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// 6th Wish 
// Story: 12 Wishes for a Shimmering Christmas 
// by Kamen Rider SEGADash 
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It was 6:15am, and Fluttershy had already woken up and snuck into the guest room to talk to Posey, who was just slowly waking up herself.

“Itoko?  What’s up?” Posey asked.

“I… need some advice, and you have an advice column at your school,” Fluttershy stated, as she sat down.

“Yea. That’s the one thing I like about school,” Posey admitted, “That and my photography class. Anyway, what’s up?”

“...Well… I was wondering if… I could have some advice… on… um… romance…” Fluttershy said nervously.

“...Hmm… I guess I could try to help there.” Posey stated, as she took out a notepad and fiddled with a pencil, “So… tell me what’s up.”

“Well… you see… I uh… I… uh… well…”

“Go on, go on.  What is it you need advice on?”

“I… h-h-ha-a-ave… a-a-a-a… a… c-c-cr-cru-crush…”

“Okay,” Posey nodded, writing it down, “So, who do you have a crush on?”

“Um… w-well… i-i-it’s on…” Fluttershy started, whispering the name so quietly Posey couldn’t hear her.

“Uh… I didn’t hear you…” Posey informed.

“Um… I-I… have a… a crush… on…” she repeated, whispering the name again.

“Fluttershy-itoko-chan… I can’t help you if you don’t tell me who it is…”

“Okay, it’s Sunset Shimmer, okay?!”

Posey dropped her pencil, not out of shock, but because it genuinely slipped out of her hand. But she looked at her cousin with a look of interest, before she reached for her pencil.

“Uh… okay this is interesting…” Posey admitted.

“It’s fine, I’m used to it. So… tell me about your crush…”

“Well… I doubt she knows of it yet, and it came up recently… and admittedly, I… never thought I’d love another girl… I’m new to the whole idea of loving someone outside my family, and yet… another girl… that’s just… interesting.”

“I see…” Posey nodded, writing in her notebook again, with Fluttershy looking at her cousin with a smile, “So… why are you crushing on someone who used to bully you?”

“She’s changed.  She may have been a bully, but now… she’s a shy girl that feels out of place Plus she’s sweet… kind… and so… pretty…” Fluttershy informed.

“Well… that’s all the time we have for now Itoko-chan,” Posey informed, pointing to the clock, which read 6:45am, and school started at 7:15.

“Oh shoot!  You’re right.”





Rarity had passed by Fluttershy’s home and saw the pinkette rushing out dressed and ready for school.

“Fluttershy, everything okay?” Rarity asked, pulling down her window.

“Yes, I’m fine. But we have twenty minutes to get to school on time!” Fluttershy informed.

“Hop on in,” Rarity informed, opening the door of her car, Fluttershy quickly hopping right in, and thus they headed off for the school.





Both were on time for class, and saw that the school was getting some Christmas decorations put up, with wreaths and lights all over the building.

“Hey girls,” Rainbow Dash waved as they arrived in class, “Glad you could make it.”

“How are you on time?” Rarity panted, “You’re normally a few minutes late.”

“I set an alarm today, and I didn’t sleep through it for once!”

“For once…” Applejack chuckled.

“That was certainly a surprise,” Pinkie added.

Rainbow simply gave an eye roll at that, as class begun for the day.





Soon after, the Rainbooms had allowed to go to the music room to practice a bit for their upcoming performance.

“Let’s rock some jingle bells, let’s rock some jingle bells. Oh. Oh. We’ve got Christmas tales to tell. Rockin’ round the block, got no time to waste we’ve got bells to rock!” Rainbow and Sunset sung together, as the Rainbooms practiced. As they played, all six gained pony ears, “Spreadin’ the glee around the tree, the holiday spirit o’ so free! Free! Free!”

“Okay everyone, that was great.” Sunset giggled, as the six reverted back to normal.

“Great song, Sunset,” Rainbow smiled, giving her a high five.

