Hello my reviewers. It's time for the pressies! I'll try to keep this as sane as possible.

Goku; From what I've read, nothing of your work is sane.

Seto; I'm agreeing with Goku, NKingy.

Joey; A bit of insanity never hurt no-one. I better not get hurt Nicole or I'll never feature in any of your fics again!

I think I've picked on Ryou again. Sorry Ryou.

Ryou; that means Bakura's back (groans)Vegeta, would you be so kind and do the disclaimer? Then we can see how I die.

Vegeta; If NKingy owned beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh or Dragonball Z, do you honestly think there would be the likes of Boris, Bakura abusing Ryou or Hercule being a fraud all these years?

Bit long winded but it'll do. I don't own any band or brand names that might pop up either. On with the fic!

#" Signing and speaking"# for characters like LC when they're talking to Ella.

"Right, everyone gather around everyone and let's get these presents opened shall we?" Joey called, rubbing his hands together and taking the first present down off the pile. He staggered like it weighed a lot. "Seto...tag and hurry it up!"

"It's for Krillin, from Tien."

Krillin took the package a little less trouble than Joey but still struggled with it. Opening it up he saw it was weighted clothing in the colours of his Gi.

"Just what I needed, thanks pal." Krillin grinned at his three eyed friend.

"No sweat buddy. Right, who's next?"

Seto picked up another box. "This is for... Bryan Kuznetsov from... I can't read this writing it's so damn small!" Seto handed the small package to the lavender haired teen who read the tag as well.

"From Serenity." he announced, looking up at the auburn haired girl.

"Open it Bryan." said Kenny, adjusting the beak and glasses on his head.

Bryan gave it a tentative shake against his ear before unwrapping it, revealing a number of carving tools, even an apron with a falcon embroidered on the chest, not just any falcon... Falborg.

"A...da... how did you know?"

"Let's just say a little birdie told me, make that a little wolfie." Serenity giggled.

"I- They're perfect, thank you." Bryan smiled, fighting back the tears. "Right who's next?"

Joey picked up another package. "To Spencer from Gohan."

The tall heavily built blonde tore away the paper to find a collection of astronomy books.

"Books? Honestly Gohan." tutted Goten.

"It's just what I wanted, thank you." Spencer gave a rare smile, doing the same as Bryan.

"The next one is from Spencer to Serenity." called Seto. It opened up to be a bouquet of wooden roses.

"They're beautiful, thank you Spencer." Serenity ran up and hugged the tall teen.

"But I thought Bryan was the one who carves things out of wood." frowned Kai, knowing the three Russians better than anyone else.

"I do too, but I already had my tools." Spencer told him, awkwardly patting Serenity on the back. Kai smiled, knowing that he wasn't used to this kind of contact.

"This one's fairly light. Heads up Hiro!" Joey called, tossing the package. Hiro managed to catch it but knocking his hat off and onto LC's snowball.

"Careful Joey." called Hiro, reading the tag and tearing the paper and pulling up a navy, black, red and white Gi. "Thanks Krillin, I think these outfits rock!"

"Hey, who turned off the lights!" came a muffled cry.

"Oops, sorry LC." Hiro was about to lift off his hat when LC emerged his head underneath.

"No sweat." LC laughed as Hiro put the hat back on his ownhead.

# Papa, do you wanna come out of your snowball for a minute and open your present? # signed Ella.

"That's was what I was doing before it went dark." laughed LC, opening his snowball and rolling out.

His present was from Ray, it was a patchwork blanket with Dragoon, Driger, Dranzer and Draciel in the centre. From its shape, LC could tell it was designed to go on his chair.

"It's brilliant, thank you Ray."

"Don't mention it." Ray grinned, nibbling at a chocolate coin and handing the bag around.

"Next present." called Nicole, grabbing it from the pile, Kaiba and Joey had decided to occupy themselves with each other. "Is for Mokuba, from Tyson."

"Ooh!" Mokuba had up 'til now been a tad bored and tore at the paper eagerly.

