Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX. Only own OCs.
AN: This is me and my contribution to the Christmas stories that are being churned out. I wanted to get this up sooner, but holidays and such made me late as did Grand Theft Auto 5.
In case you're wondering, this is canon to the events of Supreme King Jaden. I figured that instead of waiting loads of chapters to get to the holidays, I just do it now as a separate entry since the holidays are here... Or just finished.
BTW, my friend Kamihime59 over at deviantart did an amazing drawing of Jason and Asami together. The link is on my profile and I would love it if you guys checked it out. Her art is amazing!
Hope you guys enjoy. It probably isn't my best work, but I wanted to spread some Christmas spirit and get my writing muse going again without giving a mediocre chapter to Season 2 or The Domino Eight. There will be four chapters.
Enjoy!
Chapter 1- Holidays Begin
The arrival of winter had finally graced Duel Academy with its presence. The winds picked up and the nights had grown longer, signaling the arrival end of the year. Most occupants had to wear coats, hats, and gloves on top of their usual school attire due to the change in weather patterns. But no one minded. They welcomed it. It meant that the most wonderful time of the year had come.
Christmas.
To celebrate this coming, the season of winter had gone to work on the island. The island was altered to the design of one of those dioramas you see in snow globes. It looked like a mini kingdom. The Obelisk Dorms had many lights and ornaments around them, looking like a giant beacon of light in the middle of the night. The Ra Yellow dorm had wreaths on all doors and a generous amount of lights surrounding the building. It was nowhere near as bright or as pleasant to look at as the Obelisk dorms, but it was still nice to take a gander at.
The Slifer Dorm, however, didn't have many accommodations to it. Just a few lights. That's it. It did, actually, have the most snow on top of it, almost as if nature wanted to decorate it for the holidays.
The occupants of the school, at least those that stayed behind, were looking forward to days in the snow and enjoying the days off of school. Others were excited to go to the Christmas Festival that started at noon and lasted until the next night. It was almost a repeat of the previous year. The only difference this time around?
A certain Slifer wouldn't be blowing the blow horn this time around.
In the Slifer rec room, Syrus Truesdale, Chazz Princeton and Tyranno Hassleberry were standing just a few inches away from the two sets of queen sized beds that were in the back of the room. On one of these beds was Jaden Yuki and Alexis Rhodes while Jason Yuki and Asami Elric occupied the other bed. Both Yuki twins had their arms around their girlfriends while the ladies were leaning into their boyfriends.
Chazz leaned over to Syrus. "Why are we doing this again?"
Hassleberry nodded. "I'm lost on that as well."
Syrus grinned as he held up a blow-horn in his hand. "Last year at this time, Jaden very rudely woke up me, Chumley and Jason with one of these. Since then, I swore to make sure he got his comeuppance." He waved the blow-horn. "Any second now, Jaden will be on the receiving end of this torture!"
Hassleberry ended up grinning, "A dish best served cold! I approve, soldier."
Chazz took it in before he ended up smirking. "My respect for you has shot up by a good chunk." He nodded.
Syrus' grin expanded. "By how much?"
"Five percent."
Syrus faceplanted at the absolute serious and proud tone that Chazz had said that in. He quickly shot up to get in his face. "That's not a good chunk!" He almost forgot not to yell. "That's barely an improvement!"
"Hey, five percent is a lot in certain cases." Chazz defended himself.
"Like what!?"
"Someone who got a 60 on a test and needs that five percent to pass."
"Five points is not five percent!"
"Out of 100, yes it is."
Hassleberry decided that he had to break up the fight before it got outta hand and ruined the plan. "Soldiers, you might wanna keep it down." He gestured his head to Jaden, who moved his arm off of Alexis before turning on his side, back facing the three guys.
Chazz and Syrus halted their little spat, though Syrus gave him one final dirty look. Shaking off his annoyance, he placed his fingers over the button that would activate the horn. He grinned like an idiot as he let his fingers fall.
"Wake up!" He shouted over the blasting of the horn. Jaden scampered off of the bed, head hitting the wall as he slipped on the covers. Alexis had jumped like if she was on a trampoline and scurried back so she rested on the head of the bed. Jason fell onto the floor as well with a loud shout of fuck before resting on the wall. Asami had the least dramatic reaction, simply jerking up and holding her chest.
