CHAPTER 2

Belles on Ice

Castle of Aether Kingdom

Kibou with SnowBotamon were sleeping in his bed until the sun rose and he rubbed his eyes before yawning and watched the calendar in his phone telling that it is December 21st, he got up from the bed before going to the bathroom, wash his head and the teeth too and went to the dining room but as he went across the corridors he saw Seth and Coronamon.

"Good morning big bro and you too, Coronamon." Kibou greeted him and the prince turned to see his baby brother.

"Good morning, Kibou." Seth and Coronamon greeted him back.

The blue-haired small boy then went to the kitchen where he saw his sister Aria with Lunamon helping Alyanna in the kitchen.

"Good morning, mom. Good morning, big sis." Kibou greeted him.

"Good morning, Kibou." Alyanna and Aria greeted him back.

"Good morning, Lunamon." SnowBotamon greeted her.

"Good morning, SnowBotamon." Lunamon greeted him.

"Is there something that we can help?" Kibou asked.

"Of course, search for some oranges in the food warehouse." Aria instructed his little brother.

"Okay." Kibou nodded.

He went to the food warehouse and brought the oranges from there to the kitchen and after waiting for a while the breakfast was ready for the family. The breakfast of Kibou has scrambled eggs, smoked ham, hashbrown potatoes and choco milk in a glass, with Aria is two fried eggs above a rounded slice of smoked ham, 2 slices of white bread with sesame seeds for egg yolks and strawberry milk and with Seth he has rice with two boiled eggs, smoked ham and orange juice in a glass, the three Digimon are eating from the breakfast because they have a diet like the humans, the children of the royal family are eating healthy and at the same time Seth was a bit more open-minded wanting to eat more food from different kinds.

"So, what made you eat different food, Seth?" Alyanna asked.

"Well, for years I was used to the food made exclusively in the castle but when I came out to the modern world but at the same time when I heard Aaron's holy singing, now I'm getting very well used to the food of different places." Seth answered.

"Also Cancer's family has extraordinary recipes of food." Aria added.

"It's true, at the same time Kibou is learning to eat healthy which includes eating the fruit first." Queen Alyanna said.

"So, what are we gonna do today?" Kibou asked the family.

"I was thinking that we could go to search for decorations for Christmas and at the same time see dishes for the dinner of Christmas Eve." Aria answered.

"I think it is a brilliant idea, Aria. Also, I'm interested in celebrating Christmas after celebrating the gala in the previous years which could improve the celebration of this year." King Noah said in agreement with his daughter.

"So, how will Caleb and the others do?" Kibou asked.


Coastal Village

Just as he asked, the siblings Kaneko Miura woke up do to their morning routine before going for the breakfast, with Caleb he has two fried eggs with rice, two sausages and choco milk in a glass, Luke has an omelet stuffed of spinach with cream cheese and vanilla milk, Sara an egg made into an omelet which has pieces of ham and green beans and Caeli has two poached eggs with a slice of smoked ham, one sausage and slice of white bread with sesame seeds, the two sisters have glasses of strawberry milk, and Veemon (dark blue) along with Dracomon, Pulsemon and Yokomon are also eating the breakfast like the humans.

"Hey guys, I think we could go to see the royal family to go together and search for Christmas decorations." Caleb suggested.

"That could be a great idea." Eva said.

"Also we could spend time together as a family." Sara said.

"Can I go too?" Caeli asked.

"Of course, little sis." Caleb told her.

"So, where could we go to search for the decorations for Christmas?" Adan asked.

"Well, there is data from a department store called Liverpool Insurgentes in Mexico City." Sara said as she used her Multiversal Phone to research information about buying Christmas decorations. "However the department store opens until 11 in the morning."

"So, what time is it?" Caeli asked.

"Right now it's 10 in the morning." Eva said.

"Meaning that we will be on time." Adan said.

After finishing their breakfast they came out to meet the royal family and they departed to a department store on Earth to see the Christmas decorations in front of them.


Earth: Mexico - Department Store Liverpool "Insurgentes"

The two families arrived.

"That must be the world of the Digidestined, right?" Kibou asked while seeing his surroundings but staying close to his big sister.

"Yeah, it's true, Kibou." Aria said while ruffling the hair of her little brother.

