Chestnuts roasting on Puppy's Fire
Part One

Seto walks up to a little cute wooden cottage. On top of the door there is a sign that says 'Santa's workshop'. The CEO knocks on the door and an elf comes out. "Merry X'mas!" The elf says.

"I'm here to pick up my brother." Seto walks into the cottage.

Inside the cottage, Mokuba is building toys at the table with a bunch of kids. "Seto! Look what I made!" Mokuba chips as he shows Seto a wooden horse.

"Good job. Are you ready to go?" Seto asks.

"Yeah!" Mokuba jumps off his chair and follows Seto out of the door.

"Good bye, Mokuba! Let's go and ride the Santa's sled tomorrow!" The other kids at the table say.

"Okay! See you all tomorrow." Mokuba leaves the cottage. He walks up next to his brother and says, "thank you so much for taking me here. I love this place."

The Kaiba brothers are staying at 'Santa's village' this winter holiday. 'Santa's village' is a huge, beautiful hotel resort; everything at this resort is about X'mas. Since Mokuba arrived, he had skated with Frosty on Winter Wonderland. He ate Mrs. Claus cookies at the ginger bread house. He also fed reindeers and marched with toy soldiers at Toyland. It's every kid's dream to spend X'mas at 'Santa's Village'. Mokuba feels like he is the luckiest kid in the world.

"Seto, you're the greatest. You hate X'mas but you still come here to Santa's village because you want me to have a good time. It must be really hard for you to see X'mas everywhere." Mokuba says.

When Seto was young, Gozaburo always made Seto work overtime during X'mas. The cruel father kept telling Seto, "X'mas is for weaklings and sentimental fools. No children should waste their time to celebrate such a meaningless holiday." Every time when X'mas comes, Seto can't help but feeling angry and irritated because of all the bad childhood memories.

Seto keeps thinking about Gozaburo until Mokuba calls out to him. "Seto, where are we going?" Mokuba asks. Seto was so caught up in his thought, he just kept walking and he walked down the wrong road.

Seto tries to look around for the right road but he can't find it. "This is just great!" Seto grunts. There is nothing more he hates than getting lost, and now he gets lost in the Candy Cane Mountain.

"I'll find the way back to the hotel." Seto says to Mokuba.

Mokuba doesn't really mind. It's not all that bad to get lost. He can spend some time with Seto and there are all the candy canes he can eat. "It's okay, brother. I…." Mokuba says when he misses a step and falls down the side of the mountain.

"Mokuba!" Seto screams. He pushes Mokuba to safety while falling down the hill side himself.

Seto rolls off the steep mountain side. "Brother!" Mokuba screams. There is a huge sharp rock right ahead of Seto and Seto is gonna hits it any second.

Right before Seto hits the huge rock, a Sugar Pumpkin Fairy jumps out and gets between Seto and the rock. The Sugar Pumpkin Fairy hits the rock while Seto lands on the Fairy unharmed.

"Seto, are you okay?" Mokuba asks. Seto does not answer Mokuba. The CEO is lost in the sight of the Sugar Pumpkin Fairy. Seto never sees a girl so beautiful in his entire life.

"Seto Kaiba! Get off me!!!" The Sugar Pumpkin Fairy shouts. That voice! That loud and familiar voice! It's the voice of Joey Wheeler! The MUTT!!!

Seto Jaw drops. The beautiful girl is actually Joey in a dress!!!

TBC…