Winter Holiday (PT:4)

After hearing Daedalus everyone quietened down and stared at Richard quietly. Richard just nodded and started unwrapping his presents.

The first present he grabbed and started unwrapping was from Reginn. Reginn had gotten him an enchanted gauntlet. This was likely because Richard had decided to use his fists rather than any other weapon.

The second present he opened was from Andromeda. It was a set of potions centered around helping to strengthen the body and focused heavily on the arms and fists. This was because she knew that Richard was trying to follow the path of the fist.

Finally Richard moved onto the gift from Rose. Daedalus had decided that he would get him a gift later so that it would be only from Rose. Richard looked filled with anticipation when he got to this gift while Rose did the same as Richard earlier.

As he finished unwrapping the present Richard was beyond happy to see the dragon scale scarf. He had long known about the traditions around the giving of a scarf made with your own scales. This was mainly because rose had mentioned it several times while they talked about traditions in different cultures.

As everyone else saw the scarf the entire room seemed to stop. Andromeda looked at Daedalus as if saying 'What did you do?'. Reginn started to glare murderously at Richard. All this while Rose blushed a deeper crimson than blood.

Before anything else could get out of hand Daedalus spoke "Okay, okay calm down."

Daedalus then looked at Andromeda and said quietly "I'll tell you later."

Andromeda could only sigh. Meanwhile Reginn was still glaring at Richard, though it was slowly dying down in intensity. Rose who was still blushing noticed that Reginn was still glaring at Richard and smacked him in the head causing him to say "What was that for!?" Rose just huffed in annoyance before turning her head away.

Daedalus who had watched the whole thing was just chuckling at there antics with Andromeda.

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After a long while of trying to calm everyone down Daedalus got everyone to go to the dining hall. While they did this Daedalus finally got to hold the arrogant kitten. At first it wouldn't even let him hold it however eventually Daedalus got it to accept him.

After a while Daedalus decided to name it Nox which to his knowledge meant darkness. As he decided the name Daedalus told everyone else that the kitten was called Nox. Rose, again, got the urge to cuddle the kitten and so stole him from Daedalus once more causing him to feel depressed.

Andromeda just pat his shoulder while shaking her head. This just caused Daedalus to feel more depressed.

As Rose took Nox however instead of being the supremely arrogant kitten he was before he became incredibly docile. Daedalus who saw this could only sigh sadly once more.

Eventually they reached the dining hall only to be greeted by the magnificent sight of a few tens of dishes filled to the brim with delicious holiday food.