“Cookies?”

“Check.”

“Presents?”

“Check.”

“Videos games?”

“Check.”

“Food, karaoke system, food, Candy and food?”

“You said food three times bro.” Diana said. “What’s your point?” Artemis said crossing his arms. Diana rolled her eyes and giggled. “Whatever, anyway I think we got everything. This is going to be the best Christmas party ever!” Diana said jumping up and down. “You better save your energy sis, you’re going to need it for the party.” Artemis said with a smile. “I can’t help it, I mean last year’s christmas was awesome.” Diana said.

“Awesome for some of us.” Artemis said rubbing his head. “Oh just forget about that Krampus thing from last year and enjoy the present moment.” Diana said with a smile. Artemis just rolled his eyes. “Alright dinner is on the stove and in the oven, dessert is in the fridge and the guest should be arriving any second.” Selene said as she walked out of the kitchen. “Sweet, we got the table set up and the living room is ready for the three to destroy everyone in smash.” Diana said. “Good I’ve been waiting a long time to have a rematch with Fang.” Selene said with determination in her eyes. “Here we go again.” Artemis said. “Alright now we just have to wait for-”

KNOCK! KNOCK!

“Ha, good timing.” Selene said going to front door. She then opened the door to reveal Mise, Octavia, Vinyl and Treble. “MERRY CHRISTMAS!” They all said. “Well Merry Christmas to you all too, come on in.” Selene said with a smile. Everyone began walking in and Mise noticed a certain scent coming from the kitchen. “Aunt Selene, are you cooking a glazed ham?” He asked. “How did you know?” Selene asked. “You and your kids know about eating food and I just know everything else.” Mise said with a smug grin.

“Pay him no mind.” Octavia said walking to the living room. “I never do.” Selene said with a smirk. “You guys are so cruel, where’s the love?” Mise said pouting. Artemis then put a hand on his shoulder. “That’s how we show our love, you should know that by now.” He said with a smirk. Mise rolled his eyes. “Jerks.” He said before walking to the living room. “Wow not even five paragraphs in and you're already taking shots at Mise? Cosmic you are cruel.” Treble said looking to the ceiling. “Treble I don’t have time for you and your antics right now, now go to the living room with the others.” Cosmic said. “Whatever you say, Come on V.” Treble said grabbing Vinyl’s hand. Vinyl sighed and shook her head.

“He’s lucky he’s cute.” She said. “Well good thing we are already getting lively.” Selene said in a happy tone. “Yup, now we just wait for the others to get here.” Artemis said. “Fang, Indigo, Aria, Daemon, Adagio, Sonata and Warhawk right?” Diana asked. “Yup and Fang said something about a special guest I’m not sure.” Artemis said. “What about Trixie, I thought she was coming.” Diana said. “Nah, Trixie and Alchemy are….let’s just say they needed sometime away.” Artemis said with a sly smirk. Diana didn’t know what that meant, but she didn’t question it.

Living room.

“How much food did you three stock up on?” Treble asked. “Enough for Artemis and enough for the rest of us.” Selene said. “You could have asked me to help with that, I know Artemis and his limits.” Mise said. “What limits?” Octavia asked looking at her brother with a smirk. “Oh haha.” Artemis said rolling his eyes. “Well I say we start the party, I want to start kicking everyone's butt in Smash.” Selene said with a sinister smirk. Everyone knew the look in Selene’s eyes and they also knew they were about to get rekt in the next few minutes.

KNOCK! KNOCK!

“Oh please be Fang.” Artemis said walking to the door. “If it’s not we’re doomed here.” Vinyl said. Artemis opened the front door to see Fang and Indigo with two new people behind them. “About time you got home, Mom’s in another one of her gamer moods.” Artemis said. “Not again.” Fang said putting a hand on his head. “Is it worse than what happened last year?” Indigo asked crossing her arms. “No that was when she was pissed off, Mom is very….how can I put this tactfully-” “Insane.” Fang said cutting Artemis off. “That’s the word.” Artemis said with a nod.

