Lilikoifish: Well, I'm back with my Christmas ficcie! Here it is! Special thanks to Strawberry Eggs and FiReWoRxXoX for giving me ideas for this chapter. Thanks to Kratos Wilder, Strawberry Eggs, Sesshy is sexii, Polerman, talesoftheidiots, honeydew-slush, FiReWoRxXoX, Witch Child93, and SoulTaken for reviewing! A/N: there will be a few errors in this such as Zelos sleeping, even though he's an angel. I just thought that having him sleep would add a better effect.

Disclaimer: How many times do I have to say it? I own poop and pee!

The Light Show…with a few tricks and pranks

"Hey, Lloyd…I was kind of thinking of going to check out all the lights…" Colette smiled. The ground had been covered with snow from the last night, as usual. Zelos was still sleeping because he had been out late last night flirting with women. Lloyd was on a ladder, hanging lights up around the entire inn. After all, it had been a few months since the Martel incident. They were so revered by everyone, that they could rent the entire Flanoir inn for free.

"Umm…Lloyd…are you sure you're not overdoing the lighting?" Sheena asked. After all, Lloyd had been hanging up lights ever since they had finished breakfast. He had finished putting the candy cane path outside and all the moving reindeer were outside. Even a plastic Santa and reindeer were on the roof. Now he was hanging lights around the roof. Wreaths of different kinds were hanging on the doors, windows, etc.

"No! I won't give up! We will win that light contest this year!" Lloyd demanded, but lost his balance and fell over.

"Agh! Ppfft! Stupid…!" Lloyd muttered under his breath.

"LLOYD, WATCH OUT!" Colette called.

"Huh?" Lloyd looked up. The ladder was falling.

"AAAHHH!" Lloyd tried to run, but the snow slowed him down. The ladder came crashing down on him.

"OOWW!" Lloyd's leg had been broken from the metal ladder.

"Are you okay?" Colette ran over to him.

"It's such a shame that Raine's out book shopping again…" Genis taunted.

"Shut it, Genis! This is a serious matter!" Lloyd snapped.

"Or is it…?" Genis stroked his chin spontaneously.

"Genis, please be nice to Lloyd…" Colette smiled. Lloyd smirked. Genis shrugged his shoulders.

"Hey, Lloyd! Wanna get your arm healed in a jiffy?" Zelos asked.

"What do you think, smart-alick?" Lloyd asked. "OF COURSE!"

"Too bad." Zelos grinned and walked away. Lloyd yelled, "Why I outghta…!" Lloyd accidentally moved his arm violently. "OW!"

Zelos walked away and started flirting with a woman, but got dragged away by Sheena. That was followed by a series of slaps.

"I always knew you were jealous of my hunnies, Sheena." Zelos smiled.

"I AM NOT JEALOUS OF YOUR STUPID HUNNIES!" Sheena bellowed. "That's it!" Sheena summoned Shadow, knowing that Zelos was an angel, which was under the affinity of light.

"Crumble…" Shadow whispered.

"AAHHHH!" Zelos yelped. After beating the crap out of Zelos, Sheena threw him into a garbage disposal.

"Dad! Please help me!" Lloyd said.

"Must I?" Kratos asked. Lloyd gave him the Bambi eyes.

"Fine…I am not a healer, mind you." Kratos muttered, quickly casting Healing Stream. Lloyd jumped up in glee…and went back to decorating the inn. Everyone built snowmen/women instead. Many hours passed, and Lloyd was still decorating. Raine had already come back from her shopping. The girls went ice-skating and the guys had a snowball fight. Lloyd was still decorating. Everyone was getting bored.

"Lloyd, you're seriously over-doing the lights and decoration." Sheena said. "Listen, I know you want to win, but Christmas is supposed to be fun, not contests."

"You know what? I'm getting sick of hearing you complain like that." Lloyd said, turning to face her. Sheena looked at him with that Are-you-okay look. "…And because I'm getting sick of that, let's forget about decorating and go make cookies!" Lloyd cheered. On the way in, Genis carefully avoided the mistletoe. That gave Lloyd an idea.

"Okay, everyone! I've come up with the groups!" Lloyd waved a paper around.

"Groups? Who said we were cooking in groups? I want to cook by myself!" Raine declared.

"…That's why I made groups, Professor…" Lloyd grimaced. Raine slapped him. "Okay…here are the groups…" Lloyd began to read off the paper.

Groups (A/N: these are NOT determined by my favorite pairings):

Genis and Presea

Lloyd and Kratos

Raine and Regal (after all, Raine needs a good cook to help her)

Sheena and Zelos (Sheena groaned and requested that Colette was there to keep her company)

Everyone got their ingredients.