“Ah gotta say, ya outdid yerself with ‘Shine Like Rainbows’, but this is just as good, mahbe better,” AJ replied.

“Thanks,” Sunset smiled, as she looked over to Fluttershy who smiled at her.





After a bit more practice after school had ended, Rarity and Sunset arrived at Rarity’s car, when she saw Coco was there and had a paper in her hands.

“Uh… Ms. Rarity, someone gave you a ticket…” Coco informed, showing Rarity the piece of paper.

“A ticket?!  OHMYGOSH! I can’t believe it! My parents are going to kill me! I’ve never gotten a ticket before in all of my life! This is the WORST possible thing ever!  The! Worst! Possible! THING!” Rarity said in a panic before she began to sob over-dramatically.

Coco took a moment to look at the ticket before blinking, “Ms. Rarity… uh… I honestly don’t think you can get into too much trouble for getting a ticket for uh… ‘parking in wrong direction’...”

“Huh?” Rarity responded before looking at the ticket and sure enough it read ‘Parking in wrong direction’, “...Oh… uh… hmm… a two dollar fine… Uh… false alarm?”

“...Ya really need to stop overreactin’ like that, Rarity,” AJ sighed.

“Wait… you’re parked in the same direction!” Rarity noticed, and Applejack had no ticket in sight.

“No!  Ah’m jus’ sayin’ ya don’t have to overreact over two dollars worth o’ fine,”

Rarity just rolled her eyes and got into her car, “Sunset, Coco, let’s just go…”

“Hey wait!” Sweetie Belle shouted, as she began to pant, “You almost forgot me… again. This is like… the fourth time… this month.”

“Sweetie?  Where were you?”

“In the bathroom… I texted you,” Sweetie reminded.

“My phone’s battery died…”

Sweetie just sighed as she got into the car, soon followed by Coco, but Sunset gave the car a confused look, “Are you sure, Rarity?”

“Huh?” Rarity responded confused, “You said you wanted to do something for a friend, and you need my help. And you don’t know where my house is, do you?”

“...not a clue…” Sunset admitted sheepishly, making Rarity sigh before she opened a door.

“Just hop in for now.”





They soon arrived at Rarity and Sweetie Belle’s home, with Rarity guiding Sunset down to the basement which looked like a clothing store/model runway complete with a dressing room and the supplies needed.

“Wow… this is really nice…” Sunset gawked, as she looked at some dresses that Rarity had made for the Rainbooms during the Battle of the Bands. Sunset eyed Twilight’s dress for a moment, her mind trying to fight off a memory of a nightmare, before she looked and noticed another dress, which was in a container of sorts, but she could make out some red and yellow on it.

“Please… don’t look at that. It’s still in progress, and I don’t like it when people see outfits before they’re ready,” Rarity told Sunset.

“Oh!  ...S-Sorry,” Sunset apologized before she moved on over to see some red and white sketches.

“I’m thinking of making us some outfits for our upcoming Christmas performance… and these are some very special outfits I’ve designs for us. So, shall we get to your idea for your friend?” Rarity told Sunset.

“I wanted it to be a scarf… specifically, I wanted it to be something with this in it,” Sunset informed, taking out a sketch that was given to her by this friend, which was colored magenta and it had the design of a pink heart with a jagged blue musical note over it.

“Really neat sketch… so, who is this for, mind me asking?” 

“Well… it’s for someone from the homeless shelter,” Sunset explained.

“That’s nice of you. Guess my generosity is rubbing off on you…” Rarity giggled.

“Yea… I guess so,” Sunset shrugged, smiling a bit.





The two spent a while talking about the design of the scarf, and after a few hours Sunset realized she should get going.

“Well, I guess I’ll walk back to Fluttershy’s now,” Sunset stated, heading up.

“I can take you back,” Rarity informed.

