Cartoon Christmas Carol part 7

Count Bleck looked up to see that he and Dustin had arrived in the streets of a poor neighborhood. He looked puzzled. He hadn't been to this part of town before.
"Uh, what in blazes are we doing here?" asked Count Bleck puzzled.
"Well, it's Christmas here too, Count Bleck." chuckled Dustin in amusement.
"But I don't know anyone who lives here!"
"Oh, of course you do. This is the home of your overworked, under pay, yet loyal employees, Johnny Test and Edwin Harley." explained Dustin pointing at the house.
As Count Bleck looked at the house surprised, the narrators themselves, disguised as chimney sweeps, climbed up a ladder next to the boy's household.
"'Perhaps it was the spirit's own generous nature and his sympathy for all poor men that led them straight to the home of Count Bleck's two faithful clerks'." narrated Dawn/Dannichangirl as she climbed up the ladder.
Yoru got to the roof and sniffed something coming out of the chimney that he could easily fit into. Once he had smelt the smell, Yoru smiled.
"Goose!" Yoru laughed with glee as he ran over. "They are cooking goose down there!"
Yoru stuck his head down into the chimney top, sniffing happily. That was until Homestar pushed them aside.
"Yoru, get out of the way." Homestar said as he began cleaning out the chimney with a chimney sweeper.
"Hey! Don't be sweeping the chimney now, Homestar! You're blocking the smell!" snapped Yoru angrily.
Down below, Count Bleck looked concerned as he looked from his employee's house back to Dustin.
"So uh, this is Jonathan Test and Edwin Harley's house, right?" asked Count Bleck pointing at the house.
"Who told you that?" asked Dustin puzzled.
"You did. Just now."
Dustin looked surprise, then he smirked. "Ah, I am usually trustworthy." He chuckled as he and Jack looked into the window.
Count Bleck saw two people by the stove cooking dinner.
"Hey, who's the two girls dressed in pink and blue?" Count Bleck asked, pointing at the woman.
"They're both your employees' wives. Or otherwise known as Grace the Pink Mermaid, Johnny's wife," Dustin said nodding.
Count Bleck looks shocked. "Does that mean the other girl in blue is Edwin's wife?"
"Indeed, she's Mirabella the Blue Octomaid".
Inside, the two women, both Grace and Mirabella were indeed cooking. Grace has short pink hair with a huge red bow, blue eyes, and wears a pink short sleeved dress with hints of red and a ruby-red heart brooch on the red bow in front, white go-go boots and a bleached pink apron, Johnny's wife.
Mirabella on the other hand has eight legs, light blue skin, blue eyes, long thick blue hair held up by two lavender ribbons into pigtails, a bright baby blue long-sleeved dress, a lavender skirt underneath the dress, an emerald star inecklace, eight bright baby blue slippers, a bright baby blue two-pointed princess hat with a lavender cloth on each point and a pink flower in front. Edwin's wife.
The girls sniffed the dinner and smiled. She turned to see a small mixture creature slowly turning the spit that was rolling the goose Yoru was sniffing nearby.
He was a dog with brown fur, a monkey-like face, brown eyes, and also has light brown at his face and belly area and the tip of his tail. This is Dukey, Johnny's best friend and a family pet.
"Dukey, don't stop turning that spit." Grace instructed to the mixture creature.
Dukey nodded as he kept turning the spit a little faster. "After that, that is how the roasted goose is properly made". added Mirabella.
