General Iroh. Fire Nation hero. First born son of Fire Lord Azulan. The Dragon of the West. It was thought he would be the greatest warrior in the history of the Fire Nation.

But all that changed when the war claimed his son's life. This changed him, and he turned his back on the war.

This was a necessary event. Iroh had a role to play in bringing balance back to the world...but to play that role, he first had to be broken down, so that he could be rebuilt. This truth was self evident in the spirit realm.

But one particular spirit felt this was unfair to Iroh. The wheels of fate are cruel to those caught in the gears, but this particular spirit felt that Iroh deserved kindness. And so this spirit sent Iroh one who would help him to rebuild himself.

And so, shortly after his son's funeral, Iroh would find a creature sent by the spirits, the likes of which he never would have imagined...a pretty pink pony princess.

Somepony to love...and be loved by.

Part of the PWNY-verse.
Edit: Now with Fan Art by Mewappony.
Edit 2: New Cover Art by Sanyo21!

Twilight Sparkle is an expert in unicorn magic, but earth pony magic remains a mystery to her. The books in her library have very little information about the earth tribe's abilities, other than their famous strength. Twilight is determined to uncover their secrets.

What she learns will change her life.

And it just might change Applejack's life as well.

Featured on Equestria Daily.

After being reformed during the events of The Cutie Re-Mark, Starlight Glimmer was secretly called upon by Princess Celestia herself for an important task. Certain individuals from Our Town had adopted Starlight's philosophy and left to create a larger Equalist Party with nefarious plans for Equestria. So, for much longer than she desires, Starlight must now live as a member of the ruthless Equalist Party at the command of Princess Celestia. It is a long pair of even black roads through the darkness, on which Starlight must walk alone. Now completely spurned, scorned, and hated by Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Starlight must keep up her Equalist persona as she secretly infiltrates and foils the plans of the extreme Left-Wing Totilitarian Equalist Party.
(Story inspired by "I Was a Communist For the FBI")

Sweetie Belle gets stuck in a time loop.

Traducción Española: https://www.deviantart.com/spaniard-kiwi/art/Un-poco-circular-1-4-990271915

Proofread by many people such as: 0_0, refferee, Leonzilla, crooked, TheGreatEater, and other people I may have missed.

Now with a Dramatic Reading: A Moment With the CMC

Dr. Wolf sat quietly in his chair, simply enjoying the silence between meetings. The only noise breaking the serenity was the ticking of the clock.

Even one who helped others with their stress, tension, and upset needed their own downtime once in a while to keep themselves grounded. Given his workload, it was a precious thing for the busy therapist to have any downtime at all.

However, his solitude ended with a knock outside his office. As the bipedal canine rose and opened the door, he looked up out of instinct. Instead of an adult pony looking down at him, the small wolf's eyes were greeted by the wall and the top of several little ponies’ manes. He readjusted his line of sight and found himself staring into the orange eyes of a young yellow Earth Pony.

His sensitive nose told him, by the smell of their perspiration, that the three had been doing some strenuous activity. Strangely, they also smelled of tree sap, among other things.

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This story had been inspired by the fan art piece created by Starbat many months ago. When EquestriaDaily posted their "Friend Off Revival" contest, I felt driven to write up a video script with Starbat, and it got turned into a completed story here on FimFiction with a little help from Godzillawolf. For my first attempt at a My Little Pony story, I think it turned out rather nicely.

Nice to see that EquestriaDaily included this story for their contest: Friend Off Art and Story Compilation

This is a collection of thirty twenty-eight short stories for the National Pony Writing Month I'm participating in.
Every story will be added as a new chapter, to create a big compilation of all the stories I write for it, and will be about different ponies, different locations and different adventures.
There could also be a variety in the length of the stories, depending on it how many ideas come to me while writing, but my general goal is to write 60,000 words, which means every story will have 2,000 words minimum.
I will add a description for each story below as soon as I have written it.

Note: The gore tag and the teen rating are only there because of the first story "Back from the Grave" and because this was the only way to getting it passed through moderation. All the other stories are suitable for "Everyone".

November 23rd 2014, 01:34 AM (MEZ): "Haunting for Two -Part 1-" reached 100 views! Thanks to everyone who read it!

November 24th 2014, 05:07 PM (MEZ): My NaPoWriMo compilation has reached 1,000 views! Thanks for the support everypony!

The cover image belongs to dm29.

