A/N: All right! Final chapter! I hope you enjoy... I won't say what happens in this chapter... but I hope you'll like it...
Chapter 5: Doughnut Rain
Everyone stared at Santa…. Well the Magical Girls did.
Homura was still in shock.
Mrs. Claus glared at Kyubey.
"You crossed a line!" yelled Mrs. Claus pointing her wand at him.
Santa Claus summoned a new machine gun, he shot the Krampus several times with it and the Krampus fell over as if it was a knocked out.
"That should give us a few minutes to talk." Said Santa.
"Why didn't you knock it before?" asked Kyoko.
"I have my reasons!" said Santa.
There was a silence.
"Do you have any idea what's going on?" asked Tomohisa.
"No idea." Said Junko.
"I was once a part o Kyubey. However I began to feel guilt for pushing Magical Girls to make contracts…" said Santa.
Mrs. Claus held her husband's hand.
"You see if a member of race gains emotion, we have them make contracts to become our being's version of Magical Girl." Said Kyubey.
"What?" asked Mami.
"Did you just said develop emotions?" asked Kyoko.
"I made my wish to obtain to once a year grant wishes to the magical girls of earth! As it turns out I was able to grant my own wishes as well…" said Santa, "My first wish to take on the form of a human male… my second wish was for my Soul Gem to never darken… however that created a problem."
"His second wish created the Krampus." Said Kyubey, "Hope and Greif must even out to zero… The Krampus isn't just the grief of Santa but of all magical girls who made a wish the previous year…"
Homura looked at Santa.
He was not the first Incubator she met who managed to gain emotions. In the timeline when she met that magical girl Lenora (regret a couple chapters ago), the Incubator from that area had gained emotions as well and that one could be trusted…
Well... when he was sober… that Incubator was a drunk…
But that was besides the point.
She could tell. Santa had many regrets, and wanted to make up for them.
She also knew he had been at it for over 100 years.
But that only left one question…
"Wait… then why don't you grant your own wishes anymore?" asked Kyoko.
"I made a wish after the formation of the Krampus that I can't grant my own wishes." Said Santa.
"Not that he needs it…" said Mrs. Claus with a suggestive wink.
"I don't need to hear more." Sighed Mami.
"Look it doesn't matter if Santa was Kyubey!" said Mrs. Claus, "All that's matter is that he makes sure that Magical Girls gets more than one wish… both of your lives are better thanks to his wishes! And all he asks for return is to help defeat his super powered evil side for a year!"
Homura looked at Kyubey.
"This isn't going as you thought it would." She told telepathically.
"No… it's not." Replied Kyubey who looked close to a mental break down.
The Krampus began to stir.
"All time to finish this bas…" said Santa.
"Little kid…" said Mrs. Claus.
"You're the one who made the sexual reference." Said Santa.
"Now's not the time to bicker…" said Kyoko.
Santa began to shot the Krampus, Mrs. Claus joined in shooting green energy at the goat like creature, Mami joined in shooting, while Kyoko created copies of her spears and sent them all at the Krampus.
Homura was the one who finished him off by stopping time, taking out on her home made pipe bomb, putting it in her mouth then restarted time.
Kaname family stared at this site.
"Are you sure I'm not drunk…" said Junko.
"I see it too." Said Tomohisa.
The Krampus' remains glowed and all that was left was a strange glowing snowflake, which soon vanished.
"The Krampus has been defeated for another year." Santa Breathed a sigh of relief at the storm stopped.
Mrs. Claus checked her watch.
"And it took less than an hour… one of the best times for sure…" she said a smirk.
Santa turned to Homura.
"Homura since you finished off the Krampus you get your wish first… what do you want to Christmas?" asked Santa.
"I wish… I wish that Madoka never becomes a magical girl!" said Homura who started crying.
Santa's hands glowed as did Madoka.
"Homura?" asked Madoka.
"It's over it's finally over!" cried Homura.
Mrs. Claus began to cry as well… she would let Homura have this moment before revealing to her that she would get her wish.
Kyubey grumbled, knowing that he was still nowhere close to getting his quota… especially without Madoka becoming a witch along with it being Christmas Eve the one time of year where Magical Girls often quit.
It was times like this that he envied his San Francisco counterpart and just want to drink his brains out.
However it should be noted that they were standing in the ruins of the Kaname house… ruins which could fall at any second.
As it turned out, a wall did collapsed… right on top of Madoka.
Homura stood there in shock, Kyoko pulled out Madoka's body from the debris. Mrs. Claus put her finger on Madoka's neck.
"She's dead…" whispered Mrs. Claus.
"No…" whispered Homura.
She had gotten her wish, there was no way for Madoka to become a magical girl… and now she's dead… there was no other choice.
She turned back time once again… she vanished from site confusing everyone.
Santa and Mrs. Claus stared t where Homura stood.
"Did she…" said Santa.
"She did…" said Mrs. Claus face palming.
"What's wrong?" asked Mami.
"Homura's from the future." Said Santa, "She's been going back in time over and over again to protect Madoka."
"What?" asked both Mami and Kyoko.
"And this timeline was a bizarre hiccup to her which was why she was confused." Muttered Mrs. Claus, "I was going to give her my Christmas Wish… she could have wished Madoka back to life!"
"If she had only waited a few more seconds…" sighed Santa.
"Yes…" said Mrs. Claus.
Indeed, if Homura had waited 5 more seconds she could have been free from her eternal maze for saving Madoka…
Oh well… that's just the way things happen sometimes, when you're time traveling and you encounter the perfect world but something seems wrong and if you wait five more second the time traveler would see indeed it is perfect…
Indeed for Homura this world was her Doughnut Rain…
The End
A/N: I did always intended the ending... but realized later the whole "Doughnut Rain" thing... if you don't know what I meant by Doughnut Rain... it's from the Simpsons... it's not a new joke either, it's considered a classic joke... just think about it...
Anyways Merry Christmas! I hope if you celebrate it that is... if not Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Festivus and of course a Happy Solstice... and if you're looking forward to more Madoka stories in the future next year I'm planning another which I hope you will read... Later!