Holly Daye and Reddy, Santa's Little Helper type male Egyptan

Dragons: Red-Black Female CoriCori, Black-Red Male Xaedith Uena'Aisi

Winter Snowe and Puffybuffy, Snowball type female Egyptan

Dragons: Silver-Blue Male Uarkar'Armor, White-Green Female Ruiath

Evie Greene and Greenie, Needles type female Egyptan

Dragon: Red Male Sasum Pulgun

It was a year after their wonderful bonding to the dragons, that Holly, Winter and Evie went carolling again. They'd never gotten out of the habit of course, and now that they had dragons, they decided to take it on the road a little. Or into the air. There were several such groups now, some of them even had dragons that sang. CoriCori and Sasum were able to help the girls' singing, Sasum happily amplifying their voices (as they were still seated upon the dragons' backs, Evie on CoriCori since Sasum was quite small). It was Sasum who first got a weird look on his muzzled face.

He tilted his head, looked up into the sky.

I am needed, I think... I would like to go somewhere, if that is all right?

"We can go wherever you want to, Sasum!" Evie chuckled. "Where to?"

The other dragons looked toward their little partner, and the Egyptans started yipping excitedly.

With that, the flurry of snow that almost blinded them when they all took off, landed at the empty street: they were already gone through the multiverse.

***

"Oh I hope he gets in, this is so exciting!" Evie said, clapping her mittened hands together in a muffled way. All the dragons that had gathered at Malnev were sort of like him. Okay, some were massive, others small like him; but all of them had one thing in common: they were deer-dragons. Antlers galore, some had wings, some didn't, it was clear that one or two were also his species! A big flight, with special dragons made for each other!

However that wasn't all the attendees - there were visitors watching, from scattered dragonries and worlds. One of those seemed to take an interest in this little group. It wasn't subtle, either.

She was white as snow, but her wingsails dark as an evergreen tree. A truly lovely dragon, from a distance. Her eyes swirled blue and happy sparkling silver. She tripped over a small rock in her path, tumbled face-first into the snow. But undaunted, she continued, ever looking right at Uarkar'Armor, the object of her affection apparently.

She tripped again, staggered sideways and bumped into a tree, loosing all of its powdered snow onto her and Uarkar. However, the blue-silver drak mutt didn't much mind. He tossed his head, getting his mane out of his eyes.

Clearly young, this white-green didn't stand much taller than Sasum, but she would definitely grow. Uarkar pushed his nose toward hers, a draconic greeting that she gleefully echoed - butting his head and making both of them wince backwards.

"Ooooh what a clutz," Winter muttered. She then suddenly realized that this dragoness was heading toward her. Winter's eyes went wide.

I like him! Can I keep him? Oh wait, can you keep me? I won't get in the way I promise, seriously. She tucked her wings down toward her sides, pulled down her neck and wrapped her tail around her feet to look 'small'. See? You won't even notice me!

"Oh I think we'll notice you, that's okay! What's your name? We'll take care of you, little one." Winter laughed. As the dragoness unfolded her wings, her tail got caught around one of her spars, and she literally rolled onto her side trying to untangle herself. The dragon's name was Ruiath, and she nestled next to Uarkar with a purr. He seemed to like this whole arrangement too, which was nice.

They all looked at Sasum, now, whose eyes widened, and he scampered off to sign in to the flight here at Malnev!

***

It was past most of the Holidays, and the trio and their assorted friends came back to Carramba after exhaustive flights and frenzies and all. There was still a tree or two up in windows in houses, but almost all the decorations had been taken down from the malls. They'd have to get back to their regular college classes, now.

Well, almost.

They reached their own spacious apartment - they'd decided that rather than stick at home all this time, they took advantage of the Dragonry sponsored dorms near C4, sponsored by the likes of Alabaster, SilverKnight and the others who had a stake in the up and coming draconic lifestyle of the city. Crescent and Talon cities were slowly but surely leading the way in dragon-human integration.

It looked like the door to their hallway had been moved open a little, which was odd this time of year. It wasn't frigid but they liked to keep the doors shut just in case... But they all noticed that the half-dead plants that their neighbor (who was really pretty weird and they never expected to have any kind of dragon to his name) kept were fully blooming and looked quite pretty right now. How had he managed that? It smelled of evergreens, the holiday smells that they all loved.

The Egyptans sniffed something, and by this time the girls knew there would be something interesting nearby. They weren't aggressively barking, so it was friendly, whatever it was.

It turned out to be a rather unique looking creature... Another wingless dragon, and one which Sasum trotted up to to investigate. She was darkly green, like... like the shadows of a Christmas tree! And upon her crown-shaped head were glowing lights, almost as though they were from a decoration! A big bow adorned her tail. Their Christmas tree hadn't been taken down either, and they all had expected to see it brown and crispy. But instead, it was vividly alive, and it was due in absolutely no doubt, to this new dragon they would befriend.

"Matilda," she announced, bowing. Their dorm was accomodating for the smaller dragons, but she was a little too large for comfort there. "I took the liberty," she showed off the living plants and the holly draping everything, "I hope you do not mind."

"I love it!" Evie exclaimed, rushing up, "it's lovely! Ooh, you're cold to the touch - like ice!"

"Of course I am, I am an Ice Queen after all." She didn't say it with any kind of venom, just to have said what she really was. It was obvious that Evie was latched on to her, and though she didn't have wings, she would be more than big enough to actually ride, unlike Sasum.

Now they were complete: everyone had two dragon friends, and an Egyptan! They had all manner of abilities around them, not the least of which was Matilda's to put frost over things, and help their plants grow. So they formulated a plan...

The Holidays never had to end!

And they won't, even in 2013!

Bond: Uarkar (Winter)

Name • Ruiath
Age • Young
Gender • female
Species • Dragon (Darkling Dawn bred)
Height • 6'2" shoulder
Color• white green
Abilities • Telepathy, teleportation, very minor telekinesis, fire production (assisted)

Name: Sasum Pulgun, the red deer.

Sponsored by: Evie Greene

Size: 4'7" at rear hip

Powers - Basic psionics (very weak teleportation and telekinesis, and rudimentary telepathy) and 'holiday spirit' Giftie from Kilandaia

Name: Matilda
Gender: female
Species: Ice queen
Abilities: Freeze, cure, grow plants
Size: 12'
Colour: dark green
Personality: reserved, wise, outgoing

Sponsored by: Evie Greene (and Sasum)

Name: CoriCori
Sponsored by: Holly Daye
Gender: Female
Colour: Red-Black markings
Species: Starburst Mutt
Size: Medium-small
Abilities: Holiday cheer, improbable stealth in winter conditions, snowflake creation (breath), knows every carolling tune ever written

Name: Xaedith Uena'Aisi
Sponsored by: (NPC - adopted by Shard) - Holly Daye
Gender: Male
Colour: Black-Red
Species: Supermutt (Old World / Whorling / Blood Court Vella Crean / Gryvern / Lesser Kynnese / Schattarneki / Geperna / Whorling / Featherdragon / Danachian / SCD / Iullerbrillan)
Size: Medium
Abilities: Telepathy. Verbal Speech. Teleportation. Assisted Firebreath. Conjure Fire. Influence Fire. Blood Magic.

Both from Starburst