“WHAT WAS THAT!?” Selene yelled. Artemis, Fang and Indigo felt as if the grim reaper himself was coming to get them. “N..n..NOTHING MOM!” Fang and Artemis said in a very terrified tone. “THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT!” Selene yelled back. Fang and Artemis let out a soft sigh, when he looked towards the two that was behind Fang almost violently shaking when he then looked towards Fang “Hey Fang, who are the two girls behind you?”

He asked in a hushed whisper as he smiled softly “You and everyone will know in just a sec.” He had said soon walking with Indigo and the two into the living room, but very quietly as he held his hand up with three fingers, signally the three as he slowly counted down, time slowly passed when he slowly dropped the last finger and the four breathed in deep and yelled “WHAT’S UP FUCKERS?!”

The four yelled in a Emily Vasques voice almost making the entire living room jump out of their seats as the four were laughing as the group slowly got back up as Selene was frothing from the mouth as her fists were clenched very tightly almost to draw blood as she stared daggers at Fang as he was still laughing “Oh man…. So worth it….” He said quietly as Selene slowly walked towards him, soon quickly grabbing the collar of his hoodie and pulled him close “Fang…. What have I told you about, swearing?” She had said in a deep, dark tone that sent a small shiver down his spine “Not to swear…?” He had asked quietly as Selene nodded slowly

“Yes…. and what did you just do?” She asked with her tone and Fang gently sighed “I know… I know, I sweared…. But hey…. Be happy, I came home safely today…. I almost died twice coming home today.” He said the last part very quietly as some caught this, but decided to be quiet while Selene let go of Fang’s collar “But you still swore, and you know you need to be punished, am I right?” She asked as Fang nodded softly “I know…. Beats getting in a car accident… or a bullet to the head…” He said the very last quietly and walked upstairs as Selene followed behind him.

Indigo and the two sat down in the living room as the group looked at the two, then back at Indigo as Artemis sighed softly “Alright, seriously who are those two?” He asked as Indigo sighed softly “This is Fang’s little sisters, Smoke and Butterfly.” She had said as the two shyly waved at the group as Diana cheered happily “YAY! I HAVE TWO SISTERS FINALLY!” She said happily as Octavia and Vinyl shouted “HEY!” They shouted while Mise was snickering while Artemis slapped him upside the head as Indigo giggled softly “I’m with Octavia and Vinyl on this one, as well what about Aria?” She asked as Artemis nodded.

“Seriously.” He had said as Diana quieted down a little while Smoke slowly turned to Indigo “B-Big sis?” She asked quietly as Indigo smiled softly “What’s up Smoke?” She asked while both her and Butterfly were nervous “C-Can we go… H-Hangout with our…. N-New sister?” She asked in a quiet tone, while Indigo smiled warmly and nodded, gently kissing the two’s foreheads “Of course, just don’t do anything that will make Fang upset, okay?” She asked softly as the two nodded and got off the couch and walked over to Diana and started to talk with her.

“No offence to Tavi and Vinyl, but i'm so excited to have sisters closer to my age!” Diana said excited like as Mise began snickering again “I’m pretty sure she just called you two old.” he said, earning a slap from the pair. “So are you, and you’re older than all of us.” Octavia said. Smoke and Butterfly giggled softly to each other as they sat down with Diana as most of the ice had been broken. “Is most of the family, always this crazy?” Butterfly asked with a soft tone as Diana giggled softly and nodded.

“You have no idea.” She said with a soft smile while the two giggled with warm smiles as Smoke spoke up “How old are you anyway, Diana?” She asked, while Diana smiled warmly “I’m 15 and a half, and yourselves?” She asked politely while both Smoke and Butterfly smiled softly “We’re both 15, we turn 16 around late April to early May, were twins to be exact so our birthdays are on the same day.”