Jaden stood up to see that the culprits were laughing like a bunch of children who just heard their first funny joke. He glared heatedly at them. "What the hell!?"
Alexis wasn't happy either. "You guys are such assholes!"
Jason growled. "Dicks!"
Asami frowned. "You guys are so dead!"
All their yelling was just making the three laugh harder. Chazz was slapping his knees, tears starting to stream down his face. Hassleberry was holding his stomach as he fell face first to the ground and Syrus rounded it off with a finger in Jaden's direction, mouth wide open as he tried to refill his lungs.
"Revenge... Gotten... Sucka." He gasped out through his laughs. By now they all calmed down, although their smiles weren't nowhere near ready to leave their faces.
"Revenge!?" Jaden asked as he was the one pointed at. "What'd I do!?"
"Last year," Syrus reminded. Jaden paled as he remembered. "You rudely woke up me and Chumley to wake Jason up with this." He chugged the item over to Jaden, who caught it with a single hand. "I waited a year to do that and it was worth it." He was so happy that his smile expanded to awkward levels.
Alexis still wasn't having it. "I didn't do anything to you. Neither did Jason or Asami. Why'd you attack us too?"
Syrus shrugged. "I'll tell you what Jaden told me and Chumley." He cleared his throat. "'You guys just happened to be in the room when it happened.'" He impersonated Jaden with a very deep voice, or as deep as Syrus could get it.
"That's a very poor excuse!" Asami exclaimed.
"He's telling the truth though." Jason confirmed.
"Truth or not, that was still inconsiderate and rude!" Alexis said.
Jaden smirked at his girlfriend defending him.
"You should've woken us up so we could assist you." Her response sent Jaden to the ground again. "Don't get me wrong, I'm all for dishing some sweet harmless revenge, but not at the cost of throwing people under the bus."
"We'll be sure to send invites next time." Chazz promised.
"Okay, enough." Jaden got back on his feet. "Syrus got his revenge on me, it's done." He ended the feud. He tossed the blow-horn to the small dresser behind Jason, where it landed and spun around before falling flat. "Though you're a little early," he noted. "I did that Christmas Eve. It's only December 17th."
"What can I say," Syrus shrugged. "I got impatient."
A good laugh was shared between the small group, with a smirk from Jason and a small smile from Jaden. There was total harmless fun being played here that seemed lost when things got really serious around them with the summer's events. They quickly realized they needed more events like this.
Though Syrus wasn't getting anywhere near a blow-horn again.
A pound on the door broke the laugh as Aaron Elric, Asami's dad and new Slifer headmaster barged in dressed in a white wife beater and his jeans that were barely on, supporting them with a hand. Jason immediately frowned upon seeing him.
"I heard a loud noise and crashes!" He looked around. "Is everyone okay?"
They nodded. "Yeah, daddy," Asami said. "Just some harmless fun is all."
"At six in the morning?" He asked.
"Early bird catches the worm, right?" She grinned.
"You guys scared the shit outta me," he said. "I thought something bad was happening. You made me hit my head on the bedframe for nothing."
"It wasn't exactly nothing," his daughter explained. "Syrus did get his revenge." The blue haired Ra smiled nervously, lots of his nerve gone now that a staff member had come in, despite knowing Aaron personally.
Aaron looked around again before sighing. "At least hold off on 'revenge' until eight. Most of us will be up by then." He shrugged. "If nothing bad's happening, then I guess I'll leave you guys be."
Before he left, he quickly remembered. "Oh yeah! Jaden, Jason," the two in question rose their eyebrows. "You guys don't have therapy today. Dr. Yeager is on vacation for Christmas and won't return until January 4th." He relayed the news before he exited the room.
Jason broke the silence. "Good. I didn't feel like talking today anyway. I'm getting sick and tired of it by now."
"I like him, but yeah, I wasn't up for talking today either." Jaden agreed. "I'm still a little bit unnerved by the last session." He didn't say more as that was his right to keep his talks private and between him and Yeager.
"What a coincidence," Jason responded in a dry tone. "Same here."
