//------------------------------// // Special Heart Warming Eve // Story: A Good Share of Lives // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// Today was a very special day for Equestria. It's was Heart Warming Eve. That night all family came together. Like each years my family was invited to celebrate at Derpy's home. As I entered I noticed a familiar blonde Unicorn. "Hey Dinky! Long time no see, you had any adventures with the Doctor lately?" She shook her head. "We didn't have any adventures since she became a mare. As she put it she want to control her new hormones before doing anything." "The Doctor is a mare?! How did it happened?!" That was weird to hear. But I should probably be used to these kinds of things at this point. She grinned at the question before responding, "spoiler." Why do I get the impression she wanted to say that for a while? "By the way I liked how you're dress." She commented with a small blush. I smiled happy she liked it. I was wearing a traditional red and white Heart Warming hat with red socks. "Glad I'm still easy on the eye." I replied with a wink making the mare squeak in embarrassment. We heard a bell just above us and I noticed that Fire Mark was grinning at the two of us. He also wore a hat like mine. I look up and noticed that the end of the hat was above us and on it a mistletoe was attached to the bell. I look back at Dinky the two us were blushing. Surprisingly she was the first to make a move. She closed her eyes and guide her lips on mine, I did the same. The kiss last five seconds, it was very awkward but enjoyable. I could tell Dinky was a very inexperienced kisser but if nothing else it's add to her charms. I admit I was a little tempted to try to ask her to go on a date after that kiss. She was certainly cute. But I knew I wasn't really attracted romantically to her, it was more because I felt really lonely at this time of the year more than anything else. "Dawww you two are so adorable." Mark said to the two of us. "I'm not adorable," I grumbled with pink cheeks, making Dinky giggle at me. "Well the supper will be ready in an hour. So you two can go play video-games if you want." Mark said before trotting back to the kitchen. - - - - - World: Earth, Christmas Eve. If anyone listen carefully they could hear the sound of bells as a big red sled flew across the sky. The reindeers stop above a little house. A fat man dressed in red jumped out of the sled and landed on the roof and before you ask, no the man wasn't Super Mario. The man slipped through the chimney with a large bag filled with various toys. As he landed in the house he didn't expect to be greet by someone. "Well it's look Ayagi finally found you Santa Claus. Ayagi is almost sorry to tell you this, but this was your last christmas." In front of the fat man stood three beings dressed in heavy medieval armors. They were taller and bulkier than most humans, their skin were green and on each of them an infinity symbol was painted on their right glove. Before Santa could respond Ayagi hit him on the top of the head with a metallic bar, the man clothed in red fell out cold on the ground. - - - - - Me, Dinky and Meek Sky were playing a game called Raymare Legends. We had a lot of fun, but all that changed when a very unwelcome human teleported himself in the room. I took a defensive stance while my sister and Dinky stare confused at the scene and I summon two snake-like blob of water that circled slowly around me. "Time Skip, what are you doing here?!" My sister also glared at the man when she realised it's was him that killed her father. "Hey! I through I would have a better reception after I gave you all the chance to say goodbye to Peace Dreamer. Bah! It doesn't matter." Time Skip slowed time to a crawl and took a chair from the kitchen and bring it in Dinky's room. After he sat comfortably on the chair he accelerate time to it's normal speed. "Hey who took my chair?!" We heard the voice of Mark say, but Time Skip ignored it and began to talk. "It's seem Santa Claus was kidnapped tonight." "Santa who?" I ask in confusion, Time Skip rolled his eyes, "He's a very old guy that deliver present to every kids on Earth." The time traveller explained. "...Okay what I don't understand is why it's concern us. I mean sure he sound like a nice guy and all but we have enough problems in Equestria alone without adding the problems of another world in the mix" Dinky said, Problems what kind of problems? I mean sure there been Discord's game but that was around four years ago now. I swear it's like she's a different pony since she began travelling with the Doctor. "Well if nothing else it's will be a exciting Heart Warming adventure. Don't it sound fun?" "No," we all responded flatly. "Too bad because you're still going." And just like that the four of us disappear from Equestria. - - - - - When we arrived at our destination I noticed two things: The