Soul Eater X One Piece Christmas Crossover- Part 1

A.N.- This story takes place after the DWMA's previous adventures with the Straw Hats which I would recommend you read before this one. So this story contains Crona x Maka, Black star x Tsubaki, Kid x Liz and Stein x Marie (whom Crona and Ragnarok are living with) as well as the inclusion of XfangheartX's and my own OCs


A light snow was falling over the streets of Death City. The citizens were hurrying this way and that whether they were finishing off the last of their Christmas shopping in preparation or singing carols or even pelting snowballs at one another. We turn our attention to Gallows Manor, home of the city's leader, Lord Death and his family. The Grim Reaper was currently using his stretchy arms to set up decorations in the highest spots be it the undersides of the balconies or the top of the massive tree in the center of the room as music droned from a nearby gramophone.

"Hark! how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say,
'Throw cares away.'
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold."

"Ah I do love this one." Lord Death complimented the carol as he picked up a paper chain from the pile and began to hang it when the record came to a screeching halt and the reaper nearly lost his balance when a voice shouted

"STOP!!!" Lord Death turned to see Death the Kid, his Son, standing a few feet away pointing at the decoration. "Not that one! That red paper chain only has seven links and the one opposite to it has eight That chain needs another link before it can be strung or it'll throw the whole arrangement off balance!"

"Kid it's just one paper chain." Liz sighed who was currently lighting the candelabras near the fireplace. "Isn't this the time of year you give up the things your obsessed with?"

"I think that's Easter, Sis." Patty chirped who was wrapping tinsel on the banisters.

"Actually it's lent to be precise." Lord Death corrected. "But you do have a point, Liz. You need to relax a little, Kid. Especially around this time."

"You do remember we're having extra guests over this year?! The Straw Hats are our greatest allies and I'd like their Christmas here to be a memorable one!" Kid argued.

"Hey it's fine wanting to give them a good Christmas, but I highly doubt their gonna condemn the party over the Christmas tree being a little to the left." Liz said.

"IT'S WHAT?!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER?!!" Kid squawked as he struggled to drag the giant tree across the ground to center it causing Liz to sigh exasperated.

"I was kidding! Jeez, someone shoot me..."

"Oh ok." Patty said pointing her morphed finger at Liz.

"IT WAS JOKE, PATTY!!"

"Alright, alright let's just all take a breather. The others will be here soon so why don't we settle down for a spell and when they get here we can finish off the last of the decor together." Lord Death suggested.

"Yeah. Good idea." Liz agreed as she went to pull Kid away from the tree. "Come on, Kid. Let's watch a movie and finish off after the others arrive. Ok?" the reaper gritted his teeth but resisted his symmetrical urges.

"Alright. Only for you, Liz." the pistol smiled gratefully and pecked him on the cheek before the small family took a seat as patty went to choose a flick.

"How about something wintery? Frozen!" Patty suggested.

"NO! No, anything but that. I finally got that song out of my head after several months." Kid rejected.

"I have to agree. That song really has gotten old." Liz agreed.

"Aww. Well how about this one?" Patty asked as she browsed the collection.

"I just hope the others are having an easier time with their preparations." Lord Death thought as he turned his gaze the falling snow outside.

XXX

Meanwhile at Maka and Soul's apartment, the scythe meister and her weapon were in the process of wrapping their remaining presents to take around to Kid's for the celebration.

"This is gonna be so great!" Maka giggled with glee as she snipped off a length of sticky tape to hold the wrapping together. "This is gonna be our first Christmas with Luffy and the others!"

"Yep. Sure is gonna be one for the books." Soul concurred stacking his last gift on the pile. "I'll bet Sanji can whip up quite the dinner for his crew around this time of year."

"Oh and just imagine the carols Brook will play for us? You and him make such a great duet!" Maka said her eyes sparkling at the image of everyone making merry. "And on top of all that, this'll also be the first Christmas Logan and his team will be spending here. Who knows how witches and wizards spend their Christmas? The kind of traditions they'll have to share with us?"

"Hey try not to get too excited. I know it's your favourite holiday but you're gonna get Christmas fever at this rate."

"Well that's one sickness I'll welcome." Maka grinned.

"Actually from what I've heard it's quite nasty." Blair the cat said as she came slinking into the room. "There's an actual magical sickness called Christmas fever. Your hair shapes itself like a tree, Santa hat or antlers and changes to the appropriate colour. Your nose turns red and runny like Rudolph's and you start sneezing paper snowflakes and worst of all you get a bad stomachache that bloats your tummy with gas so you have a belly like Santa. It's quite embarrassing."

"Well then I take it back." Maka recoiled.

"Damn, I was just joking. Can you really get something like that?" Soul asked.

"Well apparently Kutaro and Vanellope got it once when they got overexcited during a Christmas back in their old home."

