A Hearth's Warming Surprise

It's Hearth's Warming Eve again, and it's the second one that Starswirl has ever experienced in a thousand years. But what brings him down about the holiday is that it always reminded him of what started it: His student and adopted daughter Clover the Clover, and her friends Princess Platinum, Commander Hurricane, Private Pansy, Chancellor Puddinghead, and Smart Cookie, as they wielded the Elements of Harmony before Celestia and Luna were even born and before their parents helped them when they struggled to control the Sun and Moon, and that he wished he could spend the holidays with them. But he ends up discovering accidentally that they didn't die as he expected. Like him and the Pillars, they were trapped in limbo when fighting against not another Taraxippus, but a renegade Windigo named Gale who started out like Thorax, refusing to heed to her evil master and adopted father, G1 Arabus, about heeding to her kind's ways of starting another Windigo Ice Age after the six ruined their meal, as she wished to make it up to them after knowing they wanted to survive from the effects of their feeding and they had no choice, rendering them to hide in the Frozen North, until her constant shunning and an eventual hate crime caused her to heed to the darkness of not just Arabus, but the previous leader of the Unicorn Tribe before Bullion, the sadistic Obsidious, who turned her into a dark Windigo who not only turned on Arabus and banished him away and almost froze all of Equestria by using her dark magic powers to generate her own hate and argument to feed on during the mid-Great Fear Wars, and with it augmented, it could've resulted in a permanent destruction had the six not banished her in limbo as the Elements of Harmony were destroyed by Pitch Black through the Tree of Harmony to keep it from being used to defeat him. Now, Starswirl ends up making the same mistake Twilight did with him, and frees Dark Gale, as she doesn't know she's being used by Obsidious as the storm in the North with a mind of it's own that almost destroyed the Crystal Empire thanks to Flurry Heart, as this would allow him to rule over a frozen land once again. This must be stopped.