"Alright, be back here in an hour and a half, that sound good?" Fox asked Krystal, they were getting ready to Christmas shop on the worst day of all. Christmas Eve.
"I'll be waiting." She smiled at him, that smile that seemed to brighten his day somehow.
"Alright.. Time to get something that will 'wow' her.." Fox sighed to himself after the blue furred vixen was out of sight.
He was thankful that in the crowd he was just 'another' person and not hero of Sauria or Lylat. Noone was swarming him nor was anybody yelling his name when they saw him they were just hurrying like he was to get this done with.
The lone vulpine looked down at his PDA, the address of where he needed to be was lit up brightly for him to see yet he still couldn't find it over the masses. '329, 329, 329, Aha!"' He thought to himself. The 'building' he was looking for was huge, just what he had been hoping for.
Fox walked up to the lynx who was apparently miserably working another shift. "How may I help you?" She asked him almost pathetically.
"Yes, I ordered a package for one a few nights ago.. Should be under McCloud." Fox explained.
"Mc-.. Okay Let me check." She seemed to be cheering up slightly. "Full package? I didn't expect you to be the spa type." She joked at the vulpine.
"Hah hah.. But seriously it's for someone else." He replied, hoping this wouldn't take the full hour he had left.
"Alright, well just sign here." She handed him an electronic pen to put down his signature.
Finally the vulpine was done, now he had what he believed was the perfect gift for Krystal, and as a plus there was no way he could be outdone this time. He might've pulled off the perfect set of gifts for her and he knew it.
Krystal however wanted to impress Fox just as much as he wanted to impress her. "What possibly can you buy Fox McCloud for Christmas.." She sighed to herself. He wasn't the easiest thing to shop for that was for sure (Especially when she had no idea what he wanted).
The vixen stared up a giant skyscraper in the middle of Corneria's capital that read "5 Hours and 43 Minutes." It was counting down how long until the 25th but also counting down how much time she had left. 43 Minutes until she had to meet up with Fox and at this rate she'd be empty pawed.
"Wow.." Krystal murmured to herself seeing what she thought Fox would love. "Perfect." She smiled while looking through the window like a kit at a toy store.
Fox couldn't keep his tail from wagging slightly when Krystal came into view, he was actually excited to give someone something, something he knew would surprise her as long as he kept his mind clear.
"Alright done that, you're happy I see." She smirked at the blushing vulpine.
"Yeah, well I want to go around the park with you quickly." Fox had planned this, his most fond memory was going out around the park with his mother and father on Christmas Eve to see all the lights.
Luckily the walk wasn't long for them, that's why Fox had them land their Arwings where they did, Krystal's eyes widened when she saw the multimillion dollar selection of electricity.
"Much better than what we did.." She joked.
"Yeah, it's not all crooked like ours either." Fox chuckled putting his paw around her back making her jump slightly at the touch. It was obvious she was still getting used to him actually doing as he wanted.
She enjoyed his hold on her because it certainly was getting cold out and this sight was something to behold with him and no other.
"This is a wonderful first date spot you know." Krystal whispered to him, her head was leaning on his shoulder for warmth.
"I didn't think this was our first date but I'd have to agree." He pulled the vixen a little closer to him. How he wished and dreamt of being this close to her, finally it was happening. He was having his prayers answered and his life couldn't get any better.
"Oh my goodness, Fox there's an Arwing." Krystal couldn't help but let out a giggle pointing to the lights hanging from a tree.
"Wow maybe I can sue for copyright claims." Fox joked, getting a bump in return from her.
"It's starting to snow." Krystal murmured seeing a white flake land on Fox's coat.
"Yeah, I figured it would." Fox smiled knowing his luck lately Krystal's first holiday with him would have snow.
"We should head back, it's getting dark." Fox warned her. She was lost though, somewhere in her mind something had given way, maybe from exhaustion, maybe from the amount of pure happiness she had but she did not want to answer. She didn't even want to move. She was drifting to sleep right there, even while standing up
"K-Krys?" Fox asked seeing the vixen hadn't moved. He was fearing the worse, possibly even a seizure about to start. "Krystal!" Fox nudged her head snapping her out of the peaceful moment.
"Sorry..I just was about to fall asleep and-." She stopped there leaving him with a smile.
"Come on, we have an hour flight ahead of us and you can't sleep through that." Fox told her, still smiling and pulled her to their Arwings, paw in paw.
Fox woke-up early the next morning, ready to spend Christmas day with his new girlfriend, Krystal. He smiled to himself thinking of her as his girlfriend now. It just was all so sudden, how he was able to open up to her so much after that one kiss. His only answer to that would be that she gave him confidence, confidence he desperately needed as he had not been too experienced with women before and none of them made him feel this way.
Fox checked Krystal's room only to find her sound asleep. A pillow curled up between her arms in what Fox hoped she was pretending to be him, he could hope atleast. Somehow he couldn't wake her just yet so he decided to be patient and wait for her to wake. This was only really a big day to him this year because of her anyhow.