"Then I'll keep the caution in mind." Maka noted before picking up her share of the present load. "Well come on you two; we'll rendezvous with Alex and then head over to Kid's."

"Gotcha." Soul replied taking his own pile of presents as they began to leave when they heard a jingling behind them and looked to see Blair batting one of the baubles on the tree playfully.

"Blair!" Maka called but the cat took no notice as she bent her knees and leapt onto the tree, climbing it like a monkey. "BLAIR! NO! BAD KITTY!" she scolded as she put down her gifts and ran to the tree to pull Blair off who was hanging onto the twinkling Christmas lights. But as Maka pulled Blair away, the tree came with her causing Soul to drop his gifts in a panic and rush to the tree so he and Maka could push it back up before it fell.

"BLAAAAIIR!!" they growled as the cat giggle sheepishly.

"Sorry~. It's just so pretty."

"Well if you're gonna climb any Christmas tree, make it Kid's cause his freak-out would be worth it."

"Soul!" Maka barked when a knock was heard. Maka opened the door to reveal one of their team mates, Alex standing in the doorway holding a bag containing his own presents.

"Hey, if you old ladies are done bickering, can we get a move on?" he asked.

"Yeah you're right, sorry, come on guys." Maka called back to Soul and Blair as the four of them left the apartment.

XXX

"YAHOOOOO!!! Hop to it, Tsubaki! I'm five chimneys ahead!" up on the rooftops of the city, Black Star and Tsubaki were making their way to the manor as well, but they had to deliver their Christmas cards first and so to get it done quickly the couple decided to make a game out of it by racing each other to see who'd deliver all their cards first by dropping them in their designated chimneys.

"Actually I just told you that to throw you off. You're only two ahead of me." Tsubaki smirked as she dropped a card down one of the houses chimneys.

"WHAT?! You tricked me! I'm not gonna be out delivered! I could deliver all of Santa's gifts in half the time he could without a map or reindeer!" the assassin boasted.

"And just how would you cross the seas without a sleigh?"

"I'd walk on the water of course! All ninja can do that."

"With that big noggin you'd sink like a rock."

"You take that back!"

"Beat me and I will." Tsubaki winked sticking out her tongue.

"Oh just watch me, Tsubaki!" Black Star said as he began to run faster until his foot slipped on a patch of black ice on the roof causing him to fly forward and land headfirst in one of the chimneys. Tsubaki tried hard not laugh as she approached him.

"You know Santa doesn't start work until sundown." she snickered.

"Oh ha-bloody-ha. Get me out of here!"

"What? The great Black Star needs help?"

"You're the only one permitted to." Tsubaki smirked before she grabbed Black Star by the ankles and pulled him out of the chimney, her boyfriend now painted up to his waist in soot.

"Now how about you dust yourself off? We have somewhere to be."

"Yeah, yeah I gotcha." Black star replied as he began to brush the soot out of his hair.

XXX

"For the last time, NO MEANS NO!!"

"YEAH! You can't make us!"

"Oh yes I can! You're wearing them and that's final!"

"But why?! It's degrading!"

"We'll be the laughing stock of the whole city!"

"Nonsense. You both look adorable!"

"Your idea of adorable is humiliating." Juliet was standing before her twin sons Mark and Will with her arms folded dominantly while the two boys were currently dressed in a pair of rather tacky elf costumes, pointed hats and all and of course they didn't like it one bit and their embarrassing assumptions were soon confirmed when Spike and Shino entered the room and the former burst out laughing as she pointed at her little brothers.

"HAAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh you two look so stupid! Did Mum catch you trying to steal the Christmas cookies again and this is her way of punishing you?"

"Sicily!" Juliet barked.

"No, but she might as well be punishing us." Mark growled.

"Now will you let us take these things off? Spike's laughter is enough proof." Will asked.

"No! And Sicily stop laughing at your brothers, you're embarrassing them!"

"You embarrassed us plenty the moment you dressed us up in these things!" Mark continued to tantrum until a clicking noise was heard and the boys looked to see Spike holding up her phone.

"DELETE THAT!" they shouted as they tried to jump up and grab the phone while Spike held it out of reach.

"Do my chores for a week and I might." she jeered.

"You're a jerk!" Will snapped before he suddenly bit her one of her tails causing her to drop the phone in pain and Mark caught it before quickly deleting the embarrassing photo.

"WHY YOU LITTLE!!" Spike roared as she chased the twins to try and get her phone back. "GIVE IT HERE!"

"Do our chores for a week and we might~!" Mark repeated his sister's aforementioned offer until the three of them were suddenly frozen by a white glow outlining their bodies as their eyes swiveled to see their Mother holding her staff and frowning.

