How the Cinch Stole Christmas
How the Cinch Stole Christmas
It was Christmas down in beautiful Canterlot. The Mane 7 of Sunset Shimmer, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and the human Twilight Sparkle and Shadow 5 of Sugarcoat, Indigo Zap, Sunny Flare, Sour Sweet and Lemon Zest came together. On the snow covered soccer field of Canterlot High that was covered earlier that year to a field for the Friendship Games, a giant Christmas tree was put together for all of the friends to celebrate at. They rang around the tree, and began to sing.
Lovely Christmas, Lovely Christmas
Welcome Christmas, Bring your light
Lovely Christmas, Lovely Christmas
Welcome Christmas, Lovely night~
Welcome Christmas, wonderland
Welcome Christmas, Snowfall beauty
Welcome Christmas, Friendship Forever
Heart to Heart and Hand in Hand~
Trim up the tree with Christmas stuff
Like ornaments and a pretty star
Trim up the town with jingle bells
And nutcrackers and pretty lights~
Trim every blessed window and trim every blessed door
Sleigh Bells ringing (Sunset and Twilight)
Jolly in the air (Sunny and Rarity)
Don't forget the Eggnog! (Pinkie and Lemon)
Basketball on Christmas! (Rainbow and Indigo)
Giving and sharing (Applejack and Sugarcoat)
Time with Family and Friends~ (Fluttershy and Sour Sweet)
Welcome Christmas and Happy Hol-id-ays~!
They all cheered.
"Oh I can't wait for Christmas! And it's going to be the best yet! Because I have the most wonderful friends to share this time with" Twilight said.
"Awww. It'll be so much fun!" Indigo said.
"It truly is a magical time of the year." Sunset added.
"Hopefully not like what we've seen." Rainbow replied to Sunset. They all laughed and giggled.
Meanwhile, not everyone in Canterlot was celebrating Christmas. Over alone in the office of Crystal Prep, Principal Cinch looked down on them with binoculars and saw them. She never liked Christmas. She always cared about her school's reputation, or i should say HER reputation, and doesn't care about anything else.
Could it be perhaps that her collar fit too tight around her neck? Could it perhaps be that her shoes were too small?
Lemon Zest broke the fourth wall. "Could it be her head is screwed on too tight?" She broke into laughter.
Lemon Zest get back to where you were. You don't come in yet.
"Oops. Sorry." She disappeared giggling.
Back to the story.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that her heart was two sizes too small.
But, whatever the reason, her heart or her shoes,
She stood there on Christmas Eve hating the 12 students, especially her former star student, Twilight Sparkle.
Staring down from her office with a sour frown
At the warm lighted windows below in their town,
For she knew every one of those twelve students were beneath
Was busy now hanging a holly jolly wreath.
"Oh it looks wonderful!" Sour Sweet said, in which how could she be Sour at this time of the year?
"Looks great. Should we take a picture?" Sugarcoat asked.
"I'll get the selfie stick!!" Indigo Zap called out.
The girls all got together and took a picture.
"Im sure Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna will love this." Sunset said.
"Dean Cadence too." Twilight added.
"And they're hanging their stockings," she snarled with a sneer.
"Tomorrow is Christmas! It's practically here!"
Then she growled, with her fingers nervously drumming on her desk,
"I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming! Especially for those girls, and Twilight!" She announced.
"For, tomorrow, I know all of them
Will wake bright and early. They'll rush for their toys and presents! And then party!
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
There's one thing I hate! All the NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!"
She slammed her fists upon her desk, scaring her cat Mr. Sniffles.
"And then they'll sing and take selfies and party and feast and watch basketball! If I never can have that chance to have a holly jolly Christmas. Neither should they..."
"I do love when the little children wake on Christmas morning and open their presents." Fluttershy smiled.
"It's the most wonderful time of the year for a reason." Sunny Flare added.
"I couldn't agree more darling." Rarity said.
