A Christmas Gift

At the Friendship Rainbow Castle, Taiky and the gang were laughing, having a time and were getting ready to sing another Christmas carol, that was until Taiku noticed something on the ground, he flew over and saw it was a package.


He picked it up and took a good look at it, he then looked at the letter attached to it and gave a smirk and laughed "What is it Taiku?" Dragonfire walked over to his dragon icon "Oh nothing" Taiku still smirked and walked over to the gang "What do you have there Taiku?" Lita asked him "Just something for Matt" he replied to the Jupiter Sailor Scout, everyone had their attention to Taiku, last one was Matt to look up.


"Looks like you got yourself a Christmas package Matt" Taiku tossed the packed to the bearer of Friendship, Matt caught it and carefully looked at the neatly wrapped package, Taiku then walked over and held the letter out to him "And the letter is scented" he said as he wiggled his eyebrows up and down "Let me see that!" Matt grabbed the letter and opened it up.


Everyone watched as he read the letter, as he kept reading they all noticed that his cheeks were turning redder and redder "So, who is it from Matt?" Brock asked him "No one!" Matt replied, closing the letter and trying to keep it save by his side "You sure, it must have been from someone?" Sonic said, as he tried to get a good glimpse of the hidden letter "I told you it's no one" Matt said again, turning to his other side "Than how come your face is red?" Mina giggled, Matt turned away, trying to hide his scarlet red face.


Taiku walked up to the group "Oh I know who it's from" he told them, which everyone turned to the dragon, Taiku then leaned towards Matt with a smirk on his face "I'm guessing it came from a girl, a certain girl with long red hair? Beautiful sparkling brown eyes?" Taiku leaned forward and batted his eyes in the gesture, which made Matt's face turn even more redder "And has a unique blue birthmark?" Taiku continued, smiling as he knew he was just about to make Matt spill, which he manged to do so "Okay, you caught me, it's from Tallylu" Matt turned back to the others and smiled, showing everyone the letter.


As the Digidestineds gather around, some of the others looked a bit confused, including Tai and Kari "Who's Tallylu?" Ash was the first of the others to ask, the others looked back and figured that they didn't know, and that Tai and Kari never met her "She's a girl, we all know" Matt replied to him "Not just a girl, but a Who girl" Dragonfire added, walking up to the others "You mean an actually Who girl?" Raye repeated, which everyone seemed a bit shocked to hear.


"Yep, a very same one, and well those two have some sort of....well kinda history connection I could say" Dragonfire said, as he turned back to the others gathering around to read the letter "Matt, you sly dog you" Tai smirked at his friend, playfully punched his arm "Personally, I still don't see it" "Me either" Dragonfire and Taiku both nodded a bit "Oh Taikey" Alice smirked and nodded her head, which Taiku looked confused "What? Was it something I said?" he looked really confused "Well I think it's sounds sweet" Ami said as she and Ash both walked over to the group.


"So what did Tallylu write Matt?" TK sat beside him, wanting to look at the letter, Matt then held the letter, everyone gather around so they can see "She's just wishing me a Merry Christmas, hoping I'm doing okay, and she's wishing everyone a Merry Christmas" he looked up and read what Tallylu wrote "And that we should keep our eyes open on the Grinch, just in case" Matt added, looking back up and everyone looked a bit amazed "Okay how did she do that?" JusSonic took a good look at the letter "How did she know the Grinch was here?" Spike read the letter as well "Does she have this weird Sixth Sense thing?" KingHuffman asked, doing this weird shaky hand gesture.


Dragonfire, who looked at the letter, chuckled a bit and turned back to everyone "No Ry, it's not that, it's that she's a Who" he told her "We know she's a Who" KingHuffman replied, but Dragonfire still chuckled "No no, that's not what I mean" he shook his head and gave the letter back to Matt "As you know it's Christmas, and Tallylu is a Who, and from what we all know is that from their toes to their snout, Whos love Christmas the most, not a single who doubt" Dragonfire explained to everyone about the whole Christmas Holiday and Whos, which everyone nodded and gave a "Oh..." expression "Well, we're keeping our eyes out for that Grinch" Ash told them, which everyone nodded in agreement "Pika" Pikachu said, agreeing with his Pokemon trainer.


Sora then noticed the package Matt still held, it was small, but it was nicely wrapped "Wonder what she gave you Matt?" Sora looked at the small gift, Matt held it up "Sure is small" Twilight smiled a bit and examined the gift "But she does have a good eye in wrapping" Rarity added, examining the wrapping paper.


