Chapter 2
Return of Krampus
Somewhere far, far away, at a village in the northern country, there was a small village. It was cold and quiet night, covered in white snows, and nobody present out on the streets, but all huddled and sleeping in the warmth of their bed.
However, this night wasn't all too quiet. The villagers were also aware that this night, of any night in the year, was the most terrifying night of all.
Appearing out of the dark woods, a shadowy figure walked through the village. It made noises through the snow as it moved and watched from house to house. It breathed heavily, nothing like a human being, but more beastly like.
It stopped at one of the houses, and it banged so strongly that the front door turned into chirps. It barged into the home without a warm welcome as it brought chilly winter winds, and the foul stench it made. The people in that home screamed when they saw the beast that unwantedly visited their home, but they knew why it was here.
The beast snarled and laughed wickedly as it snatched each man, woman, and all the children in the home and put then all into his sack. While this was happening, a little girl in the neighboring home watched from her window. She couldn't exactly tell what was going on, but she had a bright idea what was happening.
Suddenly, she gasped and stared at the intruder who also happened to be watching her from the window of the home it was invading in. The beast put his finger in front of his lip as if it was telling her to not tell of this. After that, the beast disappeared as it climbed up the chimney and jumped from house to house until it returned in the dark depth of the wood where it came from.
About four weeks later, at the dawn of Christmas Day, all the children in the village were enjoying opening their presents given by the good old Saint Nick. However, the same little girl who watched horrifying visit of the Christmas Devil, wasn't quite joyful or happy when she should be.
Her mother patted her shoulder and said this to her, "Dear. I know what you saw weeks ago was terrifying and I know that you were friend with the neighbor's children, but you know that they weren't good people. We just have to forget about them and live our normal life. Now, how about a hot cocoa?"
This was an old tale told in the small village in the region of Austria, where the children are reminded of the terrible coming of Krampus, the Christmas Devil who comes on the evening of December 5th for misbehaving children. As long as they behaved good for coming Christmas Day, then Krampus won't come for them, but if they misbehaved, well…let's just say they will get a visit from him to be taught with a lesson.
But what if Krampus didn't come to some village in Austria, but in the more modern place and somewhere in another country, like Japan? So, our story begins here in the not so small, but not so big town called Sakura New Town.
- Yo-Kai Watch Another Watcher –
It was a cold early afternoon, at around 3 PM to 4 PM, on December 5th, 2018.
"No sign of troubles here." From the top of a building, InuKamen watched over the town on his daily patrol.
"Waaaaaahhhh!" InuKamen's ear picked up a scream from a faraway distance, thanks to his good dog ear.
"I hear trouble! It's that way!" InuKamen exclaimed as he headed to the direction of the scream.
At a back alley, a delinquent boy in jeans, black jacket with chains, and mohawk was running away for his dear life from an unknown creature with two sharp horns and beastly face.
"Help! Somewhere! Help me!" He yelled as he was trapped in the corner.
The monster stepped forward with its sack ready. Just then, InuKamen arrived at the scene.
"Stop right there, villain! Or face the power of…. Krampus?" InuKamen said as the beast revealed to be Krampus in his beast form.
"Rrraawww!" It growled at InuKamen, with its attention on InuKamen.
"Krampus, what are you doing here? Don't tell me you have fallen into your beastly self again?" He asked.
"Rraaawwwww!" Krampus rammed over InuKamen, but he dodged it quickly. It roared and howled as it thrashed around everywhere, which the delinquent found this as an opportunity to escape.
However, Krampus noticed the boy's plan and grabbed him and quickly put him in his sack.
"Krampus, no!" InuKamen grabbed the boy's arm as Krampus pulled the boy by his leg.
"Ouch! Save me!" The boy cried.
"Let go of him, Krampus!" InuKamen yelled at his beastly friend. "I know that you're better than this!"
"Roooorr!" Krampus howled as he let go of the boy, and then jumped to the rooftop of a building, escaping from sight.
"Ho….Thanks...for saving me," the boy relieved.
"Now, if you don't mind, could you explain to me what happened?" InuKamen asked.
Just then, a police officer arrived at the scene with an elderly lady.
"There he is, officer! That's the man who stole my purse!" The elderly lady pointed at the boy.
"Thank you, maim," the police officer said as he put a handcuff on the boy's wrist. "You're under arrest, young man."
"Oh man! And I was just been chased by that monster and I still get caught!" The boy whined.
"I see. So Krampus was chasing this boy because he stole that lady's purse. He was only doing something good," InuKamen said to himself. "But his method and that form...He's clearly corrupted again. I must stop him before he hurts someone or even himself!"
InuKamen searched for Krampus all over the town. He searched for him at the rooftops of every houses, at a mall, at a park, but he couldn't find him anywhere.
"Where could we have gone? He must be hiding or something," InuKamen whispered.
"Kyaaah!" Then, he heard a scream of woman.
"At a time like this!" Inukamen said. "I must find Krampus later, and deal with the situation at hand!"
InuKamen went to see where the screaming was from this time. He saw a group of men surrounding a young, beautiful woman with scarfs and hood over her head.
"You're surrounded now, lady. Now give us your goods!" One of the men demanded.
"No! This belongs to me! I'm taking it to the rightful owners," the lady said.
"Hold it right there, villains! Stop right there or face the conse…."
"Rrraaawww!" Suddenly, Krampus appeared out of nowhere and began handling the group of men.
"Aaah! A monster!" The men shouted.
"Krampus!" InuKamen yelled as he jumped in and tried to stop him. "No, Krampus! Don't hurt them!"
"Krampus?" The lady gasped.
InuKamen wrestled with Krampus, but he was too strong even for him. InuKamen couldn't hold him, slamming into the pile of snow. Then, Krampus grabbed each men, putting them into his sack.
