//------------------------------// // Winter Unwrap Up // Story: The return of the eternal winter // by Amethyst Quill //------------------------------// “Spike! Spike!” Twilight shouted, “Wake your scales up! I don’t want to be late for the Winter Wrap Up meeting again!” “Urgh… not this day again…” Spike yawned; he hated Winter Wrap Up because he often fell asleep at the end of the event. Every time he took a little nap, those friends of Twilight would tease him. “There’s no time to complain, I told you yesterday that you need to sleep early, didn't I?” Twilight stared in front of Spike, forcing him to wake up. Spike went to Twilight’s desk, took out a quill and an inkwell gave it to Twilight. She stepped outside of her castle in Ponyville which was covered in snow. “Hopefully this Winter Wrap Up going to end earlier than before, this winter wasn’t that snowy!” Twilight trotted on her pony hooves and said, Spike didn't pay to what was she talking about, he was just there to check everything on the checklist. In the town square, everypony gathered around, listening to the Mayor Mare’s speech: “We’re gathering here today for this year Winter Wrap Up. As almost everypony knows, our Ponyville wasn’t as snowy as the other years. I hope that everypony will all have fun and work much better than before, under the guide of the pony we all love: Princess Twilight Sparkle!” Twilight walked up the stage, as the ponies clopped for her great contribution for the event since she came. “Good morning everypony! I’m Twilight Sparkle. I hope that this year, my plan for the Winter Wrap Up will runs smoothly. As an All Team Organizer, no pony should feel more grateful to me to see so many ponies wanting to clear up the snow,” Twilight spoke to the crowds, just like usual. Everypony, except for the Mayor and Twilight, put on their team’s jacket color: Tan for the Animal Team, Blue for the Weather Team and Green for the Plant Team. Twilight’s jacket color is a mix of all team jacket colors, like her what she normally organizes all teams to do their duties. The ponies started to get to work. The Earth ponies were usually in the Plant Team, where they clear the snow piles to plant crops, the Pegasi mostly in the Weather Team to clear the skies, call the southern birds, clear the snow, skate on the frozen lakes to make it easier to melt the ice, the Unicorns in the Animal Team to call the animals to rise up and welcome the spring, and also make nests for the southern birds. The ponies worked very well under Twilight's order, in fact it was so organized that she proved Ponyville how well she was at orgainizing back at her first Winter Wrap Up. Without her help, Winter Wrap Up would never be right. "Hey! Applejack! Need some help from me?" Rainbow Dash flew to Applejack and asked. They're both are friends and also the leaders of Weather and Plant Team respectively. "We're all fine, we're all strong as buffaloes," AJ replied, she looked at Rainbow Dash's sigh and ask "What's wrong, partner?" "Nothing, it's just that this Winter Wrap Up is just so boring! There isn't much snow for us to clear!" Rainbow Dash raised her raspy voice. "Wasn't the snow that much because you messed up with Cloudsdale's weather factory?" AJ giggled, as Rainbow Dash glanced at to her. Twilight came across their conversation, she told them with a smile, "Hold up your chit chat girls, you got plenty of time to chat later on." "You sure about that?" Amethyst Star, the Animal Team leader, jumped in, "We can clean this winter quickly, so don't be too confident." she held out her hooves and gave AJ a bag of seeds, she thanked her gratefully, "Thank you Amethyst, those seeds are what I wanted, good thing you did you hoof them over to that clumsy hooves Caramel." "Uh, huh... "Amethyst Star walked away, before she left, she said, "See you soon, leaders. Winter can't go away by itself... but it can be bigger at anytime." "I'm will make sure that everything is okay. See you guys later!" Twilight Sparkle walked away, as she faded away into the snowy landscape. "I'm just hanging out here for a bit, I've asked Rainbowshine to keeping the team, let me help those ponies, I have quite a lot of strength today!" Rainbow Dash said. "If you want to..." AJ replied. "Twilight! How was Winter Wrap Up? Is it fine?" Mayor Mare trotted up and asked. "It was alright, there isn't much snow left now, and this may be the earliest spring ever!" Twilight answered. "Hopefully everything is fine..." Mayor said. "Mayor! Look what's coming from the south!" Rainbowshine, came from afar, she said "A huge... huge snowstorm! You must come!" Listening to Rainbowshine's tired voice, Mayor and Twilight quickly ran to the snowstorm. It was an enormous, colossal snowstorm, which brought down lots of massive icy breeze. Looking at the storm, the Mayor's eyes didn't wanted to believe what it was saw. "How... how can there be a snowstorm? The Pegasus ponies from Cloudsdale shouldn't be bringing this storm to Ponyville! Rainbowshine! Hae you told Rainbow Dash about it?" the Mayor asked "I... I haven't... I tried to... but..." Rainbowshine faltered. "What happened? Spit it out!" Twilight shouted within the strong winds. "She... sh-she... look! What's that?" Rainbowshine pointing at the bright brown pony in the blizzard, he walked towards them and breathed heavily, "The leaders... are gone! They were disappeared in the snowstorm!" "H-How? Caramel, do you know how this snow storm came?" Mayor Mare asked. "It's no ordinary snow storm..." Twilight glanced up to the sky "... It's... the Windigoes!" she shouted.