Vinyl Scratch began leading Celestia down a winding hallway that supposedly led to the roof of the Hive, but she was really not sure because there were many other hallways that branched out just from this one. As they got further from the party room, the music became softer and the sound of their echoing hooves got louder.

The walls of the hall were adorned with party posters of Chrysalis. One was even a picture of Celestia asleep, drool streaming out of her mouth with the caption Chrysalis rules, Celestia drools! Taking no notice of the poster, Celestia held her muzzle high and walked as regally as possible so as to show the DJ pony that she was the superior pony.

"Wh-... What are you? Are you trying to sniff the ceiling?"

Celestia shrugged, "Ugh, nevermind".

After an hour or so of walking in silence, Vinyl suddenly spoke up. "I'm gonna be honest with you, I have no idea where you're taking me".

Celestia looked at Vinyl with fury in her eyes.

"Where I'M taking YOU? You're supposed to be taking me to Chrysalis!"

"Oh", Vinyl said innocently, "Well then, follow me". She began walking back in the opposite direction.

"Urgh, I need some tea".

During the journey to Chrysalis' private party room, Celestia got to know Vinyl more. It didn't improve her opinions on her, though.

"Is Chrysalis serving alcohol at this party? I mean, I'm fine with that, I'm just asking".

"Yep. All the time".

"And you don't drink any? I thought you were one for a little spiked drinks?"

"I drank LOTS heh. Apparently, it's one of the Christmas Crowd members own recipe. But I have AMAZING alcohol tolerance so..."

"Christmas crowd?"

"What? You haven't heard of the Christmas crowd?"

"... no?"

Vinyl facehooved... and then immediately burst out in laughter. She stopped walking and sat down, holding her sides as if her ribs were going to break.

"Come on! Their even more well know than YOU! Haha!"

Celestia was wide-eyed. She thought all of Equestria knew who she was. And yet there was this "Christmas Crowd" who seem to be more famous than her? The Princess?

"Just...", Celestia groaned in annoyance, "Who are they already".

Vinyl took short breaths and slowly stopped laughing. She wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "Ohhh... that's right, you've never been invited to one of Chrysalis parties. Well, you see, the Christmas crowd is a group of people who are awesome at throwing Christmas parties, which should reveal that obviously you're not in it. So the leader of this whole group is Queen Chrysalis of course, and under her are nine other ponies that can really add an awesome kick to her already awesome Christmas parties".

Celestia looked at Vinyl offended, stick fixated on the snarky comment she made about Celestia not being in the Christmas Crowd because she was bad at parties. Brushing that aside, she asked, "Who exactly is in this 'Christmas Crowd'?".

"Okay, so there's me, I'm the DJ. Then there's Countess Coloratura, she's registered under music. So is Sonata, the siren. Her friends didn't want to join so, not them. That's how many no? That's.. one, two.. that's three. Oh of course Discord, registered under entertainment, four. Rarity too-"

"Rarity? RARITY?", Celestia bellowed.

"Stop interrupting me, jeez. Me, Countess, Sonata, Discord, Rarity, who is registered under fashion and costumes. Derpy is in charge of invitations. She designs the letters, and hey, she's damn good at that, and then she delivers em'. Okay, that's six. Man! How could I have forgot this one! Pinkie! She's in charge of decorations and catering. So is Applejack, but she's not in the Crowd. Spitfire is in charge of entertainment. Not the rest of the Wonderbolts though. BUT... Rainbow Dash, who is also part of the crowd under entertainment, performs alongside Spitfire, and also does a Sonic Rainboom once in a while".

Suddenly a gust of wind blows through the hall. Celestia's mane is frizzled and becomes stiff and fluffy instead of flowing in the never-present wind. "Yeah that must be it", Vinyl laughs as she looks around the hall. When she catches eye of Celestia, she bursts out into laughter.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh your heart out".

"Poke, poke!", Vinyl laughs as she jabs at the hair.

"Can we just find Chrysalis already?"

Vinyl gasps as she notices several ponies making their ways to the garden, "They're gonna burn down the Celestia statue! Come on let's goooooooo...... oh... heh".

Celestia looks at Vinyl angrily, but takes in a deep breathe and finally says, "Will Chrysalis be there?".

"Yeah! Definitely. She wouldn't miss something this awesome. Guaranteed".

With that response, the two ponies then make their way to the garden.

The garden was beautiful. Perhaps even more beautiful than Celestia's, which only served to making her even more jealous. There were far more fauna than her gardens, which Fluttershy obsessed over more than what was expected. And this time, the animals actually DID love her. Chrysalis who was on a balcony, began announcing the burning of the wooden model.

"Hello everybody! Tonight, we burn down this wooden model to signify the end of Princess Celestia and her tyranny against Equestria! She is a cruel Queen isn't she, my party ponies?"

The crowd resounded with woo's and cheers. Spike, who was not passed out this time, was cheering even louder than expected. Celestia suspected it was because he was forced to burp out letters for Twilight all the time, but who knew?

"Yes! Yes, she is! She forced, my whole kingdom into poverty! But I'm so lucky to have all of you! You've helped me through thick and thin by providing love for me!"

Despite that, the crowd still cheered as though their gracious act had been acknowledged.

