"So how did this happen?" Grim asked.
"I don't really know," Nancy replied. "I had just finished mending Santa's underwear..." she then started to say.
Billy then spit out his hot chocolate in shock. "SANTA HAS UNDERWEAR?!" he then asked before sipping more.
"And washing his spare hat..." Nancy continued.
Billy then spit out his hot chocolate again. "SANTA HAS A SPARE HAT?!" he then asked before sipping more again.
"Waxing his sleigh..." Nancy listed.
Billy then, you guessed it, spit out his hot chocolate again as an annoying running gag, but not as bad as what other Cartoon Network fanfictions have in them. "SANTA HAS A SLEIGH?!"
"Treating Donner's irritable bowels..." Nancy said before glaring at Billy expectingly.
Billy didn't spit out his hot chocolate this time and just swallowed it. "He probably needs more fiber in his diet." he then shrugged as he sipped more hot chocolate and didn't spit any out that time.
Mandy growled as she was soaked in Billy's backwash since the others purposely put her around him so she would have a taste of much needed karma.
"Running gags, gotta love 'em..." Lynn muttered to herself.
"Anyways, I came back from chopping wood," explained Nancy. "And that was when I found Santa trying to suck the blood of that cute little elf who wanted to be a dentist!"
"No! Not Hermie!" Kimberly gasped.
"You know him?" Nancy asked innocently.
"I always hated the living undead, wandering around all dead but alive.," Grim scoffed as he sipped his hot chocolate. "Makes a mockery of me job."
Mandy then suddenly took Grim's scythe and cut the tree with the sharp blade.
"Have you gone crazy, girl?!" Grim complained to Mandy.
Mandy then used the scythe to trim down the tree, starting to make a certain weapon.
"Mandy. You can't destroy a Christmas tree like that," Billy said in horror. "YOU GOTTA STOMP ON IT!"
"I may have a hard time buying the whole Santa thing, but vampires, vampires I understand." Mandy soon said and then took out her weapon which appeared to be a wooden stake.
"Wooden stakes!" Grim realized. "Good thinking, Mandy!"
Nancy gasped. "You're not going to use that on my Santa, are you?" she asked.
"No," replied Mandy, sounding shockingly sensible. "We have to find the Head Vampire and stake him. That's how it works in the movies."
"Is that true?" Chrissy asked LJ.
"My mother's a different breed," LJ shrugged as he explained. "She's not like other vampires since she decided she wanted to be one during an adventure, she just complains that garlic bread smells a lot stronger than it used to."
"There's just one problem with Mandy's plan," Kimberly soon said. "We don't know where we could even possibly find this Head Vampire."
"Well, there is that creepy Baron von Ghoulish, perhaps you could ask him, he lives up the road," Nancy suggested as she gave them directions. "You just follow Dead Man's Path, through the crag of Endless Stabbing Pain, take a left at the Tree of Evisceration, into the Cave of Horrible Smells, then cut through Lovable Pony Meadow, and you'll be at the Forbidden Castle of No Return."
"Sounds easy enough," said Grim.
"We're going, too," said LJ. "We can at least make sure things don't get completely out of control like they usually do around you all."
"I'm just concerned about Mrs. Claus being here all alone." Kimberly commented.
"Kimberly makes a good point," Lynn agreed. "Maybe someone should stay behind with her."
"Now Billy, you look after Mrs. Claus while we're gone," Grim soon suggested. "You gotta be the man of the house now. Understand?"
"The man?" Billy inquired.
"The man." Grim confirmed.
"The man!" Billy repeated out of determination.
"Good luck!" Nancy told the others as she began to look emotional and started to cry.
"Hey, hey, hey. It's gonna be all right Mrs. C. I'm a man now," Billy reassured the grieving elderly woman. "Any help you need you just ask. It's my sacred duty as a man."
"Help?" Nancy asked tearfully before pulling him into a tight hug just like with Grim. "You're the only one who's ever offered~"
MEANWHILE...
