Author's Note: Hello! It's here! Christmas Eve is finally here! Now I can present the final installments for my Fairy Tail Christmas Special!

Now...I'm gonna go ahead and say that this chapter ended up being 19 pages over on Microsoft Word...ya, it's a little hard to condense the scene when it involves almost 40 characters directly interacting with one another. So I hope the dialogue isn't too confusing for everyone.

Also, because it was so big I had to split it up, so please make sure that you READ THIS PAGE FIRST BEFORE GOING ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER(S)!

Also, I do not own Fairy Tail.

Chapter Twelve - On the Twelfth Day: Part 1

Well, it is now December the 24th, Christmas Eve! When we last left our Fairies they were…you know what? I'm done with super long intros. Enjoy the holiday and enjoy the Fairy Tail gift exchange!

Here we simply find all the members of Fairy Tail enjoying the warm atmosphere of the guild hall as they each wait for their final guests to arrive.

"Well, that week was awful." Gray sighed and leaned against the bar. "I had to spend the entire first half following Natsu and Happy around the stupid capital trying to find gifts that they eventually didn't even buy." He poured out his never-ending complaints to a crowd of Fairies sitting with him as they all let out several laughs in response.

Happy giggled and smacked Gray with the end of his fish. "Nah, we all know you loved hanging out with us, especially me."

Lucy smiled. "Awe, well at least you got to experience some bonding time with your two best friends." She winked and nudged Gray in the stomach.

However, Lucy quickly regretted her action as she now had Juvia Lockster eyeing her from across the room as she hid behind a large white pillar.

The blonde then rolled her eyes. "Ugh, Juvia just come over and sit with us!"

Juvia took a large gulp and removed herself from behind her hiding spot. "Hmm, well I suppose it wouldn't be that bad to chat before the gift exchange…I do need to clear my mind."

For once, Juvia's scattered brain wasn't due to her obsession with Gray. It turns out that everyone in the guild was feeling rather nervous with the gift exchange. Not only was everyone excited to see what they were receiving and who they were receiving it from, they were also acting very self-conscience about their own gifts of choice.

That is except for a select group of Fairies, like Mavis Vermilion for example.

"Oh, I am so excited for today's gift exchange!" She cheered with joy as she sat on top of the bar countertop right beside the glass bowl waiting for every entry to turn in their slips of paper.

"Yea I know what you mean!" Sitting beside her at the bar was a rather cheery Cana Alberona as she held a mug of eggnog and smiled with satisfaction. "This week was way too long. I'm just looking forward to letting loose and enjoying the holidays!"

"Here, here!" Master Makarov was sitting on the other side of the First Master, and as he and Cana finished there cheer, they all three raised their cups and made a toast to the holidays.

As they all waited around, the guild doors finally swung open to reveal three figures pouring in from the cold weather outside. To no one's surprise, two of the guests appeared to be the very late gift givers Gildarts Clive and Jellal Fernandes (dressed like his Edolas counterpart, Mystogan.)

However the third counterpart made them all turn their heads with curiosity.

"Huh, I wonder who that could be?" Gray thought with suspicion as he took a sip from his drink.

"Yea, I dunno." Happy said with a mouth full of fish. "Is it Natsu?"

Lucy then turned her head and remembered that Natsu wasn't sitting at their table. In complete honesty no one knew where the Fire Dragon Slayer went after he ran out of the guild hall yesterday screaming like a mad man.

In any case, everyone kept their eyes on the group as they made their way inside, until Juvia of all people spoke up.

"Hold on…it's Meldy!"

Standing with her guild mate from Crime Sorciére was none other than the pink haired Sensory Mage, Meldy.

In fact, Meldy removed her blue hood at that comment and revealed a bright smile. "Hey Juvia! It's so nice to see all of you!"

Juvia jumped up and gave her old friend a hug as the other Fairies smiled. Then Jellal provided his explanation.

"Although she is well aware she will not be receiving a gift this evening, I couldn't bear the thought of leaving Meldy alone on Christmas. So if it is alright with you all I would like to invite her to the party."

Gray let out a smile from beside Juvia. Like her, and most of the members from Team Tenrou, Gray was one of the few people in the guild who actually knew Meldy from a previous meeting.

Because of that, he decided to tease her. "Well, I mean you're not actually a member, but Jellal and Nigel are here too, and he's not a member either so..."

"SURE! She can stay if she likes!" Makarov jumped up with wide eyes and a smile as he observed the new beauty's image.

Mavis let out a giggle. "Well, I don't see why not! I am very sorry you won't get a gift tonight, but I hope you enjoy the evening either way!"

