Hello and Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays!

Another short drabble with not much of a plot. But still, it's got a little bit of a plot. More than the Thanksgiving one. :-) Don't forget to review your thoughts!

"Come on! Grab it!"

"Kirby, quit!"

"Can someone get this dog and this duck out of here?"

"The whole string is dead!"

"I cannot believe Wario chewed through the wire!"

"Dude, I can't find the star."

"Forget the star! We'll tie you up and stick you on top!"

"You're mean, Samus."

"We shouldn't put a dark angel on top. It's Christmas."

"You got a better idea, Rosalina? We can put your Luma on top?"

"I'm not going to give you a present if you talk like that!"

"Ah ha! So you're the one giving me a present."

"No, but I had another present for you!"

"Guys, stop fighting. You're making Lucas scared."

"Shut it, Ness."

"Samus, we get it. You want everything to be perfect for Snake, but you're getting mean."

"No. That's okay. (sniff) I'm just too sensitive."

"Lucas! Wait… Now see what you did, Samus?"

"Hmph. Well, he's right about being too sensitive."

"Ugh, you're no fun to work with! I'm going with Lucas."

"What's going on in here?" thundered Ike's voice.

He stomped in with Ryu and Ganondorf behind him.

Everyone stepped back simultaneously, eyeing the three, burly, smashers.
"We're decorating the Christmas tree," said Peach, giving a cheery little smile.

"It sounded like you were fighting," Ryu pointed out.
Ganondorf nodded. "Yeah."

"Well, I'm sorry if it came across that way!" Samus snapped. "Get lost unless you wanna help."

"Someone's jittery," said Ike, folding his arms.

"I am not!"

"Actually, Ike's right," said Ryu.

Peach and Rosalina looked at her and nodded. "Yeah, he is."

"Yes, I am," Ike continued. "Samus, Snake doesn't even care about decorations."

"But he notices them!" she argued. "Even if he doesn't care."

Ike rolled his eyes as the Marth, Roy, and Chrom entered.

"So," said Roy. "You know how we drew names for who we're going to pick because not all of us are as rich as Peach and Marth?"

Marth rolled his eyes as Dark Pit glanced at Meta Knight and both nodded.

"Well," Roy continued. "Marth and Chrom both have problems because they want to get for their girls. But, Robin M says Robin F doesn't want anything for Christmas except another long novel, which Chrom doesn't want to get her since he knows it keeps her away from everyone because she gets engrossed in the pages…" Roy paused for a breath. "AND, Corrin won't tell Marth what Corrie wants even though he knows, because he doesn't want her to like Marth."

"Who does he want her to like?" asked Ike.

"Yeah," added Dark Pit. "But she likes everyone anyway."

"What?" Marth burst out. Then he realized what Pittoo was saying and coughed. "Oh."

Chrom chuckled. "I know, you think we're terrible for not even knowing what else, but hey… a distraction from your little argument is a good thing any time."

Samus glared at him, but he didn't notice.

"Just get them cards that sing an annoying little Christmas song," said Ganondorf.

"Seriously," Peach chided. "That would be awful. Besides, you'd be the one hearing it for days on end each time it accidentally gets dropped open. Knowing you, you'd probably kick the wall down."

"Now wouldn't that be exciting," said Pit.

"Look," said Marth, breaking in again. "Let's just ask you guys collectively if you have any ideas. What do girls like in general?"

"The like knowing people care," said Rosalina. "They like hugs from guys they like." She shrugged, blushing. "I'm just saying."

"Chocolate and flowers," said Meta Knight.

"You're not even a girl!" exclaimed Samus. "You can't say. They like being appreciated."

"And as much as I appreciate your advice, those aren't physical presents." Marth folded his arms.

"The best kind," said Peach.

Marth sighed. "Okay. Anything else."

"Why don't you guys just use your own stupid male brains!" Samus snapped. "It's two hours until dinner time!"

"Oh!" Peach exclaimed, putting a gloved hand to her mouth. "I better go back to baking then. It's ready, but a few things are still in the oven. You guys are going to love how much dessert there is."

As she left Ike muttered, "Why don't we call her Queen Frostine or something? She's crazy about desert and doesn't make enough…"

"Meat," Chrom finished for him.

Ryu and Ganondorf chuckled and Ike folded his arms.

"Well, it's true."

"Ganondorf," said Rosalina, sidling up to him. "The kids are getting in Samus' hair. Would you mind taking them out and telling them the Christmas story or something to keep them occupied?"

Ganondorf blinked. "Oka-a-a-a—"

Rosalina blinked back. "Tell me you know the Christmas story."

"Of course I do," he growled.

"Great! Okay, kids! Pit on down, go with Ganondorf. He's going to tell you the story of Christmas, okay?"

