She stumbles into the Whitetail Woods one last time, to finish what she'd started so many years before...

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Big Macintosh is a stallion of few words, but that doesn't mean he's slow or uneducated. Unknown to any outside the Apple family, he's a wiz at math and finds himself smitten with the one pony who could share his love for numbers, and who just so happens to be the personal student of Princess Celestia; Twilight Sparkle. With a "gentle" nudge from his persistent sister, Big Mac manages a date with the purple unicorn, but a relationship might turn out to be more work than either one bargained for.

"Dear Santa Hooves. My name is Apple Bloom, and I don't want presents for Hearth's Warming this year. I just want my cutie mark..."

Featured on Equestria Daily -- January 18th 2013
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A strange fat man comes before the princesses in strange apparel, claiming his holiday is in utmost peril.

Hearths Warming Eve celebrates the unification of the Pony Tribes into the harmonious nation of Equestria. The holiday has long been one of reconciliation, happiness, and unity. However, not all ponies revel in this celebration. There are some among each of the races that openly detest unification, and even go so far as to take up arms for their own independence. This year, in the wake of Discord's return and re-imprisonment, one of these groups sees the opportunity to make their name known to the world. Cobalt Crescent, a veteran agent of the Royal Inquiries Bureau, must leave the family he rarely sees to hunt down these terrorists, and stop a plot that threatens to shake the foundations of Equestrian society in more ways than one.

After the griffon ambassador to Equestria goes missing, Manehatten is attacked without warning. As their armies advance upon her cities, Celestia must gather the resources to take them back and eventually save the Equestrian citizens trapped behind enemy lines.

Hopefully the lives of the ponies stationed in the griffon homeland haven't been taken yet.

Twilight's curiosity gets the better of her when she is doing some late night reading. She is looking for topics on ancient Equestrian history, the reason mainly being because the topic is not well known, and she is about to find out why.

Long ago, Equestria, before it was even called that, was a dark and twisted land, filled with much war and horrors, and Twilight wants to see exactly what it was like, even at the risk of her own innocence.

She comes to Princess Celestia with an inquiry on the subject, and she complies...

When the rest of Equestria is thrown into turmoil, some ponies try to live through it. Applejack and Buckshot are the only survivors of Ponyville, and escaping might be hard to do. What will they do to keep the hope?

Twilight Sparkle wishes to make this Hearth's Warming Eve perfect. To do this she comes up with the plan of getting all her friends this year something they had been needing. But she quickly finds that this task is harder than it sounds as problems present themselves. But at the end she realizes that it's not gifts that matter...

It's friendship.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. Things seem to be falling through the cracks lately. Spike thinks I should go see the doctor, but...