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Our own special Christmas
by Hilara
Hercules was striding through town wielding Kull's axe. Iolaus struggled to catch
up to his friend.
"Hercules, I know Daimos can be a bit annoying but don't you think axing him is a
little harsh?"
Hercules stopped and faced his best friend. "Iolaus what are you babbling about? I'm
not planning to use it against Daimos."
"Strife?"
No not even Strife! Hercules replied. Although a good swift kick in the rearend is always
an option where Strife is concerned. The truth, however, is I am going to use this axe to
chop down a tree.
"Short on firewood?"
"Haven't you ever heard the expression curiosity killed the cat?"
"Fine, Hercules be that way. If you don't want to tell your best friend what you're
up too then don't. I'll just go ask one of the other alpha's to go fishing with me. "
Hercules sighed in frustration. I was trying to surprise everyone including you but if you
must know I'm going out in the woods to get a Christmas tree.
"Earth to Hercules, Christmas was over a month ago."
"Gee thanks for the bulletin, Iolaus."
"You're welcome. Now what gives?"
"Ive just been doing a lot of thinking..."
"Uh oh! This isn't about some cosmic time shifting theory or something is it? Cause
in that case I don't want to know. I got a headache when Harper tried to explain one of
his to me last week,"
Iolaus informed his friend.
"Definitely not. This is about something a lot more basic. There's a lot of problems
in the world today. I happened to catch a news report when I was over at Nannyboo's
delivering her latest Sorbo-Mart order. The real world is just so full of tension these
days."
"So what does that have to do with getting a Christmas tree at the end of
January?" Iolaus asked.
Well I spent a lot of time helping out Hilara and the gang at SorboMart right before the
real Christmas and I got to listen to a lot of carols over the loudspeakers. There are two
that kind of got stuck in my head."
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH, Iolaus interuppted. I hate when a song gets stuck in my
head. Ares kept playing that "Another One Bites The Dust" over and over again
last week when we working together on a Rent-A-HerK project. I told Chantal I'd give her
free archery lessons if she'd break his CD of it!
"Do you want to hear this or not?" Hercules asked!
"I'm sorry do go on."
"Well as I was saying I keep thinking about "We Need A Little Christmas, and the
one by that Celine Dion. The one that has the line "wishing it could last forever,
not just twelve days in
December, through the year let's try to remember that special way, that every one feels
it's the magic of Christmas Day.
I just thought I'd try to recreate a little bit of that magic as a special surprise for
the amazons over the next few days," Hercules said. They deserve a little extra love
and care. I even got that guy
Santa Claus to agree to work a few days extra this year."
"Wow! Hercules this is a really nice idea. The amazons are going to love it. Count me
in. I will do whatever you need me to, to help pull it off, and mums the word."
"Thanks, buddy!"
"We just want to make sure that we are through by Valentine's Day. I'd hate to think
of the tantrum Aprhodite would throw if we invaded on her gig time."
"Tell me about it!", HerK replied.
The friends once again started off towards the forrest. They didn't notice that two
eavesdroppers had been listening to everything they said."
While the amazons were all snuggled tight in their beds with their favorite alpha's there
was a lot of activity going on around outside in HerKdom.
Hercules and Iolaus had found the perfect tree earlier that day. It had been hard to keep
it hidden from the rest of the residents of HerKdom but they had managed to pull it off.
Now they were busy putting it in its special place of honor so it would be a treat for the
Amazons eyes tomorrow morning. It was tall and beautiful and filled up the town square.
They had recruited GHerK to help with the tinsel, lights, and decorations. It was very
time saving to have someone with powers working on this task. It went a lot faster and
made ladders completely unnecessary. They also planned to decorate the rest of the town
buildings as well. The three were so caught up in their work that they didn't notice that
they weren't the only one's up and about.
Santa had just landed on Hawk's roof. He climbed out of the sleigh, petted Rudolph on the
head, and turned to unload the gifts he had on board for this lovely Amazon. Hercules was
certainly a nice young man. He had picked out so many gifts for his friends that it was
going to take Santa several days to deliver them on his own. The elves were off on their
annual trip to Hawaii! He best get busy. He wanted to get back to Mrs. Claus as soon as
possible. They had vacation plans of their own.
Suddenly an arm came around his neck.
"Alright sleigh boy, hand it over." Ares whispered fiendishly.
"What is the meaning of this?", Santa asked. "I don't know what your
talking about. Hand what over?"
"Let us spell it out for you then, you overgrown elf," Sov snarled. We want your
list. My associate and I are very interested in finding out whose been naughty this
year!"
"That list is highly confidential. I can tell you, however, that you two are going to
get coal for the rest of your lives."
"Oh boo-hoo," I'm really upset. I'm a god! I don't need your cheap trinkets
anyway. Besides you don't understand, we are not giving you an option," Ares replied.
Give it to us or the reindeer get it."
Santa offered comfort to his frightened team. He couldn't let them be harmed. Reluctantly
he handed over the list. Once they had what they wanted Ares and Sov started carting
Santa, his sleigh, and his team off the roof. As they were going down the special ramp
they had quickly installed, Sov said to Santa, "you really need to lay off those milk
and cookies."
The two bad boys of HerKdom brought their captives to a ware house on the edge of town.
The trip there hadn't been easy. Comet had been so nervous he ate half the studs on Ares
vest and Prancer kept biting Sov in the behind. Sov and Ares were both relieved when they
finally got their prisoners inside and a boulder shoved in front of the door. They looked
at the sleigh full of presents. "Boy are their going to be some grateful Amazons when
we slide down their chimneys," Sov remarked. Ares laughed his wicked laugh. Oh
yeah," he replied. He used his powers to conjure up some fierce look dragons to pull
the sleigh and then they were off.
Inside the warehouse Santa and his reindeer shivered. It wasn't because they were cold.
Living in the North Pole year round had gotten them more than use to that. It was the
thought of Ares and Sov working together. That was truly something to shiver about, as it
was down right scary.
The Sovereign and Ares began to bicker almost as soon as the sleigh left the ground over
who got to use the list first and who was going to be visiting which Amazons.
Ares waved the list in Sov's face and shouted: "Possession is nine tenths of the law.
Besides I provided the dragons."
"It was my idea to spy on Mr. Goody two shoes, my alternate twin, and my idea to
kidnap jolly old St.Nick. Grrrr. Jolly annoys me even more than "happy." It's
clear who has the brains in this team," Sov snarled back.
"Let's see I stole the hind's blood pendant from you during our first meeting. Then
at our next meeting I used said hind's blood to ,oh yeah I remember, kill you with it.
Looks like that answers the question who has the most to offer brain wise as well as other
more impressive anatomical parts."
Sov grabbed Ares neck in one hand and pulled the list out of the god of war's hand with
the other. "It wasn't exactly the move of a rocket scientist to bring up those
particular moments in our past history. Besides you didn't do your job very well, I'm back
aren't I?"
Ares tried to say something but his voice came out like Donald Duck's and was completely
unintelligible.
The sleigh was flying over the HerKdom Ocean. Sov pushed Ares over the side. "Have a
nice swim. Hope you don't freeze to many of those body parts," he snickered.
Sov clutched the list triumphantly. "All mine," he shouted. He glanced down at
it. Hmmmm, I see Kassia's name is here. It says she's been having some pretty wicked
dreams involving your's truly lately. I think I will stop by her house first and see if I
can make some of them come true."
He took the dragons reigns and urged them to go faster.
tbc
Soaring For Sorbo,
Hilara