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When I came to, my entire body ached and my limbs protested any slight movement. I groaned and my eyes fluttered open to a barely lit room.

Every time I blinked, it sent tendrils of pain across my face causing my head to throb and my cheek to itch something fierce.

I tried to fight through the pain to lift up my arm, but something was holding it down. Turning my head, I could see my wrist shackled to what I thought was a slab of wood.

I was in pain.

On a slab of wood.

Shackled down.

With an itch I can't scratch.

Fuck!

With great effort I turn my head from side to side slowly and notice my friends on slabs too.

They looked to be still sleeping.

"Guys," I tried. My voice came out groggy and raspy, like I hadn't used it in days.

I looked up and could see an eerie orange light pulsating on the ceiling. Casting shadows every which way.

I tried to get my friends attention again.

"Guys!" That hurt. Another wave of pain washed through me. It felt like the blood in my viens turned hard and tried to stab their way out of me.

Someone stirred to my right. Josh was waking up and he pulled at his shackles to no avail. He stopped when his eyes locked with mine.

"Nia," he rasped and cleared his throat.

"Are you alright?" His voice came out clearer this time.

A sarcastic reply came to me but I didn't have the energy to say it.

"My cheek itches." My voice still sounded like I swallowed a frog and more pain shot through me. I winced but the wince made it hurt even more.

"Nia," his tone was worried.

I kept my vision trained on the ceiling. It hurt too much to move.

"I feel like shit," I whispered.

He struggled against his shackles again and huffed in frustration.

Movement on my left and further to my right could be heard. I didn't have to turn my head to know it was Carlos, Addy,and Felix. They struggled against their shackles too and noticed us on our slabs.

"What is this?" Addy questioned.

"Where are we?" Carlos added.

Their voices were raspy too and laced with panic and worry.

I was starting to wonder why they weren't in pain like I was was. Everything hurt too much for me too move, but they struggled vehemently with no pain at all.

So my question was why did I feel like death warmed over?

"Something's wrong with, Nia." Josh voiced.

"Love, what's wrong?"

I swallowed and tried to speak, but it came out as a whisper again.

"Everything hurts." And I can't scratch my itch!

"Can you move?" Carlos asked.

"No."

"How do you guys feel?" Josh asked them.

"Sore, but not sore enough not to move." Addy answered.

"Same here amigo."

"Me too."

Josh tried his shackles again and yelled out in frustration.

We were weaponless, shackled down, didn't know where everyone else was, didn't know where we were, and utterly helpless.

Although I did have an inkling of where we were, just not an exact location of this building.

A door creaked open from somewhere and shut. Two different footsteps could be heard and a voice drifted through the room.

"...secure and out of sight. One of the reindeer's acting up though..."

The closer the voice got the more annoying it became.

Whoever it was, they were talking fast and their voice was shrill and nasally and oh my God that laugh. It was gun-like. There was no breath taken what so ever in between. The voice increased my headache tenfold and I closed my eyes to try and block it out.

The footsteps stopped in between me and Carlos.

"Oh my gawd! They're awake!"

Shut up shut up shut up. Shut. Up.

From my perephial vision I could see red and someone with blonde hair.

Everyone strained their knecks to glare at them while I layed camotose.

Whoever was wearing red walked up to the side of my slab and the blonde followed.

My eyes darted to the strangers and I took notice of them.

Gray beard, hunched over, red footie pajamas, wrinkly, and red eyes.

Claude.

The blonde wasn't that pretty. There were lines showing around her cheeks where you could see she smiled too much, a mole on her cheek, and bright red lipstick marred her lips. Her blonde hair reached just past her shoulders and she had on a too little green dress and a clipboard in her hands.

She peered over Claude curiously to look at me.

"What's wrong with her?"

Claude ran his hand through his beard and said,"I don't know."

She reached out her hand for me to shake it.

"Hi doll, I'm Molly nice to meet'cha." Her megawatt smile showed and her hand was still raised like I was going to shake it.

"Put your hand down!" He spat and swatted her arm.

"Ooooowwwww!" She rubbed her arm and pouted her lips."That hurt."

He rolled his eyes and looked somewhere on my face and reached over with and old wrinkly finger.

