The Fluttershy Emperor and the Switzerland Garden

—Official warning

**The Fluttershy Emperor and the Switzerland Garden**, also known as **The Cadence Emperor and the Switzerland Garden**, is the fourth entry in a nine-episode of Luna the Miracle Boy miniseries about the Canterlot Presidential Tales. In this miniseries story, Vincent (as the Fluttershy emperor) tries to bring the Frihetenburg District and the Republic of Petrovburg together with a garden celebration to herald the arrival of spring.

## Summary

### Fidelity Ceremony

The story begins in the Frihetenburg District during its annual Fidelity Ceremony at the National Awakening Day. As part of the ceremony, everyone in the district would be led in a heartfelt song to power the Crystal Heart with the light and love within them. Unfortunately, a considerable number of the Frihetenburgians have fallen ill with their sniffles this year and are confined to their homes.

Vincent worries that the light and love of those in attendance will not be enough to power the heart, but he carries out the ceremony anyway. As the orchestra plays Vincent's Fidelity song, the Frihetenburgians sing along, and their magic empowers the Crystal Heart, keeping the Republic of Petrovburg safe for another season.

Once the Fidelity Ceremony comes to a close, Vincent meets with some old men, particularly a Switzerland Cafe owner named Arman Zamri, and his moody daughter Olivia Roman. During their conversation, Olivia brings something to Vincent's attention: the light inside the Crystal Heart is dying out.

### A growing idea

As Vincent races to inform his father – Uncle Joe, of the Crystal Heart's state, he is briefly distracted by a vision of a large, beautiful garden with the people singing and laughing in the background. Jozef snaps him out of it and recognizes this phenomenon as one of Vincent's "future visions"—which always accurately predict the future. Worried about the current state of the Crystal Heart, Vincent resolves to make his vision come true by organizing a big garden celebration that brings the Frihetenburgians together and powers their heart forever.

The next morning, Jozef receives an urgent request from Princess Finlandia to hold the presidential guard recruitment trials, preventing him from helping Vincent with his own task. To make matters worse, the old garden where Vincent wants to hold his celebration is in a severe state of disrepair. Still hopeful, he attempts to fix the garden up himself, but he makes very little progress over the course of several hours.

As a fidelity tour for Seborga High School passes through, Vincent introduces himself to the group. When he informs them of his garden celebration project, the college students and their lecturers offer to assist. One of the college students – Olivia Roman, is not as eager as the others.

### Helping persons

By the following morning, the garden restoration efforts are in full swing. Vincent is pleased by his people's efforts, and he helps out whenever he can, but the government business keeps him mostly preoccupied. Olivia expresses irritation that Vincent is making his people do all the work, but her classmates Tevfik Genki and Kurt Davano insist that they are volunteers.

As the three discuss ways to improve the garden, Olivia has an idea to make it look like it was before the rule of Princess Aulia. She brings them to the house of her grandfather Donald Cromwell, where he keeps a large collection of miraculous flower seeds, and she suggests planting them in Vincent's garden.

When Vincent and Jozef finally get some time to themselves, Vincent shows his father the fruits of his labor: the restoration of the garden is going smoothly, and some of the Crystal Heart's light has returned. However, one of Vincent's subjects informs him of a sudden and strange development: one of the volunteers has come down with uncontrollable giggling as a result of working in the garden. After using his magic to undo the enchantment, Vincent decides to investigate this further.

### Panic at the Frihetenburg Town Hall

Sometime later, the restoration of the garden is completed. However, Vincent notices a number of Frihetenburgians behaving strangely, such as staring at their own reflections and speaking in hums. This is revealed to be the work of Olivia, who is still bitter about Vincent forcing his people to do manual labor.

Vincent, Jozef, and the Frihetenburg government staff try to figure out what is causing this mayhem, with the possible suspects ranging from the curseful spells of Princess Aulia. However, realizing that the anomalies are mostly harmless, Vincent begins to suspect that Olivia is the true culprit. As the Frihetenburgians' behavior worsens to the point where Vincent is unable to fix it with his magic, he feels guilty for twisting his future vision to suit his own desires.

