It was hard to miss her as she skated up Autumnal Avenue. Korrina ignored the stares from the citizens of Lumiose City, skating along with a broad smile on her face and without a care in the world. A sharp corner down an alley brought her to a collection of apartment buildings, to which she skated towards one. Buzzing one of the apartments, she waited, skating back and forth on the spot while supporting herself with the door frame.

"Hello?" A male voice asked as the small machine came to life with a crackle of static. Korrina grinned.

"Yo Clemont. Guess who?" A sigh.

"What is it Korrina?" The girl could hear the irritation in his voice, making her pout. She could vaguely hear Bonnie asking who it was on the other end, with her brother responding with her name. Korrina stopped rolling on the spot and folded her arms.

"First off, I'd prefer it if you were a little nicer to me," she said, ignoring his reply of "Then act your age and stop being a nuisance" as she continued, "and second, I need you to head to the skate park on Route 5. Bring Bonnie with you."

"Eh? Why?" the boy asked. Korrina beamed, though this couldn't be seen, and said, "Just do it, will ya! I'll be there myself in 10 minutes, I need to go get Viola from Santalune. I might pick up Alexa too, we'll see if she's busy or not. You'll be there right?" She asked, sounding hopeful. Another sigh.

"Fine, we'll be there. Bonnie, get your shoe-" The rest of what he was saying was cut off as he no doubt began to get ready to leave. Happy in the knowledge that they'd be at the location, Korrina skated off, with Santalune City as her next destination.

Stepping foot onto Route 5, the siblings were surprised to see the other gym leaders also waiting by the location indicated by Korrina. And as they walked up to join the group, Wulfric turned, hearing them approach and chuckled, "So Korrina's gotten you involved as well."

"Yeah, I guess. But involved in what?" Clemont asked, brow furrowed in confusion. The other gym leaders could only shrug in response, as confused about the situation as the boy was. Sighing, the boy and his sister could only join the group in waiting, Bonnie being welcomed onto the bench with Valerie. Looking around at everyone, the woman smiled.

"This feels exciting," she giggled, to which Grant, standing near her, rolled his eyes and responded, "Don't think that's the word the rest of us would use." Ramos nodded, adding, "I'd personally say its more worrying. I mean, what exactly has Korrina got in mind here?" Wulfric shook his head, a smile on his face.

"I wouldn't worry about it too much. This is Korrina we're talking about. And considering what's she's wearing today, I'd say she's got good intentions," he said. Valerie looked at the large man with a confused look, as did Clemont and his sister, as she asked, "What was she wearing?"

"You didn't see it?" Grant said, eyebrow raised. The three shook their heads.

"I was busy at the time in another room. Katherine came to me saying Korrina had come and wanted me to be here," Valerie said, with the Lumiose gym leader adding himself, "She called our apartment, so we only heard her voice." This made the Johto woman frown, looking worried as she asked, "Why? What is she wearing?" In response, Wulfric chuckled again.

"Something tells me you might have a problem with it Valerie," he laughed, though to her frustration, he didn't elaborate. Grant turned to face Olympia, the only one who hadn't spoken at all, and asked, "Do you know anything about what's going on?" The woman shook her head. As she opened her mouth to speak, Wulfric spoke up, turned to face the route gate.

"Well lookie here," he laughed, as Viola walked out, rubbing her bare arms as she no doubt felt the chill in the air. Ramos shook his head as he asked, "Why aren't ya wearing a jacket? It's the middle of December." The woman cringed as she said, smiling nervously as her lips visibly quivered, "Korrina didn't give me time to grab one." Grant frowned.

"Okay, what is up with her? Dragging you out of the house without a jacket in this weather, getting us all to wait in this weather. Where even is she?" he asked, sounding irritated. Viola shrugged, not wearing Wulfric's rather large jacket draped over her shoulders.

"She said she would catch up with me. I couldn't quite hear what she was saying cause she was skating away from me, but I think she was going to see if Alexa was free." This only made the man groan with frustration as he put his head in his hands in a bid to calm himself. Valerie bit her lip and said, a whimper lining her voice as she too expressed frustration, "Oh won't she just get here already and tell us what she's doing? I can't stand the cold much longer."

"I thought you were the one that was 'excited' about this little mystery of hers?" The Rock gym leader sighed, sarcasm finding its way into his tone. Before Valerie could respond, a voice made every head turn toward the route gate.

"Hey! Sorry I kept you guys here!" Korrina's appearance warranted different reactions. Ramos and Olympia remained silent, though both let out similar sighs of exasperation; Grant and Viola began rounding on the young girl, spilling out their annoyances on her, typically consisting of either "It is freezing out here!" or "What exactly are you playing at?"; Clemont and Bonnie were simply shocked at what she decided to wear that day; and Wulfric stood at the side of it all, amused by the entire affair. However Valerie's reaction was the most apparent. Though shocked like the Lumiose siblings, and for the same reason, this shock was overpowered by horror. She jumped to her feet and said, almost quietly and at the same level, "Oh my Arceus Korrina what are you wearing?" as her face paled, her eyes widened and her hands flew up to cover her mouth.

