Last Christmas?

I ran with Malin for several hours, and then saw that there was a fairy godmother up ahead.

“Fairy godmother!” I called out, “My friend Malin needs to become human again so that he and I can rescue the Princess and save Christmas! Can you turn him back to normal?”

“Hmmm…” the fairy godmother said; and she pulled out her wand, pointed it at Malin, and muttered something that was inaudible to me.

A few seconds later, she said, “Nope! Can’t make him human again! The spell is too strong.

What I CAN do is morph his turtle form a bit so that he’ll be able to walk on two legs, and he’ll also be able to swordfight and whatnot with his hands.

Who knows; maybe that shell will even save his life! Maybe it’s better that he’s a turtle!”

Then she mumbled something else and pointed her wand at Malin again, and he suddenly grew bigger and was standing on both legs.

I immediately offered him his sword, and he practiced jabbing it around and whatnot.

“I feel as good as ever!” he said cheerfully, “Maybe better! Thanks fairy godmother!”

“You’re welcome!” the fairy godmother said, and suddenly disappeared with a poof!

“Gah!” I complained, “I was about to ask her to join our quest and help us rescue the Princess… Oh well, I guess she already helped out a lot by giving you your more agile turtle body.”

“She sure did!” Malin said, as he did a triple flip in the air and landed perfectly on his feet, “I feel great! Onward to Krampus!” and the two of us resumed traveling forward through the grassy field.

After a while, we suddenly ran into something!

“Whaaa?!?” Malin said, and I noted that, “There’s a bubble of some sort around us, it seems. What is this madness!?!”

Suddenly!, Krampus approached us and said, “You see? I have total power over you, and so your mission to save the Princess is doomed! Whether I ever remove this bubble or not, I’ll always be able to control the outcome of everything! Do you see how futile your mission is now?”

“You’re not all-powerful, Krampus!” Malin raged, “You’ll slip up, and we’ll manage to win somehow! And even if we don’t win, someone will rise up and defeat you!”

“Yeah!” I agreed, “And then you’ll have to tell us how much man, goat, and demon you are too! Do you claim to be 50% of each?, because that wouldn’t make any sense!”

“I don’t need to explain my origins to you two nobodys!” Krampus crowed, “And I don’t need to be all-powerful!, I just need to be the MOST powerful!, and I most certainly am that!”

And, with that!, Krampus ran off and disappeared from sight; and the bubble suddenly popped!, and Malin and I immediately ran at top speed in the direction that Krampus had run off in…