Well, last year when I was writing a lot of Soul Calibur fanfictions, I began a 'holiday' fanfiction; each chapter the characters celebrated a different holiday... So, now I want to do the same thing with ToS! Only this time I shall see it through and it will not be deleted. (Heh, heh… script format...) Chapter one is – in case you couldn't guess – Christmas! And this holiday shall take place in Meltokio, at the Wilder residence.
Unlike my other ToS humour fic, "The Quest for True Love", this story is much more based around randomness, which – unfortunately for some readers – contains OOC-ness. For that, I apologize... but I hope you like it nonetheless. Some of the characters are still pretty much in character, though. Oh! And there is certainly hinting at romance! (Extremely blatant hinting at that.) The pairing that you will be seeing – either in this chapter or upcoming ones – are Sheelos, Gesea, Colloyd, and methinks a little Kraine.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Tales of Symphonia characters, although that would be sweet 'cause they rock.
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)Chapter 1 – Christmas!(
"Why did you call me here, Zelos?"
The Chosen of Tethe'alla had his typical smirk on his face as he stared at his guest, the one and only Kratos. "Well, Kratos, as you know I'm hosting the greatest Christmas party that this world has ever seen!" The Seraphim of Cruxis merely nodded out of courtesy, not quite believing that Zelos' party would be 'the greatest that this world had ever seen' because, well... when you've been living for thousands of years, you see some crazy parties. "Anyway, I've heard some rumours about Welgaia's liquor..."
Kratos raised an eyebrow in curiosity, "What have you heard about it?"
"That it's strong." There came no response from the elder angel, so naturally Zelos took the silence as consent, "Good! Can you get me some, then? The legal age in Welgaia is a thousand, so I can't buy it myself... and I need it to make my reluctant hunnies willing to—I mean... to make my party classy and elegant... yeeeess..."
With a sigh, Kratos answered, "Very well. You'll only learn your mistakes if I allow you to make them... just like the errors that I made while drunk on Welgaia alcohol..." Kratos drifted off into his own little world of flashbacks from when he was wasted: "I left Mithos to marry Anna, agreed to name my son 'Lloyd'... Pft! Lloyd, what with its two L's together at the beginning of the name... I bet whoever came up with that was drunk on Welgaia booze!" Unbeknownst to himself, Kratos was now chuckling aloud while staring into nothingness.
"Eh..." Zelos poked Kratos in the arm, trying to get the Seraphim's attention, but to no avail. The Chosen then decided that it would be more productive to poke Kratos in the eye, so he did so... and it hurt.
"Aah! Aah! My eye!!" shrieked Kratos as he held his hand over his right eye, "I'm going, I'm going!!" Wanting to get as far away from Zelos as possible, Kratos ran out of the mansion and then flew away to Welgaia... to get beer... niiiiice.
"That's one chore done!" Zelos announced, brushing his hands together in a 'that's the end of that' manner. "Now... to decorate the tree..." he looked the unnecessarily tall pine tree up and down, seemingly plotting how he would decorate it. A conclusion was finally made, and Zelos shouted, "Sebastian!! Come and make the tree as pretty as me!" He then sat down on the couch.
Zelos' personal slave... butler... came rushed down the stairs, dish towel in hand (for no apparent reason), and proceeded to 'make the tree pretty', as his master put it. While Sebastian was enthralled in beautifying the tree, the doorbell rang. Zelos sprang up from his seat, "I'll get it!" He dashed to the front door and swung it open to be greeted by all of his friends: Lloyd, Sheena, Colette, Raine, Genis, Regal, and Presea. "Helloooo! It's good to see you all here!" the Chosen greeted with a grin.
"Hello, Zelos!" Colette squealed gleefully as she gave him a big hug, "I'm sooo happy to see you! Meltokio is so nice with all of the Christmas lights, and the trees in people's windows, and the laughing and the joy!!"
Everyone else was silent.