Smoke said as Butterfly nodded with their smiles as Diana giggled softly “That’s pretty cool, I always wondered what it’d be like having a twin. Do you two have twin powers?” She asked in anticipation as both Smoke and Butterfly giggled softly. “We do, it’s where we can get our big brother to buy us anything.” Butterfly had said as Smoke nodded with a soft smile “Mhmm! It’s really easy, and we got a lot of stuff because of it.” She had said making the group snicker as Diana giggled with a happy smile

“That sounds awesome! I wonder….” She said as she put her fingers on her temples and concentrated “Hnnng…!!” she groaned as Artemis rolled his eyes but felt his wallet moving out of his pocket. “No way.” He thought as he turned around only to see Vinyl trying to pickpocket him. “What? I need gas money!” Vinyl said plainly. “Get it from Mise, the guy’s rich.” Artemis said as he snached his wallet back. “Well since the little sisters are bonding, I say we-”

KNOCK! KNOCK!

“I’ll get it.” Treble said walking to the door. “If it’s Pinkie tell her I want me mini gun back.” Mise said. Everyone turned to him with confused looks on their faces. “She wanted to see if she could shoot skittles out of it.” He said. Everyone even Treble shook their heads. “I didn’t think Rainbow could fit in a Mini gun.” Octavia said with a smirk. “OHHH KILL’EM!” Treble yelled as he opened the door without looking to see who it was. “Someone just got burned, who was it?” Treble turned to see Aria, Adagio, Sonata, Daemon and Warhawk standing outside. “Oh nothing, Octavia just made a small joke about Rainbow.”

Somewhere else…

Rainbow and Rivet were helping Rainbow’s parents with Christmas dinner when all of a sudden, Rainbow stopped moving and for some reason she felt angry. “Dash, What’s wrong.” Rivet asked. “I’m not sure, I feel a disturbance and I have the strangest feeling to kick Octavia’s ass when break is over.” Rainbow said. “Why would you do that, Octavia doesn’t deserve that. Plus, she’s dating a guy who drive a tank, you really want to mess with her?” Rivet asked. “....Eh, maybe.”

Arrow Residence

“Finally everyone’s here, The party can finally begin.” Vinyl said pulling out her mini turntable. “Wait, where’s Fang?” Daemon asked. Artemis and Diana both looked at each other with horrified looks. “Oh crap.” Diana said. “We forgot all about him.” Artemis said before he and Diana ran upstairs. “What was that about.” Adagio asked. “Oh Fang pissed off Selene and now he’s being punished.” Mise said before taking a cookie off the table. Aria got a chill up her spine after hearing that.

“May God have mercy on his soul.” She said. “Oh come on, Arrow’s mom can’t be that bad.” Warhawk said. “Not as bad as Soul’s mom anyway.” Daemon said. “Oh you say that now, but just wait I bet she’ll go full on rage mode later.” Aria said crossing her arms. “Whatever you say Blaze, whatever you- Holy crap Fang, what happened to you!?” Everyone turned to see Artemis and Diana lead a very terrified Fang to the couch. Indigo went over to him. “Fang, you ok?” She asked him. Fang just shook his head and whimpered. “Now you see how scary Arrow’s mom can be?” Aria asked.

Daemon and Warhawk both nodded. Selene then entered the room with a smile on her face. “Oh everyone’s here good.” She said in a cheery tone. Everyone got a chill up their spine seeing that smile on her face. “How can she be smiling after what she just did to Fang?” Adagio whispered to Artemis. “Adagio, you basically pull the same crap when you playfully flirt with everyone...guy or girl and make them embarrassed.” Artemis whispered back. “Touche.” Adagio said. “How about we just start playing Smash and clear our heads, I know Fang’s going to need it most of all.” Octavia said.

“Agreed then it’s Karaoke time!” Vinyl said with a smile. “Oh we’re going to rock this, right guys?” Artemis asked. Adagio, Aria, Sonata, Warhawk and Daemon nodded their heads. “Then after that Dinner for all!” Selene said. “YES!” Diana and Artemis cheered. Butterfly and Smoke both giggled at their brother and sister’s antics. “Alright enough talk, time for action, so who want to lose first?” Aria said holding a controller. “Bring it Blaze, it’s payback time for last year.” Treble said challenging Aria. “Fine it’s your funeral.” Aria said with a smirk.

