The Fairy's Christmas Fairytale.

Chapter 1

Christian

For as long as time has existed, Santa Claus has been around. What started out as delivering presents to just a few kids turned into delivering presents to kids all over the world. And we were only able to do that thanks to the help of the Fairy royal family. The King and Queen of the fairies gifted my great-great-grandpa powers so that he could fly over the world and deliver presents to all of the kids.

With the powers, he was not only able to help the reindeer fly, but he was able to slow time down as well. It made it so much easier to get to each house and leave presents for the good boys and girls. And thanks to the magic that he had, he also had a list that he had to check twice.

My name is Christian Claus, and my father is Nicholas, the current Santa Claus. He and my mother Joy, have been in charge for about fifty years now. They took over when my grandpa finally decided to retire. Of course, he's still around and still helps out occasionally, especially in December every year. But otherwise, he likes to take it easy.

He now spends all of his time with my grandma Angel. And if they aren't traveling all over the place, then they're spending time with their grandkids, great-grandkids, and so on. Our family is big on spending time with each other, and usually we're always together. Or they are at least.

I took off when I was younger and started a chocolate factory back in the human world. I tend to split my time between both places. And usually, my best friends and bodyguards, Nico and Cane, are with me. They are also my cousins, so I always have family around me.

I am over a hundred years old and have had to make a few changes over the years so that no one got too suspicious about me running the business. For a while, I used a glamor spell to make me seem like I was aging. Then, when I should have been in my eighties, I made it seem like I had been teaching my grandson the ropes, and he would be taking over.

It went from me looking eighty to me looking my normal self in just a few days. Since I had the same name, I just told people that I was named after my grandfather, easy peasy. It took people time to get used to it, but they did, and I've been 'running' this place for about five years now. With the glamor, I went from being old and wrinkly with grey hair to being good-looking and back in shape. I had my brown hair and brown eyes back as well.

At six foot five and two hundred pounds, the woman tends to flock to me. And because I got sick of waiting for my mate, I decided to play the field. Well, my father didn't like that at all. So he decided that he was going to set me up to be married off. We got into a big fight over it. Like hell was I going to let him enter me into a contract marriage.

If, and that's a big if, I ever get married, it will be to my mate and only my mate. I'm not marrying some spoiled little princess. When my dad told me who I was marrying, I was pissed. Apparently, he and the current king and queen of the fairies decided that I would be getting married to their youngest daughter.

Usually, the oldest child is the one who will be crowned king or queen. But with their family, it's the one born with a special mark when there is more than one kid. From what I have been told, the mark wasn't on any of the oldest kids. It was the youngest child of the king and queen who had the mark.

I had only been around her a few times when she was a baby. After that, she was always at the palace. From what I was told, once she was of school age, she was busy with school. And when she got older, it was school and work. I hadn't seen her in years, and here she was, still a kid, and they're telling me that when she turned eighteen, we'd start spending time together so that when she turned twenty, we could get married. I was completely against it.

And I wasn't the only one. Right after we found out that we were to be married, it was time for Christmas. Of course, that meant that it was a busy time for us. The king and queen always came and helped us get everything ready for the big night. While they were here helping us, Indessa pulled a disappearing act.

Since King Adler and Queen Faye were here helping us for a few days, they didn't know at first. It wasn't until days later that they learned that she was gone. They sent people out to look for her. But because of us trying to get the last-minute stuff done for Christmas Eve, we couldn't really look for her.

Once Christmas was over, though, it was all hands on deck. They tried to follow her magic trail. And they tried to use locating spells, but nothing worked. My dad, being Santa, is usually able to locate every child under eighteen. But even he couldn't find her. It was like she just disappeared off the face of the world.

It's been five years now, and they still haven't found her. I helped for about a month before I gave up. I figured that she didn't want to marry me, and running away was her solution to that. I wasn't going to be the one to find her and drag her back, especially when I didn't want to get married either.

So I stayed away from the kingdom and stayed in New York. I was happy with running my business and keeping away from nosy, busy-body parents. I have a brother and three sisters. If they want to marry someone off, then they have four other kids to do that with. But no, Kris, Holly, Eve, and Carol get to wait for their mates and be happy. But because I'm next in line to be Santa, a wife has to be forced onto me, as if.

So I stayed away from them and only talked to them on the phone. I have time to find my mate. I know that she's out there, and I'll find her when the time is right. For now, I have other problems to worry about. I have a new competitor that I have to contend with. Some new little company that popped up in Pennsylvania, of all places.

Within the last year, this little company has really made a name for themselves. From what I've found out, they went from being a little mom-and-pop shop to a big factory. And they have two of them now. One that makes regular candy and stuff, and the other that makes candy that's geared towards adults only. I think they call it boozy candy.

I've looked into them as much as I can. But I can't find anything on the owner. So I decided that a trip is in order. I want to check out this company and see what I can find out about the owner. I have a weird feeling about it, though, so wish me luck.