It was a rich purple beyblade and launcher.

"I didn't know what colour to get you; you can always ask Kenny to change the parts."

"It's great, thank you. Maybe one day you and I could battle?"

"Sure thing kiddo. Right, who's next or we'll be here all night." laughed Tyson.

"Um..." Nicole picked out a rather flat package, "you are Tyson, from Téa."

"Ooh." Tyson tore off the paper, gave his usual hundred mega-watt smile and hugged Téa. "Thank you! Blink 182 rocks!" it turned out to be the band's greatest hits album.

"Glad you like it." Téa beamed, though trying to politely pry the midnight haired teen blader off her, soon Max and Hilary helped her.

"Next is..."

"Can I go next Nicole; Goku's present it kinda poking me in the back."

"Sure thing Piccolo."

"You did the secret Santa thing as well?" Goku couldn't believe it.

"Yes, now here. It's not exactly new or anything, but I thought you might want it back." from under his cloak Piccolo threw Goku a short wooden stick in a holster.

"Hahaha! My Nui Bow, I haven't seen this since I was a boy! Thank you Piccolo." the Santa clad Saiyan laughed gleefully, pulling it out and spinning it around, it grew to his height.

"Ok dad, put it away before you end up poking a hole in the wall." laughed Goten as Ryou reached for the next package on the shortening pile.

"Yamuna, from Mokuba." he called, handing her a long package.

"Oh...WOW!" Yamuna couldn't speak, running her fingers over the fine red leather of the sheath she had just unwrapped. "It's perfect, oh thank you Mokuba!" the lady warrior grabbed the young boy in a hug.

"Don't mention it Yamuna." came the choked reply. "Yamuna, oxygen is becoming a problem!"

"Sorry."

"Right, next is... Kai, from my Grandpa, but he's currently asleep." Yugi called, handing Kai a very small box.

"He didn't have to go to any trouble." Kai said as he took it.

"He insisted." Yami told him. Kai opened the box and pulled out a knot of intertwined gold rings, it seemed to be a puzzle.

"Grandpa told me of that kind of puzzle, it can test a person's cleverness and dexterity. There are eight bands, once arranged properly they form a single ring." Yugi told the bluenette.

"Interesting." Kai stepped back beside Ray, starting straight away at his gift.

"This is for you Goten. Though it's kinda for Trunks as well." smiled Hilary, picking up her present from the pile and handing it to the youngest Saiyan.

It was a pair of mittens and a funny shaped thing that matched, Goten read the tag.

Enjoy those romantic walks holding hands with your partner? Now you can hold hands without worrying about them getting cold with the Couple Mitts, includes a mitten for the other hand too!

"Um, thank you Hilary. I've never seen anything quite like them before." laughed Goten.

"I'm sure we'll put them to use." grinned Trunks, pecking Goten behind the ear.

"The next one is from Tala to Trunks." called Nicole. Trunks opened up the box to find a peacock blue beyblade and launcher inside.

"I wasn't sure what to get you." Tala did something rather... un-Tala-Like, he blushed.

"That's ok, I've often seen Nicole just watch her blade spin. Turns out its quite therapeutic." Trunks patted the redhead on the shoulder, Tala smiled and nodded.

"Ha ha! Kenny, you think the worst of me!" laughed Yamcha, holding up a bottle of Vodka and two shot glasses.

"Well you are quite fond of the odd drink dad." said Yamuna with a grin. #"Just wait patiently Ella; I'm definitely sure there's a present for you."#

Kaiba sighed, he knew Ella was getting impatient without the knowledge of sign language; he just wanted to be the penultimate (one before last) one to give it.

Next it was Joey's turn to receive a gift, or in fact two, from Kai. First one it turned out to be a cheap comb and everyone, including Seto burst out laughing.

"Hm, a stunt I've pulled on numerous occasions, right Moki." the blonde grinned, Mokuba sighed and nodded. The second turned out to be two CD's, both by My Chemical Romance. "Thank you Kai!"