"Sure presents and gifts are exciting and all. But what really matters is us being together." Rainbow Dash announced.
"Amen." Indigo high fived Rainbow Dash.
"Especially that mean ol' Cinch." Sour Sweet said.
"Yeah. She probably doesn't even like Christmas." Sugarcoat added.
Pinkie Pie gasped, "Who could ever hate Christmas??"
"Apparently Cinch does." Lemon Zest said.
"Rumor has it she had a bad childhood experience with it." Twilight chimed in.
"I can see why." Her dog Spike added to the conversation.
"But we don't have to worry about her luckily." Indigo said.
"Yeah!" Lemon cheered.
"I came up with a song for her. Wanna hear it?" Sour Sweet said.
"Let her rip." Sugarcoat adjusted her glasses.
They began to sing again.
You're a mean one, Principal Cinch. You really are a pinch.
You're as cold as an iceberg. You're as flattering as an hippo.
Prinicpal Cinch!~
You're a bad apple with a week old black spot!
"That was pretty good." Rainbow Dash said.
"True. But let's not have any hate for this time of the year. It is Christmas tomorrow after all." Sunset pointed out.
"She's right. Let's not have any hate." Rarity smiled.
"Couldn't agree more dearie." Sunny said.
Meanwhile...
"And they'll sing! And they'll sing! And they'd SING! SING! SING! SING!"
And the more the Cinch thought of them singing,
The more the Cinch thought, "I must stop this whole thing!"
Why for quite a while I've put up with it now!
I must stop Christmas from coming for these girls! But how?"
Then she got an idea! An awful idea!
Principal Cinch got a wonderful, awful idea!
"I know just what to do!" Ms. Cinch laughed in her throat.
"I'll make a quick Santa Claus hat and a coat."
And she chuckled, and snickered, "What a great cinchy trick of mine!
With this coat and this hat, I'll look just like Saint Nick!"
You're a mean one, Principal Cinch. You really are a pinch.
You're as cold as an iceberg. You're as flattering as a hippo.
Principal Cinch!~
You're a bad apple with a week old black spot! (AJ and Sugarcoat)
You're a monster, Principal Cinch. Your heart's a poor soul~. (Sunset and Twilight)
Your brain is full of tyranny. You've got nothing but winning on your mind.
Principal Cinch!
I wouldn't touch you with a fourty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!~ (Sour Sweet and Fluttershy)
"All I need is a reindeer." Principal Cinch looked around.
But since reindeer are scarce, there was none to be found.
Did that stop Principal Cinch? Hah! She simply said,
"If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead!"
So she took her cat Mr. Sniffles, and she took some black thread.
And she tied a big horn on top of his head.
Meanwhile, it was getting late.
"I'd love to celebrate more. But we need to get to bed. Tomorrow is Christmas after all." Indigo yawned.
"Yeah. Tomorrow will be so much fun!" Pinkie said.
"Yay." Fluttershy smiled.
"Have a good night everyone!" Sunset waved.
"Night girls!" Twilight said.
"Merry Christmas! See you in the morning!" Sugarcoat called out.
The girls went to their homes and went to sleep. It was dark out. Then Principal Cinch loaded some bags and some old empty sacks
On a ramshackle sleigh and she whistled for Mr. Sniffles. The cat jumped on the Sleigh acting like he was ready for a ride. But that was not the plan.
Then the Cinch said "Giddyap!" and the sleigh started down
Toward the homes where the girls lay a-snooze in their homes.
All their windows were dark. No one knew she was there.
All the girls were all dreaming sweet dreams without care
When she came to the first house of the targeted homes. Sour Sweet.
"This is stop number one," the old Cinchy Claus hissed,
As she climbed to the roof, empty bags in her fist.
Then she slid down the chimney, a rather tight pinch.
But if Santa could do it, then so could Principal Cinch.
"Anyone can. Just watch me." Principal Cinch called to the narrator.
She got stuck only once, for a minute or two.
Then she stuck her head out of the fireplace flue.