world we landed strangely seemed more defined than our, as if by comparison our world was 'animated', but that would be silly, right? Secondly I was completely drained of energy. When he saw that we were close to black out Time Skip seem to remember something. "Oops, I probably should have give you this before you left." He reach his pocket and produce three pendants attached to a small emerald in form of cone. "These things are mana amplifier, wear it and it will suck the magic lying around in this world of level D and convert it in magic of level C." As soon as he put the pendant around my neck I felt a lot better. But I was still angry that Time Skip drag us against our will in this depressing looking world. Not that the world look like a horrible place or anything. But the lack of bright colors was disturbing to me. "w-Where are we?" Meek Sky ask the obvious question that was all on our mind. "We're on Earth but if you want to be more precise we're in Italy in the city of Venice, I through you would appreciated a city full of water Winty." He smirked at me and I groan. "But more seriously we're here because it's here that Infinitus is waiting the other Soul Reapers, if we stop them from reaching him we should be able to save Santa Claus." "Wait, wait, wait! The Reapers are involve in this why didn't you say it sooner?!" I exclaimed in shock. "And why the buck would they be interested in a guy that deliver presents to foals?" Time Skip sighed, "since I like to hear myself talk so much..." We all facehoof at that. "Firstly the term is kids not foals, secondly they're not interest in ruining christmas for these kids, even if I wouldn't place it past them. Santa Claus is one of the only immortals in the Gaia branch and guess why." My eyes widden in realisation. "I see you caught on, he's one of the 'lucky' beings that been born with a shard of life as a spark. I don't like to say it but I'm really begining to be worried about the Reapers." "What do you mean?" Dinky ask. "When I was a Reapers the plan was to collect the shard of lifes that lie around first then we would attack the people who had shards but had a low profile and finaly we would finish with the celebrities like that we would attract attention only when we had the means to counter-attack the council with Editor. And well Santa Claus is one of the most well knowed legend in the multiverse." "e-Editor who is that?" Meek Sky... meekly ask. "It's the name they gave to the shards they collected. When it's all over they hope to create something that can rivalise Author in sheer power." Rivalise Author?! But he's the creator of the multiverse as a whole! They can't create something more powerful that just blasphemous, right? Our ears twitched when a beeping noise erupted from Time Skip watch. "Okay it's time they will come in a few minutes. Winter fly above the city, Meek Sky and Dinky go East I'll go west if you see them send an explosice spiritual orb in the sky." I never seen him so serious before, granted I've only seen him three times in my life but it's still send shiver in my spine. I saluted the time traveller and flew in the sky. Whoa even if the colors are depressing this place look gorgeous, a lot of the lights from the houses were on and it lit up the entire city. In Equestria most ponies are asleep as soon as it's dark with the exception of the ones that like to party all night long like Pinkie Pie or Vinyl Scratch, of course there was a few exceptions where the ponies would stay awake like Heart Warming Eve or the Summer Sun Celebration. Some streets of the city were made of water and I could see a few condoles passing. But my attention was tacken off the city when a white orb flew in the sky and exploded like a firework. I dashed in direction of the commotion and saw that Meek Sky, Dinky Doo and Time Skip were waiting for me. I landed behind them as my sis made a motion to stay silent. As we wait we began to hear the sound of bells and then I saw a very strange sight. A red sled flew in the sky and was pulled by reindeers, on the sled was three bulky and green bipedal creatures wearing silver colored heavy armors. Dinky began to whisper loud enough for us to hear. "Ok here how it will go, Winter you fly up there and snatch Santa from them, when it's done I will free the reindeers and the sled will crash, Meek Sky if they see your little sister-" I huff at that I still can't believe I'm now younger than my sis. "Distract them with some fire, Time Skip you're the last resort. If something happen to us go back in time and create a paradox to save us." "Since when are you the leader?" The time traveler ask before he shrugged. "Ok, but I must warn you, the timeline of this world is a lot more stable than the one in Equestria. If I create more than one paradox in this event we will have the guardians on our ass before we can say apple." Dinky Doo nodded before signaling me to begin