Meldy smiled, and although she couldn't hear what Mavis had to say, everyone else's cheer made her just as happy. "Oh thank you for allowing me to come! I don't mind at all if I don't get a gift. I just like seeing you all enjoy the holidays together as a guild!"

"Yea..." Added the tall and rough Gildarts. "This is great and all, but I'm a busy man. Can we get this whole thing started, or what?"

Now, the entire guild (save Nastu) all sat around Mavis and a glass bowl as she stuck her hand inside to draw the first name.

"Okay, and the first person to go is…"

"ME! ME!"

Everyone turned their heads and laughed as little Asuka Connell jumped out of her parent's hands to grab a very large gift basket out from under the large Christmas tree that held most of the regular sized presents.

Mavis chuckled and continued. "Oh what the heck? Let's just throw out the bowl and go down the list!"

Asuka smiled with joy and nodded as she ran over and plopped the large gift basket right in front of Gildarts.

"Oh lookie here! There's loads of stuff for me!" Gildarts grinned as he pulled out many different boxes of sweets and treats. "I can't say I'm much of a sweet tooth, but this will be really nice to have when I'm away on my missions."

Bisca stepped up to grab her daughter's hand. "Yea, well Asuka insisted we needed to make a gift basket for you, instead of trying to buy one single present. In fact she and I baked most of the treats ourselves."

Nigel smirked at that 'homemade' comment from his seat at the bar, and nudged his friend Cana right in the side. She sat there and rolled her eyes at his gesture and continued gulping on her eggnog.

Gildarts smiled and stood tall, and as he bundled up his gift basket he gave Asuka a pat on the head. "Thanks little Girlie! Merry Christmas."

"Merry Chwismas Gildawts!" She smiled and gave him a soft hug around one of his legs.

The entire group smiled as she released her hug and let Gildarts move on. He then looked right over to Nab Lessaro. "Okay, well I'm sorry I didn't have time to wrap my present." Here, catch!"

Nab looked puzzled as he grabbed a large white diamond-like lacrima out of the air. Gildarts then continued. "You guys wouldn't believe all the cool stuff I find on my missions, and since I drew the name of our resident shut-in here I decided to give him one of my souvenirs. That thing is supposed to give off good luck to the owner, but either way it's pretty to look at."

Nab smiled and replied. "Gee, thanks man! Now I don't have to go on a mission of my own."

"HA! Merry Christmas, gang!" Gildarts laughed at Nab's joke, and just like that the Crash Mage turned and left the hall as he walked out to his next mission.

Mavis smiled with pure delight as the party started getting under way. "Okay, two gifts down! You're up Nab!"

"Yea, well I actually went shopping for Reedus!" Nab quickly ran over and grabbed a box from under the tree and gave it to his artisan friend.

"Oh, well I'm very excited to see what I got!" Reedus smiled and opened up a new set of magical paint brushes with a brand new carrying case.

Nab smiled. "It's actually some sort of magical carrying case that holds a ton of items, but fits in the palm of your hand. I figured you could store all your painting equipment away for travelling purposes whenever you go on missions."

Reedus smiled with acceptance. "Wow that sounds amazing! Thank you very much, Nab!"

The whole guild smiled in agreement as Mirajane spoke first. "Wow, well I bet you would have loved to have those new brushes to help make your gift, huh Reedus?"

"Oui! These would have come in great handy for my piece!" Reedus smiled and went over to get his gift.

He then returned with a large painting of Port Hargeon that depicted an orange sun setting over the beautiful amber hills and shining blue sea.

"I would have wrapped it, but I didn't want to smear or tamper with the design." He walked right over to the non guild member Nigel, and handed him the painting. "Here you are, sir!"

"No way?" Nigel lit up like a kid on his birthday. "Wow! Thank you very much, Reedus!"

Reedus nodded his head. "I remembered that your company is now based out of Hargeon, so I figured a water color of your favorite town would be wonderfully nice gift."

Nigel agreed and nodded as he gently set his painting down. "Well, you're right on that one. Thanks again, and Merry Christmas!"

The businessman got up and slowly walked over to the tree. "Heh, now it's my turn…" He wondered over to the large tree and began digging through the gifts.

"Okay, now I know my name has floated around a lot over this past week…" Nigel admitted as he dug through a large mound of gifts. "…but…I want to be clear on something. I have more faith in this guild than you people realize."

The Trillionaire mage smiled widely as he pulled out one teeny tiny package, followed by one medium sized package after that.

Right away Gray stopped him there. "Hold one. Why do you get to hand out two separate gifts?"

