Kitana: here's the disclaimer too: I do not own Any of these characters, except Chaos Demon (Chaos' Hedgehog form and some of the pokemon that will come in later (like Ditina and Raineon) If I did own the characters...well I wouldn't be living here now or doing what I'm now doing.

The next morning, everyone awoke to a deep blanket of snow. Mephiles always thought snow looked like feathers off angel wings. Angels, like what Mephiles imagined Amy was to him. He had a dreamy look on his face for a long time, only taking the look away when he spotted Amy come towards him. "Get ready to leave Mephiles. You have to meet Shadow and the guys for your Christmas shopping." Shopping. That word filled Mephiles with dread, knowing all the people who hated him would be there. Not only that, but Sonic and Shadow would probably try to out-do him to impress Amy, as they all liked her. He wondered what would give him an advantage over them in getting a gift for her. He hoped they wouldn't ditch him, like they did last year. This time, I'll call Amy if they decided to leave me at the mall. That way, I won't get stranded like last time. Maybe I should call one of my buddies to come. I'll probably ask Chaos Dragon, since he can drive and I can't, since my motorcycle was destroyed in that crash.

Mephiles pulled his coat on and dashed out to Sonic's house next door. He almost wanted to walk to the mall, but knew Amy wouldn't let him, so he grudgingly knockedat the door, dreading the 'adventure' he was about to attempt. Silver answered the door, glaring towards him. Sonic and Shadow were also doing it.

"So, we gotta bring the demon with us? Just great." Sonic sneered

"You better not try anything stupid. I'm not willing to deal with too much shit from you." Shadow harked on him.

Mephiles was already hating this trip, knowing Silver would probably mess with him next. Strangely, he had nothing to say to him, continuing to glare at him. This made Mephiles frown in frustration.

"Maybe, I'll go by myself this time. I don't need to take this bullshit from anybody." Mephiles responded back to what everyone said. He started to walk away, but Silver stopped him from leaving.

"Amy told us you had to come with us." he stated matter-of-factly. This time, Mephiles didn't care. He pushed Silver out of his way, and walked off into the cold. Sonic yelled for him to come back, but Mephiles decided to ignore him completely. He took his cell phone out of his jacket to call Chaos Dragon. He was NOT going through this 'experience' one more time. He was suddenly grabbed from behind!

"Mephiles we told you to come back! Why'd you ignore us?!" Shadow yelled at him.

"Fuck off Shadow. I'm not dealing with that bullshit you all pulled when I first came. I'm tired of being treated like shit by you three. So leave me alone!" he screamed, slamming Shadow to the ground and running in the opposite direction.

"what the fuck is his problem?" Shadow yelped, looking at Silver and Sonic. Sonic only shook his head about it, but Silver had a panicked look on his face.

"Shit! If he tells Amy, we're all screwed! We better find Mephiles!" Silver was panicking.

"who cares? That means we don't have to deal with him." Sonic answered quizzically.

Mephiles could obviously hear them, but ignored them to see if Chaos Demon would take him. He hoped he wasn't busy and would take him. Hell! He hoped he would stay with him, in case he saw the others again. Luckily, he picked up, and even agreed to go with him. Mephiles didn't tell him about earlier, knowing he'd probably go off on them if he saw them.

It only took a short while for Chaos Demon to pick him up from where he had run to. He sensed Chaos Demon would probably ask anyway, but hoped he wouldn't bother. Obviously, he did ask.

"Somethin' wrong mate?" Chaos was looking straight in his eyes, making Mephiles tell him what had happened.

"Sonic and the guys were messing with me again." He frowned. Chaos took something out of the glove compartment. It was a wrapped object, small in size and covered in blue paper with silver snowflakes.

"Aye figured you might want that now, instead of waitn' for Christmas for it." He handed it to Mephiles, gesturing him to open it. He also grabbed something bigger out of the back seat.

"this 'fer ya too." This object was square in shape and much larger. Mephiles couldn't guess what it could possibly be.

"open tha' too mate." chaos instructed, winking at him. Mephiles unwrapped the first small object. It was..an Ipod. The Ipod was dark purple and had a custom skin on it that had Mephiles and the Iblis on it. It had black headphones to go with it, that also had Mephiles on the left side a chaos emerald on the other.

"Thanks Chaos. I don't have an Ipod yet." He grinned and started to oped the other gift. It was wrapped in red paper with reindeer on it. He ripped open the paper, then realizing what was in it.

"A LAPTOP?! Where the hell did you get this?!" he examined the box container.

"Takea look see at it Mephiles!" He was only answered by the sound of a box being ripped open. It was a nice looking laptop. It was black and was similar to the Ipod in the way that there was a design of Mephiles on the top of the computer. Even the mouse was interesting looking. It was dark purple and had what looked like the crystals on Mephiles' body.

"ya gotta plug it in when ya get home. It's got a plethora of cool stuff on it." This only made Mephiles' smile wider.

"Thanks a bunch Chaos. This means..alot to me." All Chaos could do was just smirk at him.

"Tha' for my best mate." All Mephiles could do was stare at him.

"How'd you find this? Where did you order it from?!" Chaos shrugged his shoulders.

"Eh, some website. I told them what I wanted and tha' gave me picture of what it woul' look like."

"So..you designed it yourself? That's awesome!" Mephiles couldn't help but re-examine it again. This made Chaos laugh. He picked the Ipod up. It had power in it. It even had..SONGS! He saw that most of them were his favorites too.

"Aye used your laptop to put the music on't so you can put more music when ya want mate." They finally arrived at the mall, and lo and behold, Sonic and the guys were just pulling in the parking lot to park next to them. Mephiles hoped Chaos Demon wouldn't start a fight with them. Luckily, he said nothing to them, ignoring them completely, them glaring at him.

"Why'da bring him for? He started a fight last time." Sonic eyed Chaos suspiciously.

"I asked him to. I'm not going with you anymore, cause I don't need to deal with your guys bullshit."

This made Mephiles turn his back on him.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have Christmas shopping to do." Mephiles motioned them off by flicking them off, telling them he was done talking. All they could do was watch him walk off with Chaos Demon. Mephiles would say he had no regrets giving them what they deserved. They always did it at him anyway, so he was giving them some of their own taste of what it feels like to be messed with.

Chaos Demon motioned him to a small shop. The shop had small raw gemstones in different colors and settings. Some were even carved amethyst or tiger's eye and put on jewelry. Mephiles shuffled though some stuff, not find anything that looked even close to what he wanted to get Amy. Across the shop was another interesting looking shop. This shop had different themed objects. There were dragons, fairies, elves, and mammoth amounts of other trinkets. Nothing here either. He thought to himself. He then spotted something he thought Chaos would like; a carved figure of Chaos, the ancient water god of destruction. Then again, Chaos demon actually.. well he was the god of destruction, Chaos in all truthfulness. He made sure Chaos wasn't looking and went to purchase it, for his gift. He even found a carved yellow jasper statue of Super Sonic and decided to get that as well. Two gifts done, Amy, Silver, Shadow, Rouge, Cream, tails and knuckles to go.I wish I could get something better for Chaos than this but I have to make sure I have enough to get gifts for everyone. He then remembered, Metal sonic! He had recently joined their group and him and Mephiles were good friends. The reason was everyone treated Metal the same way as him. Well Sonic and Shadow did anyway. He looked at his list. Better get those gloves he wants if I can afford them. They then passed a clothing store that had the perfect pair of gloves for Metal. They weren't as expensive as he though either!