Author's Note: Okay, here is chapter six! This day is exciting, but I can't remember why...anyway here's the chapter!

Now I'm gonna be honest with you. This chapter is going to have A LOT of references from my previous stories. I began writing on this website back in August/September, and 16 weeks later I'm sitting here with 6 completed stories and one in the works, with 3 more in waiting! I really have enjoyed this fall of writing, and I used this chapter as a micro-recognition to all my fan fic work. Therefore, this chapter is basically my gift to me, and any reader who is familiar with my previous works.

However, if you want, you may be able to skip a good portion of the chapter (Honestly I forget how pivotal it is to the grand scheme of the gift exchange) but if not stick around and join me as we look back on my 16 weeks of writing! :D (Tomorrow's chapter will feature some more regular FT characters.)

***EITHER WAY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FROM THREE OF MY PREVIOUS WORKS. PROCEED WITH CAUTION!***

Also, I do not own Fairy Tail.

Chapter Six - On the Sixth Day

It is now December the 18th, and the Eve of Christmas is slowly coming up. As the entire Fairy Tail Guild rushes around every corner of the kingdom we find several members have finally made it back to town.

Here we arrive at the Fairy Hills female dormitory at the western portion of Magnolia, an just as the sun rises over the hills, Wendy Marvel and her white exceed Carla finally made it back from their early week in Crocus.

"Well that was worth the trip. I think I'm all set for the gift exchange, now!" Wendy smiled with joy as she held her large garment bag from the Fleuriste clothing store.

Meanwhile, Carla was carrying her own large bag as she made for the door. "Yes well, I have had enough of this cold weather. If I see any more snow or ice today I'll…"

As the two girls opened the door they were greeted by a bizarre sight that forced Carla to end her angry thought.

Juvia Lockster had commandeered a large portion of the lobby to design what appeared to be an obnoxious sized ice sculptor of her beloved friend, Gray Fullbuster.

Carla was speechless as Wendy spoke up with an awkward pause. "Oh…it's an ice sculpture. That's pretty clever, Juvia…"

Carla rolled her eyes. "Yes, although I'm not sure why you chose to produce that monstrosity here in the lobby…"

"Teehee, oh I'm so glad you both like it!" Juvia turned and giggled as she wiped her brow. "I guess Gray's handsome no matter what material he's made out of!"

Wendy's eye started to twitch. "We never said we…"

"Juvia, is someone there? Oh, hello Wendy, Carla. How was your week of shopping?"

Standing in the door frame as none other than Erza Scarlet dressed in a white chef's hat and apron as she began stirring a bowl of frothy batter.

Wendy commented back. "Um, Erza are you baking?"

Erza giggled. "Why yes, I must admit I am! I need to bake several batches of cakes in order to get the recipe down just right for the gift exchange." She then started humming as she turned back into the kitchen to continue with her cooking lesson.

Wendy was finally caught speechless as Carla shook her head and spoke up once again.

"See Wendy…this is why I told you not to go the homemade route…"

As the girls back at Fairy Hills tried to enjoy their mid-December day, just across town on the far eastern hills of Magnlia stood the tall and luxurious home of Nigel Thomas.

Here, we find Nigel and friendly drinker from Fairy Tail, Cana Alberona, both enjoying a nice afternoon together as they discuss the Guild's plans for Christmas.

"Pff, that thing looks ridiculous!" Cana tried not to fall over as she began laughing at Nigel's attempt at "the homemade route."

Nigel on the other hand wasn't taking her bate. "Hold on, I gotta smooth it out first…geeze." He held a mound of clay over a recently purchased sculpting table as they both sat in a very large room just adjacent to the living room. The walls were filled with books and notebooks, and there appeared to be boxes scattered in three of the four corners of the room.

Nigel regained his concentration and sarcasm. "Why buy something…when you can just…make something…better!" He carefully smoothed the edges of what appeared to be a clay pot with bizarre designs on the side.

Despite his best efforts, Nigel never was the "artistic type." He was numbers and money growing up, and picked up magic after becoming wealthy, but the poor businessman never mastered the true skills of the classical arts.

At the same time, Cana constantly made sure to remind him of his lack-luster abilities. "Is that supposed to be her on the side!? It looks like a stick figure!" She clutched a brand new glass of red wine and tried not to spill it as she continued laughing at his attempts of crafting art.

