Merry Dragon Christmas (Double XP With Forcie, et al)

Shauna laughed heartily as she fed her cat, Walter, some lasagna at the table. She didn't have anything more than the soup she made for herself. The story of Xiao believing in Santa and being all excited for Christmas painted her as a complete dork. A great big, super tough, super strong, transforming into a dragon dork.

"Awww... precious little dragon girl believes in Santa!" She pats Xiao on the head. Everyone had a laugh, but Shauna made up for it by hugging Xiao.

As the night went on and the liquor came out, which only the older people enjoyed, and Xiao still found horrible to her taste. And then, the merriment came to a pause, when a Speedster made his way into the apartment and planted gifts in everyone's hands. That was about the only thing keeping Dragon Dad from unleashing his Wizard Pirate powers, as he heartily took stock of the situation and shook his gift, wondering what was inside.

"Who the heck are you? Don't even say Santa Claus." Shauna was not so kind, her eyes powering up to barbeque Darren, were it not for Xiao and the others showing they knew him.

"Um... this is Darren, the Swords Master. I met him briefly, and Forcewave and Tyuki have mentioned him a couple of times. He is... a friend, I think." Xiao said. That was just good enough for Shauna. She looked at the gift in her hand and tried to take a peek inside with her x-ray vision.

"Ugh... Wrapped with lead." She said. Looks like Darren was good enough to take a precaution to foil Shauna's vision. She turned her attention to him.

"Yeah, not that it'd matter anyway! That was a pretty nasty spill by the way Hold a sec, I'm a doctor." Shauna commented, then her eyes went to Darren's ankle to inspect the damage. Yup, traveling at high speed then taking a spill like that, Shauna saw the inner workings of the joint completely destroyed. "It's pretty broken. We'll probably need to set it with a tourniquet, then later a cast."

Shauna peered over at Tyuki briefly. "Unless a someone with healing powers happened to show up and fix it for this kid lickety split. We will need to hold the bones together tight though. Either way... Xiao, hold Santa down."

"Okay." Xiao replied enthusiastically and attempts to pin Darren in place. There would be no escaping Dragon Girl's grip if she got her hands on him.

Was he okay? No he wasn’t okay, he got caught. Santa doesn’t get caught, and Santa definitely does not break his ankle, this totally wouldn’t have happened if Peter Pan was still with him. Sure, the kid was tired and Darren dropped him off at his house but he could still blame his bad luck on the fact that the kid wasn’t here. Mainly because the entire time they were together everything was working out perfectly. Now he had to explain to two of his friends, the big scary Dragon Girl and her family why he was in the middle of their house on Christmas…Eve was it? Darren couldn’t tell, he had ran through so many time zones in the past couple of hours that he was completely los-hang on Force spotted him.

Sure, Force was able to react to a bunch of things but he had been going way faster than he usually could due to what he assumed was Christmas magic. Did that mean that upon delivering the last set of gifts that the magic just disappeared? Because that would totally suck. It made sense sure but if Darren had known that beforehand he would have come to these people first so they wouldn’t have been the ones to catch him. While they were all arguing and comforting or whatever John was pretending to do Darren finished eating his cookies. They were left out for Santa and Santa Darren was going to eat them. Except he was brought crashing, heh crashing, back into the conversation when the word tourniquet was spoken by the ‘Doctor’.

“What the hell kid of Doctor do you claim to be? A tourniquet is for last resort only or to stop blood and even then its last resort and I sure as hell ain’t bleeding or needing last resort life saving stuff. Also I am Santa…or rather Santa Darren!” Cue infamous Darren boyish grin as he motioned to his hat, bag, and then taking the list out of his pocked he held it up as well before giving it to John for proof. This was also the point when Tyuki popped over and fixed his ankle, hopefully free of charge. “Who?” He asked completely oblivious of course, hell it was only like a month or so ago when he met John and Tyuki’s apparent future daughter and even realized they were together.

Getting healed up actually didn’t feel like much, just a little glowyness, a small little zap and then his ankle was perfectly okay. “I shall thank your powers then and not ask them weird questions because I don’t think they could answer anyway, I mean if powers could answer questions I’d ask mine like a bazillion questions and I’m gona stop blabbering now.” Grinning, Darren always grinned no reason not to now right, he stood up and fixed his Santa Hat, taking the list back from John. Hoping the guy had finished looking it over by now to prove his story was true.

“Sorry for running in on the Christmas dinner by the way… Was just doing my job. I’ll take my leave now though so no need to worry. Enjoy the presents and Merry Christmas.” Or whatever, he wasn’t exactly feeling the Christmas spirit right now, hobbling to the door. He was fine, he’d totally be able to find his box before the dog took the entire thing again. Maybe he’d get lucky and find a hotel room for free. That actually put a smile on the face of the young Swordsmaster, hey a free hotel room was always a good thing to have because it meant he’d be able to score some free breakfast afterwards. Or well it wouldn’t really be free but what the staff didn’t see didn’t hurt them. This is also about the part where he touched the doorknob.

This was a relatively strange way to spend the holidays. Having dinner at Xiao's house whose family was very talkative. John was trying to avoid talking about his adventures, and Tyuki seemed to be trying to get drunk. He wondered if her limo driver was still outside. If not he might have to drive her home. If all of that isn't exciting enough for you, then how about Darren showing up dressed as Santa to deliver presents, and then break his ankle while trying to get away without being caught.

John had gotten up from the table to go check on his for once actually dressed friend. He wasn't kidding. This was the most dressed he had even seen the kid. Then again, he was homeless. Anyways, he was checking on his friend since his ankle was broken and all, and was also kind of wondering what Darren was doing dressed like Santa Claus and delivering them presents. Was this something he had just randomly decided to do? If so, it was hilarious and amazing. In the meantime, the others had all noticed that he was here, and that his ankle was broken, and were getting up too.

Shauna was trying to talk like a doctor, and not doing a very good job at it. Even Darren was aware of this. He was refusing to let her anywhere near his ankle. Meanwhile, Darren introduced himself as Santa Darren and produced a list that he handed over to John. John took it and started perusing it.  Xiao was trying to hold him still to keep him from moving while something was attempted on him. John put his hand up in front of her to let her know it would be unnecessary. He knew exactly how to fix him up. Or should he say who? I guess it would be whom instead? Anyways, the best person for this was Tyuki, and sure enough she came over and got to work on healing him. "Don't worry. She's got this." he told them all as Tyuki was healing Darren's broken ankle. A moment later the damage was gone as if it had never been there in the first place.

Meanwhile, John was reading through the list that he had been given. It had a bunch of names and addresses listed on it. Some were checked off, others were still blank. He saw his name and the names of everyone else that was here for dinner on the list, and all of them had this address listed. This included Tyuki, Shauna and himself, and they didn't even live here. It's like the person whom had written this had known they would be here. Okay, wow, this is kind of amazing. Wait? Does that mean Santa might actually be real? And that Darren of all people was helping him deliver presents? Speaking of which, Darren took the list back and was getting ready to leave. John looked simply bemused by what he had just read on top of everything else that had happened. "Good luck, Santa Darren. Thanks for the gifts, and Merry Christmas to you too" he said as Darren was about to leave. Oh, what a weird, but wonderful day this had been. A merry christmas to all, and to all a good night.


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