"Uhm..." for once in his life, Zelos was not sure how to react with a girl's affection, "...I'm glad you're so content, my angel, but... you're kinda creeping me out."
Colette pulled away from Zelos, "I'm sorry," she said with a light laugh, "So... are we the only ones coming to your party? No Kratos, no Yuan, no—"
"Groupies?" Sheena cut in accusingly.
"Now, now, what would ever give you the idea that I'd invite my Meltokio hunnies to this intimate little gathering of..." Zelos' statement was interrupted by an energetic knocking at the front door.
Sheena's eyes narrowed into a glare, "You were saying?"
Zelos forced himself to chuckle innocently as he slowly pulled open the front door, sending in a swarm of his fangirls who promptly gathered around their god. ((A/N: Random fact – Zelos is the Greek god of enthusiasm! How awesome is that?)) "Ooh, Zelos!" they all exclaimed in singsong voices that made girls like Sheena cringe.
"I think it's safe to say that we'll be helping ourselves at this party," Raine stated plainly. Everyone else (excluding Zelos) nodded in agreement, and then dispersed themselves around different areas of the house. Sheena and Raine were both lounging about on the couches when Kratos let himself in through the open front door. Raine was the first to take notice of the Seraphim, "Oh, Kratos. I didn't expect to see you here..." her voice trailed off as she made an observation: Kratos was wearing a monocle on his right eye, "Ehm... may I ask why you're wearing a monocle?"
Kratos mumbled something under his breath, and then answered, "It was either this or an eyepatch; see from both eyes, or one eye. The choice seem obvious to me."
Sheena tilted her head, "Why couldn't you just get glasses whose prescription in the left eye was weaker than that of the right eye?"
Kratos was silent in a "..." fashion for a moment before responding, "Those lousy angels never gave me that option! Stupid lifeless beings never taking my needs into consideration!!" Raine and Sheena were both wide-eyed and staring at Kratos. "Ah-he-hem..." the angel cleared his throat, "Anyway, I am only here to deliver the requested alcohol," Kratos pulled out a random margarita glass and placed it on the small table next to the couch, along with a bottle of Welgaiaian ((I know what I just wrote)) wine. "Enjoy." And thus, Kratos exited once again.
"Hmph," Raine watched the Seraphim go, and when he was out of sight, she picked up the glass and poured some wine into it... scratch the 'some'; she filled it to the brim.
"Raine, is it really a good idea to drink that much alcohol in one shot?" Sheena questioned.
After taking a large sip of the wine, Raine replied, "I'm a teacher; I know what I'm doing." Of course she does... chugging down the Welgaia wine like that... HA! She's going to be wasted soon. But in the meantime...
Zelos, for one reason or another, was now tied up in a pink, sparkly Christmas tree garland. A nervous laughter escaped the Chosen's lips, "Heh, heh... heh... Okay, my hunnies, I'm impressed that you were able to make a lasso out of a garland, but can you please let me go now?"
"Oh, Zelos!" one of the girls giggled, "Why would we do something like that when we could do this?" All of Zelos' hunnies then commenced to take advantage of him in unmentionable/un-hunnylike ways... the poor man.
Sheena rested her head upon the sofa's armrest and closed her eyes, "Those stupid groupies are so loud..." she grumbled under her breath, "Do they have to rub in the fact that Zelos 'loves' them so much?" Upon realizing what she had just said, she sat up quickly and covered her mouth, then glanced towards Raine to see if she noticed her implication.
Raine seemed to be gazing blankly across the room when she finally responded, "Hmm? Oh, I'm sorry, Sheena. I was very distracted," she said in an abnormally emotionless tone, "Zelos' groupies seem to be gang-assaulting him in sexual ways."
"What?! How can they take advantage of him like that?!" Sheena shouted, only to once again realize what was being implied by her objection.
Raine was still staring in exactly the same direction. "Hmm?" she repeated the same phrase as before, "Oh, I'm sorry, Sheena. I was very distracted..."
