p data-p-id="3e61f23255ae56e264378d497491605f"After Ruby had confessed her love for Rena, Weiss and Blake had shown up at the inn surprised to see what was going on, and it was a few days before Christmas as well./p
p data-p-id="d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" /p
p data-p-id="0b802bf15a60198eb4b9842f8608e635"Christmas Eve, Rena and Ruby were decorating the inn for Christmas. Yang, Shion and the others were also helping./p
p data-p-id="a44c9da3b6bf457f9c509926bcf5be75"Yuri and Sayori were setting up the Christmas tree in the lobby. It was a big tree, luckily Vamp was around to help them. Natsuki made Christmas cookies as she had set them out to cool down, Zero Two had also helped as she made the outside of the inn decorative./p
p data-p-id="5c0f89fc6951583e37fac4d0fbe1ccba"Keiichi looked around amazed. "Whoa, look at that...isn't it beautiful?"/p
p data-p-id="1fc2a9ceb9d371c2d1b7bb12a4366b71"Mion nodded her head in agreement. "Mmhm, and guess what Kei Chan?"/p
p data-p-id="ffcb1e3181a1f9fb66dad04609be0a36"Keiichi looked at her cocking an eyebrow. "What?"/p
p data-p-id="24f32bd2077401b7a835122421b2a573"Mion turned around as she snickered. "Close your eyes Kei Chan."/p
p data-p-id="752fdc5d25a84c604c10092d683d187a"Keiichi shrugs and closes his eyes. Mion smiled as she stripped out of her current clothing as she had a Santa dress under it, she grabbed her Santa hat and put it on her head. Rika came over and helped her with the boots and gloves, after that was done Rika ran off to help the others with decorations./p
p data-p-id="61f397948220173fdb86b04306d0f2c1""Okay Keiichi." Mion said. "You can open your eyes now." She then turned around and blushed a little hoping what she had on was worth the money she had used to buy it./p
p data-p-id="6be0b000fc3592ef6645a9c3fb15461c"Keiichi opened his eyes seeing Mion in her Christmas outfit, he was speechless but had a small nose bleed as he just stares at her. "I-I...uh."/p
p data-p-id="f2e5c6f42ec6f4fd7091495d27bb68c9"Mion noticed as she blushed more. "W-Well what do you think? I bought this the other day."/p
p data-p-id="8d16b8aff2afabd4a946d6ef2f022d7a"Keiichi wipes his nose and smiled. "It looks great Mion, you look lovely."/p
p data-p-id="a8c90d10ee461d7c1282ff86a1a8f463"Mion smiled as she kissed him, there was a mistletoe above the two. As for who put it there, that was unknown, Rena looked over at the two and smiled as she walked over to Maria as she was helping Ruby with ribbons. "HAUU~ So cute, look at the ribbons. Ruby where are you going to put all of them at?"/p
p data-p-id="6d2ab3e9c1e5502a6c0ab471b5a1a63e"Ruby looked up at her as she showed a small map. "I had this made, Connor made it for me. Each red mark is where the ribbons will go at, but Maria said that Beatrice could help us decorate. Bu I haven't see the golden witch around."/p
p data-p-id="81e63b63216cdef02fca595480bd50be""UUU, she'll be here Ruby. Beatrice is busy with Battler at the moment." Maria said./p
p data-p-id="102c3439d577d1d0d552b03fcae27c5e"~~~/p
p data-p-id="19985257d41a2cb588d28848d5293c93"strong-Timeskip of Chibi Beatrice and Chibi Battler playing chess-/strong/p
p data-p-id="3a17339ca26e0fb791361dbd89c53e4e"Beatrice arrived to the inn as she looked at how much was done, she noticed the ribbons as she picked them up and used her powers to place them up to where the map had shown for them to be at./p
p data-p-id="030bb8a499f727fc702e27f8c88f339a""That's done." Beatrice said. "What else is there to do?"/p
p data-p-id="a5566701c1d49180051096b39346ac30""Garland is next Lady Beatrice." Rika said as she walked up next to her. /p
p data-p-id="29e08a7bf20a61667d4a0fd5c6aead70""Ara ara." Beatrice said. "If it isn't Rika Furude, I do say...you look a lot like Bernkastel."/p
p data-p-id="236cd910f69d5ae60088f0a6fc50f4c9""Ni?" Rika asked. "Ah yes...we do look the same." She then looked down as the tone of her voice changed. "But to be honest, we are the same Lady Beatrice."/p
p data-p-id="9a7eeab31412d65c1153a1c8988e681a"Beatrice looked at her still. "I see, so the Christmas garland is the only thing that needs to be placed up?"/p
p data-p-id="e552009019b1a533d57fe46850ed21fa"Rika nodded her head. "Yes, after that's done everything will be ready for Christmas day."/p
