Eternally Connected

Chapter 9: Its Snowing!

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I'm on the 9th chapter! Anyways this chapter is about getting to Christmas town to meet Santa. Hope you like it!

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"So how do we get in there?" Yuffie asked pointing to the tree.

"I have no clue, the mayor just said to find the tree with the picture of a Christmas tree on it." Riku shrugged.

"Whatever we do, figure out quickly! I'm getting scared!" Kairi whimpered, looking at her feet.

"Okay, Okay, how about we jump in the tree? Or climb it?" Riku scratched his head.
"What? Like in Harry Potter? Remember, Harry Potter slammed into that one wall? But he actually got somewhere else!" Axel cried excitedly.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Riku shook his head
"Look…" Roxas pointed to his hand that had already disappeared half way through the picture.

Kairi's shrieking made everyone surround Roxas.

"Look, I think we just have to jump in." Roxas said calmly, while Kairi shrieked in fear.

Roxas pulled back, and ran towards it, jumping exactly on the picture and vanishing in a matter of seconds.

"Come on lets go." Axel jumped in right after, along with Aries and Cloud.

"Wow, we figured that out pretty quickly." Aries laughed.

Each one of them vanished as they jumped into the picture.

"Kairi come on!" Tifa laughed at her.

Kairi stood by the tree, shivering in fear.

"What's down there? Are you sure we're supposed to go there Riku?" she whimpered.

"Come on," Riku grabbed her wrist and forced her down with him.

Kairi whimpered as they jumped into the Christmas tree picture.

In seconds, they were landing in a large field of snow, while Kairi was shrieking as she landed.

"Arghh!" Riku and Kairi landed face first on a clump of freezing snow.

Kairi rose to her feet as quickly as she could, shaking the snow off her face. She looked up at Roxas and Axel who were buried in snow. Shei raced towards Roxas, who was struggling to get up.

"Roxas are you alright?" Kairi looked at his face. His teeth were clenched together, and he looked extremely cold.

"What's wrong?" she asked, trying to pull him out of the snow.
"I can't feel my leg, I think it got buried really deep inside the snow." Roxas tried to get up, but he couldn't

Kairi started laughing at his attempts to get out.

"Kairi, its not funny, get me out! Its cold!" Roxas tried talking through the snow.

She grabbed his wrist and pulled him out, his face still covered with snow.

"Are you okay?" Kairi tried to get the snow off his face. Roxas wrapped his arms around himself, trying to make himself warm.

"Kairi don't laugh, it wasn't funny." he whimpered.

Kairi bit her lip to keep herself from laughing, as she helped him get the snow off his hair.

"Hey did you find anyone? Make sure you find Yuffie before she does something outrageous.." Roxas muttered.

"I think I see her!" Kairi laughed at a figure doing cartwheels in the snow field. She was giggling and screaming.

"Let's go find the others that are probably buried in the snow." Roxas grabbed her wrist and as they started looking.

"Roxas, before we go, lets make snow angels! I've only made them in Destiny Islands with sand, and its itchy!" Kairi laughed. Roxas scratched his head, "Do I have to?" he asked innocently.
"Yes you do!" Kairi tugged on his arm.

She flopped back on the snow, her arms and feet together..

"Agh! Its cold.." she whimpered. Kairi waved her arms and legs, eagerly, with an unbreakable smile on her face. Despite the chill, she seemed cheerful. She eagerly stood up to see her snow angel.
"Look Roxas! My first snow angel!" she clapped her hands in delight.

Roxas was starting to make his, he was not very excited as he got up.

His snow angel… it was a little deformed, but Kairi just laughed.
"it's a great snow angel, with spiky hair!" she smiled at the oddly shaped figure.

"Nothing wrong with spiky hair." he said shyly, putting his hands behind his head.

It reminded her of someone, it reminded her a lot like……… Sora.

Kairi could feel her eyes well up, but she changed the subject.

"I'm so cold!" Kairi clenched her teeth together.
"Well, you're wearing a dress that's why.." Roxas pointed out.
"You think I haven't figured that out?" Kairi wrapped her arms together, her knees touching her chest. She was wrapped up into a curled up ball on the ground.
Roxas took off his jacket and wrapped it around Kairi. She hoped she didn't show her cheeks blushing as she rose up to her feet, watching the two angels they have made.

"Thank you." she whispered.

"Let's go find the others, come on." Roxas smiled. Kairi smile widen as Roxas held hand.

"Look, I can see them already!" Kairi smiled, pointing to some figures making a snowman.

Yuffie and Leon were making a oddly shaped snowmen from far away.

"Hey Squally, thanks for making this with me!" Yuffie clapped her hands in delight.

Yuffie patted the snowman's head. "I'll call him..Squally!" she laughed.

Leon tried not to smile, but with her innocent look on her face, a smile emerged from his lips.

"A-ha! I made you smile! I knew you could do it Squally! I just knew it! Woo!" Yuffie looked more excited then every, putting a fist in the air as her victory.

