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Catching the attention of the teacher had not been in Mathias's plans, yet it had happened anyways. The young wolpertingers cheeks flushed red when he reached out to take the offered bell, wondering what he had done to deserve such attention, and then wondering what he had done to deserve such punishment.

A bell red bell to hang on one of his antlers, one that let out a sweet, ringing chime, a sound that made Mathias feel warm and fuzzy inside.

He hastily set the object down, gazing at it with abject horror. It was some kind of device meant to give off good cheer and Joy! He could feel it!

Chewing on his bottom lip, he kept his gaze averted from the bell as the teacher began to speak, and as the others in the class began opening their packages, so to did he, revealing inside a very small, green, pine tree, one that was bare of decorations. He tilted his head to the side to gaze at it curiously, then leaned forward to take an experimental sniff of it's needles, surprised by it's pleasant aroma, one that nearly reminded him of home.

He realized then that the teacher was still talking. Something about some kind of...spirit creature. He was instructing them to look within themselves, to find this joyful spirit, to let it guide them.

This was ridiculous.

Still, when it came time to do a little soul searching, Mathias huffed out a sigh and joined in with all of the rest, closing his eyes and searching.

All of that snow must have been really getting to him, because the best his mind could come up with was a horrendous looking snowman. He was ready to dismiss this entire thing with a shake of his head, his eyes opening, when suddenly the image he held in his mind began to speak to him, fervently, explaining that while he was only a dream now, if Mathias really, truly believed, then he would no longer just be a dream. All he had to do was believe, and clap.

Mathias frowned slightly, closed his eyes again, and sighed for a second time. He tried his very hardest to believe, and before opening his eyes again, he clapped.

....This was just silly. He felt like a total idiot now.


Getting himself some decorations, he began putting them on the tree, only partially inspired by his ugly snowman muse.

She had calmed down a bit, but if anyone had looked at her carefully, he or she would see that Clara's hands were trembling ever so slightly. She ran towards the decorations and grabbed several kits she thought would go with what she had in mind before returning to her tree.

Clara didn't know what typical Christmas trees looked like, and given the appearance of Spencer and the variety of decorations he had brought, she couldn't base her tree off of either of those. Instead, Clara decorated her tree with a Halloween theme. She painted two black triangles and not-quite crescent shape for the eyes and mouth of a jack o lantern on several orange orb-shaped ornaments. While the paint was drying on those, she hung black tinsel around the tree and a string of purple and yellow lights. When the ornaments had dried, twenty minutes were almost up, so she quickly scattered them about on the tree. Last of all, she took some artificial white substance that seemed to imitate snow, and scattered it around the edges tree's branches. There, she was done. If anyone asked, she could say it was a representation of the two holidays working together... or something like that.

There were trees inside the little boxes, Olivia was rather impressed by such a feat. As much to keep looking into the box, turning it over a few times to see if there was more inside. Didn't seem like there was much, but the instructor who turned out to be an instructor after all seemed to have much more in his rather large red sack. The ghoul watched with interest as he pulled out more and spoke about decorating the little trees that appeared from the box she got in the first place.

She had to dig in deep, she was told, and so Olivia closed her eyes to see if there was a deep. Dreams and visions, or those of the sort, didn't come often these days but maybe with the JOY and this christmas spirit stuff something would come. Olivia scrunched her nose, and had a deep contemplating look like she was trying just too hard. Because she was.

But something came to her, something slowly, peering before her. Fuzzy with a strange bill upon its face and webbed feet. It stared at her, and her at it, with its hollow soulless eyes that spoke of nothing that would help with this assignment. But, Olivia in turn didn't even ask of it what she was supposed to do. All she did was stare back, with a smile on her face.

Yes. It was going very well.

Mellow thought they were going to decorate the big tree in the middle, but obviously he realized he was wrong as he opened the present. Inside it was a small green tree that like the shrank version of the tall big tree. Decorating it? He had no jacking idea. Followed the reindeer professor's instruction, he quiet down and closed his eyes. He searched through his mind, when he heard something coming. It was - was - was an odd thing. Mellow was sure that he didn't see that creature before, dense fur with a duck-like muzzle. It stared creepily at him that made the boil shivered. It just stared. Then he seemed to hear someone asking "why do you exist?" That was a difficult question to answer as Mellow himself didn't have the answer. ....



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""Yeah! Open time!" Head happily yelled. Holding one side of the ribbon in its mouth, it jerked it off. "AJ! Look! There's a cute little tree inside!" The excitement continued. Decorating a bare green tree would be fun. AJ smiled and dug through the drawers in his mind and surprisingly saw a creature walking funnily towards him. It was a cute little fluffy thing, he stepped forward, thinking of picking it up while it broke like puzzles with melody coming out. It was a song. He knew what he gonna to do.

Mellow stared at his little green tree, it was perfect with that green, however the reindeer asked them to "decorate".....The pony sighed and moved towards the boxes with ornaments. He simply picked a star and put it on the top of the tree. Then, he grabbed a jars of melted marshmallow and poured it over the tree, making its surface sticky. The fake reindeer looked at the tree that looked like himself. Nope. With a ":/" face, he sprayed the glitters from the top of it, the whole bottle until everything was so sparkly.

Done.

The tree maybe a bit too sweet in smell and too sparkly, but Mellow didn't care. It was just like him, like a mess.

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Whistling the song, AJ skipped to pick what he needed. Green was nice, but not better than red. He chose to follow his heart, placing the branches from nowhere around the tree. Further observation gave you a hint, it seemed like a camp fire?! Soon, you understood that you didn't get it wrong as he collected more woods around the little evergreen tree. He then stopped and -

- ignited the woods!

The tree slowly turned into coal, turning into a color of black. Well before it deteriorated, the boil extinguished it, leaving a wet coal fragile tree. He then gently wrapped the tree with red ribbons he had collected, thin and thick, rounds after round until the ribbons seemed to support the skeleton of the tree remain. Lastly, he sprinkled some gold sands as if he was a professional cook doing his final taste adjustment.

He smiled at his masterpiece.

Perfect.