Spells and Louds
Chapter 162: The first day before the Holiday.
(Spellman Estate)
Leon is headed out of the Spellman house and is headed for the ladder that is attached to the Kirov Airship nearby.
He makes it to the airship and gets a chainsaw that is inside of the chest, but then he hears some rustling sounds.
He is in the living room of the Airship.
He turns around and sees Sergei on the couch and Loona on top of him, both with a blanket covering them, then he sees their clothes on the floor. Oh and they're making out.
"What the hell?!" yelled Leon.
Sergei and Loona stop what they were doing and look at him.
"Um, Rude much" said Loona.
"Dude, when did you get in here?" said Sergei.
Leon turns around. "What the hell are you two doing?!"
"Umm, making love. Duh!" said Loona.
Leon felt awkward hearing that. "I know, but you could've done it in your room! Or anywhere else!"
"We felt like this is the right place to do it" said Sergei.
"Oh my sweet fucking god! Why?!" said Leon.
"And to be specific we're still together right now. As in you know what we mean" said Loona as she breathes heavily.
Sergei also chuckles.
Leon is now red with embarrassment.
"Oh god! Oh why?!" said Leon.
"What are you even doing here anyway?" asked Sergei.
"First off, I live here! Secondly, we have to go down to earth so we can help Neil, Lincoln and Timmy find a tree for the holiday. Did you forget?" said Leon.
"No, I just waited for the right time for Neil to call me. Also he's picking up Duchess now" said Sergei.
"You're just embarrassed because you haven't done this to Dana yet" smirked Loona.
Sergei also chuckles.
Leon is now annoyed. "Whatever! Just hurry up with what you're doing and meet me at the bottom."
"This is the third time we've done it today" said Loona.
Leon was already half way to the ladder. "Shut up!"
Sergei chuckles. "Let's finish up so I can help the others."
Sergei and Loona finish with what they're doing.
Meanwhile at the Great Gate. Neil comes out with two large bags and with him was Duchess Swan in her winter clothing.
"It feels so good to be here again" said Duchess.
"Sure is my little duckling, now come on the others will be thrilled to see you here" said Neil.
"Nice nickname for me" laughed Duchess.
They both head inside, but then they spot Leon sitting by the door steps looking upset.
"You okay man?" asked Neil.
"You kinda look like Daring when he was trapped in the mirror realm" said Duchess.
Leon looks to them with a twitching left eye. "We'll talk about it later bro."
Neil and Duchess look at each other and shrug it off, they then head inside and see all of the Christmas decorations were being put up.
"Hey guys! The Princess is here!" yelled Neil.
The kids and Gwen come out of the living room and see their sister Duchess Swan. "Duchess!"
Leni was the first one to hug her. "Oh, I can't wait for you to be my roommate for this season!"
Duchess chuckles and hugs her back. "Me too Leni."
Duchess then greets the rest of the family.
Neil hands the bags to two mechanical arms belonging to Harv and it sends them to Leni's room.
Neil then approaches Lincoln. "You ready Linc?"
"Sure am dad. We just have to wait for Timmy" replied Lincoln.
Timmy comes down, but without Poof. "Sure is a shame that Poof isn't here for the holiday, but he wants to spend it with his parents and Cosmo's mom and Wanda's dad and I'm sure Wanda's sister is gonna be there. It's gonna be chaotic that's for sure."
"Alright, we should head out and meet up with Leon and Sergei. Also I think Loona is here she might come down and help with the décor later" said Neil.
The three Spellman boys head to the kitchen where they see Courage and Linka baking.
"Wow! Those Brownies smell nice sis" said Timmy.
"Thanks, but Courage was the one who made the ingredients. He knows a thing or two about sweets" said Linka.
Neil tries to grab one but he gets swatted by Courage who is holding a spatula.
"Nice try dad, but this is all for dessert" said Linka.
"Dang it! Can't blame a guy for trying" replied Neil.
All three of them head outside and spot Leon who just arrived and Sergei and Loona who just came down from the Airship.
