I am so sorry about this UBER- Late chapter it's just I didn't know what to write for this chapter so I just wrote this Christmassy filler chapter instead. Well at least it starts off Christmassy. Hope you like it even though it's short.

Also I'd like to thank cecebeecVaerith RavenNightingGale, Katatonic97, Cookiezfreak, 2Kool4FoolsKid, Esmika, LauraFoxTail, sabrina-luna-potter, sekacnapydnac starshine006, MidnightPhantomFire .56, Sessho-Kagome4ever and Free Alchemist for your continued support!

Snow was falling everywhere and Aurora was loving it! Her 8 year old self dancing around in the ankle deep snow and making mini snowflakes. Terra himself was enjoying the new weather and was having a one-sided snowball fight with Mizuko. Due to her being a water based mage the weather effected her more than other element based mages. With cold weathers-as it was in this moment in time- she would react as stiff as ice and her powers would be colder and with warm or hot weathers she would be as free as steam and her powers would be hot.

Right now Terra was pummelling her with snowballs and just as he was about to crush her with a large snowball it somehow dropped through his hands and he was shrouded by the cold powder.

"T-T-T-Thank y-you Aurora!" Mizuko thanked through shattering teeth.

"No problem!" Aurora exclaimed gleefully. It wasn't just that her personality evolved over the span of five months but this winter wonderland just made her gleeful. Well what's to expect from an Ice Dragon Slayer?

Terra had finally dug himself out of the pile of snow and looked over at the two.

"Come on guys. Let's get a move on." Terra said and hands in his pockets he walked away, Aurora and Mizuko following him very closely.

Once out of the forest they arrived in the town of Hargeon. Their first sight was not a pretty one. A group of five kids (they couldn't be older than 10 years old.) went up to an abandoned orphan house. One of the kids saw a note on the boarded up door and sighed. They were almost literally just skin and bone, wearing ragged clothing in the cold weather and had no footwear. Their faces were dirty and soot covered and they looked as down as an orphan could look.

"Where are we going to go now sister?" A young girl with red hair and onyx eyes asked. The older sister, who had the exact same appearance except her hair was a tad bit longer and in a ponytail , looked down on her and shook her head.

"I honestly don't know, Aisha..." Aisha looked down and kicked the snow.

Mizuko held her breath and her eyes shook. She felt so sorry for those kids. Aurora and Terra felt likewise.

"We need to do something for those kids..." Aurora said.

"But what?" Terra asked stroking his chin and thinking deeply.

"How about we give them food and a temporary shelter. It's not much but it'll do for this weather!" Mizuko suggested rather loudly.

"That just might work!" Terra said excitedly.

"How are we gonna get the money?" Aurora whispered to herself but loud enough to be in her dragon slayer buddies' heightened hearing span.

"Hey guys wanna go on a mission?" A random by-passer asked his friend.

"What's the reward?" he asked non-chalantly.

"150,000 jewel!"

"I'm in!"

"Did you hear that?" Mizuko asked excitedly as she jumped up and down.

"We have to find a mission!" Aurora asked.

"Then it's just our luck!" Terra added with a smirk as he stared at the mission sheet the two mages had dropped.

Mizuko went and picked up said mission sheet and read the details. "We need to climb a mountain and get a necklace for a dude's wife!"

"Hello guys." Aurora said to the orphans, "Do you wanna go with us on a mission, it's to help you guys with food and shelter."

Aisha and her older sister looked excited to go, the other three not so certain.

"Of course we will! Right guys?!" Aisha's sister exclaimed, while Aisha nodded the other 3 ran away.

"Scawedy cats!" A 6 year old Aisha called out to them.

"Let's get a move on people! The weather's only getting worse!" Terra said.

The five mages climbed the mountain in silence. It wasn't that they didn't like each other or that it was awkward but it was just that there was nothing to talk about.

Finally breaking the silence, Aisha's sister, whose name they had previously discovered was Flora, said, "So which level is the necklace on?"

"The mission says that the necklace was on the fifth floor. Which we're on right now. So let's start moving team!" Terra said with a clap of his hands.

Mizuko went down an uncharted path that had a glowing light. Aisha and Flora soon followed, forcing Aurora and Terra to soon join them.

"Do you think we have a clue?" Terra asked.

"Yeah there's a glowing ring here and there's the necklace!" Mizuko shouted excitedly. Doubling her pace she picked up the necklace and held it up high in the air.

Everyone smiled. The mission was over. "Okay!" Smiled Terra. "Now we just need to go to Boulevard Street and get our reward. At least that's what the mission says."

As the five of them continued their journey out of the mountain a potion in a glass vial suddenly was thrown just in front of Aisha and blew up sending her flying into an icicle, effectively knocking her unconscious.

Flora's eyes widened in fury as she turned around to face her sister's attacker. Behind her she found three bandits. They couldn't be older than 15.

One had grass green spiky hair and yellow eyes, he had a whip with electricity circulating around it.

Another had yellow long flowing hair that stopped mid-back. He had fire shooting out the palm of his hands and his eyes a fiery orange.

The last boy had plain brown hair which was in a bowl cut. His eyes also brown and he had a belt full of potions.

