Just a little One-Shot about Christmas gifts… I don't know, I just had Christmas on my mind…
Disclaimer: I don't own Skulduggery Pleasant. He and his friends all belong to the wonderful and genius Derek Landy.
Two young women walked into the shopping mall, crowded with people doing last minute Christmas shopping. One of the women had long, blonde hair, and was wearing brown leathers. The other had dark hair and eyes, and was dressed from head to toe in black. They were studying a piece of paper carefully, occasionally breaking into hysterical giggles, earning them more than a few curious glances from other shoppers.
"Okay, who's gift first, Tanith?" the dark hair girl asked her friend.
The blonde, Tanith, grinned evilly, "I do believe we should find Skulduggery's, Valkyrie" she said. The two young women made their way to a costume shop. They set out in search for something and after a while. The dark hair girl, Valkyrie, called out "Found it, Tanith!" from a very pink end of the shop. Together, they examined the many hats, masks, gloves and other accessories.
"This one" said Valkyrie, reaching for a hot pink top hat with sparkly pink bows.
'Indeed… And these" agreed Tanith, pulling out a pair of heart shaped, hot pink sunglasses, a glittery yellow and pink and orange scarf and pink and purple fairy wings.
"Perfect" They said together, and went to buy them.
"Who next?" asked Valkyrie casually as they walked out of the store.
"Hmm… Ghastly's"
"Sure, let's go."
Ten minutes later, the two women were to be seen walking out of a clothing shop, holding a size XXL 'Team Edward' shirt -in pink- and a pair of rainbow short-shorts, laughing like maniacs and leaning on each others shoulders for support.
"Who-Who next?" choked out Tanith between giggles.
"Fletcher!" replied her hyperactive friend.
They walked into a beauty product shop and went immediately to the hair gel section. "Ooh, this looks good" said the blonde and grabbed a bottle of gel.
"Yeah, and this!" Valkyrie exclaimed, picking up a bottle of hair removal cream. The two laughed evilly and bought those, too.
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"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" the two girls shouted, bursting through the doorway of Gordon's house and into the living room on Christmas day. Skulduggery, Ghastly and Fletcher just stared at them, with fear in their eyes. Whenever the girls acted like this, it wasn't good.
"Uh, Merry Christmas?" replied Skulduggery carefully from his seat by the fire.
"Why are you not excited?" demanded the girls, pouting cutely.
"Uh….."
"Whatever! We bring gifts!" said Valkyrie happily and over-enthusiastically, handing the men their presents. Glancing fearfully at each other, they unwrapped the gifts and Ghastly and Skulduggery dropped theirs immediately. .
"What… What IS this?" Ghastly choked out.
The girls pouted again.
"Don't you like them? We spent ages picking out the right gifts we thought you'd like" said Valkyrie with a straight face.
"Yeah, aren't you going to try them on?"
Not wanting to hurt the girls feelings, the two men walked out of the room to change. Fletcher burst out laughing. He wasn't even suspicious as to why his gift –a lone bottle of hair gel- wasn't so bad. The girls joined him, and we soon rolling on the floor in hysterics as Ghastly and Skulduggery walked back into the living room in their new costumes. Fletcher and Valkyrie were taking pictures on their phones and Tanith had tears in her eyes.
"This is cruel" Ghastly muttered to his skeletal friend.
"Indeed… Hey! Are they taking pictures?!"
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"Best. Christmas. Ever."
"Yeah"
"When do you think Fletchers gift will… Start working?"
"I dunno. We used the whole bottle, it shouldn't take long. Fletcher and his hair…"
"Yeah, I know…"
Ten Minutes Later
"My hair! My beautiful, beautiful hair! What happened!?"
Tanith and Valkyrie were too busy rolling on the floor to answer poor, balding blonde.