Aria (Rosalina) VS Treble (Marth)

“Are you serious, Rosalina?” Treble said in a cocky tone. “Yup she’s my main, got a problem with it?” Aria asked. “Yea I was hoping for more of a challenge.” Treble said. “You I promise, you’ll get one.” Aria said with a smile.

3! 2! 1! GO!

“You got this Aria!” Artemis cheered. “Don’t lose focus Flames.” Vinyl said. Both of Aria and Treble’s characters were over 100% of damage and the two were keeping their distance from each other until…

“SMASH BALL!” Diana, Butterfly and Smoke yelled. “It’s mine!” Treble and Aria said simultaneously. Both of them headed for the smash ball and…...Aria got to it first. “FINAL SMASH!!” Everyone yelled. “NOOOOOO!” Treble yelled as his character was blasted off the stage by Aria’s.

GAME!

“YES, HOW DO YOU FEEL!!” Aria yelled in victory. “Oh shut up!” Treble said pouting. “Wow you guys went at it for a good thirty minutes.” Octavia said. “I’ll never understand you guys and your obsession with videogames.” Mise shaking his head. “That’s because you're too old school Mise.” Vinyl said. “She’s right Mise, get with the times.” Sonata said with a smile. “Whatever, can just skip this because I’m actually bored.” Mise said before yawning and getting up and walking to the kitchen to make a cocktail. “Killjoy.” Everyone said.

Time skip

After about three hours, everyone had had their matches and of course Selene was the winner. “NO ONE CAN BEAT ME!” Selene cheered. “How does she do it?” Vinyl asked. “That’s our mom for ya.” Diana said. “A video game loving mom, I’d never thought I’d live to see this.” Daemon said. “Me either man.” Warhawk said. “Well now that that’s out of the way, who’s ready for karaoke!?” Artemis asked as everyone had cheered, all except Fang as he kept quiet, he had been like this for over four hours, ever since what had happened after his punishment, as he soon stood up and walked out the backdoor into the backyard as the group looked at this oddly as Artemis tried to keep everyone in spirit

“D-Don’t worry, I’m sure he’s fine. He probably just needs some air. You guys start, i’m going to check on him.” Artemis said as he elbowed Mise and dragged him out of the room with him. While this was going on, Indigo turned to Aria and gently shook her head “He’s not fine…” She had said, as this gained Aria’s attention “What do you mean by that, is it because of what Selene did?”

She asked Indigo as she gently sat in a chair “K-Kind of… but I think her punishment cemented his fear completely…. Did you see how he played Smash, like at all?” She asked when Aria started to think back and soon nodded “Yeah… he wasn’t fighting back much at all…. He practically let everyone beat him.” She had said as Indigo nodded with a solemn look. Over with Artemis and Mise they watched out the glass door and watched Fang standing outside, motionless except his hand that held his cigarette, when Artemis slowly turned to Mise

“You’re the expert on trauma, you break the ice.” he said as Mise shrugged and stepped forward “Fang? You feeling alright?” Mise said as he approached with caution, however Fang remained quiet as all could be heard from him was breathing but soon a small sigh as he crushed the butt of the cigarette in his palm, soon slowly turning towards the two, with a solemn face as he then pushed past Mise and Artemis back into the house when Artemis caught a glimpse of a large scar on the side of his head, that looked to be healed as it looked to be very old.

Artemis gasped softly while Mise shut the back door as he turned to him “You saw it too, huh?” He asked as Artemis slowly nodded “Yeah, it looked old...you don’t think…?” Artemis asked as Mise nodded “We can’t entirely rule it out, based on my own experience and rudimentary knowledge of trauma, we need to keep as much distance between him and your mom for now, unfortunately.” Mise said grimly while Artemis had nodded and walked back into the living room as the friends were getting ready to sing and Fang was sitting next to Indigo on the couch, as she was holding him close, gently petting his head as he was trying to get to the state of peace again, as Selene walked into the room with a soft smile. “Ok everything is set up, who want’s to go first.” She said. “Wait, before we do, a moment of silence for our fallen comrades.” Mise said putting his hand over his heart. “Fallen comrades….oh Lone and Wise Wolf.”

