Santa's Workshop Contest Entry

If I were to ask you who you think Santa is, you would most likely reply with something along the lines of "He is a really nice chubby old man who delivers christmas presents to everyone around the world on the night of Christmas Eve", but guess what, that is all a lie. The truth is so much more horrifying than you could ever imagine.

As a journalist I investigate stories from all around the world, so when one of the elves called up The Daily Pixel (a newspaper company) I was invited by the head editor to pursue the allegations of mistreatment of elves by the man himself, Mr Clause. After a call to santa with a made up cover story to gain his acceptance for us to travel there we began our journey to the North Pole.

Day 1

Whilst the plane hovered over the arctic, I could have sworn I saw an elf.. but so far from Santa's kingdom?.. it couldn't be..

The trek from the landing site was absolutely *Insert freezing/horrible word here*, but when I gained sight of Santa's kingdom it all became worth it.. Thousands of elves scattered the streets all concentrated on their task at hand.. After all, it was only 3 days till christmas.. One of the elves came over to greet us at the entrance and we all went off to find Santa.. My first impressions of actually meeting him were not what I was expecting, "Maybe he took acting classes with all that spare time he has," I thought to myself, because there was literally not a single bad thing about him that I could pinpoint.. The rest of the day was quite enjoyable and as a dazed off in bed I had almost forgotten the whole purpose of even coming here.. Then it hit me.. No literaly, it hit me.. I picked the candy cane up off the floor next to my bed and my first thoughts were that it must have come from the window since it was partially open due to the surprisingly hot conditions inside the building I was staying in. I looked directly out the window but saw not a single person.. I did however see footprints in the snow, and being the inquisitive journalist I am, I put on my jacket and boots, then quietly went outside to follow the footprints (as to not disturb any sleeping elves).. As the footprints began to fade due to the light snow, I began to lose hope of finding whoever hit be with the candy cane.. I walked to the end of the street, not knowing whether or not the footprints actually continued in this direction which was when I noticed the faint glow of a light coming from a small alleyway on a intersecting street.. The glow came from some small cracks in a trapdoor situated in the alleyway.. I slowly opened up the trapdoor, attempting to stop the door from creaking, but quite obviously making it worse, so I gave it a swift jerk and then climbed down the ladder to the damp stone tunnel inside.. Ahh, glad you could make it.. I realised an elf was standing right behind me at the bottom of the ladder, he looked quite old and wise.. "Who are you?" I asked, "Are you the one who threw that candy cane at me a few minutes ago?".. "I am Lucifer, and yes I threw the candy cane you. It was a good throw too, wasn't it. Sorry about that though." He quite cheerfully stated.. "But why did you do it?" I asked.. "Why to bring you here of course, I actually threw one at all your friends here too, but I knew that only the journalist would be curious enough to actually come. By the way, I am the one who called your newspaper to come here in the first place.".. "Oh, Lucifer. That's right I remember hearing about you. So what now?".. "HO HO HO!!".. "Oh, gosh that's Santa!" Lucifer exclaimed, "We better get out of here fast".. We both climbed back up the ladder and closed the door.. "Quick to your bed! Meet me back he tomorrow night and we'll talk then." he quickly stated before sprinting off back to wherever he came.. I did the same and ran back off to my bed and then went to sleep..

Day 2

Today felt like forever.. Even though it should have been just as enjoyable as the day before, the anticipation I felt for meeting Lucifer again that night was almost uncontainable..

wat these got deleted :I
#blameparil