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Being Santa for a Day

Gathering my items, I packed them into my backpack. Of course, that wasn't it. I packed my outfits for the chilly weather in Kalos, too.

When I found myself ready, I tied my shoes laces and walked myself out of the Pokémon center's rooms of Alola.

~•~•~

The trip, although quick, seemed to last for an entire day. The sound of an old man could be heard right behind my seat. He'd chatter and rattle the seat he sat on.

I didn't mind at first until he began to talk about politics and how it was in the "old days." I'd shut my eyes and try to block everything out with sleep, but even my sleepy demeanor couldn't hold itself up to such an old timer. I ended up forcing Pikachu to play chess with me on one of the provided boards provided on the plane.

Time passed by like a dead clock until we finally reached our destination. Kalos.

~•~•~

     "Pikachu, you better get yourself out there," I laughed, the white, itchy beard I wore covering the most of my face.

Pikachu was wearing the cutest outfit I've seen him wear since forever. He was an elf! He wore a pointy hat that already had ears stitched to it's sides and wore a green and red shirt that had bells dangling off of it. His ears and tail gave him away as a Pikachu though. "The kids out there are gonna love you, haha."

When Pikachu and I both came back to Kalos and were looking around Lumiose City, we came across a man in an elf suit. He had come up to us and asked us if we wanted to be Santa Claus for a day. Us being us, Pikachu and I said yes. And now we're both in suits.

By the way, the guy who asked us later told us to call him by Mack.

"Just make sure to not shock anyone," I laughed once more. "That wouldn't be good."

"Pika, Pi," Pikachu sweatdropped.

"I know, I know. You wouldn't do anything like that, would ya, buddy?"

And that's when the same man who had asked us earlier if we wanted to join this event came into our dressing room.

"Alright guys, it's time to go. There's people waiting!"

~•~•~

Pikachu and I later found out that his original Santa Claus called in sick and left him with a very noticeable empty chair where Santa would of sat. In fact, Santa promised he'd be sitting there that day to talk to rest of the kids at the mall. When Mack saw I had a Pikachu just like the original man who played as Santa, he desperately asked us to fill in the spot since the event was said to start just fifteen minutes before spotting us. Let's just say it made a whole lot more sense after he explained himself.

So, once he called us up, Pikachu and I both walked out of the tent that we got dressed in and walked over towards what Mack called "Santa's Pokémon Cottage." There was other Pokémon sitting behind a giant chair sitting out in front of the cottage. They cheered out to the small kids waiting in line with their parents.

"Say ho, ho, when you cut through the gate and sit down in your chair, okay?" Mack whispered to me, nudging my side a bit and hitting the extra fabric in between me and the suit to make it look like I was bigger than I actually was.

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