The early morning sun wrapped Ponyville in its embrace, filling the earth with little sparkles as it's light felt upon the snow. It was winter, Heart's Warming Eve only a week away. It seemed like it would be another peaceful day in Ponyville. But for one little filly, this day was going to be anything but peaceful.

Nyx woke up as the beams of light entered her room. Trying to get the sleep out of her head she climbed out of her bed. After brushing her hair and paying the little fillies chamber a visit, she took a look outside.

"I could watch this the whole day", she said to herself while admiring the beautiful landscape. She felt sorry for her grandparents in Canterlot who didn't have the opportunity to wake up with something like this. She kept watching outside, hypnotized by the flickering of the sunlight in the snow, until the scent of pancakes filled her nostrils.

Guided by the smell of fresh baked batter and caramel  syrup, she walked to kitchen. As she entered she was greeted with the sight of a humming Twilight trying to turn over a pancake. Knowing where this was going, she quickly  took cover under the table. Spike however, who was already sitting at the table, still a little sleepy, didn't know what hit him.

"Nice throw mom", Nyx said while leaving her anti-UFP-bunker.

"Oh, good morning Nyx", Twilight said sheepishly, "Sorry Spike".

"It's nothing Twilight. In fact, now I've an extra pancake", Spike chuckled.

Twilight made the last pancakes without any problems and joined the other two. "So Nyx, anything planned for today?"

"The other crusaders and I are going to have a huge snowball fight at Sweet Apple Acres. Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Button and I against Scootaloo, Rumble, Pipsqueak and Twist", Nyx said while pouring some extra syrup on her last pancake.

"Who's Button? Never heard of that pony."

"That doesn't surprise me. He's new, moved in last Friday, something with his dad's work."

"Oh, well , I hope you will have fun. Spike, could you rearrange the shelves while I'm in Canterlot? The note with the new arrangement is laying on my desk."

"Wait a minute, why do you need to go to Canterlot? The play isn't until next week." Nyx asked angrily.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Celestia sent me a letter last night. I need to come earlier because she wants me to help her with organizing this year's play to prevent something like the disaster last year."

Nyx shivered as she thought of what happened last year. "I understand", she said. "Could you say hi to Celestia and Luna for me?"

"I will do that", Twilight said while cleaning the table.

It was one of the most intense snowball fights in the history of Ponyville. The CMC had lifted it to a whole new level. They had built several slingshots and two small fortresses, reinforced with wood. Ponies could easily have mistaken it for a military training ground, if it wasn't for the silly flags which were perched atop each fortress.

They were already playing for two hours and if a large snowstorm hadn't interfered with the fight, it could have lasted another several hours.

"Cease fire, cease fire!!!" shouted Applebloom while running to the enemy camp.

"Why would we?!" asked Scootaloo, ready to throw another snowball.

"There's a storm coming from the Everfree Forest and by the looks of it, it's a big one!"

Scootaloo looked at the horizon to see how big it was. When she saw the storm, fear filled her body. Not only was it the biggest storm she had ever seen, but it was also approaching rather quickly. "But Rainbow Dash said there wasn't a storm planned for the rest the week."

She had barely said this when Rainbow Dash landed near them. "Girls, you have to get out of here now! A unplanned storm is heading to Ponyville and it's to big for us to stop. I have to go now, I need to warn the others. Bye." And before they knew it she was gone.

After some quick goodbyes, everypony went to their homes. For Nyx, it was a long walk because the library was on the other side of Ponyville and she needed to walk past the Everfree Forest. Still not being able to fly properly, she ran as fast as her little legs allowed her so she wouldn't be caught by the storm.

But the intense snowball fight had left her exhausted. She wasn't as fast as she thought and when she ran past the Everfree Forest, she was hit by a wall of flying snow. Surprised by the sudden force, she lost her balance and fell to the ground face first. Disorientated by the crash, she stood up shaking. Not sure where to go due the raging white curtain, she ran towards the direction she thought the library was.

But the library wasn't in that direction.

Little did she know that she was actually going straight into the Everfree Forest.