“No no, it’s fine. I can find my way there,” Sunset assured, heading upstairs, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Sunset headed out, only to find out it was dark outside already, she gave a gulp and began on her way back to Fluttershy’s.  As she started walking, though, she noticed that it was getting harder and harder to see.





She had been walking around for a little bit, when she heard something fall, she backed up a bit and looked around in fear.  She kept up a pattern of walking a short distance followed by looking back to see what made the sound for about a few seconds, when she heard a rumble of some kind.

“...it’s chasing me… how’d it know that I’m here… outside…?” Sunset muttered in fear, before she heard whatever it was in the alley begin to approach her. Sunset began to run for it before managing to get some ground, before she heard she was being chased. Sunset continued to run until she bumped into a box.

“PLEASE DON’T HURT ME!” Sunset begged, hiding her face behind her arms

“Woah, you okay?” she heard, causing Sunset to open her eyes and see it was only Rainbow.

“Oh… I… didn’t know it was you…”

“What? You think some sort of creepy monster was chasing you?” Dash joked, but Sunset looked honestly nervous and nervous, “But in all seriousness, sorry for scaring you. I just parkour my way home… and I’m usually so good about not knocking anything over…”

“Oh… I… uh… alright,” Sunset nodded.

“Come on, I’ll get you to Fluttershy’s,” Dash told her, as she helped Sunset up before they walked off.





“Sunset should’ve been back by now…” Fluttershy said in worry, pacing around the living room a bit until she heard the door open, with Rainbow and Sunset standing by it, causing Fluttershy to gasp, “Rainbow? Sunset! I was so worried…”

“I got lost… I’m sorry for worrying you…” Sunset apologized.

“She said she got scared somethin’ fierce just because she thought some monster was chasing her, when it was just me doing parkour,” Dash told Fluttershy.

“...oh, really?” Fluttershy blinked.

“Yea…” Sunset shrugged.

“Oh my…”

“Well, see you later,” Dash waved, leaving Sunset and Fluttershy to talk.

“So… were you scared?”

“Not at first… but when I heard Dash knock something over… I got kinda nervous…”

“I see… and you thought it was… a monster?”

“...Y-Yea… but… when you can’t see a person, and you hear a rumble sound… that’s likely the first place your mind would turn to,” Sunset pointed out.

“True… I-I guess…” Fluttershy shrugged, as she pulled Sunset into a hug, “I was so scared… I thought that… something bad had happened to you…”

Sunset returned the hug and both began to get sort of teary eyed, the hugs both comforting the two, “I’m so sorry I scared you…”

“...It’s okay… what matters is that you’re safe now,” Fluttershy replied.





The following day, Sunset woke up and saw Fluttershy still asleep, the unicorn-turned-human smiling at the sleeping girl, simply seeing her friend asleep just relaxed her.

‘She’s so adorable… maybe one day soon I should ask her… wait… my worrying her may have ruined my chances… oh no… why did I try to find my way back on my own...’ Sunset thought, clearly panicking about this.

She looked at Fluttershy in worry, before Sunset began to cry a little bit, not sure if she ruined her chances of them becoming a couple. After a moment, she started crying a bit louder, causing Fluttershy to wake up.

“Sunset… are you okay?” Fluttershy asked, looking to her friend.

“Uh… I… uh… w-w-well… had a… bad dream… that what happened yesterday… made you not like me anymore…”

“...Really? Sunset… nothing could ever make me not like you…” Fluttershy assured, hugging her.

“Really?” Sunset replied, wiping her tears away.

“You’re my friend…” Fluttershy assured with a warm smile.

“Right… friend…” Sunset responded, as Fluttershy got up and hugged Sunset, ‘So… I’m stuck in the friendzone… it’s better than not being friends at all, I guess.’





“So… the caroling idea… on Sunset’s list,” Fluttershy stated, talking with the others, “I had a small idea… I saw this movie where the characters went caroling on a car. I had this silly idea that maybe… we could take our upcoming performance in a direction like that.”

