Chapters Fluttershy
"Fluttershy, what's wrong with Spike?" She questioned the shy Pegasus. Fluttershy explained how he slipped, all the way to why he's on the ice. "Spike, it's no big deal."
"It's... It's not? " he asked, surprised. It doesn't make sense, last night she cried over the fact he ate a cookie after eight, which is bed time for him.
"No, it's not. Get up, we still have to ask Fluttershy and Applejack if they can come."
"Ask me about what?" she questioned, obviously tired of standing in the snow.
"Me and Twilight-"
"Twilight and I." She says, cutting Spike off.
"Twilight and I," he says, a little bit ticked off, "are going to be having a party to celebrate Hearths Warming Eve."
Fluttershy jumps at the sound of party. "But what about my animal friends!" she says, trying to think of an excuse not to go. "They'll be left in the cold, freezing snow!
"C'mon Fluttershy, it's Hearths Warming Eve!" Says Twilight. "Plus, so far, everyone is going other than Applejack. Please?"
"Oh.. Umm.." She takes a long, deep breath, and says "alright."
Twilight jumps for joy, extremely happy that another friend will be there. It had been extremely easy to get the others to go, and hopefully, Applejack would be just as easy.
When Twilight and Spike arrived at sweet apple acres, they were surprised to find it completely empty, with the exception of Granny Smith reading one of her "folk tales" near the fireplace. The had to knock several times to get the attention of Granny Smith, and then she took a while to even get out of her chair. Eventually, Twilight got tired of waiting and just kicked the door open.
"Why hello there!" Said Granny Smith. Even her words took forever to leave her lips.
"We're looking for Applejack, have you seen her anywhere?" asked Twilight.
"Oh sweet apple juice, y'all just missed her. She said somethin' bout helping some Cutie Mark what-nots find their "destiny".
Twilight and Spike were already out the door. Applejack was at the CMC headquarters.
Pinky Pie
The first guest to arrive was obviously Pinky Pie. Twilight welcomed her in, and took her coat. Pinky seemed more energetic than usual.
"So Twilight are you as excited for Hearths Warming Eve as I am? I'm more excited than I've ever been! Is Rainbow Dash coming? Wait, Fluttershy is coming too, right? Oh oh, and Applebloom? There's no party without Applejack too! I can't wait to see the amazing dress Rarity is going to bring!" Finally, Pinky stopped talking to taste some of the Hot Chocolate Twilight laid out. Twilight was glad that Pinky stopped, as it began to give her a headache, like always, but to avoid upsetting her friend, Twilight just gave a small chuckle.
It had been half an hours since Pinky arrived, but there were still no guests to be spotted. As Twilight could see, Pinky looked bored out of her mind. Finally, Twilight said something.
"Hey Pinky, want to play Ponopoly? Twilight asked as she pointed to a cabinet, probably containing board games.
"Hmmm. Do you have Pony trap? Nonono, Go Pony!" She said as she pointed to a deck of cards.
"Pinky, those games are for fillies. I will not play a game intended for somepony of a younger age!" Twilight could see the saddened look on Pinky's face.
"C'mon Twilight, your acting like Rarity!"
"Fine! I'll play Go Pony." She said, finally giving in.
As Twilight was dealing the cards, Pinky screamed at the top of her lungs "go pony!"
"Pinky, please tell me you know how to play Go Pony.
"Ok" Pinky said. " I know how to play Go Pony."
"Do you actually KNOW how to play?" She said, with a bit of annoyance in her eyes.
"N-no. But I heard its lots of fun!" She said, jumping for joy.
Twilight then sighed and collapsed onto the couch.
Twilight opened her eyes, and Pinky was there staring down on her. Startled, her natural instincts took place and threw Pinky off of her.
"Haha silly, that's not how you play Go Pony!" Said Pinky, snorting and hollering in the ground.
Applejack
Twilight wasn't sure how long her visitor was knocking on her door, because she decided to take a quick snooze while she waited for her friends to arrive. She hadn't bothered to wonder why Pinkie didn't answer the door and just opened it instead. She was surprised; Applejack was standing there with a cart behind her, containing apple treats. Twilight could see a variety of sweets in there, but what caught her eyes was the huge apple cake. Her mouth watered just looking at it. She daydreamed for a little bit about her gobbling down the delicious looking cake.
"Tw-Twilight? Y'all ok?" Said Applejack, not sure of what to think of her dazed looking friend. She has to wave her hoof in front of her face before Twilight regained herself.
"Wha- what.." Said Twilight, confused of what happened. She looked around and saw the cake, remembering why she was in her daze. Before she could return herself to her fantasy, she slapped herself. "Please," she said, pointing to her house. Applejack nodded her head and pulled her cart into the doorway. Twilight was in too much of a daze to notice the pain from Applejack's cart running over her hoof.
"Whoops, sorry there Twilight. Didn't notice you there." She said, looking down at her friends throbbing hoof. Twilight didn't respond and starred blankly into space. "So, err, where do you want me to lay down these treats?" Twilight didn't respond for five seconds until she snapped back into reality.
