I had the idea for this spin off around three o'clock the Monday before Christmas, and typed it up over the next few days. Enjoy!


New Years Special (2015-16)

Third Person POV

All of the girls were gathered in Selene's dorm room—the room for female prefects—on the evening before New Years Eve. Well, Selene hadn't quite arrived yet. Her and Klaus were still coming back, but Selene had sent Klaus' familiar on ahead with a note saying they should be back in about three hours—and that was just under three hours ago. Katalina (x Elias), Philyra (pronounced fli-I-ra) (x Yukiya), Marelda (x Luca), and Zelia (x Serge) were talking about Midwinter and what they should do for New Years as they waited for the oldest member of their circle for friends. Their buddies were back at the teachers dorm waiting for Klaus—though they had to wait in the hall because Klaus didn't trust them enough to give them a key—besides, a professor giving a key to his dorm room to students wasn't a good idea, though the female prefect was special and was gifted with a key. The boys all seemed to know something about the professor and his girlfriend and wouldn't tell the girls about it. They were just burning with curiosity.

They heard a key turn in the lock and a bundle of clothing fell into the room and started rolling around, shouting, "Warmth! Warmth!" while it's suitcase lay forgotten in the hall.

All four of the girls giggled as they watched their cold-"intolerant" (what a severe understatement, that is) friend began yanking off the layers upon layers of cold-resistant clothing. When she stripped down to a red sweater and jean and a single pair of fuzzy socks, she flopped onto her bed, belly down, nearly knocking off the two girls who had been sitting on it. "Ishshogootabhmmmm!"

"We can tell you're excited to be back and all, but you've left a mess!" Zelia laughed, her long, bright blue hair falling out if it's loose braid as she shook her head and rocked back in forth (as she tends to do as she laughs) on the chair that sat between the two beds in the room.

"Fiiiiiiine…" Selene flipped onto her back and waved her hand, summoning her wand, her second one, the coloring of which was silver and gold swirling around on another, with bronze veins peeking through here and there. It flew into her hand and she waved it lazily, "Wind, do your thing!"

And all of a sudden her suitcase unzipped. For a few minutes clothing zipped around the room. About half of it flew into a hamper in a corner and the other half hung themselves up or folded themselves and put themselves in the proper drawers.

"Woah…" the other girls went.

"Woah is right. It took me over half a year to be able to control the wind that well. And it was half a year well spent—I hate having to pack and unpack. The magic does a better job at it anyway." Selene sighed, propping herself up on her elbows, "How are all of you, girls? How was Midwinter? What did you guys get? Who made out with their boyfriends? Besides Zelia on that last part. There's no question she did. But what about the rest of you?" All the girls burst into laughter at their friend's antics. She sounded almost like she hadn't seen them in months.

"Why so eager to know? We saw you a week ago, for crying in a bucket!" Marelda snorted, shaking her head and causing her short, fiery red hair to bounce.

"Hey! That's my saying, thief!" Selene sniffed, folding her arms and looking off to the side, "And besides, a lot can happen in a week!"

"Then what happened in yours?" Katalina inquired.

Selene bit her lip and squirmed in her seat, turning red, "Well...uh...ummm…"

"So you want us to kiss and tell, but you yourself won't?" Marelda teased.

Philyra, the youngest member of the group at a younger 15, with her sea green (left eye) and stormy grey (right) eyes sparkling, got up from her spot where she was sitting at Zelia's feet, petting Blayze (who had arrived a while before Selene), and climbed on the bed, grabbing Selene's left hand and raising it up for everyone to see. The other three gasped at the glittering moonstone gem attached to a silver ring. "Does it have something to do with this?" Philyra said in her quiet, lullaby voice.

"Is that...is that an engagement ring?!" Katalina's jaw had dropped a good deal. Selene looked down, entire face on (not-literal, you can never be too sure in Selene's case) fire, and nodded.

"Congratulations!" Zelia had lunged from her seat and gave Selene a big hug, squealing.

"When did he…?" Katalina seemed awed by the simple ring. Then turned red as she imagined an older Elias asking her. Her friends could guess exactly where her train of thought had gone, and they all giggled.

"Midwinter's Eve. He took me to the observatory—this beautiful room that's opened to the sky because the ceiling and most of the walls are made of enchanted glass—when the annual Goldstein ball was over, and then, after another confession—the sweetest one I've ever heard—he asked me to marry him. He said he'd wait to actually get married until I was ready, and I said yes!"

Katalina and Zelia squealed, Marelda grinned, and Philyra smiled shyly, like she always did. Selene fell back onto her bed, her legs from her knees down hanging off the edge of the bed, and sighed dreamily. "I think we're going to wait at least until after I graduate, because that'd be the easiest. And just to let you guys know, you're four of my five bridesmaids if you say yes…"

They all immediately agreed. The fifth would be Amelia, who was visiting her home with her own boyfriend (who's name will not be mentioned at this time because it will spoil too much of the actual story), and none of them doubted in the slightest that she'd freak when she came home and possibly pass out from excitement (it had happened once or twice before, to be honest…).