"Don't fucking touch her!" Josh roared.

Claude payed him no attention and scratched at the band aid on my cheek. He yanked it off in one fell swoop.

It hurt like hell and I squeaked in pain. I still couldn't move and not being able to was eating at me.

"Hmm, we have a special case here."

"Oooh, how special," came her giddy voice. She held the clipboard close to her while bobbing from side to side.

Calude hummed and said,"Call the elves over."

Molly turned around and let out a loude whistle that left me whimpering.

This is fucking pathetic.

"What do you want with us?" Carlos hissed.

"The same thing I've done with the rest of you."

"What did you do?" Addy asked.

He tsked her while a small hoard of D.E.'s came bounding over.

"Tell us!" Josh demanded.

"You'll find out soon enough." He directed his attention to the elves and whispered something to them.

Some ran off while the others crawled up onto the slab and poked and prodded me with their fingers.

I groaned and whimpered wishing they would stop.

"Leave her alone!"

"You'll bloody pay for this!"

"You punta!"

All their yelling was increasing my headache, but I was glad they were worried about me.

The elves started clicking while Claude nodded his head, understanding them.

Some more elves hopped up and began fiddling with my shackles. I planned on kicking and swinging no matter what, but a sting in my kneck had me backtracking my thoughts.

My entire body became numb. I couldn't move at all. Couldn't even cry out in pain when they started to drag me off the slab.

I was paralyzed.

I would've  hit the floor hard if it weren't for their little hands grabbing at me like I was some kind of ragdoll.

Even though I kinda sorta was at the moment.

The ceiling moved above me as I was carried to wherever they were taking me.

《<•○●○•>》

"Where are they taking her?" Josh was pratically foaming at the mouth.

"That's none of your concern."

He turned to walk away,but Addy's question stopped him.

"What are you getting at here? What are you planning?"

His red eyes took all three of them in."If I told you, you all"ll just come up with something to disrupt my plans."

The corners of his mouth lifted up into a smile that showed his out of place rotten teeth."Isn't that what they do in the movies?"

He walked away while telling Molly to stay there with them.

She took one last look at Claude then turned her attention to the seething elves on wood.

Holding out her hand again she smiled and said."Hi! Name's Molly, nice to meet'cha."

《<•○●○•>》

We passed by conveyer belts with stuffed toy elves on top. Dark Elves were moving around almost in a daze,mechanical like.

This was a factory allright. The stink of rust and smoke was in the air and everything was extremely dirty.

On my right I could see cells. Cells filled with the rest of Santa's elves. It didn't look like all of them though. There were handfuls missing.

Someone noticed me and called out my name. I heard a pop of electricity and a very colorful word that turned into my name being yelled again.

Whispers sprang out at my sudden appearance and a couple of more pops of electricity.

I was hauled up on another platform and shackled down. My limbs were still stiff and my eyes were beginning to burn from not being able to close them.

The minute I regain use of my limbs I'm cracking skulls.

《<•○●○•>》

"So what brings you all here?" She smiled and looked at them all.

They all looked at each other confused.

"Claude didn't tell you?"Addy asked.

Molly cocked her head to the side and looked up."He told me he had a plan,but he didn't tell me the specifics of it."

"Wow. Specifics. That's a big word,"Carlos mocked.

Molly let out a surprised squeak and looked appalled."I'm not stupid if that's what you're implying."

"No I'd never."

She smacked her lips."Let's see how stupid I am when I call over the little elves to poke and prod you. See if you talk then. I highly doubt it. You'll probably sound like your little friends when you scream." She laughed that gun-like laugh again.

She abruptly stopped and smiled."Ooooor," she hopped over to a cylindrical pod of water that held captive a horned figure with tubes coming from it,"We could let this big guy out and tear you to pieces."

"Okay, we get it. You're not stupid." Addy monotoned.

"Too late, I'm already insulted.Let's call'em over shall we?"

An ear splitting whistle erupted from her mouth and D.E.'s came over from the conveyors they were stationed at.

They climbed onto the slabs with tools, sardonic smiles, and evil intent.

"Now scream."

《<•○●○•>》

I could hear my friends screaming from somewhere in the room. It was like their screams bounced off the walls and could be heard from every direction.