p data-p-id="4b1955398e3201f72d7f00f68b82e320"Beatrice helped Rika place the garland up around the inside of the inn. Once that was done, Beatrice took her leave as Rika walked off to the dining room. Satoko and the others were in the back making a Christmas cake and fruit cake, Sayori walked in as she smelt the air smelling to food. "Mm, it smells good."/p
p data-p-id="b3a5ab24160b4c95b9f70ff7448fd7d6""Keep you hungry self away from this." Satoko said looking at her. "This is for tomorrow's dinner, but we are going to have a movie night however."/p
p data-p-id="805e8368ce532f39e7b1d72b76f3b6a7""Awesome." Sayori said. "What kind?"/p
p data-p-id="40f77ae2cffce8fbdab70529eff6807a""Christmas movies." Shion said as she was covered in baking flower from head to toe. "First one we'll watch is the classic, Grinch."/p
p data-p-id="3dd632c31693d2fd56ab0549f9e50cce""Ooo, I haven't seen that in ages." Sayori said jumping up and down. "By the way Shion, where's Yang and the others?"/p
p data-p-id="fa97a7e76f0b693b08d3a2798c95b8cd"Shion thinks for a moment. "Oh I know, they went out with Rena and my twin to the mall. Their going to buy gifts for us all."/p
p data-p-id="33022d4d906a16916160164cabb6c975""Despite not asking what we wanted?" Sayori asked./p
p data-p-id="547470a5df89e45f5f433aa750603fd8""Where's the fun in asking if we'd already know?" Rika asked./p
p data-p-id="15200a368149c154d8da597ba80c277b"At the mall Rena, Ruby, Mion, Yang and Revy walked around the different stores seeing what they could find for everyone at the inn. Revy stopped at clothing store as she examined the different outfits, she wasn't to sure what would be okay to get for Rock and the rest of the lagoon./p
p data-p-id="8e65fe70ebfb2afd729d5698ce31543b""Fuck..." Revy said. "What would be good?"/p
p data-p-id="8d2e56e6e211dfc0cc1a8464295da89a"Ruby looked at Revy as she looked inside the store. "Hmm, well why not some Christmas sweaters for the guys? Also why do you curse almost every day?"/p
p data-p-id="dca3ddf23358db343728d57ae5f7bd3f"Revy sighed as she picked up three sweaters. "These are ugly ones, go figure. Also to answer your question, I can do whatever I want."/p
p data-p-id="976934d561681e62ffd13309baea6f98"Ruby didn't say anything else to Revy after that, she then walked off as Rena made sure Ruby was out of sight. She hurried off to another part of the mall and began to buy things left and right./p
p data-p-id="df9c7429a889814c52bf885b477079c9"Ruby stopped by a toy store as she walked inside looking around, she found a giant stuffed teddy bear and smiled. "Rena would love this...I hope, now what to get for Maria?"/p
p data-p-id="e724ed28ea1ab42c8cd56b7163b40970"A store clerk came over to Ruby as they looked at her. "May I help you?"/p
p data-p-id="146febdf6fb21f24cefcbb10163871cc"Ruby looked at them. "Yeah, um I'm looking for something a nine year old girl would like. She's my friends little sister, but I'm not sure what would be good."/p
p data-p-id="bf45477bbc3000ad78b64fb8272bd8f7"The store clerk smiled as they walked around the store to help Ruby find something for Maria, Ruby saw different stuff but didn't think Maria would be interested in any of them. She then remembered something, she looked at the store clerk. "Do you have anything witch related? Like the legends of the golden witch Beatrice. Anything similar to that?"/p
p data-p-id="e5657b8ae307e9837e42b6bad64866bf"The clerk looked at her and thinks for a moment. "Hmm, as a matter of fact..." They went to the storage room of the store and looked through the boxes. "Ah, here we go." They then came back to where Ruby was at and showed her an entire witch costume set with a staff and a little golden crown. /p
p data-p-id="cf6913a2fb91c5edfcff5ba3ce100971"Ruby smiled brightly as she nodded. "She'll love this, so I'll buy this and that giant teddy."/p
p data-p-id="5cf72ab8e81ce62ee4b49e0c6909e69c"The clerk nodded as they helped ruby with the check out part. Once that was done, Ruby had to decide how to get the teddy bear back to the inn without Rena seeing it. Mion was looking for stuff to buy as well, Yang on the other hand had a few ideas what Shion would like as she bought what she could for Shion and the others. She noticed Ruby walking out of the toy store and walked over to her. "Yo, need some help?"/p
