Atticus came home from work early which made his kids happily and cheerfully run to him. He smiled to them and had brought the mail with him and sat down to take a look at it with them. "Hey, a letter from Aunt Cherry." he told the kids.
"Yay! What's it say?" Estelle asked.
"Is she gonna mail us something?" Vincent asked.
Atticus opened the letter to see it was an invitation. "It's an invitation to a Christmas party at King Adam and Queen Belle's castle."
"Ooohh..." the kids sounded excited and happy, then asked eagerly and urgently if they could go.
"We all can." Atticus smiled.
"And that includes us kids." Patch told his pups that were still with the family.
"Yay!" Dot and Scruffy cheered.
Snow White yawned as she stumbled into the living room. "What's all the hubbub?" she asked. "I was having a lovely dream about Gay Purree~"
"We're going to a castle for Christmas, girl!" Vincent picked up his cat in delight.
"Oh, how lovely." Snow White smiled.
"I hope our Pokemon don't become too surprising for them." Estelle said.
"Hopefully they'll understand since Felicity has Misdreavus." Mo reassured.
The kids smiled excitedly and eagerly about going to Belle and Adam's for Christmas.
"Yeah, but one of the Pokemon looks like a bear cub." Vincent said.
"Don't worry, we'll take care of it," Atticus said before he thought of something. "Oh, I hope you kids remembered to address your packages for your cousin Eloise to Paris since your aunt brought her with her to Paris this holiday season."
"We remembered." the Fudo siblings replied in reassurance.
"Good," Atticus nodded with a smile. "Now, I want you kids to be on your best behavior and you'll have to look your best since we're going to be in a royal castle."
Vincent sighed. "I wish Jenny could dance with me in that ballroom..."
"Same with Emi." Akito sighed.
Atticus and Mo pouted to their children. The kids then went to get themselves ready for going to Belle and Adam's castle for the merry season and the most wonderful time of the year.
"They should be with their loved ones..." Mo said. "After all, I heard Felicity is quite smitten with Chip."
"I think Cherry might have thought ahead of us." Atticus said.
"How's that?" Mo asked. "She's really unpredictable."
"Oh, it's because she also put a note inside here for us to read and not let the kids read." Atticus said before showing the note to his wife.
Mo took the note to take a look at it. "'Dear Mo and Atticus, Forte and I have also invited Jenny Foxworth and Emi Ketchum to come'."
"What'd I tell you?" Atticus smiled.
Mo smiled back. The couple then decided to get ready to go themselves as a ride was going to be given to them.
Meanwhile, in France, Cherry sighed as she stared out an open window and looked out among the abundance of snow. A pigeon then flew in and held out his leg.
"Thank you, Witherspoon," Cherry said before giving him some birdseed to thank him for his services and she saw a note back from Atticus and Mo saying that they would be right there. "Ah, they're on the way."
"That's great." Forte smiled.
"Are you sure you wanna go through with this?" Cherry asked the man who was now her husband, or as they referred to each other as 'soul mates/lovers'. "I know how you feel about Christmas."
"Yes, I'm sure, I can't keep living in the past." Forte said.
"Only if you're sure..." Cherry said as she rested her hand onto her bulging stomach.
"Yes, I am." Forte said.
"Okay by me..." Cherry shrugged.
Felicity and Chip giggled as they followed after the castle decorator as they were going to help her make the castle all ready for the holiday festivity.
"This is so exciting." Chip smiled.
"Uh-huh." Felicity agreed.
Cherry sighed as she watched the children. "I miss the old times of innocence..."
Cherry winced and yelped out in pain.
"Contractions?" Forte guessed.
"I feel like he's trying to escape out my womb..." Cherry groaned.
"Cerise, that's silly, he's only a zygote..." Forte reminded her of their incoming child.
Cherry held her stomach as she could feel like a dagger was being cut inside of her stomach. "Maybe you're right."
"And what about the others, did they send replies?" Forte asked.
"Yes, they should be here in time for the party to start along with the villagers that Belle and Adam invited." Cherry replied.
"Great," Forte smiled. "And let me guess, Emi wanted her brother and friends to be included as well, right?"
"Right on the dot." Cherry said.
"Can't you at least smile?" Forte asked.
