Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans!
Alistor and Herald were just coming back from patrol, shaking snow off themselves. A huge snowstorm had hit Drift City, so the two had decided to head back early. Not even villains were crazy enough to wander around in a blizzard like that.
They were talking about making some soup to warm themselves up when they heard a jingling noise coming from the Common Room.
The two froze.
"Did you hear that?" Herald asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I did." Alistor replied, looking confused. They listened as the jingling sound went through the hall again. "Are those bells?" He asked.
"I think so." Herald replied slowly.
The two looked at the Common Room door before slowly creeping over. They shared a look before opening it. What they saw stopped the two in their tracks.
The entire room looked like it had been attacked by decorations. There were wreaths and Christmas lights everywhere along with a giant Christmas tree in the center of the room that was decked from top to bottom in lights and ornaments. There were even large crystal snowflakes hanging from the ceiling.
Then movement caught their eye. In one corner of the room stood Gnarrk and Jericho. Gnarrk was dressed in a red Santa Clause outfit, complete with a hat, and Jericho was in a bright green elf costume with bells sewed to the elbows and shoes that jingled every time he moved. Which explained the noise they heard.
At the sight of Alistor and Herald, the two Titans sprang at them. Gnarrk grabbed Herald and shook him, shouting, "Gnarrk! Gnarrk!" with a panicked look in his eyes.
Jericho ran up to Alistor and started frantically signing something, his eyes wide with fear. The bells on his arms jingling like crazy.
"Slow down, Jericho." Alistor said. "I can't keep up."
Jericho took a deep breath and slowed down, but there was still a frantic look in his eyes. 'Get out of here!' He signed. 'Quickly, before she comes-.' He suddenly stopped. His eyes widened as he saw something behind Alistor. Next to him, Gnarrk had also frozen.
Suddenly afraid, Alistor and Herald slowly turned around to see Kole standing behind them with a sickly sweet smile on her face and her hands behind her back. She was wearing an elf costume just like Jericho's except she also wore a pointy green hat that split near the top, where more bells hung from the points.
"You're home early." She said sweetly.
Herald looked around uncomfortably. "Yeah. There's a blizzard going on out there, so we decided to cut patrol short." Then he gestured at the decorated room. "Did you do this?"
Kole nodded. "Yup! This is going to be my first Christmas outside the North Pole. So I wanted to go all out." Her grin widened. "Speaking of which, I had an idea while you were out." She pulled her hands out from behind her back. "We're going to make a Christmas card!"
The color drained from Alistor and Herald's faces at what Kole was holding. In one had she held a reindeer outfit, with antlers and a fake red nose. In the other was a snowman costume complete with a top hat, broom, and wooden pipe.
Alistor gulped. "They look very…nice." He cast a panicked look at Herald. "B-but we should really go back on patrol."
"Yeah!" Herald agreed hurriedly. "I'm pretty sure I saw some shady guys hanging around a bank earlier. We should really go check that out."
The two about ran past Kole, but she just grabbed their shoulders and stopped their progress. Her sickly sweet grin had returned to her face. "I'm sure everything is fine." Her voice was light, but there was a hint of fierceness in it. "Like you said, there's a blizzard out there. I'm sure everything will be fine."
The two glanced at the costumes, then at Gnarrk and Jericho, who were miserably watching the scene unfold in their own outfits. They had to figure a way out of this.
As if reading their minds, Kole tightened her grip on them, her smile never leaving. "Now why don't you get dressed?" She held up their costumes again. "We have a picture to take."
Their screams mingled with the howling winds of the snowstorm.
Cyborg was flipping through the mail when his eye caught a decorated card. "What's this?" The words 'Season's Greetings from Titans North' were printed on the front. Opening it, Cyborg busted out laughing at the picture inside. This caught the attention of Robin and Beast Boy. The two walked over to look at the card and immediately started laughing with him.
"Dude!" Beast Boy said between laughs. "Is that Alistor? And Herald?"
Even Robin couldn't contain his laughter. "Look at Gnarrk and Jericho." Another look at the picture sent him into another fit of laughter.
In the photo, were the Titans North members standing in front of a Christmas tree in different costumes. Gnarrk was on the left, with one hand raised in a wave, in a Santa outfit. Next to him stood Jericho, who was blushing a very bright shade of red in his elf costume with Kole next to him, her arm looped through his. After her was Herald in the reindeer costume. The antlers perched on his head had bells tied to them. His arms were crossed as he looked down at the fake red nose on his face. Last was Alistor in the white snowman costume. Instead of his staff, he held a broom. He wore a top hat on his head and he had a wooden pipe in his mouth. Kole's smile was the only one that wasn't strained.
As Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy continued laughing, they didn't notice Starfire creeping up behind them with Raven slowly trailing behind.
"What a marvelous idea." Starfire said, causing the three Titans to freeze. Turing around, their jaws dropped.
Starfire was in a Mrs. Clause outfit, with a Santa hat on her head. Behind her, Raven was begrudgingly in her elf costume. She was trying her very best not to run to her room to get herself out of the ridiculous outfit.
The three boys gulped nervously, sweat beading their foreheads as Starfire held up costumes for them. "Friend Kole told me about her idea for the card of Christmas. Shall we make one of our own?"
So I'm in a Christmas mood. Sue me. And I took WAY too much joy in writing this.
I hope you all liked it and remember…PLEASE REVIEW!