Midnight Dream is your average bat pony. She's young, athletic, and agile. She has fangs, tufted ears, and leathery wings. She lives in Hollow Shades. But unlike most bat ponies, she's not in the Night Guard; instead opting to follow her special talent and fulfill her dream.

As it turns out, gardening doesn't pay nearly as well as the military does. With bills constantly piling up and demand for gardeners in a town full of soldiers at an all time low, she's desperate for whatever bits she can get her hooves on. And it just so happens there's a new “underground” fighting tournament in town that's paying rather handsomely.

Content Advisory: Don't let the tags or synopsis fool you: this story's a clopfic through and through—it just happens to use some of the more bizarre, if nonsexual, fetishes out there. Fetishes which include: flattening, body compression, vampirism, hypnosis, and oddly done third person narration.

Many things are said about Star Swirl, the Bearded. About his wisdom, bravery, and loyalty. Although, if you were to ask him, he would have probably disagreed with you in some way.

So gather 'round to hear the tale of the stallion who would become Star Swirl, the Bearded.

Roseluck discovers something horribly wrong with her garden. Blossomforth knows how to fix it—or does she?

Thanks to bathroomstahl for pre-reading this story.

Creative Sparks, A janitor working at Manehattan International airport, dreams of flying off to the faraway poster places that he knows he’ll never see. Trapped by his low income job for Equestria Airways, he's convinced that anywhere but Manehattan would be better.

Then one day, he finds a scared little filly hiding from the vacuum cleaner in gate A9.
In the events that follow, Creative comes to realize that it doesn't matter where you are or where you go, what matters is who you are with.

Artwork by shadawg

The Rainbooms and Dazzlings are both blown away when a third party comes out on top during Canterlot High School's Talent Show. Written as an alternative to the finale of the movie Rainbow Rocks, this story presents a scenario to illustrate why trap and drill music from the South Side of Chicago should have appeared in the Equestria Girls sequel.

Times are a-changing in the lands of the Diamond Dogs, and not for the better. Beset by the dangers of the surface world, their newly-established above-ground kingdom of Diamondia is in need of aid from friendly neighbors. Luckily, they just happen to be within a little over a week's journey of the most friendship-loving beings in the world! Surely the most loyal of canines and the friendliest of equines can work something out with only a minimum of misunderstanding, culture shock and inadvertent acts of war, right?

(Originally written for Equestria Daily's "Outside Insight" summer fanfic contest, but it's not going to be completed within the time limit or the word limit.)

To Ember, ponies are the boogie men, villains in story books, and alien creatures that roam the land. His perception is radically changed after he captures one alive; and they are nothing like he imagined. Now, to fulfill the promise he made to the pony, he will risk his life to get her safely home.

This story is rated teen due to the following reasons:
brief violence
alcohol consumption
Adult themes

This story DOES NOT contain the following:
clop
sex
erotic content
guts / gore

(Special thanks to AlicornPriest for proof reading help)

It is the dawn of the Classical Era of Equestria. An aging Clover the Clever bids farewell to her old mentor; Starswirl the Beaded, the greatest spell-caster of the Pre-Classical Era, quietly dead after a long and tumultuous life. Yet, he has left his student something that could upset he scales of balance in the fledgling Equestrian Republic. The Senate, convinced of the righteousness of their Universal Republic and proud of their acomplishments like creating an universal language and currency, are eager to end their tribute to the fickle dragonequus ruling the land from afar. But they need a weapon. A weapon believed once possessed by Starswirl the Bearded.

Clover must discover what Starswirl kept secret all these years. This is his story; a story of a world before Equestria, a dangerous and violent world where the seeds of all the millennia of history to come are planted. A world without alicorn princesses. Or?

This is the first (and probably last for a while, as the author is going to try to get a book published) independent story of the Origin of Harmony series exploring the prehistory of the Princesses and Equestria in general. The story was originally intended to be released in May, but the auhr got severe tendonitis and could not finish the last few pages' till now. To his surprise, he only had to change five lines to account for Season 4. He also apologizes for the vast amount of OCs necessary to maintain character diversity.

Everypony's got a story to tell. Most notably, some unremarkable ponies you have never heard of. One of these ponies is amiable Medley.

Being a very young pony is filled with life-changing adventures, lessons, ups-and-downs and emotions. Medley may not be the most popular pony, but she has a heart of gold, and does everything to make frowny ponies feel better again.
Between contests, singing and weather, Medley and her closest friends Raindrops and Spring Skies grow up together in a bond of friendship, that should never break.

The life of our kind-hearted pegasus pony has just begun.

(First-person, parody, reflective)

A brony gets the chance go to Equestria, but what he finds isn't what he was hoping for.