Nigel smirked. "Well, I'm only going to give one of them to my giftee. I wanna see something for my own eyes…" He continued smiling and turned right to Wendy Marvel.

"Wendy! I hope you're ready!" Nigel beamed as he held out his two packages.

The resident Sky Dragon Slayer looked surprised but excited at the same time. "Oh wow, Nigel! Thanks…but, what am I supposed to do, exactly?"

Nigel chuckled. "You're supposed to open them both and pick your prize!"

The whole guild hall erupted with anger and confusion, but not as Master Makarov shouted out a command.

"SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUP!"

Everyone sank into silence as Makarov hissed his next remark. "Morons…go ahead, Wendy."

"Okay…" Wendy now felt very nervous. She started with the first gift. As she unwrapped the paper, she then pulled out what appeared to be a very rough-edged statue of sorts, painted in all different colors, and the entire thing appeared to be only about a foot tall.

"Um, is that supposed to be Carla and me?" Wendy asked with an awkward expression.

Nigel grinned while nodding his head. "Yep! I worked on it all week. I hope you like it!"

It looked like he only worked all day on it, it was actually that ugly. As Wendy set it down she proceeded to open up the second package. Then she revealed a tiny set of mysterious silver keys.

"Um, s-should I know what these are for?"

Nigel rolled his eyes and looked at all the other Fairies. "Oh no, but everyone all expected me to just cave and buy a really expensive gift instead. Those are for a very large and very expensive party yacht that is currently sitting in the Magnolia Lake just out back."

Wendy stuttered. "A y-yacht?"

"Yes, a very large boat." Nigel nodded his head and crossed him arms. "I got it for about a Billion Jewel, then I spent another million just to have it flown out to the lake overnight. I'm really surprised none of you noticed it yet."

Elfman let out a loud complaint. "HOLD ON! You're saying she gets to choose between that little clay statue and a yacht!?"

Nigel replied before any other Fairies could voice their own opinion. "Yes, that's exactly what I want her to do. I apologize to Wendy for putting her on the spot, but I want to prove that not everyone in this guild hall is out for super fancy presents."

Mavis giggled with joy. "Oh boy! I love game shows!" She sat in eager anticipation with the rest of the guild as Wendy made her decision.

"Well…" Wendy still held the keys to the yacht in her hand, but her eyes went straight to the small clay statue that sat on the floor.

It took her a little while after adjusting her eyes, but once she looked past a few blotchy areas, after after truly analyzing the cruel depiction of Nigel's awful sculpting skills, she finally saw herself and her little white friend smiling back at her from the tiny little statue.

Then, Wendy smiled. "Actually, I'm going to take the statue!"

The whole guild hall gasped, and Nigel turned around in surprise. "R-really?"

Wendy nodded and gave him the keys to the yacht. "I mean, I can't drive a boat, and I can really tell you worked super hard on the statue for me!"

Cana rolled her eyes and tried smirking through her drink. "I mean he worked really hard on earning that money too…"

Wendy laughed, but stood by her decision. "Thanks, Nigel! Merry Christmas!"

"Yea…" Nigel grinned with satisfaction as he threw the keys into the chest pocket of his shirt, and slowly took his seat. "Merry Christmas to you too, Wendy."

Then, Wendy smiled and ran over to grab her gift from the tree. "Okay, my gift was for Juvia!"

She smiled and gave her package to the surprised Water Mage at the end of her table.

"Oh, well thank you Wendy." Juvia smiled as she opened up a gift bag that revealed a brand new dress just like the one she wore, except this one was a brighter shade of blue and it didn't have sleeves.

Juvia grinned. "Oh wow this looks very expensive! Thank you so much, Wendy!"

Wendy nodded and from there Juvia stood up to carry on. "Okay, I need some help getting my gift…"

Then, after ten or fifteen minutes everyone watched as Juvia stood by the open door that led into the kitchen behind the bar. Then, Elfman and Laxus emerged pushing a very life-sized ice sculpture of Gray Fullbuster into the room and moved it straight into the view of all the Fairies.

Juvia lit up with joy and turned to Gray. "Well my beloved, what do you think!?"

"W-wha…" Gray's eye began to twitch as he noticed the very intensive detail that had gone into making the sculpture. "W-where are my pants?"

Juvia giggled. "Gray don't be silly! It's an inside joke with the guild on why you strip so much!"

Elfman stood right beside the massive sculpture and scratched his head. "That's weird, where did his manhood go…?"

Elfman was cut short as Laxus punched him in the stomach to silence his question.