And I couldn't do shit.

I still couldn't move and I don't know what those elves did to me, but when that whistle sounded they ran off.

Seeing as couldn't do or say anything for the time being, I got to thinking.

Where are the Guardians?

Where the reindeer at?

How did they take all of us?

What are Claude's plans?

How are we getting out of here?

Where are our weapons?

Who ate my pie?

These were the things I needed to know!

We need an escape plan.

If we can get out of these shackles and find our weapons...

No we need to find a globe, get everyone out of their cells...

Take out the Bad Guardians...

Uuuugggghhhh!!!!!!! I need my friends for this. All this thinking is making my head hurt.

Wait.

My head was hurting.

I could  feel.

I tried to move again and my numbing limbs started to tingle. Feeling was coming back. My happiness was short lived when I felt something crawling through my veins.

It felt...funny.

My teeth were becoming numb again and the same went for my nails. My muscles felt like they were pulsating, trying to tear out my body.

A strangled cry came from my mouth and I arched my back when a wave of pain washed through me. I clenched my teeth and found it was hard to close my mouth. My tongue reached out to touch my teeth. They all were sharpened to a point.

I groaned in pain and couldn't take it any more. I screamed, but it didn't sound like me. More like a wounded animal.

One moment I was in pain and worrying how to get out of here, and in the next I wasn't.

My thoughts morphed in that of pure rage and the only thing my mind could register:kill, maim, hurt, destroy.

《<•○●○•>》

"What was that?" Molly turned around at the sudden cry.

They all looked at each other. She snapped her fingers at the elves."Go check it out." Some hopped off the slabs and did as they were told.

The four elves layed on their slabs bleeding and bruised. But their spirits were not broken, no, far from it.

Addy's arms bled enough to the point where her wrists were slippery enough to slide against her shackles. Molly nor the Dark Elves noticed yet and she wanted to keep it that way.

"I wonder what that was?" She said more to herself. Her attention turned back to the beaten elves on their slabs.

"Had enough yet?" She chirped.

"I swear to God when I get out of this I will jump down your throat and stomp on your bloody liver!" Addy fumed.

Molly hummed."You sound upset, doll. We can can change that." She smiled again."Cut out her tongue. That way no more sounds come out of your mouth."

"You're insane." Felix quaked.

"No! Stop! Don't touch her! Lemonade!"

D.E.'s crawled near her head to hold it down while one came up with a scalpel.

They pried open her mouth when she tried to keep it closed. It raised the scalpel and got interrupted by a commotion near the cells and the door.

Molly stomped her foot."What is it now!" She said exasperated.

"Ugh! Stop. I'll go check it out. The rest of you check near the cells," she instructed.

Molly walked away and the elves hopped off the slabs to scope out the cells.

They were right. She was stupid. She didn't tell the elves to take their tools with them.

A smirk appeared on Addy's face as she slipped both her wrists between her shackles and sat up to flex her wrists around.

She grinned at her friends and grabbed a syringe to work on the shackles around her ankles.

"Nice goin' Lemonade."

"Call me that one more time and I might just leave you on that slab of wood."

"You wouldn't leave me here." He said confidently.

...

"Addy?"

She unshakled her ankles and hopped off to unshackle Josh and Felix.

"Addy, come on, I'm sorry."

Josh was free and rubbed at his wrists as Addy unlocked Felix's shackles.

"I'm sorry! I was kidding. Josh?"

All he did was shrug his shoulders.

Another cry was let out and they froze a millisecond before jumping into action. Felix was free and they crowded near Josh.

"We need to find Nia," Josh surmised.

"After you set me free!" His poor voice was hysterical.

"Ad–"

"Yeah, yeah." She waved her hand in the air and picked Carlos's locks.

They heard someone scream and a clopping noise could be heard.

Carlos jumped off his slab and glared at Addy.

"Come on. They took her this way." They turned on their heels and followed Josh only to be stopped by a grisly sight.

An elf stood breathing hard and bloodied. She wasn't tiny like the D.E.'s, instead she stood close to five feet tall. The veins running along the mocha skin of her face stood out near her cheek. The red and white tendrils almost looked to be pulsating. Her finger nails turned into claws and her sharpened teeth stretched into a grin. All the while her eyes glowed red with malice.