“That sounds interesting to say the least,” Rainbow said with a smile, “All of the city can see how awesome my-er… our, band is.”

“Seriously, Rainbow?  Yer still going on about this being ‘yer band’.”

“It just slipped out…” 

“Ya sure ‘bout that?”

“I didn’t mean to say it’s my band, honest!” Dash responded, making the others just shrug, “So anyway… can you believe it’s almost the winter break?! It’s only 3 days away!”

“And we still have seven things left on Sunset’s list to do…” Pinkie pointed out.

“We’d better pick up the pace, then,” Fluttershy suggested, as she looked over the list, “Well… we’re going to do the caroling soon… and then the material items she wants, I think I can get them for her… the fireplace thing we can do soon… that would mean the only thing we have no plan for is…”

“Is what?” Dash asked.

“...the… the last…” she started before muttering the rest.

“Uh… we didn’t hear you dear,” Rarity informed.

“Deer, where?” Fluttershy gawked.

“Not what I meant, darling.  I wanted you to speak up.” Rarity responded, making Fluttershy giggle, before she began to blush nervously.

“Well… what I was gonna say was… the only one left would be…” Fluttershy stated, before she whispered the number.

“Speak up, please,” Pinkie told Fluttershy, making her sigh.

“...n-Niijyugo,” Fluttershy answered.

Everyone gave her a confused blink.

“Say what now?” Dash asked.

Fluttershy didn’t respond, until Rarity noticed Fluttershy flash the numbers 10 and 2 on her fingers.

“Oh, do you mean number 12?” Rarity asked, with Fluttershy giving her a nod, “Oh, I see.”

“Me too!  It must be such torture to have to kiss someone that you don’t like, once bullied you, only to later become our friend and while we’re friends, you don’t like her in that way an-” Pinkie blabbered, unknowingly striking a nerve on Fluttershy.

“Okay, I love her, okay, Pinkie?! NOW STOP TALKING ABOUT HER LIKE THAT!!!” Fluttershy blurted out, making the others’ jaws drop and eyes widen, Pinkie’s jaw slamming against the table.

“Fluttershy… shouting… my ears are actually kinda ringing from that…” Dash admitted, using her pinky to clean out her ear.

“...Did Ah just hear you like Sunset?” AJ asked.

“Correction from what you said… Fluttershy… did you just say you love her?” Rarity asked, making Fluttershy gasp and blush brightly before she began to try and duck her head under the table.

“Nuh-uh, Fluttershy. You’re not getting out of this that easy,” Dash informed, pulling Fluttershy up, “You said somethin’, now tell us.”

“I… I… *sighs* Okay… I… I… I have a crush on Sunset,” Fluttershy confessed.

In response to this, Pinkie just dramatically gasped, while everyone had a different look on their face, Rainbow’s was a look of shock, Rarity’s was interest and Applejack’s was rather neutral.

“...you don’t mind?”

“Well…” Dash started before Rarity helped Fluttershy up.

“I personally would support you and whoever you like,” Rarity informed.

“Really?” Fluttershy gawked, “And I thought that you would find a same-gender relationship… out there…”

“People change their minds,” Rarity informed.

“Me… well if yer happy, we should be happy fer ya,” AJ informed.

“Okay… what about you, Rainbow Dash?” Fluttershy asked, as Dash blinked in thought for a moment.

“...I… I… think that… uh… hmm… well… I’m not sure what to say,” Dash admitted.

“I’ll say… this crush was only recently formed… so… I’m not sure what to think of this myself,” Fluttershy admitted, with Sunset starting to walk on over.

“Hey girls, what’cha talking about?” they all heard someone ask, making them turn to see Sunset.

“Uh… our performance…” Fluttershy stated, her voice getting a bit squeaky.

“Oh yea, right! I almost forgot about that!” Rarity remembered, as Applejack and Dash begun to think about what to do so they could make their performance mobile.





