Canterlot, Thirteen Years Ago
A lone unicorn mare made her way through a snow covered forest as the bright moonlight lit it up in wondrous fashion, the mare of the moon watching over all.
A single cottage lay up ahead, few decorations littered the walls but the festive spirit was there none-the-less. A single mare could be seen through the windows seemingly sitting at a desk, writing. Knocking on the door the unicorn mare didn’t have to wait long before a Pegasus mare opened the door. The mare’s coat colour was somewhere between dark khaki and arylide yellow, her eyes were magenta and her mane was like a greyscale rainbow.
“Hello? What do you want?”
“A.K. Yearling?”
“Yes?”
The unicorn mare adopted a sly smile. “Or perhaps I should call you Daring Do.”
Daring Do adopted a slightly alarmed look, and scrutinised the mare before her.
“What do you want?” Daring hissed threateningly.
“Oh I assure you I hold no ill will and have perfectly reasonable intentions, I simply have a request.”
“Go on…”
It was roughly six in the morning, Hearth's Warming Day. The silence in the household of Night Light and Twilight Velvet was broken when a small ball of lavender adorableness excitedly jumped up and down on the couple’s bed.
“Mum, dad! It’s Hearths Warming! It’s Hearth's Warming!” Twilight shouted excitedly.
Twilight Velvet groggily opened her eyes to examine the ecstatic filly.
“Oh Twilight, it’s six in the morning.”
“But it’s Hearth's Warming!”
“Now come on Twilight, you don’t see Shining being silly like this do you?”
“But… it’s Hearth's Warming,” Twilight said, tears forming in her eyes.
Now it was Night Light who spoke up, “Come on Twilight please don’t get upset, two more hours OK? Then we can open up presents.”
“O- OK...” The little filly finally relented, despondently jumping off the bed and walking out of the bedroom door.
Velvet sighed. “OK, now I feel bad.”
“She’ll be fine, in two hours she will be running on the ceiling in excitement.”
Velvet chuckled. “Yeah she will, come on, let’s get some sleep while we can.”
Snuggling up they closed their eyes and began to let sleep reclaim them.
It was moments later that the door opened again and the jumping started once more.
Both ponies opened their eyes to see Twilight was back jumping above Twilight Velvet with the same excited expression as before, however this time she was joined by a teenage colt with the exact same expression jumping over Night Light.
“It’s Hearth's Warming!” both of them chanted over and over.
And thus, with the realms of sleep taken cruelly from them, Night Light and Twilight Velvet had little choice but to waken and follow the excited pair downstairs.
The Hearth's Warming tree sparkled magnificently and all the colourful wrapped presents sat in anticipation. Four ponies came into the room, the elder two walking calmly, if a bit tiredly while the others sprinted in as fast as they could.
Joy spread throughout the four as they began trading and opening their presents, soon enough all the presents were opened and wrapping paper filled the living room. As the kids enthusiastically lauded through their gifts Night Light noticed something odd, one last package adorned in red and gold wraping paper, yet unopened.
“Honey, do you remember who gave that one?” he whispered quietly to his wife.
Twilight Velvet looked to what he was pointing at, adopting a confused expression. “I don’t remember that one being there yesterday.”
Shining too finally noticed the lone present and bounded over to it, looking at the label.
“Hey Twily, it’s for you!”
Twilight Sparkle instantly perked up and scrambled over to her BBBFF, who hastily handed her the gift. With the gift in her hooves Twilight too inspected the label to see who it was from.
To Twilight
Have a wonderful Hearth's Warming my dear, and enjoy.
“Huh, there’s no name…” Twilight pointed out.
“Well what are you waiting for, open it!” Shining Armor encouraged.
Smiling, Twilight gripped the paper in her magical aura and ripped it off in one fell swoop. Her eyes widened as she saw it’s contents.
“Daring Do and The Eternal Flower!” Twilight shrieked excitedly, hugging the book tightly, “And it’s signed!”
Night light and Twilight Velvet gawked. Daring Do and The Eternal Flower was the newly released book in the Daring Do series, they had tried to get one for Twilight but it had been sold out everywhere, who could have got her a copy? Let alone a signed edition? But another shock was to come.
Twilight opened the cover, to find a note on the inside.
To Twilight, enjoy this super special edition for a super special filly. Keep on being awesome.
- A.K. Yearling
Now Night Light and Twilight Velvet were really confused, in contrast however Shining Armor scooped Twilight up into his lap and they started to read the book together.
None of them noticed a unicorn mare watching them from the living room window, small snowflakes falling into her mane under the beautiful early morning sky, with carol singers already starting to sing in the streets intent on brightening that morning of goodwill and friendship among all ponies and beyond.
“Happy Hearth's Warming my daughter, I love you,” Queen Chrysalis smiled, a single tear falling down her cheek.
aww.
