A Nutcracker Tale

by StoryTeller101

Rating: everyone
Tags: Spike, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Romance
Length: 2023

'The Nutcracker' is one of the biggest hits in movies and stories worldwide and has become the traditional story which symbolizes the beginning of Christmas. It's the story of Clara, a young girl who enters a dream on which the King and Queen of mice and rats enter her world and attack her, only to be saved by her precious Nutcracker. Find out how this story takes on with The Mane 6.

Published 2012-11-23 21:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-11-23 21:10:01 UTC

Part 1: The Party

Twas the night before Christmas Eve and all of the ponies were celebrating Christmas at Twilight's house.

"All right everypony," shouted Rarity with an energetic voice "time to open our gifts."

Everypony then headed towards the tree which had a lot of colorful gifts under it.

"Who wants to go first?" said Spike as he ran downstairs to were everypony else was.

"Memememememe, I wanna go first" said Pinkie Pie as she waved her hoof up in the air so everypony could see that she wanted to be the first to open her gift.

"Hold yer trott'n everypony," said Applejack as she interrupted Pinkie Pie "since were here at Twilight's house I reckon that she should be the one to open up her gift."

"I agree with you darling, after all, this is a day to be caring and giving with everypony, so go on ahead dear."

"Gee girls, you don't have to be this nice to me, you should be the first ones to open you're presents, not me, I've got plenty of time for that," said Twilight as she tried to back up from the situation.

"Nonono, you have to be the one Twilight" said Rarity

"I already told you-"

"WILL YOU PLEASE JUST OPEN YOUR GIFT TWILIGHT!!!!!" cried out Rainbow Dash, apparently eager to open her gift for she was shaking it to find out what it was.

"All right all right, I'll open mine first"

As she said this, Twilight went over to the tree and looked for her gift. When she found it, she was not surprised by the type of rapping, it was clearly her's for it had her cutie-mark on one of the sides. "I wonder what it is" she then lifted it and untapped it with her magic. There was a little brown box beneath all of that wrapping and she then found a note attached to the side of the box, it said:

My dearest Twilight, instead of Santa Hoofs giving you this years gift, I have decided that it would be best if I gave you you're gift. I hope you enjoy it and that you learn much from it.

Your's truly
Celestalia

After reading this, Twilight opened the box and lifted (with her magic) the figure of a purple stallion whose cutie-mark was the same as Twilight's. He was dressed like a prince with a sword that he held on with his hoof proudly. His snout had teeth that were straight and, if you moved his tail, his snout would opened and closed.

"A ponycracker" murmured Twilight as she stared at it with her mouth opened and with her eyes, that shone brighter then any star.

"It's, umm, very... nice?" said Fluttershy shyly as she looked at it.

Ignoring all of the stares she recieved, Twilight made her way up to her bedroom and laid on her bed, just staring at the ponycracker.

"Oh my, look at this girls" said Futtershy trying to get everyones attention from Twilight and at the same time turning to the tree as she looked for her gift "look at what Santa Hoofs brought me."

"What is it" said rainbow Dash eagerly

"Yes, you must simply tell us" said arity as she glanced a worried look over to Twilight

''It's a tea drinking set for me and the animals" she said as she turned around to show everypony with a smile "I really do hope that angel likes it as much as I do..."

"Mah turn" said Applejack

...

While everypony was downstairs opening their gifts, Twilight was lying on her bed, moving the ponycracker around with her magic, trying to inspect it. "It's beautifull and all, but, what does Celestia want me to learn from it? *sigh* Her and her endless riddles thought Twilight as she rolled her eyes.

"Hey Twilight, look at what Santa Hoofs got me" said Spike in a cheery tone and raising up his wooden airplane so Twilight could see, this whoever made Twilight flinch and drop the ponycracker onto her belly and onto the floor.

"SPIKE!!!!!!!!" this caused everypony downstairs to look up "You broke my present!!!!!!! Just look at it." said Twilight as she pointed down to her ponycracker (wich had a broken hoof on were he held his sword) and forced Spike with her magic to look at it.

"Oh, uh, I just remeber I had somethin to do back at the farm now, uh I'l be going now" said applejack as she grabed her new hat and trotted of the library.

" And I forgot that I have to go get Sweetie Bellcfrom the, umm, school" said Rarity as she picked up with her magic her brand new ribbon case and put a white ribbon on the floor before trotting out.

"And I have to give the weather forcast to my boss" said Rainbow as she picked her imitate wonderbolts uniform and her signed picture of them before flying out through the window.

"I have to go take care of a new tree I planted" said Fluttershy as she grabbed her new te set in the mouth and Pinkie Pie's new and freekishly big party hat, and then started to push Pinkie out of the building in a delicate manner.

"But, why do we have to go already, the party just started"

"Goodbye, see you, umm tomorrow?" said Fluttershy as she closed the door

...

"I'm sorry Twigh-"

"It's ruined!!!" said Twilight angrily as shy started to cry and went downstairs with the ponycracker "It' ruined" she murmured to herself as she sat down in front of the ribbon.

