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Whee! Chapter Seven! Aren't you all excited? Even though I only have three readers/reviewers? Anyways, thanks to NightPedator and HellX for reviewing. On with the chapter which is just a little early for Christmas!

Disclaimer: Don't own anything! Gosh, what's wrong with people? Next chapter, I'm resorting to bad grammer.

"Ray! Kiari! Lookit what I got!" Elliot yelled in a sing-song voice as she waved a plant over her sibling's and friend's heads while clutching onto one of the beams of the Granger Family Dojo. The pair of teens looked up from their task of decorating the Christmas tree (They decided to celebrate American-style) that was in the center of the dojo.

"Oh my God, El. That's not-" Ray was cut off by his sister, who was laughing.

"Uh-huh! It's mistletoe!" Elliot laughed, waving the plant again.

"Actually, I was going to say, 'That's not you doing what I think you're doing, is it?' Get down from there! You're going to get hurt! In fact...how the hell did you get up there?" Ray asked his sister while Kiari laughed.

"Um...yes, if what you're thinking is, 'El is on the middle beam of the very high ceiling of the Granger Dojo.' As for how I got up here..." Elliot jerked her head towards a tall ladder of the right side of the dojo. "And I'm not getting down until you kiss!"

"Get down here right now, you twit!" Ray yelled, infuriated. The Bladebreakers, excluding Kai, who had seen this happen dozens of time before when he had visited last year, were shocked. Ray was usually so calm and collected! Now here he was, arguing with his sister. "I said, 'Get down here now'!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No, no, no, a THOUSAND times no!"

"Yes, yes, yes, a THOUSAND times yes, plus one!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

The other teens watched the arguement go back and forth. Finally Hillary shouted, "You guys! Stop arguing!" At this, the pair looked over at the brunette Japanese girl.

"We're not arguing, we're debating!" they both told her, sounding offended, before resuming their...'debate'.

"Debating?" Hillary questioned, staring at the two. The other three members of Poison Shockwave began laughing.

"Oh, Ray, just shut up..." Kiari said, still laughing. She stood on her toes and planted a kiss on Ray's cheek. Ray instantly turned red and stared at Kiari, who was also blushing. After a moment, Kiari looked up. "Good enough, Noodles?" she asked her captain.

"Well...I guess. I was hoping for you two to kiss on the lips, but that's good enough," Elliot sighed, crawling over to the right side of the dojo where Max was waiting, ready to keep the lader steady.

--Later that day--

"Ah, the room looks marvelous!" the girls swooned as all ten of them stood in the doorway (girls on the left, boys on the right), admiring the way they had decorated the dojo.

"Yeah, but I can't help but wonder...Elliot, where did you put the mistletoe?" Tyson asked, looking around the room.

"Oh, in the center of the doorway. Wh-Oh." Elliot, who was at the far left, leaned forward and looked right, as did Hillary, Karica, and Kiari. Tyson, Ray, Max, and Kenny mirrored the girls' movements.

"What are you guys staring at?" Kiara asked them. She looked over at Kai, whose arms were crossed across his chest, his eyes closed, and eyebrows arched in annoyance.

"Kiara..." the girl's sister said uneasily. When she got her twin's attention, Kiari pointed to an occupied spot above Kiara's and Kai's head. Kiara looked up and stared at the doorway. The longer-haired Emerson turned pale.

"NO FU-"

"Don't swear like that!" Kiari warned Kiara, cutting her off.

""SHUT UP! No freakin' way in h-" Kiara was cut off by a quick, gentle kiss on the lips from Kai. Everyone stared for a few moments as Kai pulled away, smirking a bit at Kiara's surprised expression.

"Well..." Max said, trying not to laugh. "We should go and buy presents for everyone now...Right?"

"Yeah..." Kiara said dreamily, "Yeah, sure...what do you say, girls?" The four other girls nodded vigorously.

"Then let's go!" Tyson said.

--Christmas Day--

"GUYS! WAKE UP!" the girls yelled excitedly. They had decided to sleep at Tyson's house for Christmas, and the girls had just woken up. "SANTA CAME!"

"Wha-?" Tyson said groggily. "What's a Santa?" Karica laughed at this statement. Kiari, Kiara, nad Elliot had just explained to Hillary and Karica who, and WHAT, Santa was.

"Santa's the big fat man that comes down the chiminey with presents..." Max explained, rubbing his eyes as he sat up.

"El, did you leave cookies out or something?" Ray asked, crawling out from underneathe his blankets and standing up, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.

"COOKIES?" Tyson shouted, scaring Kenny and Max out of their beds. Kai, who had still been asleep until this point, glared at Tyson. "Where?"