p data-p-id="84a41d6e5b8aa63fc05374e655165e5e"Ruby nodded her head as she had Yang help her take the stuff she bought back to the inn, Rena and the other two had also bought what they could for everyone and headed back shortly after. Ruby had started to wrap the stuff up as she had a big box for the teddy bear. Once that was done, Ruby hid them under the tree in the lobby, Zero Two walked in seeing how much gifts were under the tree as she walked over to Ruby./p
p data-p-id="6d9db0c5eae070903ef44ace8ad328f6""So, I know this is a odd question, but do you think Santa will come? I mean I was told about him and all." Zero Two said./p
p data-p-id="3a9bd859f6677b7d38794b20fa04d04a"Ruby nodded with a smile. "Yes, he'll come tonight and put gifts under the tree for everyone who's been good, while the bad ones get coal in their stockings."/p
p data-p-id="2c31b0012a3c72e8e61ac9717891b0bf""Interesting." Zero Two said. "I must learn more..."/p
p data-p-id="760d518aed302230eae3c7a65c79b20c"~~~/p
p data-p-id="b96cb46731f9192a5c58ade2a31e331d"strong-Timeskip of Chibi Sayori nibbling on some big cookies-/strong/p
p data-p-id="48f666993c83108b709fd51b3be4545c"It was evening, as Vamp had set up a big enough TV for the Christmas movie to be played on. Satoko and Maria had passed out different types of food and drinks for a small Christmas party. Rena had the hot chocolate set out as well./p
p data-p-id="0759ee92eab0bb0dae960a8c5a7bfee6""Okay everyone, lets watch some movies and enjoy this party before we hit the hay." Takano said. "And remember, you all better be sleeping because Santa knows when you're awake."/p
p data-p-id="e25b967ee66aa2d8663dfdeb95ab8dc0""Got it." Satoko said./p
p data-p-id="f9433819c197ea5e38bbc30dd391610b""UUU!" Maria said happily as she got to sit next to Rena and Ruby. "Party!"/p
p data-p-id="45fae58e7dddd66c0e7cfba941f7bcf3""Starting the movie." Connor said as he began to play the movie./p
p data-p-id="47e3c399245eccd5e9bc363c01609cad"Everyone sat in the lobby watching the movie as they chatted a few times and ate what they had, Ruby burned her mouth and tongue on the hot coco as Rena giggled a little bit at her for it. Time passed on as Maria fell asleep snoring lightly, Rena decided to call it a night as she picked her little sister up and took her to their room. Ruby looked up at the Christmas lights as the inn lit up, once the movies were over with. Everyone cleaned up and headed off to bed./p
p data-p-id="f9925ac09303b0da47ef689425962261"Once everyone was sound asleep, time passed on slowly was the sound of a sleigh and reindeer hooves could be heard on the roof of the inn. This sound woke a curious Maria and Sayori up, the two slowly sneaked out of bed and down the stairs to the lobby, they both stopped and peeked their heads to see if they could see anything./p
p data-p-id="36d486617e61db81d3f4f232bab90a63"Sure enough there he stood, good old Saint Nick himself. Kris Kringle, Santa Claus. He was standing by the tree unloading gifts as he had some of the cookies Natsuki made and some milk gone within a blink of an eye. Once he was done unloading he wiggled his nose and poofed out of the lobby. Sayori and Maria smiled as they then went back to their rooms not wanting to wake anyone up, but once they both had gotten back to their own rooms. Rena was wide awake waiting for Maria while Natsuki and the other two waited on Sayori./p
p data-p-id="3a4a190a3dc595976738f58b7da6df19"Christmas day had came as everyone was wide awake, well almost everyone. Both Maria and Sayori were out like a light, they were fast asleep in the lobby on the couch while the others were passing out gifts. Yuri had set aside the gifts that Sayori had gotten, while Rena did the same for Maria. Once it got to the point of opening the gifts, Connor was the first to open his up./p
p data-p-id="3a3633f02cb3568aea5d472b85e85e42""Oh, look at that. It's a book on how to help citizens in need, my programming was installed on that already...but it is nice to see it." Connor said as he opened the other gifts he had gotten./p
p data-p-id="c73970dfb008cda334bfe03ce1343ee9"Rena was next as she had her eyes set on the giant box, she quickly grabbed it as it tumbled over falling on her. "Nooo!" She lifted it up and crawled out from under it. "Now then." She then tore right into it as she stopped to open the box up. "HAUU~! A stuffed teddy bear!" She hugged it tightly as she looked over at Ruby and tackled her. "HAUUU~! Thank you Ruby!"/p