“Hey, thanks for lettin’ us use your family's truck,” Dash smiled, as they had begun to put some of their instruments onto it.

“Nothin’ to it, girls,” AJ smiled, hooking up her bass, when she noticed a few people were already waiting for them to perform, among them were Posey, Vinyl, Coco, Lightning, Octavia, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Derpy, Flash and someone who none of them expected to see.

“Isn’t that Sonata?” Rainbow asked.

“Oh yea, it is!” Pinkie gawked.

“What’s she doing here?” Appeljack asked.

Fluttershy and Rarity gave a wave to her, with Sonata smiling.

“What are you doing here?” Rainbow asked, going over to the bluenette.

“Oh… Sunset invited me to see you play,” Sonata informed.

“Uh… oh…” they responded, with Fluttershy waving to Sonata, before Sunset walked over, now wearing a female Santa outfit.

“How do I look?” Sunset asked.

“Sunset, you’re amazing looking,” Sonata smiled, “Have fun out there, okay?”

“Sure,” Sunset nodded, before turning to her friends, “Rarity you outdid yourself with this one…”

“Well… thank you, darling.”

“You look great,” Rainbow smiled.

“Looks pretty spiffy on ya,” Applejack added.

“Super duperrific!” Pinkie smiled.

Fluttershy held her tambourine close to her heart, blushing a bit before Sunset walked over to her.

“Is something wrong, Fluttershy?” Sunset asked.

“A-a-ano… you look… you look… tenchi…” Fluttershy informed.

“Tenchi?” Sunset responded in confusion.

“Oh… um… it means, uh… how do I say it… um… well… uh… it means… h-he-heav… uh… heavenly…” Fluttershy informed, making Sunset blush a deep red that almost matched her hair.

“Oh, come now, Fluttershy.  No need to be jealous.  I made similar outfits for everyone,” Rarity informed, as she motioned for everyone to follow her, while Sunset waited.

“What was that moment all about?” Sonata asked, walking over to Sunset, “Do you two have a thing going on?”

“Huh?  W-Well… I… I really don’t know…” Sunset admitted, “Uh… can we talk later? I gotta make sure everything’s set up…”

“Uh… sure,” Sonata nodded before she walked off, Sunset blushing a bit more, before shrugging it off.





A little bit later, the rest of the Rainbooms arrived at the start of their route with them performing by the school, all six girls dressed in Santa outfits.

“Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la, tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la la la.”





“We Wish You A Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.  Good tidings we bring, to you and your kin, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” The Rainbooms sung, now by Sugar Cube Corner.





They soon arrived by the Apple Family Farm, still singing.

“Joy to the World, the Lord has come. Let Earth~ receive~ her King~. Let every heart~ prepare him room~. And heaven and nature sing. And heaven and nature sing. And he~ and heaven and nature sing,” they all sung, with Sunset feeling like it was like she was caroling back in Canterlot.





They passed by the library and began to sing their next song.

“Hark, the herald angels sing~. Glory to the newborn king! Peace on Earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.  Joyful all ye nations rise~. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem.  Hark, the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king!” they sang, people seeing them all pony-up, and the people cheered for them.

Sunset giggled as they moved to their final location for their final song, which was her new song.

“We all sound amazing…” Sunset giggled, “All of you are doing great… and Fluttershy, you sound pretty tenchi yourself,”

Fluttershy blushed at this and smiled, “Th-Thank you.”

They all un-ponified, and Sunset looked over to the library, half-expecting to see a certain friend of theirs there.

‘Twilight… heh, I’d imagine you’d be here… honestly. But I guess you’re off in Equestria celebrating Hearth’s Warming Eve,’ Sunset thought to herself with a smile before she saw a tree that was rather tall, reminding her of the tree she saw set up in Canterlot, but then Fluttershy tapped her on the shoulder and they smiled.

“You ready?” Fluttershy asked.

