BELIEVE

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Let me start from the beginning.

Xander loved his parents so much, they were both his role Models. And they both loved him too.

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He was an only child.

This wonderful family lived in Berkeley. A small town outside St clemente.

Mr Donald was a scientist and researcher while his wife Mrs Debbie was a lawyer.

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Xander was closer to his father than he was to his mom, because she was always very occupied with work.

Mr Donald's researches were all based on one particular theory.

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When he was a child. He was also so close to his father, but when he clocked 10 years his father suddenly went missing. For five years the police searched for him, but there was no trace of him.

Before he went missing he gave Mr Donald a silver watch, it had bright white crystals embedded on it. It was a very expensive and vintage watch, " this watch was given to me by my father when I was ten years old, it was also given to him by his own father, it is a symbol of duty, one that everyone of us must carry on our shoulders. He had said.

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Growing up Mr Donald deeply believed there was something special about that watch. He sacrificed his whole life trying to decrypt its origin and use.

Mr Donald and his son Xander would occasionally spend the whole day in his laboratory studying the strange watch.

One evening, about a week to the Christmas holidays Xander and his dad were in the lab intoxicated in their research. They were both surfing the internet, looking up Swiss watch crafters around the world.

Mr Donald - Xander could you please go get us some hot chocolate from the kitchen.

Xander - OK dad, but I think you should take it easy on your sugar intake, you know you're an old man now😂.

" I know I am an old man but I can get you down in a one on one boxing match, any day any time" Mr Donald said jokingly.

They both got up to throw some punches at themselves. But while doing so Xander mistakenly tripped and hit a tray containing his father's research materials and it fell to the ground.

"The watch is there" his father screamed as he ran to help his son up and to also make sure nothing happened to the crystal watch.

But when he saw the watch, it was in pieces, his heart sunk. He fell on his Knees with tears in his eyes. He never imagined it could get spoiled.

" Am so sorry dad, I didn't mean to" Xander said, " I tripped and it just fell".
" it is not your fault, it wasn't intentional".
Mr Donald said.

He picked up the broken parts and that's when the magic happened.

Mr Donald could see numbers engraved on the inside, he adjusted his glasses to make sure he was seeing properly. It was really true, they were numbers written on the metal plate, could it be what he was thinking.

" what is it dad?" Xander asked as he saw the excitement on his father's face. " I think they are coordinates, longitude and latitude!!".

He jumped up to his feet and ran to his computer, he inputted the numbers on the watch into his Google map and it pinpointed a small fishing village in Greenland.

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" we are going to Greenland, Xander start packing your bags!, I think we have found what we have been looking for". Mr Donald said with a loud and joyful voice.

Xander and his dad immediately took the broken watch to the watch shop where it could get fixed, it was too much of a treasure to lose.

When Mrs Debbie got back Xander and his dad were skeptical on how they were going to disclose their discovery and impending journey to greenland. "Leave that to me son" Mr Donald told Xander "I know how to get around your mother's walls".

That night Mr Donald cooked dinner, he made his wife's favorite meal. When she got back she was so shocked at the reception she got, "your welcome home darling, Mr Donald said immediately she got past the front door", " And what do we have here, my darling husband, I can't remember the last time you cooked". What's the occasion? ".

" Nothing much, just that I have missed my wife". Mrs Debbie suspected fowl play. "tell me what's really happening, this only happens when you do something wrong or you want something".

Mr Donald knew he was caught, he had to come out clean.

"this afternoon while me and Xander worked in my lab, we found a big clue about the crystal watch, they were Coordinates engraved on the inside, and when I traced it, it led us to a village in Greenland, I think that location will lead us to the truth about the crystal watch and my missing father". " I would love to travel alongside Xander to search for answers".

" that sounds absurd, don't you think Donald?, how are you sure what you need is in Greenland?, it might all just be a coincidence".

" I know it sounds strange, but I have a very good feeling that my answers about my fathers whereabout lie there in Greenland, I just need to try". Mr Donalds emotions showed in his voice.

His wife felt so sorry for him, she dropped her bags and hugged him passionately. "I know you miss your father, I know that feeling of emptiness you feel". "I will go with you to Greenland".

Mr Donald's face lit up with joy, he couldn't believe his ears," I love you honey,
I have to tell Xander!!", he yelled while climbing the stairs to his sons room.

Mr Donald made all the necessary arrangements for their journey and flight to Greenland, it was going to be an exciting trip.

Mrs Debbie took a leave from work, something she hadn't done for years.

The day of the journey finally came, it was just four days to Christmas. They boarded a flight in Berkeley straight to Greenland, then a 4 hour train drive to the little town of Green henna.

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Xander and his father enjoyed the trip unlike Mrs Debbie who complained all through,the weather was too cold for her, she kept on saying.

