.
"It must have landed near the temple," Fumika pointed out.
"I think I see it," Keita said as he pointed to something glowing over in the trees.
They walked into the small woods, and found the source of the glow. It was indeed a UFO, and the hatch was opened with somebody or something inside.
"Oh my! What had happened?" Yuray was surprised.
"It is indeed a UFO crashed landed! And there's somebody inside it!" Whisper stated.
"Wow. This is a big crash!" Kuma commented.
"Is it an alien's spaceship?" Kanchi asked.
"If it is, I think we should get out of here!" Keita warned.
"But, look, there is someone inside the thing!" Fumika pointed out.
Suddenly, that someone moved and woke up. It revealed to be not a person or an alien (though that depends how you look at it). It was a robot, with big red lens for the eyes, green metallic body, two bionic arms with claws for hands, two bionic arms painted in brown, making them looked like if it was wearing a pair of boots, and two yellow antennas for the ears. As a finishing touch, it wore a red Santa hat, making it look very cute and festive.
"It's a robot!" Kuma exclaimed.
"An alien robot!" Kanchi shouted.
"Though, with the hat, it looks kind of cute," Fumika commented.
"Be-boop….Be-boop." It made a robotic sound. "Restoring vision. Vision restored. Checking spaceship. Scan complete. Spaceship, broken down. Finding cause….cause found. A snowy white substance detected inside the fusion core. Scanning surrounding areas. Scan complete. Detected five human life forms, and two Yokai life forms."
"It's saying something," Ken said.
The robot turned to Ken and the others.
"Hello, children!" Its voice changed to a very friendly, childish voice. "How are you all doing on this lovely festive Christmas Eve?"
The kids and the two Yokai were surprised to see the sudden...change in the robot's voice, but quite impressed by its personality.
"Umm, hello." Fumika greeted it first. "We were just wondering why you crashed landed here."
"Oh, I see! Well, I just finished scanning my ship and apparently the cause of my crash was that somehow, a snowball was stuck in the fusion core." The mysterious robot told them.
"I think that may have been our fault." Ken whispered to the three boys.
"That sounds terrible!" Fumika replied. "Do you need help?"
"You're very kind, girl, but no thank you. I can manage to fix it, for I am Kringle-Bot!" Kringle-Bot said confidently.
Kringle-Bot-Tribe: Charming, Attribute: Metal
"Kringle-Bot is your name? That's cute!" Fumika giggled. "My name is Fumika, by the way."
"I'm Kuma," Kuma introduced.
"My name's Kanchi," Kanchi greeted.
"Hi. I'm Keita," Keita said.
"The name's Ken," Ken answered.
"Nice to meet you all, Fumika, Kuma, Kanchi, Keita, and Ken," Kringle-Bot said.
"So, why were you flying in that UFO?" Ken questioned it.
"Oh, I was just on my delivery task by my creators," Kringle-Bot answered.
"Creators? You were creating by someone?" Fumika asked.
"Oh! Bee-boop! My creators are the Kringles, the friendly and the great elves tribe of Toy Makers, and the elves who help Santa Claus," Kringle-Bot explained.
"Wait? You work for Santa!?" Kuma questioned.
"That's right, be-boop!" Kringle-Bot answered. "Santa Claus and Kringles are my creators! They made me to help and teach children about how to make toys, and delivers toys to them."
"Who are the Kringles, Kringle-Boot?" Fumika asked.
"Oh, they are the greatest elves in all of the realm. In fact, they used to be known to the entire world, serving as the first toy maker to the great King!"
Suddenly, a musical tome of the drums began, and trumpet could be heard in the cold, winter air.
It's a difficult responsibility.
When you accept an appointment from His Majesty.
You must strive for just the perfect quality.
When you're the first toymaker to the king!
All the soldiers must stand erect.
For the kingdom they protect.
The balls must bounce much higher.
If they're to please his royal sire.
The ballerinas must pirouette.
Upon their musical toes.
And the clowns must make a king forget.
All his kingly woes!
It's a difficult responsibility.
When you accept an appointment from His Majesty.
You must strive for just the perfect quality.
When you're the first toymaker to the king!
All the sailboats must never sink.
And the dollies always wink.
The teddy bears be furry.
If they're to gay his royal curry.
The jack-in-boxes must always pop.
At every regal command.
And the kangaroos must learn to hop.
Into the prince's hand!
Everyone: It's a difficult responsibility.
When you accept an appointment from his majesty.
You must strive for just the perfect quality.
When you're the first toymaker to the king!
"So then…what were you delivering, then? Toys?" Keita questioned, which was very obvious to answer.
"Keita, didn't you heard what he said or sang just now? Of course, he was delivering the toys!" Kuma scolded him.
"Yes. Yes! Once I fixed my spaceship, I can go and deliver my….Oh no!" Kringle-Bot gasped. "Error! Error! The toys are missing!"
"What!?" Everyone shouted.
"What happened to the toys, Kringle-Bot?" Fumika asked.
