Our story begins in the famed Plaza Hotel in the state of New York as a certain girl with a shapeshifting Pokemon was on her head as she danced and twirled a bit with pink envelopes in her hands.
"I am Eloise, I am going to be seven," Eloise introduced, seemingly no one before she slid down a banister with a smile. "I am a city child, I live in the Plaza Hotel. My birthday's coming up and I want everyone in the whole hotel to come."
"Who are you talking to, Eloise?" Ditto asked.
Eloise was about to answer, but just shrugged and handed out her invitations to anybody they came across.
"So, who to invite?" Ditto asked.
"I know the perfect people." Eloise smiled to her Pokemon as she led the way all around the hotel that she was treated like royalty in since everybody loved her mother and nanny so much.
Everyone that she handed an invitation to accepted it. One of the workers had his hands full.
"Hey, Chet, birthday tea in the Palm Court tomorrow," Eloise smiled to him and gave him his invitation on top of the other stuff. "4:00 sharp, see you there!"
"He looks like he's about to collapse." Ditto said.
Chet soon stumbled and fell backwards and crashed which made Eloise and Ditto wince for the fallen man.
"Uh, let's go invite someone else." Ditto said.
Miss Thompson was behind her desk as she was telling an African couple how to get to the library. Eloise patiently waited for her to finish so she could then invite the woman to her birthday party. Once Miss Thompson was done with the couple, it was now time for Eloise to give her an invitation.
Eloise then rang the bell a couple of times which started the woman. "Good morning, Miss Thompson!" She then greeted.
"Good morning, Eloise," Miss Thompson greeted. "Good morning, Ditto."
Ditto smiled up to Miss Thompson.
"Are you aware that tomorrow is my birthday?" Eloise asked with a smile.
"Oh, I think you may have mentioned it 50 or 60 times, yes." Miss Thompson replied.
"This is for my party," Eloise handed an invite to her. "4:00 PM at the Palm Court."
Ditto nodded with a smile.
"I'll try, sweetie, but we're so very busy today." Miss Thompson smiled back.
"Don't be late!~" Eloise replied before dashing off to see the doorman of the hotel with her Pokemon.
"Let's invite Charlie." Ditto smiled.
"Charlie! Charlie!" Eloise called out to the doorman.
"I can't talk, Eloise," Charlie told the little girl. "It's crazy around here today!"
"It's for my birthday party tomorrow." Eloise smiled as she handed her invitation to the doorman.
"Party, huh?" Charlie asked. "We talkin' cake?"
"Of course!" Eloise smiled up to him. "Chocolate with vanilla ice cream in the middle of it and raspberry frosting."
"You've convinced me!" Charlie chuckled. "I'll be there."
Eloise smiled to him as he went off and then saw the hotel manager.
"Should we invite him?" Ditto asked.
"It wouldn't be a party without him!" Eloise agreed with her Pokemon.
Mr. Salamone came to sign certain papers for him.
"Good morning, Mr. Salamone." Eloise greeted.
"Good morning, Eloise and Ditto..." Mr. Salamone replied, though he felt odd for talking to the Pokemon since he didn't really understand them.
"Hmm... It seems a bit busy today." Eloise looked all over the lobby.
"So you've noticed..." Mr. Salamone murmured.
'I wonder who all of this is for?' Ditto thought to itself.
"I'll only take a moment of your time, but my birthday tea party tomorrow won't be complete without my absolutely favorite hotel manager there." Eloise smiled up to Mr. Salamone as she gave him an invitation.
"I bet he says he won't make it or something like that." Ditto whispered.
"I can't promise, Eloise," Mr. Salamone firmly replied as he accepted the invite which proved Ditto's hunch to be correct. "We have a family from Japan arriving at the hotel, with a nine-year-old daughter if I might add."
"Really? Great!" Eloise's eyes lit up. "A new friend is an excellent birthday present, Mr. Salamone. I'll be sure to invite her too."
"Yeah, sounds great, a new friend for both of us." Ditto also smiled.
"Oh, I doubt she'll be able to make it, Eloise," Mr. Salamone smiled apologetically to the little girl he was forced to keep an eye on for his best client. "But remember, she's a very special girl, who I cannot, I repeat, cannot have you getting into trouble."
"Trouble? Me?" Eloise smirked. "Don't be silly, Mr. S... I'll see you at the party!"
