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It was Christmas Eve, and rather than be snug in his bed or roasting by a warm fire waiting for ‘Santa’ (Ixion knew his parents left all his presents), the super senshi had snuck out to make sure it was a going to be a peaceful silent night. That and the anticipation to see what was under the tree was killing him. It was either go out and keep watch, or toss and turn waiting for Christmas morning.

Snow was falling down gently, and so far all seemed to be well. With the snow coming down and the slight chill in the air, Super Sailor Chibi Ixion was glad his fuku was in layers. Trudging through the snow on the ground, Ixion occupied himself by watching his breath swirl in the air as he walked. The boy wasn’t going far away from home, just wandering around the neighborhood. He liked patrolling the area, not just because it was his, but because of certain others that lived near by. The young senshi liked to think he was looking out for them too.

As the senshi rounded a corner to go towards the playground, he felt the familiar ping of another senshi aura. Somewhere nearby, was another super sailor. Continuing on his way, Ixion eventually caught sight of a strawberry hair and star decorations; Hypnos. He watched the girl for a moment as she sat on the swing. Ixion wondered what she was doing out here on Christmas Eve too. She seemed sad. Rather than approach her, Ixion just stood there a distance away, debating if he should leave her be or not.

Shuffling his feet back and forth, Ixion decided that Hypnos looked like a girl who wanted to be left alone. Ixion turned to go, and a chill breeze cut through the air. He pulled onto the popped collar of his senshi jacket and started to walk back.

He made it a little bit way, really he had only left the scene for a minute or two at most. But the chill wasn’t the only thing looming in the air, because after Ixion had walked away, he could hear a high pitched scream coming from back where Hypnos was.

Why? Because the young senshi girl was no longer alone. Now there was some kind of fluffy snow-made creature: an abominable-snow-youma.

From afar, it maybe looked something like this:


Or this:



Really, it was much less cute than that.

When Ixion returned, he was flabbergasted as what he saw. Hypnos, knees on the ground in front of a youma that towered over her.

Like all yetis, the snow-youma was large and lumbering. It’s size and wide, sharply toothy mouth were it’s most fearsome attributes. It’s arms were nearly dragging on the ground, and each step the youma took left a wide imprint on the snow. It was however, a touch slow. It took it’s time to raise it’s arms and swing them at the little girl. Feebly it tried to grab at the girl, only to catch one of her bunny slippers as Hypnos scrambled away. “Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee—iiiii,” it bellowed.

Ixion shot off, in leaps and bounds, jumping over piles of snow to get to Hypnos at the swings. Before he was even that close, he fired at the thing. “Ixion Ember Blitz!”. Two hot lumps of burning coal flew at the snow-youma. One burst into a cloud of soot and small embers before it even came close to the thing, as it clanked against the beam of the swing. The other lump narrowly missed the pole and hit the youma in the gut. The ember sizzled and burned it’s way into the youma, melting it’s frosty exterior and disappearing into the youma’s stomach.

“Don’t you know that if you’re naughty you’ll only get coal for Christmas?” He yelled at the youma. When he got near to Hypnos, he reached for her hand to pull her up.

What Hypnos said sound liked nonsense to the boy. Snow couldn’t wake up, snow was just frozen rain really. Though Ixion knew nothing about Hypnos’s attachment to snowflakes from last year’s strange blizzard. He had no idea that snow dancers were a thing. “Wake up? Aren’t you already up? Or were you looking for something?”

There was one thing Ixion did know now, and it was Hypnos’s attachment or … concerns for youma. Generally he did not feel the same about this monsters, and for sure he was not above trying to melt the snow creature that seemed to want to eat them.

Before Ixion could continue with his questions, the snow-youma staggered towards the children trying to grab at them both, its large hands practicing squeezing.

Again, Ixion tried his magic. This time both embers hit the youma’s feet, sizzling away at their icy form. The down side to being made of snow, was that with more around, the youma was able to patch itself up. Ixion only managed to buy them a few seconds. Now, he was nearly out of usable magic. And he had barely made a dent. “I can’t keep this up… thing’s too big.”

Ixion pulled Hypnos back with him as he jumped back. “We should try to get farther back.” The youma’s arms were long, and it no doubt couldn’t keep missing them for long. Nudging the girl, Ixion let go of her hand and jumped forward making a foot-trail for Hynpos to follow in. Hop-hop-hop, Ixion jumped and constantly checked over his shoulder to see if Hypnos and the youma were still there.

Snow was not the easiest thing to navigate through. In fact, ********* had been quite lucky in the fact there hadn't been a lot of snow in the park. It would have made that whole battle a nightmare to deal with. Her back was still a bit sore from the whole ordeal, but she was out and about, doing her job. Of course, she looked like an odd short-earred rabbit if anything with the way she was hopping through the snow. The sense of a youma had easily gained her attention, as well as two more subdued power sources. Two chibi senshi that probably managed to find themselves in a bit more trouble than they bargained for.

"Hey!" the manx managed to yelp as she hopped up one time before landig in the snow again. With another hop, the manx called out again "HEEEEEEEEEY!"