We were now in somewhere else Liam saw bunch of food?

Scrooge:Hello?

Noah :Huh?

Out of now where the room fully light up and hundreds of small creatures flew to a mountain-esc structure towering above us.

Then light reached the top of it, Illuminating the large figure of something that seemed to be a man.

"Who dares disturb my slumber?" beings voice boomed through the large room, echoing off the walls and crashing back onto us. "STATE THY NAME AND BUISINESS, PUNY MORTALS." he demanded.

Mr. Scrooge grabbed around Noah and we stepped backwards in fear, Noah who was protecting his boss as Scrooge was behind him.

Then however the giant started to laugh and said."I can't...I can't... I can't keep it up. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.He laughed"It was her. She dared me. Oh, we do like to have fun here.one of his little troll like beings flew onto his shoulder. "Oh, we do like to have fun down here." He said floating down in front of us. "Don't worry, I know who you guys are. Come on bring it in!" As he went went, grabbing us both into a tight hug and squeezing us together. "Come on, bring it in,
Ebenezer Scrooge. Bring it in!Welcome, my friend. Welcome." He said.

Welcome where? Where are we? When are we?" Ebenezer asked with a limited amount of air.

The large man dropped us to the ground. "Oh, you are in the here and now. In the present! Isn't it just fabulous?" He said spinning around to show his relm.

"It's..fine. I suppose." He said in confusion.

"I actually quite like it." Noah thought but got snapped out of his thoughts when the giant said.

"From here, I can go anywhere I please. Just so long as it's happening right now. And I do so love to visit your teeny-tiny, tootsy-wootsy, little planet at this time of year. So much love, generosity, and good cheer!.. which, conversely, brings me to you Ebenezer." He explained.

"To me?" Scrooge asked.

Yes, you." He pointed to Scrooge and got closer. "Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous you! Secret and solitary as an oyster, you edge along the crowded paths of life, keeping everyone at a distance,"

Ah, yes, as I was saying." He folded his hands together. "Why, you stopped truly living your life so long ago, you might as well be dead."

Then Noah saw his boss Scrooge's face scrunched in anger. "Do not presume to tell me how to live my life! I.. lead a good life. I'm a good man."

"Ha! "A good man," he says.
"Uh, uh, uh."

Liam knows what about to happen he's gonna sing

♪ Ebenezer Scrooge ♪

♪ The sins of man are huge ♪

♪ A never-ending symphony
Of villainy and infamy ♪

♪ Of mischief, mayhem, misery
Deceit and subterfuge ♪

♪ And no one's worse than you
Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge ♪

♪ But while the likes of you
Make life seem like a living hell ♪

♪ You know, life has
A brighter side as well, whoo! ♪

♪ I like life, life likes me ♪

♪ Life and I fairly fully agree ♪

♪ Life is fine, life is good ♪

♪ Especially mine
Which is just as it should be ♪

♪ I like life, here and now ♪

♪ Life and I made a mutual vow ♪

♪ Till I die, life and I ♪

♪ We'll both try to be better somehow ♪

♪ Yes, I like living the life
And why not? ♪

♪ 'Cause life's a pleasure ♪

♪ That I deny not ♪

♪ I like life ♪

Whoo!

♪ Life likes me ♪

♪ I make life a perpetual spree ♪

♪ Eating food, drinking wine ♪

♪ Thinking who'd like
The privilege to join me ♪

♪ I like life, you should too ♪

♪ Just live life
Spreading cheer while you do ♪

♪ Life is short, make it count ♪

♪ There's no problem
That can't be surmounted ♪

♪ Live your life unafraid ♪

♪ Just give in ♪

♪ 'Cause life's a wonderful thing ♪

♪ For living ♪

♪ Life ♪

"Do you see the light Can you feel it, Scrooge?Are you ready to live your life, now, in the present, unencumbered by the weight of the past?" The man questioned.

"I'm ready." He nodded.

The man smiled with his thumbs up. Liam watched his boss pushing the huge chair away from the light.

"I'm ready to go home. Thank you very much." He finished while crossing his arms.

"Oh, really? But the fireworks.We did a whole song and everything. Well, I'm not giving up on you yet, Ebenezer Scrooge.Come on. Let's hit the town." The man said as he also grabs me by the arm.

"Hit the town? I'll hit something else in a minute.Dragged from pillar to post in the middle of the night."As my boss walks through the portal as we were now in Harry house."Huh?"

"My friends, please. I would like to propose a toast." Harry's voice made its way through the room. As he was clinking his glass with a spoon the glass broke. While the rest of the room had a laugh about it Liam chuckled but then his boss leans over to the giant man."He really is a buffoon, that boy." He grumbled.

"There's no need to whisper. No one can hear or see you. Lucky them." The man said I just giggled but quickly shut up.

"Please raise your glass and drink to the good health and long life of my celebrated uncle, Ebenezer Scrooge." Harry said but the audience just boo or groan. Liam looks at his boss as he had his head down.

"I know. I know. But I like old Scrooge." Harry said

"No, no, no. No. Come now. I do. I do.
" Why?" The woman asked from the audience

Why? I never met my mother,but my father spoke of her often. Of her kindness. Her generosity. It's hard to believe that the woman he described was that old stick-in-the-mud's little sister." Harry said as everyone laughed making Scrooge cross his arms and rolls his eyes.

" But his sister she was. And, by all accounts,
she and my uncle were inseparable.She loved him without reservation, and he, her. So he can't be all bad. I have to believe that somewhere in that loathsome old carcass of his,the man my mother loved, is fighting to get out. I should like to meet him one day."He said as he place down the photo of his mother and his uncle."Which brings me to my next toast of the evening, to my beloved mother. As I entered the world, you departed. Here's to the Christmases we never shared, and the sad, short one we did." Harry said smiling sadly as some tears were coming down his face but he wipe them away.

