A Very Bad Holiday by Kate Howard

Author:Kate Howard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Inside the radio station, Shark and Trudy Tude had found their peace, too, and were now swaying together to the rhythm of Piranha’s festive beat.

Thanks to Piranha’s song, the spirit of Christmas was returning to the whole city.

Slowly but surely, this part of the plan was finally working!

Unfortunately, the other part of the Bad Guys’ plan was still very much not working.

“Giving is hard!” Wolf grunted, trying and failing to drop the present he was holding. It was so hard to let go of it that Wolf wondered if it might be magnetically attached to his hand. As soon as he was able to pry one hand off the loot, his other hand reached out and grabbed it. “How does Santa do this?”

Snake sighed. “Yeah, it takes a real weirdo to let go of that much loot. C’mon, we’ll do it together.”

The two buddies headed back into the house, knowing they had to leave their gifts, or all the other parts of the new plan would have been for nothing.

Wolf and Snake slid into the house together. Somehow, with a lot of pain and difficulty, they finally managed to drop the gifts and run. As soon as they were out, they fist-tail-bumped, then raced back to their gift-filled getaway car to grab more loot.

Baby steps.

It obviously wasn’t going to get any easier to give rather than take, but this crew never gave up on a good plan. No matter how hard it was to get it done.

Meanwhile, back in the heart of the city, Piranha had started to run out of verses in his original Christmas tune. “Doo wah doo,” he crooned.

At that moment, Webs hit the last keystroke on her computer and pressed play on her holiday playlist. The musical notes of favorite Christmas songs flowed out of speakers all over the city. Outside the building with the charred Santa face, even Santa suddenly looked a little jollier now that it sounded more like the holidays. As pedestrians wandered by, some folks paused to look up and wonder: Is that burned-up Santa balloon smiling?

“Is Christmas un-canceled?” Tiffany Fluffit barked into her microphone. “After the unexpected carols and some secret Santas leaving presents all through the city, holiday spirit is up. But is it enough to fill the Big Nick–sized hole in our hearts? Stay tuned to find out.”

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