p data-p-id="3d9aaa0fcfff54cf592e74f8612a2727"Ruby fell over and giggled as she hugged Rena, after everyone had unwrapped their gifts, Maria and Sayori had woken up and opened theirs up, Maria's eyes sparkled as she saw the gift Ruby got her. She quickly put it on and tackled Ruby once again knocking the huntress over, Maria nuzzled her as she smiled happily. "UUU!"/p
p data-p-id="1b7bac81e2b2629347e1cb65aa4c1d33""Okay everyone, it's time for the Christmas dinner." Weiss said. "Everyone say grace first before we dig in."/p
p data-p-id="7a59702754b57854d9742a6afa09f5fd""Aye aye." Yang said./p
p data-p-id="c4d98f1ee5f164c38f6127a2bdaafc3f"Everyone had said grace as Zero Two had began severing the food to everyone, passing out the plates of food. Vamp helped as well as he cut the ham and turkey, the ham was covered in honey barbecue while the turkey was covered in gravy. There was some curry on the side of everyone's plates as Zero Two dipped her food in honey while she poured some over her veggies, Blake sighed as she smiled a little bit. Rena looked at Ruby and nudges her. "RRRUUUBBBYYY~ I have one more gift for you."/p
p data-p-id="fb9633f918bd1e66725e891f49976c35"Ruby stopped eating as she had food on her face. "Oh?"/p
p data-p-id="4ebe1c0bfbaf5fd99b3394f8a0e70c64"Rena nodded as she slid her a small box. "Open it."/p
p data-p-id="56bbfe491c398d84a812a97821a23727"Ruby took the small gift as Maria looked over and watched. Ruby unwrapped it and opened it up as it was a locket that matched the one she had gotten Rena, but in this one she got was a picture of her and Rena on one side and on the other side was a picture of her mother Summer Rose. Ruby cocked an eyebrow up as she looked at her. "Where did you get this...?"/p
p data-p-id="9bb4f18508746ddb411bdf4b6fd3f336"Rena smiled as she looked back at her. "You don't remember silly? It was the other day when you confessed to me, Mion took the picture. I just had to put it in your locket, sure it's not just a picture of me, but it's both of us, as for your mother...well Yang helped with that."/p
p data-p-id="abb0ddcac482b5be6e95b9d6efa0e8fb"Ruby smiled a little but closed it up, she tightly hugged Rena and held her close. "Thank you Rena..." She then looked over at her sister. "And thank you Yang..."/p
p data-p-id="1d76ca3e426c52ae8c67db7780f5715d"Rena smiled again as Yang gave a thumbs up. "Not a problem Ruby."/p
p data-p-id="d3cf8f138913790e3adec60d2c6fc594"The day was going on nicely, the Christmas spirit filled the air. As two mistletoe were over Yang and Shion's heads and the other over Rena and Ruby's heads. They soon kissed one another as Mion soon grabbed both Shion and Rena shortly after taking them into one of the rooms they soon came back out in their Christmas outfits as they were wearing Santa dresses, hats, boots and gloves. Music started playing as Weiss had it going, Rena waved on everyone to stand up./p
p data-p-id="107f6c645cd7726e1b27c98ceea761d1""Alright everyone, lets finish this day off with some music and dances!" Rena said. /p
p data-p-id="b2db78ff0546485e1be3f30f3547831a"Maria smiled as she got up on the table after it was cleared off and started to dance, while Rena, Shion and Mion began to sing with Weiss, everyone else either danced or sang along with the four girls. Takano watched them as she didn't bother to join, Beatrice soon came back with Battler as they both watched as well, the music and dancing went on until it was completely dark out. But they didn't bother taking down any of the Christmas lights as they kept them up, Shion and Yang shared one last kiss as well as Keiichi and Mion did as well. Rena and Ruby had also shared one last kiss as well before everyone called it a night, everyone had gone off to bed, with full bellies and a smile on the days event that went on. Now the only question was, what would tomorrow bring them?/p
p data-p-id="26478db11a74b3c8675f463fee30cba7" /p
p data-p-id="e2133fac883d3ade0b816a4832d00e1b"(This is the only Holiday special chapter I will make, I was going to save this for Christmas Eve to post it but decided to post it early. But, yeah happy holidays and Merry Christmas!)/p