"Yeah, go ahead." Said Twilight, not even hearing her friend. Pinky raced out of nowhere as soon as he sweet smell of apples reached her nose. She bolted immediately for he cake, leaping for a bite, but Applejack held out her hoof blocking her path.
"Sorry Pinky, but your gonna have to wait for everypony to arrive." Said Applejack. She looked at Pinky's face, which was full of sadness and sorrow. "Aww, cheer up sugar cube, I brought plenty of other treats." As Applejack approached her cart to grab something for Pinky, Sweetie Belle popped out of a rather large pie. "Sweetie, what are you doing? Is there more of you in here?" Said Applejack as she scanned he cart. Suddenly, Scootaloo and Applebloom hoped out too. "Applebloom, you know better then this!"
"Sorry sis, your treats are SO tasty!" Said Applebloom, liking apple custard off her face. Immediately, Pinky and Twiligt burst into laughter.
Prologue
The light snowfall that trickled down was still enough to obscure Spike's vision. He stumbled into a dead bush, and dropped the basket containing two envelopes. The nearby door opened, and a terrified Fluttershy peered outside her home.
"Angel Bunny? Is that you?" she questioned, not noticing the baby dragon just outside her home.
"Angel, how many times have I told you to come in when it snows?" Although Angel was not in sight, Fluttershy tip-toed out side in search of her beloved pet. When Spike made a slight moan, she shrieked in horror, and dove back into the seemingly safe premises of her home. It took five minutes before she worked up what little courage she had available and looked through her window. As soon as she was the purple body lying in her bush, she bolted outside and scooped up the little dragon.
When Spike woke up, he was lying in a bed, with Fluttershy looking down on him. He lied there for several hours, until he slumped himself over.
"Are you ok? That was some nasty fall you had there." said Fluttershy, trying to ease the young one. The only response Spike gave was a slight nod, which still managed to hurt his badly bruised neck. "Could I ask what brought you here? If that's ok with you..." She shielded her hooves over her face, like Spike was going to scream at her, but he began to talk.
"Well, Twilight wanted to have all her friends over for Hearths Warming Eve, so she sent me to give all her friends invitations. Oh gosh, that's right, the invitations! He hoped out of bed, not caring about the huge amount of pain he was receiving, and bolted over to the window. He scanned the area for where he fell, and saw the basket and two envelopes scattered and soggy from the snow. He ran outside to see if they were still intact, but sadly, they ripped upon contact. "Oh no, Twilight will be furious!" he thought to himself. He imagined her lecturing him, and giving him double he chores. Fluttershy ran outside, and stopped behind him. Fluttershy saw the tears in the dragons eyes.
"What's the matter Spike?" She asked, although she knew exactly what happened. Just as Spike began to talk, Twilight galloped up the path.
Spike noticed her before she noticed him, so he dove into the nearby pond, not realizing it was frozen. Twilight jumped in joy when she saw her baby dragon.
"Spike?" She asked her friend, who was smacked hard against the ice.
Spike than screamed as loud as possible "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!"
Cutie Mark Crusaders
It took Twilight nearly an hour to find out where the fort was, since she had never visited. She only had the luck in finding it when an explosion came from the distance. She used her magic to grab Spike, and headed to the fort. When she arrived, everypony was in a huge heap in the fort.
"What in Celestia's name happend?" She asked, helping up Scootaloo first.
"Let's just say that Cutie Mark Scientists wasn't go." She says, jokingly. Scootaloo then reaches for Sweetie Belle, who smacks her hoof away.
"What kind of idiot are you Scootaloo?" Says Sweetie. Scootaloo's face then turned bright red, clearly implying that she was embarrased.
"Sweetie Belle, how could you be so rude to your best friend?" Says Twilight. "Can anypony get into the Hearths Warming spirit?"
"Twilight, this Dodo mixed the two chemicals I CLEARLY told her not to." Twilight than gave her a stern look. "Ok, I'm "sorry" Scootaloo."
"Your such a liar Sweetie Belle!"
"Am not!"
" GIRLS! " screamed Applebloom. "How are we ever going to get our cutie marks if we keep fighting!"
"Well, Applebloom, I QUIT the Cutie Mark Crusaders! We never get anything done around here bec-"
Applejack then steps forwards.
"Now, you girls are going to KEEP on workin' your way up, and you'll find out what your talents are. But for now, y'all going to stick together as a team and work together to problem solve. And y'all should be ashamed. Acting like his in front of guests?" Applejack then points to a blushing Twilight. "Now, I want you all to apologize to Twilight this instant.
"We're sorry." They all say a different times, making it difficult to understand.
"Now, Twilight, was there something ya wanted?"
"Phew, now that that's all over, I wanted to know if you wanted to come to my place for Hearths Warming Eve."
"Aww Twilight, I'd sure love to, but I gotta watch these rascals! You've already seen what they can do." Applejack says, gloomily.
"Why don't they come on over to my place too?"
"That would be splendid! We'll come on over later! We have a mess to clean first." And with that, Twilight took off to prepare.
