Meanwhile, with Estelle as she was now flying through the air due to her being an alicorn like her father and brother as she was flying through the Everfree Forest to get where she wanted to as fast as possible. The pegasi greeted, waved, and wished her a Happy Hearth's Warming, but they got concerned because of how quick she was going and seemed to be in a rather menacing rush.
'Almost there; all I have to do is get to The Castle of the Two Sisters, and I'll be able to make sure this holiday is skipped.' Estelle thought to herself.
'You're making me very proud, little one...' Sombra's voice told Estelle as she was going to stop Hearth's Warming for selfish desires influenced by her great-uncle.
Estelle continued to fly fast as she was now going through or above The Everfree Forest, and where this didn't go unnoticed as a familiar timberwolf saw her flying by. This was definitely not a good sign.
Estelle landed as soon as she came into the forest and used her horn as light to explore. "Now, if I were a spell book in the Everfree Forest, where would I be?" she then asked herself.
'My dear, the book is inside The Castle of the Two Sisters' library.' Sombra's voice reminded her.
"That's right..." Estelle nodded as she kept going as she used her horn as light to take her to the castle to give her wings some rest, and where to her luck, her magic teleported her to The Castle of the Two Sisters, thanks to some help from her great-uncle.
'You know what to do...' Sombra told her.
"Yes, Uncle Sombra..." Estelle replied. The girl rushed inside and went straight to the library of the old castle to find the spell book her great-uncle had told her about.
"Oh, my, it's time for me to get going." A white guard with pegasus wings and red mane said.
"Go ahead." The other guards smiled to him, knowing he had to be with his family.
The guard smiled back, he then left his stand to get to Twilight's castle, but first, he had to make a stop at a certain cottage, and where this cottage was the home of his wife and lover. He knocked on the front door.
AK Yearling came out and smiled. "Oh, hello, dear."
"Shall we meet Scootaloo for the festivities?" the guard bowed to his lover mare.
"Why of course." AK Yearling smiled.
The guard smiled and walked with his wife to meet their daughter.
Estelle looked around for the library and finally found it and was tracking down the spell book that her uncle had told her about. After going through several pages, she finally found the spell, and where her uncle was right; she would need ingredients, so with the help of her crystal powers, she was now in a new room with a cauldron to mix all the ingredients together to get the spell to work.
"Let's see if I really am a Wiccan..." Estelle said to herself as she went straight to work with the cauldron.
Back at Twilight's castle...
"So, you're expecting a new foal sometime soon?" Forte asked the violet alicorn.
"Oh, yes," Twilight smiled. "I never thought I'd be a mother when I first found out about Midnight, but I grew to love it, also spending some time with Flurry Heart was a great help."
"It sure was." Flash smiled back.
Atticus suddenly got a chill down his spine.
"You okay, dear?" Mo asked her husband quietly.
"I just suddenly felt a chill down my spine." Atticus whispered.
"Oh, my..." Mo put her hoof to her mouth in slight worry. "That can't be a good sign."
"What's wrong?" Twilight asked, sensing something was wrong with how the two were whispering.
"I'm not sure what yet," Atticus said. "Something feels out of place somehow."
"Um, Mom, Dad, have you seen Estelle?" Vincent asked as he came out of the other room.
"She's not with you?" Mo grew instantly worried.
"No, we were just about to make gingerbread houses and we broke into groups, but we haven't seen her since we came here." Vincent said.
This caused Atticus to get the chill down his spine again.
"This isn't good..." Cherry diagnosed.
Meanwhile with Estelle as she was getting the spell ready before she heard a happy couple of timberwolves. Estelle used her horn to move the ingredients into the cauldron a she had a rather malicious grin on her face.
'Time for a song to come in.' Sombra's voice said and where he was right this situation did indeed call for a song.
Estelle smirked as she had the perfect song in mind. "Happy Hearth's Warming, they say in the street, Happy Hearth's Warming, they think they're so sweet, Words said so often that they lack any meaning, Why should I join in when I could be intervening?~" she sang rather evilly to herself as she went right to work.
"Everypony loves this cursed holiday~" Estelle sang as she used her magic to bring three magical chemicals in bottles she made over to a wooden bowl. "But would they be better off with it out of the way?~"
"Say goodbye to the holiday, With your magic, I'll erase it, The greatest gift that you give today, And everypony will have to face it. No more little games for them to play, After they say goodbye to the holiday~" Sombra joined in her song.
Estelle then used her magic and where it stole a wreath, a present a doll, a ribbon bow, and a candy cane and each was teleported to her to place into cauldron.