Inside there, and also with the money obtained from hunting enemies and also defeating villains but at the same time the defeat of Devimon also granted more money for both families and inside the department store they bought replica Christmas villages, artificial pine trees, christmas lights and stars, spheres and other decorations for Christmas trees, Christmas cushions, Christmas figures like snow spheres, nutcrackers figures, a small Christmas train with train tracks included, Christmas hanging figures, garlands, Christmas wreaths, Christmas boots (hanging socks), plushies from Christmas like Santa Claus, Christmas elves, gingerbeard men, penguins, seals, reindeers, snowmen and polar bears, carpets for the Christamas trees, Christmas-themed cutlery, plates and tablecloths, even some Christmas decorations are from Disney characters which are the favorites of Caeli.

Later in another store they watched many Christmas food like pork legs, pork loins, smoked turkeys, beef medallions with oregano sauce, red spaghetti, Christmas consome, fish soup, seafood cream, picadillo soup, Juliana soup, onion soup, mushroom cream, potato and cheese cream, ground beef and cheese lasagna, KFC which is fried chicken with fries, mashed potatoes with bacon, garlic shrimp, seafood salad, seafood cocktail, seafood paella, mussels with mustard, grilled squid, christmas fruit punch, fruit cake, chocolate balls with apricot and orange, cookies called wait Murcians, brownies, chocolate mousse, chocolate cake and oreo cookies, a sweet called gypsy arm, mini breads called lemon bites, apple compote flan, Christmas nutties and apple salad.

Later after the buying, Aria and Sara received a message from the ice skating tourney tomorrow the December 22nd in Odaiba.

"Ice skating?" Aria repeated.

"A tourney of ice skating tomorrow." Sara said.

"Maybe we should practice." Aria suggested.

"What about me?" Caeli asked.

"Sorry Caeli, but that ice skating tourney is for girls around our age." Sara told her little sister as Aria nodded in agreement, however she added with a reassuring tone to her little sister. "But you can come to see your big sister skating."

"Okay." Caeli said.


Japan: Odaiba

After the siblings helped their families with the Christmas decorations in their homes, plus receiving two bigger Christmas trees for Kaneko Miura's mansion and also the castle of Aether Kingdom which was from courtesy of the Zodiac Warriors and Elemental 10, Aria bought a blue long-sleeved dress for ice skating with a bow included along with ice skates while Sara bought a pink-sleeved dress for ice skating and ice skates included and later they trained before getting ready tomorrow during the night and then at the next day at said time, both girls are ready but at the same time some of the heroes arrived to see Aria and Sara ice skating by their first time, clearly they registered the December 21st and now Caleb and Aria are watching a random pair ice skating, the princess was already wearing her dress for ice skating and also there in a field where there's a bit of snow, the lake is frozen, luckily the two families had ready their winter clothes too.

"They ice skate so well." Aria said, a bit nervous.

"Ah, Aria, you're not nervous, are you?" Caleb asked her.

"A little." Aria answered before asking. "Does it show?"

"Aw, no. You're going to be great." Caleb told her reassuringly.

Aria smiled in relief knowing that she counts with the help of her boyfriend but also her family and her Digimon partner included as they watched the random pair ice skating.

"Spin, spin, land and…" Aria said until she noticed Sara with Luke pulling a bigger box with a rope. "Oh, it's Sara."

"Come on, Luke. Hurry up before the ice melts." Sara told her as Luke kept pulling.

"Looks like she's got something big planned." Caleb commented as Luke barely lost his balance.

"Careful, big brother, props go there." Sara told him as he kept pulling while groaning but then she gasped. "Oh, Aria!"

Sara went to see Aria but accidentally stepped on the rope causing Luke to fall into the ice.

"What do you think? I bought it myself." Sara told Aria as she showed her pink ice skating dress and Aria giggled.

"Oh Sara, it's perfect." Aria said, complimenting her best friend.

"Well, break a leg." Sara said before dashing for the ice skating.

"Oh, uh…" Aria was a bit confused, never hearing that expression before.

"Theater talk, friend. Good luck." Sara said to clarify her doubt before going to ice skate.

"You too, Sara." Aria called her.

"Better get ready." Caleb said as he brought his girlfriend.

"Oh…!" She exclaimed a bit.

"Let's give these fine competitors a nice hand." The announcer of the ice skating said as the crown clapped for the pair who ice skated successfully. "Next up, a real treat, from our little hometown darling."

"That's me." Aria said.

"That's me." Sara said.

"In her debut skating performance, sure to be a show stopper." The announcer said as both girls were getting ready to skate. "Ladies and gentlemen, the princess Aria Aether!"

