Hey, I know it's January, but I just thought it'd be cooler if did this in the new year. You guys remember Zeke from 'Long Lost Twin Brother', right? This time, I thought that Zeke would get some help getting into the holiday spirit.

Zeke's First Christmas

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: About Christmas

One morning, Zeke woke up in his room and there's silence everywhere around the hallway. He sat down, let out a small yawn and got up from his bed, rubbing his tired eyes from his sleep and when he got to the hallway, he sees everything all decorated all holiday-like. He looks around the entire bunkhouse and that it's nothing he's ever seen before in his lifetime.

"What is going on in here?" asked Zeke, softly.

All of a sudden, he hears someone coming in and there goes Musaki with a box full of Christmas stuff to put together for the holidays. He sets them down in the kitchen to see which ones he's gonna use first. Zeke quietly walks by and sees Musaki sitting down, going through most Christmas-y stuff inside there.

He saw Zeke coming in and said, "Hey, bro. What's up?"

"Not much. What's up with this hallway?"

"What about it?"

"I don't know. It looks like it's been decorated or something like that."

"Oh, that's mine and Po's work last night. Been up pretty much 4 hours to make this entire bunkhouse and the Jade Palace Christmas-like. Hope you didn't mind, but I put in a little wreath on your door."

Zeke looked confused and looked around to see that there is a wreath on the door. For Zeke, it looked kinda strange to see this coming. As soon as he came back to the kitchen, he sees Mantis around pitching in with Musaki. Both of them were talking and laughing together.

Zeke couldn't quite get the fact about it and Mantis saw Zeke coming in and said, "Hey, Zeke."

"Hey...what are you guys doing?"

"I promised Mantis that we were gonna put together some Christmas ornaments to put out the tree." Musaki answered.

"Christmas?"

"Yeah. Don't you guys even celebrate Christmas where you're from?" asked Mantis.

"I...wouldn't know, because I never knew what Christmas is."

Mantis and Musaki's face froze as they stared at Zeke and then stared at each other and then stared at Zeke again and Mantis asked, "You don't know Christmas?"

"No. I've heard about it, but I've never actually celebrated it."

"Looks like we're gonna give you some hard knocks about Christmas." Musaki said.

"How so?"

"Christmas is pretty much the best holiday by far where everyone is in a good mood during this time of year, where we have peace of earth, goodwill towards others and spending time with family and friends."

"It's a worldwide celebration." Mantis said.

"So, what you guys are saying is that you celebrate it every year?"

"Yeah, we do. And there's pretty awesome stuff-a christmas tree, filled with beautiful stuff, like ornaments and lights and pretty muche evrything in between and there's always some cool stories and pretty much everything about Christmas is like that." Musaki said.

"Okay..."

"Might want to get some more popcorn." Mantis said.

"What for?" asked Musaki.

"Cause Po's always lurking around trying to get it."

"Don't worry. I brought in 7 types of popcorn and I hid only 6 of them in my room, so just in case Po eats the entire bag, I bring in another bag."

"What'd you do with the other one?"

"Put it in Po's room."

Musaki reaches in another bag of popcorn and puts it in the strings as they pull it all together. Mantis asked Zeke, "You'll experience how we celebrate Christmas, long as you're here."

Zeke sighed and said, "Not really sure."

"Oh, come on. It'll be tons more fun. We promise to bring you the best Christmas ever." Musaki said, excitedly.

"Well, it does sounds like fun. I'm willing to celebrate it with you guys."

"Great. You can help us too."

"Sure. What do I have to do?"

"Hold the string for us."

It's gonna be Zeke and Musaki's first Christmas, because they're long lost brothers. So, I hope ya'll like this one.