"Oh yeah, I forgot! The counter has the recipes on it. Each recipe is different, though, so yeah…" Lloyd said. Everyone dove for the recipes.

"I call the Rainbow Sprinkle and Frosting kind!" Genis snatched the recipe. Kratos took a random recipe, which happened to be the fruit jelly kind, Sheena and Colette agreed on the flavored frosting kind, and Raine took the brownie cookies recipe. Everyone went to a separate kitchen.

"Everyone meets in the dining room!" Lloyd announced.

"Dad, could you start the recipe? I have some stuff I forgot to do." Lloyd said.

"Is it lights and decoration?" Kratos raised and eyebrow.

"No…I just forgot to go get some blueberry jam…" Lloyd said, spying the kinds of jams that Kratos had collected. 'Strawberry, raspberry, boysenberry, lemon, grape, apple, and mango…no blueberry, huh…' Lloyd thought. Then he ran off and bought some blueberry jam. When he came back, he carefully hung a mistletoe over the doorway of Genis and Presea's kitchen Yes, the inn had 8 kitchens.

"Huh? Oh, Lloyd…you aren't supposed to look at our cookies…" Presea said.

"Oh…I was just checking to see how you're doing." Lloyd smiled.

"We're doing fine. Why don't you start baking your cookies now? I can't wait to try them!" Presea smiled back, not noticing the mistletoe. Genis didn't notice either.

When Lloyd went back into the kitchen, he helped Kratos finish the cookies.

Meanwhile with Raine and Regal…

"Regal! Help me put the fire out!" Raine was tossing ice cubes at the fire that had broken out in the oven.

"Raine, Raine…" Regal sighed and put it out. He made the next batch successfully by himself.

Sheena, Zelos, and Colette:

Colette was humming "Silver Bells" to herself while she spread the hand-made, flavored frosting over the delicious, mouth-watering, Christmas tree-shaped cookies. Sheena was arguing with Zelos about how much sugar needed to be put in.

"5 CUPS PER SERVING OF FROSTING! SEE? IT'S RIGHT HERE IN THE RECIPIE!" Sheena yelled.

"Well, I tried the frosting, and it was too un-sweet with only one cup of sugar (they're only making one serving of frosting for each cookie)!" Zelos complained.

"All the other cookies were fine with only one cup of sugar!" Sheena replied.

"Yeah, well, they're not sour like boysenberries!" Zelos argued.

"Boysenberries aren't sour!"

"Well these ARE!" Finally, Sheena gave in and put 2 cups of sugar in the frosting.

Genis and Presea are doing fine, so yeah…

Lloyd and Kratos finished their cookies first and brought them out into the dining room. Sheena, Zelos, and Colette came out, then Raine and Regal…and finally Genis and Presea, who had spent a lot of time perfecting their cookies.

"Hey look, everyone! Genis and Presea are under the mistletoe!" Lloyd chimed.

"What the…this wasn't here before…! …LLOYD, YOU…!" Genis blushed.

"Kiss her! Kiss her!" everyone chanted.

"Sh-Shut up!"

"Hey, Genis, I had to kiss Colette…"

"…Genis…what is everyone talking about?" Presea asked.

"You seriously don't want to know…" Genis looked down.

"Don't be a chicken!" Sheena taunted.

"This is your chance, Genis!" Zelos chanted in a sing-song voice. Genis gave in and gave Presea a small peck on the lips. Presea turned a slight pink.

"Aww…they kissed…" Zelos cooed. Genis shot him a nasty glare, and used Atlas on him.

"LLOYD, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Genis was red-faced. Lloyd ran for it. Genis chased him.

"Oh boy…" Kratos sighed. Just as Lloyd and Genis passed by, Kratos scooped them up by the collar and sat them in their chairs. "We have to taste the cookies."

The Tasty meter:

Lloyd and Kratos: around 8 or 9

Sheena, Colette, and Zelos: around 8 or 9

Raine and Regal: Raine had swapped her cookies with Regal's, so a 0 or 1

Genis and Presea: 9 or 10, as Genis is "Ultra-chef"

Everyone licked their lips. All the cookies were gone, except Raine's of course. Raine decided to feed them to Colette's new dog (from Chapter 2), Remiel. Remiel got sick, and Raine had to use First Aid on Remiel (Only because Genis forced her to). Lloyd sniggered again, not seeing the mistletoe (the one he had hung up) above him. Genis stopped in front of him with his kendama ready to whack Lloyd in the crotch. Genis was just about to whack Lloyd when Sheena laughed, "Hey, Lloyd! You and Genis are under the mistletoe! You guys have to kiss each other!"