"Bye-Bye!" Ditto waved.
Eloise saw that the elevator dinged and people filed into it. She then took a snooty expression and walked into the elevator to join them. "I think it's time to invite Max alone." she then whispered up to her Pokemon.
"Ooh, this is gonna be good." Ditto giggled as the elevator doors shut.
"Top floor." One of the men said.
"Oops, nobody move," Eloise told the adults. "I seemed to have dropped my pet arachnid. Don't worry, he won't bite... Probably. Someone told me tarantulas don't bite unless they're scared. Of course, he's probably scared to death right now. In fact, he's probably crawling up someone's leg as we speak."
The elevator soon dinged again and everyone else ran out of the elevator, screaming. Ditto soon burst out laughing.
"Fifth floor, please, Max." Eloise told the elevator attendant.
Max nodded silently as he moved the elevator up for her.
"This is for you, Maxie," Eloise then handed out an invitation. "My birthday party. Don't miss it!"
The elevator then came to the fifth floor and Eloise tumbled underneath a passing man and gave him an invite before going to the emergency exit door where the stairs were to invite the day maid known as Joanna.
"Should we see if your cousins would like to come?" Ditto asked.
"Oh, yes, definitely." Eloise said as she remembered that her cousins were visiting the hotel as Atticus and Mo had to stay at the hotel temporarily for a business visit, so they chose to stay at this very hotel since it was where Eloise lived and they even let Felicity come with them.
The girl and her Pokemon came up to the floor where the others were.
"I still don't get how Y can be a vowel sometimes." Akito said to his mother after she gave them homework papers for today.
"I never understood it either to be honest with you..." Mo sighed with a smirk as she understood how he felt.
"Well, at least we're learning something new." Estelle smiled.
There was then a knock at the door.
Felicity decided to get it and then smiled. "Oh, it is Eloise!"
"Hey, Eloise." Vincent smiled.
"How's it going, Eloise?" Akito and Estelle asked in unison.
"Just wanted to remind you all to come to my birthday party tomorrow in the Palm Court." Eloise replied as she handed them their invitations.
"We'll be there." Felicity smiled.
"Wanna help me with my other invitations?" Eloise asked.
"Sure!" The Fudo siblings and Felicity then left the room with her.
"Oh, wait, kids, I'm still teaching you and you haven't had your-" Mo tried to stop them, but the door shut and she then sighed. "Breakfast..."
"They'll eat when they get back." Atticus said.
Mo sighed as she then smiled to him.
Eloise stood close to the elevator as a woman walked by with her poodle until the door opened and she came in with her cousins. "Sixteen, please!"
"Oh, man, are we inviting Mrs. Thornton?" Akito groaned.
"Yes, yes, we are." Eloise nodded with a smile.
Akito groaned about that even more.
"Now, Akito, we made sure she could still live in the hotel, remember Christmas?" Estelle reminded.
"Yes, I remember..." Akito sighed.
Once they came to the sixteenth floor, Eloise took two sticks and began to knock on the doors with them which made everyone come out of their rooms and she did this to get Mrs. Thornton's attention before going to her own room for breakfast, and where this indeed get Mrs. Thornton's attention.
"Eloise, must you always be so loud?" Mrs. Thornton scolded the city child.
"My apologies, Mrs. Thornton," Eloise smiled before handing her an invitation which was being held tightly behind her suspenders. "By the way, tomorrow is my birthday party, and we're having quite a celebration at the Palm Court. It would mean oh, so much to me if you could come."
Mrs. Thornton took the invite out of the envelope and eyed it, she then went back into her room and shut the door without another word.
"We'll take that as a yes." Akito said.
Eloise soon came to the door and leaned on the buzzer to make it go off. The Fudo siblings and Felicity came to her sides so they could be let into the room once the door opened, and where Nanny was the one to open the door.
"Good morning, Nanny!" Eloise greeted her caretaker before hugging her and coming in with her cousins.
"Eloise, where on Earth were you and Ditto so early?" Nanny asked. "I was worried, worried, worried! You know you should never go anywhere without having your breakfast first."
"She must have woke up early to give everyone their invitations." Akito said.
"Yes, I did," Eloise replied as she lay on the couch as Weenie came to see her. "Everyone was tres excited. Except maybe possibly Mrs. Thornton... And guess what? A new family's coming to the Plaza today with a nine-year-old daughter!"
