At the Hearth's Warming Eve Party a young princess recieves a nutcracker doll from her godfather but little does she realize that the nutcracker is not what it appears to be.

During the night, after everypony else has gone to bed, the young princess returns to check on her beloved nutcracker. As the clock strikes midnight suddenly the rat army begins to fill the room led by the Rat King and only the nucracker colt can save her.

Cover Art belongs to Princess Maxii

Listen to the story of Malkor's Birth, The Draconian who was created in a laboratory from the DNA of the most rarest Draconian in all of Equestria, Murea, from Malkor's own mouth.

Octavia is a maestro of the musical art form and a brilliant composer. Her concertos and orchestral arrangements can be heard from where Celestia's sun sets to the place where Luna's Moon rises. However when her musical endeavors cause her to become interested in completing a concerto of the great and eccentric Neighthoven. Events take place that leave her holding onto the reigns of reality for dear life!

(An unofficial sequel to Princess Celestia Hates Tea) After literally experiencing twice her lifetimes worth of tea (thank's to her student's studiousness) Princess Celestia realises that she can only drink 12 cups more! With cups counting down and the fate of Equestria at stake, she turns to the only pony who can save the day, just in time for tea!

The sun hangs in for only a handful of hours. The disease hit quick and fast. It was death for all who came across turning them into a thing that decays as it stands. They only have one purpose and that's to feed. The land is now chaos with no one to take care of the land. The fate of equestria only rest in the journey of two fillies as they moved down a path of madness and insanity.

A muffled thump woke him up that morning. It was followed by a yelp as he rolled off the bed in surprise. Now he's just staring at the blue eyes staring back at him from the other side of the bed.

Interesting start to a day off, meeting an alien and all.

Read below about hiatus reason.
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Chapters are a once in a while side thing for me when an idea strikes. There's a lot of time to dig into between the start and the suggested time of the second chapter. At present, I'm only confirming a third any time soon. When he wakes up for that first meeting.

After that, it's probably going to finish the first day or couple of days before I start doing any major time jumps between additional chapters. I may not do them in order at that point, but they will be placed in order. As is suggested in the second chapter, timeline is limited up to them being middle-aged with an empty nest. Mostly going to be kooky and fun, with the occasional serious event taking place.

No connection to my main story, Protecting Harmony.

The Crystal Empire has been at peace ever since Princess Cadance and Shining Armor took over its ruling. No more loving couple has ever reigned before, and the Crystal Heart has never generated such power in all of history. But there is a secret that Cadance has kept for many, many, years: a terrible secret with the potential to bring it all crashing down.
This Hearts-and-Hooves Day, Cadance and Shining Armor's love will be put through its toughest trial yet.

This story is a side-story to Essenza di Amore. Though set in the same universe, reading of the prequel is not required. Similarly, knowledge of certain events depicted in the book, Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell, will be helpful but not essential.

The extended version of my entry in the Writeoff Association's January 2015 event, the prompt being All in. Now also the second place winner of Nonpariel Fiction's 2015 Hearts and Hooves Day competition.

*Written before the FIENDship is Magic comic series and the Radiant Hope arc of the main comic series*

Preread by Foals Errand, The Albinocorn, RK_Striker_JK_5, Sholan, and Csquared08.
Edited by Foxy E, Dash The Stampede, Csquared08, and NightWolf289.

Cover art courtesy of Akili-Amethyst.

Inspired by this incredible song.

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Oodlz is an earth pony mare working hard drawing cartoons.

Doctor Whooves is a wandering Timepony.

Stopping by Ponyville he surprises Oodlz with a very special gift on Hearts and Hooves Day.

Written as a favour for https://www.fimfiction.net/user/wubtasticalMLP

A small, grey filly sat awkwardly on her haunches, staring in wonder towards the sky. Her mismatched, amber eyes were widening in joy as she gazed up at the beautiful rainbow that was forming overhead. Rainbows had always given her wonderful waves of nostalgia, reminding her of her one pleasant memory-of her mother. This is the story of how a lost and abandoned filly came to once again feel the comforting embrace of someone who cared, someone who loved her, someone who treasured her.

It was going to be a perfectly normal day. Twilight would go to Zecoras. Pinkie was going to bake cupcakes. Applejack was going to buck apples and Rainbowdash was going to sleep. That was until Celestia sent them a old book found in the library in Canterlot behind some shelves.