p data-p-id="e2133fac883d3ade0b816a4832d00e1b"(This was posted in 2019, I'm just now getting to posting it here to FanFiction.)/p
p data-p-id="d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" /p
p data-p-id="0b802bf15a60198eb4b9842f8608e635"Christmas Eve, Rena and Ruby were decorating the inn for Christmas. Yang, Shion and the others were also helping./p
p data-p-id="a44c9da3b6bf457f9c509926bcf5be75"Yuri and Sayori were setting up the Christmas tree in the lobby. It was a big tree, luckily Vamp was around to help them. Natsuki made Christmas cookies as she had set them out to cool down, Zero Two had also helped as she made the outside of the inn decorative./p
p data-p-id="5c0f89fc6951583e37fac4d0fbe1ccba"Keiichi looked around amazed. "Whoa, look at that...isn't it beautiful?"/p
p data-p-id="1fc2a9ceb9d371c2d1b7bb12a4366b71"Mion nodded her head in agreement. "Mmhm, and guess what Kei Chan?"/p
p data-p-id="ffcb1e3181a1f9fb66dad04609be0a36"Keiichi looked at her cocking an eyebrow. "What?"/p
p data-p-id="24f32bd2077401b7a835122421b2a573"Mion turned around as she snickered. "Close your eyes Kei Chan."/p
p data-p-id="752fdc5d25a84c604c10092d683d187a"Keiichi shrugs and closes his eyes. Mion smiled as she stripped out of her current clothing as she had a Santa dress under it, she grabbed her Santa hat and put it on her head. Rika came over and helped her with the boots and gloves, after that was done Rika ran off to help the others with decorations./p
p data-p-id="61f397948220173fdb86b04306d0f2c1""Okay Keiichi." Mion said. "You can open your eyes now." She then turned around and blushed a little hoping what she had on was worth the money she had used to buy it./p
p data-p-id="6be0b000fc3592ef6645a9c3fb15461c"Keiichi opened his eyes seeing Mion in her Christmas outfit, he was speechless but had a small nose bleed as he just stares at her. "I-I...uh."/p
p data-p-id="f2e5c6f42ec6f4fd7091495d27bb68c9"Mion noticed as she blushed more. "W-Well what do you think? I bought this the other day."/p
p data-p-id="8d16b8aff2afabd4a946d6ef2f022d7a"Keiichi wipes his nose and smiled. "It looks great Mion, you look lovely."/p
p data-p-id="a8c90d10ee461d7c1282ff86a1a8f463"Mion smiled as she kissed him, there was a mistletoe above the two. As for who put it there, that was unknown, Rena looked over at the two and smiled as she walked over to Maria as she was helping Ruby with ribbons. "HAUU~ So cute, look at the ribbons. Ruby where are you going to put all of them at?"/p
p data-p-id="6d2ab3e9c1e5502a6c0ab471b5a1a63e"Ruby looked up at her as she showed a small map. "I had this made, Connor made it for me. Each red mark is where the ribbons will go at, but Maria said that Beatrice could help us decorate. Bu I haven't see the golden witch around."/p
p data-p-id="81e63b63216cdef02fca595480bd50be""UUU, she'll be here Ruby. Beatrice is busy with Battler at the moment." Maria said./p
p data-p-id="102c3439d577d1d0d552b03fcae27c5e"~~~/p
p data-p-id="19985257d41a2cb588d28848d5293c93"strong-Timeskip of Chibi Beatrice and Chibi Battler playing chess-/strong/p
p data-p-id="3a17339ca26e0fb791361dbd89c53e4e"Beatrice arrived to the inn as she looked at how much was done, she noticed the ribbons as she picked them up and used her powers to place them up to where the map had shown for them to be at./p
p data-p-id="030bb8a499f727fc702e27f8c88f339a""That's done." Beatrice said. "What else is there to do?"/p
p data-p-id="a5566701c1d49180051096b39346ac30""Garland is next Lady Beatrice." Rika said as she walked up next to her. /p
p data-p-id="29e08a7bf20a61667d4a0fd5c6aead70""Ara ara." Beatrice said. "If it isn't Rika Furude, I do say...you look a lot like Bernkastel."/p
p data-p-id="236cd910f69d5ae60088f0a6fc50f4c9""Ni?" Rika asked. "Ah yes...we do look the same." She then looked down as the tone of her voice changed. "But to be honest, we are the same Lady Beatrice."/p
p data-p-id="9a7eeab31412d65c1153a1c8988e681a"Beatrice looked at her still. "I see, so the Christmas garland is the only thing that needs to be placed up?"/p
p data-p-id="e552009019b1a533d57fe46850ed21fa"Rika nodded her head. "Yes, after that's done everything will be ready for Christmas day."/p
