Chapter 9: Be our Guest

Chapter 9: Be our Guest

While the snow falls from outside the castle, it's quite from inside the place. There is noboby haven't done anything since Tea's has refused to leave her room.

Suddenly, the door to the bedroom opens while Tea peeks out and looks around, and sighs as Beast Yami isn't in sight.

She leaves the room and quietly heads down the hall. Since Beast Yami isn't around, she can explore the castle and might as well get some food, in spite of what she insisted before.

Meanwhile, behind closed curtains.

"Oh, please no!" Serenity's voice giggled.

"Oh, yes indeed!" Duke's voice remarked with a chuckle.

"Oh, not again!" Serenity laughed as Duke chases her out from behind the curtains.

The two of them have been there, having fun while making out. Duke forgot that he was suppose to guard the bedroom door and that him and Serenity are objects.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes!" Duke chuckled and he grabs Serenity dipping the maid.

"I had been burned by you before!" Serenity laughed as Duke nibbles on her neck.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha!" He laughed.

Just then Duke saw Tea walked down the hallway, gasping as he drops Serenity.

"Oof!" Serenity yelps.

Duke holds his head in shock.

"Oh my goodness, she came out from her room!" He said in shock.

As Tea walks down the stairs, she heads to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Mrs. Mutou puts her son into the cupboard, where is other friends are.

"Ok, Yugi." Mrs. Mutou began. "Go inside the cupboard with your friends."

Yugi hops into the cupboard and yawned.

"But mom, I'm not that tired." He said.

"Yes, you are." Mrs. Mutou replied.

She closes the cabinet door while Yugi sleeps inside the cupboard.

"No, I'm...not." He responded.

Soon, Mrs. Mutou  hears a crashing noise. It comes from a stove and his name is Mako Tsunami and is the head chef of the castle.

"I had to work all day and slave my way for what?" He complained. "My precious food is going to waste."

"Oh, stop being such a grounch." Mrs. Mutou responded. "You aren't the only one who had a rough night, we all had a long night."

"Well, if you would ask me, this girl has been stubborn." Tristan added as he throws the napkin into one of the cupboards as the door slammed on its own. "Well, Master Yami had said please."

Through all this, Tea enters the kitchen, looking around, and Mako sees her come in.

"If Master Yami wouldn't control his temper he would be able to break the..." Mrs. Mutou tried to explain.

Tristan interrupted her when he saw Tea.

"Lovely to see you here and out of your room, Tea." He cried, taking the girl's hand, gracefully. "We didn't properly introduce ourselves I'm Tristan, head of this household."

Duke hops into the kitchen, pushing Tristan out of the way, and he took Tea's hand.

"This is Duke." Tristan introduced his colleague, flatly.

"A pleasure of meeting you, Tea." Duke replied and smiles then kisses the younger girl on one of her hands.

Tristan tries to shove Duke out of the way and tries to stop him from kissing Tea's hand.

"Is there anything that...stop that...we could...please..." Tristan at last shoves Duke out of the way. "...for your stay more comfortable." Duke uses his waxhand to burn Tristan's hand. "Ow!!!!" Tristan yelped in pain.

"Now that you mention it, I am a little bit hungry." Tea mentioned to the servants with a thoughtful look.

Mrs. Mutou smile.

"You are? Did you hear that? She is hungry." She said as she bounces over to the other pieces of tea set. "Mako, start the fire," Mako turns on his burners as the fire rises up, heat up the food, "break out the silver," the drawer opens as the silverware pop up, "wake the china."

Tristan starts to panic.

"Mrs.Mutou, you do remember what Master Yami said." He whispered to her.

"Oh, pish posh." Mrs.Mutou shushed the clock as the object started preparing the meals. "I wouldn't let this poor child go hungry."

Tristan sighes.

"Fine, then." He  said, giving in. "We need to add glass of water, a crust of bread, and then..."

Duke stops Tristan's ranting.

"Tristan, I'm so shocked on your behaviour." He frowned at his colleague. "She isn't our prisoner. She is our guest. We got to make her feel welcome here." Duke looks up Tea and leads her into the dining room. "Right this way, miss." He told her.

"Just keep your voices down." Tristan spoke in a lowered voice. "If Master Yami would find out  about this, he will have our heads!"

"Yeah, yeah." Duke said and nods his head as he let Tea into the dining room. "What would be dinner without a little music?"

He closes the door on Tristan, sending the poor clock into a large bowl of pancake batter.