"No problem." said Kai, still engrossed in the puzzle ring, until Ray pulled it away from him before throwing himself at the bluenette. "Hey, what was that for?"

"I was beginning to feel ignored." Ray pouted.

"Heh hem, uh, Ray." Ray looked up to see Yugi holding out a present to him.

"Thank you Yugi." As soon as he opened the present he bowled the short teen over. "Thank you! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"

"Ray, they're only hair products." Yugi blushed.

"But these are very hard to come by."

"Not if you look in the right place." laughed Yugi. "Any chance of getting off me Ray?"

"Sorry Yugi." then came a delighted scream from Hilary.

"AAH! THEY'RE GORGEOUS! THANK YOU!" Hilary was practically screaming at the top of her lungs as she hugged a pair of deep red, warrior-type boots to her chest. Everyone had to shield their ears. Bryan spotted Ella wincing and her eyes tearing up. With his well defined hearing, Bryan heard a very high pitch squeal coming from her hearing aids.

"Hilary! SHUT UP!" he cried, sliding over and clamping his hand over her mouth. "You're mouth's so big that the feed back was hurting Ella!"

"Mm-Hmph!" Bryan removed his hand. "I'm sorry."

Bryan walked quickly over to the little girl and wiped her eyes with his thumb and started to sign.

# Are you alright? #

# I think so, thank you. #

Tala watched with a soft smile as his love signed back and forth with the little girl.

"Where did he learn to sign?" asked Yamuna.

"I don't know. But I would imagine it was before the Abbey." Tala wiped a tear away as Ella ran and grabbed Bryan around the neck. Bryan looked tense for a moment but then relaxed and hugged her back.

"So sweet!" cooed Nicole. "Oh hell I'm getting broody."

"I hate to interrupt but we still have about fifteen present's left." called Gohan, straightening his glasses. The present he picked up was addressed to him, from Nicole.

Gohan, (the tag read) thank you for everything these past few months. You and Goku have both been like the dad I lost and I'm forever grateful.

I carved this with you in mind.

Merry Christmas, Nicole.

Opening the box it was a mini blue jade sculpture of five figures, two crouched in front and three standing behind, all of which looked very familiar.

The two front ones were Trunks and Goten leaning on each other as if they were trying to keep their balance and the three in the back were himself, Nicole in the middle and Goku, posing as if they were having a picture taken.

"Whoa, you carved this?" Gohan asked. Nicole nodded.

"Yeah. Bulma was more than kind enough to let me use some of the tools at Capsule Corp."

"It's... amazing, thank you." he embraced the girl.

"Hey Ryou." Hiro handed Ryou a flat package, "Merry Christmas."

"Thank you Hiro, and Merry Christmas." Ryou removed the paper to see the album "Dizzy up the girl" by the Goo Goo Dolls. "Excellent! Thank you very much." the white haired teen beamed.

"Hey Kenny." said Duke, seemingly in a better mood. "I hope you like it." and handed the shorter teen a present.

It turned out to be a computerised version of 'Dungeon Dice Monsters'.

"I love it, thank you Duke."

Yamcha had given Tien training weights, the triclops could only laugh.

"We know each other too well."

"We're all like minded in training."

"Yo Duke, here." Joey handed him a small box, Duke opened it up and his jaw nearly hit the floor. He lifted out a silver dice earring with what looked like different coloured gems for the dots. He swapped it for his usual earring at once.

"Thank you Joey. Thank you." the pony tailed teen smiled.

"Hey Tristan, head's up!" Tristan looked up in time to catch three juggling pins that came his way, followed by another three once he was juggling them.

"Thanks for the present Goten!" laughed Tristan, catching the pins as he stopped juggling them.

"Um Piccolo." Ryou went up to the tall green Namekian. "I know you don't celebrate the holidays and don't usually participate in things like this, but here. Merry Christmas." he handed him a box.

Piccolo lifted off the lid to see a turban; much like his usual ones but this one was black with the purple on top. He looked up to Ryou and smiled.

