~SHUFFLE CHALLENGE ADVENT CALENDER~

THE (Disfunctional) THIRD

AN: Well, It's me again.

I wanted to do this one last time but it got off to a bad start, what with my laptop being caput and what not. Plus my time is all over the place with work and moving so, yeah, this thing isn't looking so good. That being said, I still want to do it. I say one last time because, well, I'm not sure if I should keep doing it every year. Believe it or not, I enjoy doing this! It's fun though frustrating sometimes, but really, I'd like to keep doing it. Seeing as this year isn't going to great, I'm wavering on my decision a bit at the moment, though.

So! I figured I'd do another shuffle this year and after that let the future sort itself out. So, hello to all you new readers~ Welcome back to any returning readers~ and I hope you all enjoy this!

This year, I've already started out poorly. Why? Because, as stated above, I have no computer. I'm borrowing my cousin's. He's stingy so I don't know how often I'll have the chance to do this, as proven by today's date. This is the first day of the countdown, but four days have already passed. I wrote these on the first. At least, this one and the next one. The third and fourth days were written today. I wanted this to seem as though I started it normally, though, so that's why.

With that logic, I've decided to do it just a little bit different this year. First, Instead of the standard TEN songs required of the challenge, I have chosen to just wing it. Every day will be a random number of songs depending on how much time I have the laptop for. So, look forward to it, ok? If I do end up doing it again next year, I'll return to the normal format, probably.

The rules remain the same, however, and that's basically it. If I skip a day it's because I don't have access to the computer. A song will not be skipped unless I wrote it on a previous day, repeats from previous years will still be written.

For those of you lovely people who are reading Advent Shuffle for the first time ever~ Here are the rules!

Shuffle Challenge Rules
1. Pick a character, fandom, pairing, friendship, whatever.
2. Put your music program on shuffle and start playing songs.
3. For each song, write something inspired by the song related to the theme you chose earlier. You only have the song length. No preplanning and no writing after the song is over. No skipping songs either.
4. Do this for ten songs

So yeah, random number of songs. As I've done every year, I'll go back each day and label each drabble with the Song Title, Artist, and Time Duration (min:sec) in bold above. I'll also label the pairing at the end in parenthesis. If there's no pairing (or the drabble can be considered neutral – as in friendship or general - there will be nothing written in the space where that label would usually go). That way you all can pick and choose which ones you want to read and skip the pairings you don't like if that's what you want.

Now! Let's get this party started~!

CHOSEN THEME FOR ALL 25 DAYS OF 2013 SHUFFLE (Continues to be) FINAL FANTASY VII

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

1000 Percent Love – Starish (Uta no Prince-sama) – 1:42

"We're gonna sing our song so you all 'll be happy, yo!" Reno grinned to the crowd of fans in every direction.

"Are you ready?" Tseng asked, a smirk on perfect lips.

~Feel our heartbeat as it bursts with one thousand percent love~

Fangirls cheered from every seat in the open air theatre as seven males up on stage began singing the countdown.

Room of Angel – Akira Yamaoka ft. Mary Elizabeth Glynn – 6:43

Genesis' face twisted with scorn as he observed the loathed yet familiar woman step out of the mansion only meters away from where he watched. The figure had a familiar bored, almost annoyed, expression on her plain face. Familiar hands rummaging through what looked to be yet another brand new purse. Familiar sand-colored hair fell into familiar blue eyes. Familiar mansion, familiar door, familiar windows and curtains, familiar walkway, familiar yard. Very familiar orchard leading to an even more familiar village.

He despised it.

All of it.

But soon. Soon. It would be no more.

Genesis gave a slightly bitter laugh as he stepped from the shadows, allowing the woman now only a meter away to see him. Almost immediately, she stiffened, emitting a gasp as she took in the person standing before her. Genesis very deliberately allowed a smirk to grow across his lips.

"Genesis." The woman stated, sounding for all the world as if she had been expecting him and wanted nothing more than to be done with the tedious meeting. He could tell, however, how much his appearance had startled her and exactly how wary she now felt. He nodded in mock greeting.

"Mother."

He laughed in his mind as she grit her teeth at the address. She'd never liked it when he called her that. He'd never enjoyed calling such a person his mother, either, except when he'd noticed the ire it caused. It had been a constant source of petty amusement, he'd discovered. But now wasn't the time. He was here for a reason.

Nothing else was spoken as he surged forward, swiftly snatching her small frame in his hands. Too alarmed to exclaim, or perhaps not able to with one of his hands around her throat, Genesis savored the mixture of dread, panic and stark terror in those horridly familiar eyes. He chuckled, a deep sound of hysteria that chilled the woman down to her bones. It was the last thing she ever heard as everything that defined her, living and breathing, completely ceased to exist.

"Goodbye."

Barbie Girl – Aqua – 3:17

Cloud flung the frilly headpiece at the opposite wall with a growl. The object hit a grinning face on the other side of the apartment, eliciting a yelp of surprise from the other resident. The blond would've smirked had his ire been any less than it currently was.

"Aw man, what was that for?" Zack whined, pouting from where he'd just happened to walk in from the kitchen at the wrong time. Before he could receive an answer (as if Cloud would give one) a loud burst of laughter left the older male's throat. The echo of it hung in the subsequent silence.

Cloud stood, teeth grinding, fist clenched, glaring daggers at the other man.

Finally, the spiky-haired raven collected enough control to say, "You… you look good," only to go off into another fit of laughter. Cloud huffed and stalked forward on slim black three-and-a-half inch heels, only causing the idiot to laugh harder at how effortless the blonde made it look to walk in them. The enraged chocobo loomed over the now floored Zack Fair looking impressively menacing in a frilly black and white maid uniform.

The skirt barely managed to cover his ass where a long black tail fell with a large blue bow and bell on the end. Black sleeves reached to the tips of his fingers and a thin black collar sat strapped around his neck with white over the knee socks finishing the look. The cat-eared hairband that topped the whole thing off now sat on the carpet beside Zack where he was failing to keep his laughter in check.

Cloud glared furiously for another minute before frowling something that sounded like "Never again let Aerith and Tifa drag me into…" and stomped of in the direction of his room.

Zack grinned. Never again indeed. He'd have to get Aerith to give him a copy of the pictures.

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AN: So yeah, day one. Hope you liked. I know it's only three for this day. These were written December First, Uploaded today – 12/4. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully, I won't skip so many days again for the remainder of the month.

Everyone enjoy this while I add author's notes to the other three days and make sure everything's alright with them. Also, I gotta eat dinner. All three should be up by midnight (my time – Sorry to all who live in areas where it's already December Fifth). Currently it's 7:50pm where I am.

Anyway, feel free to review this chapter, or wait for the actual December Fourth chapter. Please tell me what you think! Favorite, Alert, and Review or PM me~!