Then his wife came out of the audience and said."Harry, my dear, sweet Harry, let's not dwel on the sadness in our past, on those who cannot be with us. Or refuse to be." She said Liam saw the little creature pointing at Scrooge which Scrooge was annoyed by them so he then lift up his arm and smack the little creature away over the room." Instead, let us celebrate those who are here." She announced

"Hear! Hear!"

"Everyone, let us honor the past by toasting our present. To each other. To Christmas." Harry wife said.

"To friendship."
"Hear! Hear!"

"To friendship."
"To friendship."

To friendship.

Bravo!

Liam and Scrooge looks at the man as Scrooge said."Oh, for goodness' sake, where are we going now?" As we went through the portal I realized where we are.

"May I present to you the beautiful home of - -" the began to say but Liam cut him off.

"The Catchit Christmas!" Noah said as he saw his nieces and nephew." Bob invited me over but I have to decline it."

The giant man clears his throat." Yes, we'll, He owes these sumptuous surroundings to the generosity of his employer."

"I never knew Cratchit had quite so many children." Mr. Scrooge said

"No?" Noah says." Did you ever ask him?"

"Mmm. Pure nectar. An elixir fit for Father Christmas himself." Bob says.

Noah looks at her niece "The stuffing's ready, Father."

Then he saw his two young twin nieces "And the birdie is plucked."

"Tremendous work, my dears. Roast goose with sage and onion stuffing à la Cratchit. A legendary gourmet dish." Bob said as his children laughs.

"There's one problem. I'm not sure whether
to stuff the goose with the stuffing, or stuff the stuffing with the goose." Bob said, as his children laughs Noah looks at Bob wife who turns around with a sad look and Bob seems to noticed.

"Come now, my love.It is a lean Christmas, there's no denying that. But we have each other and we have the children. " Bob said to his wife as he then looks at his children

"We can still make the most of it. In fact, I do believe this will be the best Cratchit Christmas ever." He said.

The children said."Hooray!"

"Not another toast." Mr. Scrooge grumbled.

If you please, a toast to those whose generosity have made possible
tomorrow's sumptuous Christmas feast.

"Master Timothy and Miss Katherine, the Christmas-caroling Cratchits, of course. And Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge." Bob said but however Bob wife placed down her cup with range."Oh! Scrooge? What are you trying to do, spoil our Christmas?" His wife asks.

Noah looks at his boss as he jumps back."But his money paid for the goose, my dear." Bob said

"No, your money paid for the goose. If you can even call that a goose." Bob wife said:

"But he paid me the money." Bob said.

"Because you earned it.Believe me, you earned that money, Bob." Bob wife said.

"Mr. Scrooge assures me that times are hard, my dear." Bob said as he was holding his daughter in his arms to try to clam her down.

"Times are hard. For us, not him." Bob wife says

"Nonetheless, he is the founder of our feast, and we should drink to him." Bob said

"Hear! Hear!" Scrooge said.

The founder of our feast indeed. I'd like to give him something to feast on. He'd have indigestion all January." Bob wife said as Noah chuckles as his nieces and nephew just laughs.

"Children, we shall drink to your father. For the love and happiness he brings us. And to our Tiny Tim, for the health we wish him. And to our Uncle Noah who couldn't be with us on this night.And, for the sake of your dear father, I will even drink
to that old miser, Mr. Scrooge. Long life to him and to us all." Bob wife said.

Bob:And a merry Christmas to us all.

The Children: Merry Christmas!

Bob:God bless us.

Tiny Tim:God bless us, every one.

The Children:Merry Christmas!

Scrooge:I think Bob Cratchit's rather fond of me.

So is his wife.
Couldn't you tell?

And now, to the triumphant
musical climax of this celebration.

Master Timothy, Miss Katherine,
would you be so kind?

Katherine:No.

Noah saw his other nieces:Sing, sing!

Bob wife:Go on, love. Sing, sing!

Katherine: It's embarrassing.

The twins:Sing![ As they hang her instrument to her]

Tiny Tim:I will if Kathy does

Kathy sighs and grabs her instrument and started to play her instrument. As Tiny Tim started to sing.

♪ On the beautiful day
That I dream about ♪

♪ There's a world I would love to see ♪

♪ It's a beautiful place
Where the sun comes out ♪

♪ And it shines in the sky for me ♪

♪ On this beautiful day
That I dream about ♪

♪ There's no place I would rather be ♪

♪ On this beautiful winter's morning ♪

♪ If my wish could come true somehow ♪

♪ Then the beautiful day
That I dream about ♪

♪ Would be here ♪

♪ And now ♪ As he was done singing Noah saw his nephew started to cough so hard that he to fall Noah gasp was about to grabbed him but he remembered that know one can hear him or seen him.

"Oh, just breathe. Slowly. That's it. That's it. There we go. Slowly." Bob said to Tiny Tim.

We then left the C

Scrooge:Bob's boy, Tim. What will become of him?

The giant man :The future is as much a mystery to me
as it is to you. I can only show you what is. What's to come if you do not change? Well, that will soon be revealed by... someone else.

The Gaint :Oh, excuse me. Look, friend, there really is
no great secret to any of this.You just have to do
the best you can with the time you have. But you better get started soon. Because before you know it,
all that time you think you have will run out.

Noah looks up as he saw the moon went red. Until he remembers that their would be a another coming at 3.

Noah saw the giant man started to glow.

The Giant man:Well, goodbye, Ebenezer Scroo... Ooh! Would you look at that?

Noah: Oh boy here we go again.

finished at 7;54 PM on Sunday January 1-1-2023

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