Principal Tony and the Sirbistan Partisans

—Official warning

**Principal Tony and the Sirbistan Partisans** is the sixth entry in a nine-episode of Luna the Miracle Boy miniseries about the Canterlot Presidential Tales. In this miniseries story, Tony Sirbistan finds out about a Sirbistan's festival being planned to honor him as a counterpart to the Summer Presidential Celebration. but he does not feel comfortable about the attention he will receive.

## Summary

### Presidential business

On the morning of the Summer Presidential Celebration, Principal Tony is feeling rather nervous, but his counterpart woman, Princess Finlandia, assures him that everyone came to Canterlot Presidentials to see him. Despite his reservations, Tony greets the civilians with a smile.

Two seasons later in the Vernadia District, the Cutie Mark Crusaders tell Dennis that they are going to Canterlot Presidentials to talk to Princess Finlandia about a secret idea of theirs. Dennis obliges but assigns her father – Mr. Hideyoshi as their chaperone. On the train, the Crusader Girls discuss their plan to surprise Tony with a festival celebrating the Sirbistan Partisans' Celebration as a counterpart to the Summer Presidential Celebration.

### Partizan Officer vs Nightmare Moon

Tony wakes up from a dream about the fight against Princess Aulia and sees the Crusader Girls entering Canterlot Presidentials. He overhears them talking to Princess Finlandia about the Sirbistan Partisans' Celebration, of which Finlandia approves. However, knowing Tony very well, Princess Finlandia tells the Crusader Girls about the captain's social uneasiness around others and that this festival should be kept a secret from him.

Once the Crusader Girls return to Vernadia, Finlandia and Tony go to the Vernadsky Family House to tell the Petrovburg Heroes about it. The Petrovburg Heroes also like this idea offer to help in organizing it.

### Guardians of the Sirbistan Partisans

A few weeks later, Tony receives a signal on the magical map of Petrovburg about a disturbance in the swamp lands. This disturbance turns out to be a conflict between the Vernadia clan and the Seborga clan. After leaving a pair of white owls to watch over Canterlot Presidentials, Tony sets out to address the situation. At the swamp lands, the clans dispute over which creature got to live where during the winter season. Using the presidential telescope and ability to communicate with these creatures, Tony resolves the issue before heading to Vernadia for his dream duty.

Principal Tony drives his car into Vernadia Town Square when some decorations outside Solvedos Restaurant catch his eye. The decorations all bear his color scheme, and a large banner reads "Sirbistan Partisans' Festival". Tony briefly considers letting the Vernadians throw him to this party.

Later that night, Tony enters Colin's dream disguised as a white rabbit to spy on her. In his dream, Colin and her friends set up the Sirbistan Partisans' Festival. Tony approaches Colin in his true form; when he realizes that Colin is unaware he is dreaming, Tony uses this to his advantage to make suggestions to "improve" the festival. The next morning, Colin meets up with her fellow Crusader Girls to incorporate these suggestions, including making everything dark and having everyone wear night-vision moon glasses.

### The Tarax Hippo

Tony tells his presidential guards that he is going to Vernadia for a surprise visit. He meets with Luna and claims that a ghost-like creature called a Tarax Hippo is on the loose. Luna goes to warn his friends about the Tarax Hippo—almost spilling the beans about the festival in the process—but Tony assures him that Tarax Hippo won't approach as long as it is near.

Tony then stops by the Crusader Girls' clubhouse to see them preparing moon glasses and garlic necklaces. Tony feels relieved that his efforts to sabotage the festival are a success. But when he hears the Crusader Girls talking about receiving help for the festival from Celestia, Jason, Vincent, and Tobias, he decides he has more dreams to visit.

### Team of the Partisans' dream

Upon returning to Canterlot Presidential Palace, Tony angrily confronts his counterpart woman about the Sirbistan Partisans' Festival, telling her how he hates surprises. But Finlandia contradicts her statement by reminding him of her additions to the Best of the Presidential Leaders. Finlandia suggests she simply play along for the sake of the surprise. Tony agrees, but Princess Aulia wisps on Tony to think of other ways to ruin the festival.

The next morning, at the Ratnasari Boutique, Tobias begins working on some "ceremonial cloaks" made of itchy wool, and Celestia tells her about her idea to use "invisible" decorations for the festival. Later, during a tea break, Tobias thinks back to a hat she purchased covered in yarn and tiny cats, but she suddenly doesn't remember purchasing such a hat. Upon realizing the absurdity of Celestia's idea, she goes to the Vernadsky Family House. There she finds Vincent leading a parade of ugly blue bugs that he intends to release during the festival. When Dennis and the Crusader Girls arrive with spicy rainbow juice and banana peel pudding, they all realize that Principal Tony gave them these ideas in their dreams.

