//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: The Day Before Chaos // Story: The Day I was Reincarnated To Equestria // by ItsAceHerobrineAS //------------------------------// Narrator: Ace It's that time in December... Christmas... No, should I say, Hearths Warming Eve. It's been months now since Core and Lon came at our residence. So many things happened at those days, but. We're glad that the six of us are here together. Also, Lon's fear of flames started to die out, which is good. And yes, Lon also has a job as a trash arsonist in Ponyville. I woke up from my bed, looked at the window and saw some powder-like substance slowly raining down from the sky It's not powder or some cocaine shit. It's snow... ITS SNOW! FINALLY! THIS DAY HAS COME AGAIN! I grabbed my decade year old bluetooth speaker, turned it on, connected it on my phone. And blasted Tokyo Machine's remix of Jingle Bell in the bedroom hallway. The sound of the electronic remix of a wholesome Christmas song startled the five sleepy reincarnated bastards. "What the fuck? Who's playing that electronic Jingle Bell shit this so early!?" Core was angered, and I just chuckled. I grabbed a microphone and plugged it on my speaker and sang along with the electronic instrumental. "SINGLE BELLS, SINGLE BELLS, SINGLE ALL THE WAY! OH IT'S FUN IT IS TO WATCH SEEING COUPLE FIGHTING ALL DAY! HEY!" I jokingly sang. "Ace! Shut up! It's not fucking Christmas yet you little shit!" Lon yelled. "Oh right, they haven't checked at a calendar for so long... There's no ongoing problems in this world that they don't need to check the calendar." I thought as I increased the volume to the max. "Bitch it's Christmas..." I half heartedly said it. It took them a while to process my words, and they finally get it. "WHAT!?" Everypony yelled except Yuri because he knows it's Hearth's Warming Eve. Thous, Ricklee, Core, and Lon are all playing happily with the snow around us, doing snowball fights, making snowmen (snowmen, not snowponies alright) and some snow forts. That's pretty understandable since we don't have snow in our old country and it always rains during October to December. Ricklee, who's wearing a blue scarf and a black fleece hoodie with ears approached to me. And Core, who's wearing a thick green fleece jacket and  some winter headphones (or whatever it's called) also approached to me. "Goddamnit man, I'm jealous that you and Yuri experienced this shit a decade before us." Ricklee sarcasticly said. "Yeah! We should have killed ourselves instead of grieving for your fucking deaths." Core joked. "That's not nice." I said as I gave them a grumpy look as I folded my hooves around my blue fleece jacket that has a blue face mask and hoodie connected to it. "Hey Ace, I'm kinda impressed at Lon that he can play at the snow without melting it. And, he's playing around like, a dog." Yuri said as he wore his pinkish-red jacket and scarf and looked at Lon who's not wearing anything and is carelessly playing around the snow like a playful husky. "I don't know why but I think he can control the temperature of his flaming mane, wings, and his tail." I figured. Lon finished his playtime session and flew towards me. "Easy man, you might burn me with your flames." I said with a smile. "Don't worry man, the flames are controlled." Lon comforted us. "Anyways Ace, why you called us out? We gonna do something or bullshit?" Lon asked. "Well, since it's Christmas. I was thinking that we should go at the town square and celebrate Christmas there." I said, making the flaming infernal disappointed a bit. "Oh man, I hate interacting with people, err, ponies that I don't know." Lon ranted. "Oh shut the fuck up you lil' shit. You're coming with us and greet to the townsfolks. Because you are staying in my fucking room watching some questionable shits in incognito mode twenty four seven. So yes, you're coming with us, doofus." I scolded him as I grabbed his cold flaming mane (I can hold it tho for some reason) and grabbed him around. "How did you know I'm watching those!?" Lon asked. "I fucking opened my Bandicam whenever I'm not using my computer. Both of you and Core are watching hentai and PH while I'm away." I scolded him and gave Core a dirty look. "We all have sixual (i have to change the vowel because I feel weirded out typing it) tendencies! We're fucking adults Ace!" Core yelled. "Relieve it when you are done with your simping rehabilitation and when both of you fuckers have the love of your life." I scolded them again and they were all dissatisfied. "Welp, Yuri is usually Ace's verbal punchung bag. And now, it's Core and Lon." Thous said. "Ace is the most youngest here when it comes to age. What an irony when the youngest disciplines the oldest." Ricklee said. "I could say the same thing." Yuri said. After a few scolding here and there, we managed to arrive at our destination. We saw Twilight together with the mane5 decorating