Double special, written by Kittie Reviewer. Can you can figure out why I'm calling it a double special? :P

Warnings, Spanking in this chapter

Chapter 40
Christmas at the Castle

It was fairly crowded in the Grey Area. Saïx was at his usual post in the center of the room ready to give out mission assignments. Neox and Calixa were hanging out by one of the large chairs; Calixa was sitting in it while Neox was sitting on the arm. Roxas and Xion were sitting of one of the couches chatting about there latest missions, with Axel listening nearby. Xero and his "wife" Bàlicoxom were on the other couch just relaxing in each other's arms.

Demyx broke up the calm atmosphere, by walking in singing at the top of his lungs. "Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!"

Every eye turned to the Melodious Nocturne, "Demyx, why are you singing Christmas songs when it's not even Christmas?" Axel asked the question everyone was thinking.

"But it is, see?" Demyx shoved a calendar into Axel's face showing the month of December, "Christmas is tomorrow."

Neox and Calixa's heads shot up, there faces lightening up with excitement, "Oh my gosh! I forgot about Christmas!" Calixa said.

"Yeah!" Neox agreed, "We need to go make our lists to Santa."

With that the two youngest members, ran out of the room excitedly. Roxas and Xion looked at each other in confusion, "What's Christmas?" Xion asked the blonde.

"I'm not sure," the boy replied then turned to Axel, "Axel what's Christmas?"

"Christmas is a Holiday," the pyro replied simply.

"You mean like spring cleaning day?" Xion asked both there faces not looking too happy.

Axel laughed, "No, only Xemnas thinks that's a Holiday. Christmas is a happy Holiday, everyone's favorite."

"What's it about?" Roxas asked both where starting to look interested.

"Well it's about being happy, giving presents."

"Singing carols," Demyx added in.

"Yeah, and just celebrating," the red head finished.

"Why?" both light wielders asked.

Axel was tongue tied; the two older keyblade wielders sure could ask simple questions that are hard to answer. No one ever asks why you celebrate; it's just traditionally what you do. But having total amnesia can make things hard to understand sometimes, so he tied to answer it anyway. "…I don't know, that's just what you're supposed to do," he didn't succeed.

They still looked unsatisfied, but Axel couldn't answer anymore questions because Saïx had just called him over. "There has to be a reason why you celebrate Christmas," Xion commented.

"Let's go ask Neox and Calixa, maybe they'll have a better answer," Roxas suggested.

They both agreed and left the Grey Area together. Axel and Saïx left the room through a portal shortly after, leaving Demyx alone with the two foreign members. "Will the Superior even let us Celebrate Christmas?" Xero asked.

Bàli shrugged her shoulders, she had gone quiet since Demyx entered the room singing. "I don't care what he says, we're celebrating the holiday," Demyx replied. "Do you guys want to help me decorate? We need to go out and get a tree."

"Yeah sure," Xero agreed.

Nae cheers ye can go on withit me," Bàli declined.

"Oh why not?" Xero asked wrapping an arm around her shoulder and giving it a squeeze, "It'll be bonza."

The female teen smiled sadly, "I gist dun realla fell like goin."

"Please," Xero begged pouting slightly.

The girl giggled, "Aw rite, if ya realla want mi tae."

Roxas and Xion stopped at Neox's room first, because it was the first one they passed. Neither he nor Calixa were in there so they headed for the other girls room. Both younger members were in Calixa's room lying on there bellies writing long lists on a piece of paper. The red haired girl looked up when they entered, "Hey, what's up?" she asked.

"We wanted to ask you about Christmas," Xion replied.

"Yeah, like what's it about?" Roxas continued.

"Oh that easily," Calixa replied "It's about getting presents!"

"Yeah, and Santa Clause!" Neox added.

That was something new, "Whose Santa Clause?" Roxas asked.

"He's a big fat jolly guy that flies all over the worlds and delivers presents to everyone on Christmas Eve." Calixa replied then the two younger members went off on a long speech about the aspects of Santa making sure to emphasize the part about getting presents. Roxas and Xion didn't seem to quite believe it, going by the looks on there faces.

"So, this Santa Clause guy goes around delivering presents to every single person on every world, all in one night?" Roxas asked disbelief dripping form his voice.

"How?" Xion didn't sound much more believing.

"Because he's magical, maybe he stops time?" Neox suggested.

"So why does he give everyone presents?" Roxas asked.

