//------------------------------// // Intro: All but one // Story: Friendship is Failure #12- Amending Hearth's Warming // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// INTRO Snow fell from the skies as ponies all over decorated for Heart’s Warming, which was less than a week away. Starlight Glimmer had gone to Canterlot to visit Sunburst for the holidays, while Twilight would be spending her holidays with her family, once they arrived that is. Meanwhile, Twilight and Spike were walking through Ponyville in the evening, and admiring the sights of all the happiness. Spike was holding his tongue out to catch the falling snowflakes. “Got one!” he cried! Twilight giggled, “I used to do that with my brother all the time. I can’t wait for the family to come! We’re going to have a great Hearth’s Warming!” “From the looks of things, it already IS a great Hearth’s warming.” Spike said, and he was right. As the sun set, cute lights began to shine on all the houses. One-by-one, a house would light up, making a perfect line down the block, all the way up to the Friendship Palace which also lit up. Then the lightning carried down to the other side of the block. One-by-one the houses all lit up and right at the end… …The last house remained dark. It had no lights strung up, no decorations, not even a holly wreath on the door. “Why isn’t that house lit up?” wondered Spike. “I don’t know.” replied Twilight “Maybe whoever lives there just hasn’t decorated yet.” Then, they saw two little fillies walk up to the dark house and knocked at the door. The door was answered by a pony they couldn’t recognize due to being too far away, but the silhouette seemed to show one of his hind legs strapped into a walker dolly. The two fillies wished him “Happy Hearth’s Warming” and offered him a holly wreath for his door, to which the pony rudely and angrily threw into the snow. He then gruffly sneered at the girls, “I don’t want a wreath!” “But Mister… It’s Hearth’s Warming.” One of the fillies cried. “I don’t care!” snapped the pony “I hate Hearth’s Warming, and I don’t want any decorations! Now go away and leave me alone!” and he slammed the door shut, frightening the poor little fillies away. Twilight and Spike were livid! “That wasn’t very nice.” snapped Twilight. “Totally…” agreed Spike “What’s that pony’s problem?” Twilight still didn’t know, and she was about to march over to the house and find out, when suddenly, “Hey Twily…!” She knew that voice, and she turned and saw none other than Shining Armor, Cadance with Baby Flurry Heart, and her parents, Twilight Velvet and Night Light. She ran over to her relatives and they all shared a huge group hug, “Happy Hearth’s Warming, every pony!” “Happy Hearth’s Warming.” her father said while smothering her softly. “What am I, invisible?” Spike teased, and then he joined in the group hug as well. “We would’ve come over sooner,” said Cadance, “But Shining Armor realized he forgot Flurry’s favorite rattle.” Her husband giggled and blushed nervously, “Yeah, and then I forgot she was holding it all the time.” The baby shook her rattle and laughed, and everyone shared a laugh as well before Twilight escorted her family to the castle. On the way, she and Spike stopped to look back at the dark house of the grumpy pony. “What’s wrong?” asked Velvet. “Oh, nothing, really.” replied Twilight. She and Spike decided not to think of it… for now.