"Thank you Ryou." Then they heard tearing of paper behind them.

"Thank you Tristan! You're just the greatest!" Max's voice cried happily, hugging the pointy-haired teen.

"Don't mention it Maxie." laughed Tristan, ruffling the blonde's hair. "Even though it is only a unicycle."

"Tala." the redhead turned around to see Bryan hold out a small box with one hand and holding Ella up with the other. "Merry Christmas love."

Tala opened it up and gasped. It was a wolf-head shaped locket, made of silver.

"Open it." Bryan told him. Tala nodded and did so.

Inside there were four pictures, one of Kai, one of Spencer and Ian, the third of Bryan and Tala himself, kissing in front of the camera and one of the four of them, minus Ian.

"I... Thank you Bryan, I love it." and kissed the lavender haired teen, then he felt a small hand brush through his hair. "Hey!" Ella giggled and signed something to Bryan.

"She apologises, she only wanted to see if it was natural."

"It is." Tala laughed and adjusted his halo.

"Hey, Yugi."

"Oh, yeah Vegeta?"

"Here." Vegeta handed him a small package. "I blasted it myself."

With a slightly confused expression on his innocent little face, Yugi opened the package and found it was an amethyst sculpture of the Dark Magician, posed to attack.

"It's... amazing! Thank you." Yugi's eyes were so wide with happiness Vegeta thought for a brief moment he wasn't human.

"If you're gonna do it, just hurry up." Vegeta sighed, knowing why Yugi was still there.

The crimson haired boy hugged him briefly before running off to find Yami.

"Now that's something you don't see everyday." Vegeta looked up to see Trunks, a small smile on his face.

"Heh, its Christmas." Vegeta shrugged. "So what did you want?"

"That's no way to talk to Trunks Vegeta." said Nicole. "He's got your present."

"You didn't have to son."

"I know I didn't have to, but I wanted to." Trunks tossed him the present. Vegeta tore the paper and pulled out a long royal blue cape with a hood. "I though you could use it when you're flying on cold nights. Look on the back. I had to do a lot of research."

Frowning, Vegeta did look on the back and his eyes widened.

It was the Royal Saiyan Family Crest.

"B-b-but--"

"Never mind Vegeta, try it on." said Nicole.

And Vegeta did, looking in the mirror along the length of the hall.

'I look... like my father.'

"It's perfect, thank you son." Vegeta hugged the boy. Trunks, after recovering from his shock, hugged him back.

Kaiba was beginning to think no one had drawn his name when Max handed him a medium sized box.

"Merry Christmas Seto." he beamed.

"Thanks Max." The taller teen smiled, pulling the box off. "...Wow."

It was a model of the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon... made of matchsticks.

"That must've taken you ages!" cried Joey.

"Two months, three weeks, one day, six hours, five minutes and fifty three seconds to be exact." said Kenny.

"Wow, this will have pride of place in my office Max." Kaiba grinned, Max's smile grew wider.

Ella had given Téa a make up set for when she became a professional dancer. She asked Bryan how to say 'thank you' in sign language.

There was three presents left.

"Hey Yami, there's yours here!" called Mokuba, handing the box to the tall Pharaoh reincarnate.

"From... Goku." said Yami, taking care to open the box and peer inside. "How did you know?" he asked, pulling out a new wooden palette.

"I had a little Dende divine intervention." Goku chuckled, doing the Son grin.

"Dende?"

"The guardian of the earth." Nicole told them. "He's a very nice person. He's Namekian, like Piccolo."

"You mean to say there's more of him?" cried a voice, everyone whipped around to see a certain white haired tomb robber, he seemed very much sober, to Ryou's dismay.

"Bakura!" Yugi cried. Yami stepped in front of him.

"What do you want Tomb Robber?" he demanded.

"Why... to join the festivities."

"All you ever do is wreck things!" cried Ryou.

"Had I not been interrupted by my pathetic hikari, but alas he is right. After I wasn't invited, I became rather upset, and now I thought I'd get some revenge in."

