"You all again?" Eden scoffed. "What do you want?"
"We just wanted to know if you were always so pretty and talented." Jenny started.
Eden seemed to like how this started. "Oh, yes, ever since I was a little girl." she then smiled.
"I wanna be a ballerina when I grow up," Estelle smiled back as she balanced one leg with her arms spread out. "Perhaps you could teach me how to be one with grace and elegance and not be a clumsy child."
"Oh, I suppose I could." Eden smiled back.
"We insist." Felicity added.
Teddy nodded in agreement.
"Perhaps I misjudged you brats... Erm... Children." Eden replied with a small smirk.
"And did we mention that your cat is the most handsomest cat in the universe?" Estelle added.
Teddy nodded in agreement. Chuzzlewit seemed to like the girls and Teddy.
"Do you children have a place to stay?" Eden asked before being surprised that she asked that.
The three girls looked to each other.
"No, we're homeless." Jenny made up instead of Estelle for a change.
"Really?" Eden asked.
"Yes, we're orphans..." Felicity replied before coughing.
"We were hoping to spend Christmas this year with someone of your high and noble status that is good as Queen Victoria herself." Estelle nodded.
"Oh... Well, I guess you darlings and your bear cub can stay with me for the night." Eden smiled.
The three girls and Teddy smiled to each other and winked as they were able to get to stay with her.
Eden then took them to her home which, no surprise, was a rich and lovely looking mansion. And where she luckily had night gowns just their size. The girls then took their hair down and went to get ready for bed. Luckily, there was enough room for all of them. They were given a large guest bed.
"Wow, it looks so spacious." Jenny smiled.
"Yeah..." Estelle knelt on the bed. "Ooh, so soft."
Teddy soon felt the bed as well and where he had to agree the bed did fee soft like a cloud.
"You okay, Teddy?" Estelle asked.
"It's like a cloud from Heaven." Teddy giggled at the softness.
"Well, it's time for bed." Eden said.
"Yes, Ms. Starling." the three little girls replied.
"Good... Now, I don't want you all to make peeps while I'm asleep, I don't want my beauty rest to be disturbed." Eden warned firmly, but not as firm as she was earlier since they had gotten to her good side.
"We won't." The three little girls said.
"All right... Good night to you three then..." Eden nodded firmly as she then shut the doors to get some sleep herself.
"Well, at least she wasn't mean about it..." Estelle said as she sat in the middle so she could be with both her good friend and her cousin.
"Yeah." Jenny nodded.
"I just hope Aunt Twilight knows what she's doing..." Felicity sighed.
"Amen." the three little girls said together before turning over to get some sleep.
Estelle sighed and then hugged Teddy like a toy bear. They soon went to sleep, not knowing how they would help.
The window in their room soon blew open to show a ghost. The three girls and Teddy shivered suddenly.
"Felicity, could you close the window?" Estelle yawned while turning over.
Felicity rolled out of the bed and went to close the window only to see the ghost and gasp.
"Let me guess, she's here, right?" Estelle guessed.
"Ghost!" Felicity pointed in alarm.
"I'll take that as a yes." Estelle said as she got up.
Jenny slid on their robes and they came to see the ghost.
"Oh... Neither of you are Eden." an older woman told them as she floated from the window sill.
"No, this is her guest bedroom; the one you are looking for must be bigger." Estelle said.
"I see..." the ghost replied.
"Who are you?" Jenny asked.
"I am the ghost of her Aunt Marie," the spirit introduced herself. "I've raised her better than this."
"Oh, really? Then does this phrase sound familiar?" Estelle asked before clearing her throat and covering Teddy's ears. "'In a selfish world the selfish succeed'."
"I taught her that of course." Aunt Marie replied firmly. She soon saw why Estelle said those words and feared that she was the cause for Eden's behavior.
Teddy opened the door, then looked back to Aunt Marie and spoke to her.
"Um, your niece is asleep." Jenny translated.
"Thank you for the translation, dear." Aunt Marie said.
The three girls and Teddy glanced at Aunt Marie as she then went to 'haunt' her niece, Eden.
"Do we go back to sleep?" Felicity asked.
"You girls and your Pokemon come with me." Aunt Marie said as she came back in the room.
"You know what a Pokemon is, ma'am?" Estelle asked in surprise.
"Of course I do, I used to have a Delcatty." Aunt Marie said.
"That fits." Estelle muttered.
Teddy giggled.
Aunt Marie gave a sharp glance and came to her sleeping niece's bedroom to warn her. Eden and Chuzzlewit were fast asleep as Aunt Marie rattled her chains to wake them up, but then accidentally knocked down a chair which did the deed. And where the girls and Teddy came in to see if Eden had woken up from the noise of the fallen chair.
"Oh, who's there?!" Eden demanded. "Girls? Bear cub?"
"Eden..." Aunt Marie called in a haunting tone.
"Aunt Marie?" Eden asked out of shock.
"Yes, darling, it is I." Aunt Marie laughed until one of her chains got caught on a coat rack which then made her fall to the floor. "Whoa!"
The girls winced at that while Teddy tried not to laugh. Eden soon crawled to the edge of her bed. Chuzzlewit merely mewed.
