Hannah Delaney’s Christmas Story 2014 “ Ho, Ho, Ho! Only ten days to go Rudolph! Christmas is just around the corner and there’s still loooooooads of things to do! The toys need to be painted, the sleigh need to be polished, last minute lists have to be finished and we still have to check over the “Naughty and Nice” book again. I swear Rudolph the naughty book is getting bigger and bigger by the minute. It’s much harder to make toys these days, all the children want is those “box-­‐x things” and the “techno-­‐apple” thing, it’s not so easy to make those,” Santa said with a sigh, “ I better get going Rudolph!” As Santa trudged through the snow outside the stables he realised, “Oops, I forgot my glasses!” Santa strode into the stables unaware that something awful had just happened. “I forgot my glasses Rudolph, it’s that old age you know!” Santa laughed as he opened the stable door. “Rudolph?” he said again worriedly, as he whisked around nearly putting out his back. “Rudolph? He’s gone!” Santa began to panic. “Sound the alarm!” Santa shouted, “Rudolph has gone missing”. An elf ran in looked around and asked “What was that Santa?” “You heard me,sound the alarm!” Santa repeated. The elf sped out of the stable shouting “Sound the alarm!” Suddenly sirens went off in every direction. Santa struggled through the snow trying to reach Mrs Claus to tell her the terrible news. He walked into his snug kitchen as Mrs Claus was baking gingerbread men. “Mrs Claus, I’ve to tell you the terrible news” he blurted out in a panic. She replied, “I know I know Rudolph has gone missing. He’s probably just gone off on a wander. You know Rudolph!” “It’s too close to Christmas. Rudolph wouldn’t risk that. I have that feeling in my gut ………he’s been taken!!!!”. “Why don’t you sit down and I’ll make you a nice cuppa tea?” suggested Mrs Claus. “I’d love to my dear, but I’ll have to pass up on that offer, I have to find Rudolph!” Santa replied. Santa hopped out of his seat put on his favourite red overcoat and set to work. He sent all of his elves to the toy making quarters. “Attention all elves, Rudolph has gone missing!” he announced. There was a worried murmur from the crowd. “What do you want us to do?” asked one voice. “I want you to find him. Search everywhere from the North Pole to the South Pole”, Santa shouted. Then Santa pulled out his candy cane phone and hit the emergency button. He put the phone up to his ear. “Santa you called?” answered a voice on the other end of the line. “I need you to assemble the SSSE,” he ordered. “The what’s?” lisped the elf. “The “Super, Secret Special Elves” ………to find Rudolph. You have one day to find him”. Santa said. “A day! No problem. We’ll get him”, the Elf replied. “And I want status reports on the rescue mission hourly. Don’t talk to no one everyone is a suspect”, Santa ordered. “You got it Santa over and out!” the Elf squealed. Santa turned around and flinched with shock. “How did you get here so fast?” he says to First Captain Elf of The SSSE. “We were just outside actually!” the captain replied. “Well what are you waiting for?” Go, Go, Go!” They moved quietly and skilfully to the interrogation room. Captain elf sent one of the other elves to gather up a group. As they were interviewing little do they know that the culprit was just in the room upstairs. “ Shhhh!”said the evil elf Lucifer to Rudolph. “I though you promised me something to eat?” wailed Rudolph. “No you fool! I’ve kidnapped you. Now there will be no Christmas and all the kids will hate Santa. Then we will have “Elfmas”. “Why are you doing that?” “Because Elves do all the work and Santa gets the credit.” “Ha! But Santa can still fly the sleigh though with the other reindeer”, Rudolph boasted. 2Don’t you think that I’ve already thought of ?” snarled Lucifer.”There’s eight days to Christmas. Every day at twelve o’clock at the shift change a reindeer will just disappear until Christmas Eve and Santa will have no reindeer left to pull his sleigh. Then there will be Elfmass. Wa!Ha Ha Ha Ha……!” he bellowed with an evil laugh. “Help!” wailed Rudolph “Help, Help!!!” “Put a sock in it!” barked Lucifer. “No one can hear you. I sound proofed this place ages ago”. “The “S.S.S.E” will find me”, Rudolph remarked with confidence. “You mean my best friend Captain Elf and his band of ninnies? He’ll never suspect me,” bellowed Lucifer. “What about the other reindeer they’ll tell Santa what happened to me”, said Rudolph. “No they won’t I made them promise not to tell,” snapped Lucifer. “Well, well, well ……….” stammered Rudolph. “Oh just put a cork in it I don’t have time for this. It’s my shift to guard the stables. You’ll have company soon,” jeered