My little Dragon Ball: FuyuMori

It had been a good many days since Glacious, Arctic, Tree Hugger, and Zecora became residents in Ponyville. While ponies had still been wary of them, they had grown to accept them and actually speak with them almost daily. Arctic and Glacious, for the time being, we’re staying at Twilight’s place. To the two new residents, it seemed Ponyville certainly wasn’t a dull place. Some new thing seemed to always happen, though some days were a bit more ‘exciting’. Imagine Arctic and Glacious’ shock to see Ponyville overrun and in near shambles when they had return from a brief journey to find some old book Twilight had been wanting to surprise her with. Arctic and Glacious could really get used to the place.

As the days went on, Winter had come. The Mother and Son duo relished in the snow. Even showing their Snow and Water Elemental magic to the denizens of Ponyville. Twilight marveled at this and practically begged Glacious to teach her everything she knew. Glacious, against her better judgement, explained how her magic worked one day. Little did she know that one day would become two weeks. The poor ancient mare had never experienced the feeling of her mind being wrung dry, but on the last few days of those two weeks, she certainly felt as though her brain had become mush.

After a few more weeks had passed, the day had come. The time to officially wrap up winter.

As everyone slept, they were swiftly awoken by an excited Twilight who had gotten dressed and with some clothing to keep her warm. Glacious, groggily cracked open an eye, looking to the excited Unicorn.

“Young Twilight, what has you so excited this early in the morning?”

“It’s not that early.” Twilight said before glancing outside. “Okay, maybe it’s a bit early.” Twilight said with a shy little smile. “Anyway, I’m excited because it’s time to wrap up winter!” Twilight said excited.

“Keep it down, will ya?” Said a still sleepy Spike.

“Oh, sorry Spike.” Twilight said.

“What do you mean by ‘wrap up winter’?” Asked Glacious.

“It’s an annual Ponyville tradition that involves clearing up winter to bring in spring.” Twilight said.

“I don’t imagine it’ll take long with your magical potential.” Said a groggy Arctic.

“Actually, magic isn’t used to wrap up winter in Ponyville. It is used in Canterlot, however, because Ponyville was founded by, Earth Ponies, they change the seasons from winter to spring without using magic.” Twilight explained.

“That sounds like it takes quite a bit of time to do.” Said Glacious.

“It does. And this will be the very first time I participate in it!” Twilight said with an excited prance.

“Gues it’ll be ours as well.” Arctic said. “Mother and I have never wrapped up winter before.”

“Indeed. This will be quite the experience for us.” Glacious said with a small smile.

“I can’t wait for us to experience wrapping up winter together! Let’s go!” Shouted the overly excited mare as she stepped outside, only to stop dead in her tracks. “Oh right. It’s still really early.” Twilight said with a small blush.

After eventually falling back asleep, the group all woke up and got dressed for the cold weather. Arctic, while he can handle the cold weather, decided to wear one of the winter outfits Rarity made him. Arctic, Glacious, Twilight, and Spike left the library, ready to start the day.

“So, how does this winter wrap up thing work, Twilight?” Arctic asked as he looked around taking notice of the multiple groups of ponies all dawning winter clothing and vests.

“Well, there are three different groups, or teams. The blue vested Weather Team, the green vested Plant Team, and the tan vested Animal team. Each team tends to different things.” Twilight said as she looked to the Plant Team, Arctic and Glacious looking up as well.

“Ponies from the Plant Team, ensure that Ponyville will have enough food during the year. They move snow off the fields, plow them, and plant and water the seeds.” Twilight said, before looking to the next team.

“Composed mostly of Pegasi, the weather team clears the sky of clouds and lets the sun warm up the land. Assigned ponies depart to retrieve the birds that have flown south for the winter.” Twilight explained.

“Then there’s the last team, the Animal Team. The animal team mostly consists of Earth ponies and unicorns, but a small number of Pegasi, most notably Fluttershy, is on the team. The team wakes up hibernating animals, cleans up their dens, and ensures that they have food to eat. Even Rarity is on the team. She’s in charge of nest-making for the returning birds.” Twilight finished with a proud smile, glad to get to flex her knowledge.

“Interesting. I wonder which team we could be among.” Said Glacious as she looked around to each team.

“Do you know which team you’ll be joining Twilight?” Asked Arctic.

“Honestly, I don’t know. I’m not sure where I’d fit in.” Twilight said, a bit of panic in her voice.

