Two weeks have passed, nopony has seen Eclipse since her run away, none of the guards could find her, and none of the girls could either.
Twilight hasn't done much besides to try and look for Eclipse, she barely takes rests, and for the most part she is out looking for her, Spike had to force her to eat one day.
Meanwhile, Eclipse has been having her army trained and prepared for when she would strike, at the moment she was sitting on her throne as Emerald was telling her another battle plan.
She was very tired of his plans, they were so boring, she was staring off out the window and saw snow falling, she saw her self-sitting at a table in a restaurant with her family, they were so happy but then...
She shook her head as she felt tears well up in her eyes 'No...no do not show weakness..' She told her self in her thoughts.
"Are you okay, my queen?" Emerald asked looking at her.
"Yes...yes I'm fine...just...remembering something..." Eclipse sighed and looked back out the window.
"Ah, Luna's memories I presume? Yes, I imagine hearthswarming would bring memories back up" Emerald said.
"Hearthswarming...? What is that again?" Eclipse asked but continued looking out the window, she hoped him rambling on about something from this culture would take her mind off things.
"Well hearthswarming is when ponies spend time with their families for winter, they exchange gifts-" Emerald was about to continue but was cut off.
"No fucking way....you mean to tell me even in another dimension Christmas still exists here!?" She yelled.
"Christmas?" Emerald asked confused.
"Hrrr arghh!!! Damn it!! I can never escape that damn holiday!! Even in another dimension, it's still here!" She growled and glared out the window when she got an idea, she had amazing power now, she had an army and devoted followers.
A devious smile spread across her face and curled at the corner of her lips "Oh, I have the perfect idea..." She chuckled darkly.
{~~~~~~~~~~{Crystal Castle}~~~~~~~~~~~}
Twilight was sitting in her room looking out her window, watching the snow fall and fillies playing in the snow.
She sighed and looked away, she missed Eclipse so much and felt so horrible for being so willing to just give her away.
There was a knock on her door.
"Twi? Can we come in?" Applejack asked from the other side of the door.
"Yeah come in..." Twilight said in a depressed tone, the five girls walked in with sad expressions.
"Darling, you can't stay in this room all day, we're worried about you," Rarity said.
"I know it's just...." Twilight huffed.
Fluttershy walked over and rubbed Twilight's back "We understand Twilight".
"Let's go for a walk Twilight, to try and take your mind off all this" Rainbowdash proposed with a smile.
"Yeah that sounds nice" Twilight smiled while she stood up, they all then left and walked around town.
{~~~~~~~~~~{Nightmare Castle}~~~~~~~~~~~}
"Alright then ground eight will go to this building, group nine will be with me and we'll head to Twilights castle," Eclipse said while pointing at a map of Ponyville.
Eclipse and a large ground of guards were standing outside of town, the night had fallen, and all the ponies in Ponyville were asleep.
All her guards saluted and marched off.
"My queen I feel this isn't the best way to use your army..." Emerald said.
"It's my army, and this is the best way to use my army," Eclipse said looking at her guards all go off to houses.
"How will stealing decorations and presents help your plans?" Emerald asked.
"Don't you see?? All their love for this holiday will crumble to nothing if I take everything they use to celebrate, it will weaken them and then we will strike" Eclipse laughed manically.
"Um...I suppose that would work..." Emerald said uncertainly.
"Of course it will" Eclipse growled and glared at him, she then teleported the guards and herself to Twilight's castle "Spread out and look for everything Hearthswarming related, take it all..." She ordered and walked towards a large tree.
She growled seeing all the presents, she started teleporting them all back to her castle, a smirk spread across her face as the presents disappeared one by one.
"Let's see them enjoy their Hearthswarming with no decorations, no presents, they'll have nothing! Nothing at a-" Eclipse stopped when she saw a sparkling dark blue box with a white ribbon on it, she levitated it over to herself and looked at it.
From: Twilight
To: Eclipse
Eclipse stared at the box for a while, she stood there reading the words over and over, she was inspecting everything about the box but never opening it, she was awestruck she couldn't believe she had a present, she hasn't had one in a what felt like a long time.