Neil then uses his zerg senses on Sergei and Loona. "Why do you two smell like sweat and satisfaction?"
Leon turns red and throws up somewhere.
"What's up with him?" asked Lincoln.
Loona smirks. "You boys have fun. I'm gonna see if the rest of your crew need some help."
Sergei kisses her cheek and she heads inside.
Sergei then readies his chainsaw. "Alright! Let's go find ourselves a tree!"
They all open the back gate and head into the woods.
(Meanwhile inside)
Linka and Courage start baking the next batch of Brownies.
Leni is helping Duchess put some of her clothes away into the drawers and closet.
The Pokémon, Gwen and Sunset are setting up decorations.
Loona is watching over Lily and feels like she has some parental instincts sprouting up, she just smiles as she watches this baby.
Where is Luna? She is hanging out with Sam at her house and helping with their decorations.
(Sharp Residence)
"You sure you wanna help us here Lunes?" asked Sam as she tosses the Christmas light sto the roof.
"I'm sure Sammy. They said they have it all covered and that I should be helping out the sharps" replied Luna who is also tossing the Christmas lights onto the roof.
All of the lights are caught by Peter. "Sure is nice to have you helping us out. Ember is also gonna be staying here until January."
"She's coming here tomorrow. I can't wait to spend some more time with her, she's so cool and understands me" said Sam.
"She sure is the motherly type for ya Sam" said Luna.
Peter then plugs in the two separate Christmas lights, but they don't turn on. He keeps trying. "What in the hell?"
This catches the attention of Sam and Luna. "Something wrong dude?"
"Light won't go on" replied Peter.
Then Sam sees that the main plug wasn't even plugged into the side of the house, so she plugs it in.
What happens next is just too painful to watch.
Luna and Sam see some sparks and glowing lights coming from the roof and next thing they know Peter slides down and lands in the snow. The Christmas lights are now glowing and making the symbol of Rudolf.
"Dad! Are you okay?" asked Sam.
Peter raises his right hand for a thumbs up. "Super."
Luna and Sam sigh in relief. "So, you stoked about spending a big family party with us?" asked Luna.
"Dang right I am!" said Sam.
"Same here. Now can you girls help me up" said Peter.
They both rush to him and help him back to his feet. "I can feel everything right now."
(Loud House Residence)
Lori is calling Bobby and seeing how their place is going. But then she stops when she sees all the decorations were unfinished in the set up.
Lori spots her mom sitting on the couch looking at some albums of each Loud and their first Christmas, she also sheds some tears.
Lori sits next to her and does her best to comfort her mother. "Mom, I know it's hard. Trust me I know. But we have to accept this, I miss having them around for Christmas morning too. Be thankful we can all have one big family Christmas get along."
Rita wipes away her tears and closes the album. "You're right thank you Lori. But I'm more concerned to the fact that you're going to College next year."
Lori understands what she means. "Mom, I already made my choice and I won't be too far, I can always visit Royal Woods whenever something criminal comes up. I am going to FutureTech University, be thankful I didn't pick Fairway otherwise it's gonna be a long way to travel."
Rita then hugs her eldest daughter and so does Lori to her mom.
"Now, how about we set these decorations up" said Lori.
"Okay Lori, okay" replied Rita.
They both go into the box and put up all of the decorations. Lori even places the stockings by the chimney and even though they weren't there, she put up the stockings with the names: Leni, Luna, Lincoln and Lily.
'Our first Christmas without the full family, things really are changing for all of us' Lori says in her thoughts.
Lynn Sr had just returned from the Restaurant with Luan. They both did some last checkups to see if the place was secure before they reopen on December 26.
They even brought with them some take out lunch.
Lisa is in her room with some research on the mysterious grass type monkey Pokemon from the forest, she still couldn't figure out what she saw, it wasn't from any of the known regions and Lisa has a theory. But she was thinking that she should tell Martin about this.