Where Sour Sweet's stocking hung.
"This stocking," she smirked, "is the first thing to go!" She laughed easily.
While Sour Sweet was sleeping with her teddy bear. Cinch started taking the presents and everything off of the tree Sour Sweet had in her house. Anything you could imagine. She took. She stuffed them in bags and threw them up the ceiling for poor Mr. Sniffles to catch.
You're a rude one, Principal Cinch. You have evil in your grin. (Rainbow and Indigo)
You have all the tender kindness of a raging wolverine. (Sunny and Rarity)
Principal Cinch!
Given the choice between the two of you I'd take the raging wolverine! (Sugarcoat)
You're a manipulator, Principal Cinch. You're the queen of crazi-ness. (Pinkie and Lemon)
Your heart's a dead apple splotched with moldy yellow spots. (Fluttershy and Sour)
Principal Cinch! You're a three decker french fry and an uncooked fish sandwich with out of date sauce! (Sunset)
She went house after house, taking presents and decorations and even the food they were going to celebrate with a feast at CHS! All at Celestia and Luna's house! Yes even the pudding!
"Not the pudding!" Pinkie popped out of nowhere.
Pinkie you're breaking the fourth wall.
"Oops." She giggled and disappeared. I don't know how she does it.
Anyway...
She reached one house in particular. Twilight Sparkle and Sunset's house. Twilight had moved into Sunset's place after the Friendship Games since she basically lived there. Sunset was in her room sound asleep while Twilight was trying to fall asleep but she had so much excitement in her.
"Christmas with true friends..." She smiled looking up at the ceiling. Suddenly she heard a noise. It was a crashing sound like something had been dropped. This didn't wake Sunset. But Twilight wanted to know what it was.
"Could it be....no....well. I'll have to see." She got her slippers on, but forgot her glasses, then snuck by Spike and went downstairs. She saw someone in a red suit trying to throw the Christmas tree up the chimney. She gasped.
Cinch turned around and saw her. She wasn't too happy to see Twilight. But she knew she couldn't afford to have her cover blown.
"S-Santa?" Twilight asked rubbing her eyes.
Cinch tried doing her best Santa voice. "Hello little one."
"Why are you taking our Christmas tree a-and stuffing it up the chimney? Why?" She asked sadly.
"Now now little Twilight. I noticed some of the lights went out on your all's tree. I'm going to take to my shop. Fix it up and bring it back before morning."
The fib fooled Twilight only because of what she's been through plus she was getting very sleepy and she didn't have her glasses on. Cinch got her something to drink and she went back to bed. Poor Twilight was too sleepy to see the truth.
Cinch continued onward.
Then she went up the chimney herself, that old liar.
And the last thing she took was the log from their fireplace.
On their walls she left nothing but hooks and some wire.
And the one speck of food that she left in the house
Was a crumb that was even too small for a mouse.
Then she did the same thing to the other girls' houses,
Leaving crumbs much too small for the other girls' mouses! If they had one. Mostly Fluttershy.
You sicken me, Principal Cinch, with a sickening super "bleh"!
You're a crooked Halloween witch and you drive a crooked old sedan. (Sugarcoat and AJ)
Principal Cinch!
Your reputation is an now nothing but trash overflowing with the most dirty garbage can with an assortment of rubbish that is unimaginable, mangled up in a broken down truck! (Lemon Zest)
You're a foul one, Principal Cinch. You're a nasty-wasty skunk. (Rarity and Sunny)
Your heart is full of rude expectations. Your mind is too forcing (Rainbow and Indigo)
Principal Cinch!
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and we quote, "Stink, stank, stunk"! (Indigo, then Sunny, Sour and then Sugarcoat and Lemon)
She lastly went to the soccer field and took everything there.
It was quarter of dawn. All the girls still a-bed,
All the girls still a-snooze, when she packed up her sled,
Packed it up with their presents, their ribbons, their wrappings,
On the very top of Crystal Prep Academy she stood.