Matt then removed the wrapping paper, revealing a small box, he opened it and inside it was a small case "She got you a case?" Ben looked at the gift, Matt held the case but realized what it's for "A case...for my harmonica" Matt then brought out his harmonica, then placed it in the case and held it tightly "That I have to say is a wonderful gift" they all turned to Taiku "What do you mean Taiku?" Mimi asked him, Taiku walking up and taking a good look at that case "I mean is that Tallylu gave Matt something from the bottom of her heart" he answered, and saw the smile on Matt's face "And a gift like that should be thanked for" Taiku added, actually hinting an idea to the bearer of Friendship.


Matt held the case tightly in his hands, he got up and placed it in his pocket "I wish I could give her something back?" Matt muttered to himself "What about that necklace you bought?" Joe asked him, Matt looked up, he then reached deep into his other pocket and pulled out a golden chain with a golden treble clef pendant "This necklace? I'm thinking about it, but I don't know if she go for jewelry?" Matt looked that the pendant in his hand a bit "I think you should, I mean looking at that case, Tallylu thought of you in the heart, so go for it" Taiku told him, smiling a bit "Maybe, but I still don't know, I mean, it's just a bit big don't you think?" Matt looked back at the treble clef pendant "I think Tallylu will love either gift you gave her Matt, as long as it comes from the heart" Kari looked up at her brother's friend and gave him her gentle smile.


"Why don't you give her something small, something she would like?" Fluttershy walked up to Matt, which got him to smile a bit "You're right, and I know just what" Matt then ran off, with TK, Kari and Sora behind him "Spoken by the true words of the Element of Kindness" Dragonfire smiled at Fluttershy, who in which she smiled back shyly, and as she smiled she made a squeak sound.


As soon as Matt, Sora, TK and Kari came back, Matt held something, it was Tallylu's gift, it didn't take him long to wrap it up, only took around 3 minutes, but he then held a box in his hands "I think that should do it" he examined the box "One moment, how about adding something else, say a picture" JusSonic said, holding a camera "Great idea! Come everyone get together" Dragonfire told them, which everyone looked up "That's right, everyone in the photo!" Dragonfire waved his arms over to everyone.


Everyone then huddled up, Taiku then set the timer then joined in the was rest, and once the photo was taken, everyone began to sign the photo card, wishing a Merry Christmas on it.


And so, after it was all taken care of, Rainbow Dash volunteer to deliver the gift "You sure you can find her Rainbow Dash?" Dragonfire asked the Pegasus "Positive, I know who to look for, a Who girl with red hair" Rainbow Dash waved her hoof up "Now I hear that she's traveling in a group, traveling with Horton the elephant, find him, you find her" Taiku told her "Once you find her, be back as soon as you can" Alice walked up to the two and smiled "No Sweat, I'll be there and back before you can say Mele Kalikimaka" Rainbow Dash replied, and then in a flash flew off.


As Rainbow Dash flew, she searched through different parts of Andalasia, hoping to find her, she then spotted a familiar elephant and stopped "Hey Horton" she called out to him "Yes, you called?" Horton looked up "You know this Tallylu right? Well, can you give this to her, it's a very special gift" Rainbow Dash handed him the gift, he took it with his trunk "Can do, Merry Christmas" Horton said to her "Merry Christmas" Rainbow replied and once again zoomed off back to the castle.


Not to far away, another group was having a small Christmas, this group was so happens to be a small group formed by Tallylu, as some were decorating the tree they found, Tallylu herself was helping as well, along with her is another friend she encountered and asked to join her little group, she had shoulder length black hair, it was Hotaru.


As both girls decided to sit down for a moment, Horton came by "Hey Tallylu, you got yourself a Christmas gift" Horton told her, handing her the gift "Who could have given me a gift?" Tallylu wondered, she then noticed the card, she then smiled as she saw it was a photo of some very special friends she encountered before.


"Who's it from Tallylu?" Hotaru asked her, Tallylu turned back and continued to smile "Just...some very special friends is all" she replied, handing the photo card to Hotaru to look at, Hotaru then spotted her friends as well "Rini..." she smiled as she saw the familiar pink haired little girl, Tallylu looked at Hotaru and smiled "We'll see her, and the others I just know it" Tallylu placed her hand on Hotaru's shoulder, both girls sharing a smile.


