Under assault by the plunderseeds, the Tree of Harmony remembers the first morning of the world, and her delight in discovering life, laughter, love and serenity.

A dying Applejack is kept company by Twilight, but they receive a visitor who offers them an alternative they had yet to consider...

Written expressly for Equestria Daily's inaugural Writer's Training Grounds. Apologies in advance for the clipped, frenetic pacing of the story, but there was a hard limit of 1,500 words, and when you're as wordy as I am, that's very difficult to obey!

Now with an awesome audio adaptation by the talented Scribbler!

Cover art shamelessly swiped from Carnifex; modified version by Scribbler.

The Writers' Training Grounds, a fine event hosted by Equestria Daily for beginning writers. Ever since early Season 4 of MLP:FIM, a weekly prompt has been posted that I more or less follow. That prompt has guided most of the chapters within this story. Some chapters have continuity, some don't, some have giant monsters or metaphysical travel. One thing is for sure, everything here is bonkers.

Gather around, humans and ponyfolk alike, for I am a bard, and I give you the weekly tales of the Compilation! A greater range in lack of organization than the Canterbury stories! Higher variance on continuity than the Grimm fairytales! More or less desperate than a retelling of the Arabian Nights! Contains at least one more vampire than the Twilight Saga, which brings it to a grand total of at least one! This is a Compilation of Miscellaneous Typed Scribblings of A Random Guy!

Watch in amazement as a writer races time to meet a midnight deadline on Thursday (used to be Tuesday)! Let your imagination run from its leash and ruin your neighbors’ petunias! Be thrilled, or thrillingly disappointed, as you read through semi to completely disjointed works of fanfiction! Use this as a scale of a bard’s improvement, from Chapter #1 all the way to Chapter #?

Quality is a figment of your imagination! So criticize however you want. The best criticisms of the week will receive the honor of having an OC randomly pop up in a random story of my choosing. Not kidding there. Right a good review and partake in the chaos that is technically my mind!

Well in the future, Ponyville is still remembered. The ruins are right there for anypony who wants to see them, after all. And sure, there's a lot about Ponyville that's been forgotten. Its name, for example. But Fluttershy's transformation to batpony and back is still remembered. And so are the other consequences of Twilight's spells.
This is the story of how Ponyville ended.

This was written for the Writer's Training Grounds #001 on Equestria Daily. I suspect that's only barely good enough of a reason to overcome my aversion to sharing my writing, so please try not to be too harsh in your (hopefully constructive) criticism. I'm skittish.

Fruit bats don’t drink blood. However, when Twilight reversed the spell that turned Fluttershy’s usually timid nature into that of a vampire fruit bat, the transformation was already complete. The reversal caused Fluttershy to lose interest in the apples the fruit bats craved. Now, instead of sucking apples dry, she craves the blood of live ponies.

Scootaloo goes to foalsit the Cake twins after Pinkie Pie mysteriously disappears. There is nothing but silence in the house; the perfect scenario to get some good reading done. Except for the fact that there is a giant batpony on the loose.

"Dear Santa Hooves. My name is Apple Bloom, and I don't want presents for Hearth's Warming this year. I just want my cutie mark..."

Featured on Equestria Daily -- January 18th 2013
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Twilight and Spike return to the Castle of the Two Sisters, only to find that their previous foray into its depths may not be what they remember.

Perignon owns a wine shop. It's simple, it's straightforward, it's what he's good at and it's all he needs. He doesn't need nonsense from Hearth's Warming in any form. In fact, anyone trying to deliver said nonsense quickly earns a shoulder colder than the blizzard sweeping through town. Everyone would be better off if they shut up and treated reality like it is: cold and heartless.
Cover Image graciously provided by Pyrestorm.

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Hi Eveypony. I'm Scuttaloo, N-no, Skir...TA loo- Ughhh, I can't ven prounce mah own n-n-name. But I have annnnnn aweswome big sitter--I mean sister. Her name es Rainbow Crash...er, Dash. She hlps me with my seech condi...con...condition!

This is the sory of h-how whaaaa-we acciduntly ruined a berk, and inculd incurred the wrath of a alicon, I mean aricorn, I mean Twilight Sparkle.

Hiya! Rainbow Dash here, the one and only. Scootaloo's working on her speech right now. It's hard for her, so if ANY of you numskulls give her trouble for it, I'll knock your block into next week. Got it? Great, on to the story!

Alternate Universe, because Scootaloo has a speech impediment (Developmental verbal dyspraxia). I swear I'm not mining for feels--it makes her a more complex and interesting character and emphasizes the roll of Dash as her surrogate big sister.

Kindly post-read by Cerulean Starlight, who's a real nice guy.

Stuff used for the cover, which I totally did in MS Paint which I wish had layers. I mean, MS Word has more art capabilities in some ways. And it's a text editor.
Flying vector
Angry Twi
Wing

Written before S4E4 as a pregaming ritual of sorts, similar to Pinkie Pie Can't Sleep!