For once the organization's two trouble makers didn't know what to say. There was a long silence, where Neox and Calixa stared at each other blankly. Eventually they just shrugged, "I don't know, he just does it."

The two light wielders sighed, that wasn't a much better answer then Axel's. Neox and Calixa went back to writing there lists for Santa, not interested in anything else. Xion picked up a notebook and pen that was sitting on Calixa's desk. "What are you doing?" Roxas asked as she started writing stuff down.

"Making notes about the information we're finding out. Maybe if we ask everyone in the organization, we can put everything we find out together and come up with a solution," Xion replied.

"Good idea, lets go ask Zexion now," with the two of them left the room.

Calixa and Neox continued writing there lists for another few minutes, until the red head set her pen and swore. "Dang it, I've run out of things to ask for, and haven't reached my standard seven page list."

"Neither have I reached my ten pages," Neox agreed setting his pen down as well. "Don't need as much when you're a Nobody."

Calixa gawked at him for several moments until he asked what was wrong, then replied, "You have a ten page standard?"

The boy shrugged, "Yeah so?"

"Now I'm going to have to extend mine to eleven pages."

"No way! If you do that then I'll have to extend mine to twelve."

There was another long silence where they both glared at each other, "How about we compromise, both lists can go no longer then 13 pages," Neox suggested secretly crossing his fingers.

"Deal," the carrot head agreed, secretly crossing her fingers also. "But how are we going to fill our lists to thirteen pages. I'm all out of ideas."

"Well you don't have to fill it up to thirteen pages. I still got plenty of ideas," Neox bragged childishly.

Calixa ran over to her desk and pulled out ads from Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, and Toys R Us. "You may have tons of ideas, but I have these," she said.

"Hey no fair," Neox complained and snatched the Wal-Mart add from the girls hands, "Gimmi that."

After a brief fright that resulted in a few shredded papers, both kids were flipping through the ads trying to get more ideas to put on there lists. After several minutes Calixa suddenly let out a squeal, "Neox you'll never believe it!"

"What?"

"Best Buy has a 250 GB Xbox for 450,000 munny!" she shouted.

"You're kidding!" Neox grabbed the paper add to see for himself. "That's like 10,000 munny cheaper then normal!"

The two youngest members of the organization went off on an excited screaming frenzy. "Oh my gosh we have to get that!" Calixa screamed.

Neox went over to his list, "Maybe if we both put it on our lists Santa will bring us one, better yet maybe we'll both get one!"

"Are you crazy, we can't wait for Christmas and Santa might not even bring us one," Calixa said. "We can't pass up this price."

"We don't have that much munny, even together. How in the world are we going to buy it?" Neox asked.

Calixa flopped back against the bed sheets, "There's got to be some way to get that munny." She then picked up a discarded newspaper and looked at it, a smile slowly formed on her face, "I have an idea."

"Um… Zexion?"

"What is it Number Thirteen?" the silver haired man asked without looking up from his book.

Roxas and Xion stepped into the Library where the Cloaked Schemer usually laid around reading a book, at least when he wasn't keeping Neox under control. "W-We wanted to ask about Christmas?" the blonde continued.

"What about it?" Zexion asked.

"Well, what's the holiday about?" Xion elaborated the question.

Zexion lowed his book and looked directly at the two light wielders, "Well I'll tell you, Christmas is about togetherness; people gather together to celebrate the holiday, friends, family, and relatives alike."

Roxas nodded in understanding while Xion quickly scribbled in the notebook. "So why do they do it?" Roxas asked.

The elder member stared at them, at a complete loss of words. Nobody ever asked why you celebrate Christmas. He didn't know the answer, though he could never let them know. "Wells… because it's traditional, it's what you do when the holidays come around. People have done it for centuries."

Xion and Roxas looked at each other, sighing with disappointment. They didn't seem to be having much luck with the 'why' question. Zexion went back to his book seemingly ending the conversation, and the two younger members left the room with there heads hanging low.

"I don't know about this Cali," Neox said uncertainly, "We're going to be in so much trouble if we're caught."

"Stop being a worry wart and relax, you want the Xbox don't you?" the red head said sitting on the bed in Neox's room and grabbing the remote for the TV.

"Well… yeah, but I think this is going too far."

"Shhh, it's about to start," Calixa shushed the boy, and changed the channel to 74 where the horse races were happening.

"Which horse did we bet on again?" Neox asked.