Lucy is in the vents crying. Lynn Jr enters the vent and comforts her, they both know that this was their first Christmas without the full family, even though Pop-pop and Myrtle were gonna be there, it still wasn't going to be the same with out Loud music, ditzy fashion, cute coos and the man-with-the-plan. But they had to keep going, at least they can have a big family Christmas party.
Crobat and Tyrogue were also sadden for their human partners.
Lola and Lana are both setting up a plan on capturing a reindeer, this time Lola wanted to be part of it. Why? Who wouldn't want a Reindeer companion/Pet? Toxicroak and Smoochum just shook their heads, they know that this was ridiculous.
Meanwhile Good old Mister Grouse was packing up his bags and waiting outside. "Huh, Lincoln said to wait out here."
Then a Medivac Dropships arrives and inside was Victor. "Grouse! Lincoln sent me to bring you to our family."
Mr. Grouse was shocked. "Now this is what I call first class private flight!"
Victor helps him bring his stuff into the Dropship and they take off.
Lynn Sr and Luna were shocked to see that.
"Well, I guess he's flying south for the winter holiday. Hahaha!" said Luan.
Lynn Sr chuckles. "You got me on that one sweetie."
(FutureTech HQ)
Martin is arming a large cannon, he then puts in a chest sized ammo box, he places the cannon onto a mount stand and aims and shoots!
"AAAAAAAAARGH! Happy Holidays!" yells Martin as he shoots at …. A Christmas tree?
Wait a minute! Hold up! What is in the cannon?!
Zoom out and next to him are ammo clips with labels of Christmas Decorations. And what he's currently firing is labeled Christmas lights.
Penny arrives with a tray of Chocolate chip cookies and sees the tree getting lights on it nicely. "Wow! We never have this kind of holiday in Remnant! This sure looks fun!"
"Sure wish I could be there for my bro and his friends" said Tadashi.
Martin then stops firing and plugs in the lights and the Christmas tree glows. "And that's where you're wrong Hamada."
This was confusing to Tadashi. "What are you talking about?"
Martin then grabs a cookie and bites on it. "Come December 24, you'll be surprised."
"Okay" said Tadashi who was confused.
Then the main doors open and coming in was Jack Cyber with dual cannons on his arms. "Season Greetings!"
He then fires snowballs towards Martin who hits the wall and is covered in snow.
Penny and Tadashi move away from the carnage.
Jack Cyber realizes what he just did and stops. "Oops! Wrong person."
Martin comes out of the snow pile and collapses. "Why?!"
"Sorry Martin, I was looking for Victor. He got me earlier with ten snow balls."
Then the main doors open again and Jack Cyber is hit by a barrage of Snowballs and hits the same wall Martin slammed into.
The one firing was Victor with a snow ball missile storm launcher. "Deck the Halls! Also Mr. Grouse is with his family."
Jack Cyber groans in pain and so does Martin. Penny and Tadashi have no idea what to even think of this.
(Great Lake City)
Ronnie Anne and her Doduo are both helping set up decorations all around the apartments.
They pass by each neighbor who all liked how the entire place looked.
Sid soon comes out with her Kabuto and she also helps out with the decorations.
"This is so cool! My first Christmas here in the city! Well not actually in the city, we're all going to be in the Spellman family Christmas party after all" said Sid.
Ronnie Anne chuckles. "Yeah, and it's gonna be so cool. You think we'll have another Pokemon battle with them?"
"We can ask them. Besides we seem to be the only ones in the neighborhood with Pokemon sparring partners, I wanna see my little Kabuto evolve! He would look so cool!" said Sid.
"Same here with Doduo" said Ronnie Anne.
Then all four of them smelled something nice. "Whoa! What is that smell?!" said Sid.
"That would be my Abuela and her famous homemade hot chocolate, she knows how to make it taste perfect" said Ronnie Anne.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" said Sid.
The two girls and their Pokemon head into the Casagrande door and see Rosa handing out some hot cocoa to CJ, Carlota, Carlos and Frida.
She then places a tray of hot cocoa mugs onto Herdier. "Could you please bring some to Hector and Bobby?" the Herdier barks and heads down to the Mercado.
