Let the Snowballs Fly!
Winter was a wonderful time back in the day for Celestia and Luna. It’s glorious, with all of the wonderful sights to see with the glossy snow on the ground that sparkled like diamonds. However, if you can find the right snow, just compact enough, god help you if you were with the two future princesses. They were the perfect team in the art of snowy war!
One day, when the two mares were fillies, they went outside to the snowy courtyard of the castle. They were all bundled up in their snow day gear, consisting of Luna’s snow boots and her coat and Celestia’s gloves and ear muffs. The courtyard was quite large. It had trees, bushes, open area, and of course, a large amount of snow.
“All right Luna, are you ready to make the biggest, bestest snow-pony ever?” Celestia said in her child like voice.
“Ready doesn’t even describe it!” Luna enthused in her voice, slightly more squeaky than her sister’s.
“Do you have the hat and the pipe?”
“Huh?” Luna cocked her head, “I thought you had it…”
“No, you silly filly, you were supposed to get them!”
“That’s not what I heard…”
“Can you just get them now? I want to find a good spot!”
“Oooook...” Luna dragged out her word to complain about the task.
As Luna trudged into the castle door, Celestia scanned the courtyard. She found a great spot to begin the snow-pony. When she checked the snow to see if it was suitable for making a snow-pony with, an idea sparked in her head. A sly grin came across her face as she looked back to check the castle door to make sure Luna was not yet outside. She dived behind a nearby hedge and began making a snowball. Celestia started to giggle for the ingenuity of her plan.
About a minute later, Luna came out through the large door, balancing a pipe on her head and holding a top hat in her mouth.
“I couldn’t fend da wight hat, so I just nabbed the economic eviser’s hat.” Luna informed, her words being muffled by the hat. “He won’t mind, wight?”
Luna spit out the hat and looked for her sister, who was nowhere in plain sight.
“Tia?” Luna shouted out, which was her nickname for Celestia. She took a few steps into the courtyard, leaving the pipe and the hat behind. “Tia, where are you?”
Faint giggling came from a bush. Luna immediately looked at the bush she thought it was coming from.
“Tia? Are you in that bush?” Luna asked.
Just then, Celestia popped out of her hiding from her hedge, which was to the right of the one Luna was inspecting. She threw the snowball and it hit right smack dab on Luna’s face. Celestia fell to the ground, bursting into laughter.
“I… I got you real good, didn’t I Luna?” Celestia continued laughing.
Luna wiped the snow off her face and grinned. She reached down and quickly made a snowball. She hid it behind her back.
Luna started to chuckle, “Yep, that was a good one, Tia.” Celestia got up to her hooves. “Just tell me if this is a good one too!” Luna flung her snowball that was behind her back, and it flew through the air until it hit Celestia’s horn.
Celestia pulled as hard as she could to get the snowball off of her horn until she finally dislodged it.
She rubbed her hooves together and smiled, “Oh, it’s on! We each have five minutes to make a snow fort!”
“You don’t have to tell me twice!” Luna started assembling a mound of snow, which would be her future snow fort.
Five minutes later, the forts were made. Celestia’s was an elegant snow castle that would do a very good job at protecting her as well. Luna’s fort was a long wall, giving her mobility. They each had an abundance of snowballs as well as extra snow. When the final touches were applied, they began the countdown.
“Ready?” Celestia asked.
“To beat you? You bet I am!” Luna replied.
Celestia chuckled, “Start in three,”
“Two,”
“One…”
“GO!” They both yelled in unison.
Snowballs began flying all over the courtyard. You couldn’t even count how many there were. The fillies were occasionally hit by the snowballs, but for the most part, they were being protected.
Luna was zipping all around, hitting Celestia from all angles, but she focused so much on getting her fort done, she couldn’t work on its durability. About halfway through the fight, a part of her fort fell, destroyed.
“No!” Luna yelled, “Someone, fix the supporting wall!” She waited a bit. “Oh yeah… I’m alone…”
Luna now tried to fix the section of her fort, as well as keeping the snowballs coming. She had to sacrifice throwing some snowballs for fixing her wall. When she was done, she went back to throwing.
The problem Celestia had was that her fort was small. Unless she did this weird throwing maneuver, she could only aim at one general direction.
Celestia could only throw at one place, while Luna kept repairing what was destroyed. Until, they both remembered their magic! First, Celestia used hers to throw everywhere, and then Luna realized she could use hers to fix her fort.
By now, it was a stalemate. Their magic was evenly matched, so Luna decided to not worry about her defense and tried to overwhelm Celestia with offense.
Snowballs were once again going everywhere, but this time there were much more. There were so many, they were nearly blotting out the sun! Both Luna’s and Celestia’s forts were being destroyed at the same rate. The winner should be declared soon! This is it! The moment of truth! Who will win the fight?
Just as one of them was about to win, the castle door opened, and out stepped the royal adviser. Both of the fillies looked back at him, and the battle halted.
The stallion pointed to the top hat Luna had brought out. “Isn’t this the treasurer’s hat?” He asked.
Luna and Celestia looked at each other.
“Noooo.” They said in unison stretching out the word.
“Well, no matter, come with me. We have some royal business to attend to!” The stallion said.
Celestia and Luna sighed. They left their forts and followed the adviser inside the castle.
Celestia leaned towards Luna and whispered, “This isn’t over! We’ll continue another day!”
Luna grinned, “I hope you’re ready to get your butt kicked!”
“That’ll be the day Tatarus freezes over!”