"WHAATT!" The two boys gasped. "NOOO!"

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Zelos pointed and laughed.

"Out of all people…why me?" Genis thudded his head on the wall. They finally faced their fears and gave each other a light peck on the cheek. The rest of the group started cracking up.

"HAHAHAHA! THAT'S TOO FUNNY!" Sheena roared.

"Are you guys getting married?" Zelos taunted. Genis and Lloyd turned bright red.

"Oh yeah? EXPLOSION!" Genis sent a huge explosion at the rest of the group.

"MY BUNS ARE BURNING, MY BUNS ARE BURNING! AGH! NOT THE HAIR!" Zelos cried. "WHY IS IT ALWAYS ME WHO HAS TO SUFFER?" Zelos began to run around the inn rapidly. The rest of the group was trying to put the fire out in their own hair/clothes/etc.

"Genis! You burned my ruins book! Why I oughta…" Raine cried. Kratos stood still, his clothes in perfect condition.

"Fine! You want the fire out?" Genis asked, smirking. Raine realized what Genis was taking about—water.

"No Genis! Don't do it!" Raine tried to run away, but failed…miserably.

"TIDAL WAVE!" Genis bellowed.

"AAAAHHH!" the group, but mostly Raine, was blasted with a huge burst of water. Raine was clinging on to Kratos. Kratos in the mean time was trying to get Raine off of his neck.

"Raine…choking…not breathing…" Kratos gasped. Raine tightened her grip. Kratos finally was able to bring out his sword and slam the hilt into her "stun spot". After the tidal wave had passed, everyone glared at Genis. Kratos put Raine in a chair.

"Get Genis!" Zelos yelled. Everyone, except Colette, Regal, and Kratos began to run towards Genis.

"Uh oh…" Genis said.

"HUNTING BEAST!"

"Huh? Lloyd! You're a life-saver!"

"I'm not candy!"

"Not that kind of life-saver, you idiot!" Everyone turned on Lloyd.

"Run Lloyd!" Genis cried. Lloyd opened his wings and picked Genis up. He then flew away. Just then, they heard from the inn manager, "The light show and contest is starting!" The group rushed outside. Lights flickered in windows, and colored lights shimmered in the darkness. It almost seemed like it was morning because of the lights. They walked around the city. One house even had a lighted peace sign on the door. Another, was clearly a Kratos fangirl club, because on the door, lights were hung to say: I love Kratos! Kratos is hot, hot, hot! Kratos is my guardian angel…

Lloyd and the others looked at Kratos, who put his head in his hand.

"Ai yah…" He sighed. The judges finally came to the inn. They scribbled a few notes down, and then walked over to the ice sculpture plaza. There, they announced the winner.

"We have a winner!" the judge announced. Lloyd crossed his fingers. Colette joined him.

"The first place winner is...Olive Village Inn with the scores of: 9.0, 8.9, 10.0, 8.0, 7.5, and 9.1!" the announcer announced.

"YAY, LLOYD!" Colette hugged Lloyd. Genis gave Lloyd a high-five, Raine smiled, Zelos said, "Good job, Lloyd!" Regal congratulated Lloyd on his efforts, and Kratos didn't say anything.

They had a huge party that night. Lloyd managed to get out his karaoke machine. Everyone sang their hearts out—except Kratos, Regal, and Raine. Lloyd, Genis, Sheena, and Zelos forced them into doing it, though.

"Dad…I went digging around in your room…and I found something…" Lloyd grinned. He held up a small, black, leather book.

"You'd better not…"

"Oh yes I will. I'll even read one of the entries!"

"Fine! I give in!" Kratos looked at the song sheet. He didn't know any of the songs, so Lloyd picked one and sang it with him. Lloyd didn't know what song he wanted to sing, however, so he closed his eyes and pointed to a random song. It happened to be "Hit me Baby One More Time".

"Oh boy…I will regret doing this for the rest of my life…" Kratos sighed.

Lilikoifish: Well…imagining Kratos singing "Hit me Baby One More Time" is up to your imagination. How was it? Good? Is it getting worse? (I hope not…)

Kratos: You suck. I would never sing that horrible song.

Lilikoifish: Well excuse me for wanting to have you do something that you regret! It's funny to me, at least!

Kratos gives me the Evil Glare of DOOM

Thank you to all who gave me suggestions. I'm still looking for some, so suggestions/ideas are greatly appreciated. Please review!