Sonata said in a sad tone. “Poor guy, I can only imagine what he’s going through.” Warhawk said looking down. “I know what you mean, I don’t know how i’d be able to cope if Aria and Sonata were like that.” Adagio said. “It’s nice to know you care so much Dagi.” Aria said with a small smile. “Yea.” Sonata said. “How about tomorrow we all go and see him, he needs as much support as he can get right now, I mean all of this right before Christmas and all.” Octavia said as everyone nodded and sat silent for a solid minute.

“Alright let’s get started people, who's up first?” Artemis asked. “Me Me Me!” Diana said jumping up. “You sing Diana?” Butterfly asked. “Of course, our family comes from a long line of musicians. I’m going to be the next Pianist great in the family.” Diana said proudly. “That’s awesome.” Smoke said with a smile. Diana got up and gave her song to Vinyl as she started the music and Diana grabbed the microphone and started singing.

[song]

Everyone clapped when she finished and she began to smile. “Thank you, thank you, you all are too kind.” Diana said taking a bow. “Wow your voice is amazing.” Smoke said. “I was taught by the best.” Diana said giving a smile to her mom who smiled back. “Alright who’s next?” Octavia asked. “That would be me.” Mise said standing up. “Oh joy, what does the irish man have in store for us this time?” Aria asked with a smirk. “I’m going to ignore that.” Mise said picking up the mic.

[song]

“Wow, nice song man.” Warhawk said as he and the others were clapping their hands. “Thank you, I’ve been waiting to sing this for a while. Who wants ne- Hey!” Mise said after Adagio snatched to mic from his hand. “Sit down Irish man, let a professional take it from here.” She said smiling. “Um Adagio, last I checked you can’t sing anymore.” Mise said crossing his arms. “That’s what you think and you can thank Arrow for that.” Adagio said selecting the song.

[song]

When Adagio finish singing everyone except Artemis, Aria and Sonata stared at her in shock. “When the heck did you get your voice back?” Warhawk asked. “About 3 weeks ago, me and Sonata have been practicing with Artemis and Aria for a while now.” Adagio said with a smile. “She’s right, our voices sound better than ever and to prove that fact I’m going next.” Sonata said getting up.

Timeskip: Christmas Dinner…

Vinyl had now finished putting her equipment away as the group made their way to the dining room, while Selene, Mise, and Artemis went to the kitchen to grab the food. “This should be a very delicious meal, assuming it even makes it to the table.” Mise said as he glanced over at artemis who has a spoon of mashed potatoes in his mouth “Just grab your cousin and go to the table” Artemis said pointing to the ham on the stove top. Mise rolled his eyes and grabbed them ham and made his way to the table before Artemis could take some of it too.

Meanwhile in the dining room, everyone was already seated or just about as some of them were still deciding on where to sit. “Fang, here’s a seat.” Selene said with a smile. Fang nodded and walked over only to have Mise take his seat.

“Sorry buddy, ya snooze ya lose.” Mise said. Fang raised an eyebrow, but shrugged it off and took a seat next to Indigo. “Any last words before we start everyone?” Selene asked. “Yea, IT’S EATING TIME!” Artemis yelled. “Alright then dig in everyone.” Selene said before everyone began to Pig Out. “Artemis I swear, you touch my potatoes you die.” Warhawk said. “I didn’t even touch your potatoes.”

Artemis said back. “Adagio, keep your hands off my plate!” Aria said angrily. “Only if you stop eating all the dinner rolls.” Adagio said. “Diana could you pass the salad?” Butterfly asked. “Sure sis.” Diana said with a smile. “Mmmmm, so good.” Sonata said with a mouthful of string beans. “Treble, did you take my ham?” Daemon asked with a glare. “No.” Treble said trying to hid the ham. “LIAR!!” Aria yelled as she kicked Treble in the leg.

“OW!” Treble said in pain. “Come on Fang, you have to eat something.” Indigo said. Fang shook his head and got up from table. Selene saw this and went after him. “What was that about?” Warhawk asked. “I’m not sure, I hope Fang’s ok.” Indigo said in a worried tone. “Don’t worry, mom will handle it.” Artemis said.