"It can't be Jenny, so don't get your hopes up." Felicity teased Vincent.
"Oh, ha ha ha, very funny." Vincent groaned.
"You did invite Jenny, right Eloise?" Estelle asked.
"Yes, I sent her invitation right to the mail chute last night." Eloise nodded.
"Great." Akito said.
"Yes, that's all wonderful, dears," Nanny replied as she put away some of Eloise's toys. "Now, I ordered us some food. You know you need to eat your oatmeal or you'll dry up. In fact, where is that Bill with my coffee? I feel like I'm going to drop, drop, drop."
"I think he's on his way." Akito said.
The telephone soon rang.
"I'll get it!" Eloise beamed as she answered the phone. "Hello, it's me, Eloise."
'Eloise, it's Mommy.' Darla's voice smiled.
"Hi, Mother!" Eloise beamed which made her cousins happy for you.
'How are you, baby?~' Darla asked.
"I'm wonderful! I absolutely love being seven!" Eloise beamed.
"You know you're actually not seven until tomorrow." Nanny said.
Eloise stuck her tongue out at Nanny. Nanny did the same in response.
"Mother, guess what?" Eloise smiled back on the phone. "A new little girl is arriving at the Plaza today, just in time for my birthday! Isn't that nice?"
'Oh, that's wonderful, I should let you know I sent you a birthday present.' Darla smiled.
"Really?!" Eloise beamed.
"Ooh, something must be coming from Paris." Estelle whispered.
'Yes, dear, really.' Darla smiled.
"Oh, I'll look for it." Eloise said then.
'I'd love to talk more, but I must get going,' Darla wrapped up the conversation. 'I love you and your cousins, behave yourself and take good care of Weenie, Skipperdee, Ditto, and Nanny.'
"Thank you, Mother!" Eloise smiled. "I love you, I love you, I love you!" She then hung up peacefully.
Soon enough, the doorbell buzzed.
"That must be Bill." Estelle said.
Eloise opened the door to see Bill who appeared to have an engagement ring on his finger while he was in uniform.
"Permission to come into the royal room of Her Majesty with her breakfast?" Bill asked in an Elizabethan accent while bowing to Eloise.
"Permission granted." Eloise said, acting like a queen.
Bill then came into the room, pushing the cart inside. The others then moved out of Bill's way with Eloise's pet pug and turtle.
"The queen's guard is desperately needing her coffee to keep the queen in check," Nanny said with a smile as she sat down at the table. "And she likes for it to be hot, hot, hot."
Teddy soon came out of his Pokeball and started to sniff the engagement ring on Bill's finger.
"Hey, little guy." Bill chuckled to the tiny Teddiursa, breaking character for a moment.
Teddy smiled up to Bill as he saw the ring and pointed to it.
"Ooh, Bill, are you married?" Estelle asked.
"Not yet, but someday, I will be." Bill smiled.
"Ooh." Estelle smiled.
"Food!" Weenie cheered as he sat at the table as Eloise picked up Skipperdee and set him on the table.
"Yeah!" Teddy smiled.
"A roast beef bone for the royal canine, two raisins for the queen's shell encased companion, a bowl of Pokemon pellets for Sir Ditto, and a sweet and delicious porridge for her Royal Highness." Bill served Eloise and her pets their breakfast.
Eloise took her seat and began to eat her oatmeal like she did every morning.
"Now is Her Royal Highness aware of the imminent arrival of a royal family to adjust to her royal subjects?" Bill asked Eloise.
"Indeed she is," Eloise smiled as she acted like a queen while role playing with her favorite hotel employee. "She's already planned to invite them to a yearly jubilee at the Palm Court, in which her royal servant Bill can be expected to preform his song and dance routine as usual."
"As the queen's loyal jester, I am humble, yet at her service," Bill bowed with a smile back before he broke character again. "Ooh, I gotta scoot. Mr. Salamone told us that the new family would be here and he wants us all down in the lobby."
"Cool." Akito smiled.
"Nanny, did you hear that?" Eloise beamed. "We have to go down there right now to meet them! The new girl will probably be needing a friend right away, and I shall absolutely be there for her!"
Nanny saw she couldn't argue with Eloise on that and agreed to it as they came to the elevator together.