the plan. I quietly flap my wings. Once I was high enough I glided in direction of the Reapers. "Stupid reindeers it's like they go slow on purpose!" I hear one of them say. "Shut up! As long as mission is complete Ayagi will be happy." He speak in third person? I arleady find these guys annoying. As I approach behind the sled I see a fat man dress in a red costume, he must be Santa. As quietly as I could I grab Santa with my hooves. Darn he's heavy! unfortunately what I didn't take in acount was the shift in weight it would create to get him out of the sled. One of the green creatures, I later learned were called trolls, noticed something was amiss and look behind only to see a teenage Pegasus filly carrying a man three time bigger than herself. "There's a intruder stealing the target away!" Intruder, me? You're the one that stealed that sled! As soon as I had put the man out of the vehicle Dinky's horn began to glow and emited a sound very similar to the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. The troll produced a spiritual orb in his palm, when I noticed this my eyes widden in alarm. With this heavy weight slowing me down there no way I could have time to dodge this. I heard a snap somewhere in front of the sled but I was too focus on my deadly situation to pay it any mind. The troll threw the projectile at me but not before his leg stumble because of a violent movement from his vehicle. The orb passed above my head harmlessly and I heard another snap and just like that the reindeers were free letting the sled crashing on a small dock. Two of the trolls land on their head knocking them out cold, while the third I assume was their leader sunk in the water. Seeing that the zone was clear of dangers I flew back to the group waiting for me. When I landed Time Skip took Santa on his shoulder he seem to have a easier time carrying him than I had. "You did good Winter, that was a lot easier than I expected. Now we just have to walk a little farther than here. Some Reapers will probably check on them and if they track my teleportation spell we could have some unwelcome guest in Equestria." Time Skip explained. As soon as I began to follow him, I heard a big object emerging from the water at high speed. I turn around in a panick and saw a really pissed off troll landing behind us with a loud thud. He sneered at us before screaming. "Ponies will give target to Ayagi right now!" He roared in anger. I turned at Time Skip with grim determination. "Free Dreamer," he looked shocked that I used his real name but he knew I meant business this time. "Get my sister out of here I will buy you some time but make it quick." "What?! But you can't-!" Meek Sky's protests were cut by my glare, Free Dreamer nodded silently before grabbing Meek Sky and sprinted along with Dinky. I turned my attention at Ayagi and smirked. "A true fight with a Reaper. The world was generous this Heart Warming Eve." "Ayagi don't have time to play with girly pony, get out of Ayagi's way now!" He called me girly?! Oh it is on. I summoned a spike of ice right under his foot. The troll had the reflex to lift his leg out of the way, seeing that he was losing his balance I created a wave of water sending him back in the water he came from. As soon as he sunk I ran and place my hooves in the liquid and turn it to ice. That should take care of him. But just as I was about to leave I heard the ice cracking and Ayagi emerge from my trap with a furious glare. "Ayagi is tired of girly Equestrian, Ayagi will crush pony!" I took a step back from the green monster that was when something hit me, literaly. I look up curious as to where the drop of water had come from and noticed that the clouds in the sky was begining to unleash some heavy rains. The entire city was wet in a matter of seconds. This gave me an idea. A idea that sounded really brutal to my Equestrian mind, but if I wanted to buy some more time on top of staying alive I had to it. I created a big dome of ice around me. Seeing this Ayagi punched the dome creating a small crack that quickly disappear as I used the rain to reform my dome. I had to do quick before he break my protection. I closed my eyes in concentration, I could feel every drops of water as if they were a extension of me and because of the rain I could feel the entire city, in the distance I could feel four beings running in the streets before they disappeared entirely. Good, they had made it. Another punch from the troll bring me back to reality. With great effort I sent a wave cold on every single drop of rain in the area. As soon as I did that I heard a cry of pain outside of the dome. With my wave of cold I had transformed every drop of rain around me in needles of ice. My dome protected me from the asault of the thousands needles. But Ayagi wasn't so lucky. "Ahhh!" The troll fell on his knee in a small puddle of blood. As soon as he had the opportunity he turned