The Twinkle Wish Journey
Chapter 1: Prepartion for the big day!
Previous ChapterIt is 15 days before the Christmas Wishes Festival, and every pony is getting ready for the big day! All and about you will see ponies setting up their Christmas decorations. Wysteria is planting special winter flowers, Star Catcher is helping out with decorations for her best friend Skywishes by flying up to the tallest of the buildings, and Minty is outside in her Christmas socks and Santa hat stumbling in getting her decorations up onto her house, speaking of which, some of it is (you guessed it) socks. But also peppermints, lights and candy canes all of which are green because her next best favorite thing is the color green.
Minty still has some bad feelings last Christmas when she accidentally broke the Here Comes Christmas Candy Cane and nearly died in the north pole trying to find Santa, but luckily Pinkie was there and they went back to Ponyville safe and sound. Nevertheless, Christmas is Minty's favorite holiday, especially the Christmas Wishes Festival. There were some times her ornament won and she put up Twinkle Wish on top of the ever forever green tree (which is another tree the ponies have for their wishes while the actual Christmas tree is the main tree) with some mishaps here and there but never once did she majorly screwed up that as well.
Sunny Daze was skating back to her house from the store with decorations when she just so happened to come across Minty.
"Hiya Mints!" she happily said to the mint horse.
"Oh hey Sunny" Minty replied back. "I was just setting up my Christmas decorations and it's taking an awful lot of time, can you help me by any chance?"
"Sorry Mints, but I have to get my Decorations back to my house in time." Sunny said. "Maybe you could ask Pinkie to help you, she's done with her house."
"Okie dokie! I'll go get Pinkie!" Minty exclaimed joyously and galloped away to find her.
Sunny giggled, "Minty Minty Minty" and skated off.
We now cut to celebration castle where Queen Solaria resigns, Queen Solaria is the ruler of Ponyland. She rules modestly and benevolently. But sometimes will take some of her time to have a little fun in escape of all of her royal duties, like playing cricket with the royal court or visiting the beauty of Butterfly Island and it's majestic beaches. She's a little of a perfectionist as she makes sure that the Christmas Wishes Festival goes out exactly as planned with no screw-ups. She always sent her unicorn protege Twilight Twinkle to check on every pony in the town.
Twilight Twinkle is also the Grand Duchess of Ponyland. She always heed to her higher title's command and follows her around the castle halls. She was the one that put the crown on Solaria's head the day Solaria was coronated and has been coronating royals the day she ascended to the title from her mother. When she is not with Solaria, she will be away in her studies on history and magic along and discussing about stuff with Master Heathspike, The castle's dragon, Mayor Flitter Flutter. Twilight also gives Cheerilee insights into Ponyland's fabled past.
Queen Solaria was walking through the halls with Twilight Twinkle beside her.
"This Christmas Wishes Festival is going to be absolutely perfect coming up!" The Queen gleefully said.
"It sure is, nothing could possibly go wrong your majesty." Twilight said
How's everything with Cherry Blossom and the other unicorns of the court?" The Queen asked
"They're just as busy as ever, Brights Brightly and Whistle Wishes are leading the Decoration effort in Unicornia, while Cherry Blossom is teaching Rarity more about her role as a princess" Twilight answered.
"Alright then, soon all of Ponyville will gather around for the start of the holiday season. I want you to go out and tell them to meet at the ever forever green tree."
"Yes your majesty!" Twilight said, and then ran outside.
Now we go see where the Core 7. They are just as busy as the rest of the ponies, decorating their houses for Christmas and the festival as well as helping out others. They are hanging up wreaths, strewing lights, and placing ornaments on their Christmas trees. Everything needs to be perfect for the big day coming up!
Pinkie Pie is outside helping Minty out since she is still having some trouble with her decorations. She will climb up onto Minty's house and put them up while Minty will toss her up said decorations. Like I said, she always helps others in need and never once did she fail them. That was always her perk, it has to do her good nature and ability to help others in that kind of friendship, that and also that she is a pony and ponies always look out for each other no matter what, even if it's a creature of a different species. Which is why Spike is the only inclusion into pony society as he was buried underneath the castle for what seemed to be centuries, you might say he got lucky.
"Where do you want these lights again minty?" Pinkie questioned.
"A little more to the left!" Minty answered "They have to line up and go around the house!"
"Okay!" Pinkie said.
Then Twilight showed up to them in the middle of the decorating.
"Oh hey Twilight! What brings you here?" Minty said
"There's going to be a meeting at the ever forever green tree, and the Queen will be there so don't be late!"
"Wow! The Queen is hosting a meeting!" Pinkie said eccentrically, "C'mon Minty! lets go!"
"Okay!" Minty said and the two ponies stopped what they were doing, Pinkie climbed down, and both of them went off to the tree.
