I walked around the snow filled town, smiling as I watched the foals playing in the white blanket of joy. Many ponies were out and about, building snowponies or having snowball fights. As I reached Octavias house I saw her and Vinyl sitting outside wearing hats and scarves with Screwball playing around in the snow, surprisingly not covered up in any warm clothing. I walked up, three wrapped presents in my arms, one wrapped in grey paper, one who're and the last one pink.

Reaching the trio Screwball immediately turned her head and smiled, holding out her hooves signalling me to pick her up. Not keeping my adorable niece waiting I set the presents on a dry spot of ground and lifted her off the ground, earning a few giggles as her little legs flailed about as I spun her around in the air. "Hello there Screwy, why aren't you wrapped up?"

"She has her fathers powers, remember?" I turned around and saw Twilight walking up with a few gifts held in her magic. She walked up to Octavia and planted a peck on her cheek, earning a smile. I looked to Screwball who had summoned a small tongue of purple fire to keep herself warm.

"She's really getting the hang of using her abilities isn't she?" I hugged her and looked down at the three mares. "Oh, merry Chr- I mean happy hearth's warming you three."

The three smiled warmly and replied in happy tones. I had brought Scary out with me and he crawled out of my coat pocked, wearing a tiny scarf and little earmuffs. Screwball noticed him and laughed as he playfully scuttled around her body, stopping as she brought him into a gentle hug earning brighter smiles from all of us.

"Well, from what I know Symbol had gotten used to his powers very quickly, it's no surprise that she would catch on as well." Twilight commented. "Now, how about we all get inside and unwrap our gifts, I'm sure a little somepony is very excited for her first Hearth's Warming." Twilight picked up Screwball in her magic and placed her on her back, Scary had jumped off and was now resting on my head.

We all followed Twilight inside and sat by the fireplace, Screwy sat on the ground playing with a new rattle that Twilight had made her while the rest of us sat on couches facing each other. "Alright then, this one is for you Tavi." I said as I handed her the grey present.

"Why thank you Zero." She bit down on the bow and pulled, carefully taking off the packaging. Underneath was a grey box with pink beret to match her bowtie. "Oh my, it's wonderful." She placed it on her head, now looking classier than usual. "Thank you so much Zero."

"You're welcome Tavi, now this one is for Screwball." I said as I placed the pink present in front of my niece. She took a look at it and smiled, using her fire to carefully burn the wrapping paper and sent the ashes into the fireplace. Inside there was small box, clumsily opening it she found a necklace, Symbols necklace. "It didn't seem right to just keep the necklace to myself, and I'm sure that if Symbol wanted anyone to have it, it would be his daughter."

Screwy smiled as I placed the necklace around her neck. Surprising us all it started to glow purple, a human figure made of a see-through purple mist appeared and slowly walked over to the foal. Staying cautious I placed my hand on my gun. The figure knelt down and looked Screwy in the eye, it whispered a few words that I nor the girls could understand, but Screwball seemed to understand them. She laughed, stood on her hind legs and hugged the figures face.

"Dada!" We all froze as she said her first word, and at what she had just called this figure. We all thought we were hearing things until she said it again. "Dada!" The figure picked Screwy up and cradled her in its arms, looking to its eye I noticed a tear roll down its check as it cuddled her. It set her down and turned into a puff of purple smoke that all floated into the necklace, forming a purple gem on the medallion.

The rest of us were left speechless, unable to believe what we had just witnessed. We were snapped out of our trance by a knock at the door. Octavia shook herself and walked to the front door, opening it to reveal Author, Vivi, Posit and Plague and Amnesia. "Oh, hello everyone, please come in."

"Hello Octavia, happy Hearth's Warming." The group all walked in and Vivi immediately picked up Screwball.

"Ah, there's my beautiful granddaughter, with Symbols necklace?" She looked at the medallion and gasped. "Author, you might want to see this."

The displacer floated over and examined the medallion and smiled. "Why am I not surprised?"

"What's going on?" I asked.

"It would appear that Symbol had left a bit more of his life force in this, and had put a sort of protection spell on it. Any time Screwball may need some help or is in danger a ghost like version of Symbol will appear to help or protect her. Clever boy."

I left the group to open their gifts that they had gotten each other. Although, there was one gift I still had to give, Vinyls gift. I told her to follow me outside and she did so. Once in the back garden I handed her the present and she opened it with her magic, finding a vinyl record inside. "It's a record containing a good bit of music from my world, I figured you could put it to good use in the club to freshen things up a bit. Plus it will be nice to listen to some of my favourite bands from back home while I'm serving drinks." As I was about to continue Vinyl tackled me with a hug, causing me to fall on my back.

"Thank you." I smiled and returned the hug.

Author's Notes:

Merry Christmas everyone.

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Don't worry this story is still going, until next time my loyal readers and followers

The original story, official SU reboot

I regretted leaving this story to rot in its grave, I know it's not the best I could have made it. A universe of stories came from its ashes, and that is something to be thankful for. However, there are things that I have left unfinished with this. The Cult Of The Rings, the Order of Tranquility among other things.

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