8/21/2014 Yay! My first fic to get to the Feature Box! I'm so excited. Thank all y'all for helping this story reach this achievement. You all are awesome.

Retroactively giving this the AU Tag, and making this part of a series: "The Golden Saga". Stories will be split into arcs. With each new story having a recap chapter so new readers can catch up to stuff without being lost.

Part 1 of "The Golden Saga"

Raindrops is a mare who's lived a full and interesting life, and is a close friend of Ditzy Do, as well as a volunteer to various help groups in the community. When she sees Scootaloo diving for a meal in an alley way while covering for an ill Ditzy Do. She decides to take her in before the upcoming early winter hits. All the while trying to help her find the family she's lost long ago. This is a story of love, friendship, and the healing of old wounds.

Cover Art by: ImJustAnotherBrony

Editor: kingtiger666

Thank all of you readers for getting this story into the Popular Stories box. [8/14]

After a night of drinking far too much hard cider for their own good, Twilight Sparkle and Applejack awoke to find themselves with wedding bands on their horn and hoof (respectively), a legally-binding document on the bedside table, and a very embarrassing videocassette of a drunken Las Pegasus wedding ceremony. Now, Princess Celestia has summoned Twilight Sparkle and Applejack to her quarters, to have a little word with them about this situation...

This bit of silliness came from reading Darth Link 22's story, "About Last Night". After posting a couple of random comments about Celestia and Luna's possible reactions to the wedding video which were, apparently, funny enough to cause at least one person to nearly choke on their coffee when they read them, I felt inspired enough to expand on it. Two cans of Monster "Absolute Zero" later, this wacky little vignette somehow materialized out of my addled brain... Note that this is not canon as far as Darth's story is concerned! (Although he is certainly welcome to steal any bits he likes from it if he wants to.) Just think of it as a "deleted scene" on the DVD.

This would take place sometime after chapter six, A Most Forgettable Evening, so ideally you should have read at least that far into it before reading this. (And really, you should be reading it anyway, 'cause it's freakin' hilarious. ) If you just need a quick refresher, chapter two, Feel The Love, is where the wedding video is described.

Twilight Sparkle is used to being lonely. Sure, she's got friends now, but sometimes they're busy and you're left to your own devices. When these times come, she takes refuge in a particular place and partakes in a very particular activity: writing. Specifically, silly throwaway writings. Why? Well, they're safe.

The events of the Wonderbolt Academy have played out and Rainbow Dash is in the stretch to achieving her dream but still has a hard time getting a certain erstwhile friend out of her mind. After taking a few minutes to contemplate things, she decides that she's been given enough second chances in her life to see to it that somepony else gets one as well.

Rated Teen for some language later on, though nothing extremely vulgar.