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// 5: "A Hearth's Warming Carol" Part 3 
// Story: Snowed in on Hearth's Warming Eve 
// by GoneGuy 
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	Icy Heart lay alone in bed, shivering in the cold. His window shot open, and he hastily got out and closed the shutters. As he returned to his bed, he glanced at the clock. It was 1:00 a.m. The first hour.
"Lousy spirit...I knew he was bluffing. The first tormentor is late."
"Am I?"
Icy Heart turned to see a small foal, brown and with a black mane, and a small mistletoe leaf as his cutie mark.
"You? A young foal? You are the first spirit, coming at the first hour? Get out of my sight, and return home, young foal, lest I beat you with a rod."
"I am the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Past. Come, to the window."
Icy Heart trotted over to the window with the spirit in tow, and the spirit jumped upon the window.
"It is time for us to go."
"Go....where? If I leave through the window I'll fall to my death!"
"Take my hoof."
Icy Heart decided to humor the young foal, and took his hoof, and off they began to fly over the town called "Village".
"I-I'm flying!"
"Yes."
"But where are we going, spirit?"
"You shall see."
The two found themselves flying over a boarding school on the outskirts of Manehattan.
"Do you recognize this place?"
"Y-yes! This is the boarding school where I lived during my childhood... my father... he didn't want me. So I stayed here with my books over the Hearth's Warming Holiday. But.... this.... this is the day she came! My sister, Caring Heart!"
The mare he saw walked into the boarding schoolhouse, and the spirit and Icy Heart followed.
"C-Caring?" the young Icy Heart said.
"Icy! I have joyous news!"
"What is it, dear sister?"
"Father, he has become kind again! He wants you to come home for the holiday!"
"No....it can't be!"
"But it is, dear brother! Let us go, and be merry with father!"
The brother and sister left the school singing Hearth's Warming Carols and holding hands.
"Spirit....why are you showing me this?"
"You will find out soon enough."
Suddenly, the two were in a large room, with a tree in the center and tons of ponies sitting there.
"I....I recognize this place!"
"You should. After all, it is the office of your old mentor."
"My....m-mentor.... you mean... Jolly Holiday?"