One Year Ago...

The castle is dusty and not as lively as it was before, and the servants were still enchanted objects. Mike, Lu, and Og went with the main servants they often hung around with around here, Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Chip.

"Are you three sure you haven't seen him?" Chip asked.

"We're positive, we don't know where he could be." Mike replied.

"Oh, where is he?" Lu sighed.

"Goodness knows!" Mrs. Potts exclaimed. "We searched very last corner!"

"Maybe he's not in the castle at all." Og suggested.

Lumiere hopped to the window and cleared out some of the condensation and looked out to see the Beast was walking by the ice outside. "Viola! There he is!"

"Wonderful!" Mrs. Potts leaped with joy.

"No time to waste," Cogsworth concluded. "We must find a way to get them together!"

"Let's go!" Lumiere dashed by the living mantle clock. "Love will not wait!"

Mike, Lu, and Og then ran with Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts and Chip to get the Beast.

"You really think she's the one?" Chip asked. "Will she break the spell?"

Lumiere chuckled. "I knew it from the moment I laid eyes on her!"

"If anyone can reach the Master, Belle can," Mrs. Potts smiled. "Such a kind soul..."

"They'll be perfect!" Mike beamed as she ran with Lu and Og.

"And her looks don't hurt either." Lumiere added suavely.

Chip giggled at that.

"Wait for me!" Cogsworth was trailing behind.


Belle slowly came up the steps and saw her new friends.

"Hiya, Belle!" the kids greeted as Cogsworth slammed into the wall as they all slid and stopped in front of the young woman.

Belle giggled. "Hello..." she then gasped and smiled to her child friends. "Guys, do you know what day it is?"

"Well... It's not... Tuesday..." Chip tried to think.

"Halloween?" Mike shrugged.

"No, today's December 24th," Belle chuckled, then saw they all looked blank and not excited. "The day before Christmas!"

"And what a beautiful day it is!" Lumiere quickly said, a little nervous, but calm. "A wonderful day for a morning stroll..." he took Belle's hands to walk her out of here.

"Yes, yes," Mrs. Potts agreed as they walked off. "Nothing starts the day like a brisk walk around the grounds."

"How about ice-skating?" Og suggested.

"That's a great idea!" Chip liked the sound of that as he slid on the floor.

"Yes, yes, fresh air, exercise..." Cogsworth stretched, but broke his back. "In moderation of course..."


Mike, Lu, and Og met Belle in a new part of the castle. They got on their winter jackets and their boots to go outside with her. They may not have been allowed to leave the castle grounds, but they could have some fun around here too.

"Come along, Belle, dear!" Mrs. Potts called. "The great outdoors awaits!"

"Yeah, let's go!" Chip was excited.

Belle took her skates off the post, then went to get her coat, but the rack named Jean put it on for her. "Merci, monsieur..." she smiled.

"Let's get our skate on." Lu smiled as she cracked the door open and flinched a bit with the bright snow outside.

Belle put her hand above her eyes as she looked around, then saw a familiar furry face. "Oh, good morning!"

The Beast looked over to her, then slid by the ice and fall on his backside.

"Yowch," Lu cringed. "I felt that..."

"Is he gonna be okay?" Mike asked.

Belle slid over to the Beast instantly. "Oh, dear... Are you alright?"

The Beast got up, he seemed more nervous than usual anger. "I fell... And I landed on my..." he looked to his tail, then bundled himself with his cape. "O-On the ice..."

"It's pretty slippery..." Belle smiled apologetically.

"Yes... It's... Slippery..." the Beast muttered.

"Come on, guys," Mike suggested she, Lu, and Og leave the couple alone. "I'll teach you how to build a snowman."


Belle was going to teach the Beast how to ice skate while Mike taught the cousins how to make a snowman. Lu and Og came by, rolling balls into the snow and piling them on top of each other. Mike looked around for sticks for arms, Lu went to find coal and stones for eyes, and Og went to find a hat, scarf, and carrot to finish him off with.

"There was once a snowman named Frosty," Mike told her friends. "He was a jolly happy soul... With a corncob pipe and two eyes made out of coal... These kids found this magician and took his hat and Frosty came to life!"

"No way!" Lu scoffed in disbelief.

Mike shrugged. "Just a story Mom and Dad always told me... I doubt it really happened."