"Nia." Josh couldn't believe what he was seeing. Her grin widened at the mention of her name.

Suddenly Molly came running back and tried to hide in their little huddle.

She was covered in bite marks, her shoes missing, not a clipboard in sight. Her dress was falling apart and she clung on to the elves for dear life.

The horror and fear in her eyes never left the thing that caused her to be so shaken.

All eyes fell on a reindeer. Not just any reindeer. Dasher. No more was the loyal flyer of Ol' St.Nick. In its place was a vicious beast. Frothing at the mouth, sharp teeth, red eyes, and sharpened antlers. His fur pricked and he stood in a predatory stance, ready to attack at any given second.

Eyes darted back and forth between the two, not knowing what to do.

"What now?" Carlos whispered.

Dasher huffed and slid his hoof against the floor ready to charge.

Josh swallowed and eyed Nia. She crouched down ready to run at them when they heard clicking.

Both Nia and Dasher turned their attention to a hoard of Dark Elves coming their way. Nia let out a predatory scream and charged, claws raised, ready to slay. Dasher clipped and pierced through several D.E.'s with his antlers bucking and kicking.

Taking advantage of the situation, Josh turned on Molly. Her wrapped his hand around her kneck strangling her."Where are our weapons?"

She struggled to breathe."Past...other..." Her eyes rolled to the back of her head.

Adelaide grabbed his shoulder."Josh."

He lessened his grip.She coughed and sputtered."I'll take you." She coughed again and took a breath."I'll take you."

They left the room with Josh talking one last look at Nia and Dasher in the midst of their battle.

Molly led them through hallway after hallway without being seen until they found their weapons haphazardly thrown in Santa's sleigh.

They gathered as much as they could while keeping an eye on Molly.

Josh aimed his gun at her."Take us to the Guardians."

"I don't k–"

He cocked his gun.

"Right this way."

She led them to a white hallway that was a stark contrast from the rest of the places they'd been. It was clean and shiny. The walls were lined with special cells that held the Guardians.

Josh still had his gun pointed at her head."Let them out," he ordered.

Molly leaned against a wall and pressed a red button opening the cells.

The Guardians filed out with every intention to fight and end this today.

Josh brought his attention to Santa as he walked up to him. He looked perplexed."Where's Nia?"

"Something happened to her."

"Yeah, she looked like one of those evil little buggers." Addy waved her hands around her face."And she had these red and white veins coming from her cheek."

"And these long claws and red eyes."

"A-and sharp teeth."

"Well where is she?" Tooth asked.

"She's back at the factory. And the same thing happened to Dasher too. They were about to attack us when the Dark Elves distracted them–"

"Dark Elves? Is that what you call them?" Everyone turned their attention to Molly's voice.

She stood in the same spot only four figures stood behind her. She had tripped a silent alarm.

"Long time no see." The shadowed figure spoke.

"You'll be seeing stars when I'm through with ya mate."

"How about we not see at all." Shadows came from his robes and enveloped everyone in the hall.

They were transported back into the factor where a battle was still brewing.

An even bigger battle ensued when both pairs of Guardians began fighting.

Sandman vs. The Boogey Man

Tooth Fairy vs. The Grinch

Jack Frost vs. Old Man Winter

Bunnymund vs. Slenderman

The elves fought against the D.E.'s while Santa went in search of the rest of his kids.

On the other side of the factory was where he found them.

Side stepping blood and cotton, he took his duel swords out and jammed them into the lock mechanism. The cell door slid open and the kids rushed out to greet him.

They hugged his legs and surrounded him saying his name like a mantra.

He hugged them all back."I'm glad you all are safe." He had to gently pat them off so he could unlock the rest of the cells.

"I know this isn't all of you."

An older elf spoke up."They took the rest. Did something to them."

"Do you know where they were taken?"

The girl shook her head.

"What about–"

"Santa!"

Molly came out of nowhere with a bat and slug Santa in the back of his head.

When some elves tried to jump her she slung her bat in a wide arc narrowly missing her targets.

Santa quickly recovered and instructed them to get back.