### Prudence persuasion

Vincent goes to Mr. Arman's cafe home and asks about his daughter. Mr. Arman takes Vincent to Mr. Donald's house, where Olivia spends much of her time. Upon seeing the decor of Mr. Donald's house, Vincent realizes that he was once a famous gardener of Norway Bay. The elderly Donald is awakened from his nap, then Vincent and Mr. Arman ask him about Olivia. Mr. Donald claims ignorance, but when he notices his collection of miracle seeds is gone, he understands what has happened.

By the time, Vincent brings Mr. Donald to the town hall, the trouble has reached out-of-control levels as dozens of the Frihetenburgians fall victim to magical plants. Even Donald himself soon succumbs to their effects, much to Olivia's dismay. Olivia apologizes to Vincent for letting things get so out of hand.

Vincent comes up with an idea and goes to the spot in the garden that he saw in his future vision. As he tries to recall the vision's every little detail, he remembers hearing people singing in the background. With this information, Vincent returns to the chaotic garden and starts to sing. One by one, the Frihetenburgians snap out of their enchantments and join in. As their song reaches its climax, the light inside the Crystal Heart is completely restored.

### Switzerland Festival

With the situation brought under control, Mr. Arman scolds Olivia for stealing her grandfather's seeds and asks her why she did all of this. Olivia confesses that she was bitter toward Vincent, not only for not giving her grandfather his job back as the governed gardener after the Frihetenburg District returned from its thousand-year absence, but also for making her fix up the garden that he had tended to for years. She also admits that she wanted Tevfik Genki and Kurt Davano to like her and be her friend.

Tevfik and Kurt say that they liked Olivia already and that they are more than happy to be friends with her. In addition, Vincent apologizes to Olivia for not approaching her back during the Fidelity Ceremony and talking to her about her problems. Olivia goes on to admit that during the garden restoration, she developed a love for gardening. As she offers Vincent a rose in apology, Vincent earns his cutie mark: a green heart-shaped jewel surrounded by vines.

The story ends with the Switzerland Celebration being realized, with Olivia appointed as the Grand Marshall of the float parade. When she asks Vincent why he was chosen for this position after what he did, Vincent says it is because he reminds her of spring:

"*No matter how cold the winter – or how big our mistakes – may be, there is always time to start fresh again.*"
— Vincent Cadance
## Quotes

**Vincent**: Friends and fellows of Frihetenburg! At this National Awakening Day, we join together so our love for our country, especially to our God – Allah. He will warm us through the few remaining days of our frosty winter and carry us into our beautiful spring.
**Jozef Oktarini**: See, Vincent?
**Vincent**: Do you know, dad, I don't like to be called that name.
**Jozef Oktarini**: I know – that's why I do it.
**Mr. Arman**: Between you and me, boy, she's not the same little girl she used to be. All doom and gloom with her these days, I'm afraid. Everything is either boring or embarrassing. You know?
**Vincent**: My cutie mark is definitely important, but some very special kids from Vernadia recently helped remind me that a cutie mark is just one part of you. Everybody can be wonderful at all sorts of things. You just have to try!
**Olivia**: I hate this garden. It's no use trying to fix it anyway. It's never going to be like it was before Princess Aulia did!
**János Azai**: It's definitely Princess Aulia! Has all her trademarks! Stinky sights, stinky sounds, stinky smells...
**Jozef Libman**: The curseful spells are here! And they're impersonating our friends. Don't they hum? I think I read that in here somewhere...
**Tatyana Banks**: Princess Aulia is back! She's going to suck all the love out of this republic again!
**Mr. Donald**: Daffospills... and reflection roses...? Giggling fun flowers, humzinnias, and lazililies? If anybody plants those seeds and smells those flowers, we're going to have a major problem on our hands.
**Olivia**: I grew this one by myself. No magic spells. Right, Brother Vincent?
**Vincent**: It's perfect.
**Tevfik Genki**: And so is your cutie mark, Brother Vincent! It looks almost like... a Switzerland Garden.
## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Princess\_Cadance\_and\_the\_Spring\_Hearts\_Garden