A/N: Happy Holidays in July, everypony! This is a very early fic, made in May of 2016, but being published now because I tend to procrastinate with some projects with my collab partners. Some things have changed in the series since this story's editing process, and I don't feel like changing much because it just means more MLP fics from me... Oh, joy... I hope you enjoy what we've made here, so Merry Christmas in July, enjoy, my readers, enjoy!
"Aunt Twilight! Aunt Twilight!" a white alicorn filly with lavender and blue streaked mane with violet eyes rushed in with glee as she had an envelope in her mouth. "You have a letter from the human dimension!"
"Thank you, Flurry," Twilight smiled to her niece and took the envelope. "Just in time for Hearth's Warming."
"The most magical time of the year!" Flurry Heart squealed.
"So, what's it say?" Flash Sentry asked his wife.
"'Dear Twilight,
we write to you with high hopes and anticipation of celebrating our first Hearth's Warming with you all in Equestria due to being busy with our own families during our own celebration of what we call Christmas in our dimension'," Twilight began to read as she levitated the letter with her horn. "'I really hope you enjoy our company and our culture combinations in order to make a spectacular holiday jamboree with all of our ideas mixed int one. The kids would very much like to hear your reading of A Hearth Warming's Tail with Snowfall Frost and the Spirits of Hearth's Warming. We also look forward to meeting Spike's hatchlings who Vincent has told us that they are named Zak and Wheezie before they go to their own land of dragons to raise their child to make Hugo and Diamanda proud grandparents. We look forward to seeing you all again and meeting the newest members of your family.
Faithfully yours as always, Cherry Butler, Atticus Fudo, Mo Brown, and Patch Pongo'."
"It sure has been a long time since we've last seen them." Flash Sentry said.
"You're right." Twilight smiled.
"So?" A pegasus filly asked.
"Come on, let's get ready for Hearth's Warming," Twilight smiled. "We have first timers coming to Equestria real soon!"
"Are they your human friends, Aunt Twilight?" Flurry Heart asked her paternal aunt.
"Yes, they were even here for your Crystalling," Twilight replied to remind her since she was only a foal when it had happened. "Flurry, I hope your mom and dad gave you a big breakfast, 'cuz we're gonna need all our energy."
"They sure did." Flurry Heart smiled before bouncing around her pegasus cousin that was the daughter of Twilight and Flash.
"Knock it off!" the pegasus cousin pouted. "Who do you think you are, Aunty Pinkie?"
"Well, I have been spending a lot of time with her." Flurry Heart smiled.
"It shows..." the pegasus filly grumbled.
"Now, Midnight..." Flash smiled gently to his daughter.
"Sorry, Daddy..." the pegasus filly smiled sheepishly in return.
"Well, I better write back to them." Twilight said.
"You do that, I'll sort out the ponies." Flash smiled.
Twilight kissed him in return as she then went to get a letter to send back to Atticus and the others. Flash then left with the ponies to be with their friends and other cousins.
Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich were putting up decorations already with help of the growing Cake Twins who were now around school-aged. Even from foalhood, Pound Cake still had his own incredible strength.
"You guys okay down there?" Pinkie asked the twins, acting like a big sister to them since she was like family to the Cakes couple already.
"I'm fine, but I dunno 'bout Pumpkin." Pound smirked as his sister carried him up.
"Tell me again why I'm not on top?!" Pumpkin gasped weakly.
"Because I'm the strongest and my hooves seem to be the only ones to be able to nail the decorations down with my own hooves." Pound said, smugly.
"Hmph!" Pumpkin pouted firmly.
Spike walked to see Twilight.
"Just in time, Spike," Twilight smiled. "I have a message for Atticus, Cherry, Mo, and Patch."
"Oh, boy!" Spike beamed. "I wonder what they're up to, it feels like forever since we last saw them..."
Twilight smiled as she sighed, very hopeful and anxious to see her inter-dimensional friends.
In the other dimension...
Darla and Urchin were still staying with Atticus, Mo, and their family until Darla's new baby would be born, Eloise had gotten over the jealousy and was now looking forward to becoming a big sister after hearing Akito and Estelle's story of their first adventure with Tommy Pickles when Dil was born.
Estelle smiled before sighing as she saw a happy couple outside, walking hand-in-hand, feeling jealous of them.
Eloise was walking by in her winter coat with Ditto in her hair, being her hair bow again as always. "Do you guys wanna build a snowman?~" she then asked her cousins.
"Yeah!" Akito and Vincent cheered.
"Oh, um, yes, please." Estelle added in, a little late.
"Estelle, are you alright?" Eloise asked.
"Yeah, let's just go outside and build a snowman." Estelle said before going outside ahead of them.
Eloise, Akito, and Vincent frowned in worry of the girl, but they then went to make that snowman.
Scruffy growled as he was wearing a fluffy sweater with antlers on his head with a big red nose, Dot had on an elf costume with a jingly bell hat, and Weenie had a Santa suit, hat, and beard, and Snow White was laughing at their humiliation.
"What is so funny, Cat?!" Scruffy glared.
"You guys!" Snow White laughed. "Oh, you'll never see a cat dressed up for funny family Christmas cards!"
"Oh, there you are, Snow White; it's time for your outfit." Mo smiled before grabbing the kitten as she was going to be dressed up as well.
"NOOOO!" Snow White yelped as she tried to escape, but it was too late for her and she mewed and hissed while the dogs smirked at her being 'punished' as well.
