Christmas break

Nick shook his head "This is not the sort of thing to be made often but rather on occasions when one feels like treating themselves. This way you don't lose appreciation for it." He said honestly. "Too much of a good thing spoils it." Luna said with an understanding nod. "Now then lets see what else we have in this basket to eat shall we?" Nick said and began to look through the basket. He found cucumbers , tomatoes , carrots and cabbage within it other than the left over fruit. "Looks like it's salad then." he said with a shrug.-

They ate and drank in relative silence before Luna took the left over produce in the basket and left skipping. It was a warm and peaceful moment for Nick between his various different projects that he was working on. A good example would be the ring of protection mission he was on the precipice of completing the main part of and he only had one more part that he planned to do before turning the mission in. The next part was to create an entire set of armor that was rare grade at minimum.-

The thing here was that since each part of the armor wouldn't be directly connected they would all need to be rare grade to qualify. Assuming that he chose the gauntlet as the first piece he was well on his way to that goal. Nick wasn't going to do that though since if he was going to make an armor he at least wanted it to be publicly usable. The gauntlet was a borderline taboo artifact with it's functions so he won't be exposing it so flippantly. Instead he needed to make a entirely new set of armor from scratch.-

He had thought about just making it using the twilight style but chose to hand craft each piece since he felt like it was almost cheating otherwise. 'I'll do that during the break that starts in a day.' Nick thought as cleaned up the mess in the workshop from the meal. After that he left the workshop to go and hang out with his friends while all of them were in the school. It wasn't particularly difficult to find them as they were all in the courtyard playing in the snow. "So what will all of you be doing for the holidays?" Nick asked after nailing Harry with a snowball.-

"Sirius is hosting a christmas party , you are invited by the way." Harry said returning fire. " Tracy and I will be attending a few political parties like always before relaxing at home." Daphne said as she too launched a snowball at Nick. He was a slippery target though and dodged both attacks while preparing his own. "I'll probably go to Sirius's party and stay at Hogwarts otherwise!" Ron shouted while teaming up with everyone else against Nick. Hermione and Luna didn't participate but said that they were going to be spending the holidays at home.-

"Four against one huh? I like those odds!" Nick called with a laugh as he drew his wand and went rapid fire on them. This caused the snowball fight to escalate until it became a full on snowball war with anyone unlucky enough to be near getting dragged into it. Most of Gryffindor and some of Hufflepuff ended up split into two sides that hurled snowballs through the air in a gloriously over the top amount of powdered ice. It was only after Mcgonagall interceded that the war ended but both sides had casualties. The twins were a favorite target and had a bunch of bruises alongside several other people.-

Nick only got hit a few times thanks to his inhuman reflexes and that was mostly just because it's a bit hard to dodge a wall of snowballs aimed at you. Sure he could have used a shield spell to block them but that sort of removed the fun from a snowball fight. All in all it was a good time to be had and a fun way to spend the remaining time they had together before everyone left for where ever they went for the holiday break.-

Like that christmas break started early the next day and all the students leaving boarded the train and set off. Like every year the castle felt empty without all the students it normally held and all but a few noticed it. Nick wasn't amongst that number as he was in the workshop planning out how he wanted to do his armor. 'What about this?' Nick though as he transfigured a block of stone into a set of armor. "The shoulders are too wide and will get in your way when you swing your arms." Celebrimbor said casually.