"It's helping you," Asami countered. "You, Jaden, and Daddy are not so tense anymore. You can be in the same room with Daddy without wanting to hurt him; Jaden's panic attacks are limited; and Dad can say the names of the people he's killed without crying. It may seem slow and tedious, but that's how you win the race." She reminded.
"Wise words, Bestie." Alexis nodded. "Couldn't have said it better myself."
"Doesn't mean the journey isn't a painful annoying process." Jason muttered.
"As Alexis just said," Jaden intervened. "Couldn't have said it better myself."
Seeing the mood was slowly being clouded with the usual negativity, Chazz clapped his hands together to draw attention to him. "Back on much lighter notes, I hear that the Festival this year will be much more rounded."
"How?" Alexis asked.
"I hear Dungeon Dice Monsters is gonna be available, a Christmas costume contest will take place, a gingerbread house contest, design your own stockings, and so on." He listed. "I don't think I was around for last year's event, so I'll make sure to check this one out."
"Oh yeah, you were already gone on your North Academy bitch trip." Asami joked. Chazz frowned at her, to which she stuck her tongue out.
"Sounds like I came to this school at the right time," Hassleberry noted. "I may not be too much of a party fellow, but I can't past up a chance to win a contest, especially when it comes to gingerbread houses!" His mouth watered at the chance to make and eat his own food.
"Didn't you four have your first kisses at this time last year?" Syrus asked. They all nodded. "In a way, this is your one year anniversaries." Before they asked, Syrus explained. "It was obvious you guys were gonna get together after that, especially you two." He pointed to Jason and Asami. "You guys practically started dating the moment you two started dancing in the gym!"
Jason smirked. "Guilty as charged, little buddy."
Asami blushed and smiled. "Agreed."
"Sounds like I missed one clusterfuck of a day last year." Chazz mused.
"Hopefully something just as exciting happens this year so you won't feel too bad." Alexis hoped.
Jaden and Jason both looked away, turning the pleasant vibe into an awkward one very quickly. It was a classic blink and miss it moment.
"Guys?" Alexis asked. They did not turn to meet her gaze. "What're you hiding from us?" She pestered. Asami grew worried.
"Nothing..." Jaden said. He didn't look though to see her questioning and worried gaze. He just knew it was there.
"Yeah... Nothing." Jason did the same with Asami.
"Bullshit," Chazz broke in. "You guys are holding something back. I thought your therapist said not to do that."
"How'd you know he said that?" Jaden asked, finally turning his head away from the white painted walls to look at his foster sibling.
Chazz gave a victory smirk. "I didn't." Jaden frowned. He dropped the smirk. "Seriously, you two aren't fun or tolerant when you're hiding something, so spill it. What're you two thinking?"
Jaden and Jason faced one another, blinking as they engaged in a silent debate. Finally, after a minute, they sighed before, in perfect synchronization, answered:
"We're not going to the festival."
Their friends were, quite understandability, shocked.
"What?" It was Asami who spoke first. "But we had so much fun last time." She looked to her boyfriend. "We kissed and danced at the last festival. We fell in love there. Why don't you wanna go?"
"Same with you, Jaden." Alexis added. "How come you don't wanna go?"
"You guys had fun." Syrus reminded.
"Sarge, you could use the fun away from your issues." Hassleberry pointed out.
"Same with you, Jason. What the hell?" Chazz asked.
Sighing, they took turns giving their answers. Jaden went first. "I'm not in the Christmas spirit." He replied. Jason said the same thing, only adding that he wasn't feeling jolly either.
"Oh come on," Chazz groaned. "What kinda stupid answer is that. You're not in the Christmas spirit?" They nodded. "I thought you guys weren't gonna do stupid shit anymore after your little freakout over the blown up photo."
Jaden shrugged. "It's true though. I just ain't up to it."
Jason nodded. "I may be better in controlling myself, but I'm not too sure I'll be all that fun at the festival."
"I'm gonna take that answer and add it to mine too." Jaden said. "Two depressed sociopaths at a Christmas party? Not exactly what you guys need."
Alexis and Asami groaned while Chazz, Syrus, and Hassleberry sighed.
"You guys are. Not. Sociopaths." Their girlfriends growled out. "How many times do we have to tell you this already!"
