Red Nose and a Rainbow

By Spoonlol

Twilight had spend the whole of the next day inside the library after what had happened at the school the previous day. This wasn't that unusual for Twilight, she often spend a lot of time lock in the library, especially when she was upset. She had passed the time by reading such books on forget me spells that she pulled out whenever she felt like she wanted to disappear.

Thankfully, Spike didn't hold a grudge for too long, she had over estimate how old his mind work which let her to tell him that, Santa was not real, fortunately Spike still saw her as a sort of mother figure, and being a baby, he still depended on her but not to the point where couldn't couldn't make his own lunch, which is what he was doing that this very moment.

"Come on Twilight. The mayor is turning on the hearts warming eve's light today, we can't miss that?" he called to her from the kitchen, making himself a jelly sandwich. "You can't stay cooped up in here for the rest of the holiday. It's not like the whole town is going to start throwing rocks at you or something."

"Thanks for that thought Spike." she replied with a sarcastic tone. She knew she had to go outside but she did have a feeling that if she did that ponies would start throwing things at her. "I know I should but most ponies aren't like you Spike, there not all as..."

"Forgiving?" he interrupted as he walked into the main hall of the library. It was true, Spike did forgive ponies to easily.

"Yeah, that." Twilight picked up the book with her magic and put it back onto the self where she got it from. "Your right" she sighed. "I'll go see what the others are up to, it's better then sitting around here all day." She walked towards the door, lifted her hoof to open it and....

SLAM

The door swung open smashing Twilight to the wall behind the boor. Standing in the doorway was a now happy as can be Pinkie Pie, not that that was unusual. She was bouncing in what seemed to be four or three different places at once as she entered the building, calling for her friend before she stopped at the purple dragon.

"Spike, where's Twilight, she has to see this. It's like, the greatest thing you could even hope to see in the world thing great things to see." she paused for about half a second before continuing on. "Where is she, she's going to be soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, wow that's a lot of os mister writer, but yeah its amazing and you two have to come see it now.

"Er...see what exactly?" Spike ask when he was sure that Pinkie had stopped. Completely ignoring the breaking of the fourth wall.

"No time to explain, I need you to stop what your doing, help me find Twilight and follow me." She went back to her search, looking into every nook and cranny that library had, before popping out of one of the bookshelves. "O, and if Twilight is doing something, then stop her from whatever it is that she's doing" Just then the front door creaked a little, revealing Twilight smashed on the wall.

"Found her." Spike called to Pinkie as a grin crept across his face.

"O Twilight here you are." Popping up out of nowhere in particular. "This is no time to be playing hide and seek. This thing this just too awesome."

"What thing Pinkie?" Twilight ask as she got to her hooves "Can't you just tell us what this thing is."

"Of course not. If I said what it is then you wouldn't be surprised when is show you." Before Spike or Twilight could protest Pinkie grad then by the hoofs, or claw in Spike's case, and zoomed off into the streets of Ponyville.

In the blink of an eye, they had gone from the library to Ponyville park, if a pony who wasn't Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash would walk there, it would have taken much longer then that, but lets move on shall we.

There was a small crowd near the center of the park, which Twilight assumed that they were there because of the amazing thing Pinkie was talking about. It was only moments later that she noticed that most members of the crowd were either fillies or colts, there were a couple of adults but most of them seemed to only be there because either there children were there or that they were just pacing through.

Twilight and Spike walked up behind the crowd, it wasn't that hard to see over the young ponies but they still wanted a better look. It was at this moment that she noticed that couple of her friends were standing in the crowd.

"Applejack, Rarity" she shouted to get there attention, which proved successful as it got them to turn around. "What's going on, whats with this crowd?" The orange and white mares walked over to them and gave her a smile, Applejack a little smaller then Rarity's.

"O Twilight, you would not believe who has just shown up" Rarity final replied with a lot of emphasis on the 'believe', almost like she was singing it. This gained more confusion from Twilight but gain some "oohs" and "aahs" from the crowd. Wait, those couldn't have come from Rarity saying that.