"You'll ruin everything!" They circled each other."You should take your jolly fat ass back to your little cell where you belong." Her eyes were crazed, wide, big, and darting from side to side.

"I'll end you and it'll make him so proud of me." That gun like laugh made an appearance again. She raised the bat above her head and lunged forward.

A blinding bright light appeared behind them.

"Not my husband you bitch!"

Mrs. Claus burst from the light and tackled Molly to the ground. She brought her hands around her neck and beat her head against the ground. When Molly tried to hit her with the bat, Mrs. Claus snatched and clocked her on the side of her head with it.

Molly was out cold.

Mrs. Claus huffed and pushed her hair behind her ears.

"And my husband's not fat." She stood and slung the bat to the ground. Santa cleared his throat and Mrs.Claus turned around.

"Hi honey." She held her arms out to give him a hug and a peck on the lips.

"H-hi," he stuttered and hugged her back.

Someone else cleared their throat. Attention turned toward the three other people that came with Mrs. Claus.

A man in blue and gold robes stood with a golden scythe and an hourglass suspended in the air.

A mocha colored woman in a beautiful robes and a flowered crown atop her head stood under a cherub baby with a diaper and a mop of golden curls and baby blue eyes holding a crossbow.

"Right, right. I called the rest of the Guardians for help. We found the sleigh and the reindeer and they're prepped and ready to go. Except Dasher, we couldn't find him. We just need everyone to come this way,"she pointed at the door they just portaled through,"through that door and we'll portal out of here." She smiled up at her husband.

"Well Dasher is..."he didn't know what to tell her,"I'll explain later. For now get the kids to the sleigh."

As if just noticing them she pushed Santa out of the way and ran to the kids with her arms out wide.

"My babies!" She gushed.

Santa rolled his eyes with a smile and quickly opened the door where the sleigh and reindeer were stationed. Sparks flew from his hands to the sleigh as it elongated to accommodate more people.

Mrs.Claus ushered the kids into it while Santa gave out more instructions.

"Cupid. You stay here with the missus. Father, Mother, follow me." He motioned for them to follow him to the other side of the factory.

Chaos was what the room was in. Complete and utter chaos.

"Kids! Get to the other side of the factory!"

"But what about–"

"Don't back talk me! Do as I say! We'll handle this!"

The elves ran to the other side of the factory albeit reluctantly.

Before any D.E.'s could follow them vines whipped out of Mother Nature's hands and wrapped around them in a vice grip and sqeeezed until they popped.

Suddenly the doors to the room burst open and the owner of the factory stepped in. Trailing him were six deadly figures. The doors closed with a bang behind them. They looked exactly like Nia. Red eyes, claws, sharp teeth, and red and white veins crawled up their skin. The only difference was the fact that they were wrapped in Christmas lights. Meticulously wrapped. There was one light inserted into the back of their knecks so they could be controlled.

"You know what to do." And with that, the six figures charged their mark and Claude raised his shotgun to his brother.

The six figures crowded around Father time. Claude's bullets were blocked by Santa's swords.

Mother Nature found herself occupied with two assailants. Slenderman and Old Man Winter.
Bunnymund and Jack were having a hard time.

But, so was Father Time. He swung his scythe with expertise, dodging and attacking when needed. All the while doing it with one hand suspending his hourglass. It became too much when each figure went for a different part of him and he couldn't block them all. When there was an opening a figure kicked the hourglass out of its suspended state and sent it flying through the air.

Right into Claude's outstretched hand.

"Say good-bye brother." He was turning the hourglass to flip the sands. Sand started to swirl at his feet and build up around him. He cackled in triumph, but just as he was about to flip the hourglass completely, an arrow shot through his wrist and embedded itself into the door behind him.

Cupid shot him from all the way across the room.

He cried out in pain and dropped the hourglass. It stopped in mid air and flew back to Father Time.

He hit the bottom of his scythe against the ground and an invisible force knocked down anyone Father Time wanted to hit.

That was their cue to leave.

Santa grabbed Nia around her waist and slung her over his shoulder while Mother Nature wrapped Dasher in some vines to bring him along.

They ran all the way to the other side of the factory where a portal was open waiting for them. They jumped through not realizing one of the six figures followed behind them.

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