A Christmas Wedding - Part 1

TSS- A Christmas wedding.

It was a few weeks before Christmas and Anita and Victor were walking through the hallways of the U.Z.Z. base.

“I’m glad those impostors are back where they belong.” Victor said. “It’ll take months for them to come back at the surface.” Anita just simply nodded and Victor looked to her. “Is everything alright?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Anita answered.

“You don’t sound like it.”

Anita sighed and she looked to Victor. “You know,” she said. “every year with Christmas, I am alone. No family to celebrate with, my friends have their own family to be with.”

“But, why didn’t you say so earlier? I know mum would like it to have you at the dinner table. I mean, the more, the merrier, she always says.”

Anita shook her head. “It’s just a thing of my own. I don’t want to ruin your Christmas.”

Victor gave her a strange look. “You would never ruin my Christmas, I’d like to celebrate it with you, Anita.”

“Well, anyway, I just can’t accept it.” Anita walked to her locker. “I’ll be nothing but trouble. I’ll be in everyone’s way.”

“I’m almost begging you, Anita. I don’t want it that my partner celebrates Christmas alone.”

Anita looked to Victor. “I’ll think about it.”

Victor smiled. “And otherwise I’ll drag you to my mother’s house.” he said, teasing her a little bit.

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Later that day, Anita walked into her house. She was thinking about Victor’s suggestion. It was very nice of him to ask her, but she didn’t want to be an outsider. Besides Mildred and Victor, she didn’t know anyone of Victor’s family.
Anita grabbed the post from the hall floor. It was the same thing; bills, ads, her weekly karate magazine, but nothing really personally. Just when was she looking through her mail, the doorbell rang. Anita opened the door and she gave a surprised look when she saw who was standing outside there.

“Victor?” Anita said and Victor smiled.

“It’s me.” he said. “Can I come in?”

“Sure.” Anita said and she let Victor into her house.

“You know, I’m a little bit sorry for what I said this afternoon.” Victor said when he sat down in the chair. “I didn’t mean to push you to come to my mum’s house.”

Anita smiled. “I didn’t have the feeling that you pushed me to go there. You asked me nice.”

“I know, but I meant what I said about letting you celebrate Christmas alone.”

“I’ll be fine, really.” Anita said and her eye fell on an envelope with golden letters on it. “What is this?” and she picked it up. She opened the envelope and she couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw what was written in the letter.

“Anita, is everything alright?”

“I don’t think I’ll celebrate Christmas alone.” she said. “In fact, I’ll be married at Christmas Eve.”

“What…What do you mean?” Victor asked.

“To princess Anita Guinevere Knight,” Anita started. “This letter is to let you know that you have the perfect age to become a queen at you kingdom, Knightendale. The week before Christmas Day will be a ball in honor of you, princess Anita Guinevere Knight, to help you to find the perfect partner to help to rule the kingdom. You’ll have to choose your husband at the ball and your marriage will be at the day of Christmas Eve. You have to be in your kingdom exactly a week before Christmas Eve. Yours Truly, King and Queen, Arthur and Mary Lynn Knight.”

“You…are you…?” Victor couldn’t believe his ears. His beloved Anita, a princess?

“I didn’t know.” Anita said.

“What? You didn’t know that you are a princess? You have to be…”

“I’m serious, Victor.”

“And these are your parents signatures?” Victor asked and Anita nodded. “Wow, my partner is a mermaid and a princess.”

“Hard to believe, huh. I can’t believe it either.”

“But, why didn’t you know that you are a princess?”

Anita looked to Victor. “I was five years when they brought me to boarding school in London. I’ve been there till my sixteenth birthday. On my sixteenth birthday, I got a letter from them, that they bought a house for my in London. I thought it was our home, but apparently, it was only a holiday cottage. They took me to there when summer holidays started. I thought they were…well normal. That they worked hard for living and everything. After that letter, I didn’t heard anything of them.”

“So, they don’t know that you work at U.Z.Z.?” Victor asked and Anita nodded. A silence fell before Victor spook again. “Are you going to Knightendale?”

Anita chuckled. “I don’t even know where it is.” she said.

“Well, do you have an atlas?”

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A little bit later were Victor and Anita looking through the atlas.

“Here is it. ” Anita pointed to a little spot on the map of Europe. “It’s between France and Switzerland. It’s in the Alps.”

Victor looked to Anita. “So, are you really planning to go?” he asked.

“Would you go with me?” Anita said. “I…I need someone to keep me company. I don’t know a soul there.”

Victor smiled. “Of course.” he said.

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It was a week before Christmas Eve and Victor and Anita flew on their sky-bikes to Knightendale.

“I can’t wait to see how your parents live.” Victor said. “I mean, that would be totally new.”

Anita just nodded. “I can’t wait to see my parents again.” she look to her GPS. “This must be Knightendale.”