Cherry glanced at him, she then let out a small scowl as she tried to show her teeth. She then grunted and struggled before giving a rather frightening smile that could rival The Joker.
"Never mind the smile." Forte said.
"Finally, you managed to say something in our relationship that doesn't peeve me off..." Cherry returnd her stoic frown.
Forte released a long-suffering sigh as he then walked out the door with her following as the party had to get ready and fast, the evening would be there before they would all know it.
Back with the Fudos, they were getting ready themselves.
"I wonder if we'll get any presents from Belle and Adam." Estelle said as she brushed her hair.
"Maybe." Akito smiled while brushing his hair.
"Now, guys, don't get greedy," Vincent warned his younger twin siblings. "We're guests in Queen Belle and King Adam's home."
"Yes, Dad." Akito and Estelle smirked.
Vincent rolled his eyes about them calling him that, then continued to get himself ready. After brushing his hair, Akito then got down to the ground and started doing push-ups.
Estelle smiled at her hairstyle. "Thanks, Akito."
"No problem, Sis." Akito smiled to her.
Mo saw presents from her and Atticus's family members and put them in with the bags to surprise their kids with by the time they would get to the Christmas Party.
After getting himself ready, Atticus began doing push-ups too.
"Oh, my man~" Mo cooed.
Atticus chuckled as he got to work.
Meanwhile in New York City...
Jenny was getting ready herself, but she was told not to call Akito, Estelle, or Vincent, it was going to be a surprise.
Oliver jumped up on her bed and nuzzled against her while purring.
"You wanna go to the party too, don't you, Oliver?" Jenny picked the kitten up with a smile.
"Of course I do." Oliver said.
"Of course." Jenny nuzzled against her kitten.
Oliver smiled to her, very excited about going to his first ever Christmas party.
In Pallet Town...
"A Christmas party, maybe I'll dance with Akito..." Emi said as she was sitting on her bed with a dreamy look in her eyes after reading the invitation. "Akito and Emi~..."
"Akito and Emi sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, First comes love, then comes marriage, Then comes a baby in a baby carriage~" Ash sang teasingly.
"Do you mind?" Emi narrowed her eyes to her brother.
"Sorry, sorry." Ash laughed before leaving to get himself ready as well.
Emi rolled her eyes, then got ready. "So, are our friends coming with us?" she then asked.
"Yep, Brock's coming and so is Misty and Tracey and even Gary, even if he is my rival." Ash said.
"Gary, huh?" Emi replied. "Well, he better behave himself."
"I agree with you on that one." Ash agreed.
Pikachu scampered into the room with a Santa hat on to see the humans he loved the most.
"Aw! Look, Ash, it's Pika Clause." Emi giggled once she saw Pikachu wearing the Santa Clause hat.
Pikachu giggled to them.
"I guess you're ready to go too, huh, Pikachu?" Ash smiled down to the yellow mouse Pokemon.
"I sure am." Pikachu smiled.
Ash and Emi giggled as they hugged him and went back to packing up. Pikachu smiled as he watched them and was so excited about going to a Christmas party. Everyone was getting ready for the Christmas party and where no one was gonna want to miss it for the world.
"Zhank you for your help, children," the castle decorator smiled down to them. "You better get dressed, I will decorate the tree with zhose ornaments you all made."
Chip, Gabrielle, and Felicity smiled as they then went off to do just that. "You are welcome, Mademoiselle Angelique!" they called back as they were on their way to their rooms to get dressed up before it would be dark and the guests would be arriving.
"Zhey sure are going to have fun at zhe party." Angelique smiled.
"T-T-They sure are..." a young man said as he held a piccolo in his hands. "Um, Angelique, a-a-after I play my solo, w-w-would you l-l-like to... I mean if you don't want to, th-th-that's okay, but... Maybe if you want... I do want... Could we d-d-d... Could we...?" he then stammered, unable to spit out his request for her, he was trying to ask her to dance.
"I vould love to have a dance with you, Maestro Fife." Angelique smiled, but winked at him when she said Maestro.
Fife chuckled sheepishly as he turned bright red and was glad that she had accepted. "Great!"
Angelique smiled to him and then made her way downstairs. Fife sighed softly and dreamily to the castle decorator.