Lucifer. As Lucifer left the room Rudolph shouted “Wait! What about my food?” Lucifer threw him a cookie. “There’ll be more where that came from if you stay quiet”. “Okay then”, munched Rudolph as he devoured the cookie. Lucifer crept down the corridor. “Hey Lucifer!” said a voice that nearly made Lucifer jump out of his socks. “Yikes!” yelped Lucifer, “ you gave me such a fright”. “Sorry about that”, apologised Captain Elf. “What ya up to?” asked Lucifer. “ I don’t know if you’ve heard but Rudolph has gone missing so Santa called in the SSSE,” gosspied Captain Elf. “Wow”, said Lucifer, “it must a big deal so, I thought he’d just wandered off. I have to go it’s my turn in guarding the stable.” “Okay!Keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious”, said Captain Elf with a wink. “You got it”, said Lucifer. With that Lucifer whisked around and headed for the stable. Captain Elf saw the big red bag sticking out of the back of Lucifer’s pocket. He thought this was very suspicious. “I better keep an eye on him,” Captain Elf said to himself. As Lucifer turned the corner Captain Elf followed him, tip toeing behind him. Lucifer turned around thinking that there was something there. “No nothing there, just my imagination!” said Lucifer to himself. He began to walk again. He walked down the flight of concrete stairs jumping down each time. “Could you be any louder?” thought Captain Elf. Now Lucifer had reached the stables. And he stood there for about 20 minutes. Then he looked side to side to see if the coast was clear. Little did he know Captain Elf was sitting on the workshop roof watching him with his binoculars. Then Lucifer crept into the barn. With a swoosh Dasher and he were gone. Captain Elf crept down from the roof to get a closer look but to his surprise they were gone. How did they do it thought Captain Elf? Then from the corner he saw a pile of hay and under the hay was a trapdoor leading to a secret passage. Captain gave it a kick with all of his power to see if it would open. But it didn’t budge. He pushed and pulled and kicked stamped on it but nothing worked. Finally Captain Elf gave up. With a huge sigh he sat on the hay holding his head in his hands. All of a sudden Zoooooooom he was in Lucifer’s secret lair. He wanted to tell the others but he couldn’t without proof. He could hear Lucifer so Captain Elf crept behind a giant crate. “What are you doing this for?” cried Dasher with a sob. “Because Elves do all the work and Santa gets all the credit. Soon there will be Elfmas and every child in the world will love elves”. “What did you take me for?” moaned Dasher. “You buffoon! Without his reindeer Santa can’t fly his sleigh,” snarled Lucifer. “There’s still more reindeer,” grunted Dasher. “I know I’m going to kidnap them all! Well I better get back to my “guarding the stables” duties”, Lucifer sneered sarcastically. “Someone will find us”, said Dasher. “Like who?” sneered Lucifer. “The SSSE ? Those featherheads! Don’t you remember I’m best friends with Captain Elf They’ll never suspect a thing.” “Well you can’t do it alone”, said Dasher. “You can’t do it alone”, mimicked Lucifer in a whiny voice. “I’ve invented toys that are ready for every child in the world. These toys are programmed to chop down Christmas trees ,smash all of the Christmas lights and make children frightened of Christmas!!! So now don’t you see my plan is perfect, by this time next year all of the children in the world will be looking forward to Elfmas after this disastrous Christmas. And the toys are all ready to send.” Eight days later Lucifer wrote in his journal “
It’s Christmas Eve, my
plan is in full speed I’ve kidnapped all of the
reindeer and I’m ready to go. I’ve packed
Santa’s sack with all of my specially
designed destructive toys and I’ve promised
Santa that I’ll be his helper in the absence
of the reindeer. Santa has been too worried
to even check the sacks……..”
Suddenly, Bam the door was kicked in. “You’re under arrest”, said Captain Elf, “ for kidnapping reindeer and trying to destroy Christmas, you have the right to remain silent anything that you say can and will be used against you in Santa’s court”. “It’s too late!” shouted Lucifer. “ Santa’s already left and my destructive toys are in his sack.I switched the sacks. Ha ha!” Lucifer laughed. “ Actually!” said Captain elf , “I switched them back and I found all of the Reindeer”. “Noooooooo!” shouted Lucifer. Three days later in Santa’s office: “You did good”, said Santa. “You stopped Lucifer and saved Christmas and for that I give you the highest medal of honour”. Captain Elf removed his elf hat and thanked Santa. “Do me proud!” said Santa. The End!!!