(Welcome to part two of the Christmas special. This time the guys are still going to have some fun in the snow.)
Last time Negi, Dustin, and their students traveled up in the mountains to Ayaka's family ski lodge resort. After a day of settling in and decorating the place they turned in for the night knowing the next day would be mountains of fun.
As the light shined in through the windows in Dustin's room he groaned until his Digital alarm clock played his song. Dustin and the girls stirred as Mana reached off to the side and turned the alarm off.
"What a night." Sakurako yawned while stretching her arms up.
Dustin groaned and rubbed his eyes from the sunlight, "Oh I don't like mornings."
"You always say that." Mana reminded him.
"Good morning." Madoka yawned.
"What a beautiful day." Zazie said until there was a knock at the door.
Entering the room was Chizuru and Yuna, "Good morning everyone! Happy day before Christmas!" Chizuru greeted.
"Come on Dustin-kun, get up and get ready!" Yuna cheered.
"Alright Yuna, give me a minute." Dustin said as he, Mana, and Sakurako got out of bed. Suddenly Dustin was scooped up by Yuna.
"You'll take too long, come on we gotta get you ready!" she bolted for the bathroom while Chizuru stifled a giggle.
"Hold on Yuna, I wanna get Dustin-kun ready to!" Sakurako called as she headed for the bathroom.
"We might as well join them." Mana said as the other girls went in.
Soon once the girls were washed up Dustin was standing before a mirror on a stool as Yuna was combing his hair for him making sure his spikes were right, "If there's one thing I don't tolerate it's a sloppy appearance, and I can't have you looking sloppy."
"Believe me; I don't like being sloppy either." Dustin replied as she finished his last bit of spikes and looked at his reflection over his shoulder.
"There we go, handsome guy as always." The b-ball girl noted.
"Handsome is right." Sakurako added.
"Come on girls, or we'll keep everyone else waiting." Madoka warned them as they started getting themselves dressed and were soon in their winter outfits again.
After activating Zyphon they stepped out of the room seeing Negi, Ayaka, Rin, Makie, and Kaede all dressed for the slopes as well.
"You set for today, Negi?" Dustin asked.
"Oh yes, I can't wait." Negi said feeling excited.
Soon after meeting up with the other girls in the lobby they went outside and started taking the ski lift up to the mountains, "Whoa, we're up awfully high!" Negi gasped as he looked down.
"Well we've flown higher you know." Dustin reminded him.
"I know." Negi chuckled.
Soon everyone was at the top of the mountain where a whole line up of sleds, skis, snowboards, toboggans, saucers, and snow tubes.
"Oh yes this is what I've been waiting for!" Dustin ran and grabbed a snowboard, while everyone grabbed something else while some students shared their sled or toboggan with one or two other students.
"Chachamaru are you ready for your new upgrade?" Satomi asked.
"Yes, initializing ski mode." Chachamaru said as her feet converted into skis.
"Alright is everyone ready?" Negi asked as he was up in front of a toboggan with Evangeline behind him, followed by Kaede.
"Hai, sensei!" they called.
"Hold up!" Dustin called.
"Is something wrong, Dustin?" Mana asked as she readied her snowboard.
"Since this promises to be such a momentous and exciting moment, I believe it calls for some suitable music to be played. Zyphon!"
"Yes, master." Zyphon said as speakers popped out of his torso and pop rock music started playing while he activated his own ski feet.
"Alright everyone, let's go!" Dustin called as they all started going down the hill cheering.
As some of the girls were sledding downhill, Dustin was shredding on his snowboard passing them while going between several of them taking the lead.
"Yes! Oh yes!" Dustin cheered as he shredded past Asuna, Konoka, and Setsuna.
The twins were sliding down each on a saucer while spinning as Fumika called, "Fuka, I'm getting dizzy!"
"So am I!"
Mana was skiing around like she was doing the slalom with Zazie joining her like they were making figure eights as they went downhill.
Satomi had been riding on a mechanical sled she built for the slopes as she didn't have to steer it, for it did all the steering itself.
Suddenly as Dustin was shredding he saw Rin whisk past him, "Oh, so the princess has game does she?" he started shredding after her.
"Not bad Dustin, we might be the two best shredders on the mountain." She said as they shredded in sync.
"Normally there could only be room for one, but hell this is the 21st century there's room for more than one." He replied.
"Didn't think I'd here that from you." She smirked.
Dustin responded to her comment with a sarcastic groan as if she stabbed him in the heart while some of the girls laughed through their cheering.
"Uh-oh!" Dustin called seeing they were entering the forest below the mountain, "Better make the turn girls!" everyone screamed as they made a right turn following Dustin and Rin.
Dustin made a jump off a snow bank, "Shredding! Whoo yeah! Big air!"
Everyone continued cheering as they were nearing the bottom of the mountain, "Whoo, catching air baby!" Rin called as she and Dustin shredded.
"Way to go guys!" Yuna called.
"They sure know what they're doing." Ako noted.
Soon the song ended as they reached the bottom and started slowing down, "Yes! Big carve!" Dustin said as he and Zyphon came to a stop followed by Rin and all the other girls with some actually sliding off their sleds.
"That was awesome!" Rin called.
"Wasn't it? Dustin asked.
"Totally!" Rin and Dustin slid some skin.
"You girls see me go down that mountain; I tell you I love the feeling of shredding. Especially down a mountain as big as that." Dustin said.
"I had no idea you could shred like that, Dustin-kun." Kazumi said.
"You learn a new thing about me every day." He chuckled.
"But how did you know how to shred like that, Rin?" Nodoka asked.
"Well where I'm from there's snow all year around, so I decided to use the weather to my advantage." She chuckled.
