Chapter 7: Surprise!
Alice sat on the floor scowling. There was something special about to come, but what? She couldn't remember the actual date but who would if they are wanted by powerful sorcerers? They want to protect you,not harm you. Alice sighed,it was hard to keep that in mind considering she was on Dusks side, he was after all, the 'bad' guy. That wasn't true though. True he does kill someone every once in a while but he has reasons. Alice let out a shaky laugh, that would go down well in court. She took the clock down from the wall, ten seconds till midnight... five seconds till midnight,
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The window smashed into billions shards of glass as Alice jumped up. Summoning a fire she shouted in an attempt of a fearless voice,
"Who's there?" A dark shadow rose up towards the window climbing through,getting closer to Alice. Alice threw the flame only missing by inches, summoning another flame she was about to throw it as the figure stepped forward,
"Stop Alice, Stop!" Roxy rushed forward using water to extinguish the flame. ALice stood baffled at Roxy only just staring at her. Roxy rolled her eyes,
"Do you know what day it is Alice?" Alice shrugged guessing the answer,
"Today?" Roxy whacked her gently in the arm tutting her answer, but it wasn't long until she was cheery again, Roxy screamed in a high-pitched voice,
"It's Christmas!" Alice stood with her jaw-hanging open whilst Roxy jumped around, closing her mouth Alice stared at the wall, holding in her tears. She should be with her family, opening up her presents while her dad told the lame cracker jokes and her sister singing Christmas songs like a banshee, eating her mums turkey until they settled down to watch Elf. This was time for her family but instead she was here, where there was no roaring fire, or a Christmas tree with presents stacked under it. Where there was no turkey cooking in the over with the Brussels sprouts, where there was none of her family with her.
"I got you something" Alice forced a smile on her face,trying to look cheery she turned around to Roxy who had a brown package in her hand,
"Sorry, I didn't get you anything. I didn't realize it was Christmas." Roxy shoved the present in her hand, babbling on and on,
"Don't worry, we can go into town and you can pick something out for me and then I can buy it, well you don't have to buy it because you have no money but it's the thought what counts,right? Anyway open your present! It cost me extra to get it for today, you will not believe how many orders he has at Christmas time. He ignored them all of course, considering his new job. But he got me these specially at a welcome back present." Alice blocked Roxys speech out and ripped open the brown wrapper to find some soft fabric inside, she took it out to see it was some clothes. There was a dark brown leather jacket which was up to her thigh, with some matching black skinny jeans. In the jacket was a base tunic and some black wedge-trainers. Alice was in disbelief, the fabric was smooth and made out of some sort of material she could not name.
"Go try them on then." Alice nodded, picking up the clothes she rushed into the bathroom.
They where in the town walking towards a shop Roxy said she liked, the town had tinsel everywhere, with a huge Christmas tree in the centre. Most shops had fairy lights and snowman outside there shop but there was a few with only a Merry Christmas sign put on the window. The clothes fitted perfectly as Roxy promised, apparently the clothes would protect Alice against anything, there were only a few creatures who could penetrate her clothes. Now in the store Alice looked around, it was a Movie shop. Alice looked around, there was some old-fashioned movies, well old-fashioned to her. Alice looked around, occasionally picking up a movie, until finally getting to the perfect gift.
"I'm getting you this" picking up the movie she showed it to Roxy,
"Titanic? Okay." paying for the movie, Roxy handed it back to Alice, Alice laughed. Holding out the movie she shouted,
"Merry Christmas!" Roxy jumped in the air, grabbing the movie she looked at it in amazement,
"Wow Alice! I had no idea you were gonna get me this!" Alice hit Roxy lightly on the arm,
"Common, I wanna go to the book store."
"Really? Dracula?" Alice tried to stop the grin forming on her face,
"Yep, Dusk will love it." Roxy snorted,
"More like rip it to shreds." They stopped at the Christmas tree, sitting down on the bench,
"You know" Alice murmured "This has been a good Christmas so far" Roxy smiled,
"That's because I'm in it." Alice laughed,
"You quite full of yourself." Roxy opened her mouth to reply but instead stopped. Valkyrie stood in front of them both, her mouth opened in shock she whispered,
"Alice?"
Hey Guys! So So So So sorry I havn't uploaded for like 4 weeks, I have no excuse because I just was to lazy to write. Thats me :/ . Going to upload a little tiny part straight after this, I was going to put it in this chapter but I thought that was an alright cliff-hanger to leave it at. Even though Christmas has past I wanted to put up a special Christmas theme one! So Merry Christmas! Tomorrow is 2013 ! So Happy New year in 12 hours! Bye Guys.