"My queen?" Emerald asked.
Eclipse jumped and turned around hiding the box behind her "What??"
"We've finished taking the rest of the decorations, we just need to get the tree" Emerald informed.
"Good, good job" Eclipse praised.
Emerald tried to look at what she had behind her but she just moved in the way blocking it, he looked at her suspiciously.
"Well go ahead, I'm going to head back to the castle to plan my next attack" Eclipse teleported away before he could say anything.
She walked down the hall looking at the box, she wondered what could be in it, it was so small it couldn't possibly hold anything big like a book or something, or maybe it was a magic box that could hold much larger things than how it appears.
It was a possibility in this magic-filled world, she walked to her room and closed the door, she then set it on a dresser in her room and sat down looking at it.
{~~~~~~~~~~~{Ponyville Hearthswarming Day}~~~~~~~~~~}
Spike yawned waking up before his eyes widened as he remembered what day it was, he jumped up from his basket and jumped onto two lights bed shaking her "Twilight, Twilight! Wake up!!"
"Ngh, Spike...stop" Twilight moaned trying to stay sleeping.
"C'mon or I'm opening your presents" he ran off to the tree.
"Fine..." She said trying to return to sleep.
Spike ran excitedly to the tree only to find an empty room with a few pine needles on the ground "TWILIGHT!!!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
Twilight jumped up and ran to Spike and gasped when she found the empty room.
"What happened?!" He yelled.
"I-I don't know..I'm going to go find the girls" Twilight ran off and when she got outside she found all of Ponyville in front of the castle.
"Somepony stole my tree and presents!" A stallion yelled.
"Somepony took my presents too!!" A mare yelled.
"Somepony stole my cabbages!!" A stallion yelled and everypony looked at him "What...only me?"
"What in tarnation is going on Twi?" Applejack asked as she pushed through the crowd over to her friend.
"I'm not sure," Twilight replied.
"Hey, somepony stole my presents too!" Rainbowdash said as she landed by them.
"M-me too," Fluttershy said and walked over looking sad.
"It's unspeakable, some brute stole Sweetiebelle's and my presents, what kind of monster would do this??" Rarity asked as she walked over.
"I don't know, they must have been working in a group or they are very fast" Twilight theorized.
"Hm, maybe it was a ninja?" Pinkie said standing by them suddenly.
"Wait, surely you have Hearthswarming decorations and presents" Twilight looked at Pinkie with hope.
"Of course I do silly, c'mon let's go to my secret party planing cave, and don't call me Shirley," Pinkie said as she hopped off followed by the girls.
"Soo.... noponies going to help me with my cabbages?" the stallion asked.
"NO!!" the entire town yelled.
{~~~~~~~~~~{Pinkies Secret Party Planing Cave}~~~~~~~~~~~}
"It's empty?!" Pinkie yelled and zoomed around the empty room looking for any part supplies but found none "This is impossible!!! What monster would do this?!?!" She yelled into the sky.
"Well...it was worth a shot..." Twilight sighed.
"C'mon girls let's go try and find who did this" Twilight said and they all left to look for the ponies that did this.
"I bet it was the green grouchy stallion in the mountains...he's a good suspect," Pinkie said as they walked.
{~~~~~~~~~~{Nightmare Castle}~~~~~~~~~~~}
Eclipse was still looking at the sparkling blue present sitting on her dresser.
'Why did she get me a present...? I thought she didn't want me, I thought she hated me...does she?' She wasn't sure what she was feeling, she felt angry but wasn't sure if it was at Twilight or herself, she felt confused, and she felt sad, she was doing all this horrible stuff, but Twilight had a present for her unknowing of everything she was doing.
Tears formed in her eyes "W-why...why does this bother me so much?"
{~~~~~~~~~~{Five Years Ago On Earth}~~~~~~~~~~}
Eclipse was sitting in a restaurant with her family, she had a smile on her face as she listened to her families stories, her dad's jokes made everyone at the table laugh even someone at a table across from them burst out laughing after hearing one of his jokes.
