Wha hey, third chapter in a week, I know I'm belting them out rather fast but its pretty much 'Christmas Chaos' in my house.
Oh so you know, I've set the party on Christmas Eve night, so no-one can feel bad about opening their pressies!
Since no-one guessed, dodge and swerve is cockney rhyming slang for perv.
I've thought of a way for Ella to speak without missing it all out.
# signing # and she can hear with her hearing aids though LC, Yamuna and a few others sign to double check she understands.
Been over this, don't own so bog off! Merry Christmas! XD
Dashing through the snow, on a one horse open sleigh through the fields we go...
"Seto, everyone will be here in a minute! Where are you?" called Mokuba, running around in a plain dusky red dress coat and top hat.
"He and Master Joseph are in their room, sir." said the Butler, sporting a piece of red tinsel in his ponytail and a poinsettia pinned to the lapel of his jacket.
"Thanks Mohandas." Mokuba called as he hopped the stairs two at a time. Running through the maze of hallways, towards the room.
"Ouch, Joey, I'm thin enough, any tighter and I'll snap in half!" came a cry.
"Sorry, I'm just getting my own back from earlier." replied the New York accent.
Mokuba didn't know whether to continue listening or back away slowly, instead he knocked on the door.
"I hope you two are not doing what it sounds like." he called. There was a mass of scrambling and then Joey opened the door.
"You think the worst of us Mokuba." Joey shook his blonde locks as he brushed dust off his red and gold piper's uniform. "Seto, have you seen my pipe?"
"After you murdered 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' I confiscated it." the tall brunette smirked, adjusting his royal blue cravat and his white cuffs.
He was dressed similar to Ryou, but in silver, white and blue and he looked more like a prince than a lord.
"Hey, I didn't murder it. Just... mortally wounded it." Joey pouted. Then he went over to his set of drawers. "Oh Mokuba, looking good as a Dickensian Kid."
"Cheers Joey. What are you looking for in your sock drawer?"
"Found it." Joey said triumphantly, pulling out a new pipe and putting his fingers over the holes.
"Mokuba, remind me to hand out earplugs." sneered Seto.
Raising the pipe to his lips, Joey started to blow gently, filling the room with a beautiful rendition of 'Twelve Days of Christmas'.
"That told you." Mokuba grinned, seeing his brother's face, if only he had a camera. Then the doorbell went. "Mohandas will get that." and he fled from the room.
"Cocky git." Seto smirked. Joey stopped playing.
"I did learn from the best." Joey mock-glared at him. Then there was a tap at the window. "Here comes the lady of the night." He pushed open the window to see Nicole being supported by Tien. "Hiya Nicole."
"Hey Joey, Seto." with the latter's help she stepped into the room.
"I'll go and meet the others at the front door." Tien tipped his hat and flew off.
"You look amazing." said Joey, kissing her gloved hand.
"So do you two." she smiled, and then hugged the pair. "Thank you for everything guys."
"It's no problem. Without your show I think the pup and I will probably still be fighting in school." Seto smiled. He looked toward the door. "Yes Mohandas?"
"Everyone has arrived Master Kaiba, Master Joseph, M'Lady." Mohandas replied, bowing to them.
"I'll be back in minute; I have to...er... see a man about a dog!" Joey rushed from the room.
"The bathroom's right there, though." said Seto, pointing to the door opposite him and Nicole.
"Hmm, something funny is going on." Nicole frowned.
Seto laughed inside, 'Girl won't know what hit her'. "Come, Lady King." he offered his hand with a bow.
"Why thank you, kind Sir." Nicole giggled.
"Duke! Where are you?" called Joey, sliding out of the butler's entrance.
"Here. We set?" called a drummer in red and navy.
"Yeah, bottom of the stairs, now." Joey hissed, as Mokuba nimbly made his way down.
Waiting for everyone's attention he took in the numerous costumes, he even signed hello to Ella and laughed at the collection of elves talking to a giant snowball.
He spotted Kai, in all his glittery glory, talking to two angels - one being Max and the other being the redhead Mokuba noted was in the audience in the summer - a tall blonde Dickensian gentleman and a caroller with lavender coloured hair. Then a dancer and an angel who Mokuba knew as Téa and Serenity joined them.
"Heh Hem!" he cleared his throat. No-one heard him.
FWEEEEP! Joey had let out a shrill note on his pipe. That did it.
"Welcome everyone, to the Kaiba Mansion for the after show and Christmas party, I'm happy to see that everyone has made an effort with their costumes, especially the snowball, nice one LC." Mokuba greeted them all; LC could only nod his thanks. Then everyone looked up behind Mokuba.
Joey and Duke nodded and started playing 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow' as Seto made his way down the stairs with Nicole. Everyone began to sing.
"For She's a Jolly Good Fellow,
For She's a Jolly Good Fellow,
For she's a Jolly Good Fell-el-low!
Which nobody can deny!"
"Oh my god." Nicole gasped at the sight of everyone cheering and applauding, and then she saw Ryou standing at the bottom with open arms. Which she gladly ran into, sobbing into his shoulder.
