"You have to go. You have to go. I need you to go." Dad spoke to his wife and children.
"No." Mom said.
"All of you, you have to go. Do you understand? Keep driving. Do you understand? I love you." Dad hugged Mom, who was crying. "I love you, buddy. I love you, sweetie." He hugged his children. "Go! Now!" Raven stayed with Dad with her guns. Eventually, they ran out and Cora turned to see her father being taken under the snow. Raven began to run towards her before she was stuck in the snow.
"No!" Cora shouted and she ran to help her sister her fingertips grazing Raven's as she was sucked under.
"Go! Go!" Aunt Linda told Stevie.
"Come on! Come on." Mom pulled her daughter along.
"Keep going. Keep going." Aunt Linda said to Stevie who fell. Max had been dragged under the snow a little before Cora reached him and Mom dragged her to the snowplow.
"God. Get in." Mom said.
"Max! No!" Cora screamed as her brother was dragged under.
"I want you to get up in here. I don't want you to move. You don't move. Okay? You understand?" Mom said as Cora rushed into the snowplow.
"Mom! Mom, please!" Aunt Linda was being dragged under the snow.
"Sarah! Baby, go with your aunt Sarah. Stevie, sweetheart, it's okay." Aunt Linda apologized.
"Mom!" Stevie yelled.
"It's okay. Come on." Mom said as she put Stevie in the snowplow.
"Sarah!" Aunt Linda called.
"Stay here. I'll be right back." She turned to help Aunt Linda.
"Sarah!" Aunt Linda screamed before she was dragged under. Mom groaned as she got bit by the snow monster.
"Mom! No!" Cora screamed.
"I love you." Mom said before being dragged under.
"Mom! Mom! Mom!" Cora yelled.
"Cora, we got to go. Cora, we got to go. Cora. Come on." Stevie urged her. Cora twisted the keys in the ignition.
"It's not starting. It's not starting. Why isn't it starting?" Cora asked.
"Come on. Come on, Cora, please."
"I'm trying. I don't even know how to drive a stick. We have a hybrid!" Cora snapped.
"Come on! Please!" Elves banged on the windows before taking Stevie.
"Stevie! Stevie!" Cora shouted.
"Cora! Cora!" Stevie shouted.
"No! No! Stevie!" Cora screamed. She stabbed the Elf attacking her and the snow monster drug it underground.
Krampus landed right in front of her as soon as she got out of the snowplow. He dropped his bell wrapped in her letter to Santa.
"My letter." She gasped. Krampus had left immediately. She gazed out at the snow. Omi's words echoed in her mind.
"He left me as a reminder of what happens when hope is lost, when belief is forgotten and the Christmas spirit dies." Cora heard Stevie scream and made up her mind. She was going to find Stevie and settle this herself. She set out across the snow.
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