It was a few days later. After some time, the siblings had settled into Ponyville a bit more. Many of the ponies had really grown used to seeing the quartet exploring Ponyville and had started striking up conversations with them. Arctic and Glacier were glad for that. What really caught them off guard, were the young fillies and colts of Ponyville. The two would get bombarded with questions from the curious youngsters. While they have seen a dragon before, Spike, they never met a much older one and one that’s from a rare subspecies of dragon. So, Glacier would often be asked about Ice Dragons. And with Arctic, well, he wasn’t even of this world. They would ask him about his kind and sometimes ask him or Glacier to fly them around like they would do for the Crusaders and Spike.
On this warm day, the siblings were all sitting at Golden Oaks library. Spike was with them. The five of them were bumming it on the couch or the floor reading books. Well, except for Arctic. He was toying around with his elemental ice magic. He was creating multiple different types of sculptures. One of each of his siblings, the element bearers, Spike, even his parents, Queen Snowblossom, as well as the Royal Sisters, and Cadence.
Spike, noticing this, walked up and watched.
“Woah, are you making sculptures out of ice?” Spike asked.
“Yep. I often times like to toy around with my ice magic. I kinda recently started doing this.” Arctic said.
The others soon came up and observed the small ice sculptures.
“Woah! Now those look cool.” Glacier said.
“And incredibly accurate. I didn’t take you for a sculptor. I knew you enjoy drawing, but sculpting too?” Tundra said as she adjusted her glasses.
“Hey, gotta have hobbies. Otherwise, others will think you’re all boring.” Arctic said.
“What’s that? I’ve never seen that before.” Winter said as she pointed a hoof to a sculpture.
Among the sculptures, there were sculptures of other things. The trolly from their home, the steam loco, even a few trees. But there was one that looked out of place.
“I don’t remember what it’s called, or if this is how it looked. But I vaguely remember my birth-dad showing me something like this somewhere.” Arctic said.
He didn’t know he had made a little go-kart. When he was small, his birth-father would take him all over to many different places. Eventually, at some point, he had brought Arctic to a small go-kart track and they watched them race around the track for quite some time.
As he was trying to explain as best he could what it was, A low rumble had started up.
“What the? What’s going on?” Spike said.
“Don’t know.” Glacier said.
Just then, the rumbling stopped. They rushed out of the door and soon found a group of ponies all celebrating. Going up to them, they began to hear some of what was being said.
“Apple-tastic!” Shouted pinkie who was somehow just floating in the air. She looked over and saw the siblings and spike come over. Letting out a long loud gasp, Pinkie rushed over. “Hey guys!” Pinkie said as she jumped up onto Arctic’s shoulder and started pointing to her head with her hoof.
“I swear, you are a cat and you can’t convince me otherwise.” Arctic said as he started petting Pinkie’s head. He tilted his head slightly, thinking he heard Pinkie purr.
“We felt a rumble before we came out. What was going on?” Winter asked.
“There was a stampede. It almost came straight into Ponyville, but Applejack was able to save the town!” Twilight said.
“And it was awesome!” Rainbow shouted out.
“Oh, we simply must find a way to thank Applejack for Single-hoofedly saving the town.” Mayor Mare said.
“Oh, oh, I know! A PARTY!” Pinkie shouted out.
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After many muck up’s from the hooves of a very tired and delirious Applejack, which were, launching Rainbow Dash into the air resulting in the speed demon crash-landing into Golden Oak, getting multiple ponies sick with, quote, “Baked Bads”, and scaring baby bunnies so bad, a bunny stampede blows through Ponyville, Twilight confronted Applejack. Finally the stubborn mare allowed herself to get helped, after releasing she had only done half the orchard and the other half needed to be harvested.
The siblings and Spike were all at the lake. Rainbow Dash was with them trying to spare with Glacier. The Speed Demon had been wanting to test her metal at duking it out with the siblings. While they were doing that, Arctic was working on his Fire Elemental Magic. He was also trying to learn how to send letters with it, with Spike teaching him. Tundra and Winter were swimming when Twilight came up.
“Hey you guys!” Twilight called out.
“Hey Twilight!” They called out.
“What brings you out here Twilight?” Glacier asked as he ducked under Rainbow Dash who tried to kick him.
“I came to ask you all if you wanted to help Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres.” Twilight said.
“So that stubborn ol mare finally set aside her pride and is letting us help?” Tundra asked.
“Yeah.” Twilight said.
“I don’t mind helping.” Winter said.
“Neither do I. Could be fun.” Tundra said.
“It’ll be just like helping on Pascal’s farm back home.” Arctic said as he sent out a scroll. Only to have it reappear and bonk him on the head.
“Who’s Pascal?” Twilight asked.
“Pascal Harvest. He’s an earth pony from back home. His family owns one of the lower districts farms.” Winter said.
“Lower district? What the hay is that?” Rainbow asked.
“Part of our home sits underground. We all call it the Lower District.” Glacier said.
“An underground district!?” Twilight blurted out. Her eyes wide as saucers ready to start firing off questions and documenting it all. But she stopped herself. “So you’ll help.”
“Of course we will. Let’s go!” Arctic said as he got up and started to fly away with Spike on his back.
The others all followed after, making their way to Sweet Apple Acres, picking up, Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy. After getting to the orchard, they all got to work. Though, Twilight when ever she could, got Arctic and Glacier to demonstrate the many ways they kicked the trees, getting the apples down. Applejack was still impressed. She had seen Arctic’s kicks and was really impressed with how well he does. But seeing Glacier do it? This was the first Dragon she had ever seen Applebucking.
At some point, the Siblings had begun to hum a song which the others joined in on. After everything was all said and done, they had sat down and were drinking some apple cider.
“I just have to ask. Where in Equestria did y’all learn to Applebuck?” Applejack said.
“We learned how to back home on one of our friends farms.” Winter said.
“Oh right. Your friends underground farm?” Twilight asked.
“What’s an underground farm?” Asked Pinkie who was laying on Arctic’s lap.
“Back home, we have something called the Lower District. While half of the kingdom sits within the mountains, another half sits underground.” Arctic said.
The six mares and spike were all stunned and silent. They had never heard of half a kingdom residing underground. Questions began to flood all of their minds. More specifically Twilight. The unicorn mare just needed to know more. Just then, Spike belched. Out of the flames emerged a scroll.
“Huh? A letter from Princess Celestia?” Twilight asked.
“Yup.” Spike said as he opened it.
“Well, what’s it say?” Fluttershy asked.
“To My dear Faithful Student, I request that you, your friends, and the four young siblings, Arctic Okami, Tundra Storm, Winter Winds, and Glacier the Dragon, make an appearance to Canterlot Castle. My Neice, Sister, and I wish to speak with you all Tomorrow evening. Sincerely, Princess Celestia.
The group were a bit surprised. Why did she want to talk to them?
“Guess we’ll be going to up to Canterlot tomorrow.” Fluttershy said.
“Oh I simply must get myself a new dress. I must look my best for the Princesses.” Rarity said as she bolted back to her home.
“Guess we’ll all need to look our best if we’re gonna go see all three Princesses.” Applejack said.
“But, the underground kingdom.” Twilight said. She really wanted to ask the siblings some questions.
“We could tell you about it after meeting the Princesses.” Tundra said.
“Aww.” Twilight said as she pouted. She desperately wanted to have her questions answered.
The siblings knew this, but decided to keep things to themselves just to mess with the unicorn. They all got up and left to go get themselves ready for tomorrow to go meet with the Princesses in Canterlot.