"That's enough, all of you." she said before unfreezing them. "Marcus give me the phone." Mark grumbled before handing it over as she then placed it in her coat pocket."

"Hey!" Spike protested.

"And as for you, young lady, you're not touching this for the remainder of the day. I don't want anymore fighting out of any of you. This is Christmas. Now come along or we'll be late." the twins stuck their tongues out at Spike who bared her fangs back them before they followed Juliet out of the house, Shino walking alongside.

"And just what were you doing loitering around?!" Spike asked her boyfriend who held up his hands.

"Hey, I'm staying out of it when it comes to one of your family squabbles." Spike huffed some steam out her nose before carrying on as Shino thought "Well this is certainly a traditional start to the holiday."

XXX

Meanwhile, at the Patchwork Lab, home of Stein, Marie and for the passed two years now, Crona and Ragnarok. Marie was sitting on one of the sofas adding the finishing touches to a sweater she'd been knitting. A black one with a pair of white wings on the back and on the front was a lamp with a pink flame. The death scythe smiled lovingly at it as she folded the sweater and set it down next to a white and grey patchwork one with a big red stitched heart on the front and next to that one a dark pink sweater with black spikes along the sleeves and on the front was a large blue bauble with a jagged smile and eyes like a jack o lantern. Marie herself was wearing a pine green sweater with her insignia with a Christmas wreathe on the front, her eye-patch logo in its center. She looked up when she heard footsteps and quickly hid the jumpers behind her as Crona entered the room and smiled at his adoptive Mother who returned his greeting.

"Are you all done with the wrapping, Crona?" she asked.

"Mmhm. I'll be ready to go when Ragnarok and Dad are finished." Crona said as he sat next to Marie before his eyes turned to her stomach which was now considerably larger. And no, it wasn't the aftermath of Thanksgiving. The small family would soon be receiving a fifth member as Marie was now eight months pregnant, a revelation that had excited all of the DWMA gang, Crona most of all. The boy gently reached out and placed his hand on her tummy, closing his eyes as he listened to the baby's soul before his hand trembled when he felt a kick and faint blush crossed his cheeks.

"She's saying hello to her Big Brother." Marie chuckled.

"Her soul's so tiny. She's so small." Crona murmured enchanted as he rubbed Marie's baby bump soothingly. "I'm so excited to meet her."

"As we all are. And I know she's just as excited to meet us."

"Well I'm certainly not." A gruff voice spoke gaining Marie and Crona's attention as Ragnarok came stomping in on his new legs. "All that squishy pink thing's gonna bring are sleepless nights and stressful days."

"Oh you deny it all you want, Raggy. But you'll love her just as much as we will when you meet her." Marie smiled as the demon sword snorted in response.

"Always the optimist, Marie." Stein said as he joined the group. "Though she'll be in for quite the childhood being a part of our family, that's for sure." Marie laughed at her husband's comment.

"Well, now that handsome boys are here, I can give you your early presents." Marie said as she pulled out the three jumpers from behind her back and handed them out. Crona beamed at his before pulling it over his head. Stein smiled at his won but when he turned it over he strained his smile a little upon seeing the big heart but put in on regardless. Ragnarok of course glared at his.

"Why the hell is mine pink?!"

"Well I couldn't knit you a black one. It would look invisible on you." Marie explained.

"All the more reason to! I'll look ridiculous!"

"Don't be silly. You'll look great I promise. It's lovely and warm." Marie insisted.

"I'm made of blood. I'm always warm." Ragnarok rebutted.

"Ragnarok, just put it on. if you ask me black makes any colour look tough. I mean look at my hair." Crona reasoned.

"Tell ya what. You wear this one and gimme yours, pinky!" Ragnarok demanded as he tried to pull the sweater off Crona.

"Ragnarok cut it out!"

"Come on now's not the time for fighting." Marie said as she attempted to get up but Stein raised his hand as if to say 'I got this'.

"Would you like to go back in the jar, Ragnarok?" he asked the sword, a visible glint of controlled madness in his eye. Ragnarok gulped as he met the scientists gaze before he let go of Crona and put his sweater on.

"Thank you, Frank." Marie said as she stood up. "And now, let's head on over to Kid's. They'll be expecting us."