"I'm glad Chi Chi put waterproof Mascara on her." laughed Trunks as Nicole looked up from Ryou's shoulder.
"I don't deserve all this."
"Don't be daft, of course you do." Ryou whispered, kissing her. "You look beautiful. But weren't you coming as an elf?"
"Let's just say I had a Cinderella moment. My Fairy Godfather and his son insisted I wore this." She turned and waved to Vegeta and Trunks, both gave the thumbs up.
"Nicole!" she felt herself being pulled from Ryou's embrace and into Ray's.
"Hi Ray. Love the costume, suits you."
"Thank you and likewise."
"Kai, wow! You look brilliant. And you're wearing glitter." she laughed.
"Yes, a certain kitty-cat can answer for that one." Kai sighed. "It's good to see you again. It's been a while."
"Yeah, I have to constantly beg for someone to fly me out of the mountains, but its great living with Goku and the others."
"What's that about me? Oof!" Nicole had clamped herself to the tall Saiyan.
"You guys had this planned all along."
"Yes we all did. You deserve to be the Belle of the ball." said voice.
"Yami, Yugi! Tristan!" she laughed, hugging them all in turn. Then they heard
"Serenity! It's great to see you!" it was Joey, picking up his sister and swinging her around.
"And you big bro. Put me down before I take off!"
"Shall we step into the ballroom?" called Seto.
"You step, I'll roll, and that's not a snowball gag."
"I didn't mean to cause offence LC."
"Don't worry about it." said LC, rolling past.
"Pay him no mind Seto, we had an argument earlier and he's sulking." Yamuna whispered.
"Anything serious?" asked Joey.
"He wanted me to enjoy myself instead of lagging behind on his account. I had a go at him for being an idiot."
"Well I suppose it's hard for him being the only one in a large group, in a wheelchair."
"I know, but I can't do anything about It." she felt a tug on her dress, "Yes Ella?"
# Don't let papa get you down Aunt Yamuna, you know how he gets moody. He'll cheer up as the evening goes on. #
"I hope so Ella." and they both went inside.
"She's such a sweet little girl isn't she?" asked Joey to Seto.
"Yeah." Seto replied, wrapping his arms around Joey's waist from behind and sent small kisses up his neck jaw line, before dominating the blonde's mouth. This loving exchange continued until air became a bit of a problem.
"What brought that on?" Joey panted his eyes slightly unfocused. Seto smirked and pointed up. Joey saw there was a sprig of Mistletoe hanging above them. "And there was me thinking you did it cos ya loved me."
"That was part of it."
"Will you two come and join the party already?"
"Sorry Nicole, we got a bit..." Joey began, indicating the mistletoe as he and Seto walked up to her. "Sidetracked."
"At least I know it worked." Nicole grinned, looking around at the red and gold decorations, Seto and Joey had gone all-out for the party. "The place looks brilliant guys."
"Thanks to Joey, he did most of it."
"Ah shucks." Joey blushed.
"Are we gonna get a bit of music going anytime soon?" asked Ryou. "Téa's complaining."
"Good things come to those who wait. Ladies and Gents, boys and girls, eat, drink, dance and be merry!" Seto pulled out a remote from his dress-coat and pushed a button, behind the stage appeared a very fancy looking sound system, playing a Christmassy tune. "That was so cheesy."
"Care to dance?" Ryou offered to Nicole.
"Hell yeah, I haven't seen you in ages." Nicole grinned, taking his hands and waltzing off. Joey and Seto shrugged and joined them.
"Ooh, dancing." said Max, seeing the two couples become three as Yugi dragged an uncertain looking Yami to the floor. He looked to Serenity who was sitting beside him and asked. "Would you like to dance?"
"Sure." She smiled. Waving to Joey as they approached the floor, Joey waved back, seeing the looks on Tristan and Duke's faces.
Tristan looked like someone had slapped him in the face with a wet fish and Duke looked like he was about to breathe fire.
"I'm way better looking than Blondie!" he grumbled.
"Max had the courage to ask." said Kai, trying to avoid Ray's pleading gaze. And failing. He let Ray drag him to the dance floor.
'Flippin hell, seems everyone can dance, even Bryan!' he thought angrily as Bryan and Tala waltzed past.
'I thought Kai would be past all that reputation crap, I would be happy even if we were just dancing on the spot!'
"I'm sorry Ray but… I don't know how to dance." Kai's wine red orbs were shining with love and embarrassment. Ray could only chuckle lightly.
"Kai, I don't care whether you can dance or not, even if means we're just swaying on the spot. Just as long and I'm with you." Ray smiled, slipping his hands around Kai's waist and gently making him sway.
"You're amazing, you know that?" Kai smiled, Ray then did something Tyson would've called Kai-ish… he smirked and kissed the bluenette.
"Mind out below!" called a voice, everyone looked up to see Trunks and Goten dancing above them as the song changed.
"You gits!" cried Nicole, they had always mucked about in the air when Gohan was teaching her how to focus her energy to fly (Like he did with Videl in the show)
"May I have the next dance Nicole?" asked Goku.
"Go on Nick, I could do with a break." smiled Ryou, leaving the floor to find a seat.