"It smells so good, stepmothers." said Dukey smiling.
"It does, doesn't it?" asked Grace smirking as she looked in a mirror.
Back on the roof, Yoru smirked as he called Timmy to get a whiff of the goose from another chimney.
"You're right Yoru, that smells wonderful." Timmy sighed happily as he stuck his head down. However, he slipped and fell right into the chimney yelling madly getting the others' attention.
"Oh, good grief." groaned Dawn as she saw what happened.
"Hey! I'm stuck! Get me outta here!" yelled Timmy, stuck in the chimney itself.
Nana just sighed. "I knew you weren't suited for literature."
Back inside the house, Timmy struggled trying to get free from the chimney. Soon he got free and screamed. Luckily for him he landed on something. Unluckily for him, he didn't know what it was at first.
"Well, I landed on something soft." Timmy said with a relief sigh. But then his feet felt something and he looked down. He yelped as he realized he landed on the goose itself! "And hot!" He jumped up and down yelling 'hot' many times like mad.
Grace looked around. Then thinking no one, including Mirabella was watching, she helped herself to some chestnuts. Unfortunately, a teenage girl spotted her doing this. She had pink eyes and red hair and right now wearing a pink fancy dress that had a black stripe going around the middle, along with a red bow on her head and she also wore white socks and black ballet shoes. This was Blossom.
She came up, exclaiming, "Stepmother Grace! I thought you and stepmother Mirabella said we couldn't eat those chestnuts until stepfather Johnny and Edwin and Bubbles get home!"
"Yeah sweetie," agreed Mirabella who was mixing up plum pudding for her family dinner. "Didn't you and I agree on that, didn't we Grace?"
Grace yelped and put the chestnuts she was eating anyway. She turned quickly and innocently to Blossom and Mirabella saying, "Now, now. I wasn't eating them! I was checking to see that they aren't burnt. It's how cook do it, dear, and don't shout Buttercup."
"Uh, I'm Blossom." Blossom pointed out frowning.
"I'm Buttercup!" This came from a girl Blossom's age with green eyes and black hair and right now wearing a green fancy dress that had a black stripe going around the middle, along with a small green bow on her head and she also wore white socks and black ballet shoes. Both she and Blossom hated it when stepmother Grace got them mixed up.
Grace looked back from each girl and said nervously, "Uh, I need that. Right," She turned to Buttercup, "Blossom"?"
Buttercup rolled her eyes annoyed. "Buttercup!"
Grace looked back and forth confused. She groaned. "Whatever!" The girls hmmph on this while Mirabella just shook her head while she kept stirring the pudding.
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Count Bleck heard some singing. Both he and Dustin turned and saw three figures approaching. One of them was Johnny and Edwin themselves were carrying another girl Blossom and Buttercup's age with blue eyes and blond hair in pigtails and right now wearing a blue fancy dress that had a black stripe going around the middle, along with two small blue bows on her pigtails and she also wore white socks and black ballet shoes. She was currently carrying a crutch as her stepfathers held her. Her name was Bubbles. Dustin smiled as both stepfathers and stepdaughter began singing the same song Johnny and Edwin was singing before.
(Author's note: I'm using the Powerpuff girls' same outfits from the episode "Octi-Gone")