"Until you get tried of it?" Jaden wondered.
"We got tired of it the first time." Alexis frowned. She dropped it. "We went over this already. Being mad and paranoid doesn't make you sociopaths. Stop calling yourselves that. It makes me sick to hear it."
"And it isn't easy to hear either." Chazz added. "We hear this shit from ignorant people. We don't need to hear it from you guys either."
Jason sighed. "Whatever the hell we are aside, we still won't be fun at the festival."
"Okay, forget this." Asami shook her head. "We have a week to convince you two to go, so let's not get stressed out at six in the morning."
"Too late for that, ma'am." Hassleberry said.
"Wimp," Syrus snickered. He was promptly clocked on the head by Hassleberry. "Worth it." He was clocked again. "That too."
Chazz nodded. "We got a week to convince the two moropaths to go to the festival. Let's not waste all our energy on it."
"Moropaths?" Jaden asked.
"It's a word in The Chazz dictionary," he held up a finger with a smug smirk. "Definition is 'to suffer a severe case of idiocy and ignorance that borders on mental retardation.'" He explained. "I'm coining that word. A dollar every time someone uses it."
"Well good luck getting rich off that." Hassleberry rolled his eyes. Again, a small laugh was shared as Chazz glared at the Dino duelist.
A knock on the door interrupted their little discussion. Syrus jogged over to the door as he opened it. On the other side was Atticus Rhodes, red Santa hat on his head and a bag in the other.
"What's happening, peeps?" He greeted as Syrus let him in. Alexis was about to tell Syrus to kick him back out. "How's the start to everyone's holidays coming along?"
"It's a week till Christmas." Jaden reminded.
"You're never too early to start celebrating the most wonderful time of the year, J-Man." He grinned.
"Even in March?" He smirked.
"Now you're just being dramatic." Jaden's smirk expanded.
"I know I'm gonna hate myself for asking, but what's in the bag?" Alexis forced the question out, bad vibes circulating her body as she started at the brown paper bag.
Atticus shook the bag, "This is a surprise, Sissy. One that all of you will love and thank me for." He promised.
"Oh shit, what is it?" Chazz, Syrus, and Asami paled and asked.
"What?" Atticus was confused.
"Last time you said that, we went to the beach." Chazz started.
Atticus still didn't get it.
"You surfed and fell." Syrus continued.
Again, Atticus didn't get it.
"You lost your shorts and exposed your ass to everyone on the beach with no shame." Asami finished. Atticus paled as he remembered now, while Hassleberry and the twins laughed.
"Really, Atticus?" Hassleberry asked. "Your shorts?"
"It wasn't my fault!" He quickly defended himself. "The strings were loose and it slipped off!"
"I didn't see and am forever thankful I didn't." Alexis smirked.
"How?" Jason asked.
"Was reading a book. Heard him fall, then shouts of naked ass, and didn't look up until I was told it was clear." She explained.
"For once, I'm glad I wasn't around." Jaden shivered. He's seen and done some horrible stuff, but naked Atticus thankfully wasn't one of them.
"Here here," Jason added.
Atticus nervously laughed it off. "Well, my embarrassing time aside-"
"Thank God!"
"You will thank me for this," he continued. "Meet up at the hillside after classes today. All detes will be discussed there?"
"Detes?"
"Details." He translated.
"Is everybody inventing words now?" Asami asked with a smack to her face. Atticus blinked. "Chazz just humbly introduced us to a new word of his I will not repeat due to not wanting to invest into it and because of how dumb it is."
"Damn, I was hoping for that dollar." He smirked.
"I'll give you one if you never use that word again." Alexis offered.
"Nah, I like it."
Atticus shook his head. "Horrible new words pushed to the side, just meet up on the hill. Trust me, it's a good way to get us all into the holiday spirit."
Light bulbs went off in Alexis and Asami's heads, remembering Jaden and Jason saying that they'll be skipping out on the festival due to not being in the holiday spirit. If Atticus was truthful, and there was an honest chance that he was just being stupid, then it meant that maybe Jaden and Jason could be persuaded to go to the festival.
If not, then they could just beat up Atticus for false advertising. A win-win.
