Our hero is a typical student boy, living in a High school dormitory in some big city. One night, as he was sleeping, a trespasser sneaked into his room. This (for now a shadow figure) approached the boy bed, stood above him, and stared down with menacing intent. Seconds passed slowly as the sleeper breathed peacefully, unaware of any danger. Its seems that the shadow figured said something, but there was no response to it. It tried again with same result. Then the trespasser decided to wake the boy by simply dragging him of the bed, letting the sleeper to fall onto the floor.
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That finally wake up the boy and he opened its eyes.
Someone call at him with a feminine voice. "Hey! Wake up already!"
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First, he noticed the girl legs in colorful stockings like a Christmas event lollipops. Then, with a confused expression on his face, he followed those legs with his gaze all way up onto a puffy face of a girl, who seemed to be slightly blushing. Then he spoke. "A tsundere Santa helper elf?" [Tsundere- term for a character development process that depicts a character with an initially harsh personality who gradually reveals a warmer, friendlier side over time.]
Of course, that girl seems to have a different mentality. "What the heck is a tsundere? Newer-mind! Are you finally awake? I was calling at you for a while." As his gaze drop, she frown. "Hey! My eyes are up here! Stop wasting our time! We're already behind schedule!"
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He tried very hard to actually remember who this girl is, what she wants from him, or how the heck she got in. But he simply cant figure it out. It got to the point that he start thinking about having a window from excess drinking. But then he realize that there was no party previous day. So he give her (I don't know.) expression.
That make the elf to sigh in defeat. "Unbelievable!" Then she put out her smartphone, bend over, and show its screen onto his face. "Is this you? Do you remember, signing up for this?"
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It took him a moment, until he remembered something. "Is that a Christmas lottery from that website?"
The girl withdraw the phone to her side, anger in her face as she clutched her other hand into a fist thigh fist. Its was clear that she really want to him punch right into middle of his face. "A lottery, he says…" She gritter her teeth for a second before makin an evil grin. "Yes, you are correct. It is a lottery. And you won." Narrowing itself to standing position, to tower above him, she aimed a strict pointing finger on his face. Suddenly, she become theatrical, like a promoter before a play. "Lad, celebrate! The Christmas Eve in behind the corner, and you had been chosen, to be the local Santa. From many candidates, you had been carefully selected for a very important…"
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He interrupted her with his observation comment. "I was the only one, who signed up, wasn't I?" Seeing how she froze in place, made him to sight. He decide to stop resting on the floor, so he sat up, putting his back against his bed frame.
With an urge to not let him steal the conversation, she make a rash, nearly panicked decision. She crouch toward him, potting her finger once again at his face from point blank range and bark at him in a mockery tone. "Ha! Don't be full of yourself! You are not the only one!" To his surprise, she look proud of the comeback line she come up with.
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But the boy sighed. "I shall ask if the number of applicants was higher that ten. But based on a first impressions, I can say the previous candidates all turned you down."
The Elf shows a clear sings of panic and tried to persuade him with a reason. "How cruel of you. When I think about all the still-believing, less fortunate children who are waiting for presents..."
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Once again, the boy interrupted her with a sight. "So, I am the last one on the list. You last choice."
She nearly chocked, pulling out her shocked eyes on him.
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He glanced at her as if he read in her like in open book. "This boy is something else, you think…"
Now it was she who had this confused expression. For a moment, she made a defensive posture. Then she gritted her teeth for second. But at the end, she swallowed her pride and bowed her head to him. "Please help me. I am desperate."
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"And that's the line you should have started with. So what's the situation?"
As she raised her head to stare at him, she dint believe, that he will actually changed his mind. "Just that? No trick?"
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He stay confident. "Priorities. You were not at the top of your class, right?" She nearly looked sad as she bow down her head. So he stand up offering his hand to the elf to help her to stand up. "So, how did you exactly break and entry into my room?"
Her expression was of the one, who got caught on spot, doing a bad thing. "Because the power of Christmas?" She stammered, looking onto her smartphone as if she was checking something. "A-anyway the sleds are on the roof, ready to go. As contract says, you will take on the Santa job, while I shall assist you as your sidekick. If the mission will be successful, nobody shall say anything about the legitimacy of my license."
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He cross is hands on his chest. "So, I shall take into a consideration, that you not even have a license to do what you are doing. Shall I be worried? Or expect a troubles? What about a license to operate the sledges?"
That make her to jump scare as she stammered. "W-worries? T-trouble? N-No! With both of us, w-what can be possibly go wrong? You b-blabbing nonsense! Do not take the miracle of Christmas on light weight."
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After a spectacular chain of event resulting in an exemplary showcase of failure in becoming a proper Santa and helper, on they mission to deliver the gifts...
