This Year: The Adventures of Santa is the story of Santa’s battle with Evil Santa, the story of how Evil Santa came to exist, of how Evil Santa was secretly ruining Christmas for many people for years, and how Santa finally found out about Evil Santa and had to battle him to save Christmas and toys and presents for children all over the world.
Evil Santa hates Santa Claus and Christmas. For years he has dressed like Santa and followed Santa around taking away the presents Santa has brought. Many a young boy and girl has woken up in tears when they saw that Santa has not brought them anything, or even worse sometimes he took away what little they had got.
Santa Claus knew about Evil Santa or at least he suspected his existence but it was hard for Santa to be sure for whenever he turned to look all he saw was a shadow, which he sometimes thought was his own and he thought what could Evil Santa do with all the toys and presents.
For a long time all those toys really were a problem For Evil Santa. Wheras for Santa as the night passed his sleigh got lighter and lighter, for Evil Santa his sleigh got heavier and heavier as he took boys’ and girls’ presents away. What was worse what was he to do with them after he was done?
For years Evil Santa struggled with the problem of what to do with the toys. In the early years Evil Santa just threw the toys away. He’d throw them off a cliff or he dropped them in the ocean. Then he thought of an even better solution. He took them back to the store and asked for a refund.
Some stores wanted a receipt. Sometimes he was able to get away with saying it was a gift but that was before he purchased the Super-de-Duper copying machine. This machine would copy any bill in the world and create a receipt that would allow you to return whatever you wanted.
The Super-de-Duper copier machine was created for criminals but Evil Santa was using it to destroy the toy market and toy manufacturers. If every year half the toys came back and the stores could no longer sell them as Christmas was over then the toy makers would go out of business and there would be no more toys or gifts for children. And this is what Evil Santa wanted more than anything. No more toys and no more children.
Evil Santa hated toys because they make children happy and he hated happy children. Even more, Evil Santa hated children because he hated people and he realized that if there were no more children soon there would be no more people and that more than anything was what he wanted. Evil Santa hated people because they make noise and pollution and traffic. Evil Santa hated everything and after all the people were gone he would be happy here alone, or at least without people.
“But,” you say, “What about Evil Santa? Isn’t he a person? Wouldn’t he grow old and die too?”
Well certainly Evil Santa would grow old and one day he probably would die too, but that would not be for thousands of years from now becaue he aged just as slow as like Santa. Perhaps it was magic or perhaps Santa really was descended from a different species of Elf as some claimed. Whatever the reason both Santa and Evil Santa grew older but they grew older slowly, one year older for every hundred years of the humans.
Most children do not understand how Santa Claus can visit so many houses in so many places in one night. Most adults don’t understand this. It seems impossible. He’d have to travel at thousands of miles per hour. But what most everyone forgets is that Santa Claus is magic!
Everyone sort of knows this. After all how could Santa go down a chimney or up a chimney for that matter. How could he fly with toys or even fly with a sleigh full of toys and reindeer? There is magic involved. There has to be.
Which is why when foolish children ask, “How does Santa Claus get down our chimney?” when they know very well they do not have one, or it led directly to the gas furnace, and parents dumbfounded could not give an answer Santa paid them no never mind. In fact Santa did not bother to explain or give any reasons.
It was true at one time he had often come down chimneys to deliver toys as it was the most expedient route, but no one would have ever known for sure if it had not been for a bad little girl who had stayed up all night. But even so that was never his only method or even his main method of delivering toys. That was only the one method that people had heard of and knew about. And so it became a tradition and custom to believe or say that Santa came down the chimney when in reality most everyone knew that in many cases it must be impossible
But then how does Santa Claus get in? Well of course this no one knew and Santa was not going to tell. But when you think about it then it is perfectly obvious. Santa is magic. Santa can fly. Santa can walk through walls. He can magically unlock doors, disappear, vanish and become invisible. So why, you might wonder, does Santa, if he can do all that, why does he ever use chimneys? Well as was stated, that was in the early years, although he still sometimes uses them now when convenient.
But why you might wonder would it ever be convenient to go down a chimney when it was easier to walk through a wall? So it might appear, but the truth of the matter is a little more complicated. You see on Christmas Eve Santa Claus uses a lot of magic. He uses a lot more magic than he is accustomed to using, and even for Santa there was only so much magic at one time. Santa tries to conserve and not use magic where he does not have to.