"Vancouver," Calixa replied leaning forward to stare at the television more closely.

"Maybe we shouldn't have bet all of our money," Neox said more to himself than to his friend. A loud bang coming from the TV was heard, signaling for the horses to start. The announcer's voice started commentating the race.

"And there off, with Vancouver in the lead." The two child nobodies screamed at the top of there lungs, there horse was winning. "He is passed by Bankhead-"

"Go! Go! Go! Go! GO!" Neox and Calixa were screaming so loudly the announcers voice was drowned out. The race lasted fifteen second then all they both went silent, "And it's a photographic finish, the winner is… Vancouver!"

The two youngest members danced around screaming, "We won, we won, we won!" After several minutes Neox composed himself, "How much did we win?" he asked his voice practically bursting with excitement.

"I don't know, I'll have to check," she picked up a wireless cell phone dialed a number and put it to her ear. After a few moments she screamed at the top of her lungs.

"What! What is it?" Neox asked looking quite shaken.

"We won 500,000 munny!" Several heads around the castle looked in confusion, at the direction of the loud screaming coming from Neox's room.

"What do you think of this one," Xero asked looking up at a tall pine tree. He, Bàli and Demyx were in a Christmas tree lot, trying to find the perfect Christmas tree to have for the castle.

"It's too small," the blonde replied shaking his head at the tree.

"Dats wat ye said about de last for?" Bàli commented looking very amused.

"Yeah, this ones almost ten feet tall," Xero agreed, though he looked more annoyed then amused. They had been walking around for hours, and they just couldn't find a tree big enough for Demyx. "I don't think where going to find one any bigger."

"Don't worry, there's a tree out there waiting for us," Demyx replied annoyingly, "We just need to find it."

"I believe we found it, six tree's back," Xero replied giving his 'wife' a look.

She giggled at him, "Don look a me, ya de one 'at begged me to com with ya." Xero wrapped an arm around her shoulder and gave her a soft noogie. Demyx ran ahead screaming something about finding the perfect tree. The two younger members followed, and found him staring at a three almost fifteen feet tall.

The three of them gawked at it, "It's perfect!" Demyx squealed jumping up and down with excitement.

"How are we supposed to get it back to the castle?" Xero asked.

"Oh we'll figure it out, come on lets get chopping," Demyx replied pulling out a couple axes and handed one to Xero.

They spent the next half hour chopping at the tree trunk, with Bàli standing away at a safe distance. Finally Xero chopped at the trunk a final time and the ominous cracking sound indicating that the tree was about to fall over, was heard. The three of them all cupped there hands over there mouths and shouted "TIMBER!"

The large tree landed on the snow with a loud thud making show fly in two directions. They all clapped and cheered. "So um… how do we get it back to the castle?" Xero asked lightly kicking at the trunk.

"We can pull it," Demyx replied confidently, then bent down to grab a hold of the trunk. "All together, let's pick it up and drag it through a portal."

Xero rolled his eyes, and wrapped his arms around the trunk same at Demyx even through he knew it was useless. Bàli, who was thinking along the same lines, didn't even bother trying to help, "All right, on the count of three lets all lift." Demyx announced, "One… two… three!"

Struggling groans came from the two male members as they unsuccessfully tried to lift the ten ton tree off the snow. Bàli stood there trying not the break into hysterical giggles, she failed after a few moments collapsing into the snow holding her stomach. Her "husband" glared at her, "Yeah, yeah, go ahead and laugh. I don't see you helping at all." This only made her laugh even harder.

After awhile, Demyx finally gave up his pride and said that they needed some help. They summoned over a hundred lesser nobodies to carry the tree back to the castle. After an hour, the fifteen foot tree was standing tall and proud in the gray area. Demyx was so excited that he was practically in tears. They all started working together decorating the tree, and several other members came into the room to help. This included Xigbar, Luxord, Lexaeus, Xaldin, and surprisingly Zexion. It seemed they all decided to forget about the superior's orders and get into the holiday spirit.

They had just finished getting the lights up, when Neox and Calixa burst in looking more excited than Demyx. The two young members were singing happily, "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The bat mobile, lost its wheel, and the joker took ballet-a!" once they finished singing, the two broke down into hysterical laughter.

"Neox!" Zexion scolded while glaring at them.