"Yeah, yeah, I know," Sheena disrupted, rolling her eyes. Raine took another sip of wine... from her fifth glass, mind you. "I'm, uh, just going to go upstairs to escape all of the commotion." Raine nodded partially, just as fazed out as before. Sheena walked past Zelos and his mobbing groupies, and made her way up the stairs. She opened the door of the first room that she past, and stepped inside, slamming the door behind her.
"Was that Sheena just now?" Genis asked from his seat on Zelos' upstairs sofa.
"Yes. It would seem that she is upset about something," Presea observed rather robotically from her seat on the couch.
Regal... was sitting in between the two 'children'. This got on Genis' nerves quite a bit because he wanted to be sitting as close to Presea as possible, but that lousy convict was in the way! "Indeed," Regal stated in regards to seeing Sheena. There was a long silence. "So... have I ever told you two about the time in prison when I got my handcuffs attached to the cell bars?" the noble-gone-criminal questioned, rather excited about the opportunity to tell this tale that was – apparently – rather amusing to himself.
Genis' eyebrow twitched slightly in frustration, "Yes... you have... about a bazillion times!!"
"To be precise, he has recounted this particular past memory twenty-seven and three sevenths times... You stopped him soon after he began the anecdote several times, thereby resulting in this total," Presea corrected so accurately that it was just plain creepy.
"I...I..." Genis lowered his head to face the floor, "I knew that..." Presea giggled slightly, which only agitated Genis more because he couldn't damn see her because Regal was in the way!! Finally having had enough of Regal's presence, Genis tried to push him off of the couch... which didn't work so well because, well... Genis isn't exactly huge... and Regal is. "Umph! Gotta... push him... off..."
Regal suddenly jumped up from his seat, causing Genis to stumble forward, "Well, I am off to the market for no apparent reason!" he announced with a grin, "Fare thee well!" And that's exactly what he did: went to the market. On the way to this so-called market, he passed by Lloyd and Colette...not that he bothered to speak to them, or that they bothered to speak to him.
"Oh, Lloyd! I'm sooo excited about celebrating Christmas; I had never even heard of it before!" Take a wild guess who made that comment. If you cannot guess, then you make me sad.
Lloyd had a smile plastered on his face while his hands were on his hips confidently, "Me, too!" he agreed, never losing his grin, "Do you have any ideas on what to get everyone for gifts?"
Colette placed her finger on her chin, pondering on the question, and Lloyd closed his eyes in deep contemplation. While their thoughts gradually drifted off of the original topic of presents, a mysterious man wearing a cloak decorated with an intriguing design walked up in front of the two Sylvarant natives. Of course, being the space-cadets that they are, neither Lloyd nor Colette paid heed to the man's presence. The shadowy person tapped his foot impatiently... and after a couple of minutes of waiting, he shouted, "Snap out of it!!"
"Aah!" both teenagers yelled in unison upon being broken from their thoughts abruptly.
"You wimps," the figure murmured, "Anyway... I couldn't help but hear that you were searching for gifts for your friends."
Lloyd stepped forward and looked up at the stranger, judging his masked appearance, "Yeah... and what does that have to do with you, Mr. Too-Ugly-to-Reveal-His-Face??"
"I am not ugly!!" the man retorted, but then cleared his throat calmly, "It has nothing to do with me; I just want to help you out, fools. Is it that hard to accept?"
With a complete change of personality, Lloyd concurred, "Okay! So what have you got to offer?"
"This!" the unfamiliar person announced, pulling out a random box from behind his cloak. He handed it to Lloyd, and without any more words – except for maniacal laughter that failed in comparison to Mithos' – he disappeared in a veil of bright, and for some reason, loud, electromagnetic waves!!
"Ooh..." the teens chorused again, being mesmerized by something as simple as a common form of magnetism... why magnetism created such an electrifying effect in the first place is beyond me, but y'know, it's just physics and junk.
