A/N: Second part of the Beauty & the Beast trilogy with the Mike, Lu & Og adventurer cast! Read & Review!
For their tradition on the holidays, Mike, Lu, and Og stated that they would like to see Belle and Adam for Christmas this year. They heard that Belle and Adam were going to have a big party that would outshine what happened with their first Christmas away from home. Mike wore a red suit, Og had a blue suit, and Lu had a spring green dress with a holly beret in her golden brown hair. They followed the villagers in as they sang a merry tune of Deck the Halls.
"This'll be a nice Christmas," Mike smiled. "You guys excited to see Belle and Adam again?"
"Of course, especially after that curse!" Lu beamed. "I just hope things will be different."
Og nodded in agreement. "Too bad we couldn't bring the other Cartoon Cartoons."
"Well, maybe next year, we'll get Belle to come over to the CCF Studio." Mike shrugged with a smile.
The crowd walked into the formerly enchanted castle and Mike, Lu, and Og made it in. The other people walked along to mingle and celebrate Christmas with the royals of the castle with Belle introduced as the New Queen. The ballroom seemed to blossom and glow with the decorations.
"Just look at this place!" Lu beamed. "It's better than the Founder's Day or First Day of Spring celebration back on the island!"
"Indeed," Og smiled. "It seems that Madame Angelique has done an especially great job."
The golden blonde woman in a silver dress smiled as she heard that and her name called. "Oh, hello, you three, so good to see you, we've missed you all so much!"
"We missed you too," Mike smiled. "Say, where are Belle and Adam?"
"Just getting ready in their room," Angelique informed with a smile. "Why don't you three go see Chip?" She gestured to the 10-year-old boy.
Mike, Lu, and Og saw Chip and ran to him.
"Hey, guys!" Chip greeted as he had Sultan on his side. "Merry Christmas!"
"Joyeux Noel." Og greeted him in French.
Chip chuckled. "You sound great, Og, your French lessons came along nicely!"
Og smiled.
"Where you going, Chip?" Lu asked him.
"Finding the presents, wanna help?" Chip asked.
"Yeah!" Mike beamed. "Though this isn't like finding them in the attic or the spare room, let's go!"
The kids all nodded and ran about. Lumiere and Cogsworth were decorating the buffer table. Lumiere put a lot of holly, but Cogsworth thought it was too much holly. He then grunted as the four kids ran past him.
"Slow down, lads and lasses!" Cogsworth gently scolded them.
Angelique sang to herself as she put the angel on top of the tree, then decided to get mistletoe.
"There's the presents!" Mike pointed with her friends.
"Let's get 'em!" Lu proclaimed.
The four kids then dove into the present collection. Mike, Lu, and Og even saw there were presents for them. The kids laughed together as they had their presents. Chip came out, finding his and felt victorious that he had found what he was looking for.
"Chip, away from those presents, dear!" Mrs. Potts called. "You too, Michelene, Lulu, and Og!"
"Maman," Chip went over to the elderly woman by the fireplace. "We found one for each of us! Can we open 'em, Maman, can we?"
"Please...?" Mike, Lu, and Og pulled puppy eye dog looks, batting their eyelashes.
Mrs. Potts smiled. "Well... Just one..."
"Oh, boy!" Chip cheered.
Mike, Lu, and Og sat with him to open their presents. Sultan came by to help them, by biting off some of the wrapping paper. Lumiere and Cogsworth looked down to watch, they were very happy.
"It's good to see the children celebrating a proper Christmas," Lumiere smiled. "Not like last year..."
"Yes," Cogsworth chuckled. "This is much more agreeable."
"Less dangerous." Lu added with a slight shudder.
"How have you been dealing with it, kids?" Cogsworth asked.
"We're fine, it took a while, but we're okay now to talk about it." Mike smiled in reassurance.
"Well, I thought last year was quite nice," Mrs. Potts spoke up in her own defense.
"Yes, well... I suppose I did manage to save Christmas..." Cogsworth smiled.
"You?" Lumiere, Mike, Lu, and Og looked at him.
"Yes, me..." Cogsworth smirked.
"What's going on here?" a familiar voice called.
Everyone looked to see there were three more guests. Mike, Lu, and Og dropped their presents and rushed to the three guests, two boys and another girl. They were Eddy Sampson dressed in a blue suit, Manny Rivera in a black suit, and Lilo Pelekai in a sparkling red dress with dark blue flats of course. Mike, Lu, and Og instantly hugged them.
"You guys came?" Mike asked with a smile.
"Yeah, you can't celebrate Christmas without me." Eddy grinned.
"We thought we'd surprise you," Manny smiled as he hugged Lu warmly and looked into her eyes.
"Well, ya did," Lu giggled. "We thought you guys would be back at Cartoon Network City, Nickelodeon Kingdom, or Disney Channel Ville."
"We just wanted to come by," Lilo smiled. "What's Christmas without your boyfriends or girlfriend?"
"A little lonely if you ask me..." Og smiled to 'his little orchid'.
"So, where are Double D and Ed?" Mike asked her boyfriend.
"At Pops' Diner with June and Dee Dee," Eddy replied. "He had a big Christmas dinner for everyone, but we decided to come see you guys. You almost had to spend a year away from us when you first came to this castle."
"You have a point." Mike admitted.
"What're you guys talking about?" Manny asked the adults.
"We're talking about how I saved Christmas for your little 'love bugs'," Cogsworth replied, in a rather bragging tone of voice. "If not for my decisive leadership, all would've been lost."
"Leadership? HA!" Lumiere scoffed at the portly man. "You could not lead a horse to water!"
"What are you yammering about?" Cogsworth snorted. "It was all MY idea!"
"Your idea? Everyone knows it was mine!" Lumiere argued.
Chip grunted as he saw his present was a pair of mismatched socks, much to his dismay.
"So, what happened here when you guys couldn't come back for Christmas that time?" Eddy asked.
"Yeah, I don't get it." Lilo felt clueless.
"Heavens," Mrs. Potts sighed. "How many times are we going to have to go over this story?"
"Story?" Chip asked in excitement as his dark blue eyes lit up.
"Until someone gets his facts straight..." Lumiere growled to Cogsworth.
"Well, I'd like to hear this story," Manny smiled. "Any story with Lu has to be the story worth hearing about!"
Lu blushed at him for saying that.
"Why don't you tell us, Mrs. Potts?" Lilo asked.
"Yeah, can you, Maman?" Chip pleaded his mother.
"Capital idea." Cogsworth agreed, gently patting Lilo on her head for suggesting that.
Mrs. Potts grew shy. "Well... I don't know..."
"Come now, Mrs. Potts, surely you recall how I saved Christmas..." Lumiere grinned.
"Hey, no leading the witness!" Og scolded.
"Please, Maman, tell the story..." Chip clung to his mother.
Mrs. Potts smiled, then allowed Chip to sit on her lap while Mike, Lu, Og, Eddy, Manny, and Lilo sat down like a story-corner in a preschool. Maurice came to hear the story too, since it involved his daughter and a few other guests came to listen to the story of last year's Christmas, or as dubbed by the other people of the castle, The Enchanted Christmas.
"Well, let's see..." Mrs. Potts started. "Belle, terrified by the Master's anger, ran away from the castle, straight into a pack of wolves! But, the Master saved her... They began to be friends..."
"Ah, ah, ah," Lumiere waved his finger. "That's where I came in!"
