This story is a sequel to Past Sins

Touch, Smell, Taste, Hearing, Sight

This is the order the five senses develop in for foals as they rest, cradled in the warm safety of a mother’s womb. But for one, her womb was a thorn bush in the dark of night. For one, the safety and warmth that should have carried her into the world was replaced with pain and cold.

These are Nyx's first hours.

Applejack is requested by HRH Princess Cadance, to travel north to the Crystal Empire in order to assist her and Shining Armor in cultivating the long lost crystal apple, a fruit imagined to have powerful healing properties, when grown properly. Unfortunately, the crystal ponies lack such farming skills, so who better than an Element who is also an experienced apple farmer?

This is a sequel to: Orange and Blue, I Do (Book 3)

There is a later sequel to this story: Cultivating Love (Book 5)

Applejack and Rainbow Dash have gotten really close recently. Everypony can tell that they have feelings for each other, but when Fluttershy sees just how much Rainbow likes Applejack, things get complicated.

I was inspired to write this a long time ago after I read Holding on to Nothing by Dianwei32. It's a really good FlutterDash/AppleDash sad fic.

The cover art is by spittfireart on DA and the commissioner of the art is Tchernobog. It's an amazing piece that I came across a few days before I decided to write this. Being used with permission! :)

This is my first time writing fanfiction, or even writing, seriously, for that matter. So, constructive criticism would be appreciated and encouraged. The chapters will probably be short at first, but I promise I will better over time! :)

Rainbow Dash is a very busy mare. She barely has time to sit and think about certain things like her future significant other. When she finally has the chance to, she discovers things about herself that she had no idea about.

Applejack has brushed her mane, put a ribbon on her hat, and there's a sway in her step. Most ponies just want to know who the special pony is.

Rainbow Dash doesn't buy it. Love is mushy, and AJ isn't mushy. Love means liking somepony more than her friends, and AJ would never like another pony more than Dash. Love means missing a game of horseshoes to go tell a pony that she's in love with them, and if there is one thing Dash is sure of, it's that AJ is not going to miss that game... no matter what Applejack thinks about it.

When Twilight runs into the newly reformed Trixie, she discovers that Trixie has never had a friend before so she takes it upon herself to teach Trixie about the magic of friendship. But the magic of friendship just may become something more.

Applejack needs a full night of sleep for apple bucking tomorrow. It's too bad that Rainbow Dash's restlessness isn't letting her get a single wink.

980 years ago...
Celestia has been trapped in the sun for twenty years now. They have been hard times for the ponies of Equestria as they have sought to try and rebuild their society and recover from all that she did in her madness. But fear not! For though her coat and mane are now pink, and though she is shorter, and though she remembers nothing of her previous life, all that Celestia was has been reborn, and returned to Equestria!

A distant prequel to the Lunaverse.

Applejack, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash really enjoy each other's company. So much so that some ponies are beginning to wonder about them. Twilight and Applejack are a couple after all, so its a bit unusual that Rainbow always seems to be invited along. But sometimes, a couple is more than two.

Thanks to Steel Resolve, Lycan_01 and Macdjord for editing and brainstorming!
Cover art by Graystripe64.

Three hundred years ago, Equestria almost invaded the peaceful and idyllic nation of Cavallia, the homeland of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.

The invasion would have been accidental.

It was quite awkward.