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Chapter 8: The Chaos

Lucy's POV

"But what will I wear?" Grinch asked.

He's been arguing with himself about going down to the celebration. Eventually he decided to at least get dressed for it.

Grinch grabbed a table cloth and draped it around his waist.

"Nice dress," I remarked, Max barking in agreement.

"It's not a dress, it's a kilt!" he snapped, tearing the table cloth off, revealing a garter. "Sickos!" he said, and stalked off while I laughed.

"Hey, instead of laughing, you should get ready too! I'm not going down there alone!" Grinch yelled at me.

"You want me to go down there? What if I loose my temper or something and freeze someone solid?" I asked.

"As funny as that would be, you won't." Grinch assured me. "Now shut up and look for something to wear!"

"Wear what? All the clothes I have are rags from the trash." I pointed out.

"Well if we don't find anything to wear, we're not going!" Grinch stated.

Then, we heard it: Yodeling.

Grinch raced up and grabbed a hook, grinning like a dork.

Moments later, he came back and tossed something at me. It smacked me in the face. Scowling, I picked it up and looked at it.

It was blue fabric that had candy canes printed on it.

"Where'd you get this?" I asked.

Grinch crackled. "The yodeling guy had it on him. I stole his jumper. Make something out of it for yourself."

I rolled my eyes but heading for the sewing machine anyway.

Quickly, I stitched the fabric. There was enough fabric for a skirt. I added layers under it, and soon, I had a skirt with a slight poof to it. I also sewed up a red longsleeved shirt I had found in the garbage the other day. (I washed it, don't worry). Attatching the skirt and the shirt, I created a dress.

Putting it on, I looked in the mirror. It wasn't bad.

While waiting for Grinch to finish doing whatever he was doing, I grabbed the tapes and papers Cindy Lou gave me.

My story.

Apperantly, Noah had dragged me up the mountain to tell me something, but panicked at last minute. Ditching me, he took off, when the blizard hit. I have a sister, Martha May, who also has a connectin with Grinch. No one found me, thanks to Grinch. But people began spreading rumors about my death and say that I haunt the mountain, only allowing the Grinch access to the mountain.

Sighing, I tossed the information away.

Grinch came in. "Not bad sis. I mean, it'd be better if it wasn't so Christmasy." he said.

"We're going to a Christmas celebration." I reminded him.

"Yeah, whatever." he replied going to the door.

As he was about to open it, he stopped and turned.

"What if it's a prank?" he asked.

Before I could reply, the trap door beneath me gave out. Max had pulled the lever.

Yelling, we traveled down the garbage chute to Whoville.

We were thrown out of the garbage cute, and we flew into the air, yelling and screaming.

Grinch flew and landed on a women, his face landing on her chest.

"Hello Martha." he mummbled.

I flew and with my bad luck, landed on Noah Whoran. Startled, he looked up at me.
"Lucinda May?"

I laughed awkwardly. "Hey..."

Blushing, I scrammbled off of him. Standing up, everyone looked at me in shock.

Walking up to Grinch, people moved out of my way. We stood there for a minute before I smirked. "Boo." I said.

People gasped.

"Tough crowd." Grinch muttered.

I rolled my eyes at the people staring. "Yes, I'm real. And I'm alive." I snapped.

"Lucinda May?" a female voice asked.

Turning, I saw the woman, Martha May walk slowly towards me. "You're alive?"

"No kidding...sis." I said.

Grinch looked at me. "Sis?"

"Yep. Barely found out, thanks to Cindy Lou." I said.

"Looks like you both are having family reunions!" the Mayor suddenly said.

"Huh? Both?" Grinch asked.

"They raised you. They clothed you. Your old biddies!" Mayor said, and gestured to two old women coming up the stage.

"Are you two still living?" Grinch muttered.
Snickering, I moved out of the way as Grinch's old mothers began dressing him in a Christmas sweater.

Martha May came and suddenly hugged me. Blinking, I stiffend. I wasn't used to affection like this. Grinch rarely hugged me. He stopped completely after I hit my preteen years.

"You don't know how much our parents prayed for your return." Martha whispered.

I looked down and pulled away. "Why didn't you look in the mountain? Why didn't they go for me?"

"Because they were afraid." Martha admitted. "I tried, but I never found you."

I shrugged. "What's done is done."

Grinch was suddenly thrown into a chair, despite his protests. The Whos paraded with him around the plaza, feeding him pudding and cakes. I'm surprised he hasn't puked yet.

"Lucinda May." I heard Noah call out.

I looked over at him. "Lucy." I reminded him.

"Lucy...Can we talk?" he asked.

I shrugged. "Fine."

"I'm sorry. About what I did to you." he said.

"It already happend, nothing we can do about it." I said.

"I still feel awful...how could I ever make it up to you?" Noah asked.

Looking at him, I grinned. "How about you buy me Christmas cookies for the rest of the night?"

The celebration was fun. But it didn't last.

The Mayor ruined everything, by giving my brother a razor.

The razor triggered the Grinch's anger and hell broke loose.

Angry, I raised my palms and froze the Mayor's feet to the ground. "How dare you! You ruined his life! How dare you do such a cruel act!" I screamed at him.

Shocked, people began running and screaming. I saw Cindy Lou's parents drag her away, and Noah got pushed away by the crowd.

Grinch got some alchohol and a flame. "Lucy get back." he growled, and blew the town's Christmas tree on fire.

"Burn baby! Burn!" Grinch yelled as the tree burned into ashes.

Suddenly a large crowd of people ran by me, and I got dragged away.

Lost in the panic and chaos, I searched for my brother. Unfortunatly, I got pushed into the street.

"Lucy!" Noah pulled me out of the street as a car raced by. "Lucy, let's go!"

"I have to find Grinch!" I said.

"Lucy, I know he's your brother, but look at this! It's chaos! We have to get somewhere safe!" Noah said, pulling me along.

"Safe? Are you kidding me? Noah, look at me! I shoot ice out of my palms, I'm a freak! I have to find my brother before things get worse." I said.

"Lucy wait!" Noah cried. I stopped and turned. Noah grabbed my shoulders and suddenly kissed me.

"Be carefull." he said.

Blushing, I ran down the street.

Suddenly, I heard tires screeching. Grinch was driving a minature car.

"Grinch, look out!" I screamed. He looked up and saw a stroller. Braking hard, he jerked the steering wheel and crashed into a fire hydrant.

I ran to him. "Grinch? Are you okay?"

He groaned and looked at the car, his eyes growing wide. "Lucy, run! It's gonna blow!"

We ran from the wreck and Grinch tackled me from behind. Landing hard, I heard a loud explosion, and my head hit the ground.

Pain shot through my head and everything went black.

I'm sorry this took forever...writers block. Dx

Anyway, thanks to all those who reviewed!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

I only own my OC, Lucy, and the plot of this totaly random fanfic.

I hope you review, and thanks for reading!

-Lia