Chapter 3 – Winter why
The morning has rolled on through like it has for the last few weeks since Violet started practicing magic . Well normal for you, seeing as how you kind of felt that any moment the owl was going to swoop in and steal your breakfast...But that never happened.
Twilight's voice has lost it's stuffy nosed drawl and she has gained back some of her normal energy. You kind of wish you could have just got rid of your cold so easily, but you're not complaining seeing as how now Violet most likely can't get it.
"...Spike, don't forget you and me are going to be outside for most of the day, so you need to be dressed warm ok?" Twilight holds her gaze to the dragon that starts up from the stairs.
The purple dragon gives a faint groan as he continues up, "Well, I guess it won't be so bad...At least Rarity is making the hot chocolate this time."
At the end of his words you hear a knock at the door, you stand from the table as you move to open the front door. But your slow opening of it is quickly speed up as a white mare with some kind of mane wrap comes into the house followed by the cyan pegasus. You try to give a friendly hello but your voice is cut off as the two familiar mares trot into the house.
You close the door behind them as their conversation continues on, "...All i'm saying Rainbow is that you could have moved that cloud!"
"Pff, ya, but then that side of the street would have gotten none of the last winter snow." To Rainbow's words the white mare's eyes widen, "So! Why does the street need snow anyways hmm? Why do we need winter anyways?" The wrap around her mane starts to come undone as the wrap begins to reveal itself as a sky blue scarf, "Honestly, just look at this mane, I just washed it when you came to get me, i'm positively freezing."
Spike moves from the stairs as he holds a big smile to the white mare, "I can warm y-.."
"Perfect, here you go darling, not too warm I don't want my still damp mane to frizz." Rarity's horn holds it's blue tint as the unwarped scarf floats towards the dragon, without hesitation the little dragon darts back up stairs and out of the room, for what you don't know or really care.
As Rarity's face comes back to Rainbow the white mare continues the conversation, "Really Rainbow, next time you can at least stop the snow."
Rainbow's eyes go a little wide as her voice comes back with a tomboyish crack, "You told me to wake you up early!"
The white mare ignores the comment as Twilight's voice comes to the room in a friendly and slightly confused tone, "Um, you two are a little early, the winter wrap up meeting is not even until midday."
Rarity straightens her stance as she points her hoof to the tan saddle and then to her bright yellow boots, her voice holds a overzealous gasp as she talks, "Twilight...You suggest this crime against fashion, and I want it to be over with as soon as possible."
Twilight rolls her eyes as she talks, "Crime against fashion?"
"Yes, I have to wear the same winter wrap up outfit today that I have to wear tomorrow, it's simply dreadful." Rarity closes her eyes as she tilts her head up.
The cyan mare and Twilight both shake their heads a little to her comment as Rainbow trots towards the happily wiggling filly, "I don't see the big deal Rarity, its just a saddle and its not like we normally wear something anyways." At the end of her sentence Rainbow turns a smile to the filly as she takes her and herself from the ground as she starts her little game of flight.
You watch the cyan mare with your own smile, but you lose it as Rarity's laugh comes to the room, "HA! Just a saddle?! That's what you would say, you don't even have a date to the Night before Wrap up tonight."
Rainbow blows to the comment as the filly in her front hooves that happily dangles her hooves to the ground becomes her point of interest, "So what, not like i'm going for anything other than the special cider Applejack saved."
Rarity rolls her eyes as she nods to Twilight, "You two will at least be wearing something formal right?"
You think over her comment as you give a faint chuckle, i'm not wearing a tux and without that I don't think I have anything else formal. Twilight shakes her head as she speaks up for your silent thoughts, "Well, we already talked about not going."
"Not going? But why are you not going Twilight?" A light laugh comes from Rarity as she looks between you and Twilight, "You have obviously have somepony you can go with."
Twilight smiles as she nods her head with a slight blush, "Oh I know, but it's mainly a well..." She stutters on the word a little, "...a dance..." Her voice quickly pops up in speed as she continues, "...And we don't have any pony to watch Violet, and its far too late not to be home."
You blink to her tone as you think her words over, you and Twilight both knew about the winter wrap up thing but you both kind of just decided it was too late to leave Violet by herself or with just Spike.
