AN: Uploaded: 8:30 pm in El Paso, Texas using McDonald's WiFi 12/24/2011. Early due to lack of internet any other time, and I wanted you all to have it on the day, not have to wait til the time I usually update which is close to sleeping hours most days. Luv ya peeps! Here you go!

Well, today's the last day, and as such, I present you all with this surprise. Instead of a ten song chapter like usual, all you wonderful readers get this special 'off the top of my head' oneshot ASGZC fanfic for Christmas. I have titled it 'It's a Wonderful ASGZC Christmas'. I hope you all like it.

DECEMBER 25, 2011

~MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE~

"Come one, c'mon!" Zack called from the living room, eyes glued to the face of the grandfather clock by the bookshelf in the corner. There was exactly one minute to midnight and tradition dictated that they each were allowed to open one present when the clock struck Twelve AM. Zack bounced where he sat cross-legged at the foot of the couch closest to the tree, eyeing the presents with ill intent. He could not wait to open one. But which one! He looked to the mass of gifts under their tree. He always had trouble picking just one present. But presents were for Christmas day, and even though technically twelve midnight was officially Christmas day -as he'd pointed out to Angeal multiple times- It did not count and he just had to deal. Genesis words, not his. A chuckle turned his focused concentration away from all the prettily wrapped packages.

"Calm yourself, puppy," Angeal smiled giving a fond shake of his head towards his student and walking into the living room. A plate of sugar cookies was in his head, baked by Genesis, and he set it in the center of the low coffee table that stood in front of their red velvet couch. It was comically predictable when Zack reached over and grabbed a handful to horde before the notorious cookie-whore had a chance to take them all. "How long 'til midnight, pup?"

Zack turned back to the clock and bounced once in excitement. "Thirty seconds!" he announced with a grin before popping a warm cookie into his mouth and sighing appreciatively at the taste of it. "These cookies are delicious, Gen!" he called towards the kitchen and he heard a chuckle from the redhead accompanied by a lighter little laugh from a particular blonde.

There was only a quarter of a second before the distinct clatch of a door being opened and then closed quickly were heard and in another second and a half Sephiroth stood before Angeal only barely restraining himself from taking the entire plate of mouth-watering goodness that was just sitting there begging to be eaten. Angeal gave an amused smile and nodded once and in that same moment, nearly half of the cookie pile was gone and there sat Sephiroth on the couch, eyes closed with a look of utter bliss on his face, munching contentedly on a mouthful of sugary heaven.

Genesis chuckled from where he was leaning in the doorway from the kitchen. It was a good thing he'd made a few extra batches of cookies or they'd be completely gone by now and only Zack and Sephiroth would have gotten any at all. Beside him Cloud was smiling and happily licking at his fingers. He'd gone into the kitchen to grab a glass of milk and immediately called dibs on licking the bowls and spatulas.

"Don't eat all the cookies, Seph," Genesis told his silver-haired lover as he walked further into the room, Cloud trailing behind him carrying a bowl with the remnants of marbled cake mix in it. "If you eat all the cookies you won't get any of Angeal's cake."

Sephiroth looked over at him then and looked to be weighing his options. He loved Gen's cookies, would eat the entire plate if they gave him a chance… but he wanted at least one slice of Angeal's delicious cake. He was going to have to make a choice. All the cookies, or most of the cookies and a piece of cake.

"Ok," he said and that was that. He'd have his desserts and eat them too!

"You want some?" Cloud was suddenly sitting beside Sephiroth and offering him a lick of the spatula in his hand. Brilliant blue eyes looked up at him, a smirk in their depths as they met cat-slit green, and Sephiroth smirked back before moving his head forward to capture the top half of the utensil in his mouth. He pulled back, licking cream from his lips and smiled at his youngest lover. He leaned forward and placed a loving kiss to soft pink lips.

"Thank you, love," he smiled and reciprocated the treat with a cookie, holding it before the lips he'd just kissed and waiting for the little blonde to eat it. Cloud happily obliged.

Genesis rolled his eyes fondly at the exchange. "Well, Zack?"

"Ten seconds!" the raven-haired First chirped and they all took a place around the coffee table, turning their eyes to the clock.

"Ready?" Angeal asked and they nodded. "Six," Angeal began as the second hand hit the tiny notch.

"Five," Sephiroth continued followed by Genesis.

"Four."

Zack rather loudly called out a 'Three' grinning goofily and nearly toppling over from bouncing so much in one place.