"I'm not a kid," Pit argued.

"Do it anyway," Samus answered shortly, folding her arms.

He left with Pittoo and Toon Link and Kirby to find Ness and Lucas and the villagers and gather them to listen to Ganondorf.

With the children out of the way Samus quickly finished decorating the large room and tree with tinsel and holly and mistletoe.

"Everyone's going to kiss each other," said Ike, when he entered again, this time with Lucina and Cloud. "Otherwise it looks great."

"No one's going to kiss anyone," responded Lucina. "Well, okay, some people might, but that's not the point and they won't do it until the kids go to bed."

"When does Christmas Eve officially start?" Cloud asked stolidly.

"Seven o'clock, right after dinner," responded Rosalina. "Guess what? My Luma volunteered to be the star."

"Oh, that's adorable!" squealed Lucina.

"Stop being a girl," Ike groaned. "Come on, Cloud. Zelda said she sent Link off to investigate because Ganondorf was telling the children an interesting story."

Cloud followed and the two waited outside the hall as Ganondorf continued his story.

"The Grinch was obviously very angry, so he took his dog, put the red nose on him, and tied him to the front of the flying sled. Then he tied the abominable snow monster on behind him and they took off. Naturally the little people of that small town all hopped on the reindeer, along with the little boy, who had succeeded in destroying the Grinch's two minions, even though he was home alone, and they flew off after the Grinch.

"But Santa Claus took Mrs. Claus' advice and took the giant star that was showing the three animals how to get back home, and threw it at the Grinch. It ended up hitting the sled, so the Grinch flew off and was towed to the moon with the abominable snowman and his poor dog, and the sled with all the presents fell to the ground and broke."

The children all blinked.
"That Christmas story is way different than the one I remember," said Toon Link.

"Well, no one ever said your memory was as good as mine," Ganondorf responded.

"That is NOT the Christmas story!" Link burst out, stomping into the room. "Oh my gracious, Zelda would slaughter you if she heard you say that!" He paused and cocked his head. "Yes, it was a very interesting story, so congratulations, but that was not the right one." He sighed. "Just let me tell it. Hey, kids, do you know what babies are?"

They all blinked and shook their heads.
"Do you know what mangers are?"

Again they shook their heads.

"I don't even know what a manger is," whispered Ike out of the corner of his mouth.
"Plate for animals," Cloud responded shortly.

"Oh."

"Do you know what shepherds are? Wisemen?"

Blank stares all around.

Link face palmed. "Ugh, this is going to be harder than it looked."

Link succeeded in getting the children to understand the 'true meaning of Christmas' just in time for Snake to drive through the front door on Cloud's motorcycle, which had a huge sack tied to it.

"Snake!" Palutena hissed. "Get that hidden before the children see."

"Sorry!" he responded in a loud whisper. "Who's going to be Santa again?"

"We haven't convince Ganondorf yet and King Dedede said there's no such things as a penguin Santa Claus."

"He's got a point," Snake responded, trying to stuff the sack of presents into a closet. "Too bad we don't have a chimney. That would be funny. Hey, where's Samus?"

"Well, I don't think you should see. You're early. Wait until she gets ready for you."

"Dress-wise, or attitude-wise?"

"Both."

"Ah."

Snake decided to pretend to be late by chilling in the dining room and chatting with Ike, Captain Falcon, and Sheik, discussing his recent escapades.

"We're just about ready to sit down!" sang Peach, trouncing over to them. "Hey, Snake, have you greeted Samus yet? 'Cause I just saw her and she still seemed on edge."

"I figured I'd wait 'till she came in," Snake responded. "You think she'll be angry? Nothing worse than an angry Samus."

"I heard that!" came the bounty huntress' voice. "And if I wasn't angry before, which I was, I'm certainly angry now!"

Snake's eyebrows rose. "Why? What'd I say? Come on, Samus. We haven't seen each other in a month."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder," murmured Sheik. "Maybe you should go away again."

They heard loud pounding as Samus stomped away.

"That was your fault," Captain Falcon accused Sheik.

She frowned at him. "Samus is being a grouch."

"Yikes," said Snake. "Is this my fault or hers?"

"Think out loud," remarked Ike, rolling his eyes.

"Fine. It's her fault, but she's a woman, so she can't be blamed. How's that?"

Sheik glared at him. "How about, she's emotional. Not all women act like that."

"Okay, okay. But hey, it's like if you put a whole bunch of men in a room and they started a war. They're men, you can't blame them. Trust me, I know. Why do you think I have such a hard job?"

Ike and Captain Falcon smirked and Sheik and Peach both rolled their eyes.