Right in the feels...
And a happy new year to you!
MERRY CHRYSSIMAS!
That is funny, and sweet
Merry Christmas to you too!
yet
Why u do this to me?
Merry Christmas
.....-dies of feels-
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I remember a comic that had something similar...It was hilarious!
Merry Christmas!
Should I laugh or cry ?
Merry Christmas
Aww, how cute.
6764048 And unless I miss my guess, a reference.
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That was cute.
Merry Christmas to you too!
I know that reference…
That was sad. No happiness here. Just sadness...because my grandmother might be dying, any day now, of a fatal cancer that was supposed to kill her a month ago, before Christmas! And yes, this message is brought to you by that one guy, the guy that just has to pee in the punch bowl that is everybody else's Christmas happiness!
But that doesn't make what I said any less true.
Awwww, that's adorable!
Awwww!
Awwwwwwwh.
Happy Holidays to you!
A cute little filler chapter for the Christmas season. I loved it.
Have a marry Christmas and a happy new year.
I'll read you later-BFBL
Nice holiday chapter, thanks and happy holiday's
This was all I could think about.
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So, so bittersweet.
And have an obligatory Merry Christmas!
6764427 then don't damnit, cherish every moment with her. She certainly hasn't given up getting, why should you?
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She lives in Illinois, I live in Michigan. Thankfully, I was able to see her earlier this month, back when the dementia was a relatively new development, and even better than that, she has a part of the family looking after her in her home. Just so you know, I’m only 18, and don’t even have a driver’s license, which is why I’m not down there right now. My father is though.
Ok, that was sweet what Chrysalis did for Twilight. Hope her foster parents and birth mother get along.
What is this? Why is there liquid coming out of my eyes?
Lol on twi & shining and aaaaaaawwwwww cute & happy smile chapter ending the flashback moment right there.
Thank you I´m maybe no Flashback fan, but it was better than I first thought, it still makes me feel a bit sad for Chrysalis.
Does anyone knows some difficult adoption storys like that?
I have once read a story about Scootaloo, and Twilight helped her to find her parent´s, which where Shinin armor, which was drunk while it happened in the past, and Spitfire, I believe she was drunk to.
While I liked the story, and I had to agree that Spitfire could have given her daughter to Shining armor, instead of giving her to an orphanage, but I don´t really want to blame her for that. I can´t describe it, but I fell like she havet done much wrong.
In the story even if Shining never knew about his daughter, I didn´t liked it that they only seemed to blame Spitfire, I can understand it if the parent´s maybe start to think about their own future too, and she at least let her live. (I´m not sure if they could have done a abortion, but I don´t blame her for thinking about her own future.)
In other adoption story´s, where they maybe kind of want to force Rainbow Dash to adopt Scootaloo, I feel like some people forget that she would have to give up a part of her dream, or mabe her whole dream, and sometimes I think the child would get very happy if the mother isn´t really happy about the outcome either. It probably depens on how the story is written, but I think that isn´t very untrue
Well I only wanted to ask if you know a story like that, or something similar. I would prefer it if they keep it kind of fair, or if there is some sort of justice in later chapters, should one of them get blamed for everything, even if it doesn´t seems to be fair.
Critical strike right in them feels. *falls over*
The mental image of Twilight and Shining jumping excitedly on the bed makes me laugh.
Cya
Raziel-chan
AWWW!!!
...Fe-eee--eeeellllsssss....... *plop*
Cute cute cute!
Ow... I think I'm bleeding clear blood out of my feelsus Maximus region, in the facial region... I think I should get it checked out
6777044 Hnng, you're right.
6765618 T he story you mentioned was said to be officially dead by the author only a few days prior.
6788554 thank you for letting me know about it.
Very nice work, well done.
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Filly Twilight is cute and her attempts to wake her parents are cute. It as cute as my head cannon of what Celestia did one Hearthswarming when she was just a filly. Her parents told her the sun wasn't even up yet (they would have bed side clocks for another 900 years), so Celestia being a smart filly and knowing her talent raised the sun then waked her parents. Of course once they found out what she did they were upset. And that how Celestia learned the importance of raising the sun at the right time.
Nice, Twilight.
So many feels!
This is exactly how my nephew acts on Christmas. This chapter brought back so many great memories. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Congratulations you killed me with too much DAHHHHHH. Damn you good sir/madam, I was not made to handle so many concentrated feels. I shall send you the repair bill for my currently broken brain, or maybe I wont and will just keep reading. Good story so far.
Did twilight get up and get shinning to wake up her parents
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Of course. It's what kids do. "You don't see your older sibling acting silly." "You're right. Time to fix that."
Bugmom does her best.
7751913 Eeyup.
Awwwwww. ^_^ I'm REALLY liking Chrysalis in this fic. ^.^