XXX

"'And things are going well here in Death City. We're going to be celebrating our first Christmas here and we're all very excited to share our love of the holiday with the friends we've made here. we've found so many since we came, but not once have we ever forgotten the warmth of our old home nor the love of your presence. And we know you feel the same, but I know once I've become a true Grand Master Wizard I will end this feud between the humans and mages and we can finally be together again without fear. I even hope that you'll be able to come here someday like Miss Juliet as the city is surely adjusting to welcoming mages so I do believe the truce we wish for is closer than others think. Until then we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Your loving children
Logan, Katherine, Jason, Arya, Kutaro, Vanellope and best wishes from Rolo

XOXO'" Logan read as he wrote the remainder of the letter to his parents Harold and Jenny as well as his team mate's parents Alan and Francine. The DWMA's mage team, The Six feathers, would be spending their first Christmas in the city since their parents sent them their in order to be safe from the Magic Council who intended to hunt them for their inherited meister and weapon blood. Even though the team were excited for the holiday they naturally felt homesick, missing their parents dearly. but they knew their folks wouldn't want them feeling gloomy about them at this time so they found silver lining in knowing they'd be seeing the Straw Hats again during the most wonderful time of the year. Logan rolled up the letter and sealed it before carrying it over to a small table in his magic study before waving a nearby wand over it causing the table surface to swirl into a small wormhole which he dropped the scroll into before the wormhole closed back up. The Owl Wizard heaved a mixed sigh of completion, loneliness underlying it as he stared at the tables runed wooden and stone surface and then to his treasured Owlfeather helmet heirloom sitting upon a bust. But his peaceful moment was soon broken by the sound of an explosion which shook the study. The young man raced upstairs to find the living room being filled with coloured smoke coming from one of the other rooms and the sound of coughing reached his ears.

"Hey! What's goign on?!" he called into the smoke before three small figured stumbled out of the cloud and fell forward into a heap as Logan looked to see the two youngest and one oldest members of his family team. The Element Twins Kutaro and Vanellope and the night Imp, Rolo covered in multicoloured stains from head to foot and confetti in their hair and or clothes.

"And what mess have you three gotten into now?" Logan asked as the twins picked themselves up.

"We were trying to make our favourite magic crackers. The ones that make animals out of smoke when you pull them apart." Kutaro explained as he clapped his hands together causing the smoke stains and confetti to vanish from his body.

"But we must have added too much brownie gunpowder. We forget how explosive ground dark brownies can be." Vanellope added copying the cleaning charm her brother had just used. (A.N. Brownie as in the little fairy creature. Not the yummy chocolate cake.)

"Also memo to me: don't fuel Christmas crackers with Leo Regulus." Rolo noted as he pulled off his head and emptied a pile of confetti out of his astral body.

"I told you guys, I'd help you with the crackers after I finished cooking my part of the feast." Jason said exiting the kitchen. "But you just had to go and do it all by yourselves."

"Honestly. You two are a couple of gremlins every year around this time. And adding Rolo to the equation only makes it worse." said Arya who was carrying a large bag containing their gifts.

"Then maybe we should just leave them here so the sun doesn't fry 'em." Jason grinned.

"Now, now. I know we're all excited for the holiday but we don't wanna get ahead of ourselves." Katherine spoke up having joined the conversation also. "We don't wanna get Christmas fever again now do we?" the twins immediately paled upon its mention.

"I swear I think my nose still goes a little red every holiday." Kutaro muttered as he inspected said nose int he mirror to be sure.

"Or maybe you're just allergic to snow." Vanellope giggled earning a frown from her brother.

"Now then, I'm almost done with the preparations. Logan, Kat and Ary can help you guys out with the crackers and then we can get moving to the party." Jason said as the twins nodded eagerly.

"J's right. We've got a big celebration for this year so let's show Death City how we celebrate Christmas." Logan smiled.

"YEAH!" the group cheered.

XXX

Back at Gallows Manor, Kid and the others had finished the movie and the young reaper now felt more relaxed than before. a knock sounded at the door and Liz answered it to see Maka, Soul, Blair and Alex in the doorway.

"Hey! Merry Christmas you guys!" she greeted her friends as she welcomed them in.

"Happy to be here, Liz." Maka smiled as she set their gifts under the tree.

"You've certainly done a bang up job here." Soul commented on the decor. Alex inspected the large tree until he glanced at Kid and reached out to take one of the ornaments before moving ti up one branch. Almost instantly, even though his back was turned, Kid's body suddenly shivered.

"Who touched the tree?!" he demanded wheeling around. Alex immediately burst out laughing.

"I knew it! His OCD is psychic! I moved one ornament up one branch. Good luck finding it though stripey." he grinned.

"Alex come on." Maka said.

"Alright, fine. But really he's supposed to be learning to deal with this. I'm just giving him a push." Alex muttered as he moved the decoration back much to Kid's relief before another knock was heard and Shino, Spike and her family arrived.

"Welcome, welcome." Lord Death 'smiled'. Patty giggled upon seeing Mark and Will.

"Nice costumes, boys." she sniffled a laugh while the twins scoffed.

"Hey hold the door, Lord Death!~" a voice called as the reaper looked to see Spirit, Mifune and Angela coming up the path.

"Merry Christmas everyone~!" the little witch said who was wearing a costume of her own; a brown reindeer one, though she still had her chameleon hat on but with antlers sticking out the top of it.

