Disclaimer: I do not own Fairytail
Summary: The war is at it's head. It's the make or break moment for our heroes. On the eve of Christmas the final battle commences. What will happen to our favorite characters?
A/N At the beginning this was supposed to be a story with plot, but somewhere along the way... plot went out the window because I decided Christmas deserves happily-ever-afters for everybody! (Even evil wizards bent on destroying the planet)
It was December 24th, Christmas eve. "We're losing." Mavis said quietly. The war with Alverez had been raging for many months. But now, as the dust settled it became evident that Fairytail was losing. Fiore had lost many troops and Alverez kept pushing. Their numbers dwindled thin and all hope seemed lost. No one knew whether they'd even be alive come dawn of December 25th. No one knew if this was their last day on earth, or if they would live to see Christmas day. "There's no way we can win. We've lost too many of ours." Fairytail did not like the sound of her words. It sounded like Mavis was giving up. And if their Fairy Tactician was giving up then the war was already lost.
"We can't give up!" Natsu cried. "It's Christmas the spirit of giving."
"Actually Natsu, that's Thanksgiving. Christmas is the time for miracles." Lucy corrected.
"Well, that makes more sense." Natsu said. "Anyway, it's the time of year where amazing miracles happen! We can't give up! Not when there's still a chance! We're Fairytail, and we will fight, and conquer, and live until our dying breath! We won't give up until the very end, until we die!"
"YEAH!" Fairytail cried.
"We're brave, and courageous, and we will do what heroes do! Battle the forces of evil and defend what we know is right until our glory outshines even the bright light of death!"
"YEAH!"
"We'll keep going even though this is probably the stupidest thing we've ever done!"
"YEAH!... wait…"
"So, let's get moving you idiots!" there was no uproarious YEAH, this time. Natsu gave a nervous chuckle. "Let's defend out country." He said.
"YEAH!"
"We'll triumph with or without our first!"
"YEAH!" they cried. And so, they left their guildhall with the spirit of Christmas in their hearts, and their will to triumph stronger than ever before.
"ZEREF! COME OUT AND FIGHT LIKE A REAL MAN!" Elfman cried.
"YEAH! Or are you too much of a real BOY!" Natsu cried. He and Elfman high-fived and said, "Burn!"
"You know guys, that isn't actually a burn… or an insult for that matter." Lucy said.
"COWARD! Letting your soldiers fight for you!" Erza snarled. Lucy jumped at the tone in her voice. She then, put her hands on her keys and prepared to use them.
"Come out here so I can ice ya!" Gray called. Lucy only wished they'd all stop provoking the guy who could, like an overpowered jerk, insta-kill them.
Suddenly each of them felt a dark aura arise in the air. It simply appeared, and it wasn't anywhere. It was everywhere. Lucy shivered from the cold of such dark magic. Natsu's flames only burned brighter in anticipation. Erza requiped into her Nakagami armor and readied her swords. Gray moved into position, and everyone else did as well. "Well, look at this merry gathering." A low voice filled the eerie silence.
"Show yourself!" Natsu screamed. Lucy could almost feel Zeref smirking.
"Open gate of the golden bull, Taurus!" Lucy screamed and cut her key through the air. Then, they waited for an attack.
Suddenly, Zeref came swirling out of the darkness. "Attack!" Natsu screamed. "Fire dragon's roar!" Natsu cried.
"Ice make, hammer!" Erza gave a slash of her sword. Lucy told Taurus to attack while getting out her whip. None of these attacks put even a scratch on Zeref.
He stood there like an overpowered jerk and let them tire themselves out. Even with mages like Gildarts helping, their attacks did nothing. "Are you done?" Zeref asked, with minor cockiness in his voice. Natsu growled and jumped to his feet with a look of utter defiance.
"NEVER!" He cried and started to punch Zeref again. Zeref sighed and let him at it.
"To be honest I hope you kill me." He said. "But alas, that is improbable. It is most likely that I will just have to spend another Christmas in the confinements of my room." Natsu paused for a second.