"MUSIC!?!" Tristan cried, falling face-first into the pancake batte.

In the dining room, Duke jumps on the table while the spotlight appeared on him. As Tea watches, Duke grinned at her.

"My dearest lady." He greeted. "It's with the deepest pride and wonderful pleasure for me to welcome you tonight." Duke puts on a hat as Tea was knocked backwards and lands in a  chair. "Now, we are invinting you to relax. Allow us to pull up a chair while the dining room is happily presenting...your dinner." Duke concluded with a nod as a meal was put nearby himself.

Tea grinned as the song began.

Duke sings.

"Be our guest,
Be our guest.
             Put our service to the test."

He starts to dance around.

"Tie your napkin 'round your neck, darling,
       And we'll provide the rest."

The chair that Tea sit on, pull out a napkin and tries to tie it around Tea's neck. Tea lays the napkin on her lap.

"Soup of the day!
   Hot hors-d'oeuvres!"

A bowl walks over to Tea and a pot pours the soup into the bowl.

"Why we only live to serve!
 Try the gray stuff,
    It's delicious!"

Duke holds out a tray while Tea tries the gray stuff from the hors-d'oeuvres, causing her to make an approving hum. The cabinet opens to reveal the plates and utensils are performing for Tea.

"Don't believe me?
 Ask the servants!
They can sing,
 They can dance,
           After all, Miss, this is Japan.
                       And a dinner here is never second best."

He hands her a menu.

"Go on, unfold your menu!
  Take a glance and then you'll
Be our guest.
Hai, our guest,
Be our guest!"

The meals dance over to Tea, as Tea tries each food that is coming over to her.

Duke and the chorus sing.

"Tofu Beef ragout!
 Cheese soufflé!
                 Pie and Pudding en flambé!"

Tristan pokes his head out from a huge pie that was being passed to Tea and screams as Duke set him on fire. Luckily, Tristan was only charred black, so he ended up fainting instead.

Duke sings.

"We'll prepare and serve with flair,
A culinary cabaret!"

Tea looks over at the spoons lined on the edge of the flatware then dove into a pink nunvill and performed a swimming routine.

Duke and the spoons sing.

"You're alone and you're scared,
But the banquet's all prepared!
   No one's gloomy or complaining,
     While the servants are entertaining."

He was elevated on the air with a plate by the nunvill geyser, while juggling his candle arms sticks.

Duke sings.

"We tell jokes!
 I do tricks!
       With my very own magic sticks!"

Tea saw a couple of mugs which is filled with the pink nunvill walks over to her and sing.

"And it's all in perfect taste
That you can bet!!!"

Tea watches the nunvill mugs perform a gymnastic jump then filling the nunvill into each other.

All the objects sings.

"Come on and lift your glass
           You've won your own free pass to be our guest!"

Duke sings.

"If you're stressed,
It's fine dining we suggest!"

Tristan climbs out of the pie pan and whips the soot of his face with a cloth. His eyes widen as he realizes that the singing was loud.

Duke and the mugs sings.

"Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Be our guest!"

Tristan pulls one of the mugs away, found himself under the spotlight. The mug runs off, leaving Tristan all by himself. He awkwardly smiles while trying to run off, only to find Duke stopping him and continues to sing.

Duke sings.

"Life is so unnerving.
For a servant who's not serving.
He's not whole without a soul to wait upon."

Tristan tries to escape from the spotlight, but Duke pulls him back into the spotlight and wraps his arms around Tristan's shoulder.

"Get your arm off me!" Tristan shouted.

He blows out Duke's candle, which the candlelabra is reignited them.

Duke sings.

"Ah, those good old days when we were useful."
Suddenly those good old days are gone."

He slumps down as what appeared to be snow fell on him and Tristan, leaving the latter very confused. Tristan was annoyed to find out that it was only the salt shakers.

"Suddenly those good old days are gone."

The salt piles up on Tristan, was annoyed with it.

"Ohh..." He  groaned.

Duke wraps his arm around the clock's shoulder.

"Ten years we've been rusting.
Needing so much more than dusting."

He dusts off most of the salt that piled up on Tristan. The clock tries to get away from the candlelabra, only for the candlelabra to cling to his leg.

"Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills!"

Tristan manage to free himself from Duke's grasp, he fell and ends up stuck in a gelatin, screaming the whole time.

"Most days we just lay around the castle."

Tristan struggles to get his head out of the gelatin.