Tallylu then looked at the box in her lap "So, what did you get?" Hotaru looked at the box "I don't know, but I'm going to" Tallylu replied, holding the box in her hands.


She then removed the lid off, and was shocked to what she found, it was a beautiful red rose, she then smiled and closed her eyes "It's beautiful" she whispered, just then Tallylu spotted something beside the rose, she saw a small note and began to read it, what the note said was....


'Tallylu

I know Matt gave you his Christmas gift, and that's okay. You see he was also planning to give you this. But he was a bit concern, he didn't want to go all out and got you something big. He just knew what he wanted to get you in his heart. Now you now I still don't see it, but one day maybe you two will change my mind. For one thing, you make Matt happy. Something that I, nor TK, nor anyone around can see him that happy.

Merry Christmas!
Taiku.'


Tallylu smiled as she read the whole note, and nodded a bit, but then she saw it was a necklace, the same necklace with the golden chain and treble clef pendant, it turned out that Taiku took the necklace without Matt even knowing and placed it in the box as everyone was still signing the photo card.


Tallylu smiled as she looked at the necklace, she then placed it around her neck, and held the pendant carefully in her hand "Oh Taiku" she whispered softly and held her head down and closed her eyes.


Then Tallylu then began to walk away to be on her own, Hotaru watched this and smiled at her friend, Horton then stood by her and both he and Hotaru looked at eachother, smiled and turned back to watch Tallylu.


Tallylu then stood in her place, and looked up at the dark sky, seeing one shinning star, she then smiled and still held onto the treble clef pendant.


Meanwhile back at the castle, Matt was out on the balcony, he was also looking at the night sky, and he too saw the shinning star, somehow he knew that Tallylu was looking at that same star was well, Matt stayed there for a while and smiled a bit, feeling the night winter breeze.


So then, Matt brought out his case, opened it up and held his harmonica, he brought the instrument to his lips and began to play a few notes, before looking back up at the sky to stare at the star and soon began to sing a special song


Matt: Children sleeping,
Snow is softly falling,
Dreams are calling,
Like bells in the distance


Back with Tallylu she still stared at the star, and as if she somehow knew, she then began to sing as well


Tallylu: We were dreamers,
Not so long ago,
But one by one we,
All had to grow up


Matt stood on the balcony, still feeling the winter breeze, but this time, he closed his eyes as if he could actually hear Tallylu's singing


Matt: When it seems the magics slipped away

Tallylu: We find it all again on Christmas Day

Both: Believe in what your heart is saying,
Hear the melody that's playing

Matt: There's no time to waste

Tallylu: There's so much to celebrate

Both: Believe in what you feel inside,
And give your dreams the wings to fly

Matt: You have everything you need

Both: If you just believe


What Matt didn't know was that all his friends were watching him on the inside and smiled as he sang to the night, in fact with Tallylu, her small group was watching her two, both groups smiled as they watched the boy and girl sing


Matt: Trains move quickly,
To their journey's end

Tallylu: Destinations,
Are where we begin again

Matt: Ships go sailing,
Far across the sea

Tallylu: Trusting starlight,
To get where they need to be

Matt: When it seems that we have lost our way

Tallylu: We find ourselves again on Christmas Day

Both: Believe in what your heart is saying,
Hear the melody that's playing

Matt: There's no time to waste

Tallylu: There's so much to celebrate

Both: Believe in what you feel inside,
And give your dreams the wings to fly

You have everything you need

If you just believe

Matt: If you just believe

Tallylu: If you just believe

Matt: If you just believe

Tallylu: Just believe

Both: Just believe


Taiku watched Matt looking at the sky and finished singing the song, he smiled, he than thought back in the note he wrote and his smile began to grow, Alice stood beside him and smiled as well, as Taiku placed his arm around her.


Everyone from the inside smiled as Matt finished the song, in fact during which, as they closed their eyes, they would imagine they would all hear the singing coming from Tallylu.


Tallylu continued to stare at the star some more, still holding onto that pendant "Merry Christmas Matt" she whispered softly, closing her eyes and felt the winter breeze.


Matt smiled at the star, then turned back to the case "Merry Christmas Tallylu" he whispered, as if somehow he had heard her voice in the winter's wind.


So they didn't have to worry about one another, somehow they knew they would run into eachother again, not right away, but someday when it comes, but for now, they were spending the holidays with their friends.