Pony magic works in funny ways. Unicorns all have magic they can control. Earth ponies and pegasi have innate magic that connects them to the earth and the sky. And then there are more unusual cases. Pinkie Pie's supernatural senses, for example. And then there's Braeburn, who seems to have a rather unusual effect on other stallions...

Dragons have been relying on shipments of gems to live. These gems have served them well as a substitute for meat. They know that to go to war with Princess Celestia would be paramount to suicide. Yet food is running scarce. Their only remaining source seems to be the ponies. While Princess Celestia maintains the facade, the problem festers.

Equestria is locked in a three way tie. The Earth ponies pay tribute to the Pegasi so that they will control the weather and the Unicorn's receive tribute to raise the sun and moon. All three factions distrust and even openly hate the others to a point where anypony found outside of their realm is persecuted. A series of events brings six young fillies from all three different worlds together, and as they spend more time together, they realize that not everything grown ups say is true. But how can they be friends in a world on the brink of all out war?

Life can go in strange directions sometimes. For example, this tale starts with Twilight Sparkle deliberately turning Rainbow Dash into a meatball. See, she's not accident-prone all the time!

Princess Luna arrives in Ponyville and begins to do wonderful things in the life of Twilight Sparkle. They become close friends...maybe even more, but when Twilight discovers that Luna may be after the throne the unicorn must choose whether to follow her head...or her heart.

Twilight Sparkle: magician, scholar, bearer of the element Magic, and most of all, friend.
A bat, a book, and a bite can change so much of that, and bring darkness to her heart.
Can you keep your friendships when you might hurt those around you?
If you want to hurt them?
Bloodlust can bring an end.

Princess Luna discusses the nature of life, death, immortality, fear, love and loneliness with a palace guard who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

For Ponyville's premier nurse, life is anything but slow - a full-time job, a budding relationship with Big Macintosh, and her own friends and family often leave Redheart's hooves full, and it's all she can do to catch a break.

It's a tough job, but somepony's gotta do it.

Fic is rated Teen for gore (due to medical situations), language, and romantic situations.
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(Formerly "Strange Love")
It started off as a completely normal morning for the mane 6, until they woke up. All six awake to find their opposite gender counterparts from a different universes in their beds. No-one knows how they arrived. Now with their opposite sex selves, they must discover why they are there and, if possible, how to send them home. Unfortunately there are many alternate universes in existence, some not very nice, some that have beings who would wish to enter the mane six's world and bring harm upon it.

This is a remake of my terrible fic "Limitations of Love" but without the villain sue Smiley. I would also like to say that I am in no way trying to rip off Connor Cogwork's "On a Cross and Arrow".

Character tags will be added as the story goes on.

Cover image is mine
( http://darkone10.deviantart.com/art/Across-the-Cosmic-Ocean-289491464 ) Higher resolution version here

Follow the mane six as they face the harshest Summer in Equestria's history. Meanwhile,
Celestia faces an inner demon that threatens to turn her into a tyrant and destroy natural order with eternal day.
I will release weekly updates as regularly as possible. Thanks for reading!

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