"Well girls, the slopes were just the beginning, now let's move on to the ice rink!" Ayaka announced as they all cheered.
Later, they were all on the ice skating rink close to the lodge. Everyone was skating around be it professionally or beginners try. Nodoka was trying to keep herself up while Haruna and Yue had to help her maintain balance. Setsuna was also trying to maintain balance but had help from Konoka.
Negi was struggling as Kaede was helping him along, "Easy Negi, just take it a step at a time."
"I know, I know."
Dustin skated over, "Come on Negi, it's like when we'd floor skate in our socks on the wooden floors after they've been waxed back in New York."
"Except our feet were all the way touching the ground, not being held up by blades like here." Negi replied.
Rin skated past them smiling and twirled, "Ok now this just teasing." Dustin said feeling embarrassed.
"You have to admit she's got grace." Kaede admitted.
"Negi, did you know she could do this?" Konoka asked.
"It's winter all year around in her kingdom she had to find some pastime."
"Obviously," Dustin added as he got determined, "well can't have her showing off now can we?" he started skating around like a pro right around Nodoka, "Hiya, Nodoka," he skated further and around Chisame, "Hiya, Chisame."
Suddenly the startled web girl fell down, "Lousy…" she grumbled under her breath.
As Chizuru was helping Natsumi stand up to skate Dustin twirled past them, "Hiya, girls." Chizuru giggled at Dustin's performance.
He then skated around Evangeline, "Hiya, Evangeline." He skated straight ahead only to crash right into a snow bank with his legs sticking out.
Rin skated over and spoke with a bit of mockery in her tone, "Hiya, Dustin." Dustin sighed feeling he deserved that.
Later Ku had gathered Dustin, Yuna, Makie, and Zazie onto the ice where three barrels were set up.
"Ok guys, we're gonna try barrel jumping. Just watch me." Ku skated back and started skating for the barrels getting enough speed and leaped over the barrels landing on the ice safely.
"Wow, that was amazing Ku." Makie gasped.
"Way to go!" Yuna clapped.
"I am the master after all." Ku stood proudly.
"Ok my turn!" Dustin called doing exactly what Ku did and jumped the barrels.
"Not bad, Dustin-bozu." Ku congratulated him.
"Ok guys, me next!" Makie did the same, "Here I go!" she jumped the barrels.
"My turn," Yuna said doing the same and made the jump, "Success!"
"My go," Zazie called as she made the jump and did a flip before landing onto the ice perfectly, "Stick it!"
"Oh yeah, Zazie you are the woman!" Dustin applauded as she flashed a peace sign.
Later on Chao skated to the center of the ice, "Hey guys, let's play snap the whip!" she called and they all got into it.
Konoka skated by taking hold of Chao's hand and they start skating around in a circle, "Oh yeah this is great!" Konoka cheered excitedly, "Setsuna, take my hand!"
Setsuna caught it, "I got you Ojou-sama!"
Yuna, Makie, Ayaka, Asuna, Kazumi, Kaede, Ku, Rin, Dustin, and then Negi took part of it and were spinning around, "Oh dear, too fast!" Negi cried as it felt like the whole area was spinning. As they spun Negi ended up taking Evangeline's hand as she skated past them getting caught into their game.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" Eva called not wanting to have been a part of the game.
"Sorry, Evangeline, no stopping it now!" Negi called as everyone was cheering, laughing, or screaming.
"Ok guys, on three we break!" Dustin called.
"One!" Kaede called.
"Two!" Yuna called.
"Three!" they cried letting go and were sent into different directions. Everyone ended up flying right into piles of snow and popped out with piles of snow on their heads.
"That was wild!" Makie cheered until Eva popped out of the snow with a frown.
"That was stupid." She muttered.
Soon it was getting dark and everyone returned to the lodge to warm up. Everyone was sitting by the fireplace enjoying some hot chocolate. As they did they noticed Dustin and Negi wearing Santa hats walk up to the karaoke machine.
"Good evening everyone, and how're we doing this fine Christmas Eve?" Negi asked.
"Great!" the girls called.
"That's good, because Negi and I got a little karaoke going that you're all sure to enjoy."
They turned it on as it started playing music and the two boys started singing Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.
As the music ended the girls applauded and whistled as Dustin and Negi took a bow and stepped off stage. Suddenly Rin decided to go up on stage and take a shot.
"I just want to say I'm glad I could be here with all of you. You're like an extended family to me, each and every one of you," the girls awed at her speech, "so let me share with you a piece of my own holiday cheer." And the music played as she started singing Rocking around the Christmas tree.
Toothless who was watching from inside a plant was shaking his tail to the rhythm, and she continued singing.
The girls, Dustin, and Negi applauded as Rin took a bow when she finished. Suddenly Zyphon came stumbling in from outside carrying firewood and was covered in snow, "Sorry to rein in on everyone's fun, but has anybody seen the news? There's a big storm blowing out there!"
The group was shocked as they looked out the windows and sure enough Zyphon was right. A giant snowstorm was blowing in around the lodge and soon enough all the exits were being covered by snow.
"Oh no, we're going to be snowed in!" Negi panicked.
"We might never get out!" Sakurako cried.
"Everyone calm down!" Ayaka called, "We'll all be fine in here. We just have to wait it out until the storm passes."
"Yeah, it's not like something bad gonna happen." Asuna said and much too soon the lights in the entire lodge went out, including the tree.
"Oh no, the power's out!" Ako gasped.
Eva, Chisame, Ayaka, and Dustin glared at Asuna, "You just had to say it!" Asuna chuckled sheepishly.
(And that's the chapter. A perfect Christmas eve for the group at the slopes leading up to them being snowed inside the lodge with no power. How will they survive? Will this ruin Christmas? Tune in next time.)