‘Santa is kidnapped’: Short story by Anshul Rautaray, Apeejay School, Nerul

Christmas was coming. Santa Clause and his workers were very busy preparing gifts for children. Some elves were making toys while some were packing them. The pixies were loading them in Santa’s sleigh. Fairies were decorating the whole castle and preparing some dishes. Santa Clause was feeding his reindeers. 

While everybody was busy preparing for Christmas, unknown to everyone was an evil witch who was planning to ruin Christmas and use Santa’s power to create a magical potion to make herself invisible. 

On Christmas eve Santa Clause left to distribute the gifts. On the way he saw a girl tied up to a tree. Actually, it was the witch who was pretending to be tied up. Santa stopped and went to untie the girl unknowing that it was a trap that was set for him. While he was untying the witch, he asked who tied her. The witch pointed to a direction where the trap was laying. 

Santa went to the direction where she pointed. And with a flash he was hanging upside down and couldn’t move! The Witch started laughing and came to her real form. She told Santa her plan. And took him to her hut. On the way Santa dropped many Christmas goodies to show his workers the way. 

The elves tried to contact Santa but couldn’t. It was very odd, for they thought Santa never did such a thing. They decided to search for him. Suddenly one of the elf pointed to the goodies that Santa had left to indicate the directions. The elves followed and reached the hut of the evil witch. They saw that Santa was hanging upside down and couldn’t move. 

The elves went inside without being seen and pushed the couldrum in which the potion was boiling. The witch was annoyed when she saw that. Then the elves broke the crystal ball. They played, broke, pushed and pulled everything that they saw. And at last, they broke the wand of the witch. The witch turned into dust after the wand broke and Santa was free. After that he thanked the elves and distributed the gifts. The elves returned to the castle and celebrated Christmas.