Meanwhile at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, Remilia Scarlet was in charge of the preparations for Christmas. She, Meiling, Patchouli, Sakuya and her sister Flandre had all done their part in decorating the Christmas Tree, but then there was a need for some Christmas Tree lights for it. "Okay...what are we going to do for it?" asked Meiling and Sakuya. "Well..." said Remilia "We could always use Flandre's wings for the lights..."

"What?!" spluttered Flandre "My wings?! What must you be thinking Remilia?!" The others around her laughed. "Yeah!" laughed Meiling "Flandre's wings are a good candidate for Christmas Tree lights, we can simply detach them and then when we put it away, put Flandre's wings back on her!" "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!" Protested Flandre. "Come on Flandre" begged Sakuya "These wings of your will do wonders for the Christmas Tree lights" But Flandre was scared what it would be like without her wings, or would the removal hurt? "I...i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i...erm" stuttered Flandre who was fearful about what would happen. She back off.

Remilia was not standing it. "Well onee-chan...looks like you'll have to" she said to her trembling sister. "I...I...I..." whimpered Flandre as she shook. "We've made our decision...Meiling...Sakuya..." said Remilia and Meiling and Sakuya went to Flandre's wings. "Don't worry...they're re-attachable" soothed Meiling as she pulled off one of Flandre's wings, while Sakuya pulled the other one off.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEE!" screamed Flandre as her wings were torn off from her.

"Don't worry...they'll be put back on soon" said Remilia to her sister "They look good on the tree. Besides...the pain will go in a few minutes" Flandre looked numbly at the tree as her wings were being wrapped around the tree for the lights. "Urm..." said Flandre "This is unreal...oof" She stood still as the pain was quite intense as of the moment, and until she got her wings back, she would not be able to fly. Sakuya wrapped the wings carefully across the tree until they looked perfect. Meiling Stood back to have a look. "By gosh this looks perfect"

Patchouli cast a spell that made the crystals on Flandre's wings shine even brighter like fairy lights on a real life Christmas tree. "There we go! That has to be it, mistress?" Remilia had a look at the work done by Sakuya, Meiling and Patchouli. "Yes, great work Patch" she replied to Patchouli. Flandre edged forward to join the others at the base of the Christmas tree. "I have to admit" she said all of a sudden "My wings do look rather good on there" Patchouli turned to Flandre. "Is the pain gone?" she asked. "Yes...it's not as bad" replied Flandre, who was still in a bit of pain, but bearable.

Remilia sat down on a chair, while Patchouli went back to finish decorating her library. "There goes Patch" said Meiling "Should we see how the library looks Sakuya?" Sakuya looked at Meiling. "Well...if Patch wants a hand, then lets go" and then they walked off towards Patchouli's library. Patchouli then heard Meiling and Sakuya. "Do you want a hand with your decorations?" asked Meiling to Patchouli. "Er...yes, if you would" replied Patchouli who looked rather tired from doing it all by herself. Meiling saw a box with tinsel and baubles. "Yeah, you work with them" called Patchouli who was on the ladder high up to her bookcase. Sakuya got some tinsel and put it around her neck. "Hehehehe" she giggled "Look at me"

Patchouli stared at Sakuya, visibly unimpressed. Then Sakuya climbed up a ladder to the top of one of the bookcases. "That is how you should do it" smiled Patchouli as Sakuya ascended the ladder. She then turned her attention to putting some holly on the top of her bookcases. Meiling however was putting tinsel on random bookshelves making it look rather random and untidy. But that was the way she thought it should go. When they had all finished the work, Patchouli inspected the work that had been done, then she noticed Meiling's random placement of tinsel on the bookshelves. "Meiling" she said "There is room for improvement there"

Meiling looked at Patchouli. "Well...I thought this was good" she said meekly. Patchouli was having none of it. "That looks like a total mess Meiling!" she said firmly and dismissed Sakuya. "I will have you doing it properly before you leave this room." Meiling was shocked. "How is properly?" Patchouli grumbled and ordered Meiling to bring down a bit of tinsel from one of the shelves. "Like this" said Patchouli and she carefully wrapped some tinsel around the two book cases adjacent to eachother. "Now...you do the same with all the tinsel you've got...I'll watch you until it is done!" "Yes" grumbled Meiling and got to work on Patchouli's watch.


