Tales of Another Ponyville

by Paradise Oasis


A Ponyville Christmas

The snow is falling everywhere, decorations are on the trees, and the sights and sounds of the holiday are in the air. All I have to do is look out the window, and see the mares and stallions happily playing in this winter wonderland, and I know that my favorite time of year has once again arrived.

Christmas time has once again come to Ponyville.

It's a more recent holiday that came to ponydom, brought here by mysterious creatures who came here from the other world, and taught ponies the joy of the holiday. Generations ago we used to celebrate a similar holiday called hearth's warming day, back when ponies used to believe in alicorn princesses and other such nonsense. But now, we all follow this tradition in a new form, honoring the holiday and the warmth of each others friendship.

Christmas is a special time for me... for I am Candy Cane, the Ponyville Christmas pony. You may have seen me around the town- the white mare with the red mane and candy cane cutie mark. Most of the year I'm just another pony trotting about town, and going about my business. But this time of year... oh, this time of year is what I live for! The preparation work for this holiday takes nearly the whole previous year, you know. and that means I spend almost the entire year thinking, eating, sleeping and breathing Yuletide joy.

"Winter Wishes, are you done painting those ornaments yet?" I call down the steps to the stallion with the pink coat and sleigh cutie mark. "I just finished my next batch of Christmas cookies, and I want to deliver them to Sweetberry's Shop and the Cotton candy cafe!"

"Just go ahead without me, my dear!" My husband yells back up to me, looking up[ from his workshop in the basement. "I need to do some more work on the garland before I finish up down here!"

Dear, darling Winter Wishes; the only pony who is as obsessed with Christmas s I am. He and I make a good match, as we spend the whole year preparing for this glorious, glorious holiday! As I trot out the door of our Christmas tree-shaped house, I look about the streets, and admire all the Christmas work we've done so far. Every tree is wrapped in lights and covered with ornaments. Holly and ivy hangs from every lamp post, and there is a wreath on every door. Ponies wrapped in warm hats and scarves greet me as I pass them by, smiles on their cold faces, and steam coming off their breath.

"Hey Candy! Love the decorations in the square this year!" Pinkie Pie yells from across the street. "How do you do such pretty work every year?"

"Just doing my job, Pinkie!" I yell back with a smile, waving a hoof at her. "Have a merry Christmas!"

"Candy Darling! So glad to see you out and about!" Rainbow Dash greeted me, looking away from where she and Denim Blue were standing under the mistletoe. "Please, stop by the shop on your way home, Sew and Sew and I have a new dress for you for the holiday!"

"Thank you so much, Rainbow!" I call back to her, smiling gratefully. "And a happy holiday to you!"

It's so nice to see everybody so happy, and to know all my hard work means so much to so many ponies. Every generation there is one or two Christmas ponies born in Ponyville, and it is our special talent to put this holiday together for the whole community, including the magical here-comes-Christmas candy cane that sits on the great tree in the very center of town. There was one year my husband and I couldn't do our Christmas preparation. Every mare pitched in to get the decorations up and the cookies baked that year... but it still didn't turn out well. Minty broke the here-comes-Christmas candy cane, and- well, I'd rather not talk about it.

After I make the Christmas cookie deliveries, I suddenly feel a packed ball of snow hit me in the back of the neck. Spinning around, I saw a giggling pair of mares, Sparkleworks and Sunny Daze, staring me down while they packed more snowballs together in their hooves.

"Hey, old lady! Think you're up for another snowball fight?" Sunny challenged me, a mischievous gleam in her eye. "You may have gotten the better of us last year, but we're gonna get you this time!"

"Ohm you think so?" I challenged her, squeezing a snowball together in my front hooves. "Young lady, I'll have you know I was the snowball throwing champion of my generation!"

The girls and I quickly had snow forts built, and we were soon pelting snowballs back and forth at each other from behind white snow-constructed walls. Other ponies soon began gathering to watch our snowball combat, and started to cheer for one side or the other.

Unfortunately, I had happened to leave my bag over by the frozen river, filled with the left over candy fragments from when I baked the here-comes-Christmas candy cane. Now, the one thing a pony should NEVER do is eat any of the candy from that candy cane; it's filled with a powerful magical dust, that if it mixed with the natural earth pony magic in our bodies... well, let's just say it wouldn't be very pretty!

And wouldn't you know it, but who else but Minty came over the hill on a sled, and came to a stop right in front of the bag.

"Oh, it looks like there's a snowball fight going on over there!" Minty exclaimed, jumping around excitedly at the sight of our snowy combat. "Go Sunny! Give that old granny what for!" Just then, she noticed the bag down by her hooves. "Hey, what's in here? Ohhh, candy cane bits! I love these things!"

"No Minty!" I exclaim, dropping my snowball, and galloping towards the goofy mare. "Don't eat that, it's-"

"Mmmmm, these things are good!" She exclaimed, happily munching on the last of the fragments. It only took a few moments, before a rumbling noise came from deep inside the green pony's belly. "Hey, what was that? What's going on?"

Suddenly, Minty's hooves lifted off the ground, and she was floating in midair. "Hey, look everybody, I'm flying!" She began to turn upside down in the air, before she shot straight upward into the sky, vanishing into the clouds. "This is fun! Wheeeeeeeeee!"

"Oh no, Minty!" Sunny Daze exclaimed, running up to where I stood. "What happened to her? Will she be all right?"

"Yes, she just ate a bunch of the leftover here-comes-Christmas candy cane fragments." I sigh, putting a hoof on my face. "She'll float around up there for a day or two, before the candy wears off, then she'll float back down to the surface. The magic in the candy will keep her nourished and hydrated, she'll be fine."

"Whew, that's a relief! I wouldn't want our Mints getting hurt." Sparkleworks sighed with relief. "Though It'll be a shame she's gonna miss Christmas."

"Wait, did you just say we're getting a holiday without Minty?!" Sunny Daze exclaimed in realization. "Do you know what this means?!"

"It's a Christmas miracle!" Sparkleworks exclaimed, dancing around the open town square. Soon, the two ponies in the square were dancing and singing, and all the rest of us Ponyville ponies were left standing there, staring at those two in horrified shock. "Hooray for a kluz-free Christmas!"

*Sigh* Those two have a poor taste in humor. Oh well, at least Pinkie Pie sent Starsong up to find Minty and bring her back down to earth. Anyway, I've got a lot of Christmas cards to get addressed and put in their envelopes. Merry Christmas, Everybody!