"What this?" Korrina beamed, doing a small spin on the spot, which was an impressive action on its own considering she was, as always, wearing her trademark skates. She'd switched out her usual white and red dress for a long sleeved, garish bright green one, hemmed with red at the skirt, sleeves and neckline, and over the top of her helmet, she'd pulled - rather ungracefully - a Santa hat. She still wore her same skates and fingerless gloves though, so it was hard to say whether Valerie's horror came about over the dress alone, how none of it matched, or just everything about the outfit. Korrina grinned, "I found it in a boutique a week or so back. I thought it looked good, that it looked Christmassy. So I bought it and now," another twirl, "I'm wearing it!" Valerie did not seem satisfied. If anything, her hands were shaking horribly and she looked on the verge of tears. Viola shuffled over to her and whispered, "It's probably best if you look away." The woman nodded, panting frantically as if scrambling for words, as she turned around and buried her head in her hands.

"Well, you've driven Valerie to tears and me and Viola to almost screaming," Grant said, trying to stay calm. He kicked a stone as he shrugged and asked, "Why?" Korrina grinned, placing her hands on her hips and puffing her chest out as she announced, "I have gathered you all here to suggest we all work together to spread Christmas cheer around the Kalos region!"

This was met with silence, many looking at the girl like she'd gone mad. Even the normally jovial, optimistic Wulfric - who usually enjoyed going along with whatever scheme Korrina had come up with, his reasoning that she was only having some harmless fun and would never do anything to legitimately hurt anyone - looked incredulous. Grant sighed with exasperation.

"I'm going home," he said, turning and beginning to walk down the route. He was stopped however as a Machoke stepped out from the tall grass and stood in his way, blocking the path.

"Yeeeeeah, just cause I said it was a suggestion doesn't mean I'm giving you a choice," Korrina said, still smiling. From the route gate, her Mienfoo walked out, dragging a large sack behind it.

"I'm suddenly worried about this," Clemont muttered, eyeing up the sack with a nervous look and an arched eyebrow, looking away when the Fighting-type turned and looked at him.

"Oh come on," the blonde moaned, beginning to circle the gym leaders with an irritated pout on her face, "where's your Christmas spirit?" Bonnie jumped to her feet, remaining on the bench, and said, "I have Christmas spirit!" Her brother shushed her, muttering, "Shush, don't encourage her. And don't stand on the bench." Olympia took a step forward, cape wrapped tightly around herself.

"Just one question, dear," she said, then nodded her head toward Korrina's Mienfoo, "What is in the bag over with your Mienfoo?" Korrina's pout morphed into a grin again and she skated through the middle of the group to her pokémon. Reaching into the bag as it was held open by the Mienfoo, she pulled out a pair of Sawsbuck antlers and said, "Just some little bits and pieces I've gathered up. It's not all costumes, don't worry." The realisation began to sink in that they most certainly had no say in what was going on here, and no way of getting out of it. They looked to Olympia, the only one other than Valerie that could maybe fight off Korrina's pokémon and allow them all to run to safety, however she shook her head, making it clear that such a thing would not happen. Why, they didn't push for. Valerie's hand rose.

"Since it appears we are stuck doing this, can I just ask that I have half an hour at the least to return home and make myself a costume? I refuse to wear anything you've brought, if its anything like what you're wearing right now," she asked. Korrina thought this over and then shrugged.

"Sure, I guess that's fair. But aren't you going to say no offence or something for saying my dress sucks?"

"No."

Merry Christmas!

Have a slightly early present. I know I said I'd rather have this out by the actual day, but it hasn't happened like that. Instead, have a two parter. Today, you get this, then on the actual day, the next part.

Hope this is okay. :)

/reads over that passage

Oh god, I hope that doesn't sound rude. :(

Anyway, part of the reason I've split it is because this chapter alone took ages to write. Why?

Because GameFreak decided to have Olympia speak in haiku, which I can't write for the life of me. The one line she has in this was an attempt at haiku style dialogue, and I still worry, even now that it's actually dead awkward sounding.

Next chapter though shouldn't be a problem. What may be a problem though is timing; I now have four days to write.

...I've written in shorter time periods, in fact, I've written whole drabbles in one day before. That's one at a time, not multiples in one day.

Shut up Angel-chan, you're babbling now.

So, hope you all enjoyed. Do fave and follow if you don't already, or if you don't have an account, bookmark the story and check regularly. Not too regularly, a few times a week at most I'd say. I update at least once a week, once every two weeks if I'm busy.

I'm still rambling okay then.

Hope you all have a very merry Christmas, hope you liked the drabble, hope you all look forward to the next part and thank you all so much for reading and reviewing and sticking with this story so far.

I'll probably do all the thanking stuff closer to New Year or when we reach some sort of milestone like 20 chapters/drabbles or something, but seriously, thank you. It honestly does mean a lot.

Angel-chan x