They both looked at each other knowing that if they wanted to save there hides they'd better scoot. So with a mischievous smile they ran from the room, almost running over Roxas and Xion. The two light wielders stared in awe when they saw the tree, "It's beautiful," Xion gasped.

"I've never need a tree so big," Roxas asked with his mouth agape.

"What are you both up to?" Xaldin asked as he eyed the notebook in Xion's hands.

"We're trying to figure out what Christmas is about," Roxas replied with his eyes downcast. They had made little progress.

"Is that what your down about?" the older nobody asked with raised eyebrows, "I could have easily told you that."

Both Xion and Roxas's eyes' lit up, "Really?"

"Of course, it's easy. Christmas is about throwing parties," Xaldin explained matter of factly, while Xion quickly took notes.

"Really?" Roxas asked uncertainly, this was starting to sound like what everyone else told them.

"Certainly, there's nothing more fun than throwing a party and getting drunk."

"Why?" Xion asked, this was always the question that no one could answer. They hoped that maybe Xaldin could answer it. Though no such luck, he instantly got tongue tied. After several moments he just shrugged and said that same thing everyone else said. "Its just what you do."

Meanwhile, Neox and Calixa were back in Neox's room counting the munny they won. "This is so awesome!" Calixa squealed in delight, "Let's count it again."

"It's been 500,000 that past seven times we counted. I don't think its going be different," the boy replied as he started to gather up the many coins and place them in jars.

"There's another race today, we should bet again!"

"I don't know Cali," Neox replied uncertainly. "It's a big gamble, and we have enough for the Xbox."

The red head gawked at him, "N-Neox what are you saying! If we put this money on the line and WIN just think of the profit!"

"Think of the profit we'd get, if we put the munny on the line and lose?"

"You're such a worrier," the girl said offhandedly, and grabbed the newspaper to look at the horses racing. "Lets bet on Ramshack this time," she then picked up the phone and dialed a number. After a few seconds she said, "Yeah, I'd like a place a bet on Ramshack… 500,000."

"WHAT!" Neox screamed at her, "At least save some-" he was cut off by her hand slapping over his mouth.

"All right thanks," Calixa said into the phone than hung up and grabbed the remote. "Come on the race is about the start."

"Kingdom Hearts! I can't look," Neox covered his eyes and turned away. After the bang, all he could hear was Calixa's loud cheers for the horse they picked. After thirty horrible second he barely heard the announcers voice saying over Calixa's scream, "Ramshack wins!"

Screams!

"Well, I think that's it, what do you think?" Demyx asked to everyone in general who was sitting in the gray area. They had just finished decorating the tree, and every eye was currently on it.

"I think it looks great," Xero replied with a smile, then looked at Bàli to see if she agreed. The girl just smiled weakly which only lasted a second before her depressed frown came back to replace it. The Aussie cocked his head to the side in confusion, and then opened his mouth to ask what was wrong, but before he could.

Screams!

Every head shop up and looked in the direction of the noise. It wasn't long before the two young trouble makers came running in singing happily. "Deck the halls with gas and laundry, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Tis the season too be naughty, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Tell your brother, he's your mother; ha-ha-ha, ha-ha ha, ha.. ha.. ha.. Tell your sister, she's a mister ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Tell your grappa, he's your gamma ha-ha-ha-ha-ha… ha-ha-ha-ha-"

"Neox!" Zexion yelled dangerously glaring at them, which made them quickly scamper from the room.

Xero shook his head, then looked back at his 'wife'. He squeezed her shoulders a little tighter before asking, "You all right?"

She stared at him for a long moment, and then softly nodded her head. He didn't believe it for a second. "Come on tell me," he coaxed gently. "Its Christmas, it's the happiest time of the year. You shouldn't be sad." He said this to be a joke, hoping it would lighten the mood. Unfortunately it seemed to have the opposite effect, as Bàli's eyes started to fill with tears.

The blonde sniffled, quickly wiping the tear way, and regaining her composure. "Now I know something's wrong. Tell me," he ordered softly.

"Tis jus…" Scottish girl started slowly, bringing a hand up to wipe her eyes again. "Tis hard to celebrate Christmas this year cuz… taday's ma sister's birthday, or it was."

Xero gave her a sympathetic look, patiently waiting for her to continue. He knew about her dark past before becoming a nobody, so few knew about it. He knew how deeply she cared for her sister, so this must be a very hard time for her. After a few moments watching his girlfriend hold back sobs she finally continued. "Celebrating er birthday was apart a celebrating Christmas," her accent got heavier as it usually did when her emotions went into overdrive. "Na celebratin' christmas, it jist a reminder ay hoo Ah failed tae protect 'er."