Rosa then sees Ronnie Anne and Sid. "Oh girls! You made it just in time. Come, come there's plenty of hot cocoa for everyone."
They spot the five large pots of hot cocoa. "Whoa! That is enough for everyone" said Sid.
"Si, and soon I will be making more once December 24 has struck. I will also be making so much more food so we can celebrate with the Spellman's, Louds and any other family that will be there. I will have my hands full" said Rosa.
"You sure about doing that Abuela? What if Lynn Sr makes some food too?" said Ronnie Anne as she sips her hot cocoa.
"No need to worry Mija. I spoke to him and he said that he was going to take a break from the Christmas cooking and wants to try my style of cooking and maybe I can sweeten a deal with him so he cans ell my homemade meals to his restaurant" said Rosa.
"Cool, hey can we help you with the cooking?" asked Sid.
"Sid, remember the last time you cooked. I actually have the experience after helping out with Bobby back when I used to live in Royal Woods" said Ronnie Anne.
"Oh right, but I'll be there to help just in case" said Sid.
Rosa chuckled. "You two are welcome to help me with the cooking and also guarding against Lalo and Sergio." She then looks to the two pets with snake eyes.
Lalo pretends he heard nothing, but Sergio is confused. "What? You can't prove anything!"
Rosa was unsure about their resident parrot. "Yeah, sure. I also want to let Niel try my spicy Shrimp cock tails. I heard that he can survive anything spicy, I wanna see how he can limit his stomach."
Ronnie Anne and Sid just giggle to that. "Yeah, sure Abuela" said Ronnie Anne.
The two girls finish their hot cocoa and head outside.
Then Frida calls out to them. "Thanks again for putting up the decorations Mija."
"You're welcome Tia Frida" said Ronnie Anne.
What does Frida mean by that? Well Frida is currently on the couch with a cast on her leg, she had an accident when she was decorating a few days ago. "Sure wish I could place the big star on this Apartment."
"Mom, I don't think anyone wants to think of the apartment as a giant lighthouse" said Carlota.
"Why not? I wanna know if some pirates come and wanna battle" said CJ.
Meanwhile Sid and Ronnie Anne race outside in their winter clothes and see all of their neighbors feeling festive and in their winter gear.
"So what do you wanna do now Sid?" asked Ronnie Anne. But she gets no response.
Ronnie Anne looks to her friend who is looking up. "Sid?"
Ronnie Anne also looks up to see a mistletoe was above them, the two girls blushed. This was awkward.
"T-This is very weird, we should get going no-" Ronnie Anne is cut off by Sid's kiss in the cheek.
Ronnie Anne snaps out of it and looks to Sid. Sid on the other hand realizes what she just did and runs back into the apartment and into her room.
Ronnie Anne just stands there stunned, next to her Doduo who is confused and not knowing that Bobby and her mom just saw that. Maria just came back from work.
"Ronnie Anne, are you okay?" asked Maria.
Ronnie Anne just faints in the snow. This was very concerning for Maria. "Oh dear."
(Spellman Estate)
Inside Gwen had just finished setting up the last Christmas stocking. "There, now this place looks festive."
"The only thing missing is the tree" said Sunset.
Then they see Loona come down with a giggling Lily in her arms.
"Wow! You two looked like you guys had some bonding time" said Gwen.
"I'm not quite good with babysitting, but I gotta admit. She's one to manage and handle, not too fussy and not too picky" replied Loona.
"Maybe it's because she's human and not a demon?" said Sunset.
Loona chuckles and hands Lily back to Gwen. "Yeah, I guess that's about right."
Then they see Leni and Duchess come down.
Duchess was amazed at the place. "Wow! This place looks so beautiful!"
"I'm so glad you like it Duchess" said Leni.
Duchess then sees Loona. "Oh, you must be the girlfriend of Sergei?"
Loona chuckles. "That's right. We both made it official earlier in his airship."
Gwen didn't know what that was supposed to mean. Then it hit her. "Oh wow! That must've been one heck of a time for both of you."
Sunset and Leni were also shocked.