Despite Rarity's quivering lip Rainbow's voice comes over the white mare's as she starts to a gentler flight path, "Really? You don't have anypony to watch Violet?"
Twilight nods to the comment as she speaks up, "Well ya, my parents are in Canterlot and we can't just leave Spike here with Violet at night, its not fair to him and we should be here."
Rarity is silent for a moment before she gives a simple nod, "I suppose that makes sense...that is a little bit of a let down though, this year was going to be a lot more formal rather than last years."
"Pff, Vinyl Scratch was what made that night so fun, Octavia's group won't even hoof a candle to last year." As Rainbow's comment ends she slowly brings the filly back to the ground as she sets herself next to Violet, "Are you sure you asked everypony Twilight?"
The lavender mare waves her hoof to the comment as she moves towards the stairs, "I won't be asking one of my friends to give up there night for us, now hold on i'll get my winter wrap up stuff and we can start the plans for tomorrow."
You watch the mare trotting up the stairs for a moment before you turn back to Rainbow's hoof tapping silently. But her silence ends fast as she notices your stare, "I guess it kind of is a good thing, Aj said she had a special cider this year, and it's not like we should be in the same room with drinks."
Her comment brings a chuckle from you as you shrug to her, cider? Ya, I can take that.
Rarity's hooves break you and Rainbow's laughs as she trots towards Violet, "Oooh you know what would go good with your coat's color a nice warm spring color." Rarity taps her hoof to her mouth as Violet blinks a little confused to the words.
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It doesn't really take long for Twilight and Spike to come down from upstairs, which for Violet is a good thing seeing as how Rarity has slightly been smothering the little filly with compliments and mane suggestions. Most of witch Violet doesn't even remotely care about.
"Here you go Rarity." Spike hands over the neatly folded scarf the white mare gave him earlier as her faint blue magic starts to wrap around it, "Thank you darling..." As the scarf comes to lay around her neck she lets out a girly high pitched joyish sequel, "Ooooh what did you do, its very warm."
Spike crosses his mitt covered claws to his arms as he speaks up, "A dragon knows how to heat things up."
As Rarity continues to enjoy her new warm garment and Rainbow continues to shake and roll her eyes Twilight comes over towards you as she neatly rolls a long scroll like piece of paper into a pocket on the side of her saddle, "I really don't know how long this meeting will take..." She gives a faint giggle as the flap to her side pocket comes closed, "Ponyville has never really planned for Winter Wrap up, but I doubt there should be any problems."
"Pfff, as if...We got Twilight Sparkle as the teams manager." Rainbow rolls her hoof to her own words as she continues, "...You probably already planned everything out, heck you probably even planed for a mistake or something."
"Actually I planned for Ponville's most common mishaps and problems, that way if they come up we have a way to continue Winter Wrap up." Twilight gives a proud smile as Rainbow just blinks to the words.
But the tomboyish mare doesn't stay quiet for long as she shrugs the comment off, "Alright lets get going, me and Aj can't stay all day from her farm...it turns out some of the normal snow clouds mixed with the Everfree forest, so I have to try and push them back." She gives a faint sigh to her comment as she trots towards the front door.
Rarity and Spike follow after the mare as you say your goodbyes to Twilight, the lavender mare turns from you towards the filly as she smiles, "Be good for daddy Violet."
The filly pauses for a moment before she gives an innocent smile quickly followed by a nod. Twilight follows after her friends as the filly's nod comes to an end.
As the door to the house comes to a close and the slightly wider gust of cold air from outside became quite you turn your attention back to the light purple filly, "Alright Violet...mommy says we have to do magic training."
To the words the filly playfully starts to mess up her neatly brushed mane that Twilight set to resemble her own, as the filly's usual mane style comes back to her she turns her stare back to you as her hooves come to speak up.
You give a little chuckle to the comment as you shrug, "Looks like you did a few big spells to me." As you hold your smile and lower your head to hers,"...But I think we should at least try something."
Violet squints to your comment but her thinking is brought to an end as she brings her happy gallop like trot to a fast speed directed towards the main part of the library. You watch her path for a moment before you quickly follow after her, note to self make sure to pick the book first.
End of chapter 3