'Dear Twilight,

As you probably already found out. I had to put the city in lockdown. This was due to a severe threat. Inside of Canterlot resided a demonic creature that rampaged for a good month. After Luna and I took it down, it left the whole city in an awkward state. Besides the unusually high amount of damage, we were not certain if it was just one. The amount of damage made that clear. Also Luna warned that by opening our gates, the creature could have escaped. So we decided to go into complete lockdown. That also sadly meant our inability to communicate was strengthened.

We truly apologize for the inconvenience but we are unable to help Cloudsdale at the moment. Besides that fact that we have a lot of damage to repair to our own city, the whole winter crystal thing. Is a mere myth. Me and my sister attempted to see the truth behind it, and came up empty. For this reason I do not believe Cloudsdale to be in any trouble. I once more apologize, but we will not assist Cloudsdale. And about our reasons to skip out on paying the weather factory.

Well, we simply forgot.

Yours truly,

Princess Celestia.'

'You simply forgot?! That is bull.' Twilight thought angrily.

"And?" Spike asked.

"Light the fireplace and burn this letter. It contains nothing of interest." Twilight said angrily.

"You sure?" Spike asked worried.

"Yeah. Celestia simply 'forgot' to pay the factory." Twilight said while grumbling.

Spike raised his eyebrow at Twilight's response. So he too, quickly read it through. And after he finished reading it, he too, shook his head in disappointment.

"Alright. It will be gone. Should I send another letter?" Spike asked.

"No. If Celestia is useless, then we will do this ourself. Did you tell the hosts?" Twilight asked.

"I did. I also told them about the fact that you wished to talk to them. So I placed them in the secondary meeting room." Spike explained.

"Good. I will meet them right away. Please get us some hot chocolate milk." Twilight said as she began to walk that direction.

"Also Pinkie has joined that meeting. Alongside Rainbow Dash." Spike quickly added.

"Thanks. Please make enough for everyone then." Twilight said.

"Alright. One last thing, they seemed very tired. Especially Rainbow Dash." Spike said.

"Noted!" Twilight said as she made it past the corner and walked towards the meeting room.

After a small five minutes, Twilight had arrived at the secondary library. Which also housed the secondary meeting room. She opened the door, reveal an exhausted Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. Alongside them, sat the two hosts. Cheese Sandwich and Vinyl Scratch.

"Welcome to my humble home, Spike is getting us some hot chocolate milk. Before we start, are there any questions?" Twilight asked.

"One small thing. Is the festival cancelled?" Cheese asked serious.

"I will get to that. Anything else?" Twilight asked, she saw everyone shake their heads.

"Good. So as the hosts have heard. Due to some kind of accident, Cloudsdale will have to be place on the location of the festival. They are currently experiencing an exploding case of Hypothermia. This is due to the winter crystal having run dry of magic power. Which made all the Pegasi lose their cold immunity." Twilight explained.

"I understand. Spike already made us move all our equipment back into the boxes. And back into town." Cheese said somewhat disappointed.

"I hope you understand why this has happened." Twilight hoped.

"I do. It is not as cold down here as it is higher up in the sky." Cheese said, "However I am slightly disappointed at this fact regardless."

"Alright. So the event has to either scaled down, or get cancelled." Twilight said.

"How do envision us doing this event smaller?" Vinyl asked.

"I might turn the marketplace into a temporary winter market. And use the town center to broadcast Christmas music." Twilight explained.

"Oh? That is an interesting idea. If you want, I could try to see how much that is possible." Cheese said surprised.

"So it would turn into a slightly smaller scale event, rather than a festival?" Vinyl asked.

"Have you ever done or visited Manehattan version of the Christmas event?" Twilight asked.

"I have." Vinyl said.

"It would be based on that." Twilight said.

"Ah. Yes, that is indeed interesting. I have never done such a version inside of Ponyville. It would make it unique event." Vinyl said intrigued.

"Would you also want to extend the event then? Seeing that a smaller event could still draw a lot of crowd. Especially since its so unique." Cheese asked.

"I would. However I am unable to pay for the extension. I had to invest like 10 billion coins into the weather factory to keep it from collapsing. As they were losing employees and they were having some severe issues due to lack of maintenance." Twilight admitted.

"What?!" Vinyl, Cheese and Rainbow shouted.

"You heard that right. 10 billion coins." Twilight confirmed.

Spike choose exactly that moment to bring the hot chocolate in. Surprisingly, most ponies in the room refused the hot chocolate. Since they were far too busy to accept such a nice drink. Including Pinkie, which just showed how exhausted she was. This made both Spike and Twilight worry for her health. Though Pinkie simply shrug their concerns off.

"No need to pay for the extension. We will do it on the house." Cheese said impressed.

"Consider it the Christmas present." Vinyl said smiling.

"Alright, thank you. I appreciate that very much." Twilight said appreciative.

"Hm. We will extend it by ten days. Is that possible?" Cheese asked Vinyl.

"I will have to cancel a few events I was going to join, but that is fine. I will stay through the whole event!" Vinyl said excited.

"That is the spirit! Well Princess Twilight. We will have to get going. It is a lot of work to suddenly change the event. So we need to get going." Cheese said.

"Oh yeah! I need to make entirely new music, just so that it can last thirteen days." Vinyl said as he already left the meeting room.

"Do keep me updated, alright?" Twilight requested.

"Sure." Cheese said before he too quickly left the meeting room to join Vinyl.

"Alright. Now that the event is taken care of. How can I help you two?" Twilight asked as her mood went to a much friendlier mood.

"I heard that you were getting us a vacation." Pinkie said half-asleep.