"Now that's what I call commitment" said Sunset.
"That was fast" said Leni.
Loona chuckled. "Well, I guess you can say we're both smitten for one another. A hellhound and a Russian."
"By the way, is grandma coming for Christmas?" asked Duchess.
"That she is sweetie and so is your auntie Sabrina and her auntie's Hilda and Zelda" replied Gwen.
Leni then speaks up. "Also, I can't wait for us to use the new outfits I made. Its totes gonna blow the rest away!"
Loona and Gwen both chuckle. "We're counting on it!"
Sunset and Duchess were confused by this. But Sunset did remember seeing Leni come down the attic with some old red curtains and bringing them into her room along with some white fake fur.
"By the way, where's is dad and the other boys?" asked Leni.
"You missed them earlier. They went out to get a tree" replied Linka who just came into the living room with brownies. Courage is also there with the same tray.
Leni gasps. "I have to go and follow them!"
She then races back upstairs and puts on her winter clothes and races to the forest.
The other girls were confused by this.
"What was that about?" asked Loona.
"No clue" replied Sunset.
"Twee! Twee!" said Lily.
(Spellman Estate, Forest)
"So, let me get this straight. He walked in on you and Loona on the couch, making love?" asked Neil.
Sergei chuckled. "He sure did and he was embarrassed."
Leon was right behind them not amused by their conversation and is trying to hold of his urge to use the chainsaw against them.
Braviary is in the air looking out for any wild Pokemon,
Lincoln, Timmy and Absol are following behind them.
"This is awkward" said Timmy.
"Tell me about it. I'm okay with Uncle Sergei finding love. I just didn't expect him to actually find love" said Lincoln.
Then Absol spots something. "Look!"
They all turn to see a pine tree, it was perfect and nice to look at.
They all run towards it, but something was wrong.
"Umm, why is it getting smaller?" asked Leon.
As they get close, they realize it wasn't really big.
Lincoln, Timmy and Absol stop five feet from the tree and Neil, Leon and Sergei are standing in front of it and Braviary lands onto a branch confused.
"Looks like I misjudged the distance and size" said Absol.
"What am I looking at?" asked Neil.
They were looking at a tree that was only 2 feet tall.
"This looks like the Japanese version of a Christmas tree" said Sergei.
"Gotta agree" said Neil.
"Looks like we've still got some searching to do" said Timmy.
But then Absol stops and senses something. "Something is wrong!"
They all look to him confused.
"You mean besides the worlds smallest Christmas tree?" asked Leon.
Just then the ground underneath Neil, Leon and Sergei starts to vibrate.
"What the what?" said Neil.
"Did you guys just feel that?" asked Leon.
Sergei crouches down and looks to the snow and feels it, his eyes go wide. "Oh crap!"
Then the snow underneath the three Spellman brothers collapses and they get knocked to the bottom.
"Dad!" yelled Lincoln and Timmy.
Absol, Lincoln and Timmy look down to see it was a cliff and at the bottom was piles of snow.
Soon Neil emerges. "What the what?!"
Sergei emerges next. "The snow piled up with the tree near a cliff making it look like it were a part of the landscape and all it took to fall apart was the weight of three grown men."
Leon comes out last. "That was very unpleasant, but fun!"
Lincoln, Timmy and Absol sigh in relief. Then they look towards the tree and gasp. "Umm, dad!"
"What?" Neil turns to the tree and so do his brothers.
"Whoa!" said Leon.
"So it is big" said Sergei.
They are now looking at a twenty foot tall Christmas tree with the right shape and posture to be one.
"Yeah, it is big!" said Leon.
Soon Absol, Lincoln, Timmy and Braviary come down to join them.
"This is not gonna be easy to bring back to the house" said Neil.
"Might as well just let it sit in the back yard" said Sergei.
They then get their chainsaws ready. "Alight, let's do this!"
But then they stop when they hear someone yell. "STOP!"
They all look to the top of the cliff to see Leni come down thanks to the Tree itself.
"Leni? What are you doing here?" asked Lincoln.