"Since you're ever so eager to do this," Jaden said, trying his best to not sound sarcastic. He loved Atticus like a brother and owed the man his life, but he did get carried away from time to time with his ideas. "I'll give it a look."
"Good, now I won't have to drag you up there." Alexis was pleased. Jaden just rolled his eyes.
"Might as well," Jason shrugged. "My interest is peeked."
"Good boy," Asami teased, getting a playful smack on the arm from her boyfriend.
"I have to see what it is you've got planned," Chazz nodded. "But if it's a repeat of the surfing incident, I'm kicking your ass." He warned.
"Please don't scar me for life again." Syrus pleaded.
"I'll attend. But I better not see any skin from you." Hassleberry warned.
Atticus laughed nervously. "Well, I can safely say that with the weather being what it is, I'll be keeping as many clothes on as I can."
"You better be serious." Alexis grumbled. She made it out of the fire once without a burn. She wasn't looking to get hit this time.
"Is it just us?" Jaden asked.
"Nah, Bastion too." Jaden nodded. "As well as those girls Misaki Haruno and Hikaru Paul." He added.
"Why?" Jason, Alexis, and Asami all groaned.
"Because I'm trying to do something here, that's why." He answered.
"This polygamy isn't happening." Chazz butt in.
"You don't know that!" Atticus exclaimed. All eyes looked at him funny, to which he laughed it off. "Ummm... We'll also be having a surprise guest."
"Who?"
Atticus grinned as he went to the door. He opened it and gestured for someone to enter. A second later, in the doorway, was a very pretty woman with wavy pink hair that reaches her hips and dark brown eyes standing at 5'8. She wore a short sleeved opened button flannel red shirt and blue skinny jeans that showed off her nice figure. She also has a black sleeveless turtleneck under her shirt. She had a black coat on to withstand the cold. She looked to be in her mid 20's and shrugged a red backpack over her shoulder.
Everyone minus Hassleberry recognized her.
"I bumped into her outside," Atticus grinned. "Coincidental, huh?"
Asami's mouth dropped before she exploded into a giant grin. "Big sis!" Asami ran up to hug her sister and gave her a tight hug. Her sister returned it with a softer grip.
"Hey, Sami." She nodded, but had a small smile on her face.
Jason avoided eye contact with her, as did Jaden. Chazz noticed this, but let it go as it was understandable why they were awkward around her.
"Who's the lady?" Hassleberry asked.
"Got waste in your ears, Dino boy?" Syrus asked. "Asami just called her her big sister."
"I heard, was just making sure you did." He lied. Syrus huffed. Hassleberry quickly checked his ears for anything out of the ordinary in them.
"Callie!?" Alexis was shocked, but very quickly shook it off to go and embrace the older woman.
"Hey, Lex." She greeted as she wrapped an arm around her little sister's best friend.
"What're you doing here?" Asami asked.
"Yeah, I'm curious about that too." Atticus said. "She wouldn't tell me anything when I asked."
Callie rolled her eyes. "I said that I'll explain when we see my sister, though I didn't expect you to be here. I thought girls had their own dorm?"
"We do... But I'm kinda staying here for the foreseeable future." Asami rubbed her head sheepishly.
"I explained this to you, Asami; you don't have to be with your boyfriend 24/7 just because you-"
"Shut up!" Asami turned beet red, as did Jason. "That's not why! I'm avoiding trying to be turned into the Chancellor's quick route to fame!"
Callie ohed. "Alright, never mind then."
"Just explain why you're here before her face turns her hair color." Chazz intervened, much to Asami's gratefulness.
"I see Chazz hasn't gotten anymore politeful," Callie cracked, making Chazz narrow his eyes at her. Callie shrugged. "You know your Christmas Festival?" Asami nodded. "Well, the company I work with made a deal with Mr. Kaiba to sell our Christmas themed merchandize right here on the island."
"You're gonna be selling your brand of clothes right here?"
"Yep." She unwrapped her arms around the girls to sling down her backpack. She opened it up to pull out a custom T-shirt that had Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes firing their signature attacks to create a giant purple energy ball.
"That's cool!" Syrus exclaimed.
