"Dat was amazing!" The black dog gasped as they were back in the alley. "You really are Santa Claus's dog, mon!"

"And that means we really are on the naughty list!" The bulldog added.

"Oh, yes, T-Money, multiple infractions." Paws told him.

"Yep." Patch nodded.

"You did us a solid, mon," The black dog said to Patch and Paws. "You be cool with us."

"Now we're your peeps," The bulldog added. "We'll keep an eye out for Santa. Fo' real."

"Thanks, guys." Paws smiled to that.

"Yeah, dawgs, thanks." Patch added.

"I hate to interrupt, but we've got to get away from the dog-catcher." The Scottish Terrier told his friends.

"You go hide, guys," The bulldog told Patch and Paws. "We got him covered."

Patch and Paws soon went and hid.

The dog-catcher soon came back and panted before the stray dogs barked at him. "There you are!" he then smirked.

The three stray dogs soon ran off for another chase.

"Argh!" The dog-catcher groaned before going after them next.

"How are we ever gonna find Santa?" Paws frowned to Patch.

"I'm sure we'll find him somehow." Patch said.

"I just hope Rudolph and the other reindeer are okay." Patch said to Paws as they hid away.

"Me too." Paws agreed.

They soon began to look for Santa which took them hours. Before they knew it, it was night time.

"Help! Help!" Paws and Patch called out.

"Has anybody seen Santa?" Paws frowned. "Help! Santa? Where are you? Can anybody hear me?"

"Please, can anybody hear us?!" Patch called out.

A little girl opened her window and soon came out to see the dogs.

"Hey, have you seen Santa Claus?" Paws asked the little girl.

"You're a dog!" The girl gasped before running to the fire escape to come down and see him. She then ran up to him and Patch. "I've never met a dog that talks before. Where did you come from?"

"I came from the North Pole," Paws replied. "My name's Paws."

"And I'm Patch; we're looking for Santa, we kinda got separated, and we can't seem to find him." Patch said.

"I'm Quinn," The little girl said. "So you guys know Santa Claus?"

"Yes, he's my best friend, but I can't find him, and I'm supposed to be taking care of him." Paws told her.

"Wow! He sure is quick at granting wishes." Quinn commented.

'Quick at granting wishes?' Patch thought to himself.

"I have to go," Quinn soon frowned. "If I get caught out here, I'll have to go to the basement."

"Can we come with you?" Paws asked. "We're really lost."

"The lady here is mean, so we have to hide you real good," Quinn told them before letting them come inside her new home. "Come on! Come on, guys!"

The two pups soon hurried into the building. They came inside and it was a bit warmer inside than it was outside.

"Shh..." Quinn reminded them to be quiet.

Patch nodded as he knew they would be quiet.

Quinn soon opened a closet which had cleaning supplies inside, and she flicked on the light. "We can sleep here tonight, and I can help you look for Santa tomorrow," she then told them before turning out the light again. "Good night, Patch and Paws."

"Good night, Quinn." Patch and Paws smiled back.

The next day soon came. Quinn smiled to the dogs as she sat up beside them.

"This place could use some Christmas cheer." Paws suggested before using his magic crystal.

And where soon, Christmas decorations were shown all around them.

"Much better." Patch smiled.

"Guys! Oh, wow!" Quinn beamed and laughed happily.

"More of this place should have decorations." Patch smiled.

Someone soon opened the door and it was an older girl. "Quinn!" she then whispered loudly as she came inside before looking around. "What are you doing in here?! Where'd these Christmas decorations come from?!" she then looked to see the two dogs. "Where'd you find those puppies?"

"I didn't find them, they found me," Quinn told her. "They came from the North Pole on Santa's sleigh. Guys, this is Will."

"Hi, it's nice to meet you." Patch smiled at Will.

"Shh!" Will told him. "Quinn, those dogs can't bark in here! Do you have any idea how much trouble we'll get in?!"

"But they're not barking, they're talking." Quinn replied.

"Quinn, dogs don't talk." Will sighed to the younger girl.

"She can't understand us, Quinn; she doesn't have the Christmas spirit." Patch told her.

"Shh!" Will hissed which made Paws whimper.

"We need to help them, Will," Quinn pouted. "We need to show him the way to Santa. We know where he is."

"Quinn, l told you that Santa in the store is not real." Will replied firmly.

"Wait a minute, did she say that there was a Santa in a store?" Patch smiled at Paws.

"We have to see him!" Paws replied.

"Quinn, can you take us to the store where you met the store Santa?" Patch smiled at the girl next to them.

"Well, I can try." Quinn smiled back.

Will groaned as she couldn't hear Patch or Paws talking. She just heard crude barking.

It took some time to wait for Quinn.

"It took quite a while, so you can imagine." Patch's voice narrated.

"Mm..." Dot replied thoughtfully.

Scruffy also nodded as he was starting to believe in Santa Paws again.

Quinn, Patch, and Paws looked out the window as the rude blonde woman that the two dogs saw earlier with Santa Claus was now getting ready to go out to her car.

"That was the lady from before." Patch whispered.

