Cherry and Atticus's Enchanted Christmas

chapter 7

Cherry decided to keep an eye on the new kids feeling suspicious about them. "There's something funny about these kids, I just can't put my finger on it..." she mumbled to herself about Jenny, Akito, Estelle, Vincent, Felicity, Brock, Misty, Ash, and Emi.

"What are you doing?" Misdreavus asked from behind.

"GAH!" Cherry fell forward.

"Madame Cerise sure was jumpy back in the day..." Misdreavus said to herself.

Cherry then stood up and glanced at the Pokemon. "What are you, some kind of ghost?"

"Uh, sure, let's go with that." Misdreavus said.

"Hm..." Cherry hummed.

Meanwhile with Belle and the others...

Belle sniffled as she was on her bed and crying her eyes out from the argument she had with the Beast.

"One of us should comfort her." Misty whispered.

Emi gently sat on the bed. "Um, it's going to be okay..."

Belle sniffled. "Oh, I don't know what to do now."

"Belle, we can't give up, everyone, besides the Beast is counting on us to make this the best Christmas ever." Atticus said.

Belle sighed as she continued to sulk. Angelique walked across the table as the ballroom was being decorated with garlands and wreaths everywhere and she saw that she had new helpers.

"I wonder how the others are doing in the ballroom." Patch said.

Chip decided to go see the others and tell them about the progress made. "Hiya, guys, you should see the ballroom!" he told them which made Belle look over to him. "There's garlands and wreaths everywhere, I think the Master's gonna be REALLY excited when he finds out about Christmas!"

"Actually, Chip, he's found out..." Belle said softly as she emerged from her bed.

"Really?" Chip grinned. "Was he excited?"

"Um, I'm not sure if excited is the word to describe how he looked." Brock said.

"Yes, I'm afraid he's forbidden it..." Belle stared out the window.

Chip pouted and looked extremely disappointed. "But I thought he couldn't forbid Christmas..."

"That's right, isn't that what you guys said?" Scruffy asked.

"You know what, Chip?" Belle looked determined as she looked out the window to see there was still time left in the day. "He can't... We'll have Christmas with or without him!"

This made the kids, pets, and Pokemon cheer.

"Can we get the tree now, Belle?" Chip asked. "It's the only thing we're missing!"

"We'll get it right after we make a delivery." Atticus said.

"That's right..." Belle reminded her gift for the Beast, then put her finger to her mouth to shush Chip.

The others stood aside to keep a look-out for when the Beast would come into the West Wing. Belle carried the present in her arm and spotted the bell jar with the enchanted rose and wanted to touch it as it bewildered her like it had done before.

"Belle, it's the Master, hurry." Emi whispered.

Belle took note of that, she then gently put the present by the bell jar and grabbed her winter coat, gloves, and boots, rushing outside with the others who were going with her. Mr. Fuerwerker was of course going to go as well since he was an ax and they would need him to cut the tree down with. Sultan the footstool decided to go with them as they went to the snow-covered castle grounds.