"Aaaaaahhh!" They screamed as they were put into the bag which looked like an endless darkness inside it.
Krampus looked at the woman, which she stood in bit of fear. Krampus shook away and ran off, disappearing again.
Later that time, InuKamen woke up and noticed that he was in a bed near a fireplace.
"Where am I?" He asked.
"Oh, you're awake." He looked to see the lady with a bowl of soup.
She was a beautiful woman, though not a local resident. Her hair was dirty blond with crystal blue eye and light-skin. By her physical appearance, she looked to be someone from Europe.
"What had happened?" He asked.
"Well, you tried to save me and stop Krampus, but you were hurt, so I took you to my my home. It is a shared apartment," she explained.
"I see, but...wait, do you know Krampus?" He asked.
"In matter of fact, I do, but….I never have believed that he was real until just a few hour ago," she said.
"What do you mean?" He questioned.
"Well, you see. I am from Austria. My name is Natasha, and I am an international student, studying aboard here in Japan, by the way," she introduced. "Anyway, in my home country, Austria, my mother told me the old story about Krampus, the Christmas Devil. She said to me that every year, on the 5th of this month today, Krampus comes to the town and find any naughty kids and people to take them away. He comes with his big sack, and when he finds them, he put them in his sack and they never to be seen again. I remember when an old friend told me that she saw Krampus raiding one neighbor's house. She said that her mom told her that the neighbor's son was a naughty child, and his parents...well, they were even worse, so Krampus took them away. I thought she was making it all up, but I guess she wasn't."
"That's a quite of story, maidam," Inukamen said as he took the soup and ate it. "However, the Krampus I know isn't a Devil or monster like you described him in your story. He is happened to be my friend, who gets corrupted whenever he sees naughtiness and in-moral act by people. It is why he is what he is when you saw him, but if I can just reason with him, he should be able to return to his normal, friendly self."
"I never knew that he is really friendly," Natasha remarked. "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Oh, don't worry about it, Miss Natasha," Inukamen assured. "I must stop him, no matter what or else, he will continue to terrorize people, and I don't want that to happen anymore."
Inukamen went outside again and continue where he left-off. Natasha watched him go away out in the snow, and looked very worry.
About some time later, Inukamen was patrolling the area when suddenly he heard a familiar howl, not of a dog or wolf.
"That must be Krampus!" He exclaimed as he went to the source of the howl.
He found Krampus, and this time, he had his eyes on a familiar person.
"Help!" Keita screamed.
"Somebody save us!" Whisper cried the loudest.
"Nyaaaa! I'm too young die! Even though I am already dead and now a Yokai, I am still too young to die as a Yokai that is!" Jibanyan shouted.
"Stop right there, Krampus!" Inukamen shouted at the monster yokai.
Krampus turned his attention on Inukamen.
"Krampus, I understand what you do, but this isn't right!" He stated. "You're a good being and I know you are! Now, stop this madness or I have no other choice, but to fight you to senses!"
Inukamen and Krampus stared at each other for five seconds, and then they made a move.
Krampus dashed toward Inukamen for an attack, but he dodged to the side and grabbed his horn, and flipped him over. He slammed Krampus on the ground, but that still didn't stop the Christmas Devil completely.
"Rrooor!" Krampus struggled as Inukamen held onto him by his neck.
"Stop it, Krampus! You must return to your normal self!" Inukamen exclaimed.
Just then, everyone heard a singing voice. They turned to see Natasha singing something in her native language. Krampus began to calm down and then began crying.
"Rrrraaaaaawwwwwww!" It roared for one last time before its face melted, turning back to friendly, old self. Then, he fainted.
A day later, in the morning hour of December the 6th, everything was back to normal. It was all thanks to Natasha's courage and used the old song that her mother taught her in case you encounter a mad Krampus. It was a magical folk song that has the power to calm a beast like Krampus, but only used in an emergency. Krampus was back to normal, thanked Inukamen and Natasha for turning him back to his normal, but the only one question remains; why did Krampus target Keita and his Yokai friends for his next victim?
If anything, only Santa Claus should know since he keeps track of all good and naughty children of the world.
Hello, good boys and girls! A long-awaited update for this story has finally arrived.
This chapter focuses on the return of Krampus from my last year's Christmas Special. This chapter is meant to be uploaded on December the 5th but because of something happened in my personal life that I need to deal with, I couldn't upload it. However, it is finally here and let me give you guys an explanation about this chapter.
December the 5th, unless you live in Austria or certain parts of Europe and already know this, is seen as a special holiday called "Krampusnacht" or the Night of Krampus in English meaning. It is a holiday celebrated in Austria, some northern part of Italy, and other certain parts in Europe where young men dresses as Krampus, and go on a parade at streets and even scare people on their way. They're usually accompanied with someone as Saint Nicholas but sometimes they are on their own, and even visits homes and businesses.
According to the legend, Krampus is accompanied with Saint Nicholas to visit children. Good ol' Nick only gives gift to good children while Krampus gives coal to bad children and even states that he puts them into his sack, and brings them to the underworld for punishment and torture. Krampus is seen as the Christmas Devil, but in my opinion, I don't think that makes him an evil being. Like Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus, he is a figurehead who represents evil to teach children about what's right and wrong, and if you've been naughty and not nice to others, then you may as well be taken away to somewhere even worse or something bad will happen to you aka karma would eventually get to you. Just like how Santa Claus teaches kids to be a good children and eventually good adults, Krampus teaches us what's good and what's bad, and if you don't be good, then something bad would happen to you as a punishment.
I hope you all enjoyed reading this story, and remember, you better not frown, or better not cry because Krampus will come to your town and take you away to hell.
See you guys soon in the next chapter.