Chapter 99
(December 24, Loud House)
Lincoln awakes with a bright smile on his face. "Ah! Nothing like waking up to a beautiful almost Christmas morning."
He gets off the bed and puts on his slippers and heads for the bathroom, Patriot gets up and looks around, then he just goes back to sleep.
Lincoln finishes using the bathroom and gets hugged by Luna. "Morning bro! Almost Christmas!"
Lincoln chuckles and returns the hug. "It sure is and I can't wait for the Rosato's to be here."
"Same here little dude, and later when the festivities commence we'll be jamming out with the song I made" said Luna.
"Wouldn't wanna miss it sis" said Lincoln.
Luna then heads into the bathroom.
Lincoln then looks to the reader. "As it turns out. Luna, me and Jordan will be performing the song together, since Luna did teach me and my friends how to be a band. Which we might be in the future, maybe. So I will be on drums, Jordan on the Keyboard and Luna of course on her axe and we will also be singing with her! And it's gonna be awesome!"
Patriot wakes up again and flies out of the room and into the bathroom just as Luna comes out.
Then Patriot flies out looking red and hides underneath his bed. As it turns out, Lori was showering in there. Dear god!
Later in the day Lincoln is in the Tree house watchtower looking out with his binoculars and by his side is Patriot also on look out.
"Hey bud, you think you can take to the skies now and check?" asked Lincoln.
Patriot nods and flies off with his keen eagle eyes searching for the Rosato van.
Meanwhile inside of the Loud House.
Lynn Sr is making a lot of Christmas food. He decided to make some cake, a roast chicken and some stew. Changing up the Christmas menu for this year.
Helping him is Lori and Luan who is timing down her twelve puns till Christmas.
"Hey Luan, can you pass me the cheese sauce" said Lynn Sr.
"Sure thing dad. Yule won't be getting any Christmas blue cheese this time!" said Luan. "Two of the day! And I didn't mistletoe that one!"
"Haha! Three in a row! Nice one Luan!" said Lynn Sr.
Lori sighs. "Maybe I should've helped mom instead."
Meanwhile in the living room, Rita and Leni are decorating the house.
"Your new design for the stockings is great Leni" said Rita.
"Thanks mom, I thought it would be better than making the stockings go beyond the chimney" replied Rita.
The Christmas stockings were now going around the fireplace and this time they added the name of their newest member Patriot.
"At least you're not turning our Christmas decorations into any outfit this time" said Rita.
"No need to worry mom. I already made myself a new one with some of the old unused Christmas blanket" said Leni.
"Which one the red or blue one?" asked Rita.
"Both" replied Leni.
Rita sighed in relief. Those were the ones they haven't used in ten years.
Lucy is outside making a snow skeleton man and she's doing a good job.
"How are you making that?" asked Lana while setting up a reindeer trap.
Lucy sighs. "I guess I'm just that creative, for dead things."
They then see Lola coming out of Mr. Grouse's house carrying his luggage and Mr. Grouse following.
"You sure you wanna do this kid?" asked Mr. Grouse.
Lola struggles and drags the suitcases. "I'm sure dear good old Mr. Grouse. Let me take these for you so you won't sprain yourself."
Lucy and Lana shake their heads with disappointment.
Lisa comes out of her bunker and sees this. "She still wants to be in Santa's nice list, how typical."
Lisa then heads back inside.
Lola soon manages to get the luggage into the back of the taxi and tries to catch her breath.
"Okay, so how much do I owe ya?" asked Grouse.
"No need good sir. Just wanted to do something nice for you is all" replied Lola with a smile.
Mr. Grouse just looks at her with annoyance. "Sure, whatever. Seriously don't try too hard to be on the nice list kid." He then enters the taxi and drives off.
"Goodbye Mr. Grouse! Have fun with your family for Christmas!" said Lola.
Lola then heads back inside, but not to rest, but to see what other good deeds she can do.
"She tries too hard" said Lucy.
"That's just the same old Lola as I remember" said Lana.
"Also, is it really necessary to leave out Reindeer traps?" asked Lucy.
"Of course! I wanna keep one as a pet!" said Lana with a smile.
Lucy stops what she's doing and grabs Lana's hand and they sit down by the porch.
"Lana, listen. I know you want to have one as a pet, but have you ever considered how the reindeer feels when you capture it? One of them could be Santa's reindeer and he or she might have a family back home. As I read from books, they are the loyal and great creatures of Saint Nick himself and they have a job to do. Do you understand?" said Lucy.