"We have one too," Og said as he tied the scarf around the snowman. "Slushy the Sandman... Old Queeks says he comes to life once a year on the island sand and preys on any bad children who wake him up from his nap."

"Old grouch..." Lu mumbled about Old Queeks.

"Yeah..." Mike smiled once the snowman was done. "Great, guys! What should we name him?"

"How about Joshua?" Og suggested. "The middle name of our Island Founder, Wendell Joshua Albonquetine."

"That actually sounds like a good idea," Lu smiled. "I'm sure Dad, Marjorie and Alfred would approve if they were here."

"I wish I had my camera," Mike smiled. "This is the best snowman I've ever made... And it's all thanks to you guys!"

The kids then looked over as Belle kept teaching the Beast as the servants watched.

"Come on, why don't you try like this?" Belle suggested, then showed an example and looked back to him. "See, it's easy."

The Beast blinked, trying to get through the ice himself, skating on his hind paws the best he could, following Belle's example.

"Yes," Mrs. Potts smiled. "I think this may work..."

Mike, Lu, and Og smiled. They decided to go back inside temporarily. When they did, they heard creepy organ music.


"Yikes..." Mike shivered from the rather frightening music. "What's that? Does Erik work here?" She asked, making a reference to the famous story of The Phantom of the Opera.

"It's coming from in there!" Og pointed to a couple of double doors in the West Wing.

Lu remembered what she and the others were told, especially Belle. "We shouldn't go in there..."

"Good point..." Mike nodded, even if her curiosity was deeply piqued about who might be playing the music.

Mike then decided to make hot chocolate for her friends.

"You sure you're allowed to be in Mrs. Potts's kitchen like this, Mike?" Lu asked.

"Trust me," Mike walked by with several pots and pans in her hands, but she carried them as if they were light as feathers. "I make hot chocolate at home all the time. Sometimes steamy chicken noodle soup too."

"That'll be good..." Og smiled.

Mike smiled back, she then got the hot chocolate ready. Lu kept asking her if 'it was ready yet' over and over to which Mike replied 'not now'.

"Is it ready yet...?" Lu asked for the hundredth time.

"Now it's ready..." Mike said as she poured the liquid into cups, then handed them over to her friends. "Bottoms up!"

Og and Mike drank their cups. Lu stared at hers, but she tried it slowly, smacking her lips and smiled. She then drank more of it.

"This is loads better than tea!" Lu smiled.

"Come on, let's check on everyone." Mike suggested with their cups of hot chocolate.


The three kids went outside as Belle and the Beast kept skating together and everyone watched from the snow-covered bridge. The others told them they kept skating together and were having a great time together so far.

"Hey, down in front!" a voice spoke up behind them. "I wanna see! Lemme see! I wanna see too!" It grew impatient and squeaked with a whistle, making everyone turn to shush it. It was revealed to be a piccolo Mike, Lu, and Og hadn't met.

"Oh, this is very promising." Cogsworth was delighted.

"Ah, there is something in the air," Lumiere smirked. "Could it be love?"

"Love!?" the piccolo panicked. "I've got to stop them!" He slide down the bridge and flew across the air.

Mrs. Potts looked annoyed. "What's that little toot up to?"

Mike sipped more from her cup. "Who is that little toot anyway?"

"His name is Fife." Mrs. Potts answered, still firm with the living instrument.

Og chuckled. "A piccolo named Fife... How clever..."

Lu giggled as well. "Yeah."


Fife fell in the middle of the ice and slid a little. Belle and the Beast were going past him as they were in each other's arms to skate together. Fife grabbed ahold of the Beast's cape, which then ripped and made the two fall into the snow and Fife flung back against a tree, then the snow in it, plopped down on him. Belle gasped, but then smiled as she had an idea, then flopped back into the snow as Mike, Lu, and Og came over.

"It's a Christmas angel, see?" Belle smiled as she showed him.

The Beast smiled, but saw his own, making him frown.

"Uh, nice angel, Beast..." Lu smiled nervously.

"This is no angel..." the Beast grumbled. "It's the shadow of a MONSTER!" He growled and roared, attacking the snow, then stormed off inside the castle.

"I don't know why I bother..." Belle sighed as she fell back. "Now he's worse than ever..."

"Don't lose hope, dearest." Mrs. Potts coaxed.

Mike, Lu, and Og came over for extra comfort.