Terra went for the green haired foe naturally. He was a Rock Dragon Slayer for Mavis' sake.

As soon as he kicked him square in the jaw rocks from the ground below started to levitate and surround Terra and meld together in the shape of Terra's body leaving holes for his eyes, mouth, nostrils and armpits.

The green haired boy lashed out his whip and hit it against Terra's rock hard skin. The whip itself did nothing but the electricity coursed over Terra's armour. Finding it couldn't penetrate this rock hard surface the electricity dissipated. Terra smiled as he punched the guys in his stomach. That was as far as he could reach without jumping...
"Rock Dragon's Roar!" The beam of Rock Dragon energy hit the teen and sent him flying and making him crash into the wall, nearly unconscious.

When said yellow eyed saw Terra coming he cowered. Terra gave him a stone hard look and kicked him in the stomach winding him. "Not even worth it. For you to attack a three year old." He walked away his armour breaking up into its original pieces and floating around him. The green haired foe thought he had a chance and got his whip he reared it back ready to lash out. However by the time he even brought his arm forward the rocks levitating around Terra had pummelled him.

Mizuko was facing the oldest teen with fire shooting out of his hands. He was tied up by stiff water chains with multiple locks around it.

"Why did you do it?" Mizuko asked.

"We were just fucking about. It was funny." The flame conjurer replied. Despite the fact that she was eight, he still found it somewhat acceptable to swear in front of her.

Mizuko's eyes widened at what he said and she screamed, "Water Dragon Roar!" The blast of water hit the target and knocked him unconscious.

"That's a bad word!" Mizuko said. "You meanie! It's not nice to do bad stuff to people for fun!"

With that she walked off to help Flora and Aurora, but if only she had knocked him out, they maybe could've avoided all of that mess...

Flora wasn't a mage but she was quite capable 10 year old. Potions were flying left and right and she was avoiding them like a boss. The third potion came flying past and narrowly avoided her head before she jumped up and drop kicked the guy towards Aurora. Aurora made a flurry of snowflake and used them to surround the potion bearing warrior freezing him.

Mizuko and Terra arrived just in time to see the duo defeat him. Aisha came to as well and waddled over to Flora uncertainly.

"Okay guys now that that's dealt with let's go home." Terra said.

"Thank you so much for doing this! You don't know how much this means to us!" Flora exclaimed.

"You don't know how much power these potions contain." The potion bearer said and threw three potions on the ground. Then out of nowhere a snake fire shot out and blew up the potions. These made cracks appear in the mountain icicles and avalanches appeared everywhere trapping everyone!

"Oh no! We're trapped!" Mizuko shouted in panic.

"Aurora get us out of here!" Terra screamed.

"I can't. The current is too strong my magic can't influence anything!"

The teens then saw Flora lying down struggling to get up and a chandelier of icicles about to crush her!

"Flora!" Everyone shouted, she looked at them in confusion just as the chandelier crashed down on her.

Aisha went down on her knees and sobbed so hard the ground shook with her.

"Dragon slawes. This is all your fault! It's your fault Flowa's dead! I hate you! If you never showed up then Flora and me would've never came here! Flora would still be here!"

The three would've been hurt by said comment had they not been knocked down by three green glowing icicles. It seemed they would stay knocked out for a long time.

Aisha's aura intensified and a ripple effect occurred causing everything in Aisha's sight to slowly become an island paradise. There Flora was there, still alive and staring down at Aisha.

"Sister..."

"Flora, how are you here? I saw you..."

"I'm not here, this is your power, you must use them wisely."

"How? Flora!"

The older sister's image started to fade and the last Aisha saw of her was her smile.

The mirage vanished and Aisha was alone in the winter cold. After a few minutes of processing what happened Aisha stood up and walked towards the exit. Swearing that she would end dragon slayers. That's when a certain woman appeared in front of Aisha. An immense aura pouring out of her and a welcoming smile.

"Why don't you come with me? I can get your sister back." Aisha raised an eyebrow at this woman. "I can also help you get your revenge on the..." She took a deep breath and hissed. "Dragon Slayers."

At this Aisha instantly shook her head.

"Good. We'll get along just fine."

I think this is the worst chapter I have ever written... Meh. I mean the fight scenes were BLEGH and Aisha's back-story sucks! Anyway please review they drive me to write more!

Replies to reviews

cecebeec: Thank you, I really needed luck for this chapter.

Vaerith: Thank you so much. Yeah, I was supposed to do the guild members reaction and stuff, but this came to mind when I got stuck.

MidnightPhantomFire: Aww you make me blush. Here's a spoonful-?- I don't know.

sabrina-luna-potter: Don't worry you'll find out why. Though it is kind of cheesy why they're kidnapping all the dragon slayers.

Critical Guest (1?): The leader... Hmm can't tell you that yet.

Critical Guest (2?): Yes those are the last two villains. I needed to introduce all of the villains so that they wouldn't just randomly appear near the end of the story.

Any who, that's it for today, please don't let this chapter ruin the story for you. See y'all next time with my hectic schedule.

Merry Christmas you guys!
-CuteFoxSage