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Christmas - 10 - Skating

Ice skating sounds horrific. That's what I'm putting here. Yep.

I have never ice skated, and I therefore cannot vouch for anything being even remotely realistic here.

Comments are welcome and appreciated!

Please enjoy!

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I didn't like this. I didn't like this one bit. Ice and metal blades did not go together, and it looked like the most dangerous sport of all time! What if the ice broke?! What if one of my boys tripped and broke a bone?! There were thousands of ways this could go wrong, and I wasn't going to have it!

"Please?" Error begged.

"No." I shook my skull. 

"..Please?" Error used his 'you will give me what I desire' face. 

"..." I had to resist those eyelights..I had to.

A compromise was made. Instead of the frozen lake my boys had been intending to skate on, I chose a nice indoor ice rink; it was also rarely used due to being in a cold area, and no one would give us any trouble. My boys agreed to the terms, and the next day, we found ourselves at an ice rink. No one else was there, aside from a couple workers, but they didn't bother us after we had done everything necessary to enter the rink. When we were ready, my boys and I went out on the ice..and every one of them fell down; I was glad that I had learned how to ice skate as a child (Dream had pestered me about it for months before I had given in, though). 

"It's slippery!" Error giggled, sliding on the ice.

"How are you up there?" Killer stared up at me, wondering why I hadn't fallen with them.

"I learned when I was a child." I replied.

"Then why didn't you want us to?" Horror inquired.

"..That entire village hated me, as you well know by now, and they weren't above sawing bits of ice to make them unstable; I fell into many frozen lakes when I was small, and I don't want the same to happen to you." I sighed. "But this should be safe enough.."

"Y-you mean we could fall in?" Dust didn't want to fall into cold water.

"You shouldn't be able to here.." I would have planned for the next negativity run to be here if something like that did happen. "This place is made for skating, and it wouldn't be good management if they had thin ice."

"So..how do we stand?" Killer asked.

"I'll teach you."

Error managed to stand up first, and the rest of my boys eventually got the hang of it over the next couple hours. When Dust, the final one to learn, had managed to stand without falling, the others had already begun to move around, with various falls - that was to be expected, with my boys; they were often clumsy, and being on ice simply made it worse. 

"I'm moving!" Error giggled as he slid across the ice. 

"Good job." I complimented. "Are you boys having fun?"

"Yeah, but this is hard.." Horror nearly slipped again, before catching his balance. 

"You'll get used to it. Remember to keep your balance-" I was cut off by a familiar feeling.

"How..punderful." Killer giggled at the timing.

"That was punintentional." I clarified.