After a few moments of debating, the group had begun to see where they may be able to fit in. After a bit of trial and error with Rarity and nest making, they tried scoring the ice with Pinkie.

“You’re doing so well, Archie!” Pinkie exclaimed with the little Nickname she had given him.

“Thanks Pinks!” Arctic said back.

Arctic, dawning ice skates made out of ice, as there were no skates that fit his feet, was skating along the ice. He had some experience ice skating before. While he wasn’t nearly as good as Pinkie was, he was doing well.

“Wow! I had no idea Arctic was so good at this.” Twilight said.

“My child has this once before. Hehe, I remember how he kept falling each time he tried to skate.” Glacious said with a chuckle. “Though, he kept going till he eventually got the hang of it.”

“Why don’t you give it a try, Twilight. I bet you’re a natural at it.” Pinkie said with a wide smile.

“I guess it wouldn’t hurt to try.” Twilight said.

Twilight, now wearing skates, had begun to skate along the ice. Unfortunately, she wasn’t good at it at all. Try as she might, she kept falling and tumbling over. After a few minutes of constant falling and an eventual crash, Twilight had given up. After giving a wave and goodbye to Pinkie the group then went towards where the Animal Team worked.

“Wake up little sleepy heads. You’ve had wonderful dreams and a restful hibernation, but it’s time to get up now. Spring is coming.” Fluttershy said as she slipped her head out of the den.

Multiple little hedgehog’s begun to emerge, yawning, tired and groggy.

“Looks like you’re hard at work.” Said Arctic.

Fluttershy, having not noticed them, jumped slightly and turned to see the group.

“Oh, Hello you guys.” Said Fluttershy with a smile. “Yeah. Oh this is my favorite task of the season. Waking my little animal friends from their hibernation, so I get to see them again.”

“I couldn’t imagine a young mare more suited for this task than you young Fluttershy.” Said Glacious.

“Thank you.” Fluttershy replied, a slight blush forming on her cheeks.

“Uh, what’s hibernation, by the way?” Asked Spike.

“It’s like a long sleep. Animals hibernate throughout the winter to save energy and eat less food.” Fluttershy explained.

“Oh I like the sound of that.” Said Spike.

“But, with all these dens, I don’t think I’ll be able to wake all of the animals before spring comes.” Fluttershy said.

“Why don’t we aid you in your endeavor, young Fluttershy?” Asked Glacious.

“You’d do that?” Fluttershy asked.

“Of course.” Said Glaious.

“Yeah, we’d love to help.” Arctic said.

“Thank you so much. This’ll be such a big help.” Said Fluttershy.

The group begun to start waking the animals alongside Fluttershy. Things were going smoothly for a bit, until eventually, another mishap occurred with Twilight. She had been frightened by snakes, chased by bats, stung by bees, and eventually sprayed by skunks.

After a good treating of her stings and washing to be rid of the stink from the skunks, the group went out to try again. This time with the Plant Team.

“Are ya’ll sure?” Asked Applejack.

“Please, give me a chance.” Pleaded Twilight, desperate to prove herself, to prove she could help and find where she belonged.

“Well, ah won’t turn down the extra help.” Applejack said. “So, go on then Sugarcube.” Applejack said with a small, almost motherly smile.

In no time at all, Arctic, Twilight, and even Glacious got to some plows and got to work. Arctic and Glacious worked with no trouble at all. The ponies already hard at work, we’re a bit taken aback to see Arctic and Glacious, seeing as they were still kinda warming up to them, but glad to have the help and to see that they seemed to be enjoying themselves. Twilight, unfortunately, struggled. She was much to weak to push the plow along, so she resorted to using magic. Much like last time, things went wrong for the mare. The plow had begun to go out of control and lead to a crash, causing an avalanche. In a matter of seconds the once cleared field had been covered in snow. Twilight, now thoroughly embarrassed and ashamed, ran off. Arctic, Glacious and Spike chased after her shortly after.

“I can’t do anything right!” Said a devastated Twilight.

“My young Twilight, you should not say that.” Said Glacious as she sat beside Twilight.

“It’s true. I couldn’t make a nest, I couldn’t help make lines in the ice on the lake, I caused an avalanche, making more work for those ponies, I couldn’t even wake a bunch of animals properly.” Twilight said with a frown on her face.