Day 1: Back from the Grave (Dark)
After an attempt to create an own spell, Twilight suddenly has to deal with a horde of undead ponies in Ponyville. Will she and Apple Bloom manage it to safe the town or is everything too late? (Contains slight amount of gore!)
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Apple Bloom

Day 2: Tears and Apologies (Slice of Life, Sad)
After cleaning up the mess she created in Twilight's library together with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle during their last Twilight Time, Scootaloo has to learn that some foals are more sensitive than her. Especially the ones who are younger.
Based on "Twilight Time".
Characters: Scootaloo, Pipsqueak, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle

Day 3: Haunting for Two -Part 1- (Dark, Slight Romance, Tragedy)
After spending some time with Rainbow Dash during the last Nightmare Night, Luna discovers some unexpected feelings for the fast pegasus. Determined to impress Rainbow Dash and to show her that they have similar interests, she invites her to a spooky trip into a haunted asylum in Fillydelphia.
Luna is sure that this is exactly the right way to attract the pegasus' attention.
Rainbow Dash likes scary things after all. Right?
Characters: Luna, Rainbow Dash

Day 4: Haunting for Two -Part 2- (Dark, Slight Romance, Tragedy)
Luna and Rainbow Dash continue their scary exploration of the haunted asylum. Will Rainbow Dash manage it to stay there until Luna's tour is over? And who is Shapy Cloud?
Characters: Luna, Rainbow Dash, Shapy Cloud

Day 5: Cuddly Cloudwatching (Slice of Life, Random)
After Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle blew up the barn while trying to get their cutie marks, they fear Applejack's wrath. While cloudwatching to relax themselves after their failed attempt, Sweetie Belle comes up with an idea how they could calm Applejack down.
An idea that involves a cuteness overload.....
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle

Day 6: How to Polish an Opal (Slice of Life)
Opal has a problem and it's Fluttershy's task to help her deal with it.

Have you ever wondered about it why we have seen Opal acting so aggressive in "Stare Master" back in Season 1, but then in Season 2 suddenly not anymore?
This fanfiction gives an answer on this question.
It also shines a light on the relationship between Opal and Sweetie Belle and gives a hint on it what they have in common.....
Set between the events of Season 1 and Season 2.
Characters: Fluttershy, Opal, Sweetie Belle

Day 7: The Pond Fairy and the Golden Helmet (Slice of Life, Comedy)
After having had a miserable day, Scootaloo has a mystical experience with a higher being and gets rewarded for her honesty with a precious present.
Characters: Scootaloo, The Pond Fairy, Diamond Tiara, Discord, Cheerilee

Day 8: Celestia sits drunk in a bar (Random, Comedy)
Celestia sits in a bar and drowns herself in alcohol. Why?
Because all those terrible peasants did not appreciate her sun. But she will show them! She will show them all!
If the alcohol lets her.
Characters: Celestia, Luna

Day 9: Just a Sunny Day (Slice of Life)
It's Pinkie Pie's free day and all her friends have to work, so she decides to make a walk through the town on this sunny day.
But after meeting a filly, her plans change, and she finds herself playing games in the Whitetail Woods.
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Dinky Hooves

Day 10: The Dragon of the Whitetail Woods -Part 1- (Slice of Life, Adventure)
Pinkie and Dinky continue to play in the Whitetail Woods. After a little roleplay in a cave they have discovered, Pinkie tells Dinky a story that she heard from her Granny, a story about a secret underwater cave down in the Whitetail Lake.
Together, they decide to find out how much truth is behind this old legend.....
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Dinky Hooves

Day 11: Some Chances Never Come Back (Slice of Life, Sad)
After spending the night with some other Daring Do fans, Rainbow Dash has to face something terrible the next morning. There was something she wanted to get, but she missed the chance.
A chance that will never come back.....
Inspired by real events.
Characters: Rainbow Dash

Day 12: The Dragon of the Whitetail Woods -Part 2- (Slice of Life, Adventure)
Dinky and Pinkie can find the cave from the legend. After entering it, they find it protected by several, magical traps.
Is the legend really true?
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Dinky Hooves

Day 13: Spike's Hearts and Hooves Day Surprise (Slice of Life, Sad)
It's Hearts and Hooves Day and Spike has planned the perfect present for Rarity.
But as the thing he wanted to buy for the mare of his dreams is sold out, everything takes on a different turn and he finds himself assigned with the task to take care of the foals in the Ponyville Kindergarten for one day.
Can Spike handle this task or has he bitten off more than he can chew?
Characters: Spike, Noteworthy, Honey Mood, Golden Grape, Snowy Breeze, Nasty Hooves

Day 14: Chasing Away The Nightmares (Slice of Life, Dark)
It's night and Sweetie Belle just had a terrible dream.
Woken up by her little sister, Rarity comes into Sweetie's room to chase away her nightmares.
Inspired by a fanart (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Sweetie Belle, Rarity

Day 15: Fluttershy's First Day in Ponyville (Slice of Life, Sad)
Fluttershy just moved to Ponyville. What adventures await her on her first day in the quiet, little town?
Based on a fanart (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie

Day 16: Fillies 'n the Hood (Comedy, Slice of Life)
After an unsuccessful attempt to get gamer cutie marks, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are left with no plans for the afternoon. As their boredom threatens to overwhelm them, a fortunate coincidence brings some money into their hooves.
Using this opportunity, they buy a big amount of ice cream and try to get cutie marks in ice cream eating, which causes unpredictable consequences for the three young fillies.....
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Cheerilee, Berry Punch

