While I was transferring between worlds, I found myself wound up in the sprawls of Los Angeles. However, this wasn’t the LA I grew up with in my day; this city seemed to fall about two years behind the day I post this, and the popular namesakes from that era had their names changed. For instance, the ubiquitous DnD was replaced by the equally perplexing Creatures & Caverns, while Fortnite was translated into the quaintly memetic Forknife. Plus, the whole city was covered in Christmas decor, even the tops of the skyscrapers—at least I knew what time of year it was.
As I made my way through the streets, I heard a most soothing song. It referenced many Christmas stories of yore, but it seemed applicable to just about any holiday. It sounded like a Christmas classic, yet I had never heard it before. So I started to look for whoever was playing the tune.
I located its source to a young guitarist playing on the sidewalks. They answered to Busker, and when I inquired to whether or not they wrote the song, Busker responded in naught, citing it as a longtime holiday hit and calling themselves a mere vessel for its expression.
Busker did allow me to record their rendition of the song. Unfortunately, as it was impromptu, some noise got in the recording, but I found the extra paraphernalia quite a charm. In exchange, I offered a couple of twenties to support their craft and went on my way.
But I could not stop wondering about the piece. Something about its melody called to me, like a choir of countless spirits. As I replayed the song, both mentally and through my telepathic audio device, I kept feeling an immense power reaching from the harmonies, from the strums of the guitar, yearning to be realized. I pondered about how to extract it, and how to refine it to its purest form.
Suddenly, an explosion from the city center cast me out of my trance. I rushed to the scene and discovered an unusually hostile Santa mocha attacking the floats of the city’s Christmas parade, in particular a Thai-Christmas fusion construct. It seems this dimension wasn’t as benign as I thought. I began to assess its malignant anomaly. Keeping to the periphery of the crowd, I trailed the rogue robot and its multicultural prey, using my kinesis to redirect large debris away from passersby. With my disguise over my head, I gripped my sabre tightly in hand, hoping that this incident would not escalate.
Miraculously, the targets of the Santa-bot weren’t hapless at all, and outmaneuvered their assailant at every turn, literally. In the span of a few minutes, they had defeated the float-terminator, disemboweling it with a massive explosion. With such ingenuity, I could rest assured that this world would be safe without my assistance. I foresaw that more help would be needed to save this civilization, but it would be the destiny of the heroes in that float—and many more—to resolve it.
As I watched the spectacle, I realized what I needed to do to unleash this Christmas tune’s full potential, and to give it new ground when I return home. So here I present my re-sampling and rendition of this piece, with all the sonority and power that the harder styles has to offer.
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If you made it all the way though my short story, thank you thank you thank you for reading! If you didn’t and were looking for track info and credits, that’s fine too!
As much as I am proud of this work, I sadly cannot post it to Newgrounds because it samples copyright content, which is A-NOT-okay on the Audio Portal, and the way I constructed the remix makes it hard to just mute the samples in question. You can, fortunately, listen to it in video form as shown above, or through Soundcloud!