“Don’t beat yourself up, Twi.” Said Arctic. “This is your first time doing this. You won’t get it the first try. Give it time. You’ll find your place soon.”

“Easy for you to say. You’re able to plow the snow with no problem, you’re good at skating, so you could do that, you’re even good at waking the animals. Plus, you can fly. You could probably work with the weather team too.” Said Twilight.

“Twi, honestly, I don’t even know where I’d fit in.” Said Arctic

“Huh? What do you mean?” Asked Twi.

“Skating for instance. I’m good, but nothing like Pinkie. You probably didn’t notice, but I was struggling to stay upright a few times. Waking the animals, that was fun, but even I have a bit of a fear of certain animals.” Arctic said.

“Oh dear. I forgot all about that.” Glacious chuckled.

Back when Arctic was younger, he had had some run-ins with some animals that left him with a bit of a fear of them.

“Anyway,” said Arctic with a deep blush on his face, “with the Weather Team, I suppose I could do that, but I don’t know. I’ve considered it, but I don’t know if it’d be my cup of tea. Plant Team, seems a bit more for me, but again, I’m not sure. So, yeah. I don’t necessarily know where I would fit in either. But, hey. Let’s find out where we belong. Together.”

That made Twilight feel a bit better. Though, still, she desperately wanted to figure out where she would be able to fit in.

Just then, the group heard Mayor Ivory Scrolls, or Mayor Scrolls, going over things with the teams. Clearly she was a bit frustrated that they may, yet again, be late wrapping up Winter for the Spring. Just then Twilight perked up.

“Late? Again?” Just then her eyes twinkled. “This may be my chance. Spike! Quickly! Go fetch my quill and scrolls!”

“On it!” Spike said as he rushed off to the library.

After returning, Twilight made her plans known. Before long, Twilight’s plan was put into motion. Everything was running smoothly with little to no mishaps thanks to Twilight’s planning. Soon, Winter had gone and Spring come. Slightly early, but in time nonetheless.

“I can’t believe it. Spring is here! And on time!” Mayor Scrolls exclaimed. “And it’s all thanks to you and your organization skills, Twilight. And it is because of that, I would like to gift you the title of, “All-Team Organizer”!”

Rarity stepped up slipping a newly made vest onto Twilight. Just then, Glacious and Arctic stepped up to Twilight, wide smiles on their faces.

“Congratulations, Young Twilight. We knew you’d find your place for winter wrap up.” Glacious said.

“Thank you.” Twilight said with a smile. “And it seems you two have found your places.”

Twilight pointed out the two dawning vests of their own. Glacious had officially become a member of the Animal Team and Arctic, the Plant Team.

“Yeah. I decided to go with the Plant Team. Applejack did a bit of convincing, so I figured I’d go with them.”

“And we’re proud tah have yah with us, Sugarcube.” Said Applejack, followed by words of agreement from the other members of the Plant Team.

“And I, myself, have chosen to work alongside the Animal Team. It seems I have a bit of a knack for working with Animals.” Glacious said, remembering her brief time helping Fluttershy wake the animals. The animals all seemed to like her. Not as much as they liked Fluttershy, of course, but they liked her well enough.

“I’m so glad we all manage to find our place.” Said Twilight with a smile. “Now that this is over, let’s go get something to eat.”

“Now we’re talking.” Said Arctic. “Hey Pinks!”

“Yup Yup?” Said Pinkie, appearing on Arctic’s shoulders out of nowhere.

“You still got that recipe?” Arctic asked.

“Of course I do silly!” Pinkie said digging into her mane and pulling out a scroll with a recipe for Apple Cupcake Pancakes on it.

Arctic and Pinkie, spending time together and Sugarcube Corner one day, decided to make their own pancake recipe to make for their friends. And thus the Apple Cupcake Pancakes was born.

“I think it’s time.” Arctic said.

“Oh I can’t wait! They’ll abso-positively love it!” Pinkie said.

The girls all looked to each other with confused but happy looks.

“Now, before we go, where’s Spike?” Asked Twilight.

“Ah reckon he’ll be in a whole heap of surprise when that last piece of ice melts.” Applejack said with a chuckle, pointing her hoof to the lake.

Everyone looked over towards it, and doubled over laughing seeing the young Dragon floating on a steadily melting block of ice. Arctic, not wanting the dragon to get hurt or sick, still chuckling, went to pick up the young dragon and carry him to safety.