"Uh Goku, I can't fly, you know that."
"You can Nick, just tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee up there always put you off." Goku took her hand. "Remember the running take off?"
"The one where I grazed my arm so bad it bled for two hours? Like I'd forget it." Nicole snorted, tightening her grip on Goku's hand.
Goku knew she was nervous about this, but it was now or never.
"Right, go!"
Everyone darted out of the way as Nicole and Goku took off into the air. Goku swung her round and let go. Sending the girl spinning across the length of the room like a... erm... beyblade! sending the skirt of her dress to fly up, revealing black knee length leggings
She manage to stop herself before colliding with the door.
"I'm... flying, oh my stars I'm flying!" Nicole laughed to applause. "You're lucky I'm wearing shorts under this Goku." she laughed, spinning back to him with as much grace as Yami had back in the summer. "Thank you." she said as they began to dance in the air alongside Trunks and Goten.
"I did that with Krillin once, the fear factor works just as well." Goku grinned. Spinning her off again, Gohan floated up to meet her.
"You guys are the greatest." she smiled, hugging the bespectacled adult.
While everyone was still dancing a couple of hours later, about nine. Tyson was stuffing his face at the buffet table.
"Tyson, save some for the rest of us will you!" cried Tristan.
"Hey isn't that Joey's sister under the mistletoe?" asked Kenny, as he and Hilary the milkmaid tried to pull the snowman that was Tyson away from the table. Tristan looked over and sauntered over. Duke saw this and worked his way over as well.
"Evening Serenity, might I be so bold to say you look beautiful as always." said Tristan, taking off his hat and bowing to the bruentte angel that was Joey's sister.
"Yes, that would be so bold." snorted Duke, kissing Serenity's hand.
'Bloody hell here we go again!' Serenity rolled her eyes and ducked just as Tristan and Duke leant in to kiss her.
You could say the results were rather comical.
"YUCK!" cried Duke, wiping his mouth on his blue cuff.
"I could say worse about you dice-boy but I won't, there's a child about."
"Don't let that stop you, she's deaf." Goaded Duke, itching for an excuse to punch the taller teen.
"And you insult anyone because of their disability again Devlin and I'll make sure you know what it's like." Vegeta turned on the boy.
"Yessir." Duke mumbled. Vegeta smirked and went back to stand by the pile of presents.
"Inconsiderate bastard." Tristan snorted.
"You're not really that much better Tristan." frowned Yugi, coming to investigate. "You know that's not the way to behave infront of kids, on Christmas Eve no less."
"I know, and I'm sorry." Tristan replied, internally annoyed that he was getting lectured by an elf.
It was about half ten and the mood had dulled a little. The only reason Ella was still awake was because of the food she had eaten, and the chocolate coins supplied by Ray.
Yami and Yugi were talking to Max and Serenity, she was staying with the blonde becasue she could have a conversation with him without him drooling.
Ray and Kai were reaquainting their tongues, as were Trunks and Goten.
LC was lazily playing any tune he could think of using Joey's pipe.
Yamuna, Téa, Hilary and Kenny were talking about theatre shows and musicals they had seen or wanted to see.
Bryan, Tala and Spencer were talking about blading with Nicole and Ryou, who found it interesting that some bladers also weilded spirits or bit-beasts in their blades, it reminded him of being able to summon monsters in the Shadow Realm, then shuddered at the thought of Bakura, who was probably so drunk he was passed out on Marik's sofa.
Duke and Tristan were sulking either side of the sound system, despite Gohan and Yamcha telling them to quit it and be happy.
Solomon and Gramps had fallen asleep on one of the couches that lined the edges.
Hiro and Mokuba were playing chess with Goku watching.
Piccolo, Tien, Krillin and Vegeta were talking about the next Budokai Tournament (dunno if it's called that but hey) with Yamcha juggling Ki balls to entertain those who weren't snogging. Tyson staring in amazment.
"What are those things?" he asked.
"They're balls of Ki Energy, summoned of your own free will to use as light, heat and to attack given the right reasons. But it takes a bit of time to master. Not that you need it with your Dragoon by your side." Yamcha explained.
Joey and Seto were sitting on the edge of the stage, well Joey was and Seto was perched against it.
"Um Seto, do you think we should break out the presents now? It might lighten things up for a bit, before we all turn in for the night." suggested Joey, reaching up to fiddle with Seto's chestnut locks.
"Might be an idea... Excuse me everyone, Joey just brought up a good point, shall we save the presents for tomorrow or open them now?"
"Let's open them now, then we can get Ella off to bed." said Yamuna. Ella heard her and signed her protest.
# But Aunt Yamuna, I'm wide awake! #
"Give it half an hour little missie and you'll be like Solomon-san and Gramps-san." LC told her.
"Right, everyone gather around everyone and let's get these presents opened shall we?" Joey called, rubbing his hands together...
Dashing through the snow, on a one horse open sleigh through the fields we go...
I know my chapters are probably ridiculously long, but hey, I don't want to do as many chapters as Talent Contest Chaos.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed! Luv Ya'll! Next Chappie... PRESENTS!