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Happy Kwanzakahmas! {Kwanza, Hanukkah and Christmas COMBINED!}
Yeah. Happy Kwanzakuhmas. I hope you guys have the best of holidays. If you don't celebrate then... Happy December!
This a special Christmas chapter.
DQA out. Love ye all.
Chapter 7: Silver Bells
City sidewalks
Busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday styles
In the air there's a feeling of Christmas
'Twas the day before Christmas and all through the apartment, the only thing that was stirring was a dragon. Arion Calliope Silver, Heiress to the throne of Cecily, absolutely adored Christmas. Just seeing the happy faces of everyone gave her butterflies. What could be better? Of course! Spending this time with her Fairy Tail family!
Everyone was so jolly. Gray had woken up that morning happier than he had been since he had met the scaled beauty that he now called his girlfriend.
He rolled over in bed, navy sheets shifting around his form. He was met with newly awakened emerald eyes. "Morning." He breathed out.
"Morning."
"Merry Christmas."
"It's not Christmas yet, Gray."
"Can't we celebrate early?" He asked pulling her by the waist closer to his body.
"No..." Arion sighed sitting up and leaning over his body, letting her hands find his face. Midnight blue locks tickled Gray's cheeks and he couldn't fight back his laugh. Smiling at his sudden outburst of laughter, Arion leans in and captures his lips with her own. Their tongues were fighting for dominance. Eventually Gray conceited defeat to his strong tongued dragon counterpart When she parts she whispers against his lips the words, "Get up." She rolls out of the bed, skipping to their shared closet to find the outfit she would wear for the day.
"C'mon!"
Children laughing
People passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you'll hear
"So what should we do?" Gray asks as he swings his
Arion looked at him with a deadly glare. What do you do when tomorrow's Christmas and your boyfriend is too lazy to go shopping? Take hime shopping anyway! Duh! "We have to go shopping!"
"It's Christmas Eve." He whined.
"You wouldn't come with me any other day though- Huh?" Arion felt something fall against her booted leg. It was a little boy no older than four years old. His clothes were a tattered mess with patches all over. He barely even had a suitable jacket and set of gloves. The boy, brown locks shielding his innocent brown eyes, looked as if he were going to cry. Arion released Gray's hand. "Are you alright? Let me help you." She said as she lifted the boy off of his most likely pained butt.
"Thank you." He said softly.
"You are very welcome."
The boy had began to run off again from where he came from when Gray called him back. "Oi, little man." From around his neck, Gray took his green scarf from around his neck and handed it to the little boy. "Here."
He immediately perked up. "Merry Christmas, Lady! Mister!"
"To you too." With a nod the boy runs away. As she watches the boy disappear, Arion starts to hear the light jingle of bells. She looks around, not seeing anyone with a bell around. "Do you hear that, Gray?"
"Yeah."
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
The bells were like a symphony, music to her ears. The careful spacing between the bell's tones. Acnologia himself would not be able to turn this sound into something evil and horrid. The black dragon would fall into a beautiful trance. A trance so strong that the black wizard, Zeref, creator of curses and father to demons, he would not be able to corrupt this sound.
It could be heard all the way in Edolas and Arion could only imagine Edo Fairy Tail having a blast. At least if they were anything like this Fairy tail then they would be. And they would be loving it just as she did.
Snow fell onto already covered ground, sticking to previously clear windshields and windows. Wreaths were hung, lights were strung and all of Magnolia looked perfect.
Strings of street lights
Even stop lights
Blink a bright red and green
As the shoppers rush
Home with their treasures
The two make there way into the huge wizard shopping centre and begin to look around for gifts for all of their fellow guild members. Gray only agreed because of the persistence of the green eyed dragon girl that stole his heart. He just couldn't say no to her generosity.
While walking down the large hall, two sets of hands filled with bags of gifts, they stumbled across the scarlet haired Titania. "Erza?" Gray asked, not quite sure. No other person wore armor 24/7.
"Ah! Arion and Gray! It's nice to see you today on Christmas Eve!" She exclaims throwing her hands around them in a bone crushing hug.
"Yeah. Nice to see you, too Erza." Arion says, slightly gasping for air. That Erza sure was a strong one.
"What are you here for?"
"What would any woman be here for?"
"Uhh.. At the mall?" Arion looked around. She saw several women walking around with bags and shrugged. "Shopping most likely..."