"You spend Christmas alone?" he asked quietly. Zeref nodded mutely.
"It is okay though, I am the most powerful wizard in the world after all, and utterly evil. It makes sense why no one would want to spend Christmas with me." He smiled sadly.
"But that's not fair!" Natsu cried. "Everyone deserves happiness at Christmas. It's the time of giving-."
"Miracles." Lucy interrupted.
"Miracles! Even great, evil wizards like you should have some place to go to for Christmas!" Natsu cried. "It's just not fair! Oh, great, I'm gonna cry now!"
"This is no time for crying!" Lucy shouted. "This is no time for a pity party either." She glared.
"B-but it's so sad." Erza said, her hand wiping a tear from the corner of her eye.
"Not you too!" Lucy shrieked. This was just another thing she had to complain about. Fairytail's craziness knew no bounds. She sighed and looked around at everyone else. Mira was mumbling something about how Christmas was the holiday of love. "That's Valentines day!" Lucy cried. Zeref was mumbling something depressing, Elfman was screaming that holidays were manly and Natsu was crying because of how "sad" it was. Juvia was clinging to Gray who looked like he wanted to murder someone. Lucy took a few steps away from him. Gildarts was talking to Cana, who was trying to pretend she didn't know Gildarts, Jellal was trying to reason with Erza that Zeref was evil and that not having someone to spend Christmas with was hardly sad compared to other stories. Erza was shaking Jellal and screaming at him to be a man about it. Then Elfman grew depressed because someone stole his catchphrase, Happy was talking about how Lucy was fat, Makarov was trying to con Zeref out of his fortune. And Lucy… Lucy had gone insane.
"I have an idea! why doesn't Zeref spend Christmas with us! It'll be a great way for the war to end and all of us be on good terms!" Natsu cried. "And Zeref won't be depressed about his life! who's with me!" Mira agreed because to her, this was just another opportunity to get Zeref and Mavis together. Makarov agreed because that was more time for him to con Zeref out of his kingdom. Erza agreed because she was emotional like that. Jellal agreed because Erza threatened him. Elfman agreed because it was manly to celebrate holidays with other manly men. Happy agreed because he wanted to make She liiiiiiiikes you jokes. Gray didn't agree. Juvia didn't vote because she was torn between love and Gray. Cana agreed because Zeref was another drinking buddy (no one believed that would actually happen). Gildarts agreed because his daughter agreed. Lucy didn't vote because she was starting to question her sanity. Everyone in Fairytail was insane but… maybe Fairytail was normal and Lucy was the one who was insane. It was questions like those that caused Lucy not to vote.
"I didn't think the war would end up this way." Lucy said with a sigh. Then again, no one could've predicted this happy of an outcome. The other guild members shrugged and Happy made a crack about how Lucy was Loopy. "Get back here cat so I can kill you!" Lucy shrieked and ran after Happy.
"The children get along so well." Natsu said with a smile.
"You're one to talk." Gray grumbled.
"What did you say, you ice-freak?"
"I said you're one to talk, you flame brain!" then they smashed their foreheads together and started fighting. Lucy sighed and looked around. Sure, they were all crazy, but at least they were all crazy together. Lucy found herself smiling. Even though Natsu and Gray were about to rip each other's heads off. Erza was about to murder them. Jellal looked scarred for life. Mavis and Zeref were locked in a closet, curtesy of Mira. Juvia was clinging to Gray, somehow, as he battled Natsu. Makarov was still conning Zeref through the closet door. Happy was telling Lucy how crazy she was. Cana was drinking, Gildarts was breaking things. Elfman was screaming MAN! Because that was Fairytail. Even though everyone was crazy. Even though they all had dark pasts. They still smiled and laughed because they were all together.
"December 24th has been the most memorable day." Lucy said. "I don't think I've ever had a better Christmas."
"Yeah, probably because you're weird." Natsu said. Happy agreed.
