Pinkie Pie receives a letter from her family. Learning that one of her sisters is going to have a foal, Pinkie decides to travel home to the rock farm to visit. And her best friends in the whole world agreed to come along! Little do they know that Pinkie's native lands are going to put their survival skills and even their very souls to an unforgiving test...

(Yes, friends and neighbours, I'm using a very broad interpretation of the canon indication "a rockfarm outside of Ponyville". Be warned, compatibility with mlp canon is stretched very thin as of the last season of the series.)

Princess Twilight has received a declaration of war. For the first time, she will have to protect her realm as a princess against the onslaught of an enemy nation.

In a small town in Equestria, four full-grown blank flanks have an encounter with destiny.
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Reading the will of his parents one more time, Big McIntosh decides to have a talk with his sisters that he thinks is long overdue.

"I wanna play Grossbucket."

"What's that?"

Pinkie gasped."You have never even played Grossbucket! Never fear, aunt Pinkie is here to teach you..."

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(Disclaimer: I remember some parts of the fandom (and some movies...) seemed to interpret even the older protagonists (such as the "mane six") as being children/teenagers. Just because I can, I hereby declare for the purpose of this fanfic, and really all of my other fics, that no creature in this story is the equivalent of a human "minor" unless they are unambiguously described that way.)

When watching Applejack feed the family dog one evening, Apple Bloom decides to finally ask her where the ponies get their meat. Little does she know that it's going to be the beginning of a big adventure...

As far as I'm concerned, this is headcanon now.

Alternative Title: Where does meat come from?

References used:
(-Lauren Faust, "My little Pony- Friendship is magic", Hasbro Studios/DHX Media, 2010.)
-Magicolt808, "Huntershy (Hunting)", fimfiction.net, 22.August 2012.
-Arthur Qwak, "Dragon Hunters", furikon, 2006.
-The Cure, "Dragon Hunters Song", 2005.
- Tetsuya Shibata/Masato Koda/Mitsuhiko Takano, "Monster Hunter" (and all sequels), Capcom, 2004.
-Pendleton Ward, "Adventure Time", Cartoon Network, 2010.
-Max Cabanes, "Dans les villages", Audie/Dargaud/Dupuis, 1978.
-Jonathan Wojcik alias 'sycthemantis', "FACT: The best cartoons ever written for kids are right now" on Bogleech's tumblr, 30.August 2012.
-kerembeyit, "Troll Hunter", Deviantart, 17.November 2008.
-and lots of other stuff I won't be able to quote properly since it's so much and all mixed up.

A short story in which Rainbow Dash is facing an aspect of motherhood that she always hoped would pass her by... until she didn't.
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Trigger warning for possible body dysphoria ("why do they have udders"), though I would like to point out if it helps that the baby does rightfully gender RD as its mommy. Also, always remember that all of the dialogue between her and the foal is actually happening inside RD's head.

A short story about what would happen to Spike if Twilight Sparkle was to disappear from his life.

Join Twilight as she is trying to win back an old friend...

The crowd was holding their breath as they watched Twilight examine the artifact, “hm”-ing and “mhm”-ing as she saw fit.
-“The details are incredible... The pictograms look proto-Hukulskian... Whatever it is, it is really old...”
-“Like, somepony hid it for Rabbit Slayer’s a couple of years ago and no one ever found it?”
-“No, AJ, I think even quite a bit older than that.”

ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Dear odd, how was I ever able to write something this bleak? I knew I was in a really dark place back then, but seriously.

Growing up among ponies, Spike is a dragon without roots.
He is going to live for thousands of years. At some point, he will feel the need to investigate his origins. Here is what he might find out. If that ever happens, let us hope his friends will be there for him.

It all started way back in the last days of old Dracoslavia...