The five talked about their breaks and what they had all done, and about all the other girly-talk blah blah blah…

At some point, Katalina brought up the idea for having a New Years Party with everyone.

"I mean, it'd really just be for all of us and our buddies, you know? For the most part, we're the only ones left in the academy, the place is pretty deserted. It'd be fun!" Katalina finished. Everyone agreed.

"You know, there is a tradition for couples on New Years back in Terra." Selene said.

"Really? What is is?" Zelia asked.

"I don't know if it's the same here, but people will countdown the last few seconds—my brothers and I always counted down from ten—and once the bells ring midnight, couples will kiss. It's supposed to signify renewed strength in a relationship for the new year, but some people will just use it as an excuse to make out." She gave Zelia a teasing look and they all laughed.

"That is a pretty good excuse to do so, you all have to admit." Zelia smiled and shrugged innocently.

Marelda rolled her eyes, "Like you and Serge need an excuse. You'll just do it whenever, wherever, just to do so. You two are so shameless…" She shook her head.

"I don't think it's shameless so much as they're so busy with each other that they don't notice anyone else is there…" Philyra giggled. Her giggles sounded like the soft tinkling of little bells.

"True." Selene agreed. "Anyway, baaaack to what I was saying—my idea is that we shock our boyfriends a bit and…" She relayed her idea. After a while, everyone agreed, even though a few were a bit too embarrassed to do it right away. "But we all have to do it at the same time,or it won't work, agreed?"

"Agreed." They chorused.

…. …. …. (The next evening, about five to midnight)

They were using the common room in the boys' dorm, because it was smaller than the one in the girls' dorm (the one is the girls' dorm was positively huge, and the one in this dorm was the right size for their little party. Zelia had conjured a magical clock about an hour 'til midnight, to count down the time until. They had pushed a lot of the furniture against the walls, making room for the ten people there to walk around. There was a table off to the side full of simply scrumptious food made my Selene, Yukiya, and Katalina. During this party, which had started around eight pm, various people performed as entertainment—Elias and Katalina had done a duet on the violin and piano, Selene and Philyra sung a few songs each, Selene had taught everyone (well, everyone who she could get to participate, which was everyone but Philyra and Yukiya, Yukiya mostly because she wasn't) how to the dance to Cotton-Eyed Joe and the Macarena, and had also set up some magic firework-like things her brothers had sent her that would go off and send golden sparks and stars into the air when it hit midnight, but other than those, Selene connected her phone to a portable speaker and had a mixture of Terran Christmas songs and other songs playing, allowing people to dance when they chose and whatnot.

At the current time, everyone was just waiting for the change of the hour. Yukiya and Philyra were snuggled together on one of the couches, Elias, Katalina, Luca, and Marelda were playing a card game while Zelia sat on Serge's lap, giggling and dramatically commentating the game while the others (and herself) tried not to laugh at her too much. Selene and Klaus were dancing to a waltz-like song and talking. When there was one minute left, Selene called out, "Positions people!"

Katalina and Marelda put their cards down, Zelia shifted positions on Serge's lap, Philyra rotated a bit, and Selene cut of her dancing with Klaus. They looked at the glowing magical clock in the center of the room. The girls (along with Serge and Luca) started counting down with it when it reached ten seconds left.

Ten...

Nine…

Eight…

Seven…a giggling Zelia wrapped her arms around Serge's neck

Six…Philyra and Katalina both took a deep breath and released it

Five…Philyra took Yukiya's face between her hands

Four…Marelda grabbed Luca's shoulders

Three…Katalina leaned towards Elias

Two…Selene wrapped her hand around Klaus' tie

One…

Philyra gently kissed Yukiya, Katalina pecked Elias on the lips, well, it was a little longer than a peck, Marelda pulled Luca in and pressed her lips against his, Selene yanked Klaus by his tie toward her and kissed him deeply, and Zelia and Serge were making out within a few seconds.

All of the boys (except Serge, who was busy) blushed. Then Klaus smirked, Luca grinned, Yukiya gently smiled, and Elias looked panicked, unsure of what to do.

Selene's cheesey-smile was wide, "I thought it'd be fun to reenact our first kiss, so I did." Upon hearing this, Yukiya, Elias, and Luca (mostly Luca) snorted—they remembered that instance all too well.

"How bold. But that wasn't enough, you know." Luca whispered in Marelda's ear, making her flush and quickly back away, shouting "pervert!" Luca play-pouted, "But you were the one who invited me…" he whined.

Yukiya wrapped his arms around Philyra, and they sat cuddled together—they didn't need to speak to understand one another.

Elias and Katalina were smiling at each other, both blushing madly, like the innocent little couple they were.

And you already know what Serge and Zelia were doing, reader, because if you don't—I apologize in advance for this—you are an utter moron.

Selene glanced at the fervently kissing couple and playfully groaned, "Ugh..just get a room, you two!"

A smiling Serge pulled back for a second, much to the fleeting disappointment of Zelia, and scooped her up into his arms, standing up. "Okie-dokie!" He then began to quickly carry a giggling Zelia off.