“You mean the lady that’s the reason he’s acting like this, oh yea everything will be just fine.” Adagio said. “Look I know our mom can be scary, but she has a huge heart and she won’t stand for any of her kids being sad.” Artemis said in a serious look. Everyone looked at one another and nodded.

Location: The roof...

Amongst the cold weather as the snow gently drifted down upon the streets of Canterlot and on top of the rooftop of the Arrow family, as sitting close to the edge was Fang gently exhaling smoke from a lite cigarette in his hand while he stared off towards the never ending white sheets of snow across the town. He stood motionless when he heard light thumping coming from the ladder not far as Selene slowly climbed the ladder and onto the roof, soon spotting Fang as she gently gasped

“F-Fang? A-Are you okay?” She asked Fang, as he didn’t respond making her worry even further as she slowly walked towards Fang while the wind began to kick up a little as she planted her feet a little more firmer to the roof, slowly looking up to see the wind blowing Fang’s hair forward soon seeing the scar on the side of his head as she soon made her way over to Fang and gently sat down as she placed her hand on his shoulder “F-Fang? S-Sweetie, are you alright? D-Do you want to talk about… anything really?” She asked quietly as Fang slowly shook his head, taking another drag from his cigarette and exhaling the smoke, keeping his gaze out towards the farthest parts of the town.

Selene was even more worried as she gently placed her fingers upon his scar, gently feeling the skin that was healing “W-When did this… happen?” She asked quietly as Mike sighed softly “Sixth grade….” He finally had spoken almost making Selene jump a little out of her skin but calmed down “W-What happened?” She asked quietly as Fang sighed softly, slowly looking towards the ground

“I was in my sixth grade class…. And there was this girl… I had the biggest crush on…. But when I tried to tell her….” He had said quietly as Selene looked at him with sorrow “T-This happened?” She asked as Mike slowly nodded “Yeah… she and all of her friends called me a freak…. She brought me down to what I would say was nothing…. The next day I saw her with one of the guys that always harassed me…. Even beat the living hell out of me…. That’s…. When this happened here.” He said gently pointing to his scar, soon letting his hand drop back down

“One bullet…. Can do a lot of damage to someone’s brain…. Doctors said I was lucky to survive, though I suffer from hallucinations once and awhile….” He said to Selene as she had tears starting to build in her eyes “T-Then why… W-Why were you acting like this… F-For almost the whole party?” She asked in a hushed tone.

Fang did not respond for a few moments but soon slowly turned to Selene. “Weren’t you worried about me when I was in that traffic?” Fang asked. Selene soon realized what was going on. “Ah so that’s what this is about, you thought I didn’t care that you almost died twice out there.” Selene said. “Yes and now-” Fang was cut off by a hug from Selene.

“Fang you’ve been living with us for over a year now, you should know I care for all my kids blood or not.” Selene said with a smile. “Then why weren’t you asking if I was ok?” Fang asked looking up to his “Mother”. “Fang tell me something, how do I usually show my concern for you Arrow and Diana?” Selene asked. Fang thought about this for a few seconds.

“Well you’d usually go super sayian and go on a rampage.” Fang said with no subtlety what so ever. Selene’s eye twitched a bit, but she shrugged it off not wanting to ruin the moment. “That’s right...I do have one of my...episodes, but the only reason I do is because I care about you and the others.” Selene said with a smile. “That makes no sense.” Fang said giving her a deadpanned looked.

Selene just shook her head. “In short I punish to show I care.” Selene said. “Ah!” Fang said. Selene giggled softly as she gently kissed Fang’s forehead “Now, why don’t we head back downstairs and eat the christmas dinner?” She asked as Fang started to slowly smile

“Sure mom, let’s hope there is still some left.” He said slowly getting up and snuffing the cigarette with his palm and tossing it into the snow as he climbed off the roof with Selene as they walked back into the house, while most of the group was passed out while Fang chuckled softly and walked in while the rest of the group turned to see him, as Smoke and Butterfly soon tackled him in a hug making him chuckle softly as Selene soon helped Fang backup while Indigo and Mise walked over to them

“Glad to see your finally back down, and everything is doing great again.” Mise had said while Indigo handed Fang a plate with tinfoil covering it “Here, since you didn’t eat anything, I made you a plate.” She said as Mise whispered to Selene “You will never believe, how hard it is two keep those two from eating that plate.” He whispered as Selene giggled softly “It’s alright, at least everyone had gotten something to eat.” She had said soon walking to the living room while the rest slept.