Nigel stopped to take a break and leaned over to grab his own glass of wine off the table. "Yea, well I don't see you worrying about a gift over there, Miss 'I've already won this game?'" He wiped his brow with a rag as he continued.

"Come to think of it, you haven't even left town. What, are you doing over here anyway? Shouldn't you have a gift to buy?"

"Hey, why don't you just worry about your little project here, and let me do my own thing." Cana laughed and threw a crumpled up piece of paper into the rim of the sorry excuse for a pot that Nigel was trying to craft.

Nigel rolled his eyes and pulled the paper out, and then un-crumpled it and read what it was. As soon as he deciphered the title, he smiled.

"Hey, look what you just found." The wealthy businessman smiled and threw it back to her.

Cana kept a puzzled look on her face before she opened up the balled-up document and read it aloud.

"Oh, this is the list the Magic Council used to decide who would go with you to Oasis." She smiled and read the names of all her friends off the list.

"Wow, this really wasn't that long ago…" She laughed as she took a drink from her glass.

Nigel agreed and leaned back onto a table from his stool. "Yea, you remember how scared you guys were going in? Pretty funny stuff."

Cana rolled her eyes. "Hey, don't rope me with the rest of those losers. I actually knew what we were getting into. Besides, you were the one who was all antsy and anal about everything going in!" She laughed and tried throwing another ball into the pot.

He laughed in agreement and held up his hands. "Okay, so I sorta 'fanboy-ed' after finding the guild, and sue me if I wanted to make sure everyone was safe for the mission. It was pretty cool for me, not to mention how scary it was to think you all could have died in that horrible place."

Cana smiled again. "Yea, but we lived. Hell, you even got a fancy new spell out of the whole ordeal. Speaking of Oasis, you ever try to keep in touch with that Eve girl?"

Cana asked Nigel about his former colleague and the new chairman of Oasis, Eve Wattson. Nigel smiled and nodded. "Yea, we still keep in touch. She's always asking about everyone from the guild. I guess she has that Oasis place whipped into tip top shape now."

He then switched his thought and shook his head. "Damn, looking back we really never shoulda gone inside there..."

Cana smiled. "Yea…but the whole vacation that came afterwards was a real blast. Good times."

Nigel chuckled as he thought about her words. "Oh yea, that was the highlight of my entrance into Magnolia. That trip was something…" He began remembering their week-long trip down to the Akane Resort and rewarding the Oasis team for their hard efforts on the mission. "I just wish we coulda got the exceeds in. I always feel bad about that."

Cana laughed. "HA! Why? If it wasn't for them being outside the resort we would have never known about that creepy Maker Magic guild or whoever those nut jobs were!"

Nigel raised his drink. "Ah, good point, good point…still...do you ever think things got out of hand with the others? The people who shared rooms together were very...interesting."

Nigel and Cana paused to reflect on that question, and soon after they both looked at each other and laughed. "HA! NAH!"

Cana then took the conversation. "Those idiots needed more time together, anyway. There's too much angst and tension between some of the guild members, it drives me crazy sometimes."

Nigel grinned. "Yea, it's like a damn high school. I mean…am I crazy or did some of the roommates actually work together?"

This time Cana raised her glass. "I think so. By the way you're right about that 'high school' thing. You shoulda been there for the Grand Magic Games."

Nigel sat up with excitement. "Really, why's that?" He never liked reminding himself that he missed out watching the excitement of the Games, and it bothered him even more that he never got to watch Fairy Tail competing during the days of the tournament.

Cana carried on. "Eh, just some of the girls really went nuts when they watched the fights…First there was the whole thing with Gray and Juvia during the first game, then Erza had to sit through Jellal getting beat by Jura…and don't even get me started on Levy and Lucy."

"Well, here I'm getting you started." Nigel grabbed a second full bottle of wine off the nearby desk and tossed it over to her. "You were saying?"

She sarcastically nodded and cracked open the wine, keeping the entire bottle for herself this time. "Well Levy's thing was pretty simple. Gajeel had his two big fights with Rogue, and Levy really went nuts while she watched it. Couldn't even keep her eyes off the action…but Lucy…She had the whole ordeal with losing vs Raven Tail, and then she had to go through that horrible scene with Minerva in the Naval Battle that sent her to the infirmary…and then I heard she had this little 'click' with Natsu."