p data-p-id="4b1955398e3201f72d7f00f68b82e320"Beatrice helped Rika place the garland up around the inside of the inn. Once that was done, Beatrice took her leave as Rika walked off to the dining room. Satoko and the others were in the back making a Christmas cake and fruit cake, Sayori walked in as she smelt the air smelling to food. "Mm, it smells good."/p
p data-p-id="b3a5ab24160b4c95b9f70ff7448fd7d6""Keep you hungry self away from this." Satoko said looking at her. "This is for tomorrow's dinner, but we are going to have a movie night however."/p
p data-p-id="805e8368ce532f39e7b1d72b76f3b6a7""Awesome." Sayori said. "What kind?"/p
p data-p-id="40f77ae2cffce8fbdab70529eff6807a""Christmas movies." Shion said as she was covered in baking flower from head to toe. "First one we'll watch is the classic, Grinch."/p
p data-p-id="3dd632c31693d2fd56ab0549f9e50cce""Ooo, I haven't seen that in ages." Sayori said jumping up and down. "By the way Shion, where's Yang and the others?"/p
p data-p-id="fa97a7e76f0b693b08d3a2798c95b8cd"Shion thinks for a moment. "Oh I know, they went out with Rena and my twin to the mall. Their going to buy gifts for us all."/p
p data-p-id="33022d4d906a16916160164cabb6c975""Despite not asking what we wanted?" Sayori asked./p
p data-p-id="547470a5df89e45f5f433aa750603fd8""Where's the fun in asking if we'd already know?" Rika asked./p
p data-p-id="15200a368149c154d8da597ba80c277b"At the mall Rena, Ruby, Mion, Yang and Revy walked around the different stores seeing what they could find for everyone at the inn. Revy stopped at clothing store as she examined the different outfits, she wasn't to sure what would be okay to get for Rock and the rest of the lagoon./p
p data-p-id="8e65fe70ebfb2afd729d5698ce31543b""Fuck..." Revy said. "What would be good?"/p
p data-p-id="8d2e56e6e211dfc0cc1a8464295da89a"Ruby looked at Revy as she looked inside the store. "Hmm, well why not some Christmas sweaters for the guys? Also why do you curse almost every day?"/p
p data-p-id="dca3ddf23358db343728d57ae5f7bd3f"Revy sighed as she picked up three sweaters. "These are ugly ones, go figure. Also to answer your question, I can do whatever I want."/p
p data-p-id="976934d561681e62ffd13309baea6f98"Ruby didn't say anything else to Revy after that, she then walked off as Rena made sure Ruby was out of sight. She hurried off to another part of the mall and began to buy things left and right./p
p data-p-id="df9c7429a889814c52bf885b477079c9"Ruby stopped by a toy store as she walked inside looking around, she found a giant stuffed teddy bear and smiled. "Rena would love this...I hope, now what to get for Maria?"/p
p data-p-id="e724ed28ea1ab42c8cd56b7163b40970"A store clerk came over to Ruby as they looked at her. "May I help you?"/p
p data-p-id="146febdf6fb21f24cefcbb10163871cc"Ruby looked at them. "Yeah, um I'm looking for something a nine year old girl would like. She's my friends little sister, but I'm not sure what would be good."/p
p data-p-id="bf45477bbc3000ad78b64fb8272bd8f7"The store clerk smiled as they walked around the store to help Ruby find something for Maria, Ruby saw different stuff but didn't think Maria would be interested in any of them. She then remembered something, she looked at the store clerk. "Do you have anything witch related? Like the legends of the golden witch Beatrice. Anything similar to that?"/p
p data-p-id="e5657b8ae307e9837e42b6bad64866bf"The clerk looked at her and thinks for a moment. "Hmm, as a matter of fact..." They went to the storage room of the store and looked through the boxes. "Ah, here we go." They then came back to where Ruby was at and showed her an entire witch costume set with a staff and a little golden crown. /p
p data-p-id="cf6913a2fb91c5edfcff5ba3ce100971"Ruby smiled brightly as she nodded. "She'll love this, so I'll buy this and that giant teddy."/p
p data-p-id="5cf72ab8e81ce62ee4b49e0c6909e69c"The clerk nodded as they helped ruby with the check out part. Once that was done, Ruby had to decide how to get the teddy bear back to the inn without Rena seeing it. Mion was looking for stuff to buy as well, Yang on the other hand had a few ideas what Shion would like as she bought what she could for Shion and the others. She noticed Ruby walking out of the toy store and walked over to her. "Yo, need some help?"/p
