After the tree was set up their master called out for them to come to his room, they assumed it was just to thank them. When they reached his room their master told them to follow him. they followed him back to the castle entrance, where he did thank them for the tree. Then a second later he drew out his keyblade and dawned on his armor. At first they all questioned him what he was doing before he explained

"I am going to get your families"

"Wait now?" Aqua asked figuring it was kind of soon to do that since he just told them that this morning.

"Yes I sent them their invitations a week ago so that they would be ready…" Their master always 2 steps ahead of them "…Now if you want to while I am out you can go buy presents for each other and your families in a nearby world" he rose his hand up to them and revealed three cards that he then handed to each of his students

"Don't worry about prices just buy what you think each member of your family would like. Now I won't be long my pupils so you better hurry" he said as he waved and walked out his castle and blasted off for Traverse town and Twilight town. Leaving Aqua and Terra with smiles on their faces and Ven just staring at the card, clueless as to what it was

'What's this for anyway? Are we going to play a game or something?' he thought, trying to make what little sense he could out of it

"So where should we go?" Terra asked Aqua who only to a second's thought as to where they should shop

"How about that place where the master took us the first time we rode our gliders. You know the place with all those flowers and the huge fountain" Terra nodded in agreement with a grin, he loved that place

"Radiant garden it is" he said as he and Aqua began to walk out of the castle, while Ven stood there, trying to figure out what kind of game would need a plastic card to play. Terra was the first one out of the castle and Aqua would be the second. But not before she looked behind her to still her blond haired friend still starring at the credit card her master gave him

"Ven, you coming or not?" Aqua asked. bringing Ven back down to earth (or the land of departure, take your pick)

"Sure I am" he said then ran toward his friend and out the door, guess he was actually going to be the second one out. Aqua followed his lead and left the castle. The trio quickly got their armor on and summoned their gliders and left for radiant garden.

They glided through space arriving to the castle town, which was now engulfed in snow. Even though it was winter the town seemed to be very much alive and energetic with kids running around enjoying the snowy terrain and the older one ice skating on the frozen water of the towns fountain,

"Ok we should spilt up" Aqua suggested making Ven raise a eyebrow

"Why?" Aqua looked down at Ven wondering if he was being serious or if he was being his regular jokey self. Well just to make sure she stated what she thought was obvious

"So you're surprised at what you get on Christmas morning" Aqua said as Ven became even more confused.

'I get something on Christmas?' he thought as Terra listened to Aqua's suggestion and walked off into the town to find the gifts he needed and Aqua did the same. Leaving Ven alone with his thoughts

'So if I'm going to get something and Aqua wanted to spilt up, then means she and Terra are looking for something for… me maybe? Then does that mean I have to find them something? But wait…'

"How am I suppose to buy anything!" he yelled/thought out loud as one of his friends was already finding something for his little sister.

Terra walked into a book shop and looked around at the various tomes. He knew his little sister was smart and loved to read so he figured she'd appreciate a new story from a world different from their own, only problem was he didn't know what she would like.

As he looked around he heard a elderly woman's voice from the back of the store. Not really having a idea on what to get his sister he slowly made his way back there, figuring she would at least have a good recommendation for something. As he arrived to the back of the story he found the old woman reading to what seemed to be her granddaughter.

"…and they lived happily ever after" she said as she closed the book. Then just like she was in school she raised her hand because she had a question "Yes sweety?"

"That was really good grandma but how did she know it was him grandma? If she couldn't see his face then how could she tell it was her husband?" the woman chuckled then poked her granddaughter's chest, bopping her back a little.

"That's how she knew Kairi" The little girl was now even more confused

"What do you mean grandma?" even he didn't know the story they were talking about, Terra knew what the grandmother was trying to explain and decided to help her elaborate as he entered from the corner of their eyes

"She means that the girl in the story could just knew it in her heart. Because when someone love's someone enough they can just feel something warm deep down that tells them who is it" Terra said kneeling down halfway to Kairi's height so she would better understand. Kairi looked down at her heart, now realizing another thing that it could do, and smiled at Terra and asked

"Wow really?"

"Yes Kairi, I couldn't have said it better myself." The grandmother said as she stood up from her seat and dusted off her dress "I'm sorry I wasn't at the front counter I was preoccupied with my granddaughter. I am the owner of this shop, is there something I can help you with kind man?"

"Actually yes, I'm trying to look for a book for my kid sister…"

"How old is she?" she asked, to get a clear picture as to what kind of book he's looking for. Terra thought for a couple seconds, doing some quick mental math

"She's about fifteen and she's really smart and I think she loves romantic stories" the owner began to think and so did Kairi as to what would be the perfect book for her. Then she had a idea for one

"Oh I know!" Kairi yelled out as she ran to the back and grabbed four books, which she had a hard time holding in her small hands. She set them on the ground in front of Terra. He knelt down and took a look at them. They were fairly new but had hard leather, or what thought was, covers that gave the illusion of them being old with a symbol on each book, the first being a flame. He grabbed the top one and quickly scanned the tittle and summary. Event by just the little he read he even thought of keeping this to read himself, which only confirmed how he knew that

"Yeah she would love this" he put his hand out for her to shake. Not even attempting to shake his whole hand, she grabbed his index finger and shook it. He giggled at that and so did she.

"I was just telling those stories to her as you entered into the shop" the woman said as Terra picked them up and brought them to the front of the shop. 'No wonder she grabbed theses' he thought. She rang up the price of the series of books and Terra handed her his master's card. As she finished ringing him up, he began to read some more of the first book he glanced through

The elderly woman had to tap Terra out of the book so that he would get his card out to pay for the books

"Sorry… guess your granddaughter is right this is a good book" Terra said embarrassed for getting side tracked. She smiled with a chuckle

"It's one of her favorites, I read her one of them almost everynight" she said as she hugged her granddaughter who clang onto her leg for a hug if her own

"Aw that's sweet"

"Thank you, please come again and have a great day" she said as terra humbly nodded then left. As he walked out he could hear the door open again with tiny footsteps coming out of it. He turned to see it's souce, it was Kairi who waved her hand and proclaimed

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" he grinned and waved back as he returned with

"Merry Christmas to you too!" he said as he continued to walk off on the search for more gifts, while ran off somewhere else probably to play.

On his venturing through town he had found a random clothes store and grabbed a big shirt for his dad, not really caring what to get for his father. Then he stopped by a jewelry shop and pointed out a sapphire necklace for his mother, the color of the sapphires reminded him of his mother's eyes and would really complement her already beautiful face. Then finally he walked into a electronics store and bought Ven a light that had a star pattern on it, he picked it out because he knew Ven loved the night sky. He also saw a cool watch that looked old but had modern features on it. Thinking that he would like it he bought it for his master. Then as he walked out of the story he passed by another jewelry shop with ser of twin bracelets that caught his eyes. He entered the shop and took a better look at them. They both had a interlocking design on them that look celtic with the only real difference between the 2 being a diamond on one of them and a adamantine mineral on the other. As he looked the shop keep walked over to Terra, ready to make her sale

"You have good tastes, those are destiny bracelets. It connects two people together even if they're worlds apart… so they say" he thought this would be a good present for Aqua and her little sister. As he looked at them he noticed something written on the back that said

'I'll always be with you' he grinned then looked to the shop keep

"I'll take them" the keep grabbed them from his hands and took them to the register to be put in a box then rehanded to him. He put them in his bag and then left the store to armor up and zoom back to the castle.

He couldn't wait to see everyone's faces on Christmas because he felt like he actually put a lot of thought into his gifts, minus his father's.