It was the first day of the holiday season everypony was decorating their towns for the season, the crystal empire decorated their beautiful crystalline city, Cloudsdale prepared for the Snowdrop ceremony, Ponyville gleamed with ornaments, and the Cloud Kingdom sent it's soldiers home for the season to celebrate with their families.
Thunder Blur and his friends brought their families into the kingdom to celebrate Hearths Warming in harmony, Lightning Glider used his abilities to bring out the decorations for the snow filled season with glee and decorated he and his brother's palace their entire family had flown in as well as Picks-l's, Slammer's, Starbuster's, and Streak's family and of course Starbuster performed the spell let them walk on clouds.
"Well everypony I'm glad to announce the first Cloud Kinghdom Hearths Warming celebration and I want evrypony to sit down and listen to the story of Snowdrop." said Thunder Blur. The white pegasuns used his magic to project the story he had stated to the crowd of ponies, he noticed his brother Pranceton sitting outside on the palace balcony. Thunder walked over to him and asked what was wrong.
"Everypony has somepony to look out for and I'm just here without knowing who my real parents are and what they did." said Pranceton. "Don't get me wrong Thunder Blur I love being apart of our family but I've always wanted to atleast find out who my dad is and why he left i must know."
Thunder Blur understood what his brother was saying. The feelings on the balcony were a mixture of sadness and dispare. The prince of the cloud kingdom put his wing around his brother and assured him that everything they've been through up to this point was leading to the story of Pranceton's father.
Pranceton asked to be left alone for little while and Thunder left the balcony. Once the prince left Pranceton started to look at the nights stars and prayed. In the stillness of the night that surrounded him a voice said to him "Pranceton everything will be fine."
Pranceton looked off the balcony to see who was talking to him and to his surprise it was the lovely spirit of Snowdrop, she was as tall as an alicorn and she had a long flowing white and green mane. The young stallion was surprised to see the spirit of winter stand before him.
"Snowdrop what are you doing here?" asked Pranceton. "Is there something wrong?"
"No there's nothing wrong Pranceton, I came because you seemed upset." Said Snowdrop.
The mint colored mare sat next to Pranceton and wrapped her wing around him. "I remember the day I got my cutie mark and showed everypony the beauty of winter with Luna and Celestia. My mother showed me the value of the stars in the night and told me if I wish hard enough I will find my place in the world whether i could see or not, even though you have your cutie mark It's never too late to find your place in your kingdom."
Snowdrop's spirit faded away like snow, Pranceton was confused by the advice she gave him and thought to himself, "How can I find my place after I thought i had already found it?" He walked to the edge of the balcony and spread his wings. He took a deep breath and jumped from the balcony. Gliding, he flew whimsically around he and his brother's empty kingdom using his powers to conjure red white and green wisps with each of them decorating the kingdom in their brightly colored lights.
Blur and Glider noticed the lights from inside the palace and brought everypony outside to see what was going on. Pranceton flew over the palace with the wisps following him, and all at once the wisps collided with Pranceton for a spectacular finale to show that all of the decorating has come to an end. With the ponies below in awe Pranceton was nowhere to be seen. In a matter of minutes everypony was glad to see the entire kingdom glowing in an amazing light and a brilliant combination of colors, but, they were worried about where pranceton has gone, Thunder Blur and Lightning Glider soared into the air to find their brother but to no prevail the two stopped and landed on the clouds below them to tell everpony that they couldn't find him.
During all of the commotion Picks-l's ears twitched to the sound of galloping.
"Somepony's coming." Said Picks-l.
"Where's my son" said a grey stallion. "Where's my son Pranceton?"
Glider's wings flared up and he dashed to the stallion. Slammer jumped in his way to reason with him.
"Glider calm down he's your adoptive brothers father, can't you see that he only wants to talk?" Slammer yelled.
"As a prince you should know better than to lose your mind even if it is threatening to you. Now clear your thoughts and speak to this gentlecolt as a stallion not a kid."
Glider spread his wings and took off leaving his Ruling charm[2] behind and revealing his former coat color with him ascending into the sky of the kingdom. Thunder Blur was concerned for his brothers and decided to call his parents from their room. Thunders dad was the first to enter the room. Tired, he looked up at his son asking. "Where are your brothers?"
Thunder replied "I don't know dad but I need you to watch the palace while we go look for them, tell mom when she gets up to setup for the ceremony"
Everypony along with the one who calls himself Pranceton's dad went to search for Pranceton and Glider. Now all they have to do is find Snowdrop's sacred statue.