Once upon time there was an elf that was totally different from all the other elves. He couldn’t make toys properly and he got picked at by all the other elves, until eventually Santa noticed how he was different. Santa decided either he made a decent toy, or he would be kicked out of the workshop to sleep with the reindeer. Sadly, the elf failed, so one night while he was watching the reindeer practice, one of them took a wrong turn and hurt their reindeer shoe.
That night the elf was getting ready for bed but couldn’t because the reindeer was crying and yelling all night in pain, so the elf stayed up all night with one piece of metal. He knew that he needed to help this reindeer, so he sat there all night trying to make a perfect reindeer shoe just for that reindeer. As the night went by, he hurt his hands, bending and breaking metal to make it perfect.
It was the next morning when Santa came out to the pasture to check in on the reindeer. When all the sudden, the reindeer and Santa noticed that the reindeer was perfectly fine. They noticed he had a new reindeer shoe. Santa had thought, well maybe the reindeer shoe had grown back after the time being, but then he looked at the elf and noticed that his hands were sore and bruised. He looked around and noticed that there were a bunch of reindeer shoes shaped pieces of metal from where the elf has been practicing, restarting just to get it right. Santa then realized, maybe I was wrong about the little elf, and that he can do just as much as all the rest of the elves. Santa runs over to the lonely elf, picks him up, and carries him out to drop off presents.
When Christmas comes around, Santa still felt bad about what happened, so when they came around to the first house, he lets the elf go. Of course, the elf messes up, but Santa thought it was fine because it was the little elf’s first day. The next he was a little better, he just knocked some stuff over, but of course Santa thought the same thing – it’s fine since it’s only his second day on the job. But the next house, Santa noticed that the little elf was improving at the job, so Santa went in with him. Santa even shared a cookie with the little elf. On the way back they are laughing and having fun after a long night of delivering presents. Then all the sudden, the sleigh breaks down so Santa asks the little elf if he thinks he can fix it. The elf excited yells, “Of course Santa!” It took the elf about an hour and thirty minutes, but he got the job done. They made it home safe and lived happily ever after.
