A Christmas Carol
prologue
by Black Ice and Deathscythe
here it is.. I finally decided to send it to you rejoice my friend! *grin* send your responses to me and jo after reading. ty
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Disclaimers:
You guys know the routine. The characters used in this story are not ours except for two certain Christmas Ghosts we leave it up to you to guess which two. The idea of the story inspired by Charles Dickens’ story of the same name. So don’t sue us coz we are not getting money out of this… but if you would like to offer some we would happily accept. J Anyway since this is a bit long and we still haven’t edited everything early enough to be able to submit the completed story in time for the holidays, we decided to just send out the prologue first. The others unfortunately will have to come later. We worked on this just two days before Christmas… and this is what we got. Can you spot us in the story? Hope you’ll like it. Now on with the show
A Christmas Carol
By: Black Ice and Death Scythe
Legend:
"_"- speaking out loud
<_>- thought
( _ ) –authors’ comments
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Prologue:
It was the night before Christmas. It was a night unlike any other night of the year for the Gundam Wing pilots. For tonight was the time when the boys could finally gather together and rest comfortably in the cozy den of Quatre’s mountain hideaway, without the cares of war and battle, but instead to lounge around and enjoy a well deserved rest AND each other’s company.
"AAAARGH!!! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Heero yelled as he desperately sought for an escape around the huge den.
"Aw c’mon, be a sport Heero! Just one kiss!!", Duo puckered up his lips and cornered Heero while playfully dangling a mistletoe in front of his horrified face.
Heero shrunk in his corner, "Nooo! not this year! PLEASE!!!", he held up his arms for protection as Duo’s lips grew closer by the second. With just a millimeter away from his target, Duo made a disappointed pout and got up. "Okay then! maybe later, on Christmas Eve." Duo started to walk away.
"Whew!" Heero breathed a sigh of relief.
Duo turned all of a sudden.
"12:00… SHARP!" Duo said with a happy grin and merrily skipped away.
"Ooh boy!" Heero rested his head down on his hand.
Trowa watched the two from his spot by the fire checking out and arranging all the presents under the tree. He just snickered and shook his head.
"TROWA!!!!"
Trowa got up a little at the sound of his name when suddenly two pale arms went around his neck and he was pushed over by the weight on his back to land flat on his face amidst the huge pile of gifts.
"Is it time yet? Is it time yet??? Can we open the presents now? Huh? Huh?? Can we? Can we???" Quatre excitedly said.
"MmmftMMFtmft!!!"
"WHAAATT???" Quatre peered down at the half-buried head of Trowa.
"I think he is trying to tell you to get off him." Heero bluntly stated as he moved to the couch from his corner. Duo followed the suit.
Quatre looked at Heero. "How’d you know THAT?"
"By experience." Heero said as he glared accusingly at Duo who smiled as innocently as he possibly could.
Suddenly a cold gust of wind filled the room, making Trowa suddenly jump up on his feet accidentally flinging Quatre off his back and on to the couch opposite to the one where Duo and Heero were seated. (pretty hard to picture we know… but that’s how we saw it…who are we to change what happened?? )
"Wufei! It’s about time you got back!! Your cocoa is getting cold." Duo stated as he sipped his hot cup of marshmallow-filled cocoa, "Ofcourse, if you REALLY don’t want it, you can always give it to me!" Duo added with an innocent grin and proceeded to reach for Wufei’s cup.
"Get your dirty paws off my cup, you hippie preacher wannabe!" Wufei growled.
Duo held up his hands in surrender, "Okay! Okay! It was just an innocent offer." he grinned, "I really hate to see food go to waste!"
"Or are you just looking for more grub?" Heero sarcastically commented as he quietly sipped his cocoa beneath Duo’s darkening stare.
"What were you up to anyway?" Quatre innocently inquired.
"Nataku…what else?" Trowa matter-of-factly said.
"WHO are you calling a WHAT, Mister Everyday-is-a-bad-hair-day?" Wufei burst out.
Suddenly another huge gust of wind entered the room through the windows, creating a loud thumping noise of the shutters banging against their frames.
"What was that?" Quatre shivered, "Trowa, I’m cold." He huddled closer to the now seated Trowa.
Finishing the unnoticed cup of cocoa (guess who’s! (), Duo watched the cuddling couple on the opposite couch, and looked suggestively at Heero, "Heero," Duo batted his eyes cutely, "I’m cold too." He edged closer to Heero.
"Get away from me!" Heero exclaimed moving away from the approaching danger. "I don’t even think you area bit cold under that thick clothing of yours. And I bet that it is even summer in there."
"Oh! Is that all?" Duo looked down at the thick layer of clothing he had on, "I could fix that!" then one by one Duo started to remove the buttons of his button-up sweater.