Why use magic to walk through walls when he could simply come through an unlocked door? Those were the days, the old days that is. Even when the door was locked why walk through a wall when it was far easier to magically unlock a locked door. Or what was even easier, and used a lot less magic why not use his specially made Mechanical Door Unlocker, for which no magic at all was required. In fact that is when Santa Claus usually uses his Door Unlocker, which also unlocks most windows and anything else Santa wants unlocked. It doesn’t always work. Sometimes a little magic is required, but most of the time Santa’s Mechanical Door Unlocker is all that is required.
Santa had gotten the idea for the Mechanical Door Unlocker years ago and had the elves make it for him. It has been updated whenever necessary, but since most doors still use keys that hasn’t been too often, although the electronic locks of modern hotels had one year proved problematic.
Now all this of course does not explain the origin of evil Santa, but it does lead into it. For you see Santa has to expend a lot of magic energy on Christmas Eve. Some of that energy is used for his reindeer and sleigh to help him fly. Some of that energy is used to unlock door and windows, fly up chimneys or disappear. But most of that magic energy is used delivering the presents, and this is what led to the creation of Evil Santa.
Delivering the presents you say. What’s magical about delivering presents? And what has that to do with Evil Santa?
Well actually quite a lot. For you see no ordinary or even magical person or Elf, and many believe Santa is a Magical Elf, could ever deliver all those presents in one night. It would be impossible even for Santa, if it were not for one thing. Santa had learned how to multiply himself. Where first there was but one Santa and one sleigh with reindeer and toys, Santa could multiply himself over and over until there were 2, 4, 8, 16….thousands and thousands of Santas all at the same time all flying their sleighs and reindeer. All flying into different cities in different neighborhoods all at the same time.
Some people believe, well most people believe, this is what Santa looks like: a big fat white man with a white beard in a red suit, but this is not really true. Santa really looks like what you want and how you expect him to appear.
So if you are expecting a big fat white man in a red suit then that is what will appear to you, if you see him at all. But if you are expecting a big fat black man with a white beard wearing a red suit then that too is what will appear before you. Indeed if you expect a Chinese Santa or an Indian Santa then that too is what will appear.
This explains how and why the “look of Santa” has changed through the years. Different cultures such as the Dutch or the Germans or the English in the old days all had different expectations and all saw a Santa that fit their expectation.
But these are modern times nowadays with things such as the movies, the tv and the cinema. The effect of the American English speaking culture has been so strong that most everyone now expects Santa to be a white person wearing red clothes. Not everyone expects this, but most od, which is why that is how he appears.
But you must also remember most everyone never really sees Santa at all. They think they do, but you must remember Santa flies at night in the dark with his reindeer and comes secretly into homes and delivers toys on Christmas Eve and is not supposed to be seen and most time is not. He just slips in and out of a house, delivers the toys and is gone. So most everyone has never even seen Santa at all. All most people have ever seen of Santa Claus is what they see in the movies or on a street corner or in a parade.
This really is leading up to how Evil Santa came to be. Just be patient and I’ll get to that part soon….now to continue….
These are modern times. Nowadays with things such as the movies on DVD, the tv, video games and the cinema influencing our expectations. The effect of the American English speaking culture is so strong that most everyone expects Santa to be a white person wearing red clothes. Not everyone expects this, but most do, which is why that is how he appears.
But you must also remember that most everyone never really sees Santa at all.
They think they do, but you must remember Santa Claus flies at night in the dark with his reindeer and comes secretly into homes and delivers toys and is not supposed to be seen, and most times is not, but just slips in and out out a house, delivers the toys and is gone. so most everyone has never even seen Santa at all. All most people have ever seen of Santa is what they see in the movies or on a street corner or in a parade.
Some children might ask what about the Santa in the parade or the Santa in the department store, aren’t they real? Well it is not entirely impossible, because as you know Santa Claus can multiply himself and be in many different places at once. But when you consider it, it is not really practical for Santa to be in so many different stores when his real priority is getting everything ready to deliver the toys on Christmas Eve.
No one knows for sure whether or not some of those Santas might be the real Santa multiplied after all, but what is commonly thought by Santa experts nowadays is that those Santas are Santa recruits. They are people Santa has recruited to assist him with Christmas and help multiply his effect without necessarily multiplying himself.