"Don't be modest, Arion."
"Modest? I-"
"We can keeping this between the two of us. I understand that you have secrets."
"I have-?" The scarlet haired woman was probably the most confusing thing Arion had encountered in all of her hundreds of years.
"So Gray how do feel about you girlfriend's appearance?" "You think she's cute? Hot even?" Erza says draping her arm over Arion's slightly shorter shoulders.
"Erza!"
"Yeah I guess..." Gray awkward puts his hand in his pocket, looking away from the two women with a bright blush on his face.
"Gray! Why are you-?" At that moment Arion could tell that Erza had been waiting for years, waiting since she had found about this mutual attraction to ask this question. Not to know the answer, just to embarrass them, in public, where they could throw a fit. Arion grabbed Gray's wrist and pulled him down the long hallway of the mall. "Uggh Let's go!"
"Good bye you two." Erza said in a mocking voice.
"So embarrassing..." Arion says as she sticks a playful tongue out at Erza over her shoulder. "Let's just go home..."
Hear the snow crunch
See the kids bunch
This is Santa's big scene
And above all this bustle
You'll hear
While walking down the streets of Magnolia, fingers intertwined, Arion felt something hit her in the back of her head. It was cold and flake. A snowball. The culprit of this crime: Mr. Gray Fullbuster. "Hey what was that for?"
"What, Princess? Too high and mighty to have a snowball fight with your lover?" Gray stood there tauntingly, a smirk adorn on his face and snowball in hand.
Arion raised a perplexed brow to him and crossed her arms. "My lover?"
"You don't love me?" He asks, dropping both his head and his snowball.
"Aww come here." She says, coaxing him into her arms. Just as his droopy head rest on her shoulder, Gray can feel snow all over his back and in his hair. He pulled away only to see Arion with the same smirk he had just had. "How's that for high and mighty?"
"You tricked me!" Before he can finish his sentence, Arion is running down the street laughing her head off, leaving Mr. Gray Fullbuster with the things from the store. "Come back here!"
"You gotta catch me first lover!" She yells over her shoulder.
"No fair! You have dragon speed! And I have all the bags."
Silver bells, silver bell
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Everyone screamed when Gray and Arion walked in.
"What are you guys doin' here?"
"We're having a Christmas party, of course!"
"Hey Iron Breath!" Arion yells noticing Gajeel sitting there with a really Christmasy sweater on and even a matching red headband. "You finally not being a Grinch?"
"A Grinch?" He asks her only for her to completely ignore him. "Don't ignore me!" Gajeel shouted.
And so the party went on and food was eaten like usual, with Natsu eating most of it and him and Gray fighting over who was the bigger idiot. Then Erza would step in and they pretend to be best friends. And that went on until said scarlet haired mage yelled, "Time for gifts!"
"YAY!" Arion shouted, jumping, nearly shooting, up off of the ice mage's lap. "I got some gifts for EVERYONE [1]!"
"Gray, your girl's kinda crazy." Laxus taps Gray's shoulder and whispers knowing that she could hear him due to dragon senses.
A smile crept onto Gray's face. "Yeah, I know..."
"Why don't you start us off?" Ezra say gesturing to all the presents they had set up.
"Kay." Arion nods. She makes her way to the tree and picks up a gift wrapped in green. "Gajeel." She hands it to him.
"Tch."
"Be grateful, you metal bastard." She turned to the blonde haired man and held out a yellow box. "Here you are, Laxus." With a nod from the man, Arion proceeds to pass out other gifts. "Lily. Lu. Hey Erza, yours is over there against the wall." Erza nods and Arion continues by handing a big blue bag to Natsu and Happy.
The two quickly and impatiently open the sack only to find it piled high with food. "Wow! Arion its great."
"Aye sir!"
"Strausses. And Wendy and Carla." She hands each their box and then moves on to Cana who was given a huge barrel she would need help getting home along with a small rectangular package for Levy. "I even have a little something for you Juvia." The rain woman looked down shyly at the box she had just been given. "Go ahead and open it."
Juvia wasted no time. She stripped the box of its pink wrapping and opened it quickly. "Gray-sama's-" Arion quickly put a finger to her lips signaling for Juvia to not say it out loud. "Thank you."
"I even have something for you. Even if you did pelt me with snowballs."