"Argh! No! DON’T!" Heero exclaimed with wide-eyes and a hand waving in front of him as if he was trying to stop Duo from doing what he was about to do.
Wufei on the other hand stood tall as he watched the two couples looking very sweet on their respective couches.
(I will stand tall and strong as my honor dictates me to and won’t reduce myself to doing such things as those miserable weaklings.) Wufei silently resolved to himself, as he stood strong and solitary against the cold rush of wind. His stance would have been perfect in making everyone think that he could bravely stand the cold wind except for the loud and rapid chattering of his teeth that was a lot louder than the slamming of the shutters, making everyone give him odd stares. Suddenly a pair of black shadows went through the window and flew all across the room.
"ARGH! STOP!!!" two strange looking girls in black yelled as they screeched to a halt.
"Hey! Help me out here will ya???" a stout white bearded man in a familiar looking red get-up yelled at his other two companions, as he tried to squeeze himself through the window.
The two black clad figures approached the huge red figure stuck in the window.
As they each took an arm, they both tried to pry out the huge red flabby figure from the window.
"You know what? I think you oughta start on a new diet." the figure in a black robe and hood growled as she planted her feet on the window frame and obviously struggled in trying to pull the huge red flabby figure from the window.
The second figure in a black and silver vampire outfit with cape spoke up, "How come you can fit through chimneys but not through this window?"
"That is a lot bigger than chimneys?" the black hooded figure finished as she continued to pull on the arm that she was holding.
"Exactly." The vampire-like figure agreed as she too pulled harder on the arm.
Then suddenly-
PLOP!
"AARGH!"
CRASH!
"I’m free! I’M FREE!!!" the stout red clad man happily cried. "Hey! GET your FAT ASS offa me!" the vampire-like girl yelled. Huge sweat drops appeared on each of the heads of the Gundam Wing pilots.
"Who the hell are these characters?" Heero muttered.
"Excuse us…" the stranger in long robes, said.
"We are-- ack! *tug!tug! * Get off of me you big pile of lard!" the vampire girl said as she pushed the huge weight roughly off of her and got up.
The hooded girl got up and dusted off her robes, "What my friend here is trying to say is that we are the ghosts of Christmas-"
"Past." the vampire girl said brushing some stray strands of her short and a wavy black hair away from her face and gave a huge grin revealing white teeth and razor sharp fangs making the GW boys gulp.
"Present." the stout man mumbled trying to get up from his very embarrassing position.
"And Future." the hooded girl finished giving a low bow making black braid fall from her hood.
"Hey! I read about you people." Quatre pointed to each one. "But I can’t seem to remember where." he stopped his finger at the Christmas Ghost of the Present, " You know, you look familiar." then Quatre approached CGPr and drags him over to the couch and sits on his lap. "SANTA! I forgot to add these on the list of presents I sent to you!" he uncovered a long roll containing his Christmas list that stretched until his foot.
Duo excitedly jumped up on the other lap of the seated ghost. "Here’s my list too Santa! Though I never actually believed in Santa, but anyways… since you dropped by..." he uncovered a longer list stretching all across the other side of the room.
"I’M NOT SANTA!!!!!" CGPr burst out as he stood up making the two other Gundam boys fall on the floor.
PLOP!
PLOP!
"This is the second time this happened at me already." Quatre’s eyes started to tear up, "Why does everyone want to throw me AWAAAYYY???"
Trowa knelt beside Quatre, "There, there." he soothed Quatre, "I’m sure they were all just accidents."
Duo watched the two and started to quiver, "Hee.."
"Don’t even think about it." Heero said in a deadly tone.
"Ahem! as I was saying," the Christmas Ghost of the Past announced, "We paid you a visit to make you remember that Christmas is a time for peace and unity and justice."
The last word made Wufei’s face light up. "That is exactly what we are fighting for." he stated, "We are not Scrooges you know."
"*sweat drop* Um, you get the picture.", CGPa said, "Okay! Okay! I’ll just take you to the past and remind you of the Christmases you were little." she rubbed her hands together in a very strange and eager looking manner.
"This’ll be fun!!" the Christmas Ghost of the Future/ CGFu said in a mischievous tone.
"Fasten your seatbelts boys. Coz this’ll be one hell of a ride!" CGPa grinned, "Okay, now close your eyes and think back to the days past. I’ll help you remember the things you may have forgotten. Now take a deep breath and open your minds. … remember the time when you were-"
Then the image of the room started to waver and fade away before their eyes.
"What’s the magic word again?" CGPa flips through her copy of the script, "Aha! I found it!
Ala peanut butter and jelly SANDWICHES!"
POOF!
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