"What do you mean, who's shown up?" Twilight looked towards where the rest of the crowd was look and saw...nothing, just a plain spot of snow that covered most of the ground. This only frustrated her more. "What is everypony looking at?" She screamed putting her hoofs on the side of her head and clenching her eyes shut for a couple of moments. When she opened them she noticed that everypony was staring at her again, but they weren't looking at her like you would look at somepony who had just shouted out of nowhere for no reason, they were more of just staring at her.

That or staring at something behind her.

"What are you all looking at?" she asked while spinning around trying to find what they were look at, but all she saw was the buildings that one would except to see, this gained few giggles from the younger members of the crowd. She turn back around to face the crowd to ask what they found so funny. What she got was a somepony right if her face shouting "boo". She stumbled to the ground with a FUD, it was then that she looked up to give the pony who did that a piece of her mind.

What she saw was not a pony, for this creature had antlers but besides that, looked like an ordinary pony stallion. He had a dark brown coat color, with a lighter type of brown at the tip of his hooves. His mane looked really scruffy, like it had never had a good comb in the creatures life, and was a more lighter brown to its coat, similar to it's hooves. Most of its body consisted of some short of brown, except for the noise, that was bright red.

What this creature was doing behind Twilight's back was what one would expected to see in a children's cartoon. When a flying character floats behind the others head and turns with the character they are behind, making them almost invisible to that unsuspecting character. Before popping up in front of there faces and scaring the living daylights out of them, as this character has now done to Twilight. Speaking of which...

It didn't take long for Twilight to realize that she was in the presents of a reindeer, or that the reindeer was hovering above her... upside down. She rubbed her purple eyes a couple of times to make sure she wasn't seeing things. The reindeer was still there but had turn itself right-side-up in the small speck of time.

"Wh...who are you?" Twilight finally blurted out with a very shocked tone in her voice. Twilight had read about reindeer and had even seen a couple at big winter events, being the princesses personal student and all. She had learned that the only place you would usually see then is up north where the crystal empire now laid. Another thing that Twilight had read is that they couldn't fly... if by trying to prove this fact wrong the reindeer zoomed in close to twilight, face to face, with what seemed like an angry frown, before being replaced with a giant smile and laughter.

"So!" It said with a loud voice but not at the point of shouting. "Your the pony that's responsible for me being here, ay" it laugh, hovering backwards a little bit. It had a sort of Canadian accent when it spoke (sorry I couldn't think of a pun for Canada). "Rudolph's my name, pulling Santa's sled and making the foggy nights clear is my game." He said pushing his nose up and his chest out, sounding really proud of himself, before looking back to Twilight "So, like I said, your the one pony who's the reason for why I'm here." this time talking in a Trottingham like Pin's. The change in accents confused Twilight a little more so she final decided to stand up and speak.

"And like I asked. Who are you?" Twilight sound very serious when she asked this, wanting to get an answer.

"I told ya lacy, my names Rudolph" this was going to get on Twilight's nerves, she could tell. If you can't tell why, the reindeer, now confirmed to be called Rudolph, had just changed into Trottish accent. (bad pun is bad, I'm not that good at this). "You got to have heard of my name before. I've been part of this holiday for years. Ya know, really snowy winter, ah used ma magic noise to clear the wai, and so on and so forth." when he finish he jumped into the air once again and started moving his legs like he was walking on solid group. "And what's this ah hear about you telling all them fillies and colts that there ain't no San'a. Why would ya do a horrid thing like that to the poor youngens." This time talking in a country accent that was similar to Applejack's.

He turned to the foals and gave them a small wink, which got a couple of giggles. Twilight couldn't see this action of course, which just added to the fun. But as the reindeer turned his head, he notices that the purple unicorn was now giving him a fierce look, and before he new it, he was back on the earth with a poof of purple magic, before he notices he was eye to eye with her once again...

"Why do you keep speaking if different accents? What are you doing this far south, and where the hay did you come from?" Twilight was almost at the point of screaming and was now heavily breathing in and out. In and out. Now she is calm, her breathing normal. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scream." backing away, Twilight looked around to see that once again in the last couple of days, everyone was looking at her, making her feel slightly embarrassed.