"The toys! The toys I made for the children are missing! It must have been dropped when I crashed landed! This is bad! BAD!" Kringle-Bot panicked as steam coming out of its side.
"Calm down, Kringle-Bot! We can help you find the toys," Keita said.
"Really? You would help me, be-boop?" Kringle-Bot questioned.
"Of course. I mean. It is kind of our responsibility, anyway…" Ken said with a silver-lining. "Let's go and find the missing toys, guys."
Everyone split up and went to search Kringle-Bot's missing toys. Kuma and Kanchi searched around the market street. Kuma stopped by at the hot food stand, distracting himself and Kanchi had to stop him, but the found the first toy. Fumika and Keita were looking the toys around the park, where they found two toys. As for Ken, he was with Kringle-Bot and Yuray, searching in the woods.
"One of the toys got to be here somewhere," Yuray said.
"So Kringle-Bot, I know you said you were created by the Kringles and Santa Claus and all, but are you also a…Yokai?" Ken questioned.
"Oh, well technically yes, I am! To tell you the truth…I was originally a Kringle Elf," Kringle-Bot admitted.
"It happened about many years ago. I was just a normal, happy elf who worked at Santa's toy workshop…" A flashback scene showed Kringle as an elf working at Santa's toyshop, making wooden toys. "I made all sorts of wooden toys for Santa to deliver to all the good children in the world. It brings joy every year and made my life everyday so much happy, but then change came, and Santa decided to close wooden toy workshop and replaced with highly advanced workshop to make all the latest new toys, especially electronic toys."
"Oh my. What happened next?" Yuray asked.
"Well, on the first day that I began working at the new workshop, I didn't understand how to work with the machine, but I try my best and loved the new job until one day, I felt into the machine and…well, I think you know the rest, be-boop," Kringle-Bot said sadly.
Ken and Yuray looked at each with sad and sorry expression.
"I had to go into surgery, but the doctors couldn't do anything for me, so Santa Claus and my elf friends decided to remake me. They build this new robot body, and put my heart in it and I became Kringle-Bot since then," Kringle-Bot explained.
"So basically you are robot, but also a Yokai?" Ken confused.
"Yes, I am a robot Yokai, and registered as such." Just as they finished talking, they noticed something shiny stuck on the tree high in one of its branches. It was one of the toys, and the last one.
They all gathered back at Kringle-Bot's crashed landed spaceship and fixed it. After many hours into the first hour of the night, the spaceship was built completely.
"Oh, thank you, thank you! Be-boop! My spaceship is fixed!" Kringle-Bot said excitedly.
"Your welcome, Kringle-Bot," Fumika said.
"Thank you for all being so kind to me and helping me to find the lost toys and fixing my spaceship. Now, I will return your kindness with some gifts!" Suddenly, Kringle-Bot made strange noises until his chest popped out, releasing stuffs.
"Wow! A new baseball gear that I wanted this year!" Keita cheered.
"Cool! I got the new remote-control, limited edition USSR tank!" Kanchi said joyfully.
"I got a brand-new trampoline kit I've wanted, and the new dollhouse that my sister wants!" Kuma stated.
"And I got the exclusive snow-boots by Miss Valentine's Christmas brand! My collection is finally completed!" Fumika said so joyfully.
"And here's your gift, Ken." Kringle-Bot gave Ken simply his Yokai medal, and a silver bell. "My medal represents my friendship with you and that silver bell is a very special bell that brings joy to whoever hears it bells, but also make all the sadness, sorrowfulness, and anger melt away like a snow."
Ken understood why he would give the medal, but he didn't quite understand the bell, but that was for another story.
After giving a gift to the children, Kringle-Bot got back onto his spaceship and flew away to deliver the toys to the good children of the world.
"I hope he delivers those toys safely this time," Fumika said. "I just wonder how he crashed landed in the first place."
The boys looked at each other and whispered to themselves innocently as they remembered just some hours ago.
It was when they were playing with their snowball fight. One of the snowballs that Keita threw missed Kuma and Kanchi, and went all the way until they couldn't see it. It may have hit Kringle-Bot's spaceship, causing it to crash landed, which was around the time after Fumika appeared to meet the boys and see what they were doing. At least nobody except for them knew the truth, but we will just leave as that.
Ho, ho, ho! Jolly-ho! I am back with another new update and quick.
This is first of the many stories for my Christmas Special for my Yo-Kai Watch Another Watcher series.
This story introduces a brand new Yokai OC called "Kringle-Bot." Kringle-Bot is a robot Yokai who has the powers to make toys, and loves giving toys to good children of the world. He has a pretty sad origin, but thanks to Santa's magic and the help of his elf friends, he is reborn to bring more joy to everyone in the world.
This story also has the song, a very catchy and jolly song called "The First Toymakers to the King" from the stop motion animated Christmas TV special, "Santa Claus is Comin to Town" by Rankin/Bass Productions. The original lyrics belong to the film and its original creator(s).
The next one will come up soon by end of next week, and I will see you guys again.