Xero pulled Bàli into a hug, as she finally lost her inner battle and started sobbing.

Neox and Calixa ran back in there Calixa's room still bouncing off the walls with excitement. "We won 75,000,000 munny!" Calixa screamed.

"I know!" Neox squealed back, "Why stop now, lets doing it again while we're still hot!"

"Yeah!" the two children high fived each other then went for the news paper to pick another horse.

"Should we bet all of it again?" Calixa asked.

"For sure!"

Zexion has been suspicious as too why Neox had been so enthusiastic today. Calixa was always bouncing off the walls, so it was nothing new as far as she goes. But Neox was more down to earth with a good head on his shoulders, how was that girl corrupting him now. With this in his mind, he decided to go see what they were up too. The two were had been hanging around in Calixa's room all day so he tried there first, and it didn't take him long to figure out that he chose right. Loud screams were coming from her room, "Go, go, go, go!" they were both screeching at the top of there lungs.

He inched closer to the door and quietly opened it. Both kids were standing in front of the television with there backs to him, so neither realized that he was watching. There was a horse race on the TV, he had barely been there five second before, "And Brenchous is the winner."

Dead silence.

The silence must have lasted a good five minutes, the Cloaked Schemer didn't dare let his presence be known. Now until he knew what they were up so, but he had a sneaking suspicion. "C-Cali," Neox finally spoke in a small weak voice.

"Yeah?" she asked her voice sounding very similar.

"We just lost everything," the boy commented, "75,000,000 munny."

Zexion has heard enough, "And just where did you get that much munny?"

Two horrified faces turned to look at him, Neox laughed nervously. "Ha, ha, hi Zexion… um how long have you been here?"

"Long enough," the older nobody replied glaring at them both.

"Look we can explain," Calixa started.

"You mean explain why you were gambling, which at your age is illegal on most worlds. Go ahead this aught to be good."

There was a long silence where the two trouble makers tried to find the right words to save there condemned backsides. After a while Zexion sighed and opened a portal to his room, "Ok, in both of you, I'm sure you know what's coming."

They both had gone through this often enough, so they went through without much hesitation. Better to just get it over with, trying to delay would only make it worse. "Calixa go put your nose in the corner," Zexion ordered pointing to the corner of his bed room.

While the red head obediently headed for the corner, Zexion sat on the bed and pulled Neox over his lap. At this point the boy realized that he didn't want to accept his current fate and started struggling. Right on schedule as well, when Neox first joined and was put under Zexion's care he was always a fighter to the very end. Now he'd excepting and cooperative until he got in position, which he was then reminded of how much it would hurt. "No Zexion please, we were just having fun. We never meant to do anything wrong."

"Well you should have thought it over before doing it," Zexion replied pulling Neox's pants down to his knees.

"We'll never do it again- OW!" Neox was cut off with his pleading when Zexion landed the first spank to his upturned rear. He gritted his teeth together reading for the next one. SWAT! The boy managed to stay quiet for the first five spanks after that. Then when the Cloaked Schemer really started adding bite to his swats, is when the soft gasps fell from his lips.

Zexion continued spanking his rear for another few minutes, then pulled his underwear down revealing his pinkened cheeks. Neox thrashed around wildly begging for Zexion to stop, as he always did. At the first spank to his bared bottom, came a loud resounding clap, followed by a loud squeal falling from Neox's lips. He continued spanking the boy for another three minutes then stopped. By this time Neox was crying for all he was worth over Zexion's lap.

The older male nobody pulled the boy into a hug being careful of his thrashed bottom. He let Neox cry into his shoulder for several minutes, then sent him to the corner and called for Calixa to come.

Now Calixa was a little harder to control. Just like Neox she has gotten better at accepting her punishment, but as usual she wasn't as easy as Neox. When she first joined, she practically got away with murder and weaseled out of punishment. Still does when she's with the right person. She has a special type of charm, which gets her out punishment. Once she realized that the charm wasn't working on Zexion anymore, she decided to try a different tactic. She was now in the process of transferring from that to where Neox currently was.

As soon as her name was called, Calixa collapsed to her knees and started screaming at the top of her lungs. With a sigh, Zexion stood up. She was still apparently going this rout, so he knew that she wasn't going to come willingly. He walked over to where she laid screaming, and grabbed her arm. She refused to stand on her legs, making her body feel like a hundred pound sack of sand.