Day 17: Justice and Revenge (Slice of Life, Sad)
Dinky lashes out at Diamond Tiara for insulting her beloved mom and in the aftermath of their confrontation, Diamond Tiara suddenly has to face real consequences for her actions for once. But will the bully give up so easily? No.
What Diamond Tiara has in mind is revenge.....
Characters: Dinky Hooves, Diamond Tiara, Cheerilee

Day 18: The Future She Was Not Supposed To Know (Comedy)
The Equestria of the future is very different:
Futuristic skyscrapers, ponies who look like squids, cyber ponies. And no nature or free living animals anymore.
Discord saw this future, but he decided to keep it a secret from Fluttershy and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
But now Fluttershy is asking about the future that he didn't show them.
Will Discord manage it to prevent her from finding out about the future she is not supposed to know?
Contains spoilers for the 24th issue of the official Mane Series comics!
Characters: Discord, Fluttershy

Day 19: Something is following you (Dark)
After watching the premiere of a scary movie in cinema together with her friends and Rainbow Dash late at night, Apple Bloom makes her way home to Sweet Apple Acres alone.
She's a big pony and she was not scared of the movie, so walking home at midnight would be an easy feat for her.
But when she hears mysterious hoofsteps behind her and a voice whispering to her, she has to face what horrors the night can contain.....
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Rainbow Dash

Day 20: Woodpecker Day (Random, Comedy, Slice of Life)
It was Woodpecker Day on Sweet Apple Acres. The one day of the year every member of the Apple Family dreaded.
And it was all Applejack's fault. Sort of. Because all animals hated her.
But this year she was going to find out the reason for it.
Characters: Applejack, Apple Bloom, Big McIntosh, Granny Smith, Twilight Sparkle

Day 21: Ya Packed The Bug Spray? or How Applejack Met A Moth (Slice of Life, Adventure)
At the end of her camping trip to Winsome Falls together with Apple Bloom, her friends and their big sisters, Applejack has a strange encounter with a moth.
For other ponies, this wouldn't be too bad, but Applejack feared moths.
To her bad luck, this encounter should just be the beginning of a very unusual relationship with the hairy insect.....
A tribute to Fluffy (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Applejack, Fluffy, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash, Sweetie Belle, Rarity

Day 22: Berry Punch Origins (Comedy, Slice of Life)
Berry Punch was still a blank flank. But this was something that should change on this day.
As she returns hungrily from school and eats some cupcakes from the fridge, unexpected side effects are caused that lead the little filly to find her special talent.....
Characters: Berry Punch

Day 23: For The Queen (Dark, Tragedy, Alternate Universe)
After having herself locked up in her room because Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle found the letters she had written, a mysterious, bodiless voice starts to talk to Apple Bloom.
What does this voice want from her? And is it friend or foe?
Set in Slitherpon's "Moody Mark Crusaders" universe. Having read the comic is necessary in order to understand the story completely.
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Applejack

Day 24: A Good Cold (Slice of Life)
After having carelessly played outside in the snow on the first day of winter, Apple Bloom finds herself sick with a cold on the next morning.
Luckily, she has a good older sister to take care of her and very good friends.
Based on a song (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Apple Bloom, Applejack, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle

Day 25: In a Distant Land (Adventure, Dark)
After their time travel with Discord and Fluttershy, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle get a chance to see the Gryphon Kingdom, as Discord accidentally takes a wrong turn on their way back to Ponyville.
And as a defect of the time machine causes it that they can spend more time there than expected, they are eager to experience another adventure.
But as they meet a gryphon in the town who invites them into his home, they end up with more adventure than they desired.....
Based on the 25th issue of the Mane Series comics.
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Discord, Fluttershy, Henry

Day 26: Derpy's Day: The Morning (Slice of Life)
Derpy lives a happy life with her two daughters Dinky and Sparkler and as one of the mailponies in Ponyville.
That's one of her days.
Volume 1 of a collection.
Characters: Derpy Hooves, Dinky Hooves, Sparkler Hooves

Day 27: The Path of Food (Crossover, Comedy, Slice of Life)
On a normal, quiet day in Ponyville, something unusual happens suddenly. So unusual, that even the local residents, who are used to extreme events, see it as that:
A certain gourmand from another universe lands in Equestria. And he is determined to continue to learn how to master "The Path of Food" there.
Much to Rarity's dismay.
A crossover with Final Fantasy IX (see Author's Notes for more infos).
Characters: Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Quina Quen, Zidane Tribal

Day 28: The Art Of Making Ponies Smile (A Tribute to Pinkie Pie's Smile Song) (Slice of Life, Sad)
Pinkie Pie just wants to make all of her friends happy. And in Ponyville, everypony is her friend.
This is her story.
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Apple Cobbler, Noi, Bloo, Big McIntosh, Apple Bloom, Applejack