The blinding flash of electromagnetic waves spread across the entire town of Meltokio, and temporarily distracted Zelos' swarming mob of groupies. "Like, what in Tethe'alla was that!?" one of his fangirls exclaimed. All of the women began speaking simultaneously, trying desperately to figure out what the cause of that eerie light was. While they were all distracted, Zelos swiftly made a move for the staircase and... escaped! Whoo! Not wanting to be caught by the wandering eyes of one of his floozies, Zelos rushed into his bedroom, which, by coincidence, was the first room at the top of the stairs. Now, if you recall correctly, a certain Mizuho ninja had fled into this particular room, as well; what surprise for Zelos.
"Wow, Sheena!" the Chosen exclaimed, suddenly regaining his strength after being molested by his groupies, "I never expected to find you here!" He jumped onto the bed that Sheena was lying on, playfully moving closer to her.
"No!" Sheena edged away from Zelos, "I came up here to... to get away from you!"
Zelos rolled his eyes, "Oh, puh-lease! You come into my room to get away from me? HA!"
"I didn't know that this was your room!"
"Yeah, yeah. Like you haven't been here before."
"Quiet, Zelos! I haven't!"
Tethe'alla's Chosen crawled towards Sheena as she backed away even more, "Come on... now we're aloooone..." What was understood from his last statement made Sheena jump slightly... and fall off of the bed. Zelos snickered as he peered over the edge of the bed, "Good job." Looking up at the Chosen, Sheena could not help herself from feeling at least a little attracted to him; due to Zelos' unfortunate gang-assault, his long hair was ragged and loose, and his regular vest had been removed. Also, his shirt had been torn, revealing his manly and sexy chest that generally went unnoticed because most people are too damn distracted by all of that pink he wears. "Sheena?"
Zelos' voice broke into Sheena's daydreaming, and the summoner shook her head to return to reality. "Huh?"
"You totally blanked out there," Zelos surveyed aloud. In spite of her efforts, Sheena was still rather out of it. "Helloooo? Sheena?" the Chosen waved his hand in front of her face. There came no reaction. "Hmm..." Zelos' typical smirk crossed his face as he slowly lowered himself over the side of the bed, eventually resting his entire body on top of Sheena's. "If this doesn't get an angry reaction out of you, I don't know what will..." Silence. "I'm just going to assume that by you saying nothing, you love me." Silence again... and a slightly ashamed look on Sheena's face. "No... way..." Sheena suddenly threw her arms around the back of Zelos' neck and drew him closer--into a kiss. Of course Zelos was shocked by this display of affection; after all, Sheena was always the one who slapped the Chosen when he made an inappropriate comment, and now she was making out with him!! Being the man that he is... Zelos did nothing to stop her.
A short distance from the door of Zelos' room, Presea, Genis and – the returned-from-market – Regal were sitting on the couch again; and again, Regal had made himself comfortable seated in between Genis and Presea. "So... have I ever told you two about the story of—"
"Yes!" Genis shouted, leaping up from his seat and glaring up at Regal (because even though Regal was still sitting, he was still taller than the midget), "I can assure you – with one-hundred percent confidence – that we have already heard your stinking story!!"
The former aristocrat had a hurt expression in his eyes, "You... deem that I have recounted this particular account at a previous moment?"
Genis paused, taking a moment to go through the definitions of Regal's big words in his mind. Presea cut in at this point, "I must concur with Regal, Genis; you cannot simply deduce that the time that he was going to relive was one that he has formerly imparted."
Now it was not only Genis being intimidated by the large words, but Regal as well. Regal had shifty eyes as he plotted how to confuse the intelligent Presea. "Aha!" Regal rose his hand in realization, "Je sais comment je vais te confuser!" ((A/N: "I know how I will confuse you!")) And 'confuser' Presea he did! You see, since Regal was a wealthy businessman, he just so happened to have knowledge of a few foreign languages, and that is why he spoke French. Since neither Genis nor Presea understood what Regal had just said, everyone went silent. And through the silence, came sounds from Zelos' bedroom...