"Ahh..." Nigel laughed as he picked up his remaining glass. "Go on?"

Cana rolled her eyes and smiled. "Well all's I can say is that Natsu skipped out on the last day of fights just to save Lucy from the kingdom's guards."

Nigel collected that. "Awe,how...romantic? God, your guild is angsty."

Cana threw the wine cork at his head, and Nigel swatted it away and laughed while he jokingly shielded his 'masterpiece' clay pot.

"Whoa, artist at work, here." Nigel went to joke further, but let his guest carry on.

Cana kicked back and gathered a full smile for this memory. "What about that time we tested that stupid game for your company?"

Nigel paused and looked her way. "Um, I don't recall any stupid games…I do recall my awesome rendition of Pokémon created in an easy-to-use virtual environment, with super amazing graphics and out of this world AI." He said while sounding like a sarcastic pitchman for his own product.

Cana shook her head. "Yea, a virtual environment that almost killed Lucy and the others. You still trying to make that sequel?"

Nigel looked guilty as he slowly continued molding his masterpiece. "Um, yea…I'm working on that…still, you gotta admit the graphics in the first one were pretty amazing."

Cana rolled her eyes. "Yea, well the real world has better ones. I did like the little monsters Lucy got to play with, and the ones the rest of the guys turned into were pretty hilarious to watch."

Nigel slowly remembered their whole ordeal with the X&Y demo as it flashed back through his memory. "Yea, Natsu went a little overboard every now and then, but in the end I had a blast!"

Cana nearly fell off her seat as she thought about her next comment. "Remember when you and Happy made non-stop fun of Lucy for crushing on that rival kid, Calem?"

Nigel laughed with her. "Yea, I felt like an ass since I tried keeping Happy quiet the whole game…I shoulda just let him run his mouth more; his one-liners are gold!"

"Nah, they're more like silver. When he's drunk they're gold." Cana remembered feeding the poor cat some wine right before they poured it all over the video game and caused it to malfunction during Lucy's fifth gym battle. "By the way…nothing happened while you were out that one day for business."

Nigel rolled his eyes and continued creating his pot. "Trust me, I know what happened…Man, I can't believe we made it out of that whole ordeal; it feels like it was just yesterday."

Cana paused and reflected with him. "Yea…I guess you've been in Magnolia longer then I thought."

Nigel smiled and grabbed his drink. "Yep, and let's hope I stay around for the future."

He held the glass over to Cana's reach as she held her's out to meet him in midair, and as the two glasses rang of off one another the two brown haired wizard downed their glasses of wine all in one go.

Cana whipped her mouth and laughed. "Wow we finished two bottles already? We're on a holiday roll, here!" She grabbed the two empty bottles and went for the door.

"Opps, I'll be right back." Can sort of stumbled in a buzzed state of mind as she smiled and walked out of the room.

"Yea...come drink my booze while you have an entire guild hall full of it back home." Nigel laughed and ceased his molding as he stopped to collect the scene around him. If it wasn't for his new friends in Fairy Tail, Nigel would have never moved to Magnolia, and he never would have joined the Fairy Tail wizards on any of their recent missions.

And so, he nodded and leaned over to grabbed a picture sitting on his desk that featured him and the wizards that helped him on his first requested mission standing outside that very Guild Hall, and as everyone seemed to enjoy the frozen moment, the look on his own pictured face made the brown-haired mage smile with joy.

"Man, I really do love this town."

Nigel's so sentimental...he's such a sensy, lol.

I will also say that his line about the Pokemon sequel might be the best line in the entire story...and it just so happens to reflects a very real-life writer's current struggles to deliver a previously promised Poke x FT sequel to his audience in the near future...but we'll get to that down the road.

By the way, if you found yourself scratching your heads too much, the stories I referenced were Oasis and the Battle for Freedom, OPERATION: Vacation!, and Fairy Tail I choose you! SUPER EXCITING!

Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter featuring OC! Tomorrow we get back on track with the characters you know and love! I just hope Nigel can finish his art by the 24th...

(Also...damn, why can't I remember what is so special about today...?)