"Hey! Looks like one of Santa's reindeer's gone rogue." Alex laughed as Angela went to hug him. "Merry Christmas, Angie."

"Thanks, Alex." Angela smiled before she saw mark and will. "hey you guys are wearing costumes too!"

"Let me guess. Mifune got the idea from our Mum didn't he?" Will assumed.

"He didn't say, but I bet you're right." Angela agreed. "You look really cute, Markey." she added to her crush.

"Maybe to someones Grandma." Mark huffed back.

"Happy holidays, Papa." Maka smiled as she and Spirit hugged. "Hope you've been good this year."

"Hey anything for you sweetheart." Spirit grinned. Another knock sounded at the door and Kid opened it to reveal Stein, Marie, Crona and Ragnarok.

"Welcome you lot. Glad to have you." he said.

"The pleasure's ours, Kid." Stein smiled as the group entered. Maka beamed when she saw Crona and ran to give him a hug and a kiss.

"Hey handsome. I love your sweater."

"Thanks. Mum made for me." Crona smiled back.

"Well she's quite the knitter then." Maka said as she went to hug Marie gently. "How's the baby, Marie?"

"She's doing just fine. it won't be much longer." the death scythe replied as she patted her bump.

"I can't wait to meet her. I've always wanted a little sister." Spike said excitedly. Then all of a sudden a scratching sound was heard from the chimney. Everyone looked to see soot cascading into the fireplace until a card fluttered down into it and three seconds later CRASH! A figure landed in the fireplace sending up a plum of soot.

"SANTA'S HERE!!!" Mark, Will, Angela and Patty said in surprised unison.

"Don't be ridiculous! it's only mid afternoon." Shino said "And since when does Santa have blue hair?" the group looked to see Black Star stumbling out of the fireplace coughing and covered in soot, trailing black footprints as he went.

"Merry-merry, people! The real Sandy Claws is here. Yahoo-oo-oo~HIC!" he hiccuped but before anyone could say a word to him a loud rapid knocking sounded and Tsubaki was let in.

"Is he alright?! Please tell me he didn't break his neck!" she panicked.

"Black Star stop walking around you're getting soot everywhere!" Kid shouted as he grabbed the assassin only to reel his head back in disgust. "Are you drunk?!"

"Jing...jing-jing-HIC...jangle...ugh dammit what are the words again~?" Black Star slurred with a goofy smile and reddened face.

"I'm sorry. We were on our way here when we passed by through the Christmas market. There was a mulled wine stand and Black Star tried a free sample. he got carried away and believed his goal was to surpass Santa and become the God of Christmas so he climbed the mansion and went down the chimney before I could stop him."

"Well someone has quite the Christmas hangover to look forward to." the group turned to see the Six feathers enter the mansion. Upon seeing Mark and Will, Kutaro, Vanellope and Jason naturally began laughing.

"What the heck are you two wearing?!" Kutaro said clutching his stomach.

"Did Santa offer you a part time job?!" Vanellope asked through her own laughter. Jason then pulled out his phone and pretended to take a call.

"Hello? It's for you guys. Your cousin Buddy, wants to know your favourite colour!" he grinned causing some of the others to laugh as well.

"THAT'S IT!! I'VE HAD IT!!" Mark yelled as he took off the costume.

"ME TOO!!" Will agreed as he soon followed his brother. The twins scrunched up the costumes into balls of fabric and booted them across the room like a couple of footballs. "Take that!"

"BOYS!" Juliet scolded.

"No! We don't care if you found it adorable! They found it ridiculous and we found it humiliating." Will argued. "And if you find them so great then why don't you wear them?!"

"Now, now let's not fight." Marie said coming between the group. "We've got a lot of preparations left so why don't we all finish the decorating together before Luffy and the others arrive?"

"Good idea. They should be here anytime now." Katherine said as everyone got to work.

XXX

But meanwhile, on the planet next door, in the middle of the New World, the crew of the Thousand Sunny were finishing off preparations of their own. The Straw Hats were in the process of hiding the ship in a nearby cove so no pesky marines/bounty hunters/other pirates would try and steal or destroy it.

"I got to admit, another world was the last place i thought I'd be spending Christmas." Zoro said.

"Well thanks to our friends from Death City we now can." Robin added who was using her power to wrap multiple gifts. Sanji had just finished packing up the food he'd prepared for the feast tomorrow and Franky had built a small cart to pile the load in seeing how they wouldn't be able to carry it all in their arms.

"And you're positive we're not gonna go falling through the air again like last time, Luffy?" Nami asked him, the captain having pulled out the warp gem the DWMA gang had given them as a way back.

"Yeah, Skullhead made a few adjustments to it after that time me and Aika dropped in by accident. We'll just go through and end up in the city on our feet."