"Oh, we left those out in the dojo," Kiari explained for Elliot, ignoring Tyson's shout. Tyson jumped out of bed with his pants and large white shirt still on and ran to the dojo. The others followed, and soon found Tyson crying over a plate of cookie crumbs and half-empty glass of milk.

"Oh brother..." Hillary sighed, shaking her head as Tyson's attention turned to the colorful and shiny paper that covered the odd-shaped boxes.

"Hey, can we open our presents now?" Tyson asked them, excited, staring at all the gifts.

"Yeah...but we should go in an order..." Max said, still tired.

"What do you mean?" Tyson asked blankly. In disbelief, everyone stared at him. "What? Why do you always do that?" Everyone laughed.

"Don't sweat it, dude," Kiara and Kiari said in unison.

"Whoa! Freaky twin thing!" Max and Elliot laughed together while Kenny started to write names on different pieces of paper.

"Elliot, could you get Tyson's hat? I would ask Tyson, but he's incapacitated right now..." Kenny said, shaking his head at Hillary, who was attempting to keep Tyson away from the pile of gifts, "I figure that we could just pull a name out of the hat and then that person gets gifts from everyone in a predetermined order."

"Alright, but you guys gotta stop calling me Elliot! Call me El! Or Ellie! Hell, you can call me Noodles!" Elliot spazzed as she walked off to the boy's room to get Tyson's hat.

"Hey, that reminds me, why do you call her Noodles?" Karica asked Kiara.

"Oh, because Noodles and I were pen pals in first grade because she was in L.A. for school that year, and her teacher and our teacher had been old friends. When Kiari and I first saw Noodles' name, we thought her last name was 'Ramen', so we joked around and said 'Ellie Noodles'. So I told her about it in my letter to her, but then she wrote that it was Roccan, not Ramen. But the name stuck, so she's Noodles."

"Yeah, plus, it threw people off," Elliot said, walking in with Tyson's hat. "Here you go, Kenny."

"Thanks." Kenny stuck the names into the hat. "I figured that we could give gifts in alphbetical order. You know, Ellie gives her gift, then Hillary, Kai, Karica, me, Kiara, Kiari, Max, Ray, and Tyson. Does that work for you guys?" The others spoke their agreement. "Okay then." He pulled a name out. "Kiara's first."

--At Breakfast--

"Why did you name the rabbit Willard? In fact, why did Max get you a rabit in the first place?" Ray asked his sister as she fed a samll, grey rabbit lettuce from her hand.

"Um...because I can? As for why Max got me a bunny, you gotta ask him," a very distracted Elliot told him as she cuddled with the rabbit. Ray sighed and glared at Max.

"What?" Max asked him. "I asked her what she wanted, and she said that she wanted a small grey rabbit so that she could name it Willard like Adam Long from the RSC! Besides, you aren't asking her why she blew tons of money on a new sax for me...God, this thing is nice!" Max put his lips to the mouthpiece and played a few notes. "It sounds awesome!"

"There was no person named Adam Long in the Royal Shakespeare Company..." Kiara told Max.

"Not the Royal Shakespeare Company! Reduced Shakespeare Company!" Max informed her.

"Oh yeah...Oh Max, I didn't tell you, but thanks for the yoga set thing!"

"No problem, Kiara! Thanks again for that awesome shirt! Wow, never thought I'd say that about clothes," Max said, laughing at Kenny, who was carousing with the laptop his new girlfriend from China had sent him for Christmas.

"Kenny's scaring me..." Elliot laughed, petting Willard.

--Two Weeks Before the Tournament-

"Hey guys! Julia just called! Guess who she's been keeping in touch with since last year!" Hillary said as she closed her cell phone while Kenny talked to the receptionist about their rooms.

"Who's Ray's mom been keeping up with?" Tyson asked.

"Not that Julia! Raul's sister, Julia! She's been keeping in contact with Mystel, and he just asked her to the Tournament Ball!"

"That's so cute!" the girls squealed, jumping up and down.

"Wait, dates?" Ray asked. "We need dates to the Ball?"

"Um...didn't I tell you?" Elliot asked, laughing nervously, "You don't NEED a date, but you'll look foolish if you don't."

"Well, it that case. Ellie, be my date, will you?" Max asked Elliot.

"Sure, okay!" she agreed, nodding.

"Well, I've got my date! Losers," Max said with a grin as he and Elliot hooked arms and followed Kenny, who had gotten the keys to their rooms, to the elevators.

---End Chapter---

Whee! End of chapter 7! Isn't that grand? Oh, and I'm not going to be able to update as much soon because school is going to be starting next week. Sorry! Well, please review and I'll try to update one more time.