"Don't just sit there gaping, child!" Aunt Marie scolded Eden for just staying in bed. "Didn't I raise you with any manners? When your aunt's ghost comes to visit and gets tripped up in her chains, you help her!"
"Of course, I must have forgotten." Eden said before getting out of bed and helped her ghost aunt up to her feet.
"Much better," Aunt Marie replied before calling sharply again. "Now, child, walk with me!"
One of the chains then got caught in the mirror.
"Oh!" Eden rushed over to steady the mirror.
The girls helped out with the mirror. Teddy hopped on Estelle's back to see if he could help. And where they were able to keep the mirror from falling.
"Hm... Perhaps I'm better served standing." Aunt Marie commented.
"Perhaps." Felicity agreed.
"I think you'd have an easier time if you took off some of your jewelry." Eden suggested to her aunt as she picked up a chain.
"No, Eden, these chains don't ever come off," Aunt Marie told her niece. "They're the chains I formed in life. Chains of selfishness!"
"Oh, my..." Jenny frowned.
"But you always said selfishness is good!" Eden reminded her aunt. "'In a selfish world, the selfish succeed'."
"I guess you were right about her still saying that after all those years," Aunt Marie said to Estelle. "I should be flattered," she then chuckled to her niece. "You really did care for me."
"Well, of course, Aunt Marie," Eden nodded. "You raised me."
"Like a true daughter and you've become everything I've dreamed." Aunt Marie smiled.
"Oh, thank you." Eden smiled back.
"Which is terrible!" Aunt Marie suddenly scolded. "So tonight, I want you to change."
"You want me to what?" Eden asked.
"Change, child, change," Aunt Marie replied. "And not just your nightgown... Though with the money you make, you really could do so much better."
Chuzzlewit nodded in agreement as he didn't seem to like the color. Eden merely scoffed in response.
"I want you to change your life, Eden," Aunt Marie told her living niece. "Forget everything I told you. It is not a selfish world. That was my excuse for not having the talent to become a star myself, but when I see what it did to you, when I see how wrong I was... I-I... Oh, Eden!"
"I think she might be going a little overboard with the sadness." Felicity whispered to the girls.
"Yeah, a little too much butt kissing if you know what I mean." Jenny agreed.
"Do you think Eden is believing this?" Teddy asked Estelle.
Estelle doubted it once she saw the look on Eden's face.
"You're not my Aunt Marie," Eden replied. "You're not even a ghost at all."
"Not a ghost? I am floating two feet off the ground. How much ghostlier do you want me to be?" Aunt Marie replied.
Eden picked up an umbrella and swung it over the ghost's head to prove her theory.
"Ms. Starling, what are you doing?" Felicity asked.
"Trying to find out who this jokester is." Eden replied.
"By swinging an umbrella over her head?" Jenny asked, confused.
"This is not a ghost," Eden glared. "There's no such thing."
"You don't believe in ghosts?" Estelle asked.
"So, what's holding you up?" Eden asked her aunt. "Wires?"
"Try walking through her." Felicity suggested to the ghost as that was usually proof enough for the naysayer.
"Yeah." Teddy nodded.
Aunt Marie then came toward Eden who was then talking Chuzzlewit into pouncing on the stranger, still not believing this was the ghost of her aunt.
"I didn't believe in ghosts at first except for that Halloween at the Plaza Hotel." Estelle commented.
"Really?" Jenny asked.
"Remember Diamond Jim Johnson?" Estelle reminded. "I didn't believe in ghosts at first, especially when Aunt Cherry said that Uncle Casper was a friendly ghost boy before he was turned human again and raised by Dad's family."
"Wow." Felicity said.
"And you can tell everyone at the Gad's Hill who sent you here that they're all fired!" Eden hissed.
Aunt Marie then sighed as she couldn't convince her niece to believe her, then left to come to a feline looking Pokemon.
"That must be the Delcatty..." Teddy looked to see the feline Pokemon. "So beautiful and graceful."
"Yep, that's a Delcatty." Estelle smiled.
"It's so beautiful." Teddy smiled back.
"Aww..." Jenny and Felicity cooed to the feline Pokemon as she left with Aunt Marie.
Eden soon removed the blanket she used to trap her ghost aunt to see only Chuzzlewit. The girls and Teddy looked back at her.
"Back to bed!" Eden scolded them.
"Yes, ma'am." The girls and Teddy sighed.
They then went back to bed.
"Do you really think that ghost was Ms. Starling's aunt, Mama?" Teddy asked.
"As sure as Aunt Twilight's warning." Estelle replied.
"So, do you think the ghosts will come to us first like her aunt did?" Jenny asked.
"Maybe, we better be ready just in case," Felicity replied. "Should we go with Eden to her Past, Present, and Future?"
"Yes." Estelle nodded.
"All right, when the ghosts come, that will be our cue." Jenny agreed.
They then went to get as much as sleep as they could possibly get until the first ghost would arrive and which would be midnight. Teddy was wondering if the ghosts would have their own Pokemon like Eden's aunt did or not. They would soon find out as it was soon Midnight.