Collection of Hearth's Warming Eve Tales

In downtown Manehatten, the snow fell lightly, the cold winter wind blew gently; crowds of ponies and other creatures scurried about. In the poorer district, a couple were staring into a recently emptied room, the furniture was still there and cert sparse. It once held a young filly who had passed on after falling through a frozen pond in the park. Unbeknownst to them, a young orphan the same age was wandering the streets.

Meanwhile

Along Main Street, the snow was soiled from the heavy hoof traffic. A young changeling orphan was trying to find shelter from the night. Her name was Mistletoe, her alternate form was a green unicorn with a red mane accompanied by green highlights. This filly saw some well-known faces in the crowd. The easiest one to spot belonged to a mare from Ponyville named Rarity.

This filly trudged along hungry and she had counted this day as number five since her last meal...a meager meal of a few leftover hay fries she found after the garbage collectors emptied a trash can. All she knew was that one night she went to bed and when morning came, her parents had left her in a mostly empty house with a small amount of foodstuff. All she had of her folks was her dad's old paper colt hat and her mother's old saddlebag and grandfather's old harmonica. The day was turning into evening, and it was getting colder. By dusk, most stores were locking up, and restaurants had their booths filled with patrons. Mistletoe counted the few bits she had from her last allowance and it would barely cover a small coffee. She had tried to work for food but to no avail. Sadly Mistletoe sank behind a dumpster to get some sleep. The only blanket she could get a hoof on was one some young filly of a wealthier middle-class family had tossed out because it had just a small but repairable hole. When the dawn came and Hearth's Warming Eve was a week away Mistletoe walked into the city and to get to acquire a job.

The Sad Couple

This couple who had lost their filly was walking along when they heard harmonica music playing. They had noted a small green filly playing cheerfully. The filly seemed healthy and full, but if they had known this filly's secret they would have realized that the love the others around them were sharing had been keeping this filly alive for the past five months. Mistletoe was becoming acutely aware now that her small body was kicking into starvation mode, as ponies ate lunch, the couple from earlier could be seen eating lunch in a cheaper fast-food joint. Mistletoe on the other hoof managed to get a cupcake from a crazy pink mare who was at this moment with a white unicorn with an electrifying dual-tone blue mane with purple sunglasses. The unicorn's dubtrot music blasting from a cellphone and the pink pony rapping away was comical.

The week of Hearth's Warming Eve

The couple had been observing Mistletoe and realized that the filly seemed alone. They had tried to convince the filly to stay at their modest apartment but to no avail. Mistletoe had tracked her folks down and saw they had another filly; the emotion was immensely burdensome. She felt rage at being rejected then replaced, sadness, and deep depression settled in because she felt like she wasn't good enough. Standing on a bridge and looking at the thinly frozen river below she was contemplating her next move. In the corner of her eye, an almost raven black unicorn with a black and purple mane and tail stood at the end of the bridge and was slowly walking up and motioning for her to follow. Curious about the interaction she left the spot where she had been standing and followed the unicorn back into the city and found that she was near a group of mares to get left, to her right and behind her a bit sat the couple with their backs toward her, and finally she saw her traitorous parents talking, and their filly nowhere in sight. No one had noticed them but what Mistletoe heard made her cry inside.

"I can't believe that your grandfather left his estate to Mistletoe! I guess we should track her down..."

"I can't believe it either my dear husband. However, she does have some value to us now." The conversation was painful to listen to and it got more degrading. The couple that Mistletoe had interacted with we're talking about trying to find her and weren't having any luck. Suddenly her Harmonica was levitated and the unicorn, Mistletoe learned was named Obsidian. Being told to play she began to do so and Obsidian slowly walked away. All eyes turned to her and she saw her parents put in a show as if they had been worried sick about her. The couple sadly sat watching the scene, the mares had turned their heads. An orange earth pony looked with disdain, she could tell something was off in the reunion. The 6 mares could see now, after hearing the conversation and now seeing Mistletoe cutie mark and all knew what needed to be done.

Hearth's Warming Eve

The short but brutal court hearing got spearheaded by Twilight Sparkle and her friends as they contacted various friends who helped the kind couple get the best lawyers. The husband Redwood and his wife Willow were so very thankful, and Mistletoe opened her eyes to see Willow and Redwood looking in with bright smiles.

So it wasn't a dream, after and she forgot that she wasn't on a doorstep face planted onto the floor. She stood up and trotted over to hug her parents, she felt sure that these won't leave her and she finally felt safe. The day was spent at a relative's house and she got to meet her new cousins. Mistletoe and her cousins were a nightmare when it came to be being pranksters. Mistletoe was finally home.