A Very Special Christmas

by Flarefeather


Chapter 1

It was snowing hard for this Christmas. Highways and streets are being cleaned by the snowplows, everyone is shoveling their driveways and walkways. "Grrr... Girls how much longer is it gonna take to get to Pinkie Pie's house?" Sour Sweets grumbled to her other friends in the van with her. " We have been on the street for... how long Sugarcoat?"

"About two hours and 37 minutes." Sugarcoat said as bluntly as ever. She then looked outside of the window and adjusted her glasses. "You more impatient than Indigo you know."

"ZIP IT!" Sour Sweets yelled back with authority. Everyone else covered their ears except for Indigo who is driving.

"Look Sour, We would get there sooner if it wasn't for all the snow on the road. Even with all the snowplows way in front of us it's still difficult to drive. You should know why." Indigo said looking at her rear view mirror, more particularly at Sour Sweets. "But look on the bright side, we're almost there... kinda."

"AWW YEAH!!!" Lemon Zest shouted as always. Indigo showed her earlier a song from Red and she kept listening to it non-stop ever since. Indigo only did it because everyone wanted her to shut up about how bored she was. They pretty much immediately regretted it later.

Sunny Flare only chuckled at everyone else's reactions to this. She then looked at Twilight, who sighed as she was looking out the window looking nervous for some reason. "Uhh Twilight, you okay?"

"Huh? Oh sorry about that Sunny I'm fine, just thinking of some things." Twilight said barely looking back.

"Like what?"

"I-It's nothing interesting."

"Are you sure?" Sunny said concerned. "If you want to talk abo---"

"I"m sure thank you!" Twilight replied rapidly.

"Umm... Okay then." Sunny said with her hands up. She then taps Lemon's Shoulder to remove her headphones. Lemon looks back at Sunny with a confused look on her face. "Lemon, can you call Rainbow Dash to tell them of whats going on right now?"

"Oh sure, I'll do that." Lemon said with a smile. She then picks her phone out of her pocket and then starts calling Rainbow Dash.

"Hello?"

"Yo Rainbow whats up?!" Lemon shouted again to everyone's dismay.

"Lemon, where are you guys? We've been waiting for you for so long!"

"We're just in a little bind right now, but they said that we're almost there so keep tight!"

"OK then, you better hurry up. Pinkie is almost done making the treats."

"Don't worry, we'll get there faster than you can say Za--"

"Finally we're here!" Indigo yelled with relief. Lemon looked outside and saw Pinkie's house.

"Nevermind we're here." Lemon said.

"Alright! The front door is open so you can come in."

Click

Lemon Zest puts her phone into her pocket and looks at everyone. "Rainbow said the front door is open."

Twilight sighs and muttered to herself, "Well here goes nothing."

Indigo then turns her van off and everyone starts to get out of the car. As they all check if they got everything Indigo looks at them, "Alright guys, who's ready for a Christmas party?!" she yelled to everyone while pumping her fist into the air.

Everyone else pumps their fist into the air and yelled out, "YEA!" They then proceeded to walk towards the front door of Pinkie Pie's house.



It was about two hours since the Shadowbolts arrived at Pinkie's house for their Christmas party celebration. It's now dark outside, and the snow was still falling from the sky. Everyone was having a blast, playing many games that Pinkie set up and eating almost all of the gingerbread man cookies that Pinkie made. "Wow, Pinkie you really did outdid yourself this year!" Rarity said as she started painting Sunset's fingernails with some red and green nail polish.

"Thanks Rarity!" Pinkie said while jumping around everyone squealing and smiling. "Since our new friends were coming I had to double my efforts. Besides, I wanted to try out some cute designs for the gingerbread men."

"Yea, they looked awesome! But you really didn't have to do this." Indigo pointed out her gingerbread man showing that Pinkie tried to make it as close to her as possible. Everyone was surprised on how accurate they were to everyone.

Pinkie then popped behind Indigo and looked down at her. "Why not? They are so adorable!" Indigo jumped from this asking herself on how Pinkie Pie did that. She then remembered on what the others said. It's just Pinkie being Pinkie, don't question it.

Sunset chuckled from this and looked at her finished fingernails. 'Damn Rarity. You said Pinkie outdid herself.' Sunset thought to herself. Rarity tried her best making unique patterns with the nail polish she has on her. She smiled then looked at Rarity, "Wow, thanks Rarity! They look great!"

"I know darling. I know." Rarity said curling her hair. She then looks at everyone else, "Who wants their nails painted?!"

Everyone smiled then proceeded to walk towards Rarity to get their nails painted on see what design she will do. Well everyone but Twilight, who was staring out the window ever since they arrived. Sunset noticed this and walked towards her. She tapped Twilight's shoulder and asked, "Hey Twi, you okay there?" Twilight jumped a little from this and looked back. She then immediately looked back outside.

