The glittering white snow lay thick all across Magnolia town,
Fairy tail was merry and no mage was feeling down.
Inside the magic guild there were cheers and cries of laughter
But Lucy, the stellar spirit mage was out caroling with her partner.
- Like hell that I'm singing! the dragon slayer complained.
- Natsu you have to, it's Christmas, Lucy tried to explain.
- Aye! Happy said. It will be fun!
- I should have stayed with Wendy, Charlie said, with my tea and saffron bun...
Big snow flakes floated from the sky, as the group began their journey.
Lucy wished that she could pay her rent with their Christmas carol's money.
She was short on cash now that she'd spent every last cent,
Trying to figure out what to give Natsu for his present.
So they walked from door to door, to sing and spread the Christmas spirit.
But no one liked the songs they sung and the gang were forced to leave it. Lucy abandoned all hopes of earning any money for her December rent,
And Natsu could feel the sadness in her usually happy scent.
"Let's just go home," Lucy said while rubbing her cold hands together.
"Aye," Happy agreed. "A roof and a warm fish will make us all feel so much better!"
"To Lucy's house!" Natsu cried happily and pointed them in the right direction.
"Why mine!?" Lucy whined and muttered, "I'd better get some anti-intruders protection..."
They laughed the whole way back, singing an off-tune version of jingle bells on repeat.
When they got inside Natsu made a fire and Lucy fixed them something to eat.
Soon, the door bell rang and the wind dragon slayer Wendy appeared outside their door,
She'd come to take home Charlie and Happy, who'd been sleeping on their floor.
The two exceed grabbed their knitted winter shawls and furry winter hats.
Then Wendy left the house closely followed by the two (mysteriously paw-holding) cats.
Lucy watched them leave from her bedside window and Natsu saw them too.
When they were gone he turned around and said: "Lucy, this is for you!"
In his hand was a clumsily wrapped present, complete with a perfect bow and all.
"Wow, Natsu!" Lucy smiled and tore the paper off so hastily that she just let it fall.
Under pretty, pink silk paper and many layers of tape,
She found something rectangular, almost like a book was its shape.
With fine leather covers and a golden lock in the shape of a heart,
It contained the most precious memories in forms of pictures, words and some of Reedus' art.
"Our first mission..." Lucy read with quite some disbelief.
"The Daybreak book and capturing of its fat and annoying thief."
The stellar spirit mage flipped through all the pages and concluded that: "Everything's in here!"
Natsu nodded with a smile and Lucy realized, he must really hold her dear.
"My gift will seem like a total let-down now," Lucy said. "There's no way to beat this!"
"Unless..." Natsu said eagerly. "Some tasty fire and then maybe a ki-"
"Just open it," Lucy sighed and handed him her best gift.
"I wonder what it could be," Natsu thought and his mind began to drift.
He thought of tasty fires and a pair of new reindeer horns for Happy,
Beating Grey in a fight or a kiss from a certain blond, stellar spirit beauty...
Carefully he opened the pretty, little package,
But he couldn't quite take his mind of the blond's all too revealing cleavage,
He cut his finger on the paper and before he could even blink,
"Here!" Lucy said and shoved him towards the nearby kitchen sink.
As the water cleansed away the blood and Lucy fetched the bandaging,
Natsu discovered something over his head and asked: "Lucy, what is that green thing?"
"Oh," Lucy blushed as she put the plaster on his index finger.
"That's a mistletoe," she said and was suddenly very interested in anything but the green plant over her.
"Can you eat it?" Natsu asked. "It looks kinda like beans..."
"Well..." Lucy mumbled as she explained what a mistletoe means.
"It's a symbol for love and underneath it you're meant to ki-"
"I think I get it!" Natsu smiled. "Just like this..?"
Outside, the snow formed a thick white blanket across the ground,
Magnolia had fallen silent, there was not a single sound.
In a one bedroom apartment by the frozen river side,
On the counter, next to the sink, that was where a lonely little package did hide.
Now it lays forgotten, no one any longer cares what it might hold,
For this saga ends in the beginning and another story starts to unfold...