"And this is only one of them, Sy." She put the shirt away. "My team has the rest. I just decided to come here a few days early to spend some quality time with my baby sis." She pinched her cheek.
"You're embarrassing me!" She shoved her hand away. "You're worst than Dad!"
"Speaking of, where is Dad?" Callie asked. "I was looking forward to surprising him with my visit."
"He's probably back asleep," Asami answered. "We kinda accidentally woke him up about twenty minutes ago."
"We?" Alexis raised an eyebrow
"Syrus." Asami corrected.
"Hey!" He whined, but quickly fell silent as they were right. Hassleberry laughed, which got a nasty glare from the little Ra.
Callie softened her features. "Is he doing better?"
Asami nodded. "A little, yeah. He's been seeing the school therapist. I've even sat in with him a few times. He's still really guilty, especially about what happened to you..."
Jaden and Jason both lowered their heads in shame and regret. Callie finally turned her head to face them both.
"Hey, J-Twins." She greeted. They grumbled a hello back to her. "Okay... Good morning to you too then, Jerkies." She waited for them to react to that. They didn't move. They didn't open their eyes.
Don't get them wrong, they loved Callie. They respected her as part of Asami's family and she had been nothing but kind to them when they met, but they still carried lots of guilt for getting her hurt in their fiasco. They couldn't even apologize face to face with her after all was said and done. This was the first time they saw her since the incident happened.
The past just loved to keep haunting and visiting them.
Callie sighed. "Fine..." She looked to Hassleberry. "I don't believe we met before."
Hassleberry bowed. "Name's Sgt. Tyranno Hassleberry, ma'am. It's an honor to meet the sister of a friend."
"The feeling's mutual," she nodded, sweatdropping just a little bit at his mannerisms. "Anyway," she shrugged. "I guess that Atticus alluded to me being a part of the event he has in mind?"
"Yes he has," Alexis nodded. "Please tell us if it's anything stupid. We're begging you here."
"It won't be a redo of the surfing incident." She promised.
"Yes!" Chazz, Syrus, and Asami cheered.
"Told you!" Atticus grumbled.
"So you know what it is?" Alexis asked.
"Nope." Everyone faceplanted into the ground.
"So why'd you say that!?" Asami fumed.
"Alexis asked me to." Callie countered with a straight face and no joking features anywhere near her. She was as serious as Zane was on any given day. Hell, she may even beat him out of being serious.
Asami sighed but then smiled. "Glad that you still have you're sarcastic and serious side still, Big Sis." She gratefully said.
Callie nodded.
"We should probably get ready for classes." Alexis advised. "We only have an hour and a half and there's a lot of us in this one place. Plus some of us like to hog the showers." She looked pointedly to Chazz on that one.
"I like hot showers! Sue me!"
The small party laughed as they went their separate ways, either out the door or to the bathroom that Chazz had installed in the rec room. The only ones left in the room were Callie, Jaden and Jason, the latter two still sitting on the floor cross legged with their heads down.
Callie broke the silence between the three of them. "We're not done discussing this." She warned.
"Figured as much." Jaden mumbled.
"So you talk after all."
Jason sighed. "Cal-"
"We're not doing this now." She interrupted. "I just wanted you to know that this is being cleared up before I leave here on Christmas night." She said. They nodded. Callie walked up to them and bent down, giving each Yuki a kiss on the top of their head. "I'm glad you guys are okay..." She exited to find her father.
Jaden and Jason sighed. It was gonna be a long holiday.
End of Chapter 1 of Christmas Special
Yep, meet Asami's big sister Callie. She's probably one of my favorite characters I made outside of Jason and Asami herself. I needed her here to help finish wrapping off the plot points from The Domino Eight, which will definitely be updated within a month. I'm trying here, but I swear this time I'm telling the truth.
Atticus' event will be revealed next chapter.
This is mostly gonna be humor with a balance of romance and family fluff as well.
This is only gonna be three or four chapters, so it may be done within a week, maybe a week and a half. Two tops then right back to Season 2 and The Domino Eight.
Some glimpses into the future, but it isn't exactly too spoiler filled so I think it's okay.
Hope you enjoyed and leave a review and hope you had a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Have a great New Years too! This may be my last update of 2014.
Next Time: Holiday Shopping
