MERRY CHRISTMAS! As a present from me to you, I give you this! So, I'm now officially on winter break, so this will be updated whenever. It'll probably be updated more times a week than it used to. Like today. It's Tuesday. And Christmas Eve. Well, instead of spending time with my family like a normal person would, I decided to sit down and write for you readers. So yay! Bonus chapter!

November 14th, 2013

Seto bolted upright as a scream echoed through the house. Simon stood, quickly followed by Baki.

"Bodil!" Simon screamed, jumping over the couch and running down the hall after Seto. Baki was close behind both of them.

Seto threw open the door to the basement. He held out a hand, and a ball of silver light sprung up above his palm. He ran down the stairs, cape fluttering after him. Simon and Bali were hot on his tail.

When the reached the bottom, Seto tossed the ball of light into the air. "Agnus! Agnus, get off him!" He shouted, running forward and trying to pry the Ender dragon off of the ex-angel.

Bodil struggled to twit out from under the dragon's weight, but was utterly unsuccessful. The baby dragon was the size of a young horse.

"Agnus! Get off him, girl! Come on! This is not how we treat guests!"

Baki grabbed one of Bodil's hands and started tugging. Simon got hold of the other and followed the Fallen's example. Seto reached under the right wing of Agnus, who cooed happily and licked her 'father's' face. Seto scratched a spot under her wing, and the dragon melted against him, going limp and rolling off Bodil.

The Fallen jumped to his feet with a gasp, stumbling away from the Ender dragon. "Wh- what is that thing?" he asked, holding his side as he tried to regain his breath.

"This is Agnus," Seto said, draping an arm around the dragon's neck. "She's a bit... friendly."

Bodil rubbed a hand across his face, wiping off the dragon slobber Agnus was so kind in giving him. "Yeah, you think?"

Simon let out a small breath, wings ruffling. "Well, be happy you're alive Bodil. That thi- Agnus could've eaten you whole."

"She doesn't eat meat," Seto stated. He glanced around and frowned slightly. "Why were you on this side of the room, anyways?"

Bodil shrugged. "The side you told me to search didn't have any Ender pearls. What else was I supposed to do?"

"You could have just found one of those little book worms that hang around the place. They're everywhere, and they help you find stuff you're looking for," Seto explained. He rubbed one of Agnus' horns. The dragon made a sound similar to a cat's purr.

"Book worms?"

"Yeah! They're pretty useful, but they repopulate like crazy. I may or may not have used a few for regen potions."

Baki scratched his head and said, "I thought those were ghast tears."

Seto shrugged and walked over to one bookshelf on the left side of the room. Agnus followed close behind him. "Ghast tears are hard to get, anybody knows that. But book worms are easier to obtain. And yeah, sometimes the potions go haywire and completely fail, but it's better than going into the Nether," he explained, rooting around in one of the top shelves.

"Huh," Bodil said intelligently. He glanced at the other two angels and shrugged. Seto walked back over, hands cupped in front of him. "Here," he said, holding his hands out. "Here's one."

Bodil held out a hand, and Seto dropped a little creature in his palm.

It didn't look anything like a worm. It was more of a centipede, actually. Eight legs, brown body, and four eyes sitting on tall, slender stalks. It clicked something at him and curled into a ball.

"Go ahead," Seto said, "ask it to find something."

"Um... Go find me twelve Ender pearls."

The book work twisted and fell off his hand, scuttling over to a chest and curling on top of the lid.

"See? Pretty useful, right?"

Bodil shot a glance at Seto. Was this seriously normal for him? Book works and dragons? And that probably wasn't even half of it, knowing the sorcerer. He went over to the chest and opened the lid. Piles upon piles of leather were in there. He frowned and moved a stack aside, and there they were.

Bodil took put the pearls carefully, not wanting any of them to break. He counted them, and came up with exactly twelve. "Huh. Thanks Seto."

"Don't mention it. I'm glad to help," Seto said, beaming. He jammed a thumb over his shoulder. "But let's go back upstairs. It's cold down here."

The three angels started up first, followed by Seto and the dragon. Baki cast a weary glance over his shoulder at the lizard, but she seemed perfectly content to be next to Seto.

When they reached the living room, Agnus crawled off to the enchanting room. Seto pulled out two bottles of Blaze powder from under his cloak and handed them to Baki. "It should be enough to make the Eye of Enders, but no more than twelve. So don't lose any of those Eyes."

Bodil nodded and took the bottles from Baki, stuffing them in the pocket that didn't hold the pearls. "Alright. Thanks Seto. I owe you one."

"Don't mention it," Seto said, shrugging a shoulder. He smiled. "You guys better get going, if as many children are missing as you say."

...

November 16th, 2013

"Pick up, Simon... Come on. Pick up pick up pick up!"

Finally, "Hello? Bodil?"

"Simon! I know where the portal is!"

"Wh-what? Where?"

"It's in some museum. They found it while digging out some room for a basement."

"Oh. Well, that's good. I'll go call Baki."

"Don't bother, I already did. He's meeting us at the museum tomorrow."

"Okay. I..."

"I know you can't go through with us, but we need you there to guard the portal while we're in there. Don't let anything come in or out, unless it's us or one of our friends."

"... Alright. And Bodil?"

"Hm?"

"Whenever you want your wings back, jut call me."

He hung up on the angel.

...

November 17th, 2013

Bodil stood in front of the portal with the twelve Eye of Enders in his hand. Baki stood next to him, and Simon on the other side of the portal.

"Alright. You ready?" Simon asked, worry creasing his features. He didn't want either of them to go. There was always that possibility that they'd never come back. And that possibility was a pretty large one, too.

"Don't worry, Simon. I went and got us some armor and stuff yesterday. See?" Bodil thumped his fist against the diamond chest plate he was wearing. "I even got a special one for Baki."

They glanced over at the Fallen, who was still trying to fit his left wing through a gap in the back of the diamond chest plate he was wearing. "Yeah, special," he grunted and managed to get it through, with the loss of a few feathers in the process.

Simon smirked slightly, then sighed. "Alright. I'll be here, remember. Good luck, guys. And don't die. Please don't die."

"We won't, Simon," Bodil reassured, smiling slightly. He put in the first Eye, then tossed four over to Simon, then four to Baki. "Let's put them in together."

The other two nodded and put in one.

Then the next.

And another.

They looked up at each other, then placed in the last three. The portal came to life with a whoosh of cold air.

Bodil swallowed and unsheathed the sword at his side. "Let's do dis."

Baki took out his bow and followed Bodil up the steps. "Alright," Baki said, "On three."

"One," Simon said.

"Two," Baki followed.

Bodil paused, then took a deep breath and stepped into the portal as he said, "Tree."