p data-p-id="84a41d6e5b8aa63fc05374e655165e5e"Ruby nodded her head as she had Yang help her take the stuff she bought back to the inn, Rena and the other two had also bought what they could for everyone and headed back shortly after. Ruby had started to wrap the stuff up as she had a big box for the teddy bear. Once that was done, Ruby hid them under the tree in the lobby, Zero Two walked in seeing how much gifts were under the tree as she walked over to Ruby./p
p data-p-id="6d9db0c5eae070903ef44ace8ad328f6""So, I know this is a odd question, but do you think Santa will come? I mean I was told about him and all." Zero Two said./p
p data-p-id="3a9bd859f6677b7d38794b20fa04d04a"Ruby nodded with a smile. "Yes, he'll come tonight and put gifts under the tree for everyone who's been good, while the bad ones get coal in their stockings."/p
p data-p-id="2c31b0012a3c72e8e61ac9717891b0bf""Interesting." Zero Two said. "I must learn more..."/p
p data-p-id="760d518aed302230eae3c7a65c79b20c"~~~/p
p data-p-id="b96cb46731f9192a5c58ade2a31e331d"strong-Timeskip of Chibi Sayori nibbling on some big cookies-/strong/p
p data-p-id="48f666993c83108b709fd51b3be4545c"It was evening, as Vamp had set up a big enough TV for the Christmas movie to be played on. Satoko and Maria had passed out different types of food and drinks for a small Christmas party. Rena had the hot chocolate set out as well./p
p data-p-id="0759ee92eab0bb0dae960a8c5a7bfee6""Okay everyone, lets watch some movies and enjoy this party before we hit the hay." Takano said. "And remember, you all better be sleeping because Santa knows when you're awake."/p
p data-p-id="e25b967ee66aa2d8663dfdeb95ab8dc0""Got it." Satoko said./p
p data-p-id="f9433819c197ea5e38bbc30dd391610b""UUU!" Maria said happily as she got to sit next to Rena and Ruby. "Party!"/p
p data-p-id="45fae58e7dddd66c0e7cfba941f7bcf3""Starting the movie." Connor said as he began to play the movie./p
p data-p-id="47e3c399245eccd5e9bc363c01609cad"Everyone sat in the lobby watching the movie as they chatted a few times and ate what they had, Ruby burned her mouth and tongue on the hot coco as Rena giggled a little bit at her for it. Time passed on as Maria fell asleep snoring lightly, Rena decided to call it a night as she picked her little sister up and took her to their room. Ruby looked up at the Christmas lights as the inn lit up, once the movies were over with. Everyone cleaned up and headed off to bed./p
p data-p-id="f9925ac09303b0da47ef689425962261"Once everyone was sound asleep, time passed on slowly was the sound of a sleigh and reindeer hooves could be heard on the roof of the inn. This sound woke a curious Maria and Sayori up, the two slowly sneaked out of bed and down the stairs to the lobby, they both stopped and peeked their heads to see if they could see anything./p
p data-p-id="36d486617e61db81d3f4f232bab90a63"Sure enough there he stood, good old Saint Nick himself. Kris Kringle, Santa Claus. He was standing by the tree unloading gifts as he had some of the cookies Natsuki made and some milk gone within a blink of an eye. Once he was done unloading he wiggled his nose and poofed out of the lobby. Sayori and Maria smiled as they then went back to their rooms not wanting to wake anyone up, but once they both had gotten back to their own rooms. Rena was wide awake waiting for Maria while Natsuki and the other two waited on Sayori./p
p data-p-id="3a4a190a3dc595976738f58b7da6df19"Christmas day had came as everyone was wide awake, well almost everyone. Both Maria and Sayori were out like a light, they were fast asleep in the lobby on the couch while the others were passing out gifts. Yuri had set aside the gifts that Sayori had gotten, while Rena did the same for Maria. Once it got to the point of opening the gifts, Connor was the first to open his up./p
p data-p-id="3a3633f02cb3568aea5d472b85e85e42""Oh, look at that. It's a book on how to help citizens in need, my programming was installed on that already...but it is nice to see it." Connor said as he opened the other gifts he had gotten./p
p data-p-id="c73970dfb008cda334bfe03ce1343ee9"Rena was next as she had her eyes set on the giant box, she quickly grabbed it as it tumbled over falling on her. "Nooo!" She lifted it up and crawled out from under it. "Now then." She then tore right into it as she stopped to open the box up. "HAUU~! A stuffed teddy bear!" She hugged it tightly as she looked over at Ruby and tackled her. "HAUUU~! Thank you Ruby!"/p