"Thank you."
Eventually the party ended. Everyone had gone back to their homes for a much needed good night sleep.
"Hey, I have something for you. I didn't think it was something to give in front of everyone else." Arion at Gray and sees him holding out a green wrapped box, waiting for her to take it.
"What is it?" She says taking the box and looking at the ice mage skeptically.
Gray just rolled his eyes at her. "Just open it."
She ripped the paper off of it, noting the jingling sound that came from it. "Silver bells..." Under the bells in the box, there was a piece of paper that was folded with noticeable care. "And a note? What is-"
"Read it."
Arion,
I just wanted to say I love you. Nothing in this world could change that. Nothing.
Merry Christmas.
~Gray Fullbuster
"Gray this is beautiful. One of the best gifts I have ever gotten." Arion says as she hugs him tight.
"What's my competition?" He asks with a hint of jealousy in his voice.
Arion couldn't help but laugh at him. The absolute best gift she had ever gotten was him. How could he not know that? "You are your own competition, stupid."
Soon it will be
It has come the time to clean up the wrapping paper that had been laid on the floor and Gray was left to do it himself. It's not that the lovely dragon princess had fallen asleep or anything. Oh no. She was literally in a trance state caused by the little bells he has given her not twenty minutes ago. "Look..." Gray says pointing above his navy haired head, in a failed attempt to get her attention.
"Hmm..." She hums, not actually paying him any attention due to the recent gift delivery.
"Mistletoe." He states. Arion actually looks at him this time, seeing the berried plant over his head.
Pushing herself from the dark couch, Arion walks over to him. "I guess you earned it." She whispers to him. With a smirk, Gray captures her lips with his, exploring her mouth with his tongue softly. They finally parted and Arion rested her head on Gray's chest saying, "I had fun today by the way."
"I did too. Let's do it again every Christmas." He responds, squeezing her form lightly.
"It's Christmas Eve!" She corrected as she had been doing all day.
"It's 11:59." Countered Gray.
"Shit! Why didn't you tell me?!"
"I was preoccupied." Gray whispers huskily, reminding her of the mistletoe that still resided over their heads.
"Why are we still standing under this thing?" Arion yells, pushing him off of her. She turns and runs to their shared room, jumping over the couch and darting up the stairs.
"We never moved." Gray yelled as he jumped over the couch, chasing after his girlfriend. "Hey! You can't just walk away! You gotta kiss me first!"
Christmas day
Arion woke up from her deep sleep. She could remember everything that her dream had brought her. "Damn." She cursed.
A knock sounded at Natsu's door. "Arion. You home?" The very familiar voice of Gray Fullbuster echoed through Natsu and Happy's little shack. Natsu's snores were the only thing that could be heard from the outside but, Gray knew that Arion could be found inside. He also knew that she was either asleep or not willing to speak with him. "Damn. I guess I'll just leave this here." He said laying a box in front of the door.
Arion laid awake, listening for the sound of retreating foot steps. Finally, after hours of staring through a window at the starry sky, the dragon girl got up off her make-shift bed and walk toward the door. She opened the door swiftly, picking up a green wrapped box in the process. She ripped the paper off of it, noting the jingling sound that came from it. "Silver bells..." Under the bell in the box, there was a piece of paper that was folded with noticeable care. "A note?" She unfolds the paper and read it aloud in a soft voice.
Arion,
Sorry I've been a jerk to you. Its not right. I hope you can forgive me.
Merry Christmas.
~Gray Fullbuster
A little smile formed on her face. She retreats back into the shack, happy as can be. "It's Christmas Eve, dummy." Maybe getting their memories back wouldn't be too hard.
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
[1] : The presents for everyone!
Gajeel got a box of iron (how iron-ic! Hehe okay moving on.) Laxus got new headphones. Panther Lily got ... Stuff. Lucy got another silver key. Erza got a huge dragon sword. Natsu and Happy got a big bag of food (meat and fish). The Strausses got some awesome stuff... (It's one of those days). Wendy and Carla got little dresses. Cana got a barrel o' booze and Levy got an informational journal on dragons and dragon slayers written by queen Cecily herself. Then there's Juvia who got one of Gray's shirts because why not. Finally Gray got a new scarf (because of the thing with the boy... Yeah)
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Hope you have good holidays and regular days.