The pile of presents the kids were on suddenly started to move, the wheels squeaking as Dual, Virtus, and Dark all looked up, seeing that there was a closed hatch above that had lots of red circles. The pile stopped under it making the kids look at each other with confusion.
They then heard three loud blasts next to them that shot up into the hatch, they saw that the bag was now roped onto something that was beyond the hatch, and then something red slowly started to rise up all around them.
"W-What's going on?!" Dark asked, Virtus knew exactly what was happening.
"We're on the pile of presents...which means that...we're in Santa's bag!!" She exclaimed.
Dual looked up and saw the hatch opening up, seeing a huge blimp in the sky that was holding the ropes. The three kids felt a small breeze kick in as they start to slowly rise out of the hatch, the blimp carrying them and the bag of presents.
"Oh, Dear God!!" The colt shouted.
The blimp rose the bag up more and more before it was fully in the sky. It then moved the bag in the direction of The Square as Dual, Virtus, and Dark looked over the edge of the bag, seeing the bright lights of the whole North Pole.
"What a way to get to The Square..." Virtus said, smiling brightly. Dual and Dark both nodded before the 11-year-old male wolf let out a scream. Dual and Virtus looked back quickly, the colt grabbing his left paw and Virtus grabbing his green pajama top.
"Something's got me!!" Dark cried. "It's got my leg!!"
The female wolf moved her right paw. "Give me your other paw!! Give me your other paw!!" Dark quickly glanced at the present he held on his right paw and sighed, letting it go and letting Virtus grab his other paw.
"Alright Virtus, on three!!" Dual shouted. "One...Two...Three!!" They both lifted Dark at the same time, but the thing holding onto the wolf's leg still clung on.
"Again!! One...Two...Three!!!" The two 12-year-olds pulled as hard as they could and got Dark free from the thing that trapped him and saw what the thing really was.
"Trixie?!" Dual and Virtus exclaimed at the same time, the azure unicorn gave them a sheepish smile.
"Heeey…."
"What the heck are you doing here...In fact, HOW did you get here?!" Virtus asked, Trixie's smile turned into a bit of an arrogant one.
"Simple: Trixie saw you then decided to follow you..."
"But why?!"
"Cause Trixie doesn't like being left out on what you two do...She's sick of watching you and Dual run off to God knows where and not include Trixie in your little adventures."
"What we do is none of your business!"
"It is so Trixie's business!! You have fun while Trixie sits around and stays bored...you brought him along with you!" She motioned her hand over to Dark. "Why not Trixie?!"
"HOW did you even follow us?! We didn't see you!"
"Please little wolf...Trixie knows all the skills for stealth...She knows everything."
"Why you little-!!" Virtus was about to do something to Trixie before Dual stopped her.
"Enough, Virtus... it's ok...there's nothing we can do." Virtus gave a small growl as Trixie sticks her tongue out at her, Dual then looked over the edge and gasped, pointing his finger. "Guys...Look!"
Trixie, Virtus, and Dark looked over the edge with the turquoise colt and saw The Square closing in. At The Square was an untold number of elves surrounding a gigantic Hearths Warming tree that was sitting next to a building that had a gigantic clock. They even saw the train at the far back, it's lamp turned off.
Virtus looked at the clock and smiled. "Hey, it's still 11:55...We're gonna make it!"
Trixie looked at her. "Of course it still is... it's been 11:55 for the past few hours...We have plenty of time, we got nothing but time, in fact, we have time to kill!" They then heard the sound of a PA screech loudly and they looked up, a female elf talking.
"We have arrived at the ceremony... let's drop the bag people!"
"Drop the bag?!" Echoed Trixie.
Dual grabbed onto the bag's edge. "Hang onto something guys!!" The rest of the kids followed, grabbing the bag's edge, except for Virtus who grabbed onto Dual instead, earning a small blush from him. The ropes unlatched from the bag and the kids began to drop from a great height, making them all scream in fear, the presents even defying gravity a bit.
They then landed onto the sled with a loud thud, the kids groaning a bit as they rubbed their heads from landing onto the hard boxes, they then heard a squeaky male voice from the top of the bag. "Alright, you stowaways..." The kids looked up and saw a male and a female elf looking at them. "Party's over!"
"Trixie just followed them..." Trixie quickly said, earning a glare from Virtus.
"W-We fell in here by mistake..." Dual said as the elves flicked their hands down, the female speaking this time.
"Its alright little ones...we've been watching you the whole time, we knew it was an accident...come on, out ya go..." The elves then started to help each kid climb out of the bag one by one.
Conductor Shining watched from a distance and looked at his pocket-watch, smiling a bit as he looked at the kids again, more specifically at Dual. "Right on schedule..."
The elves got Trixie out last and the male elf talked again. "Alright kids, to make sure no creature gets hurt...we'll tell you how you can get down.
The azure unicorn went in front of the elf's face. "This is simple...why Trixie knows-"
"Since when in the hay does 'Trixie' know anything?! You're not supposed to be here in the first place, you arrogant little twerp!"
Trixie gasped and squinted her eyes at him as the kids watched with some amusement, the elf then smiled. "But since its Hearths Warming...I'm gonna let you...slide!" As he said that, he put his leg behind Trixie's and kicked her out, making her trip and slide down the bag.
"Hey!! OW!!" The 11-year-old unicorn exclaimed as she slid down the bag, into Conductor Shining's arms when he arrived at the bag. The elves laughed at her as Shining put her down onto her two feet.
"I've been looking for you..." Shining said, shooing Trixie away to go to the other children.
The elves moved on to Virtus, putting her up on the edge of the bag and having her slide down on her own, the white stallion greeting her. "Good to see you again, Miss..." Dual slid down next and smiled at the white stallion, who looked at him and sighed. "You just love getting yourself into trouble...don't cha, young stallion?" Dual frowned.
It was finally Dark's turn to slide, but before he could, the elf stopped him. "Sorry kid...but I'm gonna have to take that off your paws..." The wolf knew that the elf meant the present he continued to hold in his arms, he quickly shook his head not wanting to give it up. "It's ok...trust me, it'll be in good hands."
He looked at his present one more time before the wolf let out a small sigh, giving his gift to the elf who quickly threw it in the bag as he watched. Dark slid down the bag after giving out a final sigh, the elves then took out a rope to tie the bag of presents tightly.
Dark joined back up with the rest of the children and stood next to Dual and Virtus who smiled at him. They then heard loud trumpets and looked at the elves at the top of the balcony who played them, they saw the magic flying reindeer come out and they were just as excited as the rest of the elves. The elves were holding them back, making sure they weren't flying away.
Once they got attached to the sleigh, the elves cheered loudly again as the ribbons of bells came out with a few other elves. Dual watched every single thing that was going on with a smile on his face. He saw the elves shake the bell ribbons, making them ring, which made the elves near him cheer again. But his smile dropped completely, he didn't hear the bells ring.
He put his pinkie in his left ear and took it out, looking at his finger and seeing that his ears are in fact clean. The elves shook the bell ribbons again, he tried to listen very carefully but he still didn't hear the bells ring at all.
"Don't the bells just make the most beautiful sound?" Virtus asked, looking at Dual who looked back at her with a small smile and nodded at her. When she turned back to the ceremony, the blue colt's smile dropped again and was replaced with concern and confusion.
How can Virtus hear the bells but he can't?