"You bastard! It's Christmas Eve!" yelled Nicole, stepping forward in front of Yami.

"You! You ruined my hair, you made me look a fool!"

"You did that yourself!" cried Ryou.

"You can't handle the fact that someone besides Yami can stand up to you and the fact that it's a GIRL!" yelled Nicole. But all that did was fuel Bakura's rage even further.

He brandished a knife and charged.

Nicole was pushed aside by Ryou before Bakura struck him in the shoulder.

"RYOU!" Joey cried.

Nicole brandished her hunting knife from her thigh and charged at him, engaging Bakura in a battle.

"Ryou, speak to me!" Joey cried.

"Ung unh..." Ryou couldn't string a word together.

"Dad, go to the lookout and fetch Dende!" cried Gohan. Goku nodded and disappeared.

"A little help, someone!" cried Nicole.

"DRIGER!"

"DRANZER!"

"WALBORG!"

"DRACIEL!"

"DRAGOON! GO!" The five cries echoed as the five beyblades were launched. Tala, Kai and Ray jumped into the fray as well. Bryan and Max were trying to comfort Ella who was sobbing into Bryan's shoulder.

Bakura used shadow magic to bind everyone to the floor or walls, even the bit beasts, rendering Nicole without any help. Vegeta and the others couldn't move for love nor money and those that tried began to choke at the increasingly tight bonds,

Nicole had managed to fight off Bakura for the most part, but she had lost her mask along the way and most of her dress had been torn.

Bakura got in a lucky strike and embedded his knife in Nicole's arm. Making her stagger away from him and blood poured from her wound.

She needed to stop him, she thought desperately 'and now. But how?'

She and Ryou were wounded, her night ruined, a poor little girl terrified. She blinked her eyes as the tears came. Drawing a large breath-

"AMIDAMARIUS!" she cried in her anguished rage before everything went dark.

If anyone was to walk past now, they would believe the party was in full swing as coloured light made itself known at the windows.

Bakura paled when a golden glow erupted from a pendant around Nicole's neck, it lashed and swirled, writhed and twirled. People had to shut their eyes from the light as it took form of a... Samurai Griffin.

"Mortal! You've disgraced your soul beyond what is forgivable by causing enough suffering tonight. Be gone!" the Samurai declared, raising his clawed hands, one in Bakura's direction, holding him in place. The other in Yami's direction, his shadow bonds broke free, the millennium eye started glowing on his forehead.

"Tomb Robber, I condemn you to the Shadow Realm for the crimes you've committed."

"No... Wait."

"Lord Ryou, you are not well!" the griffin protested.

"Relax Amidamarius. I can handle this. In addition to the Pharaoh, I send you to the Shadow Realm, permanently!" Ryou growled, holding his shoulder.

"Wait guys." coughed a voice, Nicole stood up awkwardly. "Don't condemn him to the Shadow Realm forever." she winced as her arm began to throb.

"Nicole are you nuts!" cried Joey.

"Go figure." snorted Kai, still entwined in the shadows.

"Hush, Phoenix Master. Lady Nicole, what is your judgement on this?"

"Well Amidamarius, the way I see it, we'd just be as bad as him if we kill him. Seal him inside the ring in a comatose state until the festivities are over. Then erase his memory since the summer, then he can bare no grudge." With gritted teeth and a laboured breath, she took hold of the hilt of the knife and wrentched it free. "Any...time...today Amida..." she panted.

"As is your command I shall obey." raising his sword, Amidamarius brought it down over Bakura. "Pharaoh Yami, if you please."

"Tomb Robber, be gone! Return to the shadows from whence you came. MIND CRUSH!"

Everything became a blur of colour...

Well I suppose I'll leave it there... I'm kidding, I think I might have one more chappie before Christmas and an epilogue after or something, review and let me know what you think!

Nui Bow - The magic extendable stick he has in Dragonball, thanks Queen Freaky for the name!

Ella; #Please review! I would like my present this side of 2006!#