They placed their sky-bikes to the ground and they look to the impressive building.

“So, this would be your home.” Victor said and Anita nodded. They walked to the gate and Anita grabbed the knocker, but before she could knock, the door went open.

“Yes.” an old man said. He looked to Victor and Anita. “Princess Anita, how wonderful to see you again. Who is your fellow passenger?”

“I am Victor Volt.” Victor said with a smile.

“Volt, you said?” the man said and Victor nodded. “It does ring a bell. But please, come in. My name is James, I’m the butler of the king and queen of Knightendale.”

“I hope it was a good bell which rang, what if the Knights and the Volts hated each other for live?” Victor whispered to Anita while they walked through the enormous hallways of the castle.

“Then the butler would have known it.” Anita whispered.

They walked into the Throne room. At the end of the room, a man and a woman sat on their thrones. Victor couldn’t help but noticed that the man looked very like Anita. The same hair color, the same noose and maybe some other things that he couldn’t see. He saw that his eye color was sea-blue. The woman had dark blond hair and the same eye color as Anita, beautiful purple.

“Sir, Milady, princess Anita is here.”

Arthur smiled. “I knew it was you, Annie. You look just like your mother when she was young.” he walked to Anita and he gave her a big hug. “And who are you?” he asked to Victor.

Victor smiled. “Victor Volt, sir.” he said.

“Like in ‘Victor Thomas Jefferson Volt’?” Arthur asked and Victor nodded. Arthur smiled. “How are you parents, Victor?” he asked.

“Do…do you know them?” Victor asked.

“Know them? They are our best friends!”

“Arthur, please.” Mary Lynn said with a smile. “We’ll talk about that later.”

“You’re right.” Arthur said with a smile. “Where are my manners? You two must be exhausted after everything. James will show you your rooms. We’ll talk later at the dinner table.”

James walked to Victor and Anita and brought them to their rooms and a little bit later, Anita and Victor were walking through the gardens of the castle.


“He looks a lot like his mother.” Arthur said. He and Mary Lynn were watching Victor and Anita from one of the rooms in the castle.

Mary Lynn nodded. “He’s really wonderful. Too bad that only our people can come to the ball.”

“You’re thinking what I’m thinking, right?” Arthur said while he looked to his daughter. “That Anita loves him.”

“I can see it in the way she looks to him. Even a blind man can see it.”

Arthur nodded. “Anita’s heart will be broken if she finds that out.”

“We have to tell her, anyway.”

“I know. We have to tell her that her dream about a wedding with Victor will not come true.”

Suddenly, the earth started to shake and a big noise came out of nowhere.

“What was that?” Anita said.

Victor grabbed his communicator. “Ray, come in, Ray.”

“Victor, how nice of you to call.”

“But not without a good reason. Can you check if there’s something going on in the Alps?”

“Of course.” Ray said. “There are big problems in Knightendale. An avalanche is heading to the kingdom.”

Victor and Anita looked to each other. “Is there a way to stop it?” Anita asked.  

“There is, actually.” sounded and Professor Professor appeared on the screen. “If you press exactly five times on the red button of your secret agent belt, a big shield will appear. It’ll take a few seconds to appear, so you can place it on the ground or throw it in de direction where it needs to appear.”

Victor and Anita looked to each other. “I’m going.” Victor said and he ran to his sky-bike.

“Take my belt with you!” Anita called after him.

“Where is it?”

“Under the saddle of my sky-bike.”

“Alright.” Victor stepped on his sky-bike and he looked around him. Then he saw a big avalanche coming to his direction. He flew to it and pressed his button on his belt and threw in the direction of the avalanche. A big shield appeared and the avalanche stopped.  

Arthur and Mary Lynn saw it all happen and Mary Lynn looked to her husband. “Maybe there is a way to let Anita’s dream come true.” she said and Arthur smiled.

“I know exactly what you’re thinking.” and they walked out of the room.

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“Don’t expect me to say: my hero.” Anita said with a smile when Victor landed his sky-bike.

Victor laughed. “It’s my job, princess.” and he made a bow.

Anita chuckled. She knew about the law, that she only could marry someone who lived in Knightendale. She was going to tell her parents that there must be something to arrange for Victor. She loved him more than anyone else.

“He is a hero.” sounded and Victor and Anita looked up and they saw Mary Lynn and Arthur walking to them.

“Thank you, sir.” Victor said.

“It is written in the law, that someone who did a wonderful deed, can call himself a Knightendaleman. Which means, that you can go to the ball.”

Victor gave a strange look. “I couldn’t go to the ball?” he said.

“It’s in the law, Victor.” Anita said. “Only those who live in Knightendale can marry the princess.”

Victor just nodded. It was wonderful news to hear that he had a chance to marry Anita, but there were more men than only one and he hoped that they would be together.