My Little Pony: The Reason For the Season
Chapter 7
The History of Christmas
Neo got up early the next day just in time to get to Cheerilee's class, Neo just put on regular clothes and he went immediately to the school. He got to the school in less than 15 minutes, he knocked on the door to be polite, he heard Cheerilee sweetly telling him to come in, and Neo walked in and saw all the foals who were happy to see him. Cheerilee greeted him nicely and she told the class that Neo came today to give them a presentation on Christmas, a holiday that humans celebrate that is very similar to Hearth Warming. So Neo went to the front of the class and began telling the class about Christmas.
He started off telling the class that unlike Hearth Warming which celebrates the founding of Equestria, Christmas celebrates the birthday of the lord and savior Jesus Christ, and around Christmastime, humans do activities that are similar to what the ponies do around Hearth Warming such as decorating houses and trees, baking cookies, shopping for gifts, exchanging gifts and being with families, to explain it better, Neo brought his device that becomes a TV when he presses the button on it and he showed the class a YouTube video called "The Real Story of Christmas" made by the History Channel. The class watched the video with interested faces, the film talked about the history of Christmas, when Christmas started, the birth of Jesus, the myth about Santa Claus, it even talked about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and a whole lot more. The foals loved the film and even Cheerilee was impressed by the film, The film was about 45 minutes, but the class was enjoying it and so was Cheerilee.
When the video was over, the class clapped, they were impressed and intrigued by the film. All the foals had questions for Neo and he did his best to answer them. Then Cheerilee told the class it was time for recess, the foals thanked Neo for coming as they went outside, Cheerilee thanked him for coming as well and said she thought the film was impressive, she said Neo could go now and she was happy she came, she gave him a hug and Neo left. Neo went outside and watched the foals play on the playground for a little while, some of the foals saw him and they waved at him, he waved back and then left the school grounds.
Neo walked around Ponyville for a while, watching the ponies decorate their houses for Hearth Warming, ponies passing by either waved at him or smiled at him. Then Neo headed back to the castle while singing a song ("The 1st Noel"), ponies passing by listened to him sing and they loved it, Neo ended his song right when he got to Twilight's castle, Twilight greeted him and told him that in 2 days, they were going to have a pageant about the founding of Equestria and she wanted to know if he wanted to come. Neo had an idea, he told Twilight he could come, but he wanted to know if he could have a pageant of his own about the birth of Jesus and his crucifixion like humans have on earth. Twilight said she will have to ask the Mayor Mare and see if she approves, Neo even said that he will have human friends from earth come to Equestria to play their parts in the pageant and Twilight said that should work.
The day before the pageant, Twilight told the Mayor Mare about Neo's idea to have 2 pageants, the Mayor Mare said as long as Neo has friends to play the parts in the pageants and have their own costumes then she would approve. Twilight said that would be no problem and the Mayor Mare approved of the 2 pageants, one about the founding of Equestria and the other about the birth of Jesus. Twilight quickly went home and told Neo that the Mayor Mare approved of the pageant and Neo was very happy to hear it, and so Neo was looking forward to the pageants and spending time with his friends on Hearth Warming Day.
End of chapter 7, chapter 8 coming soon.