"Ok. But if we end up skydiving again you're paying for all we lose out of it. Our gifts, food and our bones which will likely be broken."

"You sound like Robin." Luffy muttered under his breath.

"Big Brother's right though, Nami." Aika piped up. "We'll be alright and then we'll celebrate Christmas with Maka, Soul and all the others." Nami smiled at the little girl's positive attitude.

"Thanks for the optimism."

"Well that's the last of the gifts." Usopp called having placed the last one in Franky's cart along with the food Sanji had prepared.

"In that case let's get going!" Luffy cheered as he set the gem down in front of the crew and tapped it causing it to shake and glow brightly before swirling into a large portal, a small vacuum causing everyone's hair to blow towards it.

"Last one in has to pull the cart!" Aika laughed before she dashed into the portal with Kumi close behind her.

"You heard the little lady!" Luffy grinned as he followed after her before hurried after him.

XXX

Back in the manor, the DWMA gang turned when a space of air near the staircase began to ripple and spark. Knowing what it meant, the group cleared the way before Aika came stumbling out of the anomaly with Kumi bumping into her from behind. The child shook her head before she looked to see the gang smiling at her.

"Well look who's arrived." Lord Death said. Aika beamed when she saw her friends before she ran over to hug Maka who was just as happy to see her.

"Welcome back, Aika!" she grinned.

"I missed you, Maka!" Aika laughed before going to hug the others just as the rest of the crew burst out of the rift which then collapsed in on itself leaving the warp gem behind.

"WE'RE BACK BABY!" Luffy cheered as the gang went to welcome their pirate friends.

"Just as loud mouthed as ever, Luffy." Soul grinned as the two high-fived. Nami gasped in awe when she spotted Marie and to her.

"Marie?! Are...are you...?" the death scythe chuckled as stein put his arm around her.

"We're having a baby!" the two said proudly. Nami squealed in delight when her guess was confirmed.

"OH MY GOSH, CONGRATULATIONS!" she beamed. "Luffy told me you had a glow about you when he last saw you but I didn't think he meant this. You must be nine months in."

"Yes, our little one will be born anytime now." Stein smiled as he rubbed his wife's belly. "I'll teach them everything I know."

"I'd leave out the dissecting lessons though." Nami advised awkwardly earning a laugh from Marie. Blizzard was in the middle of being petted by Liz and Tsubaki while Patty was cuddling Chopper, when a high pitched yipping sounded from one of the halls and Kumi came bounding towards him, her nose looked a little scuffed and close behind her was Blair, the cat stopping mid run to hiss at the pup and shake her paw.

"That's right you better run, Scrappy-Doo! Bite my tail again and I'll blow you up with my pumpkins!" she shouted as Kumi hid behind Blizzard.

"Well I see you made quite the acquaintance with Blair." Blizzard smirked.

"I didn't know it was a cat! I just saw her tail swishing around the corner and thought it was a toy. She clawed my nose." Kumi whimpered.

"Aw don't be a baby, it looks fine. Blair's not like any ordinary cat but give her some space and she'll forgive you." Chopper said scratching Kumi's ears. The Element twins, Mark, Will and Angela had just finished greeting the Straw Hats when they noticed Aika talking to Shino a little shyly.

"Hey, Aika!" Kutaro waved to her gaining her attention. When she saw her group of friends she happily ran to them before they enveloped her in a group hug.

"We missed you, Aika." said Vanellope as they pulled away.

"How are things in the New World?" Angela asked.

"Same as always. Big and blue and full of adventure." Aika grinned.

"You're growing into quite the little pirate." Rolo spoke up as eh flew over to their group.

"Yep. Just recently we had a kart race with an old rival of Luffy's. We won a big ruby which turned out to be made of strawberry candy. big Sis threw a tantrum." the group of mages giggled at the image of Nami kicking and screaming on the ground in front of a two thirds eaten candy gem. It was at that moment that they saw Sanji passing by calling for Blair, the recently bitten magic cat had went upstairs to have her nap in peace away from the dogs, which gave Mark an idea when he spotted a sprig of mistletoe under one of the balconies. He huddled his brother and friends into a group and whispered to them before they started snickering.

"I like the way you think, Black Spade." Rolo 'grinned'.

"Let's do it." Will agreed with whatever plan Mark had told them.

"But, won't we get in trouble?" Aika asked a little doubtful.

"Hey it's not gonna hurt anyone. You'll love it trust us." Kutaro smiled before the group broke.

XXX

"Blair~. Where are you my little ball of yarn~?" Sanji called as eh searched for her when a soft purring reached his ears and turned to see Blair standing under the mistletoe dressed in a rather...revealing Santa themed attire (minus the beard of course). The man fought back as nose bleed as she winked at him while beckoning him over which he obeyed.