"Na, it's okay." This time just giving off a none posh Canterlot voice, that Twilight had grown up around. "And to answer your questions...helping the big guy deliver gifts around the world you pick a couple of things up from the natives, especially if you've been doing it for as long as I have. I can't tell you where I come from, but most of you probable already know." Giving a small smile to the little ones who were hanging on the every word that he seemed to be saying. "And I'm here because, well I was invited, mostly because of what you said a couple of days ago though."

Twilight gave off a small embarrassed laugh under her hoof, before Pinkie leaped over Twilight and got Rudolph in a massive bear hug. "Who cares whats he's doing here, he came to see us and to bring the Christmas spirit back to Ponyville." Rudolph gave a out a small breath of air that sounded like he was saying "Let go please." Pinkie released her grip with her smile still intact and not seeming to leave her face any time soon.

In the small moment that Rudolph was catching his breathe, you could almost hear almost here him say "That's not the only reason" After he got his breathe back he walked up to the foal with a new smile on his face "So who wants a flying sled ride from the one and only red noised reindeer." He spoke out in a that way you would to a child if you want to somehow change the conversation.

It worked. If that was its purpose, as it was met by a bunch of screaming kids yelling things like "me me" or "Yeah", Rudolph swore he heard one said "I wouldn't expect anything less." With the children taking him up on his offer, he lifted his head as though he was the Princess casting a powerful spell. And if by magic, a large red and golden sleigh had appeared out of nowhere.

While all the children jumped aboard, Twilight but stared with a open mouth in wonder and confusion, only managing to mutter a "how". This was answered as a light blue pegasus popped down beside her.

"What did I tell you, reindeer magic." Rainbow spoke up getting everyone's a tension. This got a look from Twilight so Dash decided to explain. "Look at his antlers." And they did. The group stopped and stared at the reindeer antlers. As they watched they saw that a green aura had appeared around them, which they also just noticed, matched the color of his eye's as he used it to attach a golden harness and saddle on his back.

"Rainbow, where have you been dear." Rarity spoke up, someone finally establishing that dash had come out of nowhere.

"I had to fill in for a couple members of the weather team who have got the feather flu." she answered "I said for Rudolph to make himself at home so with could do this really awesome performance showing him off to the town." she said this in a way that made it seem like it was a greatest idea sense sliced bread. "But I think he got a little board and decided to do it himself."

"And how exactly do you know this fine fellow" Rarity, asking another question. This strangely made Dash a little unconformable.

She pondered on this for a moment, could she tell them, they were her best friends and had been for a couple of years now. She was sure the big guy wouldn't mind if she told them...maybe even told them the whole story to go with it.

"Well he's..." There was a small pause, which everypony thought Dash was just adding for dramatic effect. "He's kinda, sorta, in a way, my...second cousin." She final let out with a sheepish grin. This was responded with a lot of blank faces and a simple "What" from Applejack. "You know, when your mums cousin is your second cousin."

"Yes, we know what it is Dash." Interrupted Twilight "But how could you not tell us about something like this, your cousin..." Pinkie quickly corrected her by yelling "Second cousin" above the conversation. "OK, yes I didn't tell you guys that much about my brother but this is bigger them that. Your second cousins with Rudolph the red noised reindeer. Why would you not tell us that?"

"Well..." Dash replied, once again not seeming to sure of herself. "I was told not to tell anyone about it really, but when Scoot told me what Twilight did, I felt like I had to do something. And plus," she looked to the ground and gave out a small sigh. "I don't like to talk about it that much for."

"Why's that?" Pinkie asked, oblivious to the fact the Dash seemed unconformable with it. She did quickly noticed this however and counteracted her question "O, I'm sorry, you don't have to tell us."

"It's OK, the only person I've really told this to is Fluttershy, and she's off today helping some animals who didn't get enough food for the winter." It was at this point that a couple members of the group relished there was a lack of Fluttershy around. "but I think I can tell you guys. No, I want to tell you guys, the whole thing."

"Oo, a flashback."

End of Part 2

Author's Note

I hope you guys are enjoying this, sorry it took so long, I've been busy and this is y first fic.
Not sure what you were all thinking i was doing with this story but here it is. Hope you enjoy, and please don't tell me I've made mistakes without pointing them out of me please. thx