"Don't turn your back on me!" Gray shouted. Natsu turned and glared at him.
"Shut up!" Natsu screamed and lunged for him. then they started trading blows again. Lucy sighed. the best Christmas and the craziest one.
"Will someone get me out of here?" Zeref asked, desperately pounding on the door.
"Don't you get tired of having that big castle? You know, if you gave it to me, you would be able to live in a nice little home with the wife and kids. Doesn't that sound better than an impersonalized castle with room to spare, and is so big it feels empty and institutional?" Makarov said. "All you would have to do is sign one little contract… and not read it, of course." Makarov added.
"Would you shut up? I'm trying to get out of here! How is it that the evilest, most powerful mage on Earth can't get out of one stupid little closet!" he cried. Well, in his defense it had been Mirajane to put him in there. So, it was understandable that he couldn't break it.
"Zeref, how did we get trapped in here in the first place?" Mavis asked.
"I don't know, but I want to sing carols and get drunk!" Zeref cried, pounding on the doorway. "Somebody let us out!" Zeref cried. "And didn't Mira say she was going to get the key! Why isn't she back yet?" Zeref cried. Mavis shrugged.
"Probably because Mira put you in there." Makarov said dryly. "Now if you would just sign away all of your fortu-." Makarov coughed. "I mean that stupid, big, empty, castle, then I can just slide the paper under the door with a pen? Yes?" Zeref didn't seem keen on negotiating when he was locked in a closet.
"Get me out of this thing and then we'll talk." Zeref said. Makarov sighed, knowing he would never get that fortune now, as he could not get Zeref out of that closet and go directly against Mira's wishes.
"Fine, have it your way." Makarov said and left out a huff.
"Come on everyone! Let's gather around in a circle and sing Kumbaya!" Natsu cried, motioning for everyone to gather round.
"Wait what about us?" Zeref cried.
"Hey, are we missing someone?" Lucy asked. Natsu looked around.
"Nope, now let's sing Kumbaya!" Lucy sighed but she didn't bother to point out that Zeref and Mavis were missing from the circle. Luckily, she didn't have to.
"We're missing Zeref and Mavis." Erza said. She glared at Mira. "I think I know where they are though." She added. Mira gave an innocent smile.
"Huh? Who cares!" Natsu cried. Erza glared at him and Natsu squeaked in fear. Natsu quickly got the key and unlocked the closet door.
"Finally!" Zeref said in exasperation. Natsu gave him a small grin and shrugged. Lucy thought it suspicious that Natsu didn't think anyone was missing from the circle, yet he could smell better than all of them combined.
"Alright, now that that unnecessary distraction, I mean, rescue mission." Natsu changed when Erza glared at him. "Is done, let's sing Kumbaya!" Natsu cried.
"Hang on kumbaya's a campfire song, shouldn't it be deck the halls or something like that?" someone in the back asked.
"Shut up, George." They all said.
A/N Alright, here it is. I told you there was like, almost no plot. So, how this chapter was made. I asked for my sister's advice because she's watched Fairytail too, so I asked her, "How do you want it to end? Do you want Fairytail to win, or Zeref?" and she responded,
"Both." quite plainly. So I remember looking at her like, WHAT? That's not possible I can't make them both win until... this was born! So that's why at the beginning it's very serious and then just descends into madness.
Another thing is that you might've noticed that I have used the individual "George" twice now. You might not remember the first time, but it was there. He is an OC that was created simply to say something that no one else wanted to say. For example,
Erza: Cake is the most wonderful thing in the world.
George: No, it isn't.
Fairytail: O_O
So, yeah, one more thing, I plan to update all my on-going stories today so keep an eye out for those. Thanks for reading, if you enjoyed this review/favorite/follow. As always thanks for reading, sorry for any mistakes, and I will see you soon... just as soon as I write a New Years special. *stares at screen as realization dawns that there was no New Years special written* so, I've gotta go correct this mistake! Bye!