Selene ran after them laughing, "Serge, I wasn't being serious! Come back!" Klaus chuckled and shook his head as he watched.

"And she tells me to be careful with my words…" everyone else in the room sniggered.

…. …. ….

After getting Serge to come back with Zelia, the party continued for at least another hour and a half. By two o'clock, Philyra and Katalina had fallen asleep. All five of the guys were still awake, and so were the other three girls.

And somehow, Selene was acting very drunk.

Elias looked over at where his brother was trying to get his girlfriend to sit still for more than five seconds. For the past half hour, Selene had been dancing around the room, giggling. She hadn't been like that in over a year, ever since they found out…

"What's with Selene?" Luca was snickering at the scene. Klaus rarely looked like this—flustered and irritated.

"I think she's drunk again. It's happened once or twice, and always on accident." Elias sighed.

"There's no alcohol here. Only Klaus and Serge are really old enough to have any, anyway." Zelia's shoulders were shaking with suppressed laughter.

Serge piped up, "The chocolates I brought were sent to me from the shop my grandmother used to run. They have a bit of alcohol in the filling...but not enough to make someone even mildly drunk unless they've eaten a few entire boxes."

Klaus gave up on trying to get Selene to sit still and let her twirl around room giggling again. He had overheard Serge and came over and smacked him upside the head (not hard enough to really hurt). "Moron! Selene gets drunk on less that a tablespoon of alcohol—and she had at least nine or ten of those chocolates!" The irk mark on his forehead was almost visible.

"Are you kidding me…?" Luca snorted, "How is that even possible...?"

"You do know she's a halfling right? Well the half that's not human has zero tolerance to human alcohol—it makes them really sick. It's only because she's half human that she has any tolerance at all!" Klaus sighed aggravatedly, "And now I have to deal with her in this state…!" he mumbled.

"What's wrong with this? She looks like she's having fun." Marelda commented.

"She won't even remember it in the morning. She never does." Philyra yawned, having woken up and was rubbing her eyes. She then leaned back into Yukiya's chest, content to stay where she was and fall back asleep. Katalina was curled up on the other end of the couch with Elias' jacket over her. That girl could sleep through a hurricane, which was a good equivalent to amount of noise Selene was now making.

"Then maybe you can try getting her to calm down without getting…" he coughed as Selene appeared behind him and threw her arms around his neck unexpectedly, making him stumble backwards a bit.

"Klaus!" She squealed, "It's yooooou!" She giggled and gave him a big smooch on the cheek. Elias snickered because his older brother looked unsure of just what to do, which was something that rarely ever happened.

Big mistake.

She then noticed Elias, and her eyes widened as she noticed him and gasped, then squealed, letting go of Klaus and flying at Elias. She wrapped her arms around his neck and rubbed her cheek against him, spinning him around and cooing: "Mini Klaus! Mini Klaus! Yaaaaaaaay!" Elias was now the one who was panicking, red-faced and flustered.

"Selene! Get off!" Elias pulled vainly at her arms. Even Klaus found this funny, and laughed along with everyone else. She noticed Zelia next, letting go of poor Eli and grabbing their hands, pulling her to the center of the dance floor, "Dance with me guys! Hehe!" and proceeding to quickly spin Zelia around, both girls giggling. Klaus facepalmed.

Selene started dancing a jig to the song that had just come on, waving her hands in the air and giggling.

"She's a very giggly drunk, isn't she?"Serge laughed, not even attempting to stifle it.

Crash!

"This is why we can't have nice things…" Klaus sighed and flicked his wand, repairing the vase Selene had just knocked over ("Oppsie!") and sending it back up to where it was previously. He walked over to her and threw her over his shoulder, "Time for bed Selene."

She squirmed, "But I wanna dance...!" she whined, then giggled again. Klaus just sighed again and started carrying her over to the coats. He set her down and kept her from running back to the empty space in the middle of the room with one arm. He flicked his wand and all of her snow and warmth gear wrapped itself around her in a way where she could no longer move, arms pinned to her side and legs wound together, like a kid playing worm. She wiggled and squirmed as Klaus pulled on his coat and threw her over his shoulder again. "Good night every one. Serge, make sure everything gets cleaned up, since the other prefect is currently indisposed."

"Yes sir!" Serge playfully saluted Klaus.

"Bye-bye every perrrrrrson!" Selene giggled as she was carried out of the room.

Everyone either laughed or smiled as they left. Katalina sat up and rubbed her eyes. "What'd I miss…?" She looked hopelessly confused as she saw everyone laughing. At her question, they all laughed harder, baffling her even more.

"Nothing, nothing, dear." Elias waved it off, "Just your future sister-in-law being a bit more goofy than usual."

"Future sister-in-law…? Wait…wha..?" She then flushed red as she realized what her boyfriend had just implied.

Philyra smiled, still snuggled up with Yukiya. She had some really great friends.


It took me over half an hour to type up the scene with the drunk Selene...I kept giggling so hard I couldn't type…

The reason she's like that with alcohol will make sense later in Elemental.