Still he started dragging her body toward the bed, this was when she realized right on queue that this wasn't going to work. So she jumped to her feet and tried to make a run for it. The schemer knew this move was coming and was ready to counter it. After five minutes of the predictable struggling dance, Zexion had the red head over his lap, her bottom raised high in the air. She was still screaming at the top of her lungs when he pulled her black pants down and started landing swats on her backside.

Neox was in the corner covering his ears; it was always known when Calixa was being spanked because of the racket that came from it. It was sometimes hard to tell when her cries transferred from screams of anger to cries of pain. Normally when she started begging for mercy she was actually crying in pain. It was hard to hear the hard smacks Zexion dealt, without mercy. But after five minutes he pulled down Calixa's panties. "No! No! Please leave those up please!" she screeched.

This indeed meant that she was actually crying and not screaming out of anger. Both screams were very similar. Zexion spanked her bared bottom for another few minutes, and then stopped. He gently lifted the girl back to her feet and pulled her into a hug. "I hope you two have learned a valuable lesson."

"Yes," Neox replied. "If you bet it all, you risk the chance of losing it all."

Axel walked into the gray area, and instantly felt the distant air about the room. Xero and Bàli were snuggling together on the couch near the Christmas tree, Roxas and Xion were sitting in the chairs next to them looking depressed, and Neox and Calixa were using the other couch just lying on there bellies. He walked over to the two light wielders, "Well, isn't this the two saddest faces I've ever seen," he commented lightly.

Neither replied, they just sighed heavily. "So why the long faces?" he continued, "Its Christmas eve, you should be happy."

Roxas sighed looking very depressed, and then picked up the notebook Xion had been carrying around all day. "We've been trying to figure out what Christmas is really about."

"And we figured out that Christmas is about, Celebrating with family and friends, giving presents, singings carols, having parties were you get drunk, Santa Clause, and most importantly getting presents," Xion continued listing off everything they learned. "But no one could tell us why you celebrate Christmas."

"Yer kiddin me rite?" Bàli asked who had been listening in; she was looking at them in shock. "Christmas is noda bout any a dat."

"You trying to say that you know what it's really about?" Roxas asked uncertainly. He and Xion were tired of everyone telling them there ideas and not being able to answer the 'why' question.

"Aye," she replied.

Roxas just shook his head and looked away; her answer probably wouldn't be any better then the others. She stood up and motioned them forward, "Come I wanna take ya somewhere," she said than added to Neox and Calixa. "Ye too should come also."

The two younger members looked at each other, "It could be a trap," Calixa warned.

"She's taking Roxas and Xion, I think its safe," Neox whispered back.

Eventually, they all decided to follow the girl through a portal. Even Axel and Xero decided to join in. They reappeared in an open area covered with snow; it seemed to be some sort of social gathering. There was a group of people standing on a wooden platform by a large crate almost as big as a dumpster; they were singing "Silent night". The crate seemed to be filled with toys of all sorts, for all ages. Standing on the ground was a large group of kids between 5 to 17 years of age.

Bàli led the group onto the platform, were a woman smiled at them and handed them a hymn book so they could sing with them. "Silent night… Holy night… All is calm… All is bright…"

Once the song was finished a man standing at a podium started speaking. "And in the days of Creaser Augustus, there was a group of shepherds, watching there flocks near the town of Bethlehem. Then out of nowhere an Angel appeared before them, and the brightness of the Lords glory flashed all around them. The shepherds became frighten, until the angel said 'Don't be afraid, Rejoice for a baby has been born this very day in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord, who was prophesied to save you from your sins. He will be wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.'"

After he finished with the story, everyone began singing again. "Away in a manger no crib for a bed. The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head."

After that song was finished, the man spoke again. "In remembrance of Gods gift to us, we give for all of you."

Both Neox and Calixa's eyes lit up, "We get presents," Calixa said eagerly.

"Shhh, dare not for ya, dare for de orphans," Bàli hissed.

Slowly the children that were standing on the ground came forwards shyly and a presents was handed to them. Bàli, Xero, Roxas, Xion, and Axel all helped pass them out. The two younger organization members stood there pouting, "That's no fair, why do they get presents and we don't?" Neox wined.