"Flabby, fat and lazy,
You walked in, and oops-a-daisy!"

Duke jumps on a nearby spoon, catapulting Tristan right out of the gelatin, making him scream.

In the kitchen, Mrs. Mutou hops around and bounces happily as the rest of the dishes and cups are washing up. Bubbles foating up.

Mrs. Mutou sings.

"It's a guest!
It's a guest!
Sakes alive, well I'll be blessed!"

Mrs. Mutou bounces around while the napkins spin around her.

"Wine's been poured and thank the Lord.
I've had the napkins freshly pressed!"

She dances around, then passes all the cups and then go to the stove to warm up the tea that is already freshly poured.

"With dessert,
She'll want tea,
And my dear that's fine with me!
While the cups do their soft-shoein',
I'll be bubbling, I'll be brewing!"

Mrs. Mutou notices a spot on the side as she calls for the napkin to whip it off.

"I'll get warm,
Piping hot.
Heaven's sakes! Is that a spot?
Clean it up!
We want the company impressed!"

She hops into the cart. She rolls out of the kitchen and heading over to the dinnig room.

"We've got a lot to do!
Is it one lump or two?
For you, our guest!"

Tea looks over to find the tea cart pulling in as Mrs. Mutou pours her tea on Yugi and sugar cubes added.

The objects sings.

"She's our guest!"

Yugi hops onto the table then Tea sips a bit of the hot tea.

Mrs. Mutou sings.

"She's our guest!"

The vases full of flowers slide over to Tea and hands her a pink single flower.

The objects sings.

"She's our guest!"

"Ok, that is enough, not....aah!" Tristan exclaimed.

As Serenity and her colleagues dust off the room which causes Tristan to scream and run out of the way in time.

The objects sings.

"Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Our command is your request.
It's ten years since we've had anybody here
And we're obsessed!

We see all the chinaware perform in the background.
With your meal,
With your ease.
Yes, indeed, we aim to please!"

The candlesticks each part their way to introduce someone.

"While the candlelight's still glowing,
Let us help you,
We'll keep going."

The candlesticks move aside, Duke appears holding his cane while grinning.

Duke sings.

"Course by course!
One by one!
'Til you shout..."

The objects sings.

"Enough! I'm done!"

Tea gasps with joy as she saw a chandelier lowing as she saw the forks dancing on the ring.

Duke and the objects sing.

"Tonight you'll prop your feet up,
But for now, let's eat up.
Be our guest!
Be our guest!"

Tea smile as she dances in her seat with the objects, Tristan worries, then stops doing so as he looks at the excitement and smiles as he starts dance along as well.

"Be our guest!
Please, be our guest!"

As the song comes close to an end, Tristan is dancing like one big fool until Duke pushes him out of the way for the finishing pose. Once the song finished, the objects bow as Tea applauds them.

"Bravo!" Tea cried, clapping. "That was fantastic!"

"Thank you, thank you so much miss. Yes, it's amazing show everyone." Tristan said smiling, as all the kitchenware are heading to the kitchen to get cleaned up and bows then yawns. He looks at the clock hands on his face. "Oh, would you look at the time. It's time to go to bed, go to bed!"

Duke hops over to Tristan.

"I just couldn't go to sleep now." Tea said, smiling. "This is my first time in the enchanted castle."

"Enchanted? That is propostures!" Tristan cried, laughing nervously. "Who in the world would say anything about this castle being enchanted?" Tristan and Duke glance nervously at Tea while the fork runs pass them and head to the kitchen. Tristan glares at Duke then points his finger at him, accusingly. "you were the one that told her, weren't you!" he hissed before getting into a fight with the candleabra.

"I kind of figured it out on my own." Tea replied.

Duke and Tristan stop their fight, as they stand up and sheepishly brushed themselves off.

"I would love to have a look around, that is if it's ok." Tea said and stands up from the chair.

"Do you want a tour?" Duke asked with a smile.

"Wait a second, wait a  second. I think its a bad idea." Tristan said, by stopping to two as their smile fade from their faces. "We can just let her wonder around to a certain place, you know what I mean." He whispered quietly to Duke.

"Maybe you would like to take me." Tea said smiling, then leans on her elbow and pokes Tristan's belly. "I'm sure that you know all about the castle."

"Well, fortunately, I, uhh, yes, I do!" Tristan replied.

Everyone had a lovely time, Tea enjoyed the show. Next chapter is where Tea goes to the forbbiden place.