The Nut-Cricket Adventure - Prologue

[ButchyBoy]

The snow was falling, the bright twinkling lights were beginning to come on, one by one. Darkness was decending on the city of Old Chicago. Cricket Lang, the robot girl detective, remembered how the city used to be. It was almost one year ago to the day that she and her husband, detective Harry Lang, arrived here, hitching a ride from Original New York. It was a near ghost town, with many people getting by in shelters, and still others living in poor, run-down houses. A year later, as Cricket was walking down the main street that she and Harry walked on that fateful night, she could see the re-opened shops, windows full of toys, new clothes, food, Christmas Trees and decorations. And unlike that night they arrived, the streets were teeming with people dashing in and out, cars going up and down the street, and flying overhead. She smiled, thinking she played some small part in the change the city went through.

She stopped to look at a poster. It was for a Christmas Eve performance of The Nutcraker Ballet. A beautiful young woman with hair pulled back and dressed in white with a sparkling crown atop her head was shown. Below were the words; Starring World Famous Amanda Tanner....One Night Only....Sold Out! Cricket wasn't worried about that last part. It seems a certain Mr. Throckhammer saw to it that she and Harry would be sitting front row center! She was looking forward to seeing an old friend, spending Christmas Eve with the man she loved on the anniversary she became Cricket Lang, and watching a wonderful ballet she was going to see for the very first time. It was all going to be so magical.......and pigs were going to fly over the city, singing Jingle Bells!
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Some grinch is just bound and determined to ruin Christmas this year for our heros for hire, Harry and Cricket Lang, and make sure a benifit perfromance of The Nutcracker Ballet dosn't take place. First, the star ballarina nearly dies from being poisened. And her understudy flew to the wrong city, and is now snowbound. Now, our little Cricket finds herself spending Christmas Eve ON stage, dancing in the lead role of Clara, and trying to prevent an assination from taking place at the same time. And she still has Christmas shopping to do! Another fun-filled story is just around the corner for all you FC'ers: "The Nut-Cricket Adventure"

[kb7rky]

...eats some cheese, then waits by the mousehole with 'baited' breath...

(sorry, I just couldn't resist)

Doug

[DollSpace]

Eagerly awaiting this new story! Can't wait! XD The beginning already sounds really promising ^_^

Rynnie