Just as she said both girls were skating until Sara abruptly stopped as she gasped, she was confused before thinking but her train of thoughts was interrupted when anthropomorphics alligators appeared ice skating too (the ones from Fantasia in Dance of the Hours).

"I guess Fantasia's music is one of the best ones." Yakko commented from his seat as the Warner Siblings and Toons nodded in agreement.

However, back there with Sara.

"Look at her." A random person said before hearing laughter causing Sara to smile sheepishly before moving slowly to her left, returning with Luke who is holding a bell.

"I don't think anyone no…" Luke was saying until an annoyed Sara covered her brother's mouth. "Uh-oh…"

*BELLES ON ICE (MICKEY'S TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS)*

A group of people was ringing their bells and saying ding-dong, as Aria was ice skating with the alligators (same scene like in Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, but Aria in Minnie's place while Sara is in Daisy's place), however Sara was jealous that Aria is gaining the public's attention.

"Fantastic! Ha ha! Yeah! Ha ha ha! Hey!" The announcer cheered while Sara was still annoyed.

"Do something!" Sara demanded Luke.

He then rings his bell while smiling sheepishly but Sara takes the bell away from her brother's hand, but then Sara got an idea to gain the attention as Aria kept ice skating with the pink light of the reflector pointing at her, the crowd keep clapping, the choir kept singing, Caleb was amazed at Aria's presentation but then Sara was ice skating while holding into an alligator's tail.

"Uh-oh…" Caleb gulped as Luke was nervous.

Just back there, Sara jumped higher causing the man's attention in the reflector to point with a green light at Sara.

"Huh? Ooh!" The man in the reflector said as he watched Sara.

The crown now has their attention on Sara who landed on ice and then Aria and the alligators stopped ice skating.

"Keep going!" Aria told the alligators before posing but the crowd still has their attention on Sara much to Aria's displeasure. "Let's hit it!"

Just as she said the alligators posed, causing the man in the reflector to turn around in confusion.

"Huh!? Huh!? Huh!?" He wondered which girl to point to until he pointed back at Aria.

"Huh!? Oh…!" An unamused Sara exclaimed.

"Ah…" Aria hummed happily as she then skated in front of the alligators who then got in four on the ice and then she passed again close and behind the alligators causing them to open their mouths while Sara crossed her arms indignantly.

"Oh!" Kibou said in amazement, watching his sister while Caeli couldn't help but feel bad for Sara.

Then back with Aria, she ice skated at high speed before jumping above the alligators' mouths before landing and scraping in the ice and also sending snow at Sara forming a snowman on her and then Aria put a carrot on that snowman where Sara is there.

"Ha! Ha!" Aria laughed mockingly before returning.

But a peeved Sara shook the snow from her body before spitting the carrot on her mouth and she whistled, then from the bigger box anthropomorphic hippos came out (also from Dance of the Hours in Fantasia) to ice skate too causing Sara to gain the attention back on the reflector, but then a jealous Aria turned to see Sara with annoyed stare.

"Hi! Hi!" Sara laughed mockingly back at her.

The hippos spun on ice as then Sara ice skated below them until Caleb's twin sister got in the legs on one hippo.

"Huh?" Caleb and Luke wondered about what Sara is planning to do.

Back there the hippos got ready.

"Launch!" Sara said before being launched.

She passed below the hippos who fell in a domino effect and then Sara passed through it successfully while seeing an Aria who is still jealous.

"Now, that's my style." Sara said.

The light in the reflector is now white while the crowd is still watching.

"How could you do this to me!?" Aria asked Sara, feeling betrayed.

"How could you do this to me!?" Sara asked back at Aria, feeling betrayed too.

"What?" Caleb asked in confusion, even the Zodiac and Elemental girls along with Twilight and Starlight were concerned at the situation as Aria and Sara were arguing with each other.

"Bell head!" Sara argued.

"Hippo hugger!" Aria argued back.

"Gator skater!

"Prima donna!

"Goody goody!"

"Copycat!"

"Dirty rat! Let me at her!"

"You're just jealous!"

Then one alligator clung into Aria with the other alligators clinging into a line as the hippos did the same in Sara's side and they started to spin.

"Oh!"

"Oh no!"

"Let me go!" Sara shouted back.

