The Northern Light

The sky was blank and the stars were faint, clouds drifted through the void of the night showing signs that the weather ponies had been working even with the torrential snow storms. It was the beginning of December and every pony in ponyville was excited for Hearts-warming eve. They were all snuggled in their beds at the time and the town was silent with the faint sound of crickets in the bushes and ponies at Hearts-warming parties dancing the night away. The only ponies out doing otherwise were minty swirl and dashing thunder. Minty is a lime coated unicorn with a grey and light lime mane and her husband, dashing thunder, is a yellow Pegasus with black and blue mane.

As they wondered through the path ways of ponyville dashing noticed something in the corner of his eye.

" Hey minty," Dashing said tapping her hoof " look a lake, should we go there? "

" umm... s-sure, lets not stay for long, I-I'm cold... " Minty said shivering slightly at the thought.

" If your cold, " Dashing began to say then taking off his scarf and wrapping it around her neck " ... here, I'm fine so it's ok. "

After she was ready, they began to walk towards the small hill by the lake were they would play when they were younger. They had so many memories and missed those days but now they could be together forever.

They trotted towards the top of the hill and began to take out their small mat they would sit on when they went there, they had brought snacks with them and were planning to have a night picnic. Minty placed the mat on the cold ground and sat down watching dashing thunder place canisters, one by her and one by him.

" here I made hot chocolate, and have these biscuits, they're you favorite! " He said licking his lips and grabbing his drink.

" Thank you sweetheart, I love hot chocolate. " She said thanking him an giving him a kiss on the cheek. He began to blush but soon he stopped when he saw the expression on his wife had changed from joyful to fascinated from something in the sky. He turned to see a colourful light in the sky above them. The Northern Lights. the strand of light bolted out pink, purple and greenish colours making the world around them seem even more dull than It usually is at that time of night. They gasped and went silent, they soon flinched and saw something is the light, dark blue sky.

" W-what's that?! " Minty franticly squealed getting closer to dashing.

" Umm... It's a... wait... is that a FILLY? " He shouted pointing to the small filly hovering in the light sky.

The figure in the sky, moved closer to them and minty slowly reached out and grabbed the young filly out of the strand of light reaching from the northern lights. She stood there holding the filly next to her, trying to keep her warm.

" She's cold, " Dashing  claimed reaching out to her " There " He said wrapping his spare scarf , which was in his bag, and held her close to himself. They looked in the sky and the Lights had faded away. Minty began to speak to the stars, which had now brightened, and she closed her eyes.

" Dear Celestia, is this child for us? And if so... thank you, " Minty questioned putting her hoof by the filly letting her grab onto it. she laughed slightly then returning to her speech. " I promise to look after her, the filly of the North. "

Dashing thunder faced her looking shocked how calm and amazing she sounded and grabbed her hoof.

" We should go " He said grabbing the food and mat on the ground and then placing it in the bag on his side. They began to walk home chatting silently about the moment.

They wandered home getting suspicious glances from other ponies heading home from the parties but soon one spoke to them.

" Hey! what's that? oh! we can play a guessing game! it's a.... toy? I love toys!, " The unknown pony continued to franticly guess things until dashing spoke trying to clam the pony.

" This is our filly, no need to guess as-- " he began to explain before being interrupted by a small cry.

" Oh no! she's crying! I'm sooo sorry!, " the pony said jumping around and bowing showing she was sorry. " I-I'm pinkie pie from sugercube corner, come visit some time, happy hearts-warming! " pinkie was trotting away after waving playfully at the filly, calming the filly. Dashing and Minty faced each other and laughed letting the warm air from their body float out and make a cloud of heat within the cold of winter air. They Trotted back and saw their cabin they had moved into when they had been married and still had the thorny, rose filled vines scattered across the outer walls of it. They entered and went upstairs, opening the attic, and searching for items to help their new baby.

" here, here, here and oh! here! right ready to grab them? " Dashing said placing the stuff by the entrance of the attic.

" yeah, I have a horn so I can just fetch them from here, even holding a filly! " Minty commented levitating the items into a spare room, which was decorated with blue, pink and green faded walls. It was quite fitting for the filly so they thought to keep it like that and decorate it with space themed items. Once the new nursery had been sorted out and decorated, they placed the filly in the crib and watched as she fell asleep.