Spellcrafter Christmas

Spellcrafter Christmas Special is the first short story in the Spellcrafter series written by Christopher Kirkland. The book was first published on December 5th, 2018 on Amazon.com, and was later deemed to be apart of a new series called 'Spellcrafter Seasonal'. This was done in an effort to simplify the collections and make room for the Halloween short story, The Witch of the Midnight Moon.

Although the book is listed under the name Spellcrafter Christmas, the full name should be the Spellcrafter Delta: Christmas Special.

Dedication
"Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all from Chris and Penny. Enjoy your day, spend time with your families, and remember that no matter how dark things seem there is always a reason to smile no matter how small it may seem."

Book description
The Spellcrater-Christmas Special acts as an addition to Spellcrafter-Delta. The special takes place the day before Christmas Eve, and covers what your favorite characters will be doing for the holidays. Enjoy your Christmas by reading this optional edition to the Spellcrafter series for your holiday.

Summary:
This Christmas special takes place right after the events of Spellcrafter Delta (AKA Book One of the color arc) and is also the shortest book of the series thus far. It's a very lighthearted take on the aftermath and shows how everyone is coping after the battle but also how the characters are celebrating the holidays. This isn't an integral part of the saga, but it does touch base on the relationship between Christopher Spellcrafter and Penny Dreadful, Megan Fairyhorn and Ian Dreadful, and how Emily Spellcrafter is dealing with the loss of her partner Victoria Dreadful (Tori).

Chapter 1: Encore
We start off with a beautiful description of Terminus, with all the Christmas decorations being hung up, and a little girl named Sunale, (who appears in Spellcrafter Delta), is roaming around with her mother. Chris and Penny meanwhile, are walking around the city together on their way back to their dorms to get some decorations for the lighting of the town Christmas tree. They kill time by stopping on their way and getting hot chocolate/milkshakes. Most of the chapter focuses on Penny getting to know more about Chris and acting more openly flirty towards him as opposed to Book One.

Chapter 2: Memories of Light and Dark
Chris and Penny have made it to the lighting of the "Grand Christmas Tree" with their own ornaments in hand. Due to the battle with Hunter Spiritbringer at the end of the first book, the clocktower is no more, and so the tree has been placed in town instead of outside of it this year. Millions of people from both in and outside the city came to celebrate the holidays and while everyone was placing their own unique and special ornaments on the tree, Chris and others got into a...let's just say overly exaggerated snowball fight reminiscent of a western showdown.

Headmaster Jacob Brood was the master of ceremonies for the event and publicly congratulated Chris and Penny (Partnership Delta) for all their accomplishments that took place back in Book One. He is assisted by his apprentice, Autumn Brood, some teachers, and the Terminus mages. The chapter ends with Penny discovering Chris's surprise which was an ornament of the time they won first place inthe partner competition and also beat the previous best time. Penny then accepted Chris’s offer of going on a date with him the following day.

Epilogue
Megan and Ian are walking home together later that night and Megan complains about how cold it is. So Ian, being Ian, decides to prove her wrong by sticking his tongue to a nearby pole to annoy her. Megan ends up leaving him there, her reasoning being, "He'll never learn if I help him". Ian tries to call multiple characters including Chris and Penny, but after having no success he finally tries Emily. Ian successfully wakes up Emily and after she rescues him, they have a brief conversation, displaying their friendship. Emily then heads back to her house only to find her Christmas present beside her bed (from Chris and Penny). She opens it and discovers that it is a pillow made of Victoria's old clothes. The story ends with her sleeping on it that night.