"Ms. Stout is going out," Quinn told the dogs. "We've got two hours."

"That should be more than enough time to get to the store." Patch said.

Once Ms. Stout left, they began to sneak out to go to the toy store to see Santa, and where it took them a few minutes to get there. When they got there, there were a bunch of kids waiting in line to meet Santa Claus.

"This is the place Santa is selling toys." Quinn told the dogs.

"Okay, I'll be right back." Paws smiled before going inside the toy store.

"I'm going in too." Patch said.

Quinn smiled as she waited outside for the dogs.

A little boy began to whine and struggle as he sat on Santa's lap as the dogs came inside.

"Okay, you're done, thank you for coming." The Santa muttered before putting the little boy off of his lap.

Patch was unconvinced before he began to sniff around for Santa's scent. Paws had a feeling that wasn't the Santa he knew, but he wasn't too sure.

"That Santa's like from that Bad Santa movie Cherry watches every year." Patch said to Paws as they left the toy store.

Quinn looked surprised to see them back so soon.

"That's not the real Santa, but thank you for your help, Quinn." Patch said to the little girl.

"Patch is right." Paws said.

They soon walked off from the toy store.

"Will was right?" Quinn frowned.

"We soon started to make our way back to the orphanage." Patch's voice narrated.

Scruffy and Dot felt bad once they were told the Santa they found wasn't the real one.

"Unknown to us, the real Santa was there, but he was just resting because someone had stolen his magic crystal which was a really bad thing." Patch told them.

"Someone stole Santa's crystal?" Scruffy gasped before glaring. "Ooh, I bet he's on the naughty list for life now!"

"Probably." Collette replied.

"And without his magic crystal, Santa would have died." Patch told them.

Scruffy and Dot gasped at the idea of Santa Claus dying.

"But of course the person that took his magic crystal didn't know that without the magic crystal, Santa's life would start depleting." Patch said.

"So what happened next?" Scruffy asked.

"Well, the only thing we could do was bring Quinn back to her new home." Patch replied.

Patch, Paws, and Quinn were soon seen heading back to the orphan home.

"I'm sorry that wasn't the real Santa." Quinn frowned to the dogs.

"It's okay, we'll find him." Patch smiled.

A girl was soon seen by the window as she saw Quinn outside before she rushed out. "Quinn, you got puppies?" she then asked.

"Shh!" Quinn shushed her.

"Come on!" The girl whispered loudly to bring her inside.

Quinn, Patch, and Paws soon came into the building with the girl.

"Are they yours?" The girl asked Quinn.

"It's a bit of a long story." Quinn replied.

Patch nodded as it was a long story about how she met him and Paws.

"That was Janie," Quinn told Patch and Paws. "She's one of my new friends along with Mary, Meg, and Will."

Soon enough, they were in the girls' bedroom while Ms. Stout was fast asleep as she was snoring.

"The white one's name is Paws and the one with spots is named Patch." Quinn told the girls.

"Where'd they come from?" Mary asked.

"I'm Santa Claus's best friend from the North Pole." Paws smiled.

"He just talked!" Janie gasped.

"He's not the only one that can talk." Patch smiled.

"They both just talked!" Janie gasped again.

"Shh!" Will urged the dogs as she just heard barking. "Don't tell me you guys are imagining things though." she then begged the other orphans.

"Only kids who truly believe in the spirit of Christmas will hear Paws talk." Patch told the girls.

"Shh!" Will glared at the dogs since they were barking.

"How can you not hear him?" Mary asked Will.

"Are your ears working properly?" Janie asked.

"He's talking right to you!" Taylor piped up.

"You gotta believe, Will, just listen!" Quinn added.

Janie soon went onto a cot before taking out a plunger like a microphone. "Whenever I hear a Christmas song I wanna get up and sing~" she then began to sing.

"When there's love, I sing along and find some bells to ring~" Meg sang as she used to handheld brushes as bells.

Will just looked at the other girls like they had lost their minds.

"Wherever there's angels up above~" Quinn sang.

"Wherever there's Christmas trees~" Mary sang as she rolled on her cot.

"There's gonna be peace and hope and love and wonderful memories~," The girls all sang together, except for Will. "There'll be laughter there'll be song we'll o caroling all night long~"

"Believing in Christmas makes it magic, can't you see?~" Patch and Paws sang.

"Guys, if you don't quiet those puppies Ms. Stout is going to hear them barking." Will told the girls.

"You don't hear Paws talking?" Quinn, Mary, Meg, and Janie asked her.

"Don't you remember Ms. Stout's rules about singing?" Will crossed her arms, sitting firmly on her own cot.

"It's better to give than receive~" Quinn sang.

"Blessings for you and me~" Janie and Mary sang.

"Staying up late on Christmas Eve~" Meg and Taylor sang.

"Will there be presents for me?" Will asked.

"No, you're not listening, Will." Paws and Patch said.

"There'll be laughter, there'll be song, we'll O caroling all night long~" Quinn, Mary, Meg, and Janie sang to Will.

"Believing in Christmas makes it magic, can't you see?~" Patch and Paws added.

The girls soon got up and started to dance happily while Will just looked confused.