Caleb and Luke ducked at the alligators and hippos kept spinning until one of the alligators was losing his grip and was launched against the rope with bells and spun there, a bell was launched hitting Luke's head but at the same an hippo was launched as she yelped but also carrying a snatched ballet dress as she crashed in the ice making a minor small ramp, Aria and Sara kept shouting at each other while some alligators and hippos are in the ice.

"Let go off me!" Aria shouted and then both girls released themselves.

"Give up?" Sara asked her.

"Never!" Aria replied in retaliation causing the crowd to gasp while Caleb, Luke, along with the Zodiacs, minus Aries, Elementals while some of the Equestrians covered their mouths in concern while Sara skated close to the hippos.

"Touch your toes, girls!" Sara told the hippos as they listened to Sara's command.

Caleb's twin sister was ready while Aria was behind her, then Sara dashed at high speed before jumping with the ice ramp's help and passing above the hippos as the choir was singing, Aria was unamused while Sara spun many times vertically before landing successfully and with both arms at her sides triumphantly and the crowd clapped at her, minus the families of Sara and Aria who are concerned.

"Hoist them up!" Aria called and then the alligators lifted the hippos with their arms.

But then, Sara was now concerned for Aria who then used her bow to cover her eyes.

"Huh?" Caleb and Luke wondered.

Aria ice skated quickly before jumping above the hippos and alligators, Aria was posing in the air, the music was swelling and the choir continued singing, Caleb and Luke hugged at each other and back with Aria, everything seemed going well until unfortunately Aria stepped above a bell and yelped in alarm as she was sliping and losing her balance, the choir kept singing but some of the known team members gasped at their sights until Aria fell into the ice ending the music and the choir, then the reflector turned off while everyone was concerned, the hippos and alligators gasped, but also the families, and the girl Digidestined, Pokémon Trainers, Zodiacs, Elementals, Toons, Equestrians and Ham-Hams gasped too while Aria was on the ground sobbing quietly after falling like that but then Sara approached to her best friend.

"Oh." Aria gasped quietly.

"Are you ok?" Sara asked her.

"I think so." Aria replied, sadly as Sara felt bad for her.

"What was I thinking?" Sara asked herself, sadly and Aria gasped quielty.

"What were we thinking?" Aria asked, herself.

Just then they heard an air flapping as they turned to see Twilight.

"Look you two, you two started differently and you ice skated in the best performance for competence, Sara wants to make surprises but as for Aria it is her first time here, I mean is their first time here, but most importantly it is in having fun." Twilight told them with a warm smile, Aria answered with a sad smile before hugging Twilight.

"Aww…" The crowd cooed at the words.

"I'm sorry…" Sara said, apologizing with Aria before helping her to get up.

Both girls stood up in the ice as the white light in the reflector pointed at them.

"Um, friends?" Sara asked Aria.

"No matter how many times you fight, an apology is part of showing a true friendship." Twilight told Aria who nodded with a smile.

"Best friends finale." Aria told Sara.

"Grand finale!" Sara said before she and Aria hugged at each other.

"And we'll do it together!" Assana said as she and some of the girls wanted to perform with Aria and Assana.

The reflector pointed at Aria and Sara, but also more reflectors were built by Aquarius because not only Aria and Sara were ice skating (in the places of Minnie and Daisy respectively), also Peach, Daisy, Amy, Blaze, Mimi, Jeri, Dawn, Rena, Sakura, Kairi, Rarity, Starlight, Assana, Skye, Gemini, Cancer, Libra and Virgo also joined the ice skating while the crowd was watching and cheering with amazement.

"Yeah!" Caleb and Luke cheered.

The choir kept singing as both Aria and Sara kept swinging their ribbons and ended by winking their eyes and then from the box emerged the hippos and alligators, then the guest girls and finally Aria and Sara in the top while the whole crowd was clapping and cheering, and for the finishing touch both girls swung their ribbons forming a message of "Peace on the Earth" and they ended by hugging each other.

*ENDS*

The crowd clapped and cheered at the fantastic and improved performance, even some of the villains from afar watched the spectacle.

"So divine…" Wendy Koopa commented.

"It was like seeing a Pokémon Contest." James added.

"How sad that we're not welcomed here anymore." Jessie added.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that someday in our homeworld you'll have another time to shine." Meowth said.

Yep, one of the ice festivities in Christmas was celebrated, despite two friends fighting each other for gaining the attention, at the end they performed one of the best ice skating performances in the time, however there is still more for the Christmas' day.

TO BE CONTINUED