There were still quite a few days before Christmas arrived and now had already started falling over the substantial Smash Mansion for quite a while. Everyone was cheery for Christmas, getting into the holiday spirit, wearing Christmas themed clothes... No. That was rather contradicting to the current situation. Almost everyone refused to wear those due to commotions over certain events. A few- no, QUITE a considerable amount of smashers have been having their greatest streaks so far. Not winning streaks. They couldn't stop losing, that was the problem.

"It's my hat! I told you not to change it, no matter what!"Link sulked, looking at his match review. It was a fight against Lucina; a 1-on-1 stock battle on the Battlefield stage and both the Hyrulian hero and the swordswoman were on their last life. Link had just launched Lucina barely over the platform, causing her to panic, looking at how much damage she had received. Thebrave (and rather reckless, during this situation) Hyrulian jumped over the edge in an attempt to spike her into oblivion.

"Princess Zelda! I'll win this for you and for the sake of Christmas!" Link thought, visualizing her kissing him on the cheek, while Lucina sat in the corner in dismay...

"What are you doing?!" Lucina shouted from behind. Turning around, Link realised that he had COMPLETELY overshot his jump; Lucina was BARELY over the edge, she didn't even need to use her dolphin slash to get back up the platform. Link yelped, fumbling with his hookshot in an attempt to hook to the edge. Problem was, the hook slipped off the edge, even after grappling onto it. Why? There was snow on the platform. Yes.

"It would be more interesting," Master hand said.
"More beautiful too!" Crazy hand followed up.
And Lucina stared in complete confusion and disbelief as she was announced the winner of that match, moving up through the ranks.

It was matches like these that made many smashers lose the holiday mood. Link was one of them; in fact, any smasher who was enthusiastic enough to wear the Christmas colours during their fights had lost every single one of them. Link was wearing a made-to-measure red version of his outfit and received a thermal Santa hat instead of the usual floppy green hat to wear during battles.

Earlier...

"But I don't wanna!" Toon Link complained to Zelda, taking the words right out of Link's mouth.
"Come on guys, are you two seriously that superstitious? Besides, Master Hand just wants us to enjoy Christmas, so get yourselves together!" Zelda chided back, wearing her usual dress, only that it was mostly red around the usual clingy part with some golden on her shoulders and evening gloves as well as green down the rest of her dress.

The only reason Zelda was so confident earlier was because her battles were one of the last few. She bit her lip after looking at all the recent battles, as EVERY single person wearing red had lost their matches from stupid mistakes and those without red won via sheer dumb luck. The only people not affected were Captain Falcon (he always wore a red helmet) with his peculiar 17 consecutive wins and Palutena with her red and purple dress (No surprise here, she was a goddess after all. Well, theoretically every single person would be affected, so some rumours were that they were not actually 100% human, looking at them)

Lucina wore her usual armour, which probably explained why she won. Shulk even decided to battle without any armour at all, to play safe. And it actually worked.

So, to cut a long story short, it was an absolute disastrous Christmas for many. Captain Falcon was top of the ranking list at the moment, with Palutena second, as she had lost her battle against Falcon. Meanwhile, back in the present...

"Poyo!" Kirby exclaimed, seeing himself at the 27th spot of the rankings at the side of a warm mansion hall near the competition area. He didn't have to wear anything special on this day(he was pink with red feet) but still his battle ended as a result of Ganondorf accidentally slipping on some ice while grasping on to him, causing them to both fall of the platform at the same time. However, the boards still announced Ganon the winner for some reason, despite Kirby's complaints. For the first time, Ganon was actually higher up the list than him, making Ganon rather cocky. Kirby was clearly upset but not at Ganon, it was at Master Hand.

"I'm sorry Kirby, but we have got to show at least some sort of Christmas spirit right now to entertain the crowds! The other Smashers and you should try to keep up the holiday spirit to find the meaning of Christmas!" Master Hand explained. Kirby had heard these lines many times already; the others had an uproar when they heard it for the first time. Kirby didn't understand all these "meaning of Christmas" things, he only knew that at least half the roster was to dress up all Christmas like and that they were to give each other gifts...

Samus had just walked past Kirby in her power suit after her match much to Kirby's surprise, it seemed that she was not affected by the "curse" either (she said it was because she refused to believe in 'such mumbo jumbo'), snapping him out of his thoughts. He'd ask her, he decided; she was rather straightfoward when she was speaking, so explaining stuff to him shouldn't be a problem for her. Only problem was, Kirby wasn't very well-versed in speaking. He sprinted in front of her with his stubby legs.

"Hai!" He greeted, standing on tip toes and waving his two stubby hands in the air, using his huge innocent eyes to gaze deep into her soul. It was one of the only ways he knew to soften her up, even though it barely had effect. Probably soften by 3% tops, some suggested. That meant a bomb to them already.

Samus looked down through her helmet as she towered over the 8 inches tall puffball. She always enjoyed, how despite his size, his innocence had left him ignorant of the fact that she was towering over him at over 9 times his height. The first time that happened in battle, Samus had actually attempted to step onto his tiny little head... or body. However, the pink one was not to be underestimated at all, she soon learnt.

"Yes?"

"Wads da meaning ov Cwismas?"

"...Wha-?"

"Whaaad. Isss. Cwissmaass. Wad is Cwismas?" Kirby repeated, as if she was struggling with English, ironically.

Samus stared at the pink puffball for a while, his eyes eagerly anticipating an answer.

"I don't know Kirby... I don't know..." She finally stated, looking out the window beside them, as the snow and frost clouded the view of the outdoors.