the town square with Christmas decorations. "Oh, hello Ace, Yuri, Thous, Ricklee, Core, and Lon. You guys are pretty early for Hearth's Warming Eve!" Twilight was enthusiastic as she placed some streamers on a pole. "Huh?" The four recently-reincarnated ponies were confused. "Ace, Yuri. Since both of you are veterans in this world, care to explain what the hell is Hearts Warming Eve? Sounds like Valentines to me." Lon asked as he held me and shooked me. "Basically, it's a ponified version of Christmas." Yuri explained. "Hold up, since Christmas is a literal birthday of Jesus Christ. Is there a ponified Jesus Christ as well?" Core asked. "Good question, there's none, doofus." I answered back. Core let out a bit of a disgusted look. "To be honest though, I'm interested of the history of this kind of Christmas. I wonder what's all about." Ricklee wondered. "Since I know now what's your old world's winter holiday. The history of this quote-unquote Christmas is pretty much long. So this is why our Holiday has a history session, which is my favorite. This session of the holiday is a play that explains the history of Hearths Warming Eve. And I will not tell any spoilers because it's so good!" She enthusiastically explained and goes back to her work with a hum. "So, uh. When does the play start?" Thous asked. Rainbow Dash flew down from a rain cloud (That is currently peeing snow) and answered at us. "The play begins later this afternoon. The town hall bell will just ring to notify us all about the play. And guess what! The six of us are going to play it's part!" Rainbow was excited, and then she dashed away and guarded the sky with possible storm clouds. "So, let's grab a grub at the Sugarcube Corner then. It's still morning and it's still not afternoon." I suggested. "Wait, aren't you gonna cook this Christmas?" Yuri asked. "Well, I'm going to cook of course. Let's just wait till nighttime and then I can cook a feast. Plus, I know we all love chicken and ham for Christmas." I answered. "Hey hey hey hey! Isn't that cannibalism? We're pony hibreeds! We ain't humans like we used to!" Lon panickly stopped me and blocked my path towards Sugarcube Corner. "Heh, there's this plant in the Everfree forest that can transform into an animal that it sees. It can even transform it's plant cells into animal cells. I just didn't say anything about it until now because you might ask more about it." I explained. "Isn't that just stupid? A plant that makes itself turn into a prey? Isn't that just a suicide mission? I just hope that it's transformation abilities has a reason of existing." Ricklee wondered. "The reason why it transforms, it's because it can help it lure some predators and shoot at them with poisonous barbs. Which adds more reasons on why I kept quiet about it." I explained. "So, how do we make it transform into a chicken or into a cow?" Thous asked. "Yuri must distract the plant first so the plant can turn into a chicken. If you guys want some steak. Let's also make Core distract the plant by acting sixually active so the plant can transform into a female cow. And yes, Core looks like a cow so, okay. Then, once the plant is distracted, I will launch an assasination attack to the plant so it will never have a chance to transform back." I planned. "That's a great plan and all, but the real question is. How did you know about this plant? This is not in Twilight's library or something." Thous asked. "Glad you asked. It's because, one time. I was tasked to rescue one of Fluttershy's chicken in the Everfree Forest. When I reached that plant's location, I saw a chicken that looked like Fluttershy's. As I got closer to catch it, it turned into a plant and it shot me a barrage of barbs. Good thing I blocked it and I got away and continue on searching of the chicken." I explained. "Wow, you really are good at your job." Core was impressed, and Lon raised his hoof. "Uhm, if the plant can transform it's plant cells... Isn't that still considered cannibalism? I mean, the plant literally turned into a chicken, even in it's cellular level." Lon asked. "Wow, I'm really impressed that you can ask a question like that. Nice observation. If we were still humans in our old world, you will be dumb as heck." I joked and Lon let out a dirty look. "Alright, alright... Look, it's not cannibalism because it's just literally a plant. And plus, we already did this whenever we eat pancakes and shit. Pancakes has eggs, eggs came from chickens, and both eggs and chickens have animal cells." I explained and Lon nodded like he get it. "Anyways, enough with this science talk. Let's head to Sugarcube Corner and eat all we can. It's Christmas after all, feel free to go all out." I said as we galloped towards our destination. We had a great time there, we ordered the usual, Pinkie appeared out of nowhere, gave us pancakes, and ate there. Pinkie also gave us a brochure about the events happening