Samus did not show up for dinner. Snake was hesitant to look for her and ended up staying with everyone else in the cheerily lit room and eating as much as he needed. So did everyone else.

"This is better than Thanksgiving because, besides desert, we also have presents to look forward to," said Little Mac happily.

"That's true!" exclaimed Ness, bouncing happily in his seat.

"When do we tell who we're going to give to?" asked Villagerette.

"Not yet!" exclaimed Donkey Kong.

Everyone looked at him. "I want everyone to hear this before we give out presents. I like bananas, but not that much, okay? Did everyone hear that? Am I clear?"

Roy burst out laughing and Corrin followed suit. "I remember that's all you got last year."

"I'm sorry," whispered Corrie. "I couldn't think of anything else you liked."

Marth patted her on the back. "Your heart was in it. That's what counted."

"Yes, but it's even better to get the person what they really wanted. It shows you cared enough about them to figure out what they like." She shrugged and forced a smile. "Well, I know I got the right thing for my recipient this Christmas, so I'm happy."

Marth's smile looked forced now, too. "That's great, Corrie."

Ike raised both eyebrows at his friend and the prince gave him a helpless look.

"Time for cookies!" exclaimed Peach. She laid down two huge platters on the table. On one platter were the cookies the children decorated. They'd asked for green, brown, and red frosting. The result was a pile of gingerbread that looked like mucus and blood and organs and dirt. The second platter was piled with gingerbread Peach had decorated herself. Every single cookie was one of her little toads, decorated to perfection. They all looked real.

"Mine can even talk," said Peach. She pressed a button on the bottom of the plate. A toad's voice said,

"I love everyone."

Ike glanced at Cloud, Cloud glanced at Ganondorf, Ganondorf glanced at Little Mac, Little Mac glanced at Ryu, Ryu glanced at Link and Link's eye twitched.

"Which one do you want?" Peach beamed and so did all the children.

Link's eyes twitched some more.

"You can have one of each," added Peach.

Link started to have spasms in his face.

"So," said Snake, voicing everyone's concerns, "we can eat what appears to be molding intestines, or eat Peach's adorable subjects who love us. Help me out. This is a really, really, REALLY hard choice."

"You know what!" exclaimed Rosalina, "I am so full from this meal, I think I'll have my cookies later."

"ME TOO," echoed every other smasher as if on cue.

"Okay," said Peach shrugging. "Perfect timing anyway. It's seven o'clock. Merry Christmas everyone!"

"Merry Christmas!"

They all gathered in the large room Samus had decorated.

"It's nice and pretty in here," said Snake.

Ike glanced at Rosalina and quickly looked away.

"Can someone get… Oh!" exclaimed Zelda. "Hey, Samus."

"Yo."

"You didn't join us for dinn—"

"I wasn't hungry," she interrupted.

"Are you sure?" She smiled. "There's plenty of cookies we didn't eat yet…"

"I'm fine," Samus snapped. She folded her arms and plopped down on the couch.

"Okay," said Marth, standing up and taking charge like he was good at. "We're going to give out the gifts for the person whose name you drew from the hat—"

"It wasn't really a hat," interrupted Pittoo. "It was Kirby's stew pot."

Marth glared at him. "No interruptions please. Now, who would like to go first."

The night was fun for everyone. Corrie had turned out to be getting for her brother, something everyone said wasn't fair, and she got him a sword cleaning kit and a hawking glove so he wouldn't cut his hands when he did it.

"You're the best, sis!" he exclaimed. She beamed.

Ike received a new cape and headband. "Someone meant this as a backwards insult," he said wryly.

"I assure you I didn't," said Rosalina tartly.

Ike glanced at her and a lopsided grin spread up his face. "Okay. I believe you."

She pursed her lips and hastily turned to glance up at her Luma, sleeping on the top of the tree.

Marth got a Japanese tea set. He smiled, though Roy cackled. "Thank you whoever. I recently broke my other one." He frowned. "Wait, cross that. Roy recently broke my other one." Roy stopped laughing.

The rest of the gifts were exchanged and Snake sat there, nodding.

"Oh no!" exclaimed Robin F. "We didn't give Snake anything."

"Oh, he'll survive," said Lucina.

"I'm just glad to be here. BTDubs, who did the decorations?"

Everyone blinked and looked at Samus.
"I told you he'd care," she remarked darkly.

Snake's eyebrows rose. "I always pay attention to decor." He smiled. "You did a lovely job, Samus."

She pressed her lips together and everyone knew she was trying to keep a smile off her face.

"Okay, kids," said Zelda, beaming. "Time for bed."

"What?" they all exclaimed. "We wanted to wait up for Santa tonight! And we already agreed on it."