"Ow! Zelos, what the hell?! Don't do that!"
"Sor-ry for wanting to spice things up!"
"Don't!! Oh, God, I can't believe I'm doing this..."
Regal's face was completely red, and he was hoping that neither of the children that he was with caught the gist of what had just been overheard. Presea, being as knowledgeable as she is, knew exactly what that was all about, and she hoped that Genis didn't understand, though she hid her concerns easily. Unfortunately for both of them, Genis was completely aware of what was happening in Zelos' bedroom... and it disturbed him, "Eww!!" he squealed childishly.
Presea closed her eyes to avoid looking at Genis as she commented calmly, "They are only leading up to engaging in sexual intercourse; they may do as they will."
"Wh... why do you put it so bluntly?" the young half-elf asked, blushing intensely. Presea and Regal remained silent after that, thereby allowing everyone to eavesdrop on more of what Sheena and Zelos were doing:
"Come now, Sheena! Don't be so bashful!"
"Well it's a little hard for me to not be shy when you're staring at my body like that!"
"If you insist, then I'll stop gazing and start romancing..."
"Zelos! Give me a minute to think this through! I'm still not--"
Sheena's protest faded into a loud pleasured moan... which caused Genis to be even further traumatized. "Aah!!" the half-elf held his hands over his ears and closed his eyes, making a desperate attempt to block himself off from the reality, "That is not happening; I am at home, I am with Raine, we are happy and eating... eating food; eating sugar cookies! Yes... yes, that's good. Good and happy."
"Is... Genis all right?" Presea questioned hesitantly.
"No!" Regal stood up proudly, "He must be saved!" And thus, it was Regal to the rescue!! The ex-convict swept Genis up into his arms and carried him downstairs. Without being at all perplexed by what was happening, Presea followed him. "Raine!" Regal called as he entered the living room , "Genis has been" he paused dramatically, "traumatized!"
The Professor emitted a staccato hiccup, "Really?"
"Yes."
Raine then spontaneously began to giggle uncontrollably, "That's funny!" she exclaimed between laughs and hiccups.
Now even the extremely strange Regal was freaked out; it wasn't every day that you witnessed Raine being drunk. In fact, Regal was so shocked that he dropped Genis, leaving the poor boy to curl up into a ball and rock back and forth. Presea – being the only one left unaffected – walked over to the table and picked up the bottle of Welgaiaian wine, reading its label. Her eyes widened when she read the percentage of alcohol in the drink, "...Raine, how are you still conscious?"
"I... don't know..." Her own response simply caused the healer to break into another fit of giggles.
"We bring you gifts!!" the front door swung open to reveal Lloyd with the wrapped gift from the mysterious stranger in his hand. "Well... really it's just one gift," the idealist corrected himself.
Colette peeked over Lloyd's shoulder from behind, "But it's a good one!" she assured with a smile.
"Yeah!" Lloyd agreed.
Suddenly, Zelos emerged from his bedroom wearing a silken robe, "A present? I want a present!" Everyone simply stared at him... except for Genis, whose traumatization ((A/N: I made up a word!)) was rekindled as he heard the Tethe'allan Chosen. Sheena timidly stepped out of the room with the bed sheets wrapped closely to her body. She shamefully hid behind Zelos, her face completely red from awkwardness. "Oh!" Zelos quickly added, "And in case you can't tell, I just took Sheena's virginity!"
"Zelos!!" Sheena swiftly belted the back of Zelos' head.
"Owww!!" the Meltokio noble whined, rubbing his precious cranium, "The truth really does hurt..."
Sheena retreated slowly towards the bedroom again, "Just because it's the truth, doesn't mean that you have to announce it to the world!" she snapped, "Some people enjoy having their love lives kept private!"