Lana realizes what she's doing was the one thing she doesn't like on TV. Poaching.
"I …. I … You're right Lucy. I'm being too much with myself! What was I thinking?!" cried Lana.
Lucy hugs her little sister and Lana hugs her back. "Shhh. It's okay, I'm glad you came to your senses. Also what if Jordan stepped in one of your traps or her parents."
Lana's eyes shoot wide open and she remembers what happened the last time Jordan got hurt from a trap, basically Luan's trap.
"We gotta go and disarm all ten of my traps around the house!" said Lana.
Lucy smiled. "Let me help you. Wait a minute! Ten traps?"
On the Tree House Lincoln smiled with pride. "That's my little gothic sis."
Lincoln then spots a Reindeer bear trap underneath a pile of snow and he sees Lynn tossing her football around. So Lincoln uses a snow ball and throws it onto the trap and it catapults upward with a large clamping sound.
This startles Lynn and she notices the triggered trap. She looks to the Tree House and sees Lincoln. "Thanks bro!"
"Careful sis! I think there could be more!" yelled Lincoln.
Lynn looks around the backyard and backs away and into the house. "Noted!"
Lana and Lucy come to the backyard and start searching for her traps. Lola notices this and volunteers to help. Of course she would.
Then Lincoln hears a car horn sound, he then sees Patriot squawking and circling a violet van. "They're here!"
Lincoln heads down the tree house and passes by the garage.
Then Lana remembers something. "Lincoln no stop!"
But it was too late, Lincoln stepped on a trigger and he is catapulted over the house and lands onto Lucy's snow skeleton.
The Rosato van stops and sees this. Jordan comes out and races towards him, so does Patriot. "Lincoln! Are you okay?!"
Lincoln comes out of the snow pile unharmed. "I'm fine."
Lucy, Lola and Lana come to the front yard.
"Lincoln! I'm so sorry! I forgot about my reindeer catapult!" said Lana with some tears.
"Are you okay Linky?" asked Lola.
"Thank goodness you landed on Shawn the Snow Skeleton" said Lucy. She then picks up the snow skull.
Lincoln goes to Lana. "You're lucky I wasn't badly hurt, otherwise mom and dad would ground you for a week."
Lana wipes away some of her tears. "I-I'm sorry brother. I really a-am."
Lincoln kneels down and hugs her. "Be lucky that neither Lola, Lucy, Lisa nor anyone else triggered it."
Lana hugs him back. "Okay, now go and clean up the rest of your traps" said Lincoln.
Lucy, Lola and Lana head inside to do that. But then Lola notices the large tray of brownies Jesse Rosato has.
"Please! Allow me to carry those for you" said Lola.
Jesse and Rick are confused by this. "Umm, okay. Thank you Lola" said Jesse.
Lola heads inside and even opens the door for them. "After you dearest guests."
Rick, Jesse and Jordan are confused by this.
Lincoln whispers to them. "She's trying to undo a whole year of naughty to Santa."
"Oh" replied the Rosato's.
They all head inside where they are greeted by the rest of the Louds.
Lynn Sr even brings out some hot cocoa for all of them to enjoy.
"So, where's Luna?" asked Jordan.
"Upstairs, come on. She probably has all of the instruments ready" replied Lincoln.
Lincoln and Jordan head upstairs and pass by Lucy and Lana who were now carrying what was left of the Reindeer net.
Lisa comes out of her room and hands Lana her reindeer cage trap. "Thankfully it only contained Geo and not me."
"Sorry Lisa" said Lana.
Luna is in the room tuning her axe. Then the door is open and she sees the two kids who will be joining her. "And there are my little musical inclined kiddos!"
"Hey Luna, looks like everything is ready" said Jordan.
"Sure is little J. and tonight we are gonna make it as awesome as it can be!" said Luna.
"So, should we practice or something?" asked Lincoln.
"No need little bro. once the beat starts just follow the rhythm and you'll figure it out" said Luna.
"Well, now that we're all here. Let's go and see what the rest of the sisters are doing" said Jordan.
They all head out of the room and see Luan come out of the bathroom.
"Hey there Jordan, you're looking angel-like this season! Yes and that's four!" said Luan.
"Umm, what's this all about?" asked Jordan.
"Oh yeah. Luan does her twelve puns of Christmas every year" said Lincoln.
"And I'm on a Christmas roll today, making puns to all and to all a good night!" said Luan. "Yes! That's six!"
"Yep, Christmas Puns" said Luna.
