Chapter 9 - The List
~ All of them went inside, they drank some cocoa and ate cookies. Santa was busy as it got closer to Christmas. He and the elf’s were working hard. He hoped to be done soon. ~
Russell- You look tired.
Santa- You bet I am, Me and the elf’s have been working no stop.
Russell- Why?
Santa- Because Christmas is a bog holiday, and it’s not getting any smaller.
Amelia- That’s true.
Santa- Do you three think you can help me?
Carl- Why?
Santa- I’m just tired, and need the energy for Christmas night.
~ Amelia whispered to Carl. ~
Amelia- Maybe we should, he may have a big family, and it will be nice.
Carl- But he’s crazy!
Amelia- It would be a good way to pay him back for saving you’re life and fixing the Spirit.
Carl- (sigh) Fine, were help you out.
Santa- Thank you, I guide you to were to work.
~ He led them to an area. ~
Santa- Okay, Carl and Amelia, you can wrap some present’s, and Russell, you can test the toys.
Russell- Awesome!
Santa- Wrapping’s right here, bow’s are here, and the name tags will be put on later. Understand.
Carl- Clearly.
Amelia- I do too.
Santa- Okay, I take the magic snow for you too. Good luck and happy wrapping, Ho ho ho.
Carl- Umm… Thanks, you too.
Amelia- He is strange.
Carl- yep, just remember, helping him was thanks to you.
Amelia- Don’t push it!
Carl- Yes Ma’am
~ They started to wrap some toys. Carl saw a toy that came with balloons. ~
Carl- You know I’m real good with balloons.
Amelia- You don’t say.
Carl- Yep, used to give them to kids years ago, and then I used them to lift my house like I told you.
Amelia- It must have been amazing.
Carl- It was.
Amelia- Look, and remote control plane, reminds me of flying.
Carl- and crashing?
Amelia- That too.
Carl- How you doing Russell?
~ Russell was playing on a 3DS. ~
Carl- Does it work?
Russell- Yep.
Carl- Then put it down and test another toy.
Russell- Do I have to.
Carl- Yes.
Russell- Okay.
~ Russell picked up a toy of a rat with a little chef’s hat on. ~
Carl- Where did this guy get all these present’s?
Amelia- Maybe this is where Ebay has it’s headquarters
Carl- That actually wouldn’t surprise me.
~ After a while they did all the work two elf’s came to them, one was a man and had a beard and the other was a woman. They had name tag’s. The male was named Jeff and the other one Wendy.
Jeff- Seem’s that you have finished.
~ He sounded like one of the munchkin’s from the Wizard of Oz~
Wendy- Goof job, you did it quick too.
~ She did also. ~
Jeff- Then you are free to walk around, just don’t touch anything.
Wendy- And don’t go in the room behind you. Thank you.
~ They walked away. ~
Amelia- Room? What room?
~ They then saw Russell heading for the room. ~
Carl- Russell! What are you going?
Russell- I wanna see what’s in their.
Carl- No, they said we can’t go in here.
Russell- Come on Mr. Fredricksen, just for a second.
Carl- No.
Russell- It may be where the Spirit is.
~ Carl froze for a second, and then was thinking. ~
Carl- Okay, but just for a sec.
~ Carl grabbed a knob and turn it slowly, he the slowly opened the door. In there was a big compulter and a long clear bridge that led to it. You couldn’t see the bottom. The roof was round with snow dropping on it. They then walked in. ~
Carl- It’s just a big compulter.
Amelia- What do you think it’s for?
Carl- Not sure.
Russell- Maybe it’s for movies. Or maybe he’s spy and he uses it to track people.
Carl I hope not.
~ they reached it and looked at it. No one spoke for a minute. ~
Amelia- Sooooo, are we gonna turn it on?
Carl- I don’t know, the man probably doesn’t want us too, plus, I dought we could figure how to turn it on, look how hi-tech I looks, we-
Russell- Done!
~ The computer turned on properly. ~
Carl- How did you turn it on?
Russell- It’s just a computer.
Carl- I never get you’re generation.
~ They then pressed a button and took them to a window called “The List”. ~
Russell- The List?
Amelia- I don’t get it.
Carl- It’s probably a list of all the people bidding on Ebay or something.
~ He then sat down on a big chair. ~
Carl- Hmm, I know.
~ Carl wrote Karen’s name on their and her address. ~
Carl- If it is, she will show up.
~ Then a window with her picture and information showed up. Their was also a flashing green and red letters sating “Nice”.~
Carl- Nice? What is this Santa’s list?
Amelia- I think it might be.
Carl- You’re not serious.
Amelia- Think about it Carl. Fat and jolly, live’s in North Pole, midget’s who are elves, all the present’s, and this list. I think it might be.
Carl- I admit it’s strange, but can he can’t be Santa… Can’t he?
Amelia- You never know Carl.
Carl- Don’t believe it.
Amelia- If the world saw this, we would be famous.
Carl- Yeah, we would.
Amelia- Yep. That would be fun.
Carl- I’m gonna type my name in.
~ A window came up and said Carl was “nice.” ~
Carl- Alright, let’s check you Russell.
~ The same thing happened and once again, it was “nice”.~
Carl- Let’s do you Amelia.
~ She also got “Nice” as well.~
Amelia- I think I been on that list for a long time.
~ They check the list for a while, they did friends and family and even famous people. Some were “nice” and some were “naughty”, and some were “depending”. They liked this. ~
Carl- Who should we do next?
Amelia- How about…
~ Just then a ringing was heard, it was Russell’s cell phone. That cause an alarm to go off.
Carl- You have you’re phone with you?
Russell- I bring it everywhere. It says it’s my mom.
~ They then ran to the door. Then these canons came out of the wall, their were hundreds of them, they them spit out snowballs and it began hitting them. ~
Carl- We gotta get out of here!
~ Russell got on his phone. ~
Russell- Hello?
~His mom talked. ~
Karen- Russell, hey sweetie, it’s me, how you going?
~He dodged a snowball. ~
Russell- Good.
Karen- What are you going?
Russell- Uh, having a snowball fight with Carl and a friend.
Karen- Oh, sounds like fun. I’m doing fine here, glad you’re okay.
Russell- Me too.
Karen- I can barely here you, the signal seems bad, are you at the North Pole or something? Hahaha.
Russell- Of course not. Hahaha.
~ He said nervously.~
Karen- Well, I gotta go, wish I could talk to Carl but I’m busy, say hi to him.
Russell- I will.
Karen- Love you sweaty, bye.
~ she got off. They were almost at the door, but the snow kept getting them down, and it was getting bigger, the snow kept packing on them, they could barley move.
Carl- I….Can’t…Move.
Amelia- Me too.
Russell- Me three.
~ The snow consumed them. Carl could barley see now. But he did he a woman walk in. She looked similer to Santa. She stopped right in front of him and put her hand on her hips. By then, Carl was covered in the snow, he then fell asleep. He knew that he might be in trouble. Could thid get any worse? Who knows.
End of Chapter 9 Very long chapter. Hope you liked it.