These recruits, if recruits they truly are, help Santa by finding out from all the little girls and boys what they want for Christmas. In return Santa gives the recruit a little of his magic presence, his magic self, to make the Santa process and experience seem more real.
This is what is commonly believed although no one is entirely sure since most people are not even aware that Santa Claus can multiply himself. Therefore they do not know that Santa can really be in all those stores at once if he wants to.
For this reason most people thought that the Santas in the stores are not the real Santa, but you never can be sure for sure. In fact some believe that whether or not the Santa in the department stores is real the real Santa Claus has a listening device or a connection of some sort, maybe telepathy, and can hear every word that is said so that he really does know what every child who sits on his lap has said. Or perhaps it really is Santa, or Santa’s spirit sitting there after all as one of his multiple selves multiplied.
This then returns us to the crux of the situation. What most people do not know is that Santa can, and does multiply himself, especially on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus multiplies himself so he can be in many different places delivering many different presents to many different girls and boys all at the same time.
Every year Santa does this. So that on every single Christmas Eve there are literally thousands of Santas and Rudolphs and Donners, Vixens, Comets, Cupids, Dancers, Prancers, Blitzens, Dashers, all flying across the world with sleighs filled with Christmas toys and presents all delivering Christmas gifts at the same time.
And that is how it had gone on for years and years until one year something happened. No one is exactly sure what happened. There are many different stories. But that is the year Evil Santa was created.
Some say on Christmas Eve that Santa Claus, one of the Santas, was flying over a volcano when it exploded. In this version Santa was caught in the volcanic explosion and literally fried or burned to a crisp!
Others say there was a solar flare that burned Santa Claus. Still others insist it was cosmic radiation that burned him. Others say he rescued a child from a burning house. There are still other adherents who insist an evil villain shot him with an evil ray gun that turned him bad.
It is hard to know for sure. It is hard to know what is true. Most people think only one the these stories is true or at least some of them. After all more than one Santa Claus could have got burned more than once on different years. It is difficult in this matter to be sure.
While it is quite true when Evil Santa flies the skies there are hundreds and thousands of him about. It is not sure whether these are a cadre of Evil Santas or whether these are just the one Evil Santa multiplied. For you see Evil Santa also has Santa’s powers of multiplication and can multiply himself. So it may be that there is only one Evil Santa who multiplies himself, or it may be that there are even more. No one knows for sure.
The main thing is that Evil Santa, not being the original Santa is not quite as strong. In fact for many years Evil Santa was much weaker. He could multiply a little but not much, which is the reason most girls and boys still got toys. Evil Santa was not strong enough to visit many of them to take away their Christmas presents.
But over the years Evil Santa has gotten stronger and stronger and now he uses technology. Evil Santa says, “Who needs reindeer and sleighs when you have jets and rockets and helicopters?” Evil Santa uses all of these to fly from home to home and steal children’s toys on Christmas Eve.
For years Santa Claus did not really believe in Evil Santa, at least he was not sure. He had a vague uneasy feeling, but he was not sure. For years Evil Santa being much weaker kept in the shadows and dressed like Santa and wore black And since he was originally a part of Santa Claus if he kept in the shadows he kind of disappeared and he didn’t really seem to be there, at least to Santa, he seemed to be nothing more than Santa’s own sahdow. And that is how it went on for some years, but slowly Evil Santa grew stronger and stronger and became meaner and meaner, evil and more evil.
You many wonder exactly how Evil Santa was created because I haven’t really explained that.
At first Evil Santa wasn’t really evil he was just hurt and burned. He was burned and hurt so badly that when Santa Claus called all the Santa’s back with his magic into his own body, Evil Santa was too weak to return. He was left stranded out there unable to return. And later when Evil Santa became a little stronger he tried to return when Santa Claus was sleeping but Evil Santa had been too damaged. He was similar but he was different, and even though he tried he could not come back.
Santa Claus did not know all this. He was sleeping at the time. Perhaps he had a dream about it, but didn’t really realize. For you see the way the magic works Santa Claus multiplpies himself, his sleigh and all the reindeer, then they all deliver toys around the world on Christmas Eve and then they all return, and here there is some dsiagreement about what really happens because no one has ever really seen it so they are just guesstimating.