"Goodbye, Hearth's Warming, you had a good run, Goodbye, Hearth's Warming, it's over, you're done, Finally set free from your forced celebrations, No need to reply to your trite invitations~" the girl sang as she grew more and more dark and evil.
"Is my magic up to the test?~Time to see, I can't delay~" Estelle sang as she memorized what to next from the spell book before bringing four potions over to the cauldron before pouring each one of them in watch as two horse shaped clouds came out of the cauldron. "Say goodbye to the holiday~Prepare the spell, no hesitation~All memory shall fade away~See Equestria's new transformation~"
"No more shall anypony say, Happy Hearth's Warming~" Sombra sang with her.
"After today!" Estelle laughed wickedly.
The two horse-shaped clouds came out of the cauldron and started to swirl around Estelle before going back into the cauldron.
"After today~" Estelle sang evilly, without knowing it.
'It is complete, now all you have to do is cast the spell.' Sombra's voice told her.
"Right..." Estelle nodded.
'You do know the spell, don't you?' Sombra prompted.
"Yes, I do." Estelle nodded before using her magic on the spell she did and cast it.
'Now this holiday shall be skipped, you can go back to your friends and family leave the rest to me, my dear.' Sombra's voice said.
"Thanks, Uncle Sombra." Estelle smiled, not aware how dangerous this actually was.
'Of course, anything for my favorite niece.' Sombra replied.
"Favorite niece?" Estelle asked.
'Of course, my dear.' Sombra said.
Estelle smiled before teleporting back to Twilight's castle.
"Estelle, darling, where are you?" Rarity looked around in worry, then spotted the filly. "Oh, there you are, your family is worried!"
"I'm sorry, I, uh, I just stepped outside for a while." Estelle lied.
"Well come on inside, it's freezing out there." Rarity told her.
"Yes, Aunt Rarity." Estelle nodded to her.
The two of them then went inside as the snow seem to blow a little harder.
"Oh, my, it seems colder than it was earlier, I'm sure the storm will blow over." Rarity said.
"Estelle, there you are," Eloise came to Estelle with Felicity. "Ms. Pinkie and Mr. Cheese are having a gingerbread house building contest and we need to group up!"
"Yay!" Estelle smiled.
"Come on, let's go!" Felicity led the way.
With that, the kids met Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich for the gingerbread house building contest with the other fillies and colts who were already in, but luckily, they hadn't started yet.
"On your marks... Get set..." Pinkie said before launching her party cannon. "BUILD!"
Each group started to build their own gingerbread house. There seemed to be a unicorn colt with a pink coat with purple mane and had orange eyes. He looked a little familiar somehow, but no one could place where they think they had seen him before. Right now they had to work on their gingerbread houses. After a while, all the groups were done with their gingerbread houses.
"Time's up!" Cheese Sandwich called, then decided to check on the houses. "Oh, nice use of sprinkled gumdrops, Sapphire Tiara."
The daughter of Diamond Tiara smiled up at him, happy with her group's work.
Cheese Sandwich then came to the next house which was made by the Fudo boys and Simon. "Very nice... Uhh..." he then looked overwhlemed. "Are your Gingerbread Ponies headless?" he then asked as he saw the cookies that had red frosting gushing out from where their heads should be.
"I told you going with headless gingerbread ponies was going too far." Vincent whispered to Simon.
Simon merely glanced stoically and expressionless, but he smiled to the gingerbread ponies who were headless.
"Very nice, very nice, good, good!" Cheese Sandwich passed the other tables and finally came to Estelle, Eloise, and Felicity, and where he saw that the gingerbread house was like a mansion with gingerbread ponies.
The girls smiled to the orange stallion.
"Oh, how wonderful!" Cheese Sandwich praised.
"Thank you." Estelle, Eloise, and Felicity smiled.
"But, uh, why does one of them look white while the others are all in different color?" Cheese sandwich asked.
Eloise and Felicity looked to the one in question.
"Did you do that?" Felicity asked Estelle.
"Y-Yeah, I don't even know why though." Estelle said.
"And it looks all spirit-like." Cheese Sandwich said.
Pinkie Pie came to the stallion's side. "That's... Different."
The snow outside started to get stronger.
"Man, it's really coming down out there..." Flash commented as he looked outside in worry.
"I haven't seen it snow this hard at all." Twilight said.
The kids soon came over to Twilight with Atticus, Mo, Cherry, and Forte, telling her it was time she told them the story.