Cherry and Atticus's Enchanted Christmas

chapter 6

Soon enough, the Beast came in to see Forte and the court composer had told him what Cherry and Fife had just told him. "Christmas? They're planning Christmas?!" he then growled.

"Yes..." Forte replied drearily. "Awful, isn't it?"

"Looks like this was his plan." Brock whispered.

"I do not understand..." Felicity stared at the floor. "Why is Papa being so mean?"

"This must be before your mother changed him to good." Misdreavus whispered.

Felicity hummed, trying to think over what her Pokemon suggested.

The Beast snarled as Forte smirked at his sadness and anger as he went to the fire. "Perhaps they don't know how I feel about Christmas."

"But they do know," Forte replied. "They just don't care, especially the girl... They don't care, like I do... They're actually bringing Christmas back to castle, and you know how much we despise Christmas..."

'The day my life ended..." the Beast remembered.

Felicity, Brock, and their Pokemon were then shown a flashback. They all had to wonder how it happened, but they seemed to be invisible to the others like in A Christmas Carol when the ghosts visited the past, present, and future with Scrooge. We are shown ten years ago in the castle.

"Bring me my presents!" Adam demanded as he sat at his throne.

"Wow, what a spoiled brat." Brock said.

Lumiere nervously came up to Adam with a gift with a polite smile. "Your Highness, please accept this as a token of our appreciation. I know I speak for everyone when--"

"Oh, just give it to me!" Adam swiped it from his hands and happily unwrapped it, but looked insulted once he saw what it was. "A storybook? You call this a present?'

"I don't blame him..." Brock pouted.

Felicity gave him a deadpan look, but kept watching.

"You better have something better for me, Forte!" Adam then growled.

"Yes, Master, of course..." Forte replied as he took a seat on his bench and began to play his dreary music which was his passion, but the others didn't like it very much.

"What is that?" Adam, Brock, Felicity, Vulpix, and Misdreavus asked.

Felicity seemed to be the only one who enjoyed the music.

"Uh, a small piece in your honor, Master..." Forte replied with a small bow as he sat at his bench.

"Ooh, I hate it," Adam grunted in disgust. "Forte, that stuff is gloomy."

"Couldn't agree more." Brock's Vulpix said.

There was then a knock at the door.

"Who disturbs my Christmas!" Adam stood up in a huff and went to the door.

Brock, Felicity, Brock's Vulpix, and Misdreavus then looked to see an old woman at the door with a single rose.

"Please, accept this rose in exchange for shelter from the bitter cold..." the woman requested to Adam.

Adam scoffed to her. "I don't need a rose, go away, you wretched old hag!" he then shut the old woman out.

The rose then glowed and revealed the old woman to be an Enchantress. "You have been deceived by your own cold heart, a curse upon your house and all within it!" she then said as her voice echoed and she turned Adam into a beast and turned the servants into enchanted objects. "Until you find one to love you as you are, you may remain forever, a Beast."