Flash Sentry and Cloudkicker spend Hearthswarming Night together and exchange gifts.

This story takes place before Season 3 episode 7 Wonderbolts Academy.

Thunderlane has to stand watch as an experimental lightning storm is being tried out on the weather factory's test range, but he would far rather be watching the buckball playoffs instead.

Suddenly he sees two pegasi in difficulty as they try to outrun the storm, and goes to help out.

Ponyville's pegasi prepare for a large storm to mitigate the temperatures of a passing heat wave. However, misplaced clouds from a clumsy pegasus cause strong winds that push Rainbow Dash's house all the way into the Everfree Forest, where it is completely destroyed. Now homeless, Rainbow choses to move in with Applejack, who will need the company since Granny Smith is on her last legs.

Set about fifteen years before "The Last Problem"

I purposefully left the husband nameless and descriptionless so the reader can imagine him as whatever pony or OC they want.

MLP Forums NaPoWriMo submission for Booker. The story I originally wanted to submit for this was way too long (It's finished now. Read it here). This story is kind of a precursor to that one, but this one can still be read on its own without missing out on anything.

While walking through the park, Cloudkicker flies down to ask if you'd like to go out for dinner and sit outside and look at the stars.

It is said that 2000 years ago, a powerful alicorn stallion once ruled all Equestria with an Iron Hoof. However, his twin daughters Celestia and Luna sealed him away with the power of the seven Elements of Harmony, artifacts that were older than Equestria itself. Now, most ponies don't even believe that story to be true, even though the Eclipse Extravaganza is held every 50 years on the supposed anniversary of the event. But, when Janice Dazzle, personal student to the Princesses, comes to Ponyville to help prepare for the upcoming festival, Strange things occur that get them to believe.

Advance, lunge. Retreat. It's about speed, but no one can run away. Sunset never thought she'd get the chance to show how far she had come, not in this. Her friends were by her side and they'd always be the greatest change in her life, but this was important too.

Changing bodies when she crossed over to the human world was hard enough. It was a challenge to write, and even harder to learn how to play the guitar. But this sport, fencing, felt nigh-impossible to master. But that was years ago.

Feint, disengage, lunge for the feet. Every time it's a lunge, firing the body like a magic blast from a unicorn's horn, only stronger. Every time she could feel the impact. The bending steel, it spoke volumes about how good the hit was.

Canterlot High had only ever had a fencing club, but the Inter-regional Fencing Tournament would be open to every young fencer, including upstart professionals. Schools like Crystal Prep would be sending their own team members, real competitors who lived with a sword in their hand. But none of them had to go through what Sunset did. She'd win for CHS, and finally give back to the one place that had done so much for her.

Sequel: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/414838/a-summers-gift