Prompt: Stretching Down The Chimney (Xmas '22)

Summary: A young man with a heart of gold and kindness never wanted gifts from Santa . But as every year brought unexplained gifts to him that he liked but never asked for , he always believed that Santa was real. This year after moving out , he is determined to catch and meet with Santa . He stays awake near the chimney till the wee hours of the morning when he hears sounds coming from the fireplace. Who knew Santa was a woman who had elastic powers to go down chimneys and happened to have a thing for good boys like him.

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Rudy was one of those true believer types when it came to Christmas. Fully invested in the holiday season as soon as the calendar turned over to November, it was always a nostalgic, cozy time of year; it got busy towards December, sure, but there was always a positive energy to channel and focus towards the various seasonal chores. And seeing such a homey transformation made it all worthwhile. Surely, Rudy wouldn't let a Scrooge ruin his festive cheer.

One of the old traditions Rudy grew up attempting to stay up late enough to catch a sighting of Santa Claus himself. Unfortunately, he only really tried this when he was a kid, and he'd usually conk out before anything interesting would happen. While the sight of waking up to a Christmas tree riddled with presents from Santa was always exciting, it was still a little disappointing that he couldn't ride out the night. And after a year where he essentially napped through Christmas Day between presents and dinner, he didn't really try it again for a while.

But a spirited discussion with his family over a video call reminded him of when he tuckered himself out to catch Santa Claus in the act, and Rudy got an idea. He was an adult now, more experienced with the office all-nighter. Staying up to catch Santa would be child's play! On a lark, he decided to stay up until dawn, planning to catch Santa coming down the chimney. Or not. Who knows what kind of tricks he'd use.

These were the sort of assumptions he'd make, but some hours later, a little hopped up on espresso, Rudy's worldview would be flipped upside down. He was already partway to dozing off when he heard a strange sound. It wasn't the sound of a sleigh touching down on the roof, accompanied by hooves all a clatter... it was a weird creaking sound, like rubbing two balloons against each other.

Rudy jumped out from his recliner, glancing out the windows. He wondered if there were robbers skulking about, futzing at any entry-ways with rubber gloves. But a candle he had lit on a small table behind him had cast a strange, moving shadow behind him. He turned around towards the fireplace...

"...Huh?" Rudy blinked. He found himself looking over... an oddly stretched out person. A woman, judging from her gorgeous blonde hair. Her striking red and white garments were immediately telling, though her clothes seemed to be as shiny as the rest of her glossy, blemish-free skin. Her body below her torso looked utterly deformed, a serpentine noodle that twisted and coiled along the floor, disappearing up and away, into the blackness of an unlit fireplace!

"Ohhhhh nooooooo, you caught me...~" The elastic-like woman pouted, playing it up with a playful expression.

"S... Santa Claus?" Rudy blinked. "You're..."

"Sana Claus, actually!" The woman cheered, her body wobbling and bending, her body catching up with her, reaching her torso with a snap; garbed in a cutesy seasonal mini-skirt and striped socks that traveled up past her knees, and a pair of fuzzy boots that had little jingle bells on them. She was cute as a button, and her form-fitting attire leant the woman, seemingly in her mid-twenties, a sensuous allure...

"It's so nice to finally meet you in person, Rudy!~" She giggled, immediately pulling him in for a big hug, her arms effortlessly looping around his form. Rudy blushed, feeling her pronounced buxon pressing against his chest.

"S-Sana, um..." Rudy smiled wryly, unable to move his arms under tight, rubbery coils. "I figured you'd be more, um..."

"More old and fat? Nah, common mistake! There's a whole bunch of Santa's Little Helpers, actually!~" Sana nodded, stepping back. "We gotta split up to get to all the houses, so I mostly fly solo with a couple reindeer. Gets kinda lonely..."

"...You... sound like you wanted to be caught." Rudy grimaced, rubbing the back of his head.

"Ahaha! Got it in one!~" Sana guffawed. "I knoooooooow it's traditional to avoid being seen, but sometimes you gotta try something new once in a while! Meet new people! It's rare to find a True Believe™ among adults nowadays..."

She stretched her body out, her torso floating around Rudy's decorated tree. playfully bobbing up and down in playful arcs as if she herself was a part of the decoration. Her head, extending forward on an outstretched neck, brushed against Rudy's cheek.

"Ohhhhhhhhh I'm famished, you know where the cookies are?" She licked her lips. "Need a lil pick me up. It's rough, squeezing down so many unkempt chimneys..."

"Y-you, uh, look good though." Rudy fumbled around the room, tripping over a slack part of Sana's outstretched body. He found the plate of milk and cookies and hurried over; as she opened her mouth, seemingly inviting a session of hand-feeding, he obliged with a somewhat steady hand.

"Ah, perks of an elastic body. Things don't stick to you at all! Gotta be always flexing when the weather's this cold, don't wanna freeze..."

"A-ah, right... it's rather windy out tonight." Rudy's expression grew dour, glancing out the window. "Terrible chill... y-you can stay for a spell, if you need to warm up."

"Really? That's sweet, but I do have a schedule..." She swallowed, a cookie-shaped lump traveling up her elongated neck. "Aaaah what the heck, I got time! Just a little siesta... OH, but I should get your gift!"

She presented her buxom, rubbery creaking noises punctuating her movement. She wiggled her fingers and reached into her cleavage, digging around a little... she pulled out a large gift-wrapped present, marked from Santa Claus! Rudy gawked in surprise! The body was bigger than her torso! What sort of sleight of hand was that!?

"W-wow!" Rudy didn't question the Christmas magic much. He looked into Sana's starry, blue-eyed expression; she gave a slight nod, encouraging him to unwrap him. He carefully dug his nails into the wrapping, trying not to look like an excited kid on Christmas morning.

"...!" Rudy gawked. "This is..."

"A new gaming computer with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900, an RTX 3080 GPU, 32 gigabytes of ram, liquid cooling, and dual storage systems for all your games!" She lit up, rattling off a bunch of statistics.

"Gee, my laptop was on its last legs too..." Rudy's eyes lit up excitedly. He was eager to set it up and try it out... but not when a cute girl was in the room with him!

"I, um... thanks." Rudy blushed. "I really wanted to believe Santa was real, but... never in my wildest dreams did I think a stretchy woman would clamber down my chimney instead..."

"Oh? You wanna meet him?" Sana tilted her head. "I only got a few stops to make, and then it's back to the North Pole for me! You wanna come?"

"...Come. With you. To the North Pole." It bore repeating aloud, it sounded so insane.

"Yeah! There'll be a big wrap up party, and I still need a plus one!" Sana loosened herself from the tree, her arm stretching out towards the front hall; Rudy's poofy parka was in hand, and she hurriedly dressed him up, spinning all around him, her elastic body wrapping around him in big loops until she resembled a protective candy cane coating!

"I-I don't think my jacket's gonna handle arctic weather very well, Sana...!" Rudy was in a panic, grunting as he flopped to the ground, ensnared by her coils.

"No worries! The workshop has fantastic heating!" Sana cooed, scootching along the floor like a caterpillar, noodly limbs lashed out, reaching up the chimney, disappearing from sight. Her legs coiled into a spring, her chest, hips and butt clutching Rudy possessively to her.

"Been a while since I've been on a date like this!~" Sana cheered. "C'mon, it'll be fun!"

"...Ah... a-alright..." Well, her enthusiasm was infectious. And her magic was rubbing off on him as well... it had to be, considering they both had to be forced back up that damn chimney.