“Oh… yea, right. Just kinda thinking… but I’m good to go,” Sunset replied as they got into position, “Alright… everyone, I’m glad you all came here. Thank you all for showing up to hear us preform. This is an original song that I wrote, called ‘Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells’. I hope you all like it,”

“1, 2, 3, 4!” Pinkie stated, as they began to play it.

“Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey! It’s a great time of year, a time of cheer! Gather round with your friends really near. Play all day, every way, full of cheer!” Sunset began to sing first, her pony ears starting to appear.

“Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells! Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells! Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells! Hey, hey, hey! For the time of year so swell, everyone so happy, I can tell…” Rainbow sung next, her wings soon sprouting and her hair extending.

“Let’s get out there and play in the snow…” Applejack sung next.

“As we play the day away, our heart’s will glow…” Rarity added.

“For the greatest time of the year! Even if the snow is low…” Applejack and Rarity sung together.

“The Fire of Friendship is all around…” Rainbow sung.

“Our cheer is all for you. Let it spread the whole year through,” Pinkie sung, the Rainbooms now all ponified.

“Our hearts are in everything we do, spreading Christmas cheer to you.” Pinkie and Rainbow sung.

“Friends and family around the warm fire,” Fluttershy sung.

“Our hearts unite so they can fly high and higher,” Sunset added, putting her arm around Fluttershy.

“So Let’s see where the passion and friendship take us someplace where our love can shine on everyone’s face,” they sung in unison.

“Let’s rock some jingle bells, let’s rock some jingle bells. Oh. Oh. We’ve got Christmas tales to tell. Rockin’ round the block, got no time to waste we’ve got bells to rock!” Rainbow and Sunset sung together, “Spreadin’ the glee around the tree, the holiday spirit o’ so free! Free! Free!”

“Are heart’s will light the way to holiday cheer!” Sunset sung, “So let’s spread friendship around all year!”

“Hey! Hey! Hey!” the other Rainbooms sung.

“Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells, Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells! Hey! Oh! Hey Oh! Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells! Christmas Cheer is all over the world, tonight we all twirl,” Sunset sung, and they all spun around after Sunset said ‘twirl’.

“Let our song touch your hearts. We hope you enjoy Christmas lots,” Pinkie sung, “So we’ll spread our cheer to you all over the block,”

“Our love and friendship has no lock… and we will always rock.” Sunset sung.

“Let’s Rock Some Jingle Bells~!” they all sung, as they finished the song, getting a huge applause from the audience, with Vinyl, Posey, Lightning, Coco, and Sonata at the front of the crowd, cheering them all on happily.

“Encore!” someone shouted.

“No… that’s all the time we have…” Sunset informed, “But we’ll see you next time!”





“So… I guess Christmas Caroling is done…” Sunset giggled, “Hey… can I keep the outfit?”

“Of course you can, darling,” Rarity nodded.

“Sunset… your song was a lot of fun to sing…” Fluttershy admitted.

“Thanks,” Sunset smiled and blushed, as she hugged Fluttershy with a smile.

“Itoko-chan! You sounded amazing!” Posey giggled, walking over to her with Lightning, Coco, Vinyl, and Sonata.

“Thanks. We really practiced with all of our hearts,” Fluttershy smiled.

“...I wish I could still sing…” Sonata admitted.

“Ya sure ya don’t want it ‘cause yer singing would cause some problems, and ya’d use it ta do bad things?” AJ clarifed.

“What?! No! Adagio pressured me into being bad! I honestly want to sing for fun… heck, I could’ve used my powers to make people happy!” Sonata responded, making AJ think for a moment.

“...Ah guess Ah can kinda see yer point,” AJ figured, “So… yer a friend of Sunset’s?”

“She is now,” Sunset confirmed, pulling Sonata into a hug, the siren-turned-human smiling in response before Lightning, Posey, Coco and Vinyl joined in the hug, Fluttershy and her friends smiling in response.