They all head downstairs and see Lori relaxing on the couch along with Lisa drinking some hot chocolate.
"Hey Lori" said Jordan.
"Oh hey there Jordan. Happy holidays" said Lori.
"And t you too. So how is Bobby?" asked Jordan.
"He sent me some video messages showing how their party before Christmas is starting" said Lori. "Their actually having a large party at the apartment with all of their neighbors."
"Wow! I'm pretty sure Ronnie Anne and Sid are gonna be enjoying themselves" said Lincoln.
"What are the odds that Sid is gonna be wearing a mistletoe on her head?" giggled Jordan.
"That is literally adorbs" said Lori.
"Then I hope she doesn't Claus too much confusions! It's Christmas not Valentines and she might get smore than she bargained for!" said Luan. "And that make it all eight!"
"I still question this whole situation with Luan" said Lisa.
They then see Lynn Jr helping Lana and Lucy reach for the Reindeer drop net on the ceiling.
"Almost there!" said Lana who is on Lucy's shoulders and Lucy is on Lynn's shoulders.
"This is one great work out for me" said Lynn Jr.
"Now that's what I call stocking under the tree" said Luan. "And that's nine!"
Lincoln and Jordan soon head to the tree house to relax.
They spot Patriot flying into the house and straight to the living room where he sees Waltz reading another letter from his duck girlfriend, Charles is asleep under the tree, Cliff is playing with a ball of tinsel and Geo is rolling around with some of the Christmas ornaments.
"Looks like the pets are feeling ornamental today" said Luan. "On a roll with nine! Yes!"
Lily crawls up to Lori who picks her up and places a gift wrap bow on her head, making Lily giggle.
"By the way, are you expecting a package today?" asked Lori.
"Sure am. It's from Bobby, I also sent one to him as well" replied Lori.
Then they hear a knock on the door, Rick answers it and sees a delivery man with a child sized gift. "Hey Lori! I think this is for you."
Lori gets up and hands Lily to Luan, signs the paper and picks up the gift.
Lori sighs and places it underneath the tree. "I'm gonna text Bobby that I got it! And see if he got mines!"
"Easy there Lori! The past was the past, this is the Present, so keep calm and jingle on!" said Luan. "Wow! I'm almost done with this I'm up to eleven now!"
Lisa straightens her glasses. "This is ridiculous."
Leni is in her room and secretly brings out two gift wrapped boxes, one named for Lincoln and the other for Lisa. "I hope they like these." She then picks them up and hides them beneath her bed.
Soon there is another knock and Rita opens it to see. "Oh Dad, Myrtle you both made it!"
"Well of course, a big family get together before Christmas is something me and my sweet heart don't wanna miss" said Albert.
"My first Christmas with such a big family. I'm sure some of you are busy so I wish to help out as well" said Myrtle.
Rita chuckles. "Well, Lynn is busy making the roast chicken, I guess he could sue some back up next top Jesse."
"Oh, now Roast chicken is my specialty!" said Myrtle. She then heads to the kitchen with her knuckles cracked.
"She ain't lying. She makes a mean sweet roast chicken and it's healthy too" replied Albert.
Then Lola and Lana run to hug their Pop-pop.
"There's my little scamps. What have you two been up to?" said Albert.
"I decided not to catch a reindeer this year, I wanna make a change for myself" said Lana.
"Well that's really nice sweetie" said Albert.
"Is there anything you need Pop-pop? A foot rub? Some hot chocolate? A trim?" asked Lola.
Albert chuckles. "Still trying to get on Santa's good side I see. How about we just relax on the couch, but I could use some hot cocoa though."
"On it!" said Lola as she rushes to the dining room.
"Literally tries too much" said Lori.
"Indeed" said Lisa.
"That's Lola for ya" said Lana.
"Hey Pop-pop! Wanna arm wrestle?" asked Lynn Jr.
Albert likes the competitiveness. "Bring it on Junior, but I won't go easy on ya."
The two go on with their arm wrestling challenge.
"I'm surprised you and Lucy aren't searching for presents" said Albert as he overpowers his granddaughter.
"It maybe be a great work out for me, but I decided to take a break from it. There's always next year!"
And she loses to Pop-pop. "Told ya I wasn't gonna go easy on ya."
Lynn Jr also chuckles. "Best two out of three?"
"You're on junior" said Albert.
Lola returns with the hot chocolate and decides to root for both Pop-pop and Lynn Jr.