"I do believe in Christmas, I believe in love, As sure as there is Santa ringing sleigh bells up above~" The girls all sang in excitement. "We do believe in harmony and family and good cheer, Throughout the year~"

The girls soon began to dance and two of them got their beds with feather dusters while the other two got themselves brooms.

"Whenever there's hope in the air~" Quinn sang as she waved her feather duster into the air.

"Whenever we light the tree, Whenever there's love in our prayers, That's Christmas time for me~" The other girls sang with their own feather-dusters or brooms before Paws's magic crystal poofed their chore tools into colorful designs into horse stick toys.

Janie soon threw a pillow at one of the girls and they all got into a pillow fight.

"Whenever I hear a Christmas song, I wanna get up and sing, Whenever there's love I sing along and find some bells to ring~," The girls continued to sing while Paws used his magic to make the cots and pillows more colorful and gave the girls new dresses to wear, even Will. "There'll be laughter there'll be song, we'll go caroling all night long, Believing in Christmas makes it magic can't you see, For you and me~"

Will soon went up to Quinn and got her down from her cot and they began to dance with the other girls.

"I do believe in Christmas, I believe in love, As sure as there is Santa ringing sleigh bells up above, We do believe in harmony and

family and good cheer, Throughout the year, (Throughout the year)~" The girls sang as there was soon a Christmas tree in their room all decorated and glowing. "I do believe in Christmas, I believe in love, As sure as there is Santa ringing sleigh bells up above, We do believe in harmony and family and good cheer, (Good cheer), We do believe in Christmas, Throughout the year~"

"We do believe in Christmas throughout the year~" Patch then sang like Twilight after singing a Hearth's Warming song from her favorite storybook. He soon saw his pups smirking playfully. "What?" Patch asked.

"You know you're doing a little girl voice, right?" Scruffy replied.

"I was not!" Patch smiled bashfully to his pups while Collette giggled to him.

"So what happened next?" Dot asked.

"Unfortunately, the very sweet moment got spoiled..." Patch sighed.

Ms. Stout soon busted into the room which worried the girls. "WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE?!" she then snarled.

The girls then stood up nervously from Will's cot and Patch and Paws looked over to the woman.

"Willamehna, who brought these puppies in here?!" Ms. Stout demanded.

"It was me out; I found Paws and Patch." Quinn admitted.

"Nice try, Quinn, but I don't believe you!" Ms. Stout glared at the little girl. "Don't think I don't know who the leader of this circus is! WILLAMEHNA! COME WITH ME!"

Will soon walked over as the two dogs stared at Ms. Stout.

"That's a pretty gem..." Ms. Stout said as she soon grabbed a hold of Paws's magic crystal.

"Hey, let that go!" Patch barked as he bit her hand.

"Yow!" Ms. Stout yelped. "Why, you little-"

Patch growled as he kept the magic crystal away from her and the girls gasped out of fright once they saw that he had bitten her.

"Give me that crystal or so help me, I will be sure that the pound puts you two to sleep!" Ms, Stout threatened.

Patch glared, but feared the worst.

"You hate naps too, Dad?" Scruffy's voice asked.

"Uh... Well, son... Being put to sleep is a little more severe than 45 minutes of sleep after lunch." Patch's voice said nervously.

"When someone says being put to sleep, it, um, means when some is, um, asleep for a long time and never wakes up." Collette's voice added.

"Oh..." Scruffy's voice replied before realizing in horror. "Ohh!"

Ms. Stout held out her hand. Patch really didn't want to give up the crystal, but he soon did as he didn't want himself or Paws to die.

Ms. Stout soon put the crystal in her pocket, and took the dogs out of the room. "And the rest of you, clean up this mess, and take off those ridiculous dresses, NOW!" she then demanded on her way out.

The girls frowned as they began to do as they were told as the woman stormed out. Will, Patch, and Paws were soon taken down to the very bottom floor of the orphanage.

"Well, I hope you enjoy each other's company down here in the pitch black," Ms. Stout said as she set down the puppies as Will sat down on the cold floor. "Tomorrow, the mutts go to the pound."

Will didn't say anything, but she looked a bit sad right now. Ms. Stout soon went back upstairs.

"She sure is heartless." Patch whispered to Paws.

Paws nodded to Patch as this was depressing, and so close to Christmas too.

Will looked miserable as she began to sing her own song. "Why don't I believe in happiness and dreams? And where do I belong? Where did it go wrong? Who will come and rescue me!~" she then began to sing out of sadness before she broke down crying.

"Don't give up, Will, all you have to do is believe." Paws told her.

Will soon looked at Paws as she could finally understand him.

"Everything's going to be okay." Patch smiled.

"I can understand you, Paws and Patch!" Will soon smiled back.

"You do believe in Christmas after all!" Paws beamed to that.

"I do believe in Christmas~" Will sang as she hugged the dogs. "I do believe in love~"

"As long as there is Santa ringing sleigh bells up above~" Patch and Paws sang.

"We do believe in harmony, In family, And good cheer, Throughout the year~" They all sang together as it made the situation a little bit better.