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It was getting close to Christmas in pony Ville, the snow was just setting on the ground and the Christmas decorations in the town were being put up.

Twilight sparkle was making sure everything was going to plan; she was of course in charge of making a list and ticking off the checks.

"Okay that's the candy canes put up with warning signs telling ponies not to lick them,

"The lights are hung and dead bulbs are being replaced with new ones,

"The snow is just right, crunchy but not soft, perfect for building snow ponies; I think everything is a go!"

Twilight said smiling ticking off some items on her list then there was a loud crash

Turning she looked and saw the tree and then saw under the broken remains of old decorations were three young fillies.

They crawled out and sighed

"Well that went great! I thought you had studied more at maths!"

Said the yellow pony

"Hay its not my fault, maths is hard, plus you two were a hard weight to measure, you could gain some weight"

Said the white unicorn

"I'm not gaining any weight; if I do I'll be a fatty pony even more un-able to fly!"

Said the orange Pegasus

"Girls are you alright?"

Twilight said looking at them

"Yeah CMC are tough nuts to crack, only damage is to the um tree and decorations"

All three said looking at the mess

"But we can fix it! CMC TREE LIFTERS YAY!"

They ran to the tree but some magic aura stopped them

"Oh no, you've done enough damage for one day, I think its best if the older ponies do this, plus you did um good at de-decorating the tree"

Twilight said looking at the angry ponies picking up glass and bits or decorations

"I know, I think the castle needs some decorating, why not go and ask the princess if she needs help? Maybe this will get you into Santa pony's good book"

Twilight said trying to move them away from the crowd that were now trying to get the tree back up-right

The three ponies walked to the phone office, a place were ponies could ring other ponies in other places, this was an invention made by the princess so that less post was written.

The post ponies' strikes had gotten out of hand and so the princess had found a new way of making ponies contact each other.

Thus solving the strikes and making the pony post a much better place to work.

The three young fillies walked to the phone office, they knew the princess number as it was in the main book.

A book was also made, each place had a certain number, and the palace had a special number and was to only be used if needed.

These where, there was a message for the princess and spike isn't around, there is a crisis and we need the princess, twilight sparkle said it was okay to call you.

The three young ponies gathered round the phone and rang the number in the book, it started to ring but instead of the princess answering another pony answered it, it was a royal guard.

"Yes this is princess celetia's phone how can I help you?"

The guard said

"Twilight said that the castle might need decoration for Christmas and we were wondering if we the CMC crew could it for her"

Said Applebloom

"I'll go check please hold"

He said not hanging up the phone but instead putting it on the side table by the book of numbers

A few moments later a soft female pony's voice spoke

"CMC? I would love for you to come to the castle and decorate it, just please don't break anything, the decorations are generations old"

Celetia said knowing full well that the three weren't listening as they were cheering and celebrating the fact they were going to the castle.

"We'll be there in a moment CMC CASTLE DECORATORS!"

They then hung up the phone

"Well this should be intriguing"

Celetia said smiling as she put her phone down and going back to her thrown.

The three ponies went to the station and caught the next train to canterlot.

On the way there they thought what to do first, they knew what to do but not how to.

"I think we should start with the tree, that way we'll be less tried for putting up the lights and cutting the holly"

Sweetiebelle said

"Ha! We should leave the tree till last, the tree will be easy to decorate, the lights are going to be the hardest, they have to be put up high, well high enough to be seen but not too far out of sight"

Scootaloo said

"We should cut the holly first as that'll very hard to do, that holly stuff's nasty, it has spikes and isn't very nice"

Applebloom said

All three argued all the way there, even when the train stopped they were still having the same argument as they got off the train, as they walked to the castle they saw a big pony pulling a tree.

They walked over and saw that it was shire, he was grunting and groaning, he was pulling a big tree, at least a 30 FT high one.

"Hi shire, can we help?"

They asked

"NO! I can do this by myself, this is the only thing I have to do other then clear the snow from the path when it snows every morning, I hate this time of the year!"

He said grunting as his hoofs dug into the ground his whole body was covered in leather straps; he looked like a real show pony

"Okay, but were here to help, or to get our cutiemarks in Christmas decorating"

Applebloom said

"Well in that case inside the *grunt* castle is a door that has the decorations, you can find them and start"

He said pulling the tree more, it was moving along slowly

The three ponies thanked him and said merry Christmas then went inside the castle; it was nice and toasty warm in the castle.

They hung up there winter clothes and went to the place were the cupboard was.

They opened the locked door and in there was boxes and boxes of stuff, all the boxes had XMAS written on them.

They pulled the boxes out.

"Lets sort them out; we need to know what decorations are what"

Sweetiebelle said

"CMC SORTERS OF BOXES YAY!"

They all said looking into the boxes

After an hour they had 4 piles of boxes, one box pile was full of tree decorations, the second pile was of lights, the third was full of tinsel, to get into the mood all three made scarf's from the bits that were too small, the forth box pile was mostly full of mini trees.

All three then checked there plots, but sadly no cutiemark only a patch of dust.

By now they heard more grunts and bad language, they decide to follow it, they had also found a sledge so they loaded the boxes onto the sledge, the boxes were the ones for the tree.

Following the grunts they found there way to the main hall, there at the end of the grand hall was a pony trying to put the tree up.