Cloud's 'Two' was said with a mouthful of cookie and he received a hair ruffle from Genesis for it before they all together called out "One".

Almost immediately Zack was at the tree, rifling through wrapped presents like any kid would and inadvertently sorting them by person as he went. They let him do what he wanted, knowing that when he was done there'd be six more or less sorted and separate piles -one for each of them and an extra for presents that were for people not present at the moment.

Finally, Zack had chosen his present, though it was a rather predictable choice. They always picked the same general present to open at midnight and left the rest for the next day. "Ok!" Zack cried in triumph and pulled his gift over to his place at the foot of their couch. The others had all grabbed their respective gifts. Always the one that was from the other four combined.

Angeal went first. He was always a difficult man to shop for and it was usually his present that everyone bought last. So they always made him go first as a rule. The burly First turned the package marked 'To Angeal, from Seph, Gen, Zack, and Cloud' around in his hands before carefully pulling the paper away. It always annoyed them when he opened his gifts that way but he did it anyway. A bunch of small things were inside the box when he opened it and he pulled them out one by one. A new hand shovel, a new cookbook, a watch, a book on gardening, a few seed packets, and at the very bottom a stack of pictures. He'd look through those later. "Thank you," he told his lovers, smiling in thanks and appreciation. They smiled back, glad that he'd liked the things they'd picked together.

"My turn!" Genesis announced, not patient enough to let anyone else besides Angeal go before him. Sephiroth chucked. "To Genesis, from 'Geal, Seph, Zack and Cloud," the red commander read aloud and quickly pulled away the wrapping of his present. A beautifully bound edition of Loveless was pulled first -dark red velvet cover with a beautiful gold design branching from the lower right corner. Simple at first but still detailed, it was one of the more beautiful covers he'd seen. The next thing he pulled from the box was a new set of earings, a black feather with blue gems a white feather with red. He'd have to ask where they'd gotten them made and what they were made from later. "I love them," he told them, smiling and leaned over to grab a cookie. "I believe it's your turn, Chocobo," he told Cloud.

Cloud grinned and tore the paper off his gift, not bothering to acknowledge the tag he knew had 'To our Chocobo, from Angeal, Gen, Seph, and Zack" written on it. He laughed when the first thing he saw was a lot of yellow. He pulled the medium-sized chocobo plushie from the box and set it on Sephiroth's lap. He would add it to his growing collection of choco-plushies later. It was a predictable present but he loved it every time he received one. "Thanks, guys," he told them all, smiling widely. "It's exactly the one I saw that one day I went window shopping with the girls. How did you know?" But he knew the answer, Aerith, of course.

"Aerith told me, after you guys all got home, she called me and told me everything you'd said you wanted that day," Zack told him. Cloud laughed.

"I figured as much." He reached forward and took the box that sat on the coffee table and handed it to Sephiroth. "You're next, Seph."

The man took it and unwrapped it. His didn't have a tag on it because they'd run out of tags, unfortunately, but they all remembered which of the presents had been from all of them and for who. He pulled out a coupon book, one of a kind, made for his use only, for his favorite place ever. The cookie emporium that had a foothold in every city, every country (even Wutai). He loved them, all of them, to pieces right now. He threw his arms around the closest person to him, which happened to be Cloud, and kissed him. It was a small gift, technically, but only his lovers (the most influential men on the planet aside from the President, Vice President, and a few Turks) would go to the head honcho of a cookie franchise conglomerate and have a coupon book made exclusively for his use. "I love you," he told them all once he'd pulled away from his kissing.

They all chuckled. They knew he'd love it.

Zack went last simply because that was the rule. Finally he couldn't wait any longer, ripping into the present that read 'To the Puppy, from 'Geal, Seph, Gen, 'n' Cloud."

He paused when he heard a 'yip' from the box in front of him and his eyes widened. He reached over to open the box and was met with glowing teal eyes and a slobbery lick to the face. "Ah!" he yelped and fell back, the laughter of the other four echoing around him. "Merry Christmas, Puppy," Angeal said and pulled from the box a small grey and lavender-furred nibel wolf pup.

-END TWENTY-FIFTH DAY-

~FIN~

AN: Well, I hope you all liked the surprise Christmas Present that was this Chapter. This is my gift to all of you who stuck through the whole month and read my story, left reviews, told me what you thought, etc. Thanks a ton! I hope this month has been made just a little better by reading my story. Have a great day, everyone! Merry Christmas! :3