"Long time no see, Blondie." she said seductively as she brushed his chin with a finger. "It's been a while."

"Oh yes." Sanji grinned with heavy layers of pervertedness underneath.

"How about an early Christmas surprise?" Blair asked as she closed her eyes and pursed her lips. Sanji was so excitedly shocked that his left eye popped out from behind his bangs as he looked to see if the others were looking which they weren't before he began to lean towards her not noticing the kids sneaking up behind him giggling. But just before his lips were about to touch hers, Blair opened her eyes which much to Sanji's confusion were now glowing bright yellow before with a comical POOF! her face morphed into Rolo's whose head, in a single second, grew to triple its size while his yellow eyes started swirling in big green and yellow spirals and his mouth split into a wide jagged open smile, a long striped multicoloured tongue waving out of it as he shook his hands madly.

"BLALALALALALALA~!!!" he garbled causing Sanji to scream in fear and leap away before the back of legs caught on Mark and Will who were crouching behind him resulting in him falling over backwards before the group of pranksters began rolling with laughter.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!!" they cheered as Sanji picked himself up fuming.

"You little brats!" he roared as they sped off.

"HAHAHA! They got you good, dartboard!" Zoro laughed causing Sanji to turn his rage on him allowing the kids to get away.

"That was great! Nicely played, Rolo!" Angela giggled.

"I have to admit,t hat was pretty funny." Aika laughed.

"Oh you ain't seen nothing yet." Vanellope grinned.

XXX

Shino and Spike had now ended up under the mistletoe. The pair smiled warmly at each other before they leaned in to kiss and as they did so they heard a click and looked to see Will holding a camera and just above them Aika and Angela were holding a sign that said 'Just Married'. The two of them blushed heavily before Spike attempted to run for her brother who was pulling faces at her only for her to trip and pull Shino with her as they noticed their shoelaces had been tied by Mark and Kutaro who were both giggling.

"WHY YOU LITTLE GREMLINS!" Spike snarled at them as they ran off. "GIMME THAT CAMERA!"

"That's payback for making fun of us, Sis!" mark called back as they got away.

"When I get my hands on them..." Spike cursed as she began to untie her laces.

"Oh let it go, Spike. They're just kids having a little harmless fun. You got to admit they were pretty stealthy sneaking up on us like that. We let our guard down." Shino grinned laughing off the prank. "You get all worked up over this you'll just look more childish than they are."

"Yeah you've got a point there. You really know who to rear me in."

"Hey it's what I do." Shino.

"Chalk up another for us!" Mark cheered as the group high-fived on another. "Shame she didn't chase after us so we could tell her there was no film in the camera but oh well."

"So who do we prank next?" Aika asked who was starting to enjoy herself.

"We've saved the best for last, but we'll need to wait until everyone gathers to celebrate Chopper's birthday." Will grinned as they talked the plan over.

XXX

A few hours passed before everyone was preparing to toast Chopper's birthday, due to the fact that the little reindeer's special day was right before Christmas. Sanji and Jason had finished preparing the cake and would be bringing it through shortly. Currently Robin had challenged Lord Death to a game of chess, being that she'd heard of the legend of his talent at the game she'd been very eager to play against him.

"As you're playing white you have the first move, Miss Robin. I don't mean to boast but I haven't lost a game since the dawn of time." Lord Death said proudly.

"when was that?" Robin asked curiously.

"I think it was a Tuesday. very few people know that." Lord death answered putting his giant hand next to his 'mouth' secretly. "You know, I've happened to notice little Aika has made quite a few friends with our youngest members."

"Oh my yes. Being a pirate and a straw hat at that, Aika doesn't have many opportunities to be around other children her age so it's nice to know she has friends here she can relate to." Robin smiled as she watched the children run around before Luffy spoke up.

"Gather round everybody! Tonight's not just Christmas Eve!" the pirates, weapons and meisters gathered together to listen to the Captain. "Tonight's also the birthday of our one and only reindeer doctor; Chopper!" Upon saying his name a giant cake suddenly materialised behind him, having been previously cloaked by one of Jason's invisibility barriers. The Cake was coated in pink and blue icing with little red marshmallows shaped like cherry blossoms and sticks of cotton candy replacing the candles. Chopper gasped in awe at the treat before Nami picked him up and gave him a kiss on the cheek, followed by Robin and then the DWMA girls each giving him their congratulatory affection causing him to glow as pink as his hat before he broke into another fit of bashful dancing.

"Oh you guys didn't have to do this all for me~! You jerks wasted your time trying to make me happy~!"

"That's our Chopper." Nami smiled.

"Just as modest as always." Maka grinned.