Grim, Mandy, LJ, Chrissy, Lynn, and Kimberly had arrived at the icy fortress of Baron Von Ghoulish.
"Finally, we made it," sighed Grim. "I never would've expected those lovable ponies to put up such a nasty fight!"
"At least Kimberly was able to calm them and convince them to let us through." commented Chrissy.
"Ya just gotta know how to work with them." Kimberly nodded.
They soon looked over to the castle as the vampire inside appeared to be brushing his fangs.
"I wonder how we should get-" Lynn began to wonder only for Mandy to suddenly shatter the window as a way to break in. "WHAT THE HECK, MANDY?!" she then complained.
"Great, you just had to break the stinking window, didn't you?" Grim scoffed at Mandy.
"You had a better way of how to get in?" Mandy retorted.
"Does element of surprise mean anything to you?" Grim countered.
"Once again, Mandy proves that she solves problems with violence like an idiot." LJ groused to himself.
"Get your feet of my bedspread!" The vampire complained before Mandy walked off of the bed as he continued to rant. "I mean, what's wrong with you people? Can't you see this is dupioni silk?" he then added before seeing dirt on his bed and he grabbed the bedspread, stepping away to wash away the mess. "Great, just great. Now I've got to get this clean before the stain sets. How is it that so much dirt that always sticks to humans?" he then ranted on the way out.
Grim looked on in disbelief. "That was the Head Vampire?" he asked.
"Or his mother," remarked Mandy. "Either way, watch your step."
"And I want to know who's going to pay for that window!" demanded Baron Von Ghoulish.
The others then pointed at Mandy rather harshly.
"HEY!" Mandy glared at that.
"All my windows are handcrafted, by local artisans..." Baron von Ghoulish continued to rant as he vacuumed up the mess.
"So, um, sir, are you The Head Vampire by chance?" Chrissy asked, not sure how else to ask it and decided to just come right out and say it.
"I am Baron von Ghoulish; the 13th of the von Ghoulish clan, I have roamed the Earth for 398 years," Baron von Ghoulish explained rather obviously. "So, yes, I'm the Head Vampire!"
"Perfect." Mandy said and soon threw her wooden stake in the man's chest to kill him instantly.
"Oh, dear..." Baron von Ghoulish muttered and soon suddenly became a pile of ash.
"Hey, Ghoulish!" Grim exclaimed. "I'd ASH you to dinner, but it looks like you're dead!" And he laughed before another snowball hit him in the face.
"Dib would've liked that." LJ commented.
"Well, Christmas is saved," said Mandy. "Let's get going."
But then suddenly, the ash resurrected and out came Baron von Ghoulish with a flame as he looked very furious right now. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" he then demanded.
"Uh, she did it." Grim then said as he pointed at the blonde girl.
Mandy pulled a face since she was blamed, but she did in fact do it.
"What have you done?" Baron von Ghoulish repeated, seeming very annoyed right now. "Do you realize that I'll be picking ash, out of my bedroom carpet for eternity?"
"I'm sorry, uh, Mr. von Ghoulish, but didn't Mandy just destroy you?" Lynn asked.
"She staked a little too far to the left. Hit my trusty vacuum cleaner," Baron von Ghoulish clarified as he showed them the vacuum cleaner that Mandy had destroyed before he turned it on and sucked up the wooden stake with the vacuum. "Besides, you don't want the head vampire. You want the Head, HEAD vampire." he then added.
"The head Head vampire?" Mandy asked.
"They did this whole reorganizing thing a couple hundred years ago," explained the Baron. "Doesn't make much sense to me. What was I talking about? Ah, yes... the head Head vampire. I think he was here for my Labor Day soiree. I definitely remember him if I saw him."
"If he spilled something on your rug, I bet you'd remember what he looks like." snarked Mandy.
Baron Von Ghoulish hissed at her.
"That's right, just keep on sassing." Lynn glared.
Mandy just scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Whatever."
"We should probably get a move on, guys." Kimberly suggested.
"Kimber's right," LJ agreed. "Christmas is cancelled unless we can find and destroy the Head, Head Vampire. So, hop to it, especially you, Mandy."