All that is known for sure is when all those Santas return to the North Pole there are far too many Santas, thousands upon thousands. Some say when each Santa sees the original Santa Claus the are reabsorbed. Others say Santa is so tired after all the magic expended and all the deliveries on Christmas Eve he falls into a deep sleep and pulls all the Santas back into him from his sleep. Whether this is really true or not no one really knows. But one thing for certain is that by the next day all the thousands of Santas are gone and there is only one.
Except in the case of Evil Santa, because Evil Santa could not return because he had been hurt and injured. At first Evil Santa was just hurt, but as time passed he became angrier and angrier that Santa did not look for him. He became angry that Santa did not rescue him. HE became angry that Santa sent him out delivering presents and toys for little boys and girls in the first place.
And as Evil Santa became angrier and angrier he became meaner and meaner and more and more evil. But he did not start off as evil. He started off as hurt, injured, and when Evil Santa finally came looking for Santa Clause because Santa Claus had not come looking for him, he tried to rejoin Santa or to be reabsorbed but for some reason he could not.
Perhaps it was too late. Per haps Santa Clasu canonly reabsorb for so many days after Christmas, or perhapas it was because of what Evil Santa believed and suspected. HE had been too badly damaged and deformed to be reabssorbed. Whatever the reason Evil Santa could not be reabsorbed and this made Evil Santa angry, even furious.
What was worse for some reason Santa Claus could not even see or hear him. Evil santa could be right beside Santa screamaing at the top ofhis voice and all Santa would see is his shadow and all he would hear was a faint noise. Evil Santa became angry and wanted revenge.
What Evil Santa did not know, what no one knew at the time, and almost no one knows even now, is that Evil Santa had shifted his vibrational frequency so he was out of synchronization, out of sync, with Santa Claus. That is why Santa Claus really could not see him or hear him. He was out of phase, more or less in a different dimension.
For some reason he could still see Santa Claus, but Santa Claus could not see him. Evil Santa did not know this then, and later did not care, but it did determine the method and reasoning behind the revenge Evil Santa chose.
Evil Santa decided if Santa Claus did not know he was there or did not want to know or did not care if he were there, he, Evil Santa, would make it so Santa Claus could not help but know, and the method was obvious.
Every year Santa Claus went to a lot of work and energy to deliver presents and toys to all the little girls and boys around the world. Every year all the children waited for Santa Claus and loved him because he brought them gifts.
But what if Santa Claus did not? What if the boys and girls did not receive presents, but received instead something awful? If Santa Claus instead of bringing giftst took all the gifts away, and even burned the house down? Then all the children would no longer love Santa Claus. They would hate him for what he did and Santa Claus would finally know that something was wrong and Evil Santa did exist.
And for the first few years that is what Evil Santa did. He took away presents and burned the houses down. But it didn’t work. Most people thought they lost all their presents and their toys in the fire. Many of them lost their parents or their children in the fires but they didn’t blame Santa Claus. They blamed the Christmas trees and the lights on the trees that caught fire. They still loved Santa as much as ever, if not more because sometimes Santa Claus flew back and brought them more gifts, or people felt sympathy and compassion for the orphaned children or bereft parents and came to their aid to help them through their difficulties.
So it did not work. Every one still loved Santa Claus and Evil Santa was still ignored. Indeed Santa did not know that Evil Santa existed at all.
It was then Evil Santa decided to change his strategy. Instead of dressing in black he would dress in red. He would make himself look and appear just like Santa Claus, but he would arrive after Santa Claus left and take away all the children’s presents.
He would leave nasty notes signed Santa, and often he would leave in the middle of the room where the Christmas tree once stood a huge steaming pile of….that’s right, fresh from the reindeer. You see just like Santa Claus, Evil Santa could make things multiply, even waste from reindeer.
When people saw what Santa had done they became angry. They found the insulting notes. All the Christmas toys and gifts were gone, in fact their whole house had been looted, cleaned out and all that had been left is the note and the pile of reindeer crap.
The notes said something like, “You have not received any gifts this year because you are ugly. Sincerely, Santa Claus” or “You have not gotten any gifts because you are a mean, nasty, miserable child living in an illiterate ill tempered abominable family.”
Those are only a few examples of the messages Evil Santa left behind. Evil Santa made the notes as he went from house to house, and they were vile and mean and people did take notice. Soon Santa heard what people were saying.
Copyright StrongCastle Inc. October 2007