Gray continued as he looked on in horror. "Yea…that part worries me the most…"

Juvia lit up again. "Oh that was Erza's idea! She thought it would be best to remove any unwanted visuals to provide a censor for the younger members. So she chose to remove and destroy those bits, herself!"

"SHE WHAT!?" Gray looked even more horrified as he looked over to Erza, and as he did that the proud Titania kept her eyes shut and her arms crossed as she grinned with humor.

"Okay." Makarov stepped up to keep the train going. "Very lovely gift, Juvia, but unfortunately we have to keep going. Gray, it's now you're turn."

Gray remained silent as he shook with fear and grabbed his gift. He then walked over and handed it to Bickslow as he continued shaking with confusion.

Bickslow smiled and grabbed the gift immediately. "Thanks, but after that hilarious show I dunno if your gift can beat it!" He opened up a gift bag to reveal an all-black knight's helmet with a dark purple feather on top; essentially the same helmet he wore only a few shades darker.

Bickslow looked on with excitement. "Ah, no way! Thanks, man!" He didn't wait for Gray to reply before he grabbed his own gift. "Here, this one's for you, First Master."

"Oh goodie!" Mavis smiled with joy as she received her present. "I can't wait to see what it is!" As she opened the box, Mavis revealed a pair of two cloudy gray lacrimas.

Bickslow continued. "They're portal lacrima. Spirits can use one to travel to the location of the other one. I figured you could leave one here at the guild hall and the other back on Tenrou to shorten your trips."

Mavis lit up with an overload of joy. "OHH! THIS IS SO THOUGHTFUL!" She then flew over and gave Bickslow a hug. "Thank you so much!"

As the crowd agreed, Bickslow took his seat and Mavis flew back to hers. "Now, my gift for the next person is right here!" She then pulled out an envelope with nothing written on it.

"To Jellal Fernandes!" As Mavis said that name, everyone turned to Jellal and Meldy, and the former stepped up to claim his gift.

As he opened the envelope, he revealed to burgundy colored tickets, and as he sat there speechless, Mavis continued. "Their two tickets for a two week trip to the Akane Resort!"

Jellal began to blush and looked up to Mavis. "Um, thank you Master Mavis; but I must ask…was it necessary to purchase two?"

Mavis giggled. "Well actually, since I couldn't buy them myself, I had to use Nab and Reedus's help to receive them, since they headed south for their gifts…though, now I completely forget why I only bought two.

Jellal fell further in his stance. "Er, maybe the other is for you, Meldy."

Meldy stepped up with a giggling face to reply. "Nah, I have a feeling I know who it's really meant for…"

All the other guild members turned to find Erza Scarlet now facing away from everyone else, just to hide her beet-red cheeks.

Jellal let out a sigh, even though he couldn't actually see her. "Well, thank you Master Mavis…Now I suppose it's my turn."

The Heavenly Body mage then walked over, and immediately confronted Erza, who now had no choice but to turn toward the audience.

"No way…" Lucy and Happy mirrored each other's thoughts with gaping mouths as Jellal revealed his secret giftee for everyone to see.

Jellal thought for a small second and in a clever move he handed Erza the second ticket.

"For you."

Erza reluctantly grabbed the ticket as her gift just to end the conversation as quickly as possible, because she now had some idea as to what he actually bought for her sitting under the tree. "Well…thanks."

"HOLD ON!" Wakaba Mine shouted out with a smirk on his face as he held his pipe in hand. "Where's your real gift, lover boy!?"

Jellal did not want to reveal the actual gift that he bought for Erza. "Um…well…"

Makarov shouted back. "Oh no, I'm sorry Jellal but you volunteered to join the gift giving party. You must participate accordingly."

Jellal took his defeat and looked right at Meldy, who (since Gildarts left) was now the only one in the room who knew what his actual gift was. She tried holding her laughter in but couldn't entirely as the Heavenly Body Mage took a slow walk over to the tree.

Finally, as he returned to the others, her quickly handed Erza a frilly pink gift bag secretly filled with very luxurious black laced lingerie.

"Here…er, I wouldn't open that in the guild hall, if I were you…"

Okay! So micro-recap:

Asuka is adorable, Gildarts is clever, Nigel tried being thoughtful, Wendy is sweet, Juvia is psycho, Gray is horrified, Jellal is perverted (for very understanding reasons) and everyone else is happy to be their!

Also, I am really glad I had the idea to add Meldy into the party! The idea of leaving her alone on Christmas made me sad, so I decided to let her join in on the fun, too!

Either way, please continue to chapter 12: part 2!