Aisha Plays Santa

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Aisha Plays Santa

Okay. I know its a little late, but I DID start writing this BEFORE Christmas. But then I got Golden Sun: The Lost Age from my Gran and disappeared behind my Gameboy for a while. Well, its here now, just late, but eh.... Happy New Year...ish!
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Aisha ClanClan wandered around the mall aimlessly.
"Nya, why do I have to buy presents for people? This holiday is strange!" The Ctarl-Ctarl whined to herself. She paused, staring at a long line of small children, who seemed to be queuing up to see some fat guy with a beard. A sign just beside the fat guy's hut, which was painted on a large board, covered in snow and had a badly drawn giant candy cane next to it read: "Santa's Grotto".
"Okay, I was wrong. This holiday isn’t weird; its INSANE!!" muttered the Ctarl-Ctarl. She walked off as the 'fat guy' ushered the last kid off his knee and said "Okay, kiddies! Santa has to go talk to his elves for a while, I'll be back soon!" and disappeared behind his house/the big board.

Meanwhile, Aisha was having no luck finding things to buy for her friends.
"Arg! Stupid humans and their stupid giving!" she snarled to herself, and decided to turn back to see if other shops had good things to get. Whilst thinking of what the hell she could get Melfina, she saw her way was blocked by a huge crowd of kids waiting to see the fat guy.
"Nyaa!" she whined. Aisha really couldn't be bothered to try and push through them and their parents, so she looked about for another way. "Aha!" she said happily. The way was clear behind the big painting of the house. Wanting to get away from the crowds, she happily sprinted towards it. Just as she rounded behind it, she crashed into a figure, who, because of the author’s laziness to think up a better way, flew several feet, hit his head against the wall, and was out cold. "Hey, its the fat guy!" said Aisha, walking up to the unconscious Santa. "Whoops. Hey, fatty, wake up!" Aisha jumped when she heard a voice behind her.
"Arg! What the hell did ya do to Joe?!"
Aisha turned to find a tall, lanky, and extremely unpleasant looking guy, wearing lots of green, stripy tights that looked remarkably like candy canes, and pointy green shoes and a hat with bells on the end. He held a badly rolled cigarette in one hand and a lighter in the other, but had frozen, staring from Joe to Aisha with his mouth agape.
"Ehehe, I was tryin' to get over there-" Aisha gestured vaguely at some shops to her left, "-but there were loadsa kids in the way. I couldn't be assed to get through them, so I came round here, crashed into the fat dude, he hit the wall and got knocked out."
The elf-type-thing, who we'll call Albert, crossed his arms and looked at Aisha. "Hmm....the guy who takes the next shift isn't here for another hour or so....so you'll have to fill in."
"NYAAA?! No way! I don't even look anything LIKE that guy!"
"Sure ya could. Ya just need the suit, a fake beard, and a really big cushion." said Albert.
"No way! There is no WAY you're gonna get me dressed as the fat dude and sittin' on that chair!!"

"Er....ho. Ho. Ho. What do you want for Christmas, small human?"
Aisha, er, I mean, Santa, looked down at the small child perched on her knee, who seemed to be made mostly of bobble-hat.
"I wanna dolly!"
"Please," added the girl’s mother.
"Pwease," added the bobble-hat.
"Er..." said Aisha Claus, trying to remember what she had to say now. Ah, yes. That was it. "I'll tell my little helpers that, and we'll see what we can do. Um...have a candy cane." The kids actually fell for this?
"What do you say, Sarah?" chided the bobble-hats mother.
"Ank you."
"Hang on, kid, just before ya go," said Aisha. "Why have you got bits of string from ya hands attached to your coat?"
The bobble-hat examined its hands, a thoughtful expression on its hidden face.
"There my glubs." it said finally.
"Oh. Right, I see. Very, uh, practical. Bye bye, now. Next! And er....Ho.Ho.Ho."

Gene, Jim, Melfina, and Suzuka entered the mall.
"So, Mel, Aisha said she'd be here?"
"Yes. She said she was going to try and get everyone’s presents for the 'weird holiday'."
"Right. Lets see if we can find her."
"Hey, Gene," said Jim as they passed Santa's Grotto.
"Aren’t you getting a little old for that, Jim?"
"Shaddup, and I didn't mean that! I was gonna say, doesn't that Santa look...familiar?"
Gene, Melfina, and Suzuka squinted at the Santa in question, who was now saying, very half-heartedly, "Hello, little human. What do you want for Christmas? Ho, ho, ho." Each of them noticed some signs in turn: the blue spot on one partially hidden cheek, the voice, the big blue eyes, and, finally, the long, white braid emerging from beneath the hat.
"No way!" choked Jim.
"It is!" gasped Melfina.
"It's Aisha!" they all said together.
"Oh, this is gonna be sweet!" said Jim, laughing his head off and taking a camera from his pocket. "Oh, this is gonna be SO sweet!"

Aisha looked up as she heard a click and saw a flash. Blinking, she paled as she saw Gene, Jim, Suzuka and Melfina standing there, laughing their heads of and waving as Jim took numerous photos.
"Uh.....uh......I gotta go!" she bellowed, springing up and running towards her friends.
"RUUUUN!!!!" yelled Gene as the angry Ctarl-Ctarl came sprinting towards them.
"HEY GUYS, GET BACK HERE, I GOTTA PRESENT FOR YA! HO! HO! HO!!!!"

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Well, what do ya think? R+R!

~Akina.