his body in iron. While most of the damage was arleady done it didn't stop him charging at me like batshit crazy bull. In that moment when I saw the fury of this insane giant, I told to myself that maybe having a fight with the strongest evil organisation in the multiverse wasn't a very bright idea. I quickly made my dome melt and tried to use a advantage ponies had over most bipedal creatures: Our speed at running. I quickly galloped in the streets of Venice, I passed a human girl with her mother who pointed at me gleefully. "Look mommy a pony!" The mother was shocked at my colors and my wings. But it's was nothing compare to the shock they had at seeing a green monster throwing spikes of metal at me. I jumped in a window sending shards of glasses everywhere in a kitchen. The family either screamed or stared mouth agap. I bucked the door open and ran, the troll tackled down the wall of the house with a loud crack. "Come here pony, Ayagi will make sure the kids of this world use you as glue!" The troll ran after me with a metalic ball attached with a chain. He swung at me. I didn't have the time to dodge an the ball made me crash on a brick wall cutting out my air. I was left panting on the ground, the troll approach me with a smirk. "You put out a good fight pony, but it's time to die." I closed my eyes awaithing my fate. But something really unexpected happened. A blue box flew close of the ground and knocked Ayagi on the ground. The door of the box opened up and a familiar brown stallion motioned me to follow him. I grin and took off in the sky and entered the TARDIS. As soon as I was inside the blue box emited a metalic whine before slowly fading away. The king of the troll species sighed. "Ayagi need a vacation." - - - - - 1 week later "So Doctor I had fun adventures but I think it's about time I'm going home. Are you sure you can bring me back at the exact moment I left?" I ask to the Doctor, after he saved me he proposed to go travelling with him and derpy for a few days, we had visit the time Equestria was founded, Discord defeated and Nightmare Moon banishment. But the most memorable one was New Eden where we saved the human counterpart of my mom by disguising the Doctor in her with a changing stone we had 'found' after we stop Chrysalis from invading Zebrica. Why was it memorable? Because I assisted to one of the Doctor's famous regeneration. And surprisingly he had changed into a Unicorn mare who looked exactly like Ponyville's dentist. I wonder if they could be related or something. "Of course I can, but it could be weird for you since Heart Warming Eve was a week ago for you." I had left a Heart Warming didn't I? I had almost forgot. The Doctor pulled a lever and the TARDIS whine in a fashion I had grew almost acustomed to. "Here you go Winter, you're home." When I step out of the blue box I fell in a tub of hot water. It took a moment realise what happened. I was at the good time, but at a completely wrong place! The fact that I landed in Scootaloo's bathroom while her mother Bon Bon was having a bath didn't help. "Ah! Pervert go away pervert!" She screamed at the top of her lung. "Doctor!!" I screamed as her blue box disappeared. - - - - - I entered Derpy's home after having to awkwardly explained to Scootaloo why she shouldn't hit me with a baseball bat. Just as I was about to enter the fat man in a red costume that had put me through so much trouble was there. "Oh you're Winter Song right?" I nodded slowly in response. "I have something for you." He search through his bag and gave me a large red box with pink ribbon on it. I could see that my name was written on it. "You have a present for me? But I'm not even from your world! How do you know me?" I ask sceptically. "I have my ways, now open it." I did as request and open it. I gasp in surprise at what was inside. Nine plushies each had the appearance of member of my family. There was mom, sis, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. "I know you collect plushies and I through you would like this set in particular." The man smiled at my expression. "I don't collect plushies." I protested with a poorly hidden blush. "Sure you don't." He said with a wink before his body dissolved into snow and disappear in the night with a laugh. Well that was a weird Heart Warming Eve for sure. I hope next year will be a little more tamed. - - - - - The Doctor was interupted from her lunch when the telephone of the TARDIS rang. She levitated with her magic. "Hello I'm the Doctor." "Hi Doctor thanks for saving Winter like I asked" The solemn voice of Time Skip said. "It's was nothing... but you sound off did something happened?" The mare ask worriedly. "Ayagi saw me when I saved Santa now the Reapers know I'm against them... so tonight I will fight Peace Dreamer and he will kill me so I guess it's a goodbye Doctor." The phone hung up and the Timelord was left in total silence afterward.