"Guys, there's no need to chop him down. Let me do this" said Leni with concern.
They all knew she was kind to all plant life, so they let her do her own thing.
Leni than touches the tree and it soon sprouts out of its roots and uses them as legs.
"Oh my god!" said Leon.
"Wow!" said Lincoln.
"We could've done this in the first place instead" said Sergei.
"Now that is awesome" said Timmy.
"Very smart" said Absol.
"Nice one Leni!" said Neil.
She then hops onto the tree and sits onto the branch, the others also join her. "Alright, next stop Spellman Estate!" said Leni.
The tree makes its steady pace towards the Spellman house.
"This is like being on a ride!" said Timmy.
(Spellman Estate)
All of the girls and the Pokemon are waiting at the backyard, so is Luna and Sam.
They got a text from Neil to come to the backyard and ready the decorations.
"So, where are they?" asked Linka.
"They should be back by now" said Sunset.
"Neil sent me this text ten minutes ago" said Gwen.
"Maybe they got lost?" asked Sam.
"With Leon with them, not possible" said Luna.
Then Loona spots some movement from the trees. "Heads up ladies."
They all look to see a large tree break out of the forest and cross the wall and root itself in the backyard.
"Is this normal?" asked Duchess.
Then Leni, Lincoln, Timmy, Absol, Neil, Leon and Sergei come down.
"We got a tree!" said Leon.
"More like Leni got us a tree" said Lincoln.
The other approach and are amazed by the tree. "What the heck?" said Luna.
"How in the world Leni?" said Sunset.
"What made this tree want to come here?" asked Gwen.
"Well, as it turns out the big guy has heard of Christmas and knows that it's the one time in the year where good deeds are always blessed with good cheers and he wants to be part of it, but not badly hurt" replied Leni.
Linka chuckles. "I guess it pays to have plant powers."
Leni giggles. "Now come on, let's decorate this big guy!"
They all gather the decorations and get to adding them onto the tree.
Sunset, Luna and Sam use their powers to get all of the Christmas lights wrapped around.
Lincoln, Linka and Timmy on the Vulture Bike place the ornaments.
Leni helps keep the tree nurtured and sees if the roots are in a healthy location.
Neil, Leon and Sergei check on the wiring to make sure nothing is loose or broken.
Duchess, Gwen and Loona help clear out any of the left over boxes.
The Pokemon also help with the decorations.
Soon the tree was done, well almost.
They all spot the one place with no ornament, the very top of the tree.
"I guess it's time to bring in the star" said Neil.
Leon and Sergei head back inside and grab a black box that was hidden, they come back out and show them a beautiful transparent star with the symbol of an angel on it and two turtle doves.
"Wow!" all the kids say in awe.
"Why haven't we even seen it up there?" asked Linka.
"Because we keep it safe someplace special and this is the symbol of the family that is truly united, and it will shine for all of us when Christmas hits" replied Neil.
Then Neil picks up the ornament and hands it to Lily. "And I think you deserve to put this on my sweet little angel."
Lily understands and holds onto it tightly.
Then Neil looks to Luna. "Would you like to help Lily place it on?"
Loona was shocked by this offer and picks up Lily. "I'd be honored. And that's no lie."
They all smile and watch as Loona gets into position.
"Hold on tight kiddo" said Loona.
Lily giggles and holds onto both Loona and the star.
Loona's eyes glow red and she uses her hind legs to leap to the top of the tree and with the right timing, Lily places the star on top.
They both descend down safely and Loona hands Lily to Gwen. "That was kinda fun."
Loona ruffles Lily's hair making her laugh. "Staw! Staw! Staw!"
They all look up to the star that is now glowing and changing colors between yellow, white, blue, orange, red, violet and green.
"Whoa!" they all say in awe.
This was going to be the stars of a whole new moment for all of them and they all can't wait to be part of the big family Christmas party.
"By the way Blitz, Moxxie and Millie and also coming" said Loona.
They all look to Loona and gasp.
"What?" asked Neil.
To be continued …..
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