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They lodged in an expensive but little hotel in henna. The coordinates from the watch showed that their destination was in the forest, in the outskirts of the town, they had to find a tour gaurd.

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They did so in the morning after a goodnights rest.

Their journey was about to begin!.

Mrs Debbie packed their bags, they had to go with a lot of thick cloths and sweat pants for the cold, the weather was so bad, one couldn't see properly through the continuous falling snow.

THE HENNA FOREST

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They all got to the entrance of the forest at about 12 noon, but it didn't seem like noon because everywhere was covered with snow and the sun wasn't totally out.

Xander was scared at first but he tried his best to hide it.

They where now about 8 hours into the thick forest, it was really a dangerous journey as they heard howls of wolf's in the distance and although their forest guard had a gun, he warned them that it was still quite dangerous. "we get a lot of snow avalanches this year too" he said.

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They got to a small hut like structure, it was built with snow blocks, the builder had built it a very long time ago because it looked so old and was already falling apart.

"let me go in first", Mr Donald said,"be careful" Debbie replied.

He slowly creeped into the little building with a touch light, he had to be really careful because they could be wild animals living inside.

When he got into the building he noticed something that shocked him, he almost fainted. He saw his father's shoes, his best one, he could remember because he wore it every single day when he was still a boy.

"What were they doing here" he thought, where his eyes playing a trick on him?. he wiped them off with his gloves, just to be sure. He then walked further into the house and he could see papers, they looked like papers from a book, he looked around and saw a small journal on the floor close to the fire place.

"are you OK in there!" Mrs Debbie screamed from outside. "come in both of you, you need to see this!".

Xander and his mom immediately entered the building, he saw his dad sitting on the floor, they was an old shoe sitting in front of him and he held a book in his hands, with so much excitement and tears in his face." what is it dad? "," look what I found, it's my fathers journal".

" Now everything makes sense, he left me and my mother in pursuit of answers about the strange watch too, and I think something bad must have happened to him, that why he never returned". " he wrote those coordinates on the watch because he knew one day I would come looking for him, and look here in his journal, he kept on writing about a hidden cave in this woods, I think there is something special there" Mr Donald said showing them the journal.

Xander and his mom felt sorry for Mr Donald but they could also see excitement in his face, he was on the verge of cracking a code, he had wished to all his life.

They immediately set out, but this time they had a different destination, they were in search of the strange cave. They hiked for another 4 hours before they got to the cave, it sat below a cliff and it was so beautiful, the entrance had a little frozen stream, and the walls were covered in ice.

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But it was just a cave, there was nothing special in it. Mr Donald scrolled through his father's journal, he saw a paragraph that stated.

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the doors which lies on the left side of the cave, can only be opened by the purest of soul and the crystal watch.

"The purest of soul", what could that mean he thought.

He got out his hammer and called Xander to help him out, they had to break off the snow on the wall, to get to the door.

They dug for about 30 minutes, till they could see the rock, it had weird engravings on it and a little crack which had the shape of a watch. They had to fit the crystal watch into the crack.

Xander took out the watch and gave it to his father, he was scared. "what if something dangerous lies on the other side" he thought.

Donald placed the watch in place but nothing happened. "Maybe he didn't have a pure soul" he remembered. He then gave it to Xander, "try it", he said.

Xander placed it on the crack, but nothing still happened, he got it out and tried again but, nothing. Suddenly they heard a loud noise. Mrs Debbie immediately ran and grabbed her child, she wasn't loosing him today.

The walls started vibrating, the frozen stream immediately dissolved and they could notice the walls where shifting. The door was opening.

It was the entrance to the Santa clause lair!.

"HO HO HO!! I HAVE BEEN SAVED, I THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME! " Santa shouted at the top of his voice, sitting on his golden sledge pulled by giant black horses, they all shined like diamonds.

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"get in here!" he continued.

Without hesitation Mr Donald and his family ran into the lair, they where so shocked at what they saw. The lair looked so beautiful, everything was made of gold, and at the other end their was a giant hip of presents.

Santa then told them how he was stuck in his lair for decades, unable to share gifts to good children on Christmas eve every year. He told them he was betrayed by one of his elves, who stole the key and ran away from the lair. For decades he has been trying to reach out to the outside world, looking for someone who could retrieve the key and save him.l but to no avail.

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He asked Mr Donald, Debbie and Xander to wish for anything they wanted. But they all just wished to go home. Santa's lair was too cold.

"HO HO HO HO!!, I SHALL TAKE YOU ALL HOME ON MY MAGIC SLEDGE.

THE END……….

MONEY IS TIME……..

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I really enjoyed writing this prompt thanks to..
@jayna
@theinkwell
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