Not to make matters whorse, Spike then headed to the back room, where he had an extra bed just for times like this one

Twilight then tied a stong not with the ribbon around the pony's shoulder "It will have to do" she then went upstairs, leaving the ponycracker on the floor, and went to bed.

Not even ten minutes passed by when you could already hear the soft snore of a baby dagon, and the still whimpering, but sleeping Twilight.

Part 2: The Battle

A strong breeze from outside causes the main window (wich was the one upstairs) to open. This breeze starts circulating the entire library colecting every bit of dust it can. Once enough dust has been colected, this breeze starts forming a mini tornado on the main floor. A bright whit orb suddenly appears in the middle of this tornado and starts to take form. Once it takes it's form, the tornado and dust disapear.

"Finally, after all this time. Now any second now..."

BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG

"Come out your Majesty, and behold your newest home" as he said this, The Mice Queen, who was at least four feet tall and was wearing a royal gown of yellow, blue and white, enters through the closet with at least a dozen two foot little white mice following her.

The Mice Queen then lets her mice discover their new surroundings, as well as she, and then turns back to him who is bowing down as The Queen speaks "Thou have done well as for finding The King a new home" she then bows a little as a symbol of thanks "I relieve you of your dutties" she then turns and starts to look at some of the books from her new library.

The creature then notices what he was looking for upstairs and starts to head towards her. As she reaches her, he takes his paw, and with an evil grin, starts to rub her face "And you, my little Twilght, shall be doomed"

With sleepy eyes, Twilight wakes up and looks at the creature "Huh... what?" realizing who the creature was, she shots her eyes open and covers herself with the blankets "Discord?!?!?!?"

''Shall be doooooomed" as he said this, Discor turns back into an orb an exits the library through the still opened window. Twilight the closes the window and goes back to sleep, thinking it was only a dream.

Back downstairs, The Queen was admiring the cover of a book she just found "I wonder what this book is about... A Thousand Leages under the Sea, sounds interesting-" *sniff* *sniff* "Wait" and with this, every mice stopped what they were doing and observed her sniffing *sniff* *sniff* *sniffffff*

The mice were curious about what she was siffing, and so they started to sniff also. *sniff* *sniff* *sniff* *sniff* *sniff* *sniff*

"Could it be?" *sniff* *sniff* "Yes... it is" as she said this, all of the little mice started to huddle up in a group and shiver in fear. The Queen then dropped her book and turned towards the aid of her little ones. "Hush my little ones, hush... rats, ATTACK!!!!!!!!! As she said this, about thirty rats came out of the closet and ran straight towards Twilight and started to attack her.

"Oh my, by Celestia's Mane... what is happening?!?!?!?! Spike, get over here!!!!!!!!!!"

Right then, the little dragon opened the door and while he was yawing said "What's going on Twi- by Celestia's Mane, what is going on?!?!?!"

"Spike!!!!!!!!" Twilight then used her teleportation spell to head over to were Spike was. spike then suddenly appeared in Twilight's back and she then started to gallop around the room while she was shooting magic out of her horn to defend themselves.

"Twilight, what is going on?"

"I don't know Spi- Spike, quick grab your shield" Spike then grabbed his fake but strong shield (wich was one of the gifts Santa Hoofs brought him) and started to defend themselves with it, letting Twilight concentrate in attacking.

Tired becouse of all the running, Twilight stopped and made a force field arond themselves, but becouse she was so tired, and becouse the rats were attacking the forcefield, the forcefield was breaking.

"Try to hold it Twi"

"I-I can't, I just... can't"

"Twilight, I-"

As if by a miracle, an army of unicorns came out of the closet and started to look up to were Twilight's bed was. When Twilight and Spike looked up, they saw a purple unicorn stallion with his complete uniform whose cutie-mark was the same as Twilight's and had an injured hoof on wich he held his sword. That unicorn ordered the rest to attack the rats. He then jumped from the second floor to the first and started to attack himself.

"Twilight, cover him!!!!!" as he said this, Twilight put another forcefield around the unicorn to protect him, and with this new help, Twilight continued to attack.

Not even fifteen minutes had passed when half of the rats were already dead. Suddenly, The King Mouse,standing taller than anyone else, challenged the unicorn to a duel. Accepting his challenge, every rat still alive made space for the big fight and Twilight was forced to drop her shield around him.

...

It was a very intense battle indeed, and a very bloody one. The unicorn was losing, with various wounds all over his body, it looked like that would be the end. Taking the opportunitie that nobody was watching her, Twilight knocked over a pile of books to create a distraction. When The King Mouse heard th loud noise, he looked away from his foe, and this one took the opportunitie to dive his sword deep into his heart, killing him with a single strike.

Crying, The Queen ordered the rats to pick up The King and to clean every corpse that was lying in the room. She then said to her little ones that daddy was only just sleeping for a very long time so that they wouldnt cry that much, and then ordered for them to return home.

"It was a very brave battle indeed, I congratulate thou on your victory" and with this, The Queen left through the closet.

After The Queen left, the unicorn ordered his army to leave also. Then, Twilight then hurried over to the unicorn and cured most of his wounds with her magic.

"Thanks"

"No problem, by the way... who are you?"