The vixen wouldn't come out of her room until two hours later, Fox had been waiting patiently every second of it.
"Good morning." Fox greeted her warmly.
"Merry Christmas." She weakly muttered, obviously still a little sleepy.
"Grinch.." Fox sighed shaking his head jokingly at her. She rolled her eyes at him and slapped him playfully on his forearm.
"You tired me out last night." She sighed, looking into the vulpine's eyes pathetically.
"Thank god Falco wasn't here to take that the wrong way." Fox joked at her getting a slight giggle in return. "Well anyways Krystal, merry Christmas." Fox told her and handed her a small box. Her smile widened almost instantly as she went from a tired, draggy vixen into almost the same reaction he'd get from a small cub.
"Fox.." She muttered, looking in his eyes almost begging him to give her permission to see what he had gotten her. Her telepathy told her that it was something special and that he was wanting to see her surprised expression.
"Well, open it." Fox smiled at her awaiting her facial expression when she saw it.
Just like that the vixen tore through the box and saw just a flimsy but expensive piece of paper. "What is it?" She asked him reading through it. "Oh Fox, you didn't have to do all this for me." She muttered seeing that he had bought her a full week at a resort.
Fox figured the missions were taking a toll on the inexperienced vixen so he just bought her a great, and really expensive, vacation on an island in Corneria.
"Fox, it's the perfect gift. But.. Could you come too?" She asked him, Fox blushed now more than ever. This wasn't the type of thing he would even want to go to.
"If that's what you want." His blushing continued, thankfully they were alone today and nobody could hear his answer to that. "But you do know it's more for.. Females right?" He chuckled, once more his paw rubbing the back of his own neck in nervousness.
"Well it says it has dinners for couples and also a golf course." She tried to tempt him.
"You know I'm terrible at golf though, right?" He smirked, she only looked into his eyes with that pleading look. She knew that getting Fox alone after this break would be tough. "Alright, I'll go if you want me to. This is your gift." He smiled knowing he wouldn't be able to even think about turning her down.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She almost yelled hugging onto the vulpine. She had only gotten one Christmas gift before this, her staff but this one came pretty close to number one to her.
"Hold on one moment." Krystal told him, holding him in place for a moment before running off to get the gifts she had gotten him. She came back in the blink of an eye holding a neatly wrapped box along with a smaller one. "I know it isn't much but I didn't have much time to think on it." She sighed, he didn't care. His present had been her expression when she received her gift.
"Well go on, open one." She insisted, he only shrugged at her with a grin. "Pick one!" She playfully slapped his arm.
"Alright, I'll go for the biggest one.." He sighed almost as if it were a chore. Within a few moments the wrapping paper was gone revealing new combat boots for the vulpine, she knew he had worn his old ones out from miles of walking on Sauria.
"Thank you Krys." He smiled at her seeing that they were his size too.
"Well, I found this in a shop too, I didn't have to pay for it but I believe it might be somewhat important to you." She was sounding a bit more, emotional this time. She prayed he would like it.
Fox noticed the seriousness in her voice and opened it with care, finally he was able to see why she ad been so tedious on the subject.
It was a picture of the old Star Fox team, Peppy, his father and also that betraying bastard Pigma.
This magazine clip was very rare, he didn't even have it. The fact that Krystal got him a gift like this surprised him, yet he knew he would cherish it.
"Krystal, thank you." He sighed, almost breathless. He could've never expected this to happen. "It means a lot, really." He hugged the vixen tight to him.
"Merry Christmas, Fox." Was all she whispered back to him.
"I really do love you Krystal." Fox said, his voice muffled by her shoulder. "I'll protect you until the day I die." He muttered on, saying now what he had said only when he was by himself and in his own dreams before.
The vixen smiled and clung onto the Fox, this was the best day of her life, and it wasn't even half over.
The next day Falco met up with Slippy, they both were heading back to the Great Fox to see what Fox had ruined by himself this time. "I wonder if he and Krystal have been at it while we were gone." Slippy asked, trying to make the bird laugh.
"Hah, nah. I put up some mistletoe up on the door to the kitchen as a joke too. I wonder if they even noticed." Falco chuckled. He didn't know even half of what he had started.
-Author's Note: Well It's that time of year again, I really am going to try and update a little more often..maybe once a month but THIS fic has enough fluff in it for that month off I took hopefully. First I planned on it being released the 13th but well guess what.. I went into the "I'll just finish it tomorrow" deal and now look where I am. If this is the first fic from me you've read I hope I gave a decent impression because most of my big chapters like this or even one shots seem to run on. I notice that I just need to get better.. (I may break this into 4 parts though)
Hopefully you enjoyed this year's special because I know people liked last year's and hopefully you'll check out my other work and like it as well. Thanks for viewing and have a Merry Christmas.-