She rode with her load, at the entrance of the school!
"Boo-hoo to the girls for what they've done to my reputation!" Cinch snickered to her cat, "They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming for them!
"They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!
Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
Then the girls, especially Twilight, down in CHS will all cry boo-hoo!"
Sour Sweet woke up still holding onto her Teddy bear. "It's Christmas!" She cheered. Then ran downstairs still in her pajamas and saw her living room.
"What the? What happened? Someone must have broke in.." Sour Sweet was shocked. She then heard knocking. It was her next door neighbor and best friend Sunny Flare.
"Sunny! M-Merry Christmas." Sour said.
"It happened to you too??" Sunny asked.
"Oh no. What if all of town got robbed?" Sour wondered.
"I see other houses celebrating with their decorations." Sunny pointed out.
"Then why us?" Sour asked.
"I just got a text from Sugarcoat. It happened to her too." Her phone went off again, then again, "and now Indigo and Lemon.." Sunny sighed.
"We better meet with the others." Sour said.
"Good idea-" Sunny looked at Sour Sweet's teddy bear and chuckled.
"You have a teddy bear?" She giggled.
Sour Sweet blushed in embarrassment, "Hey! It helps me sleep. Honestly I might need it..."
Twilight woke up and ran downstairs to Sunset. Sunset was talking to Rarity on the phone.
"Sunset! I saw Santa! She-" She looked in the living room to see no tree.
"I know. Tell the others and Celestia and Luna to meet at the soccer field. I never want to see Christmas ruined." Sunset then said good bye and hung up.
"It wasn't Santa sadly. I think it was a burglar trying to be Santa." Sunset said.
"I-I...." Twilight felt so silly, that she about fell into tears.
"Hey," Sunset hugged Twilight. "We're going to get to the bottom of this and figure out who did this and Celebrate Christmas like we should."
Twilight sniffled and wiped her tears, "You're right. Let's go find out!"
Indigo left a group text, "I know who it was!"
They all met up at the soccer field in their pajamas to see the tree with no decorations.
"So who is this cold hearted person?" Sugarcoat adjusted her glasses, while wearing her pajamas. Then she saw Sour Sweet's teddy bear.
"Why do you have that?" Sugarcoat asked.
"Why are you all asking this...? It's to help me sleep." Sour was embarrassed.
Sugarcoat nodded and tried not to laugh.
"I see your face Sugarcoat." Sour said.
Sugarcoat chuckled.
"Ok everyone. Last night I was gonna grab a soda when I saw someone in a Santa suit." Indigo started.
"I saw one too." Twilight said, "but I didn't have my glasses on..."
"I managed to remember what he looked like. Or I should say she!" Indigo said.
Pinkie gasped like the first episode, "What?!"
"It was none other than Principal Cinch!" Indigo showed a picture she took on her phone.
Sour Sweet started to build anger and growled like during the archery competition at the Friendship Games. But she hugged her teddy bear tightly and took deep breaths. Sugarcoat turned to her.
"You should consider carrying that around more."
"It's just....helpful and cuddly. I mean. Ugh." She continued to hug it in embarrassment.
"Well. What do we do?" Rarity asked.
"I think we should celebrate without it." Sunset said.
"How?" Lemon asked.
Principal Cinch was hearing in on this.
"We don't need all these decorations, or presents or food. We have each other and that's what matters. We're all together as friends." Sunset said.
"She's right. It's Christmas. There's a lot more to giving than getting. We give each other our friendships." Twilight awkwardly said.
The others looked at each other and smiled.
"Let's show Cinch the true meaning of Christmas!" Rainbow said.
They held hands and began to sing.