After a few struggles, Snow White was finally placed back on the ground to show, she was now in a snowman outfit. The dogs smirked to her.
"Shut up." Snow White growled through her teeth.
This only caused the dogs to laugh at her humiliation.
The kids continued to build a snowman and were even having a snowball fight.
"So, is that what you land kids call a snowball fight?" Urchin asked as he watched from the window.
"Yeah, they're lots of fun," Darla smiled to her husband as she rested her hand on her stomach. "I remember sometimes thanks to Amber, it would snow during the summer, and then we went to Ardendelle."
"Yeah, to save your life so you wouldn't be frozen to death." Atticus said.
"Yeah, yeah..." Darla hid an eye roll and rubbed her stomach.
"Have you thought of names yet?" Atticus then asked his little sister who was now pregnant with her second child.
"We don't know if its a boy or a girl yet, but for Eloise's sake, I hope it's a girl." Darla replied.
Then before anything else could be said, a scroll from Equestria appeared in the room, telling them it was a response from Twilight.
"Whoa!" Urchin seemed to be the only one really surprised by that.
"Wow, that was fast." Atticus smiled as he took the scroll.
"What's it say, Atticus?" Patch asked.
"Hang on, I have to get these pictures to my parents and brother," Mo said as she set up the camera to take a picture of the pets. "Okay, everybody, say cheese!"
"I wish I had fingers, I feel like using one right about now..." Snow White scowled.
"Oh, Mo! Guess where we're all going on Hearth's Warming Eve?" Atticus smiled with the scroll after reading it.
"Equestria?" Mo smirked as that was the only dimension that celebrated that holiday.
The pets looked curious of Hearth's Warming Eve.
"Yep." Atticus smiled.
"What's Hearth's Warming Eve?" Scruffy asked.
"It's basically an Equestrian version of Chrsitmas." Patch said.
"Oh..." Scruffy face-pawed himself. "Duh!"
"It sounds magical, Daddy." Dot smiled.
"And I'm sure that it is." Snow White also smiled.
"We better go get the kids and Cherry and Forte and Felicity then." Mo said.
"Sounds good." Atticus said.
"Oh, um, where do we stay then?" Urchin asked.
Mo shrugged. "Surely you could go back to the Plaza until we get back, Darla's their best client."
"That's true, we could stay there for a little while." Darla agreed. "I mean, worst case scenario, the baby is born while you guys are gone."
"Well, I guess that calms my nerves." Urchin smiled.
"Okay, when you guys go, then we'll go back to the hotel." Darla agreed.
The kids then came inside after their little snowball fight and activities outside.
"You kids look like you could use quick hot cups of cocoa." Mo smiled to the four of them.
"Yes, please." The kids smiled back.
Mo giggled. "Alright, I'll get to it."
The kids smiled in thanks then.
"Eloise, Auntie Mo and Uncle Atticus would like to go to Equestria for Hearth's Warming-" Darla started.
"Ooh, I wanna go to Hearth's Warming!" Eloise got excited. "I don't know what it is, but it sounds absolutely amazing!"
"Well, actually, they're going to go and we're going back to the Plaza Hotel," Darla said to her daughter, then saw that look in her eye. "You wanna celebrate it with them, don't you?"
"Sorry..." Eloise stared down at the floor.
"Well, it would be a great experience for her." Urchin said.
"Oh, I don't know, Ellie," Darla said as she held her stomach. "Don't you remember that I almost didn't make it home in time for Christmas in New York because of flights getting cancelled in the Paris airport?"
"Oh, please, Mother, just this one time..." Eloise pleaded. "I'll behave myself and make a good first impression, I promise, promise, promise..." she then held out her pinkie like she did with Nanny.
"Wow, she must really mean it if she's going with a pinkie promise." Akito said.
Darla linked pinkies back with her daughter. "Very well then..."
Eloise smiled in excitement.
The kids then sat at a small table together and drank their hot chocolate to warm themselves up from playing in the snow for so long. After finishing their drinks, a portal to Equestria opened and showed Cherry, waiting for them at the other side.
"Okay, time to go to Equestria." Atticus said.
Urchin decided to quickly pack up his and Darla's things to stay at the Plaza Hotel until Atticus, Mo, and the kids would get back since they didn't really have anywhere else to stay after Darla left Paris for good and Urchin could live like a normal human being from now on. The pets and the Pokemon were even coming too.
"Come on, Weenie!" Eloise held out her hands for her pug.
Weenie rushed over and jumped into her arms. Eloise smiled as she hugged her dog and blew kisses to her parents as they went off to Equestria. Darla blew kisses back as the others were going off to celebrate Hearth's Warming in the equine dimension.
'I wonder how we'll look in Equestria?' Estelle thought to herself.
The others who were going then jumped into the portal.
After calling a cab, Urchin and Darla were going to stay in New York at the hotel where their daughter had lived away from both of them.
"Can't wait to see how life in the Plaza is like." Urchin said.
There was a large Christmas tree for the celebration with many people sending presents all around.
Darla smiled to him and rang the bell as they came into the hotel lobby.
"Welcome to the Plaza Hote-" Miss Thompson turned and looked surprised. "Oh, my, it's you!"
"A suite for two please," Darla smiled. "We'd like to stay for the Christmas season."
"O-Of course, Ms. Fudo." Miss Thompson said.
Darla smiled back to her as she did the reservation for two. Urchin looked in all wonder that could only match or rival his daughter with insatiable curiosity. While they were being placed into their suite, everyone else was in Equestria, now in their own Equestrian forms.