at the town hall. "Ace, what does it say?" Lon asked as he placed his white hoof on the brocheure." I flipped through the brocheure and I opened my mouth. "Alright, the first event happens today. The preparations for Christmas, well, we did prepare our bellies after all. Second, it's the play, it happens this afternoon. Third, is the great feast, we can have a boodle fight here or some eat all you can bullshit at nighttime. And finally, at midnight, the fourth event is the gift giving. It happens at the town square-" I paused as the four recently reincarnated friends of mine gave us a panicked look. "Ehehehe, we better go out for a while. We are full and uh, uh... Smell you later Ace." Thous panicked. "Smell you later?" I was confused. "Uhhh, I got things to do as well! Gotta go, bye!" Lon and Core also panicked. "Yeah, I gotta finish my Skyrim save file in your computer. I promised myself that I will finish it before New Year and I'm still like 50% finished at the game. Gotta go! Merry Christmas!" Ricklee let out an obvious lie and the four of them left. "Why are they in a hurry? Aren't they in their job breaks?" I was confused and trying to process what the fuck just happened. "Probably they realized that there's gift giving in Ponyville and they don't have something to give or some sort." Yuri figured and I just nodded. "I swear to god. If they buy some gifts for the whole town, I will be laughing at my ass off. Because we don't need to give gifts at the whole town, just give some shit to your friends. A used deodorant or a used soap is fine enough." I laughed. =====================≠========= Narrator: Lon At the department store. "Guys, this is bad. This is really bad! We don't have something to give at whole Ponyville. By the way, what's the population of Ponyville?" I panicked as I trotted left and right. "I think it's more than a hundred?" Core figured. "AAAAAAAA!" I yelled so hard that a clerk let out a 'shhhhh'. "Sorry, anyways. Do you guys bring any money or something?" I asked as the three of them nodded and bought out all of the bits they have. "So the four of us have 100 bits in total... Screw it, we have no choice but to flush it dry." I had enough so we grabbed any possible gifts we can find. From toys, to school supplies, to tools, to furniture. We grabbed everything we can with a budget of 100 bits. We bought a ton but our wallets began emitting flies one at a time. "I can't believe I wasted my Christmas pay just for some gifts for Ponyville... Is this a new form of taxes? Tax evasion would be nearly impossible because of this..." Ricklee sighed as he placed his beaten-up wallet back in his mane. "My first salary, huhu." I kneeled down and regretted my decision. "My pocket money! Twilight gave me these money as a payment for studying with her!" Thous regretted the gift buying session. "MY DRUG MONEY! IT'S GONE! I WORKED HARD FOR IT!" Core yelled. (Note: Core's choice of words seems out of context, but if you looked back at Lon and the CMC's introduction chapter, you will realize that Core's job is to sell medicine and herbs that were produced by Zecora and Core. That's why he says "drug money" because he earned it by selling legal drugs.) "Anyways, is this enough? I don't want to flush down my savings as well." Ricklee said, worried. "It's not enough to be given at the whole Ponyville. I'm afraid but we also have to flush down your bank savings as well..." I worriedly told him. "Motherfucker." Ricklee cursed. So we went at the Ponyville Bank, deposited all of our saving, leaving like 10 bits behind in our accounts, and went inside an another department store. We flushed down our budget and managed to hit our quota. "Finally, now leave my wallet alone now, Lon." Ricklee threatened me. ========================== Narrator: Ace At the afternoon, after the bell rang. We hurriedly galloped at the play and watched the history of Equestrian Christmas at the wooden stage. We all finally know how it started. It starts as the three great pony races were being racist fucks. Their leaders are all being dicks to each other, while their advisors are just, being the good guys, seeing through the false lies. Anyways, since they are all being dicks to each other, these things called the wendigos that looked like horses appeared and gave eternal winter. Since winter is trying to freeze the leaders, they are all still pretty much being dicks. When the advisors choose to care to each other, they all created this thing called "The fire of friendship" and stopped the wendigos. So yeah, blah blah blah, the dicks are no longer pussies, they all became good and yes, the end and Ponyville was founded. We enjoyed the show pretty much, and we all headed home and I started to prepare for nighttime. =================== After the hunt for that transforming plant, we began cooking roasted chicken and we luckily made a grilled wagyu beef. I gotta thank that plant for transforming into a cow that has A5 wagyu meat inside it. I give praise to it. To be honest, it's been a long time since we haven't eaten a proper meat, we better thank that plant that infested that particular spot in the Everfree Forest. After the eating session, we cleaned our plates and headed towards the town square. And finally, after some waiting sessions. It's finally the gift giving. We all bought up our gifts, and then, I saw Thous, Ricklee, Core, and Lon carried a shopping cart filled with toys and some other shit. Then I bursted to laughter. "Ace, what's so funny?" Ricklee asked. "A-a-a-a" I tried to grasp my breath but I can't stop laughing. