-4 Christmas 2018

This story is loosely based on 'The Nutcracker' ballet performances...

Once upon a time, in a Kingdom, there was a little girl named Athena. One day, she played in Dark Prince office as usual. On Dark Prince's table, there was an object that draws Athena's attention. It's a doll-like thing with a wolf face.

"Te-chan, Te-chan, are you interested in dolly too?" Athena asked with an innocent look.

"This is a nutcracker, but it's abandoned by its because the jaw is broken, so I brought it back."

"Aww... Poor dolly."

"You want it?"

"Heh? Mmhm!" Athena nodded.

And so Dark Prince gave Athena the nutcracker as a present. Athena loved the nutcracker so much, she took it back to her room and keep it in... Uh... Her personal cookies jar with some gingerbread men.

That night Athena went to sleep as usual, with all the traps she prepared to capture Santa-Claus around her room. There's a Christmas tree in the corner of her room, which is decorated with sweets and cookies, some are half eaten... The time pass by really fast, soon, the clock shows 11.59 pm. Suddenly, the clock stops moving, she probably forgot to charge the clock again.

Anyway, as the clock stopped, a big group of weird-looking mice sneaked into her room, one of them is wearing a luxurious and looks like an idiot... Yes, that idiot! The one that ate my chocolate cake this morning! *cough*... That idiot is the Duke of The Mice, let's call him Sky, he lead the mice to sneak into Athena's room trying to steal some cookies from the Christmas tree. However, before they could reach the Christmas tree, there is some movement from the cookie jar, the Nutcracker... Let just call him Sal, opens the lid and then leads a platoon of gingerbread men to fight against the mice…

Athena woke up from the noise to see a group of gingerbread men lead by the Nutcracker fighting with a whole group of mice… That has a fluffy coat and a short tail... Wait, that's a hamster... She saw a group of gingerbread men lead by Sal fighting with a group of fluffy hamsters lead by a fancy, but stupid-looking Duke of the Hamster. Watching the... Uhh... Rather cute fight scene, she decided to lend them a hand. She grabbed a gingerbread man and ate it... Oh wait! She just wants to eat the gingerbread man. Sal looks at her with a rather… plain look. Athena couldn't tell what he was thinking.

In order to let the story continues, after eating the gingerbread men, her body magically shrinks. Seeing this, the hamsters are shocked and ran away.

"So, why would you eat the magic gingerbread man?" asked Sal in a rather plain tone.

"Am I supposed to eat the hamsters? They're too cute to eat."

"Uh... No... Ah! Never mind."

And so, in order to remove the curse of gingerbread men, Sal who is actually the Ruler of the Magical Candy Land. He needs to find the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Candy Land which can cure the curse with her dance.

In the Candy Land, Sugar Plum Fairy is sitting on a throne waiting for the real ruler to come back. She is a very fine looking woman with light purple hair, adorned by a crown. She wears a pink colored dress with a golden flower pattern, holding a magic scepter shaped with a rose at the tip.

Sal and Athena reach the Candy land, the Sugar Plum Fairy is very happy to see Sal back. Sal explains the situation to her and tells her how Athena helped him to defeat the hamsters... I mean mice away. As a gift of appreciation, Athena is served with chocolate, cookies, tea and all the sweets in the land.

As a finale, The Sugar Plum Fairy performed the famous Sugar Plum Fairy dance!... Listen to the music from a random youtube video and imagine it by yourself thank you. Your imagination can do wonders.

​As the fairy dances, Athena gets excited and join the dance. Athena with her white-purple kimono fluttering as she dances and Sugar Plum Fairy with glittering pink dress. It's as if a beautiful butterfly flew around a flower in a gentle breeze. Aren't these two just the most beautiful things in the world?

However, in order to make the story longer, Sky, the Duke of Hamster appears from nowhere. Without any warning, he kidnapped Athena while she is dancing, both Sal and Sugar Plum Fairy can't stop him since... You know, that idiot is actually quite strong despite of being an idiot. Before he leaves, he tells Sal to go to the Hamster Kingdom if he wants to get Athena back.

And so, at the Hamster Kingdom HQ...

"Sora kun, Sora kun, will Sal kun come?"

"He sure will, even if he doesn't want to, Chris… I mean the current narrator will surely not allow him. This current narrator is just pure evil if you compare to our usual narrator. Although still evil, but 100 times better than him."

"Current narrator?" Athena asked Sky with a confused look. "

"He is probably grumpy since he didn't get the chance to join today's event." Said the Hamster Duke... *cough*... Say it again, who is the grumpy one?!

"Ah... No... You know, the Princess Guinea Pig next door get grumpy easily... Hahahaha...".

So Athena and Sky wait for Sal the Nutcracker to come while eating some gingerbread men…Mmm... crunchy.

Meanwhile, Sal is now inside of a weird desert that is made of wood shavings, somewhere far away, there is a castle made of uh... Cardboard and sunflower seeds? Sal runs to the castle as fast as he can, but occasionally gets interrupted by some hamster in the rolling ball along the way. After an hour, he finally entered the castle.

Since I think it's long enough, let's make the long story short as usual. Sal passes all the obstacles and found the Duke and Athena in a room eating cookies.

"Uh... I really don't feel like interrupting you two but... What do you want from me, Your Highness? In order to uh... Release Athena?"

"Just one thing... Take off your mask."

"What? But that's mean..."

"Just do it." Without any choice, Sal removes his mask. As soon as he removes it, he totally 'disappeared' due to his extreme lack of existence without the mask. While the two just continue eating their cookies heartlessly...

Suddenly, Athena finds herself awake on her bed with her favorite wolf plushie.

"What a weird dream..." said Athena while rubbing her eyes.

On the morning of Christmas, Athena checks all the traps she set and the plate of cookies and milk…the cookies and milk were gone, but the traps were still there. Sal is in Dark Prince office discussing some important matters, Athena came in with a whole bowl of various types of nuts.

"Sal-kun, help me crack them…" said Athena which left Sal in a totally confused state.

Merry Christmas to you all, and a Happy new year.