"See ya, Baron," Grim added. "We're off to save Christmas."
"Save Christmas?! Wait, wait, wait!" Baron von Ghoulish asked out of intrigue before he turned into a bat and followed everyone else before he appeared in front of them and turned into a vampire again. "Can I go with you? I've always wanted to save Christmas, ever since I was a little boy."
Flashback
"Someday, I'm gonna save Christmas." Young Baron von Ghoulish said to himself as he colored with other kids.
End of Flashback
"Sorry, you can't come," retorted Mandy. "You'd be dead weight."
"Or, undead weight!" Grim laughed.
"Aw... please?" asked Baron von Ghoulish.
"Oh, come on, Mandy," urged Grim. "It's always been my dream to save Christmas with a vampire sidekick; ever since I was a little boy!"
Flashback
"Someday, I'll save Christmas with a vampire!" Young Grim said to himself as he colored with other kids... and then he got beaned with a snowball.
End of Flashback
"Oh, fine, but he's your responsibility, Grim." Mandy groused.
They soon went off to their adventure together.
"I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus-" LJ began to sing to keep himself warm.
"Stop singing that stupid song sung by a stupid kid in a stupid family band." Mandy glared at him.
"Come over here and make me, you pessimistic menace." LJ spat.
"Don't make me come over there." Mandy glared.
"Please no fighting!" Kimberly cried out.
"Oh, I'm sorry, are we offending The Unicorn Lover because we're not all about love and friendship?" Mandy mocked. "Do me a favor and just grow up already."
"I'm sorry, Kimber, but all Mandy's been doing is just being negative and pessimistic and above all, unpleasant," LJ said. "Besides, whoever said growing up means losing sight of what you treasured as a child should have their head examined."
"I did." Mandy stated firmly.
"Nobody asked you!" Kimberly snapped before she blushed and cupped her mouth. "I lost my temper."
"Whatever..." Mandy scoffed and walked away.
"Just you wait, Mandy, I'll get you back eventually." LJ grumbled before they continued to their journey to help save Christmas.
"Oh, we're off~" Baron von Ghoulish began to sing.
"Yes, we're off~" Grim added.
"We're off to save Christmas~" They both sang.
"Off to save Christmas~"
"And were cold~"
"Super cold~"
"Yes, we forgot our jackets~"
"'Cuz we didn't bring our jackets, So we'll freeze. And we'll~" They both then began to sing together.
"Can it," remarked Mandy once they got to a signpost. "Okay, Baron, if you know the way, let's hear it. Cuz we're lost."
"~And we're lost! Oh-so lost~" sang Grim and the Baron. "~And we can't feel our fingers! No, we can't feel our—"
"I said knock it off!" Mandy snapped as she turned back... only to see that Grim and Baron von Ghoulish were frozen in ice blocks. "Great... I get to spend Christmas Eve with a couple of dorksicles."
"Oooh, bummer, so sad." LJ replied dryly as he started singing again.
"I told you to knock off that stupid song!" Mandy snapped.
"And I'm saying, GET BENT!" retorted LJ. "I'm not one of your spineless lackeys, so if you want me to stop, you might as well try and make me!"
Mandy snarled dangerously with blazing red eyes and her hair nearly became fire out of pure hatred. "YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW WHAT I'LL DO TO YOU IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP." she then scowled.
"MAYBE I DO!" LJ shouted back. "So puff yourself up all you want, until your ugly mug turns blue!"
"YOU ASKED FOR IT!" Mandy snapped.
"So go ahead and do it." LJ challenged.
Mandy gave him a look before glaring. "Well... maybe I don't feel like it right now." she then said.
"Is Mandy really just all talk?" Chrissy asked Lynn and Kimberly.
"Sure looks like it," Lynn commented. "I mean, my sister Lola used to be pretty bad, but she was pretty good at ruining people's lives if she didn't get her way until she decided to be nicer."
"Just what I figured," LJ remarked. "All bark and no bite, all bluff and no buff. Anyways, Christmas won't save itself... we better keep moving."