Zelos tilted his head to the side in confusion. Regal and Presea then chorused, with equally complex vocabulary, "Zelos' statement did not differentiate the fact that we were perceptive of your..." they both paused, contemplating on how to word what had happened, "romantic engagement... We already knowledgeable of it."
Lloyd was very, very confused by one: their vocabulary. And two: how they were able to speak at the same time like that. He shook off his puzzlement, "Can I open the present from the cloaked man now?" Everyone nodded, except for Sheena who was back in Zelos' bedroom, putting some clothes on. "All right, then," Lloyd began to carefully remove the wrapping paper from the gift. Raine quickly grew impatient of how slow he was going, so she slapped him upside the head, causing the poor boy to be scared into tearing the paper hastily. "Wow! It's a..." Lloyd pulled out a square-shaped case and examined it, "...hey, what is this thing?"
"You back-country hick!" Zelos called as he descended the stairs, "It's a CD," he stated, snatching the case from Lloyd and opening it to reveal a compact disc, "It plays music."
Colette's eyes shimmered in wonder, "Wow! What kind of music does it play?"
"Hmm... Not sure," Zelos replied while observing the disc from various angles, "The label says 'The Most Ultimate Party Song EVER'." He shrugged, "Guess we'll only find out what that means when I play it." The Chosen strolled over to his stereo system and inserted the mysterious CD. He pressed the 'play' button and it began to blare... The Macarena?? ((A/N: Don't own.)) "What kind of music is this?!" Zelos shouted.
"Exactly what the label says," came a deep voice from the front doorway. Everyone turned their heads towards the door to see... Kratos and the mysterious stranger! "It is 'the most ultimate party song EVER'."
"And there is a dance that goes with it, too," the man next to the seraphim stated, "And we shall teach you how it goes!" In one fluid motion, he removed his cloak to reveal his identity as... Yuan! "Ready, Kratos?"
Kratos nodded, "I am always ready." And with that, they did the Macarena. All of the party guests ((A/N: Minus the groupies who had left upon realizing that their lover ran away... oh, and Sheena's with the others now, too)) gaped; they were absolutely speechless. Kratos and Yuan were always so serious, and yet, here they were dancing about, folding their arms in various positions, and shaking their asses.
The first one to find their voice and comment was Zelos... and well... "I want to dance, too!" the fun-loving Chosen rushed over to the spot next to Kratos and began doing the Macarena, as well.
"Ooh! That looks like fuuuun!" the ever-drunk Raine exclaimed, soon joining the others in their amusing dance. There was no point in denying it any longer... they all wanted to dance, and so that's exactly what they did: they celebrated Christmas by doing the Macarena...
#--))Merry Christmas, everyone!!((--#
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...Don't ask me how a Christmas story escalated into everyone doing the Macarena, because I'm not even sure of the answer to that myself. You know what else I'm not so sure of? Why Zelos is singing 'L.O.V.E. Machine'. (points to Zelos)
Zelos: (singing) Lady, have you known me, the perfect love machine? Virgo, my Leo's rising, Venus made me kind. That trail of broken hearts, they all belong to me! Magic runs through my fingers; one touch, you'll see... L.O.V.E., all I need's my love machine, oh!
The Zelda Master: Okay, let's just ignore him for a bit... What did you think of the first chapter of Holidays of Symphonia? I must say... I don't know what the hell I was thinking, but I'm amused! If people like it, then I'll certainly keep it up by adding a 'New Years' chapter fairly soon. Until then, review! And I'll update The Quest for True Love and the alternate-sequel to Someone to Trust as soon as I can! (Exams this week...) And, um... Zelos is still singing...
Zelos (ever-singing) L.O.V.E., all I need's my love machine tonight... tonight... What can I do for you, am I your wildest dream? What do I move in you, am I what I seem? My eyes, they lie and you cry; love brings you paaain! And if you try to love me, you'll not feel the saaame! L.O—
Sheena: That's quite enough. (drags Zelos away)
Zelos: You aaall want this love machiiiine!!... (voice fades away)