Time Skip

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Just as everyone sat down and started to relax, there was a knock at the door. “That’s odd, it's the middle of the night, who could that possibly be?” Mise asked as Octavia shrugged “I don’t know, get up and find out, you’re the man and Fang is relaxing.” She said as Mise nodded and got up to answer the door.

“Are you sure this is the right house? I don’t want our surprise to get sick.” one person said on the other side of the door. Before the other person could respond the door opened “Mom!? Dad?! What are you doing here?!” Mise asked as he saw his mother holding two bundles of cloth “We were visiting Ironside and thought we’d stop by, it is Cu and Erinn’s first Christmas after all…” Grey said as Mise invited them in.

“By all means join us, everyone is in the living room.” he said as he lead the his family to the living room. “If you want, we can leave them here with you Mise for a couple hours then we’ll come back and grab them.” Grey said as Mise nodded “I’d love that, I haven’t seen them since they were born.” He said as Cu and Erinn started to stir prompting Mise to take them from his mother “Shhh, it's okay...here come say hello to me and Octy’s friends.” Mise said.

“Well we’ll let you take things from here, we’ll be back later tonight or first thing in the morning for them, have fun!” Crown said as him and Grey took their leave and drove off down the street. “What do you think is taking him?” Indigo asked as Fang shrugged “Dunno, I hope everything is alright.” he said as Mise then walked into the living room with Erinn, Cu, and Octavia “As you can see, most of us are asleep but there are the few sole survivors.” Mise said as Octavia giggled.

“What do you me- oh wow.” Artemis said shaking his head. “You guys were only gone five minutes and you already have two babies. You two don’t waste time.” Treble said with a smirk. “Oh screw you, this is my brother and sister.” Mise said. Selene then saw the babies and rushed over to them. “Aww they’re adorable, Mise if you don’t mind I’ll take them off your hands. Artemis is heading off to college soon and Diana in growing up too fast. I need a new son and daughter to embarrass when they get older.” Selene said with a smile. “You are so cruel Selene, they’re all yours.” Mise said giving the babies to Selene. “I can’t believe we're getting replaced.” Artemis said. “I know.” Diana said. “Oh please I birthed you two I can’t replace you.” Selene said. “You just said you needed a new son and daughter.”

Diana said with a deadpanned look. “Yes to embarrass them not replace you two. I think of all of you as my children and you know I embarrass you all in different ways.” Selene said. Everyone just stared at her with unamused looks. “Well, she’s not wrong.” Aria said. “Well those kids better get ready, when they grow up Selene will drive them crazy, and then the rest of our family will dig into them, where do think I get it from?” Mise said laughing at the memory of family’s antics. “Anyway you kids have a ball, I’ll be upstairs with the kids.” Selene said walking away with the babies who were both giggling. “I’m scared for those kids.” Fang said shaking his head. "yeah, you're Mom might bad but remember, my family is what gave rise to yours truly...just let that sink in..." Mise said as everyone got chills up their spines

“They might be giggling now, but in 13 years they’ll be regretting being born.” Vinyl said. Smoke and Butterfly both looked to Diana. “Is she really that bad?” Smoke asked. “My mom is loving, caring, kind and very...spastic, but she lives for making her children embarrassed later on.” Diana said. “Does that explain all those baby pictures of you two she showed all of us.” Adagio said with a smirk. Artemis and Diana both blushed in embarrassment. “Can we just move on please?” Artemis said as he and Diana looked away. “Fine, so what now?” Warhawk asked. “Not sure really, we ate, did karaoke, we ate, we played Smash Bros, and we ate.” Artemis said. “You said we ate three times.” Warhawk said as Artemis crossed his arms “What’s your point?” he said.