p data-p-id="3d9aaa0fcfff54cf592e74f8612a2727"Ruby fell over and giggled as she hugged Rena, after everyone had unwrapped their gifts, Maria and Sayori had woken up and opened theirs up, Maria's eyes sparkled as she saw the gift Ruby got her. She quickly put it on and tackled Ruby once again knocking the huntress over, Maria nuzzled her as she smiled happily. "UUU!"/p
p data-p-id="1b7bac81e2b2629347e1cb65aa4c1d33""Okay everyone, it's time for the Christmas dinner." Weiss said. "Everyone say grace first before we dig in."/p
p data-p-id="7a59702754b57854d9742a6afa09f5fd""Aye aye." Yang said./p
p data-p-id="c4d98f1ee5f164c38f6127a2bdaafc3f"Everyone had said grace as Zero Two had began severing the food to everyone, passing out the plates of food. Vamp helped as well as he cut the ham and turkey, the ham was covered in honey barbecue while the turkey was covered in gravy. There was some curry on the side of everyone's plates as Zero Two dipped her food in honey while she poured some over her veggies, Blake sighed as she smiled a little bit. Rena looked at Ruby and nudges her. "RRRUUUBBBYYY~ I have one more gift for you."/p
p data-p-id="fb9633f918bd1e66725e891f49976c35"Ruby stopped eating as she had food on her face. "Oh?"/p
p data-p-id="4ebe1c0bfbaf5fd99b3394f8a0e70c64"Rena nodded as she slid her a small box. "Open it."/p
p data-p-id="56bbfe491c398d84a812a97821a23727"Ruby took the small gift as Maria looked over and watched. Ruby unwrapped it and opened it up as it was a locket that matched the one she had gotten Rena, but in this one she got was a picture of her and Rena on one side and on the other side was a picture of her mother Summer Rose. Ruby cocked an eyebrow up as she looked at her. "Where did you get this...?"/p
p data-p-id="9bb4f18508746ddb411bdf4b6fd3f336"Rena smiled as she looked back at her. "You don't remember silly? It was the other day when you confessed to me, Mion took the picture. I just had to put it in your locket, sure it's not just a picture of me, but it's both of us, as for your mother...well Yang helped with that."/p
p data-p-id="abb0ddcac482b5be6e95b9d6efa0e8fb"Ruby smiled a little but closed it up, she tightly hugged Rena and held her close. "Thank you Rena..." She then looked over at her sister. "And thank you Yang..."/p
p data-p-id="1d76ca3e426c52ae8c67db7780f5715d"Rena smiled again as Yang gave a thumbs up. "Not a problem Ruby."/p
p data-p-id="d3cf8f138913790e3adec60d2c6fc594"The day was going on nicely, the Christmas spirit filled the air. As two mistletoe were over Yang and Shion's heads and the other over Rena and Ruby's heads. They soon kissed one another as Mion soon grabbed both Shion and Rena shortly after taking them into one of the rooms they soon came back out in their Christmas outfits as they were wearing Santa dresses, hats, boots and gloves. Music started playing as Weiss had it going, Rena waved on everyone to stand up./p
p data-p-id="107f6c645cd7726e1b27c98ceea761d1""Alright everyone, lets finish this day off with some music and dances!" Rena said. /p
p data-p-id="b2db78ff0546485e1be3f30f3547831a"Maria smiled as she got up on the table after it was cleared off and started to dance, while Rena, Shion and Mion began to sing with Weiss, everyone else either danced or sang along with the four girls. Takano watched them as she didn't bother to join, Beatrice soon came back with Battler as they both watched as well, the music and dancing went on until it was completely dark out. But they didn't bother taking down any of the Christmas lights as they kept them up, Shion and Yang shared one last kiss as well as Keiichi and Mion did as well. Rena and Ruby had also shared one last kiss as well before everyone called it a night, everyone had gone off to bed, with full bellies and a smile on the days event that went on. Now the only question was, what would tomorrow bring them?/p
p data-p-id="26478db11a74b3c8675f463fee30cba7" /p
p data-p-id="e2133fac883d3ade0b816a4832d00e1b"(This is the only Holiday special chapter I will make, I was going to save this for Christmas Eve to post it but decided to post it early. But, yeah happy holidays and Merry Christmas!)/p
p data-p-id="e2133fac883d3ade0b816a4832d00e1b"(This was posted in 2019, I'm just now getting to posting it here to FanFiction.)/p