"Watch it, I'll show you later." Mandy challenged.
"Riiiight..." LJ replied in disbelief. "I'm shakin'."
They soon continued along even with Grim and Baron von Ghoulish frozen solid.
MEANWHILE...
Billy and the elves were making cookies with Nancy allowing Billy to put sugar in the mixing bowl. He then walked closer to put the sugar in there, but he fell into the mixing bowl and sunk inside it. The mixing bowl mix led into a factory that was making gingerbread houses and Billy ended up in one of them.
"Oh, this one has three bedrooms and two beds." Gingy said to his gingerbread bride Sugar who had chocolate brown frosted hair, green eyes, a yellow dress with orange flowers, and a pearl necklace along with pearl bracelets.
Billy then burst out of the gingerbread house, also eating the gingerbread man and woman.
Billy then came outside to the reindeer stables, seeing that Rudolph's nose was blinking before he removed the nose and changed it like a lightbulb to make it shine bright as he stood beside his doefriend Clarice.
Billy then walked inside, starting to feel melancholy about Christmas being ruined and Santa being a vampire.
"Excellent work, Billy." Nancy smiled as she applauded the idiot boy.
"It doesn't matter, Santa's a monster and Christmas is ruined." Billy replied sadly.
"Don't say that, Billy." Nancy frowned.
"But I just did." Billy retorted, still sounding depressed.
"Billy, you're the only one who's ever offered to be any help," Nancy reassured him warmly. "You're the only one who's ever shown to be any goodwill aside from that yellow boy over there with his princess girlfriend." she then added.
Ed and Candy grinned and waved as they made a random cameo together.
"Do we have pie?" Billy asked Nancy hopefully.
"You will always have a special place, in my heart, and in the New World order." Nancy told Billy thankfully.
"Uh-oh! This doesn't look good!" Patch said as he was suddenly there.
"Huh? Where did you come from?" Billy asked the Dalmatian who made a random cameo.
"Oh, you know, Christmas, Santa Claus, I gotta help Santa Paws and the Santa Puppies like I always do in these adventure stories." Patch explained like it was a completely normal thing to say.
Immediately, the door was thrown open, and the group went inside.
"Well, Ghoulish wasn't our vampire." said Mandy.
Nancy pondered. "Maybe you could ask Santa what he saw before he was bitten." she suggested.
"I guess that's a good idea," Lynn shrugged. "I think Lucy said that happened with Griselda and Elwin once."
"Right, retrace his steps and maybe pull some of his teeth for DNA." Mandy agreed.
"She didn't say that, so glad you have your priorities straight." Kimberly snarked at Mandy.
"Whoa... Unicorn Girl's got teeth..." Mandy noted. "What made you so brave and cocky?"
"My kindness and friendship toward others can only go so far and you've been bugging me for a while, so you better stay out of my way before I turn into a real Chrissy." Kimberly replied bitterly.
"Hey!" Chrissy complained.
"Sorry, Chris, I didn't mean it like that, honest." Kimberly reassured.
"Hey, guys, I'm getting presents in the new world order!" Billy then blurted out. "Mrs. Claus said so!"
"Well, that seems suspect." commented LJ.
Nancy went to the door and held it open. "Alright, down to the cellar with the lot of you. Christmas isn't going to save itself, you know." she then suggested.
Kimberly, Chrissy, and Lynn all looked at each other before looking at LJ who just shrugged and they also shrugged, so they made their way to the cellar along with Grim, Baron von Ghoulish, and Mandy.
"Oh, and Grim? Your scythe is absolutely filthy," Nancy then said as she took Grim's scythe away from him. "Let me clean that up for you."
"Oh, thanks." Grim smiled at that, allowing her to take it as everyone else headed for the cellar.
"Something is definitely weird here." LJ commented to himself.
"For once, I actually agree," Mandy replied. "Don't get used to it."
"Don't worry, I'm not," LJ responded as they went into the basement.
Suddenly, the door shut behind them, making Kimberly flinch slightly.