Soon it was nightfall and both families were now getting ready for Christmas dinner, but they remembered that Luna had a Christmas song for all of them to listen to.
They all spot a note on the coffee table and it says. "Come to the Backyard, its one song we'll all be remembering for as long as we live."
Lynn Sr and Rick have their camera ready to record and so does Lori with her cellphone camera.
They all head to the backyard and see Lincoln on the drums, Jordan on the keyboard and Luna on her axe and all three of them are wearing Santa style outfits.
"S-Santa's?!" said Lola with shock.
"Ready little dudes?" asked Luna.
"Ready!" replied Lincoln and Jordan.
Luna: Ho, ho, ho …
Shake up the happiness
Wake up the happiness
Shake up the happiness
It's Christmas time!
There was a story that I was told
And I wanna tell the world before I get to old
And don't remember it, so let's December it
And reassemble it, Oh yeah!
Jordan: Once upon a time in a town like this
A little girl made a great big wish
To fill the world full of happiness
And be on Santa's magic list!
All three: Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Luna: Ho, ho, ho …
Ho, ho, ho …
It's Christmas time!
Lincoln: At a same town miles away
A little boy made a wish that day
That the world would be okay
And Santa Clause would hear him say
I got dreams and I got love
I got my feet on the ground and Family above
Can you send some happiness with my best
To the rest of the people of the East and the West.
Jordan: And maybe once in a while
You give my grandma a reason to smile
Tis' the season to smile
It's cold but we'll be freeing in style.
Luna: And let me meet a girl one day
That wants to spread some love this way
We can let our souls run free
And she can open some happiness with me!
All three: Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Luna and Jordan: I know you're out there
I hear your reindeer
I see the snow wear
Your boots have been.
Luna and Lincoln: I'm gonna show them
So they will know then
Then love will grow in
They believe again!
All three: Shake it up (shake it up), shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Ho, ho, ho …
Ho, ho, ho …
It's Christmas time!
Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, wake up the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time!
Ho, ho, ho,
Ho, ho, ho,
Ho, ho, ho,
It's Christmas time!
As the song ends the family claps and cheers for their outstanding performance.
"That's my girl right there!" said Rick.
"That was so beautiful you guys!" said Myrtle.
The younger Loud sister race to Lincoln and hug him.
"You were like the Santa who was living with us this whole time" said Lana.
"You were amazing there big brother" said Lucy.
"First the song you did in the school, then Jordan's birthday and now this! You truly are as musically inclined as Luna" said Lisa.
"Put me on the nice list!" said Lola.
Lincoln chuckled. "I guess we did good guys."
Jordan then approaches Lincoln and kisses him. "We sure did." They both continue the kiss with the rest awing at the sight.
Luna smiles and Lori places a hand on her shoulder. "Great job with the song Lunes. I'm sure the rest of your friends and Sam will love to see it."
"Thanks and I can truly see a beautiful future for little bro and little J" replied Luna as they both continue to watch Lincoln and Jordan who are now hugging the younger Louds.
"Well, now that that's done. Who wants to eat? Dinner is ready" said Lynn Sr. "And I am so making this my ringtone next Christmas!"
"Same here" replied Rick.
Rita and Jesse chuckle. "That's the one thing our husbands can bond over."
"Seeing our kids doing amazing things, this is the start of a beautiful future for all of us" said Jesse.
They all head back inside to celebrate.
"Gotta admit! That was one song that we will all be spirited about for Christmas's to come!" said Luan. "And that makes twelve! Woohoo!"
(Night time)
All of the Loud kids are fast asleep, hoping for tomorrow to come quickly.
Lincoln is the only one still awake, The Rosato's went home after dinner and Pop-pop and Myrtle went back to Sunset Canyon retirement home.
Lincoln leaves the bathroom and enters the room he share with Luna.
He sees his eagle friend fast asleep on his little bed with the chicken ribs over him and the sauce on his beak.
Lincoln chuckles quietly. "Looks like someone went overboard with the dinner."
He then looks to see Luna fast asleep on her top bunk, he decides to climb up and lay down next to his rockin' roommate. "Good night Luna, I love you sis and a merry Christmas."
Lincoln then falls asleep, but he does hear Luna whisper. "Merry Christmas baby bro, love you too."
And at the same time, the clock strikes twelve and the ominous sound of reindeer hoofs is on the roof.
Continued for next chapter …..
This is probably one chapter I am proud of making, that and Spells and Louds as well. Hope you all liked this, leave a review and tell me what you all think. And a Happy Holidays my friends.