Lovely Christmas, Lovely Christmas
Welcome Christmas, Bring your light
Lovely Christmas, Lovely Christmas
Welcome Christmas, Lovely night~
Welcome Christmas, wonderland
Welcome Christmas, Snowfall beauty
Welcome Christmas, Friendship Forever
Heart to Heart and Hand in Hand~
Trim up the tree with Christmas stuff
Like ornaments and a pretty star
Trim up the town with jingle bells
And nutcrackers and pretty lights~
Trim every blessed window and trim every blessed door
Sleigh Bells ringing (Sunset and Twilight)
Jolly in the air (Sunny and Rarity)
Don't forget the Eggnog! (Pinkie and Lemon)
Basketball on Christmas! (Rainbow and Indigo)
Giving and sharing (Applejack and Sugarcoat)
Time with Family and Friends~ (Fluttershy and Sour Sweet)
Welcome Christmas and Happy Hol-id-ays~!
This sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded glad!
All the girls down in CHS, wondercolts and shadowbolts
Were singing without any presents at all!
She hadn't stopped Christmas from coming! It came!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And the Cinch, with her shoes ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling. "How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags!"
She puzzled and puzzed till her puzzler was sore.
Then Principal Cinch thought of something she hadn't before.
Maybe Christmas, she thought, doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!
"Have I been in the wrong?" Cinch wondered.
And what happened then? Well, in Canterlot they say
That Principal Cinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!
And then the true meaning of Christmas came through,
And the Cinch found the strength of ten Cinches!
And now that her heart didn't feel quite so tight,
She went with the sleigh and Mr. Sniffles back to CHS Through the bright morning light.
"I'm very glad you all manage to celebrate Christmas despite what had happened." Celestia said.
Suddenly Cinch stopped her sleigh in front of them and hopped off.
"Principal Cinch?" Sour Sweet looked.
"Yes. It is I." She walked up.
"Abacus. What do you have to say for yourself?" Cadence asked.
"I know. What I've done here is disheartening of you girls. I never knew what the true meaning of Christmas was. Even as a child. I can always think of so many bad things that have happened during that time. Plus with the aftermath of the Friendship Games, I guess I was so upset with how it went." Cinch explained.
"Considering the fact that you manipulated Twilight into releasing all of the stolen magic that made her turn into a powerful magical creature that tried to rift the world apart just to win a game." Sugarcoat chimed in.
"Well. You are honest." Cinch replied.
"It was the past though." Sugarcoat said.
"We can start over. As long as, you know, give us our stuff back." Sour Sweet added.
"Well Abacus I think you've learned something. Don't you girls think so?" Celestia asked.
"Yep." Spike said
"Mhmm." The girls replied.
"Please return all of the decorations to the correct houses then we can all have have a wonderful feast!" Celestia announced.
They all cheered.
Principal Cinch returned everything to the girls houses and even the big tree at the soccer field.
"Twilight. I am sorry for what I've done. It's been quite wrong for this such behavior to be inside me. I hope everything's going alright for you at CHS." She apologized to Twilight.
"Thank you. I'm doing great here as well." Twilight smiled. Then gave her a gift, "It's for you."
Cinch opened it and saw a pair of kitten slippers.
"It may not seem much. But I hope you like it."
"Oh thank you Twilight. This is perfect!"
They hugged.
Cinch smiled. "Well everyone, let us all have a Merry Christmas!"
They all sat down for an amazing feast, opened presents and sang carols. Of course Rainbow and Indigo watching basketball. Sunny and Rarity gossiping about Christmas gear. Sunset and Twilight enjoying spending time with friends. Pinkie and Lemon chugging Eggnog. AJ and Sugarcoat telling jokes. And Fluttershy and Sour Sweet singing. With that, this concludes a Christmas Story. Of how Christmas was restored in Canterlot.
"Merry Christmas to all!" Pinkie said.
"And to all a goodnight!" Lemon added.
They all then said, "Merry Christmas!!"
THE END
Author's Note
I know it's closer to Halloween but I had an idea of doing this and hopefully it turns out well. I tried to make the lyrics like a cover so it didn't copy the original Grinch. With that, Happy (Early) Hearths Warming Eve to all /)