"Yuffie!" a worried voice came hurrying towards her.

"Don't play in the snow without gloves, you can get sick." Aries whispered, handing Yuffie some gloves.
"Where did you come from?" Leon raised an eyebrow.
"I'm giving everyone gloves, because its freezing! We can't be out here for long, its freezing!" Aries clenched her teeth together.

Yuffie shook off the chilling snow on her back, and smiled.
"Geez, don't get worried about me to much, I'm not a kid anymore!" she tried to act mature as she walked back to her snowman. She grabbed a clump of snow and rolled it around her hands. It was so cold that Yuffie could see her breath, but she tried to hide that she felt frozen.
"You know…I always wondered how fun a snowball fight would be…" she whispered.

"snowball fight!" she yelped, slamming a snow ball on Aries's face. Aries panicked, her hands were wrapped around her face.

Aries managed to spit some snow out of her mouth to say something.

"You sure act like a kid!" she barked angrily, taking the snow off her face.

Yuffie glanced back at Aries, forming another small snowball on her hand.

"Yuffie, you can get a cold, if you are throwing snow at other people's faces!" Aries cried.

Yuffie just continued skipping through the snow and laughing as Aries continued to scold her. Soon, she was spinning around, arms spread wide and giggling like a maniac.

"Yuffie, calm down." Tifa came out of nowhere.
"Where where you?" Aries raised an eyebrow.

"Buried in a pile of snow." Tifa replied, shaking off some snow on her shoulders.

"Where should we go for the night? Its getting late." Aries looked up at the grayish colored sky as small snowflakes landed on her cheek. Kairi stuck her tongue out to catch one, as it melted on her tongue.

"Hey…let's go find Santa!" Roxas pleaded.

"Okay!" Yuffie clapped her hands in delight with Roxas.

"Yeah!" Kairi agreed.

"You think he has milk and cookies for us?" Yuffie cried eagerly.

Axel and Riku started walking towards them, Cloud running behind them, they each held snowballs on there hands.

Axel playfully slammed his snowball into Roxas's face, and Riku into Kairi's.

They both squealed in pain as the cold snow hit there face.

Cloud tried to throw his at Aries, but she managed to dodge it, laughing hysterically at his attempt.

"Look, a sled!" Yuffie pointed to a huge sled near the snow field.
"Let's take a ride!" Tifa clapped her hands.

"It might be Santa's sled!" Roxas said eagerly.

"Yay! Come on Squally!" Yuffie tugged on Leon's arm making him wince in pain.

They all took a there seats on the sled, they could barely even fit.

"Arghh!"

Kairi was about to fall over, but Roxas quickly put his arms around her waist making sure she wouldn't.

"Thanks…" she whispered.

Roxas hoped he wasn't blushing as he smiled back at let go of her.

Kairi blushed slightly, actually praising herself for her clumsiness.

"Okay let's goooo!" Yuffie yelped as the sled began down the mountain.

Her hands were up on the air, as they began sliding down the steep hill faster and faster.

Kairi closed her eyes, terrified that they would crash on a tree or something.

"RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER! HAD A VERY SHINY NOSE!"

Yuffie began singing, but it seemed more like screaming.

"Leon, make her stop!" Aries pleaded.

"How?" he asked.

"RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER!" Yuffie kept screaming.

"Tifa…you make her stop!" Cloud groaned.
"How was I supposed to know she can't control herself from consuming massive amounts of sugar?" Tifa laughed.

Yuffie howled at the top of her lungs as Riku and Axel covered their ears.

Kairi winced as Yuffie sang even louder.

"SHUT UP!" Tifa covered Yuffie's mouth with her hand.

Yuffie's eyes quickly sadden.

"I'm sorry Yuffie, but we really don't want to hear you sing." Tifa laughed.

"You guys are all meanies!" Yuffie pouted.

Everyone started laughing as the sled began to gain speed, down the hill.

Yuffie couldn't remain silent for long, it was impossible, and just as they all suspected, Yuffie began humming Christmas songs.

After what seemed like an eternity of damaged ears, they came to a stop.

"Candy Cane Lane" Axel cocked his head in confusion, as Roxas burst out laughing.
"What kinda name is that for a street!" Roxas laughed.

"Roxas! Look!" Kairi pointed to a colorful gingerbread house, that read: SANTA'S WORKSHOP.

Roxas's eyes glimmered in excitement, and so did Yuffie's as they stared at the sign.

"Let's go meet Santa!" Yuffie jumped off the sled and started heading towards the workshop.

"I swear, she'll get hurt one of these days." Aries mumbled, as she watch Yuffie run off. Kairi and Roxas jumped off the sled.

"Look!" Kairi pointed to a large figure putting candy canes outside the workshop, a large figure dressed in red, and a large white beard.

"Santa!" Kairi and Roxas both screamed at the same time.

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Sorry I'm taking a while to get updates up,

School just started, but I'm trying my best to update at least 3 times a week!

Hope you guys liked this chapter!
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