"Now! Stand back everybody... " BANG!

The statue was ignited by the power of Chrysalis' horn. Ponies danced around the fire, roasted marshmallows and began singing the "Death to Celestia" carol.

"Now everypony and everychangeling. Remember that all of this is in good fun! We don't actually want to hurt Celestia, alright?"

Celestia was shocked that the Changeling Queen actually said that. All this seemed fairly hurtful to her. The sudden realization that her subjects hate her. Discovering that she had truly put a whole kingdom to a death sentence by starvation. She wasn't really the lovable, kind-hearted Princess she thought she was. And despite all this, Chrysalis still didn't want to actually, physically hurt her? What?!

The crowd responded in agreement and a bunch of head nodding.

"Good!" Chrysalis continued, "This is just to vent out our anger against her in secret, so that nopony and nochangeling gets hurt! Oh! Looks like the statue is already half down! Time to exalt the stone statue of me!", again, with her powerful magic, powered by the ponies love for her, she raised the stone statue of herself as several ponies dashed over to hug it.

"I need to talk to Chrysalis. I want to know how to throw awesome parties", a pop of magic came from her horn which settled her hair back to it's normal flowing state.

"Well, then fly on over there and tell her!", Vinyl said persuasively.

"If I do, all the ponies and Changelings here will notice... How bout' this. I'll use my magic to fly you on over there and you tell her that somepony wants to talk to her in her private party room. Don't tell her who it is. Say somepony".

"Somepony"

"No, I mean- just get over there".

Celestia picked Vinyl up with her magic and shoved her over to the balcony right in front of Chrysalis face.

"Mah main DJ! Vinyl! You can fly now?"

"Yes. Yes, I can"

Chrysalis placed a hoof under her chin and a pressed her ear down with the other hoof. And Vinyl did the same. It appeared to be some kind of Christmas Crowd gang sign.

"Anyway, Chrysalis. Somepony who's name I will not mention but is actually Princess Celestia posing as Miss Celenomisshorsemaresomeoneyeah wants to speak to you in your private party room".

Celestia facehooved as Chrysalis eyes stared wide at Vinyl.

"She... knows about the bonfire?"

"Yes"

"And the dart board?"

"Yes"

"And the... afterparty?"

"OH! HEHEHEH! Nope!"

"Thank the sweet angel ponies on high! Alright, show her the way to the party room"

"Umm, Chrysalis?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm Vinyl Scratch, I don't remember the way to anywhere".

"Right. Here's a map of the castle. Just go... here", Chrysalis circled an area underground, probably the basement, with a red pen on her room desk, which was right inside.

"Kay. Thanks".

"No prob, DJ Pon3"

Celestia slowly lowered Vinyl onto the ground. "You didn't know where the private party room was all along? YOU LIED TO ME!".

"Hey! I knew! I just don't know right now!"

Celestia groaned even louder than all the times she had groaned today. "Show me the damn map!". She quickly snatched the map from Vinyl and looked at it intently before screaming, "IT'S UNDERGROUND!".

"Errr.. yeah? So what?", Vinyl asked.

Celestia screamed once more, "Where in Tartarus were you taking me you stupid... blerrrrgh. ARGH! Ugh..."

"Can we just get on with this. Once the bonfire is over and everyone's had their fair share of fun EXCEPT ME, I'd like to get back to DJing.

"URRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH..... let's go"

The two ponies began took large hoofsteps as they walked down winding basement stairs, lit up by torches mounted on the wall. But as they came closer and closer to the bottom stairs, the mounted torches were replaced by fairy lights. Celestia put her hoof on the cold metal door at the end of the hallway. "Here we go", she whispered to Vinyl.

"I've been in here before"

"I know I just wanted to add... like... a dramatic touch to- forget it"

She pushed open the door.

Inside, the walls were adorned by even more fairy lights, Christmas wallpaper, and the head of a plastic, red-nosed reindeer. A whole shelf took up an array of CD's of different music genres. A large stereo sat on the shelf itself. Two beanbags were beside the shelf and the wall to the left of the shelf WAS a TV. THE WALL WAS A TV.

Wine glasses filled with Champagne were arranged neatly on a small snacks table along with nachos, cheese, guacamole dip, a roasted turkey, and a cornucopia (you watch too much hunger games if you thought it was that Cornucopia). Next to the table was a huge Christmas tree. The star atop the tree just barely poked the ceiling. The tree was beautifully decorated. Even with some traditional Changeling decorations. An ice-cream and slushy machine stood on the other side of the table, and a five-people-sized jacuzzi was in the center of the room.

It was a big room. Celestia walked in to find Chrysalis on a beanbag, Rarity at the snacks table, Discord and Octavia in the jacuzzi, and Countess Coloratura singing at the karaoke stage.

Oh, did I mention there was a karaoke stage as well?

Celestia was dumbstruck. What was all this?! A teeny private party with only five people, and yet so extravagant.

She knew she was in for something now...

"WOOO PARTY!!!"

"Vinyl..."

Author's Note

Yeah, so I wrote this. Chrysalis is awesome at throwing parties haha. Anyways, enjoy another strange chapter.

-frostbitethepegasus