"I... don't want alot for Christmas,
There is just one thing I need,
I don't care about the presents,
underneath the Christmas tree,
I just want you for my own,
more then you could ever know,
make my wish come true,
All I want for Christmas,
Is... You!"
Music was blarring from the speakers on the other side of the glass in the booth. A dark haired elf stood alone on the other side singing into a mic. What? Where do you think Santa gets his Cds to give as presents for Christmas? All songs by all artists were recorded in the one building, in the recording studios. Aurora was the main female singer in the North Pole. There were several others such as her best friend Isabella but you need to be able to change your voice constantly with magic to sound like the singer. Aurora had a gift with music and found changing her voice very easy. Every now and again, the elves would put some of her own versions as extras on the Cds.
Isabella, along with their other best friend Raechela and several other of the music elves sat nodding their heads to the beat of the music, some were dancing and Raechela was prentind to play guitar like she had done before hand for the actually backing music. Isabella played the piano when needed, while Rae played the guitar.
"I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
(And I...)
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
(Ah...)
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas day
I just want you for my own
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
You baby"
Aurora by her looks you would think her about 15 but trully she was over a thousand years old. She wore a beautiful silky scarlet dress, with one side that dipped down lower than the other. Around her shoulders was a snow white cloak that reached the floor. On her left hand were two rings to do with music, one with a treble clef another with double quaver notes. On her right hand was a strange braclet made of brown vines and green flowers that seemed to almost grow up her hand, a gift from Mother Nature herself. Also around her neck was a simple silver chain that held a pretty ballerina charm, showing her love for dance. Her eyes and lips were painted a beautiful firey red and her nails were striped white and red. Her pointed ears were visible through through dark brown, red streaked hair. On her feet were a pair of tall white wedges that were carved to llok like white leaves.
Isabella and Rae continued to mess around in the booth as they listened to their friend sing.
Isabella was slightly older than Aurora but Rae was a bit younger than both of them. Isabella, like Aurora, had dark hair but shorter and kept it around her shoulders instead of down to her waist. She wore a green hat on her head that Rae had gotten her for Christmas, around her neck was a present from Aurora (Rory), a bronze locket with a snowflake carved onto the front of it. She wore a green sweater over a white top, along with a red with white snowflake patterned over jacket. She wore a pretty red, plietted skirt with dark green tights and white leg warms that slightly covered her green converse that had three red snowflakes on the sides. Her nails were painted like holly and on her wrist was a beautiful charm bracelet.
Isabella was actually a chef over in the kitchens but she loved music and often helped out with the songs, wether they were Christmas ones or not.
"I won't ask for much this Christmas
I don't even wish for snow
I'm just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
I won't make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won't even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeers click
'Cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do
Baby all I want for Christmas is you
Ooh baby"
Raechela or Rae as she liked to be called, was a quite bubbly elf and always had some wild stories to tell. She was friends with pretty much all elves there in the North Pole. She loved to play pranks and mess about, alot of times this ended with either Rory or Isa chasing her all around the workshops. Which happened atleast twice a day. Rae at the time was wearing a red off the shoulder top with a blue tank top underneath, along with a green leather jacket. Also she wore a pair of green shorts over some blue tights with green leg warmers. On her feet were red converse, each with a blue flower on the sides. On her head she had a bright red farmers capand around her neck were two necklaces; a guitar pic and a long chain with a charm saying 'HoHoHo'. Also like her friends, her nails were painted with a Christmas theme, hers were blue with snowflakes and a snowman.
"All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children's
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need
Won't you please bring my baby to me..."
At that moment, Rae's and Isabella's boyfriends showed up. Toby who was with Isa was a technology elf, which ment he was involved with all things technical including computers, ipods and phones, whenever something was broken or not working properly there at the studios they had to call up the tech elves. Toby was a very hyper and cheerful person and was good at making everyone laugh. He knew how to make anything funny and was good at coming up with good ideas on the spot. He had short dark hair and was quite tall and lanky. He was known for pranking around the North Pole, but everyone seemed to enjoy his pranks, he once even put his own intercom system around the workshops, that was a fun Christmas.
Then there was Will, Rae's boyfriend. He was involved in all things sporty. Wether it was tickets to matches, sport kits or footballs or any other type of equitment, his team were on it. He was quite tall and had dark hair with blond highlights. He was the quiet type on the outside but truly he was just as wild and fun as the rest of them. He loved books aswell as sports and was the type to just come up with the most random comments that could have anyone rolling on the floor in stitches.
"Oh I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for
I just want to see my baby
Standing right outside my door
Oh I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is...