"Well it's your birthday little buddy. So you get the biggest piece." Sanji said as he stabbed the cake knife right next to Luffy's hand without looking which had been inching towards the cake and quickly retreated back to its owner who fearfully checked if he still had all his fingers. But at that moment an assortment of red and green bubbles began to float down from the ceiling towards the group. One hovered in front of each of their faces as they looked confused.

"Did some of you guys plan this?" Franky asked before the bubbles popped in a shower of sparkles. At first nothing seemed to happen, but then all of a sudden everyone but Chopper grew a pair of antlers and their noses turned round and red. Several screams of surprise soon followed.

"What the hell is this?!" Area shouted.

"GAH I look like Buggy!!" Luffy squawked as he stared at his reflection in one of the mirrors.

"My beautiful Mother's nose!!" Usopp wailed.

"Who the hell did this?!" Spirit shouted before the sound giggling from above reached their ears. Everyone looked up to see the kids and Rolo sniggering from the balcony and clutched in their hands was a large book.

"Kids?!" Alex questioned.

"Hey that's one of my journals!" Logan spoke up. "You partially cast one of my animagus spells!"

"Shishishishi! Now Chopper has his own herd to lead." Aika laughed as the kids made their way downstairs.

"Aika you rascal!" Nami scolded. "You're in big trouble Missy!"

"Hey we're just having a little fun." Mark argued.

"Just a harmless prank, for laughs." Rolo said.

"The spell wares off after about an hour." Said Kutaro.

"That's not the point! You kids have been pulling pranks all afternoon!" Liz said. It was at that moment that Luffy began to laugh, drawing everyone's attention.

"Good one you lot. You sure know how to prank!" He grinned.

"Luffy!" Nami said.

"Kids'll be kids, Nami. Let them have a little fun. No harm done."

"Actually I'm with Nami on this one." Crona spoke up. "I can deal with a few pranks, but you can't be naughty on Christmas." a handful of the group chuckled.

"Crona I think the threat of coal in their stockings won't be much to convince them." Jason said.

"Coal? No I wasn't talking about that. You can't be naughty on Christmas Eve. You'll be taken!" Crona clarified.

"Taken?" Aika asked. Ragnarok began cackling as he'd figured out what Crona was thinking as he emerged from his meister's back.

"Yes. Taken away by the shadow of old man Nick. Krampus." He grinned.

"Krampus?" Mark looked confused.

"Who's that?" Will asked.

"Back when we used to live with Medusa, even though I didn't know what Christmas was back then, she told me about a monster who hunted children who didn't behave during the winter. Of course now I know it was just another in a long line of threats to control me, but when I read about in one of the books in the library I think she wasn't making it up."

"Crona you know she was a liar through and through." Maka said rubbing his back.

"I know. But you know the kind of world we live in. There are all kinds of monsters and legends here that are real."

"Ok can someone just tell me who the hell this 'Crumpet' is?" Black Star asked having come out of his drunekn stupor.

"Krampus. The legend goes that he's a demon who looks like a faun. With cloven hooves for feet and giant horns." Ragnarok said as he detached from Crona and modded his feet into the aforementioned shape while also growing a big pair of horns. "If little kids were bad around Christmas, Krampus would come for them in the night. When he found them he would swat them a thorny tree branch to punish them and if they been especially bad, he'd tie them up in chains, stuff them in a bag or cage he carries on his back and then drag them off to the underworld to devour their souls." By this point the kids wer beginning to get scared as Ragnarok began to approach them as they backed away towards a wall until their backs hit it.

"And the worst part is you can run but you can't hide from him. Because no matter where you go, eh can smell you with his langue tongue like a snake." He added lashing out his tongue with a hiss. "So you better watch out and better not cry or else Krampus will eat you all! BEEEEEYAAAAAAAA!!!" He roared at the kids causing them to scream before.

"MAKA CHOP!!!" WHAM! A large book smashed into Raganrok's head knocking him flat. "That's enough Ragnarok! Don't listen to him kids, it's only a story. And besides no monster's gonna get passed us let alone take you away over a few innocent pranks." The kids sniffled a little as the fear began to die down.

"We're sorry." Aika apologised.

"We didn't mean any harm." Kutaro said.

"It's alright, we forgive you dears." Marie smiled. "Now let's all enjoy the rest of the evening. We've got a lot of celebrating tomorrow so you kids will need to get off to bed soon anyway. Don't want Santa to skip the house if you're still awake." The children smiled as they went to join the others. But little did they know that outside in the snowy night, perched on a nearby rooftop, a lone figure with a pair of ram like horns, hooves feet and clutched in one hand was a tree branch and a large sack in the other slung over his shoulder. His misty breath wafted from his mouth as he breathed in the winter air before his Amber eyes drifted towards the manor and a hungry grin slowly spread across his face.

"Naughty..."

To be continued...