A Hearth's Warming Carol

Hello everypony! I'm Twilight Sparkle and I'll be your narrator today.

Our story begins in a little town called Ponyville, during the cold, cold winter.

It wasn't the best of times in Equestria, it was where most ponies in the village, were poor.

And the rich, upper crust  ponies never really wanted to donate money to the poor.

Especially a certain selfish draconequus who wouldn't share his money.

Discord was walking by the Mane Square, where some of the town's ponies were.

But as he walked by, a young earth filly gave him a sad look.

"'Lease sir, money for da poor. Money for da poor." the filly whispered.

And as usual, the cranky old draconequus resisted.

When he arrived to the bank in which he owned, he looked up to the sign of the shop.

In which it was covered in snow, he hit it with his cane.

The sign said 'Flim, Flam, and Discord's.'

"Ah, my old partners the Flim-Flam brothers. They smooth-talked everypony into giving us all their money. Boy, it was fun working with them." he said aloud.

Discord opened the door to see his new partner, Spike the Dragon, messing with the fireplace.

"Uh, g-good morning Mr. Discord." the dragon said, nervously.

It was his first Hearth's Warming working for Discord and boy, was it a frightening job.

"SPIKE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WITH THE FIREPLACE!" his angry partner yelled at him.

"I was just trying to warm things up in here. It's kinda freezing don't you think?" Spike explained, but it wasn't good enough for Discord.

"Blah! You know that you can't just spend our bits for no reason." Discord hit Spike's claw.

"Now, GET BACK TO WORK!" Just as Spike got back on his stool, he started saying something he's been wondering about for awhile now.

"Speaking of work, Mr. Discord. Tomorrow is Hearth's Warming. And I was wondering if I could perhaps, have the day off?" Boy, that threw him off. "Hearth's Warming?! That's just a big old pointless holiday!"

Spike never understood why Discord hated the holidays so much. Especially Hearth's Warming.

"But, sir! Applejack and the kids are expecting me to be home for the holiday. Please?" Spike begged his partner, whom didn't trust him, very much.

But Discord wasn't having any of it.

"Spike! Just get back to work!" Discord shouted, louder then he intended.

Spike immediately went to work, soon came a knock from the door.

Discord was getting grouchy but soon opened the door.

"Um, h-hello Mr. Discord. We were just coming by to see if you would like to donate to the poor." a mint green unicorn said, nervously.

"Hello Lyra, Bon-Bon. And why would you need to do that?" Discord's eye twitched.

"Um, it's because if we don't get more donations, we'll lose our jobs." the pale yellow earth mare with a curly dark blue and pink mane.

"So, if you don't get more donations, you'll lose your jobs? Well, tell the poor ponies and fillies and colts to give it a rest!" Discord slammed the door in front of the two mares' faces.

Just as Discord was walking away from the door, somepony burst through the door.

"Happy Hearth's Warming, Uncle Discord." a blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane burst in.

For it was Discord's niece Rainbow Dash, quite interesting for a niece of a draconequus.

"Oh, hello Rainbow. What do you need?" a frustrated Discord tried to keep his cool.

"I just came to invite you to our Hearth's Warming party that we'll be hanging tomorrow evening."

"Will there be figgy pudding?" A curious Discord had an idea.

"Yeah, and turkey, jello, and all sorts of good food." Rainbow stated, zooming across the ceiling.

"How about cotton candy?" Rainbow nodded and asked

"Yeah, will you come?"

"Does this answer your question?" Discord grabbed Rainbow's tail and threw her out.

Once Rainbow was out of the bank, Spike turned to look at his partner.

"Why'd you do that to your niece?!" Spike glared at Discord.

"She maybe my niece but that doesn't mean I have to love her! Now, BACK TO WORK!" the dragon went back to work, quite frightened.

A couple hours later, Spike took a glance at the clock. \

It appeared to be 8:58.

Spike was able to leave at 9:00, in order to be home in time for supper.

The dragon started to pack up and went to the coat rack to get his jacket and winter hat.

"It's only two minutes away." Discord said, Spike immediately went back to his chair.

"Eh, you can go two minutes early. Go ahead." Spike smiled, and dashed to the coat rack once again.

"Oh, one more thing, can you wash my laundry tonight?" Discord threw over a trash bag filled his clothes.

"Yes sir. Bah Humb- uh, and a Happy Hearth's Warming to you." Spike opened the door, and left the bank for Hearth's Warming Eve.

"Hm, Bah humbug. I like that. UH BAH HUMBUG!" Discord laughed an evil laugh.

Pretty soon after, Discord got up to leave himself.

He got his jacket and top hat, hit the bank sign once more, and locked up the shop.

Discord flew home, despite that he had a cane, and was soon home.

He got to his door, and started getting his keys out.

But while Discord was doing that, his face-door knocker turned into two unicorn stallions.

Discord glanced up and saw the door-knocker.

Scared, Discord used his cane to poke the two familiar faces but saw them move and say "OUCH!"

Way scared now, Discord unlocked his door and dashed up his stairs.

But Discord didn't know what awaited him tonight.