He shoved and pulled it and soon I made a thud on the floor as it hit in the middle of the stand.

"By the gods this tree's heavy, why can't she get a smaller or fake tree?

"Oh no it's got to be real; we've had a real tree for thousands of years"

He sighed then saw the young fillies with the boxes

"All yours, I'm going to bed, oh wait no I've got to chop wood to keep this castle warm"

He plodded out of the room

The three fillies looked at the tree, it was beautiful it was green and tall, it had no snow on it but it was also bare.

All three huddled as one then talked then hit there hoofs as one and got to work.

"It's almost Christmas, the tree is so bare, so let us put some cheer into it,

"lets put the lights on as there the most beautiful thing that makes a Christmas a real tree, they light up the whole room and make it easy for Santa pony to put the presents under,

"The tree needs some tinsel too, this is to make it look like the snow has not been replaced instead has been made colourful and made pretty,

"The needs some balls and other pony items so that the princess can make funny faces in there shiny surface,

"Cutiemark crusaders will get there marks in decorating the princess tree,

"Cutiemark crusaders will get there marks in decorating the castle,

"Cutiemark crusaders will get the most presents from Santa pony this year! *the other two look at her* "what? Its true isn't it?"

After that song the three of them looked at the tree, they had indeed made it pretty, well as high as they could reach which was about four ferm tree leaves high, even standing on each other the fifth level would be too high.

Celetia came in and smiled, they had done a great job, all three then looked at there plots but still no cutiemark.

"Well that did nothing, other then get us tried"

Sweetiebelle said

"Told you the tree would tire us out"

Scootaloo said

"Well let the outside cold in it will snap us awake, we now need holly"

Applebloom said

The princess smiled as she and Princess Luna along with their royal guards decorated the rest of the tree.

All three ponies put on there out door winter clothes and went outside into the snow.

It crunched under there hoofs, they then started to look for a holly tree.

All they found was not holly trees, sweetiebelle thought she'd found one but it was just a rose hip bush.

"Well this is going great, maybe we should give up?"

Sweetiebelle said making up a snowball and throwing at a tree they'd already checked

"NO! Cutiemark crusaders don't give up! We've yet to go over there"

Applebloom pointed to an area that was full of trees

All three walked into the garden and meet the gardening pony, he told them were to get the holly; they thanked him and set off.

They found the tree and started to pick bits off, they pulled a bit carefully then snipped it off the tree, after a while they had good pile of holly, but no way to get it home.

Sweetiebelle used her magic but that went wrong, as her horn glowed she teleported it away but to where was un-known.

They walked back to the castle and then heard a loud YEEEEEE-OW! They ran to the side of the castle.

There was shire rubbing his plot, he had sat down in a pile of holly, he was now very angry, he used his magic to teleport the stuff into the castle.

The three walked into the castle, there plots still bare, no cutiemark, the last thing was to put up the decorations around the castle.

Each one grabbed a box and then headed off, each one had a different box.

Sweetiebelle had a box full of mini Christmas trees, she put them on top of the vases that were on pillars, she was soon out, she smiled and returned to the cupboard to put the box back in its place.

In the meantime Applebloom had a box full of reindeer antlers foam ones, she handed them out to the guards, each one fit onto there helmets, they groaned as it made them look silly but they had to as it made ponies visiting the castle smile.

Scootaloo had the lights, this was great until she decide to use the only one mains outlet to plug all seven lights into one plug, when she hit on there was a very powerful flash and then all the lights went out.

She gasped and walked away thinking no one would notice but someone did shire.

After pulling a big tree, sitting in holly, he was quite tried, and was listening to his music when it went dead as well as the lights in his area, when he checked the mains swish it had tripped out.

He found the problem Scootaloo hadn't used the multi plug serge controller, shire did and the lights stayed on.

All three meet up and looked at there plots but no cutiemarks.

"So was doing this a waste of time?"

They all said looking at there blank plots

"Not at all, it was a great learning expression, you got to do something fun and so what they didn't get a cutiemark, your be in Santa's good list"

Princess Celetia and Luna said giving them some Christmas cookies, then a voice from behind them came,

"Oh really?

"So blowing up the castles fuse box is okay?

"Teleporting and putting holly on my seat is okay?

"And best of all not fully decorating the castle, the little trees are supposed to go up above the vases not on them"

Shire said looking at them

"Your be lucky if Santa pony leaves a lump of coal in your stockings this year, now then I'm off to go re-fuse the castle"

He set off

"Ignore him, he is a right humbug, you did great, besides, now that the decorating is done, we can go outside and play in the snow!"

Celetia said smiling as it started to snow,

"Can thou build a snow pony better then us?"

Luna said smiling

"CUTIEMARK CRUSADERS SNOW PONY BUILDERS YAY!"

They all ran outside followed by the two princesses

They built a snow pony and then had there pictures taken, after that the great snowball fight happened, after that all five were tried.

The three young ponies yawned and sighed they were tried.

Celetia smiled and offered them some more cookies and warm hot chocolate, to which they drank it and soon fell asleep.

They may not have cutiemarks but at least they have done something good, celetia smiled as she tucked them into a spare bed.

All three dreaming of getting a Christmas related cutiemark or better.

As for shire? He put out his stocking and tree and hoped for a lump of coal or a sack worth.

~the end~