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA" "What the fuck? Lmao! You really, you really..." I stuttered. "We what!?" Thous asked. "YOU REALLY BOUGHT GIFTS FOR THE WHOLE PONYVILLE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA" I died. Then the four of them just sat there with their blank looks. "Wait what!?" They all screamed at me. "You  should have listened to me first earlier before you guys zooming out in a hurry. I swear to god, your wallets must be in need for some CPR right now." I joked. "Yeah, our wallets and our bank accounts do really need some CPR. And some IV as well. They're dying." Thous cried, he really regretted his decision. After they regretted their decisions, they decided to give away their purchases rather than returning it to their respective stores. Rarity approached us and really loved the sight of them giving away their gifts. "Aww, what a wonderful sight. They are still very generous even though their wallets are dying. They didn't let their greed consume their hearts." Rarity was impressed, loving the sight of four clueless airheaded pony hibreeds giving away their gifts. "Yeah, I'm worried at them financially. But, I think it's best to leave them alone. They're having fun, despite the crisis they're facing." I smiled. After they gave their purchases away, I decided to give them gifts as well. I grabbed four boxes of gift boxes, and presented it to Yuri, Thous, Core, and Lon. "Guys, we were together ever since, even after death. We chose to remain friends after all those years. So, take my gift. Yuri, you go first." I said as Yuri  opened the pinkish-red gift. He grabbed four pinkish red headband-like bracelets and he equipped them in his respective pawed hooves. "That's the Energy Claws, if you chanted ' Claws out'. These bracelets will release it's stored claws and it can help you in close combat." I explained. Yuri chanted then the claws came out, they're like six inches long. "Now, chant 'Claws retract'. If you do this, the bracelets will retract it's claws." I explained, as Yuri chanted the claws disappeared. It was Thous' turn to open the gift. As he opened the box, he found a spear-like staff that has a battery drawer-like part at the handle. "Thous already know's what that is, but I can explain on what it does. The Clipboard Staff. It allows the user to copy and paste enchantments that the user has loaded in.  For example, the user has loaded the glowing enchantment in a scroll, and then placed it in the staff. The user pointed the staff towards a rock, when the staff shoots out something, the rock begins to glow. And yes, this is kinda useful for Thous whenever he enchants or does things in battle, because not only it copy and paste some enchantments. But it can also halfs the required magic energy needed for the enchantment." I explained It was Core's turn. He opened the gift box and grabbed a staff that looked like a lightning rod. "The Lightning Rod Staff, it allows Core to control lightning at his will. Either be natural lightning or the lightnin-like magic aura that he has." And finally, Lon's turn, he opened the gift, and grabbed a grey saddle with two holes, two red tanks, and a hose. "Yes that, the Infernal Flamethrower. Perfectly suited for Lon. If you placed your fiery wings inside the tank, you can launch a fiery attack with your hose..You cannot fly if you want to attack. But, if you want to fly, you have to place your wings away from the red tanks and inserted it at the holes, that way, you can fly however you want but you cannot fly midair." I explained. "Wow, how, why?" Lon was speechless, like. He can't find the words he's looking for. "Anyways, I gave you guys your own weapons. Because, ever since Nightmare Moon wrecked havoc, I suspected that there are more disasters like that happening. I have no choice but to ask Thous on making weapons in secret. But I never told him about Christmas." I explained, and we all thanked at each other. For the gifts, for the blessing, and for the enjoyment. It's, my first time in the decade where I can enjoy Christmas at its fullest. I wonder what will happen next. Happy Christmas... Everypony, everyone.. [Thank you all for the 9 months of support for the 1st Arc of this shit post. It was appreciated.]