Thread:Meester Tweester/@comment-25793496-20130411192019/@comment-5873607-20130412181809

'''SDT Ch. 1 Pt. 4'''

One hundred and thirteen dollars later...

"Come on, wake up!"

"Hazelle knows that Blitzen is still sleeping!"

"Open your eyelids..."

"Blitzen must have having really good dreams!"

"We're here... at the North Pole..."

Now that's all I need to know to wake up. I spring forwards to find it is already the next morning and the train has stopped at a tiny station.

"OH MY BLANKET, WE'RE HERE!"

Luckily zero dollars later...

Me and a group of thirty other reindeer my age are crowded in a room, huddled around a messy desk belonging to a veteran reindeer in a wheelchair. The wheelchaired reindeer looks like a war general, and starts talking in a heavy Austrian accent:

"As you all know, mostly from the news, that I have now retired after fifty years of service on Santa's Dream Team. And for the record, I BROKE my leg, I most certainly NOT betray the team (blankin' rumors)!

Now that we got that settled, I bet all of you know that I, Polter, need a successor. NOT a replacement, a successor. But this can't be any old buck or doe. This has to be the perfect supporter of the other eight, one that holds everyone back up, a spot that I have unfortunately lost.

You can't relax after you get the job, either. You have to live up to your promises and other's expectations. There will be obstacles along the way, too! Just because it's called the "Dream Team" doesn't mean that there will be nightmares thrown in there, too.You have to protect the lives of you, your team members, and all the other towns folk. Potential death will not come around often, but when it does, you have to be prepared and ready to keep a step ahead of anything threatening. Losing just one member could make the entire team collapse, and we don't want that to happen, do we?

Keeping your teammates alive is not the only trick for survival. Maintaining a healthy relationship with the other team members and establishing friendships will make the team motivated and encouraged to move forward.

So, do you have what it takes? If you don't think that you can handle anything I just said, get out of my room and don't come back. But none of you are good at everything, and we don't look for that. We need a reindeer who has a special  talent for something, and is really good at it. Having nine of those talented reindeer will make the team the best it can be. Dasher: he is strong and fast, and will make the sled move faster. Cupid: she is a psychologist that will help out any of her team members if they have problems with stress or conflicts with other reindeer, as well as therapy. My talent was being a navigation, weather, aerodynamics, communication, and motivational expert, making me virtually the best all around team member EVER! Nobody can deny my excellence, and my absence will be missed. The point is, we need a reindeer that will be an extremely beneficial additional to our team, whether being a physical, mental, or social expert. And THAT is what we look for in a member of the Dream Team."

Silence.

Sarcastic clapping emerges from an insolent buck leaning on a bookcase in the corner of the room. "Yeah, yeah, that's great an all, but can we start the interview already and forget the three-hour speeches, Polter-geist? I came here to win this thing, and so far, it's just a waste of my time, grandpa."

"Well then you can canter right out that door, mister, if you think your special talent is DELINQUENCY!

A young little doe pipes up from the opposite side of the room. "Yeah, listen to him! You're never going to be team member if you're not a team PLAYER, Fireball!"

"Shut it, Noel! I can slam you down to the floor so fast that you'll cry up a whole lake, you little RAG!" "Well, you're just a big meanie!" "Well, you're just a whiny show girl!"

They start growing closer to each other in anger.

Until next part...