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The current scene is a crash site. The sledge itself crashed onto trash containers slot. A flame of rainbow colors was ignited on the part of sledge, where you can normally find an engine on the car. For some reason the flame dint spread onto entire vehicle and it looked more like if someone boils the engine using incorrect fuel and had heavy feet on a gas pedal. Now, all that exceed energy was leaving like a wild flame.
The boy found himself outside the sledge. He realize that it was not the crash that throw him out of the seat, it was the elf who drag him out into safety, leaning against the wall. "Now, I getting why they questioned the legitimacy of yours license. I never imagined that curses can be real. Just how do you managed to jinx it so badly that we crashed? If there is an actual school for elves to become a Santa helpers, then how the heck you manage to graduate? I even starting to imagine, that it the misfortune follows you on every step, they, for a security reasons, must kick you out of every class you attended. Hmm?" The lack of response make him to look around, searching for the elf. But he was alone.
Then a duo of coops show up. "Freeze!!" "Nobody move!!"
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The boy cant help it but ask a curious question. "And I had though that there is a different line when arriving at crash site."
But the duo was more like a dogs on hunt who lost trail of they prey. "Dang it! She fled from us once again." "And we have another of her victims. Are you okay? Can you speak?"
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Once again the boy was confused. "What did you said about that elf? I do stop questioned her actions when I acknowledge her to be a mess who need a help." As he stand up he check its body. "I seem to be, okay? She drag me out of the sledges, but..." As he look on the crash site he state a question. "Now when I think about it, that sled are definitely looking like an ordinary thing that need a horse to pull it. Then, how she make that sled to fly? Additionally, the gift packages looked like something hasty purchased on a souvenir shop."
The first cop sighed tiredly. "Trust me boy, you don't want to know. Its better, to not know how it work. Whats more you shall be glad that nobody get hurt." But the other one was more on a supporting side. "If you want to believe that she is just a misunderstood Santa helper teenage elf girl, who just keep failing at her attempt to prove herself; then you holiday image is still pure. Keep it that."
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Boy sighed at the mess. "She look to me more like a desperate case who need to prove herself, before she got herself expelled."
Then the first cop bark at the second cop. "Don't lie to him! She is not a Santa helper and never was! This is not her first rodeo. Don't even ask how many sleds she has stolen and ruined in this week. She goes around, convicting others to help her in some noble quest, but she always ends up causing mayhem. She is a menace to society." Then a tear show into corner of eye of the second cop, he was holding from actually crying. "Just, don't let her to ruin the spirit of Christmas for you. Anyway, I'll take home."
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So, the boy was back in his dormitory. After the second cop make a quick check of his room for anything obviously suspicious, it left. The door was closed and the boy stand up in his room, waiting for a moment. "Okay… They are gone... Get out!"
A slide doors to the cabinet opens from inside and an Elf girl peak out. "How did you notice?"
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Boy stand proudly. "I have my reasons. You shall realize on this point that you cant exist like this. Now leave me! I need a sleep."
Girl slowly get out from the cabinet, then she look around. With an expression that she dint want to leave yet, she tried to make comfy in his room. "Oh… You know… I can a help you a little. To warm the bed of yours."
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But the answer was strict. "No! Thank you."
And she pull out her eyes, disbelieving. "Wha~at?! Don't act like you dint eyed mi body with undressing glare." She tried to make a victim pose to cover her body parts with her hands, even if she wearing her clothing, as if he was a X-Ray vision.
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But he was not interested. "Body is not everything. What you have there is not enough to pay the tag for me."
That triggers her anger. "Excuse me~e!? Are serious? I never heard of someone who will price tag himself so high that he refuse the girl that he saved her, when she offer herself to him. Don't consider yourself as luxurious toy on a shop shelf."
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He dint bite the bait. "No! I am a premium! My body, mind, ethic, academic; all are top not. I will not sold myself under my price. Plus I don't agree whit you escape strategy you trying to puss on me."
So she bark. "You will stay virgin for rest of you life!"
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With a deep sight, he turn away and make step, tow, showing her his back. "What I am saying is this: Get good! Get approved, or whatever lie you pursuing! Then, try again! And maybe, you can throw on my face that I was wrong about you. Otherwise, people on this path, tend to look down on themselves, like they don't deserve what they have. Like if they are a fraud. I do not approve this path."
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Because there was not an answer to his speech, he turn back, but the elf girl was gone. No mater how much he look around, he knew that he was left alone in his room. Maybe one can think that all what has happened in this night was just a result of a Fewer of Christmas Eve, but then he noticed a ribbon tape left on his bed. So he pick it up. "Hmm? A spare hair ribbon? Did she lose it? Or did she left it here on a purpose?" Observing the piece of fashion he make a proud smile. "Hmp. So you trying to say: Challenge accepted!" He walk toward the window and look onto the nigh. "Its snowing…" And soon he went back to sleep.