"Okay," said Zelda, shrugging. She looked at Palutena and raised her eyebrows. Who had the green haired woman chosen?

She paled and looked desperately around the room.

"I'll go get some cookies and milk for Santa," said Peach, and bounded off for the kitchen.

Now everyone else paled.

"Why don't you children go get ready for bed and come back to wait for him," suggested Link.

They ran off.

"So?" Zelda questioned.

"I forgot! Ganondorf? Please?"

"I'd die before I ate a cookie."

"Ike?"

"Never. Not in a million years."

"I've got an idea," said Link. "Ike, c'mere."

The two whispered and Ike rolled his eyes and finally walked off with Link.

The children all returned shortly.

"Where's Santa? Did we miss him?" asked Lucas anxiously.

"No," Robin M assured him, squeezing Lucina's hand. "You didn't."

"Hello?" Ike's voice was higher sounding than normal as he entered the room, dressed in a Santa Claus costume. Link was behind him, dressed in white tights and a green tunic with a Robin Hood hat instead of his normal one.

"Hello!" he exclaimed, his voice way higher than normal.

Ike had the sack of presents slung over his shoulder. "How're you all doing tonight?"

The children blinked.

"Santa, you aren't fat," said Ness.

"Who's that with you? He looks like Link," remarked Villager.

Ike scratched at his beard. "Well, see my dad is Santa Claus and I'm his son, Santa Junior. Well, Dad threw out his back working last night, so I had to deliver the presents tonight. And this is one of the elves he has who works in his workshop."

"He looks like Link," said Toon Link.

"Ha ha," laughed Link in his Mickey Mouse voice. "That's crazy. Link's a relative because of his pointy ears, but I'm not him. That'd be ridiculous. Can you imagine that guy trying to balance two jobs this stressful?"

Ike dumped the toys on the floor. There was one for each of the children smashers. "There you go! Happy… I mean, Merry Christmas! Ho, ho, ho!"

The children beamed. "Thanks, Santa Junior! You too, elf dude!" They instantly began opening the assortment of toys. And the rest of the smashers applauded as Ike and Link bowed out.

After the children whined for twenty three minutes about going to bed and the rest of the smashers gave in for twenty three minutes, Snake finally put his foot down saying they could play with their toys quietly in bed. And then it was the couples' turn.

Marth handed Corrie a medium sized box and gave a small, helpless smile. "Here. I got this for you."

Her eyes filled. "For me? Thank you!" She gave him a hug and he hugged her back.

"Aren't you going to open it?" asked Corrin, frustrated.

"Of course." She opened the lid. Inside was a small crown that could fit around Corrie's black headband.

"You said you wanted a sparkly crown one time," said Marth. He smiled slightly, eyes searching her red ones.

"I… do! I can't believe you remember me saying that." She threw her arms around his neck. "Thank you, Marth!"

He hugged her back, grinning like a fool. "I'm glad you love it."

Link had gotten Zelda another bracelet to add to her extensive collection and Chrom had gotten Robin F a book of Shakespeare plays so she could involve him (making him be the male parts) when she read. Robin M had gotten Lucina two tickets to an amusement park.

"Blew them out of the water!" crowed Roy.

"That's not true," Zelda, Lucina, and Robin all contradicted at the same time.

Roy rolled his eyes.

"Here, Samus," said Snake. "I got you… well, I don't know if you'll like it."

Samus looked at him when she heard the awkwardness in his voice and her blue eyes sparkled earnestly as he held out a small box.

She lifted the lid and covered her mouth with one hand. "Snake," she breathed. "I…"

Everyone tried to crowd in closer and see what was in the box and that meant not very many people got to see. When they finally backed away Samus was hugging Snake and crying and a diamond ring was sparkling on her finger. Snake was smiling as he hugged his new fiancé back.

"Merry Christmas!" exclaimed Link. "Man, that… Snake, you are inspiring."

Zelda raised an eyebrow at Link. "Uh huh."

Link grinned. "Well, I didn't exactly buy a ring yet, but hey. We'll see if I have enough money next Christmas."

"Well, joy to the world," said Samus, sniffing and wiping her eyes. "I'm sorry for being such a snob earlier. I just… I wanted everything to be perfect for the most perfect man."

"Aw," said Snake. "You flatter me. I'm just glad you said yes. You've made this the best Christmas ever." They hugged again.

Well, there you have it. This obviously was sort of a conclusion to Samus and Snake's relationship in the first chapter. Again, Happy Holidays! Hope you all enjoyed. And, if anyone cared to know, I'm not actually going to post a fic for New Years, so... yeah.

I apologize for grammar errors, inconsistencies, and I'll add the disclaimer that I don't own these characters...duh.

Cheers!

Ike4ever