Bubbles: 'Tis the season to be jolly and joyous

Both: Fa la la

Bubbles: With a burst of pleasure we feel it arrive

Both: Fa la la

Bubbles: It's a season when the saints can employ us

Both: Fa la la

Bubbles: To spread the news about peace

Both: And to keep love alive

The three laughed as they stopped by their own house. Count Bleck looked at this, mostly at the young girl as Johnny and Edwin put her down.
"Come on, Bubbles." Johnny said with a smile.
"Yeah!' Bubbles said laughing. Count Bleck noticed that the young girl was walking barely which explains why she was using a crutch to support her. "Let's see if stepmothers Grace and Mirabella finished Christmas dinner yet."
"Indeed!"
The three laughed as Bubbles opened the door, making sure not to fall.
"Careful, girl." said Edwin with precaution as the three came in. He didn't see Dawn and the others, down from the roof, running in quickly.
Once Johnny, Edwin and Bubbles were inside themselves, Edwin closed the door and announced, "Merry Christmas, everyone!"
The girls and Dukey saw Johnny and Edwin and got excited.
"Stepdad Johnny and Eddy!" squealed both Blossom and Buttercup at once as they ran towards the boys.
"Johnny, buddy!" laughed Dukey as he ran towards them as well.
Both Johnny and Edwin got a bit squashed as both their stepdaughters and Dukey hugged them tightly.
"Heh, heh. Merry Christmas, girls." Edwin said chuckling.
"Merry Christmas, Dukey." Added Johnny happy to see his dog buddy.
"Merry Christmas!" said Dukey.
"Calm down, everyone." chuckled Mirabella smiling as she came forward. "Set the table. Go on."
Bubbles joined her siblings and pet as they did, "Hey know, wait for me." The crutched powerpuff said.
Grace and Mirabella turned and smiled at their husbands and said, "Merry Christmas, girls."
"Merry Christmas, boys." Said the girls smiling as they both gave their husbands a kiss and a hug.
"Grace..."
"Mirabella..."
Grace and Mirabella lets go and smiled the same time their husbands did.
Nearby, Timmy groaned as he felt his feet and tried to cure them with ice as his friends came over.
"Ooh. Yoru tricked and made me fall down the chimney and landed on a flaming hot goose." groaned Timmy.
Yoru just made a sheepish grin.
"Awww, you have all the fun." groaned Homestar irritably. Timmy glared at him annoyed. "What?"
Back inside, Bubbles laughed as she goes to the table where dinner is now set.
"All right! Dukey! The Christmas dinner! The goose! The goose," Suddenly Bubbles began to cough badly. The stepparents noticed and looked concerned.
"Now, now, girl, you're getting too excited." Mirabella said quickly and sadly. "Go sit in your chair for a moment and rest, okay?"
Bubbles nodded. As the young lad went to sit in her chair in a corner nearby, Mirabella turned to Edwin and smiled a bit. "So how was she at church?"
Edwin smiled. "She was as good as gold and better." He continued as Bubbles sat down. "She told me that she hoped the people saw her in church because it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind man see."
Usually, Count Bleck wouldn't care much about this. But for the first time ever, he felt sad and guilty for the young Bubbles. "She's a remarkable kid." He felt it for a good reason. It reminded him of him when he was young and defenseless.
As Johnny and Edwin's family sat down to eat, Dawn narrated as she and her friends watched.
"'And with that, Johnny and Edwin's family came to what was surely the happiest single moment in all the livelong year'." said Dawn smiling.
"The feast looks so...meager." Count Bleck observed.
"Yet very well appreciated." added Dustin nodding.
"Man, I pay them both a small amount."
"Count Bleck!" begins Johnny.
"Johnny!" said Count Bleck excited. Thinking either Johnny or Edwin had seen him; he stood up and went to the door exclaiming, "Edwin!"
He went through the door like a ghost. But as he came in, he realized that both Johnny and Edwin didn't see him at all. In fact...
"I think it would be fair to lift a cup to my employer." Edwin said as he lifts his cup up. "To Count Bleck, the founder of the feast!"
Grace, however, just scoffed at that. "Founder of the feast, indead!"
"Yeah!" agreed the girls with a frown.
"In fact, if he was here, I would show him a thing or two and I hope he chokes on it!" scoffed Grace. some more.
"Choke!" agreed Blossom and Buttercup.
"Grace!" scolded Mirabella.
"Now, now, Grace." Johnny said chuckling nervously.
"Remember the children and Christmas Day." added Edwin.
"Yeah Grace, I say that on the blessed day of Christmas, one must drink to the health of Count Bleck." explained Mirabella.
Grace signed, "Okay Mirabella, even though he is odious, stingy..." Blossom and Buttercup grunted in agreement as she continued, "...wicked, cruel and unfeeling..." Blossom and Buttercup grunted some more. "...and badly dressed..."
This caused the girls to gasp.
"And..."
Bubbles interrupted her stepmother as she lifted her cup up, quickly before she said something else, "To the founder of the feast. Count Bleck!"
Grace sighed in annoyance and reluctantly raised her cup as well. "To Count Bleck. Let him be merry and happy this day, I have no doubt."
"No doubt." nodded Blossom and Buttercup reluctantly.
Count Bleck looked downcast. Although Johnny and Edwin were loyal to him, Grace, Blossom and Buttercup couldn't even stand the girl. Count Bleck now felt bad of the times when he was mean and cruel to Johnny and Edwin.
"Cheers!" said Johnny and Edwin.
Bubbles smiled as she said these simple words, "God bless us, every one."
As everyone watched and as those at the table begin to eat, Bubbles began to sing.

Bubbles: When Christmas time is over
and presents put away,
don't be sad.
There'll be so much to treasure
about this Christmas day
and the fun we had.
So many happy feelings
to celebrate with you.
And all the good times hurry by so fast.

Mirabella smiled as she hugged her little girl.

But even when it's over
there's something we can do
to make Christmas last.

Grace & Johnny: Keep Christmas with you
all through the year,
When Christmas is over,
You can keep it near.

Edwin came over and joined in.

Edwin & Bubbles: Think of this Christmas day,
When Christmas is far away.

All: Keep Christmas with all through the year

Johnny & Bubbles: When Christmas is over,
save some Christmas cheer

Bubbles: These Precious moments,
hold them very dear.