The group snickered softly, but did start to think of what next to do as Fang looked out the window and saw something in the sky “Hey guys, do you see what I see?” He asked as he pointed up to a shimmering ribbon of light dancing across the sky. “Yeah! What is that?” Indigo said as she pressed up against the window next to Fang.

“That’s the aurorus borealis, it happens when charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere, they cause electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they release a photon, light, hence what we see.” Vinyl said as everyone in the room was left with wide open jaws as Octavia rubbed her eyes. “Vinyl...where...how….what?! I thought you were flunking science!” she said as Vinyl started laughing “Oh I am, I just fell asleep in class and I was using my text book as a pillow.” she said as everyone facepalmed in an almost perfect unison. “This sister of ours, I swear.” Artemis said shaking his head. “I know.” Octavia agreed. “And I thought Sonata was naive.” Aria said.

“To be honest, I’m not really all that shocked.” Adagio said pinching the bridge of her nose. “Well we really shouldn’t expect anything less on a girl dating a crazy person.” Daemon said. “Got that right…..HEY!” Treble said angrily. Everyone began to laugh at Treble’s reaction. “Here’s my question, why is there an aurora in Canterlot City?” Warhawk asked. “Blame the Rainboom, whenever something colorful happens they are the likely cause of it.” Sonata said. “Oh come on Sonata, that not-”

BZZT! BZZT!

“Hello?....Uh huh….uh huh...ok….ok...sure...wow really...ok I’ll tell them bye.” Artemis said hanging up his phone. “Sonata was right.” Artemis said pocketing his phone. “So what was it this time?” Aria asked as her curiosity was peaked. “They were fighting a soul-eating Banshee.” Artemis said as Mise spun his head around “My ex-girlfriend is in town?!” he said surprised as everyone busted out laughing

“HAHAHAHA!! That is so wrong yet so funny!” Artemis said as he wiped the tears from his eyes. Even Octavia was too busy laughing to say anything in reply “Mise? Where do you come up with this stuff?” Dameon said as he picked himself up off the ground “I don’t know, maybe it's Maybelline.” Mise said smirking as Artemis threw a cookie at him “BOOO! Your last joke was better.” he said as Mise looked at him “Who said I was joking? But point taken.” Mise said as Octavia slapped him

“See! I told you his head makes a cool sound when you hit it!” Vinyl said as she laughed again. “Anyway...what should we do now? It's like...2 am….2AM!? What the hell have we been doing?” Artemis said as Sonanta, Diana, Smoke and Butterfly looked at each other excitedly “IT'S CHRISTMAS!!” they all shouted as Artemis’s ears shattered and his pupils shrank “Oh boy…Here we go..” he said as the 4 of them continued being all giddy and the rest of the group realized they were right.

“Merry christmas to the jollies bunch of a-holes this side of the nuthouse!” Mise said raising his glass as everyone laughed a bit and raised their glasses too “Here’s to the resident Irish guy with no tact to his name whatsoever.” Aria said snickering as Adagio started laughing too “I’ll drink to that!” she said taking a sip of her glass as everyone cheered “Here! Here!” they said as everyone started getting in the Christmas spirit. The group continued on in this fashion until day break, where Mise and Selene prepared breakfast and Aria and Warhawk took up positions to keep Artemis and Diana out of the kitchen before it was ready. After breakfast was done and presents were exchanged, everyone went on they’re way

“Well, another successful christmas, and no bloodshed this year! Bonus points!” Mise as Indigo, Vinyl, Octavia, and Aria started slapping him senselessly much to the amusement of Artemis, Selene, Diana, Fang, Smoke and Butterfly.

Author's Notes:

Hey everyone! Sorry this took so long, Me, Cosmic, and Tiberious' schedules aren't as free and easy going as they were last year, but nether the less, we want to wish you all a very merry Christmas and happy new year! and we'll see you in the next one! bye bye! *waves goodbye to camera*