Meanwhile, Reimu and Marisa had turned up at the doors of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. "That's funny" remarked Marisa "Where the heck is Meiling at the gates?" "I dunno, maybe she had to go to the toilet or something" replied Reimu as they approached the front doors of the mansion. Remilia had known that their visit was expected for a few weeks. Marisa knocked on the door. "Hey, it's us!" she chirped "You were expecting us, Remilia?" Remilia answered the door. "Oh...Marisa, Reimu" she said "Come in, we have our Christmas decorations ready!"

Reimu saw Sakuya. "Do you know where Meiling is, as she was not at the gate" she asked to Sakuya. "Ah well" replied Sakuya "We were both helping Patch decorate her library, and Meiling did not do a very good job of it, so Patchouli has forced her to do it properly under her watch!" Reimu snickered. "It's not funny!" snapped Sakuya to Reimu as she walked in.

Marisa had a look at the Scarlet Devil Mansion's Christmas tree with Flandre's wings as the Christmas Tree lights. "Oh ho ho ho ho ho" laughed Marisa. "So you used Flandre's wings for the Christmas Tree lights? Well, I do have to say that they make pretty good Christmas Tree lights, although at the Hakurei shrine, we used conventional Christmas tree lights instead, but this just looks wicked!" Flandre stared at Marisa. "Well it did hurt you know!" she said quickly. "But at least them things are re-attachable, but then what if they weren't, would I be able to fly again?" Reimu laughed "As far as we know your wings are re-attachable" she said "So there should not be to much of a problem!"

"But anyways" Flandre said "Where is the others in Patchouli's library?" "Oh..." replied Reimu "Meiling did not do a very good job at the decorations, so she has to do them again under Patchouli's watch" but she could not really contain her laughter and snickered at Sakuya again. "It's not funny!" protested Sakuya again and got out her knife. "Laugh at it again and I will shove this knife up your arse!" Reimu subsided after that threat.

Back in the library, Meiling was still not to happy of having to do it all again. "I thought the way I did it was the best possible way to do it" she moaned as she wrapped the tinsel around two bookcases. "But no, you thought it was too untidy, and I have to do it all again as a result! Dammit Patch!" Patchouli was having none of it. "If you don't stop your complaining" she said firmly "I will be locking you in the basement over Christmas!" Meiling subsided at that. "I don't wanna have my arse locked in a basement like Flandre was!" she said to herself and then got on with the work without too much complaining. "That shut her up!" said Patchouli to herself.

Then soon, Marisa opened the door to the library. Patchouli turned around "Hold on please" she said to Marisa "We're not quite finished yet, could you wait until we are?" "Yeah..." sighed Marisa "I guess so" and then she back off.

"What was that?" pondered Meiling to herself as she carried on the laborious work of wrapping the tinsel around the bookcases. "Ignore that please Meiling" said Patchouli to Meiling. "Carry on until the job is done" Meiling sighed and got back to work. It was no fun really.

Soon, Meiling was finished. "Phew" sighed Meiling. "That was hard work...especially as I had to do it again!" "Well, hope this teaches you to do it properly next time Meiling!" replied Patchouli. Meiling hoped there would not be a 'next time'. "Get Marisa and the others to come in here" added Patchouli. "Alright then" said Meiling as she walked out the doors to where the others were waiting.

Marisa, Reimu, Flandre, Remilia and Sakuya were waiting outside when Meiling came. "Uh, yes" she said "The decorations are done, and they are all neatly and beautifully arranged" Reimu could not help but smirk slightly at Meiling for what happened. "What the heck Reimu?" spluttered Meiling as she saw Reimu's smirking face. "It's not freaking funny!" Sakuya then flashed her knife in Reimu's face. "Okay, I give over!" sighed Reimu. This was just all to amusing for her.

They then walked into the library, all decorated with tinsel, baubles, holly, whatnot, and it all looked very beautiful indeed. "Wow, that is magnificent" gasped Marisa as she walked in. "Unbelievable" remarked Reimu "This has been done with love and dedication" Meiling just scowled. "Thanks" replied Patchouli. "I admit it does look better than it has done any year beforehand, we've all done a good job on it, but if only I could clone Flandre's wings to the amounts I want, so I can use them for the lights like on a Christmas tree!"

"Oh no no no you're not!" said Flandre "I've already had my wings being used for the Christmas tree and don't go suddenly saying that you want to clone them for your stupid frickin' lights!" "I have to admit, it looks beautiful enough without lights" said Remilia to Patchouli "I think you've done enough" Patchouli sighed "Yeah I guess you're right there...I need to get back on my arse and read some books I guess. Thanks for coming around anyway!" The others just smiled as they left the library, even Meiling who was starting to think it all paid off.