"I-I'm fine Sunset." Twilight stuttered nervously.

"Really? It doesn't sound like it." Sunset said worried about her. She knows that Twilight, well this Twilight is not much of a talker but she felt like something was bothering her. "If you wanna talk about it, you can tell me." Sunset said putting her hand on Twilight's shoulder.

"Really I'm fine Sunset." Twilight replied without looking at Sunset.

"Alright, if you change your mind just come to me." Sunset then stands up, "Well come on you gotta your nails painted by Rarity right now, besides look outside." She looked out seeing that it was snowing much harder than it did earlier.

"OK, fine I'm coming." Twilight said as she starts to stand up and walk to everyone else. 'I-I hope she understands soon.'



Five hours later, Everyone was in Pinkie's room in their Pajamas. Pinkie lent the Shadowbolts some of her spare Pajamas. They don't know on how Pinkie keeps on having spare pajamas, especially tonight since she had six spares. Pinkie then looks at everyone, "Alright girls, time to open some presents!" Everyone then gets excited as they proceed to get some gifts that they got for each other.

"I'm first!" Indigo stated as she proceeds to Rainbow Dash, "Here for you."

"Heh, when your first you know it will be good." She then starts to rip apart the wrapping and opened the box and saw what was inside. "WOAH!!! How did you find these?!" She then picked up one the contents inside the box showing that it was a Daring Do book.

"I got these last month. Signed by Daring Do herself." Indigo said crossing her arms, "Look inside there's more."

Rainbow then took out more of the Daring Do books and saw another Daring Do books she never saw before. Rainbow gasped at this. "I-is this the---"

"Yup, the new novel! Not even released yet. Your welcome." Indigo smirked knowing she was the lucky one who got the unreleased novel.

"This was suppose to be released in 7 months! This is awesome thanks!" Rainbow hugged Indigo as she shouted in victory.

"Yay hugging!" Pinkie pops out of nowhere hugging both Indigo and Rainbow as hard as she can.

"C-can't breathe..." Indigo squealed as she is tapping Pinkie's arm. She is surprised on how strong Pinkie Pie was. Pinkie then lets go as everyone else laughs hysterically.

"OK, who's next?!"



One hour later almost everyone got their gifts. Rarity got some a new makeup kit and some great jewelry from Sunny Flare, Fluttershy got a cute yet gigantic dog plushie from Pinkie Pie, Sour Sweets got some her favorite chocolate from Sunset Shimmer, Applejack got Pinkie Pie a new recipe book for many sweets that she thought Pinkie might like to try, and Lemon Zest got a gold pair of headphones from Sugarcoat. Everyone asked on how Sugarcoat got them. She bluntly explained that she won them from a live concert she went to quite a while ago. "OK one more person to go!" Pinkie yelled out as she hops to Twilight.

"Umm..." Twilight looks around the room twirling her hair, she then walks towards Sunset. She then said quietly, "Sunset umm... can I talk to you for a second?" Everyone seemed confused about this.

"A-alright then." Sunset then walks with Twilight outside Pinkie's room into the hallway. "So are you ready to tell me?"

Twilight nods as her cheeks slowly turn red. "Well what is it then?" Sunset asked raising an eyebrow.

"W-well..." Twilight then looks away nervously cursing to herself.

"It's OK, take your time." Sunset said trying to calm Twilight down.

"I-it's about your present..." Twilight said while looking down.

"Is that it?" Sunset seemed confused about this. "Did you forget it or something? If you did then I can wait for it. You don't have to worry abou---" What happens next surprised her big time. Twilight lunged at Sunset kissing her in the lips. Both of their cheeks glowing bright red. Sunset then closes her eyes and gives into the kiss. After for what seemed like an eternity their lip separate, both of them breathing heavily.

Sunset then snaps out of her bliss and asked, "W-why Twilight?"

"It's because you saved me from the magic I stole from you guys during the Friendship Games. I didn't know on how to thank you for that. Ever since then, I started to have this feeling in my chest. Every time I see, and hear you it makes my stomach flutter." Twilight said trying to convince her. Sunset smiled from this and held her hand.

"Well I'm glad that you told me about this." Sunset then leans towards Twilight then they hear coughing behind them. They saw everyone else smiling and some of them mostly Rainbow, Pinkie, and Indigo making kissing faces.

"Sorry girls, were we interrupting?" Rarity said chuckling to herself while Sunset and Twilight blushed brightly, looking away. "Well if you need some more time go ahead."

"Their gonna need all the time they need." Sugarcoat said bluntly as always.

"You two are so adorable!" Sour Sweets said, "Don't get all mushy on us!"

Sunset laughed, looked at Twilight and said, "Maybe five more minutes?" Everyone else then walked back into Pinkie's room to let Sunset and Twilight have their time alone for the rest of the night.