You"
After the lads had greeted their girls, they turned to the booth where Rory was still inside, just finishing up the last song of their last CD of the year. "She sounds good" remarked Toby. They all agreed. "Yeah," said Rae, "except its Christmas and I want to relax." They all looked to the blond elf like she was nuts, their friends singing was now just being heard in the background.
"Elves?"
"Christmas?"
"Relax?"
Rae just looked a little nervous, "yeah." This just caused them to continue to star at her. Rae laughed nervously and then pointed behind her out the door to distract them, "oh look, Bernards coming!" They all looked (well except of Rory who was still in the booth and wasn't paying attention to what was going on outside).
"Cause Baby,
All I want for Christmas... is..."
At that exact moment Bernard walked in, he had been looking for them for a while. Santa was almost ready for take off except he had to make sure everything was in the sleigh that was needed. Also Comet was acting up again and he need Rae's help to calm him down as she was the head stable elf and was in charge of all the Reindeers. He smiled when he saw Aurora or Aura as he was known for calling her in the booth just finishing up a song.
Aurora opened her eyes as she sang the last word of the song and was surprised at the amount of people that were now in the booth. Her eyes locked with Bernards by accident as she sang.
"You..."
She took off her headphones and came out to her friends all cheering. "Nice work!" complimented Isa. Rory just smiled and said, "wouldn't have sounded half as good if you guys hadn't done the backing track, so I thank you." She then looked to Bernard and smiled, they had grown very close over the years and it was tradition for them to spend Christmas eve night together celebrating with just the two of them and have dinner on Christmas with all their friends. The two often spent New Years eve together aswell. She skipped over and after another minute of messing about on the soundboards and computers with the aid of Toby she handed over the last few CD's needed for that year. "All done" she said happily. "I'll put these in the Santa Sack before they leave," he replied smiling at her and taking the Cd's. He then set his eyes on Rae, "you're supposed to be helping with the Reindeer." Rae suddenly let a look of pure innocence cross her face but this often ment she was just trying to get out of trouble. This worked with most but not Isa, Rory, Toby or Bernard but it did work wonders on Will. Bernard just raised his eyebrow and glared back at her, "Go!" Rae opened her mouth to protest but before she could, Aurora sent a wicked grin over to Isabella who nodded in return. Aurora stepped up and pushed Rae right out the door, "get going, you can't cause Santa to be late. Again!" Rae just walked away grumbling about 'ungrateful elves' and 'needing some new friends'. Will shrugged as he watched her go, "she'll calm down later" and with that he raced outside after her.
Isabella and Toby then started to leave, "we're heading down to the kitchens and then going to my house" Isa explained. "Not going to wait until Santa comes back?" wondered Bernard. They both shuck their heads and left out the door with Aurora calling after, "Have a good night!"
Aurora smiled at Bernard and the two left the studio after she locked up. They headed off together towards the sleigh. After some final checks and Comet was finally settled in all they were missing was the Big Guy, who soon arrived. As they did the checks and walked about, Aurora felt like something bad was about to happen, she knew Bernard felt it too as he was on edge more than usual this year. Aura slipped her hand into his and Bernard almost on instinct intwined their fingers. He placed a soft kiss on her check which caused her to blush a bright red and try hide in her long hair but he ruined that plan by brushing it behind her pointy ears. That was when Santa arrived. Bernard and Aura hadn't noticed anyone coming towards or watching them but practically every elf in sight had stopped or even literally dropped what they were doing to watch their Head Elf with their Head Music Elf. Santa stood also watching the young, well not really young, young looking couple. He walked up to them and cleared his throat causing the two elves who had been gazing at each other to jump at least three foot into the air and Bernard knocked off his hat. Santa beamed down at them and chuckled, "you can continue this later but I believe we have work to do."
Bernard and Aura nodded. Just then Bernard noticed the staring and he spotted Rae, Will and Judy leaning against a nearby wall, smirks set across all their faces. "Everyone back to work!" yelled a rather annoyed Head Elf. Seeing that he wasn't in the best of Spirits the elves in question immedately did as told. Santa was ready. The Reindeer were ready. All the presents lay waiting to be delievered. It was time for take off.
Once they were gone, Bernard once again turned to Aurora but this time he said, "I don't know why but I fell he may fall off some roof tonight." Aurora nodded, "yeah. Too bad, he was an okay Santa Claus." With that the two of them shrugged and headed off to see if there was any trouble or problems on any of the workshops, while they waited for Santa or whoever it was that was going to bring the Sleigh and Reindeers back, came home.