"That is correct. I already paid all the bills. You guys will receive the ticket tomorrow and the train departs the following day." Twilight said smiling.

"You won't join us?" Pinkie said somewhat disappointed.

"As you heard earlier. Equestria is somewhat is a bind. I am afraid that takes priority. Instead Starlight Glimmer will join you instead." Twilight said.

"Ah, alright." Pinkie said tiredly.

"By the way, why are you all so exhausted?" Twilight asked honestly confused.

"Well Fluttershy had to deal with a tough customer and her pet being rather, chaotic to say the least. Rarity might have been overworking the past few weeks, she is so popular! Applejack was sick recently, she still hasn't entirely recovered." Rainbow Dash explained.

"I have been overwhelmed by the amount of cake requests at the bakery that I am also running out of steam." Pinkie admitted.

"And you know what is going on with me." Rainbow Dash said knowingly.

"Yeah." Twilight said feeling slightly sad.

"So anyways. I came here on behalf of the other to say thank you for this surprise vacation." Pinkie said.

"No worries. Do rest out for it. As it is a sport vacation." Twilight said.

"We will." Pinkie said somewhat excited, before leaving.

"And I came on behalf of the weather factory workers union. They want to thank you for assisting the weather factory. It means a lot to them." Rainbow said.

Twilight smiled, "Of course. No worries. We still have a lot to iron out, but they are going to make it." she said.

"Yeah. I got lucky. My element of harmony prevented me from get hypothermia. This caused me to be temporarily turned into a search and rescue operator." Rainbow said, "This is another reason as to why I am so exhausted."

"That is good to hear. Well I am sure you are busy. I am going to investigating the winter crystal. And get it back online. Until then, I wish you the best of luck." Twilight said.

"Thanks. I will get going. Oh. And I heard you are going to Santa Pony. Will you deliver him my Christmas list?" Rainbow asked.

"As much as I would love to. I am afraid that without the winter Crystal, nobody is going to get any presents. The winter crystal powers the workplace. Without it, no presents can be made." Twilight admitted.

"Aw. Then hurry! I know you can do it!" Rainbow said before leaving.

'I will, I will. I will have no choice either way.' Twilight thought before walking into her main library to investigate this crystal.

Meanwhile on the north pole. Santa Pony was busy brushing the reindeers into shape. When the same elf from before stormed into the stables.

"Santa! When is she coming? The others are starting to get impatient." The elf said worried.

"I know. But seeing as it is taking her this long. Something else must also been happening." Santa said knowingly.

"What do you mean?" The elf asked.

"Without the crystal, all Pegasi must have lost their cold immunity." Santa said somewhat ominous.

"Oh no." The elf said shocked.

"Which probably let to Hypothermia for a lot of Pegasi." Santa said.

"Is that the reason why she is late?" The elf asked worried.

"Probably. I heard she had become a princess. So she is also busy maintaining the country along side the two rascals." Santa said.

"Oh. So she has become a proper miss Santa." The red nosed reindeer said out of nowhere.

Santa smiled, "So it would seem." he said.

"Did you just call the two rules of Equestria rascals?!" The elf said shocked.

"Yeah. They are marked for being bad this year." Santa said.

"For?" The elf asked curious.

"Failing to properly communicate with Cloudsdale, failing to properly pay the weather factory. And for forgoing Twilight's journey." Santa said annoyed.

"Which is why Twilight is probably paying the weather factory instead, right?" The red nosed reindeer asked.

"That is correct. She is even seeking the rest of Equestria for assistance. Besides Canterlot, everyone is helping out." Santa said quite pleased.

"What about that event she was going to hold?" The event elf asked. This one was in charge of Christmas events all over the world. He was overhearing the conversation when he suddenly remembered about the event Twilight was going to hold.

"She scaled it down. It is now going to be an event that reminds me of Manehattan." The red nosed reindeer said excited. "If I wasn't a reindeer, I would totally want to visit that event!"

"It does sound interesting." Santa admits.

"Well it is being hosted by Vinyl Scratch and Cheese Sandwich." The red nosed reindeer said.

"Wow! Those two titans?!" The elf said excited.

"I see. Should we add it to the list?" The event elf asked.

"Please do. Miss Santa is the one the originally hosted it." Santa said smiling.

"Really?! She hasn't done an event since that large event she did. All those years ago!" The event elf said somewhat excited.

"Which is why it is going to be so awesome!" The red nosed reindeer said.

"Alright. Miss Santa's event has been added to the list." The event elf said.

"Good. Well the brushing is complete. When Twilight arrives and we finish the presents. We can immediately depart." Santa said impressed by his own work.

"Very well. Do you think she is coming soon?" The elf asked.

"I am not sure. I sure hope so." Santa said slightly worried.

Santa walked from the stables into the now dark and silent workshop. The all the elves inside were sleeping and waiting. Waiting to restart, however with no hope in sight. They simply slept until they were required. Santa walks towards one of the windows and looked outside.

A snow storm had started outside, this caused all elves to stay inside and do nothing. With snow piling up fast, Santa was slowly dying inside. It made him incredible sad to see his village gone this far. He also hoped that his greatest sponsor never found out about it.

But he was more worried about Twilight. Twilight is taking on an incredible strain. Just to get to this point. All he hoped was that she was going to be happy this year. Nothing else really matter to him. All he hoped was a happy Christmas or happy heart warming. It really depended who was asking.

Author's Note

So I must say. My writing skill has had a real level up this year. This book originally had chapter that had max 1.5k words. Nowadays my minimum is 2k words with a max of 10k.
It would also usually write each chapter in a single day. Only some took longer than a single day. The longest I ever worked on a single chapter was three days.

Anyways. 9 more chapters to go.