It was Christmas in two weeks, Eclipse couldn't be any more excited, she loved Christmas, spending time with your family, giving them gifts, sitting home watching Christmas movies, it was a nice holiday.
They finished eating and got up to leave, her dad left a tip like usual, they paid for what they ate and left the restaurant.
They all got in the car and drove out of the parking lot, Eclipse blew on her window making it fog up, she then drew in it, she always liked to draw.
Then it happened, in the blink of an eye, it all changed.
While they were driving, a drunk driver swerved and crashed into them, their car crashed into a wall and Eclipse was knocked out, it all happened so fast.
She woke up the next two days later and was told her family didn't survive, she was the only one to survive the crash, she broke that day the entire world lost color and she felt empty.
She'd never get to eat with them again, never get to hear her dad's jokes, never get to give them gifts again.
She was released a week later, as she made her way home she saw so many smiling people, they all were so happy to spend time with their families and friends.
They'd get to eat together, they'd get to tell jokes together, they'd get to give gifts to each other.
It all made her so mad, she would never get to do any of that again, she'd be alone for the rest of her life, she'd never get to be with her family again.
She hated Christmas after that, the whole holiday was like a mockery of her loneliness, the fact that she had no one anymore, everything about the holiday made her angry.
But she was just sad really, she missed them so much.
{~~~~~~~~~~{Present Day Equestria}~~~~~~~~~~}
Eclipse sobbed while looking at the box, it had been so long since she remembered that moment, she's tried to bury it for so long but she couldn't keep it done anymore.
And now she was going to take this holiday away from all the ponies in Ponyville because she was angry at something they had nothing to do with.
She needed to fix this but she couldn't just show up with all the stuff and say `Sorry for stealing all your stuff please forgive me`.
She would have to do it at night, that way she wouldn't be seen, she really hoped she hadn't messed up too much.
{~~~~~~~~~~{Ponyville Midnight}~~~~~~~~~~}
Eclipse was pulling a cart with a large pile of Hearthswarming trees decorations and presents on it, she was panting as she pulled it "ngh...ngh, God I should have done this in trips...or use my magic...gah I'm an idiot" she teleported herself and the cart into Ponyville and started putting all the decorations, trees, and presents back in their rightful homes.
She finally got to Twilight's and put the tree up, she then placed the presents, she was feeling better about herself which made her smile "There, done" she whispered with a smile as she set the last present down.
"Eclipse?" Twilight asked from behind Eclipse.
Eclipses gasped and froze.
"You...you got all our stuff back..." Twilight looked at the tree and presents back in the room.
"I...yes..." Eclipse said still not turning to looking at Twilight.
"And you're all grown up..." Twilight said looking at Eclipse.
"Yeah...I'm...sorry for doing all this...I just...I wasn't happy and I guess I wanted everyone else to be just as sad as I was...but I don't want that anymore" Eclipse started making her way to a window "I'll just g-" she was cut off when Twilight ran over and hugged her.
"I'm so sorry Eclisoe I should have never been so willing to give you away to the princesses, I should have tried to explain to them more that your not dangerous, I'm sorry I made you cry," Twilight said while hugging Eclipse tightly.
Eclipse looked at Twilight, tears formed in her eyes, she then hugged Twilight back "It's okay... I forgive you... we both did things we regret, me more than you though...".
"It's okay now though, we're gonna make everything better together now," Twilight said.
"...there might be a cult that worships me too..." Eclipse said.
"...well...we can try and fix that too" Twilight replied.
"Okay...can we do it tomorrow? I just went to every house to put all the stuff back" Eclipse asked.
"Yeah sure," Twilight said and walked back to her room, Eclipse followed Twilight.
"C-can I sleep in here?...with you?..." Eclipse asked.
Twilight smiled "Yeah, sure".
Eclipse crawled into the bed and cuddled up to Twilight "Thank you, Twilight...".
"You're welcome..." Twilight smiled as they both fell asleep in the warm embrace