Puss in Boots and his new friends!

Chapter 9: Friends Christmas

It's getting close to Christmas, but Mittens is all sad and feeling homesick. Will the friends find a way to cheer her up for the holiday?
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December 20th, five days before Christmas, the friends were snowboarding down the mountains for fun. They went through the town, doing awesome tricks in the air, racing each other until they came back to Puss' mansion with Tigress, who arrived first to the door. "I win." She said, laughing.

"Oh, come on, Tigress, you always win." Kitty chuckled.

"Good race, though." Puss said, picking Platy up from the board.

"That was some great snowboarding, though, Tig." Rita said, picking her son up.

"Despite that you and Roddy were being slowpokes, starting at a small bump, which I fully understand you guys had your kids there to try out for the first time." Tigress said.

"Safety first is what my daddy always says." Rodney said.

"Right you are, Rodney, my son." Roddy said, picking his daughter up from the board.

"But we were so close to winning." Rachel said.

"No, I think I was close or Bolt was." Rhino said.

"I was kinda close, but Tigress beat me to it." Bolt said.

"Actually, I think I was close to a second." Crane said.

"Whatever, Crane, snowboarding doesn't count if you can fly." Mittens said, rolling her eyes, smirking at the bird.

"Point taken."

"Anyways, let's get inside. Remy should be done with that cocoa soon." Roddy said.

"With baby marshmallows and whipped cream?" Rodney replied.

"With s'mores to dip in, yes." Rita said.

"Yay! I love s'mores and cocoa together!" Rachel said.

"Me, too!" Rodney said.

Roddy and Rita both chuckled. "We know you do because we do, too." Rita said.

"And we're also go find a tree to take home and decorate it for Christmas afterwards, too." Puss said.

"Can't wait already." Bolt said.

"Wait. Christmas is coming around this time?" Mittens asked in concerned.

"Oh, yeah, five more days left." Rhino said.

Mittens stopped, looking like she's about to tear up. "Oh, right. Yeah. Yay, Christmas." She said, flatly.

Kitty looked at her, lowering her eyebrows when she heard her tone. "You alright, Mittens?" Kitty asked.

Mittens looked at her with wide opened eyes, clearing her throat, to snap out of her zone. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine, Kitty. Just a little tuckered out from all this snowboarding." She said.

"Well, let's get inside and we'll get warmed up with cocoa and a fireplace to sit at." Puss said, before going inside with Platy and the others.

After, having cocoa s'mores, the friends came home with a tree, putting it in the living room. "Whoa, guys, that's one a huge tree!" Po said.

"Tigress cut it down for us." Crane said.

"And she does an awesome job at it, too."

"Why, thank you, now we need to bring down the others to help decorate it." Tigress said, putting up the tree.

"Stockings are already put up in our rooms." Shrek said.

"And I've already put up the wreaths on every single one of our doors, too." Po said.