Rainbow Dash is making her house look the fanciest, shamciest most colorful and glamorous in the town. She always has a knack for making everything dashing, colorful and trendy. That includes making glitzy and trendy clothes for whatever fad she is into. She once made a rainbow gown for Queen Solaria when she was ascending the throne and getting coronated. She would never be caught dead looking tacky or outdated as that wasn't simply dashing, and she would also be disgusted if she ever see her friends looking like that and would give them stuff that she sees to be proper to wear.
Rainbow had settled in after she was done when there was a knock on her door, she went to go answer it.
"Well hello there darling and happy holidays!" Rainbow greeted Twilight with glee.
"Hey Rainbow Dash! Queen Solaria is having all of the ponies meet at the ever forever green tree!" Twilight said
"Oh I do so love it seeing the Queen dressed up in such beauty, I'll be right there darling." Rainbow said and went to go get her winter clothes.
Since mom and dad are away, the two sisters Cheerilee and Scootaloo are left with decorating the family house. They would from time to time bicker on what they see as perfect the way siblings do, But they would always come to an agreement. Scootaloo will always go for big stuff while Cheerilee is more laid back and prefers the smaller stuff. Scoots has a kind of scrappy nature given her age and wants an equal title to all of the older ponies as she convinces herself that she is a big pony, She can also be rambunctious and cocky. Scoots likes to do tomboy stuff like riding around on her scooter with Sunny Daze doing kickflips and always manages to perfect them without ever getting hurt.
Cheerilee is the eldest daughter of her family. Born 3 years before Scootaloo, Cheerilee often stays out of her little sister's shenanigans as she finds them unpleasant. Cheer's knowledge on history grows ever more complete as that is her favorite topic when it comes to discussions with Twilight. Cheer also has a know-how on magic and how to use her powers. Earth Ponies can use their magic to manipulate the environment around them, like summoning birds and butterflies to pick them up and fly and making things grow, including themselves.
However, her and Scoots are in a little bit of an disagreement on where the snowman should be built.
"The snowman should be on the right side!" Scootaloo said angrily.
"No, the left side makes more sense!" Cheerilee barked back.
"How could it make sense when the bush is in the way Mrs. Know it all!" Scootaloo said. The two continued to spat out at each other until Twilight showed up.
"Hey now, what's going on here? Don't you know it's the holiday season" Twilight Questioned
"Yeah, but my dunderhead big sister can't seem to get her head out of the gutter and agree that the snowman should be on the right!" Scootaloo said in frustration.
"I'm not a dunderhead, you're a dunderhead!" Cheerilee said, offended.
"No, You are!" Scoot snapped back.
"Ease up you two." Twilight said to calm them down. "You can save it for later, the Queen is holding a meeting at the tree, be there quickly!"
The two sisters nodded and followed her.
Sweetie Belle was baking delicious Christmas cookies for her mother in the same way she was taught. That's what she knew for a long time now. Sweetie is a playful little filly, always in a bubbly mood which suited her well. She is also great in making cookies but still needs a little help in cakes, but at least her cookies always come out delicious. Her family came to Ponyville from Unicornia after the two merged together. Sweetie knew everything about it because her mother will always tell her the exciting tales about the city of her roots, and how Gusty got all of the Unicorns to meet with the Earth Ponies and Pegasi and build Ponyville.
Nevertheless, Sweetie saw Twilight and the sisters out of the window. Twilight gestured at her to come outside. Sweetie agreed and took out her cookies from the oven, they were already baked and set them down onto the counter. To which then she got her winter stuff and walked outside.
"Hi Twilight!" She said in her adorably squeaky voice. "What are you doing here?"
"The Queen wants every pony at the ever forever green tree."
"Oh okay!" Sweetie said and joined Twilight and the two.
Twilight led the two to the tree where every pony in the town was, Toola Roola and Starsong were already there when they got the news from Pinkie and Rainbow Dash.
Toola Roola has big dreams of becoming an artist. She always has some creative thoughts going on in her head, she can turn bits and pieces of junk into a mosaic. She is also the most quiet and mostly by herself as she does her thinking alone and without any disruptions or distractions.
Starsong is a purple Pegasus from Butterfly Island. Her family came to Ponyville following it's merger with Butterfly Island. She's rather shy and a bit introverted and wants to be left alone just like Toola, but this is mostly because she's a Pegasus and they're the most isolationist of the ponies.
They greeted Twilight with a warm hello and Twilight greeted them back.
That is when Queen Solaria stepped out in front of the altar and every pony immediately focused their eyes on her.
TO BE CONTINUED
Well that's chapter 1 done, I'll probably have chapter 2 up by the 5th if not later. Thanks for seeing this!