But at a single glare from the rest of the group, made them grab presents and help hand them out. Calixa picked up a really cool toy that she'd always wanted, her eyes lit up as she stared at it. But when she looked down at the little boy eagerly waiting for the present, she sighed heavily and handed it to him. It took almost an hour to hand out all the toys, but they all enjoyed doing it. Even Calixa and Neox found it nice to make a small child's face light up by something they did.

Finally all the gifts were handed out, and people started to dispatch. But Roxas and Xion still looked confused. "I'm still don't understand what that has to do with Christmas?" Roxas asked.

"Well it's easy; Christmas is the celebration of Jesus' birth. And Jesus was a gift from God, so we give out presents in order to remember that gift," Xero explained.

"Christmas tis not about gettin," Bàli said to Neox and Calixa, then turned to the light wilders. "Tis about givin."

"And especially about Jesus, the greatest gift of all," a very deep unfamiliar voice added.

They all turned and gasped at the site before them. Long white beard, red suit, round belly, "Santa Clause!" Neox shouted.

"He is real," Axel commented staring in awe.

Santa walked toward them, smiling brightly. He approached Roxas and Xion giving his ho, ho laugh, " Ho, ho, ho! You two have shown great diligence today, you wouldn't excepted the answer 'just because'. You kept looking until you found the true answer, and in the end you learned something even greater."

Both light wielders were blushing deeply, they had never been praised like that before. "Ho, ho, ho," Santa laughed and continued, "So you two deserve a little something extra for you attentiveness." With that the old man pulled two presents out of his bag and handed it to them both.

"Thanks Santa," Xion said beaming brightly.

"Yeah thanks," Roxas added.

Santa then turned to Axel and Xero, "Your two have been supportive enough, so you get a little something also." After he handed two presents to the red head males, he turned Neox and Calixa who were looking at him eagerly. His hands instantly went to his hips, and glared at them disapprovingly. "Now you two have been quiet naughty, very close to the bottom of my naughty list."

They both hung there heads in shame. "But since its Christmas, I'll let it go. Ho, ho, ho here you go," Santa pulled out one present for the both of them.

There mouths dropped open. It took a few moments before either could speak, "An Xbox 360!" they finally both shouted. The whole group laughed as they danced around happily singing carols. This time they weren't singing a parody version of it.

"Say what about Bàli, doesn't she get anything?" Xero asked.

"Och, I donna need anything," Bàli replied holding her hands up.

Santa smiled at her, "No, I have something very special for her. I know there's only one thing you want for Christmas. You've had such a hard life, yet you brought the truth to these young minds," he motioned to Xion and Roxas. "So your present is sitting over in my sleigh."

Bàli looked over at the large sleigh along with everyone else. A choking sound came from her mouth, as she realized what it was. A young girl with dirty blonde hair, probably around the age of Neox, was sitting on the sleighs seat. She looked at them and a surprised smile painted her face, "Colombia!" she shouted.

"Who?" Everyone except Axel and Roxas asked. But before anyone would answer, a dry sob fell from Bàli's lips, "C-Carrie!"

The two blondes ran toward each other. Bàli crushed her in a hug, kissing the top of her head while speaking fast in Galician, "Eu non podo crer, a súa vida. Penso que estivese morto, eu penso que eu falle con vostede, eu penso que non ía velo de novo."

"Penso que eu estaba morto, eu penso que fose meu pai. Onde estivo, eu estiven vagando tentando atopalo durante meses," the younger blonde replied.

The rest of the group all stared at them in confusion, "Does anyone know what's going on here?" Xion asked.

"That's her younger sister," Roxas replied.

"What?" Xero asked in shock, "But I thought she was dead?"

"So did we," Axel added.

"I didn't even know she had a sister," Calixa commented then turned to Santa. "What's going on?"

"Well put it this way, you nobody's have a new edition to the family," Santa replied then got into his sleigh. ""Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer, and Vixen!
"On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!" he called then flew away. "Ho, Ho, Ho… Merry Christmas!"

"Troaps," everyone turned to look at Bàli who was now standing next to her sister, tears streaming down her face. "Dis is ma sista Carrie."

"Won't be for long," Axel said, at everyone's confused looks he added, "Welcome to the Organization."

Hopefully you all remember that Bàli and Xero are technically still married, thanks to there trip to Las Vegas.

Merry Christmas everyone, never forget the true reason why we celebrate it. Happy Birthday Jesus!