Before long, the day of the Sirbistan Partisans' Festival arrives. While monitoring Petrovburger people's dreams the night before, Principal Tony noticed a dream of Luciano being chased by Tarax Hippo, the very creature that he told Luna about. Tony finds this peculiar since Luna was the only trusted boy he told about the creature. Princess Finlandia walks in on Tony wearing a new black suit for the occasion and presents Tony with a black suit of his own. Soon after, the two presidential leaders make their way to the festival.

### Sirbistan Partisans' Festival

At the Sirbistan Partisans' Festival, Tobias is the first to remark on the celebration's disastrous decorations, from the scratchy ceremonial cloaks she made to the horrid-looking bat-snowman Jason made. All of the Petrovburg Heroes, except Celestia and Cutie Mark Crusaders share this sentiment. When Princess Finlandia and Principal Tony arrive, Tony feigns surprise at first, but he gradually realizes that the party is not in celebration of his mistakes as the Sirbistan Partisan officer but for all his positive accomplishments.

Suddenly, the festival is interrupted by Luciano, who is being chased by the real Tarax Hippo. Tony believes he may have accidentally summoned Tarax Hippo awake when he told Luna about it. Finlandia attempts to zap Hippo with her magic, but her magic goes through it. Tony observes Hippo's behavior and realizes it was drawn by the garlic necklaces, which Elfa confirms. With the help of the other Vernadians and the presidential guard Tony helped before, Tarax Hippo is driven to sleep, and Finlandia sends it back to its cave.

After Tarax Hippo fiasco, the festival resumes, and the clans of Vernadia and Seborga from earlier join in, at Colin's invitation. Tony starts to feel happier about the festival and admits to Finlandia the wrongdoings he did to ruin it. Tony decides to fix the damage he caused by magically changing the festival into how it was originally envisioned. Tony apologizes to the Vernadians for what he did – tells them that was Princess Aulia who ordered him for doing so, and they forgive him with a big group hug.

"*I was hoping to ruin the party because I did not feel worthy of one. I know now that that is not true. From now and forever, I shall refuse Princess Aulia's orders roughly. It is such a gift to know that you have the people that care for you so much, as you all do for me. So as my gift back to you – here is the Sirbistan Festival!*"
— Principal Tony
## Quotes

**Celestia**: A party?! I was not expecting that. Heeeey! This thing must be broken!
**Colin**: This meeting of the Cutie Mark Crusaders is called to order!
**Benedict**: Can we make it fast? I couldn't sleep last night. Something really loud woke me up.
**Jerry**: Was it a big rawr-type noise? 'Cause I heard that!
**Benedict**: No, it was Lady Toby's snoring.
**Colin**: We are lucky that DJ Una and Dennis Oktavia had all these extra moon glasses hanging around in their basement.
**Jerry**: What are moon glasses anyway?
**Colin**: They make it so you can see in the dark! You know, like night-vision. Also, they make me look really cool. Deal with it.
**Princess Finlandia**: Thank you, Tony. Now, please go get some rest. Does anybody ever tell you that you're rather unpleasant when you're tired?
**Principal Tony**: *Gratias Sirbistan.* Thanks to Allah, who bestowed us with the handsome moon and brilliant stars for another peaceful night.
**Tobias**: Don't you all see?
**Benedict**: I see the mess we've made of the Serbian Partisans' Festival. What are we gonna do, lady?!
**Tobias**: Nothing! Obviously, Captain Tony visited us in our dreams to change the Sirbistan Partisans' Festival because he knows about the surprise. And these are the things he wants at his party! He's just far too shy to tell us.
**Tobias**: What was I thinking? This has got to be the stinkiest, ugliest festival ever thrown in the history of Petrovburg.
**Jason**: [to Tarax Hippo] We're not afraid of you! Except maybe your breath later!
**Celestia**: Wow! It's hungry! Like... hungry, hungry!
**Dmitry Elfa**: Thanks to Tony Sirbistan, we've settled our score, and these clans are no longer at war.
**Jozef Oktarini**: And for this, tonight we celebrate for our dear principal of Canterlot Presidentials – Tony of Serbia!
## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Princess\_Luna\_and\_the\_Festival\_of\_the\_Winter\_Moon