Johnny, Grace & Bubbles: And keep Christmas with you
all though the year.

Bubbles: Christmas means the spirit of giving,
peace and joy to you.

Johnny: The goodness of loving

Edwin: The gladness of living

Grace & Mirabella: These are Christmas too

As Bubbles sang next, the whole family joined in together.

Bubbles: So keep Christmas with you
all through the year

All: When Christmas is over,
save some Christmas cheer

Bubbles's voice began to get weak a bit as she continued singing. This put a shred of tear in one of Count Bleck's eyes as he continued to feel sad for the crippled girl.

Johnny & Edwin: These precious moments,
hold them very dear.

All: And keep Christmas with you
all through the year.

Bubbles: Just keep Christmas with you
all through the year.

(Author's note: I'm using the song "Keep Christmas With You" instead because I feel like doing something different plus my friend Cosmo Prower Tomahak used different songs for her stories)

After Bubbles finished the song, she began coughing once more, concerning the family some more.
"We better get eating. Let's have dinner, everyone." Mirabella said to the family sadly as they went to sit down.
Count Bleck looked sadly as well. He could tell from the cough that little Bubbles didn't have much health care, medicine, etc. Add to the fact that Johnny and Edwin wouldn't be able to afford a doctor...
"Dustin, please tell...will Bubbles be okay?" Count Bleck pleaded to Dustin as he watched on.
"Sorry, Count Bleck." said Dustin with a sigh as he stood up. He was getting older as time passed. "That is the future. My realm is in the present."
"Please. I've got to know." Count Bleck said looking at Dustin sadly.
Dustin could see something in Count Bleck's eyes: full of love and concern for young Bubbles.
"Well, Count Bleck, I do see a vacant seat by the chimney corner and a crutch without an owner. If these shadows of the future remained unaltered, then I'm believe...the child...will die."
"No." whispered Count Bleck as he looked at miserable at the young smiling crutch holding girl. Bubbles had no idea of what lied in her future.
"Why the concern, Count Bleck," Dustin asked sternly. "If she's going to die, she'd better do it and decrease the surplus population."
"Oh, Dustin." said Count Bleck sadly.
"'And as Johnny and Edwin's family vanished into the darkness, Count Bleck kept his eyes upon Bubbles until the last'." narrated Dawn some more.
Soon both Count Bleck and Dustin were in darkness. Dustin puts his arm around Count Bleck's shoulder as he said.
"Let's go. My time grows short." Dustin sighed.
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Count Bleck and Dustin arrived at a church that was abandoned. He looked nervously around. Then he began to notice Dustin's becoming a bit transparent.
"Um, Dustin, are you disappearing?" asked Count Bleck in surprise.
"Yes! I am." Dustin said nodding.
"Are spirits' lives so short?"
"My time on this planet is very brief." sigh Dustin as he sat down on a bench nearby. "I believe it will end on the stroke of midnight."
As he said this, the church bell began to ready. It was being rung by Timmy, Homestar and Yoru who were taking turns ringing the bell.
"One!" yelled Timmy after groaning and ringing the bell.
"Two!" said Homestar with a cringe.
Count Bleck gasped in shock, then, as the bell rang the second time, he said to Dustin, "Now? But, Dustin! I have learned so much from you!"
"Three!" strained Yoru as she rung the bell the third time.
"Four!" exclaimed Timmy with a heavy heart as he rung the bell the fourth time.
"'Nothing Bleck could do or say could stop the relentless march of those terrible bells'." said Dawn grimly to the "audience".
"Five!" yelled Homestar as she rang the bell.
"Oh Dustin, do not leave me!" yelped Count Bleck as Dustin began to disappear into green sparkling mist.
"Sadly, I must, Count Bleck." sighed Dustin.
"But you changed me! You mean so much to me!" protested Count Bleck sadly. He felt Dustin was his newest friend who had grown him how great Christmas is.
"And now, I leave you with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come." said Dustin grimly.
"You mean the future?" yelped Count Bleck in fear. "Must I?"
"Go forth, Count Bleck, and know him better, my friend!" said Dustin as the bell rang for the 12th time as he said his last words. "Merry Christmas and good luck…" And with that, Dustin disappeared into sparkling green mist, leaving Count Bleck, with the exception of the narrators still hiding, all alone.
"Oh no." groaned Count Bleck, not liking what could come next.

End of Chapter 7