In a strange new land, Maud Pie learns of a new cuisine brittle enough for her palette - and like a good marefriend, Autumn Blaze tags along for the sights.

Rated T for fighting monsters.

Inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Contains slight spoilers for the game.

A video of the path Autumn and Maud take can be found here, courtesy of me!

A thank you to starcoder for proofreading before publishing.

One week after Twilight Sparkle hosts a sleepover for her friends, a strange creature enters town that makes the locals feel uneasy. The creature's eyes burn white whenever she gets furious. And... she sings?
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The castle's map calls Applejack and Fluttershy again. This time, it takes them to a distant land. The secluded village is entirely populated by zebras. Most of them aren't huge talkers. Yet, one expresses herself completely in rhymes.
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Had another idea for a swapped roles kind of story.

It is decided.

Terramar will propose to Autumn Blaze tonight! However, before the engagement pearl and transmogrification necklace can be given, there is an obstacle in the way of their romance.

A big one.

Honestly, it is going to be a royal pain.

(Please read this entire long description for more info on terms and romantic ships in this story!)

*If there is enough demand for it, I will separate the story into chapters. Other tags: adventure, comedy!*

Includes the ships below; All of them except for (Terramar x Autumn, which will be Terramar x Gabby and Autumn Blaze x Fizzle the Dragon) will be included in some of my stories to come, including my future "Next Generation universe.

Terramar x Autumn Blaze
Gallus X Silverstream
Gilda X Gustave Le Grande
Skystar x Arrow the Mermare male (from the Under the Sparkling Sea picture book)

Passing mentions:

Captain Hoofbeard x Jewel the merpony (comics)
Gabby x Boofyball Coach Klaus (from the comics)
Gavin x Giselle (they are background Griffons; the later is part of the one "celebrating Hearth's Warming in the episode The Hearth's Warming Club.)
Sandbar X Yona
Spile x Rarity
Twilight Sparkle x Flash Sentry
Fluttershy x Discord/Celestia x Discord/Fluttershy X Bulk Biceps are mentioned extremely briefly as well, haha.

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Character Age Headcanons:

Gallus (15), Silverstream (15)
Terramar (14), Autumn Blaze (18) (Autumn is four years older by one month.)
Gilda (18), Gustave Le Grande (21)
Skystar (16), Arrow (19)
Gabby (16), Boofyball Coach Klaus (21) (Klaus is five years older by one month.)
Gavin (11), Giselle (16)

Don't worry, the younger characters will marry when they are a few years older than they are at the moment! And the age of proposals/marriage (with parental permission) is 15 or 16 in most of these species cultures. (Paralleling where I live.)

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Includes a few references to Disney's/Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid.

This fic has a happy ending despite the fic's genres!

This story takes place three years after Twilight's Sparkle's second coronation. There are also references to the comics and the My Little Pony Movie (G4), so spoiler warning there.

I have never written either Terramar nor Autumn before so I am sorry if I write them out of character/without enough detail on their specific species.

Species gender names in this fic:

Male fish: buck. Female fish: hen. Kid fish: fry/guppy.

Male eagle: male/mate. Female eagle: formel. Kid eagle: hatchling/fledgeling/eaglet.

Male horse/pony: Stallion. Female: mare. Kid: foal/filly.

Group of: Fish: school; Eagles: soar/convocation; Pony/horse: herd.

Hatch-friend= young girlfriend or boyfriend of a hatching. (Young Griffon like the background Griffon Gavin.)

Seaponies and Hippogriffs in the same category - "sea-griffs."

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I usually ship Terramar with Gabby Griffon rather than Autumn, but that ship is a common one; I thought this ship would be unique enough for the May Parings contest.

Since Queen Novo acts like an (understandably) overprotective mother hen in this fic, you can think of it as a belated Mother's Day fic, as well as this long fiction having most of the storyline of a Silverstream x Gallus fic I had been going to write (that will be coming next year.)

I have another story on the works as a Father's Day fic. Look forward to that by the end of June! I will post a link here when it is published!

As I said above, I had planned to write a Gallus x Silverstream story - independent of the Parings contest, but I ran out of time to finish it and wrote this instead. Please enjoy this story, I hope it made you laugh and think and hopefully, it tickles the senses!

I could not finish this in time because my brain had too many ideas - and the fic is too long - but this was written for the MerMay 2023, as well as the May Parings contest! Autumn Blaze is decently popular in the contest, this year!

Pretty cover art (though Terramar is shorter than Autumn in this fic.) by the amazing Alexeigribanov

One weekend, Rarity invites Applejack to Canterlot for tea and the chance to catch up on things. Simple right?

Instead, they learned that the tea shop just so happened to have caught fire. And a familiar pair of kirin are somehow responsible. Surely, there's more to the story, right?

A random spur of the moment comedy piece based on another art piece from Icey. This one being based on the kirin version of the 'Barbie Mugshot' meme.

Credits to everything shown.
MLP belongs to Hasbro.

Featured- 6/4/2023

When Autumn Blaze comes to Canterlot in hopes of learning more about Equestrian Society, Moondancer is tasked with watching over her. Seeing an opportunity to learn more about the wider world and its inhabitants, the pair enter a unique agreement.

Submission for the 2023 May Pairing Contest

On a visit to Ponyville, Autumn Blaze messed up. Badly. After fleeing the town, she's not sure what to do. It is then that she encounters a wise rock, who may be exactly the sort of friend she needed to talk to.

Entry for the 2023 May Pairing Contest

This story is a sequel to Locked Conversation: Octavia & Zephyr

Marble Pie, a taciturn farmer with self-esteem contrary to the durability of her crops .

Autumn Blaze, a gregarious kirin who's severely out of touch with the world outside her home.

These two girls wouldn't survive in the city if they ever had to endure its hard lifestyle. It would help develop characters, but only if they don't get eaten alive first.

It would kinda defeat the purpose for them to develop themselves if they stayed together to work off one another, but it might be fun to see what would happen if they did.

They might even learn something.

Made for the May Pairings Contest 2023

It's not needed to be read first, but this story corresponds with another story of mine, 'Locked Conversation: Octavia & Zephyr', as they're basically structured similarly.

Destiny intervenes when Autumn Blaze visits Ponyville for a week, just in time to watch a show put on by the Wonderbolts. A certain pegasus mare with pale fur, a beautiful wavy mane and tail, and eyes the color of a clear sky catches her eye...

Written for the May Pairings 2023 Contest.

Rain Shine has a problem. Well, Autumn Blaze says it's a problem. But really, how can Rain Shine risk going full Nirik at the first political meet up in the kirin's history?

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, for Rain Shine, Autumn Blaze isn't the only one who doesn't agree with her preparations.

An Entry for the 2023 May Pairings Contest

Hiya! Uh, I guess I should introduce myself? My name is Skyfire and I’m a kirin! Yeah, I have blue skin and my scales are an even darker blue and my mane and tail are a shade of lavender! Or uh, it might be more of an orchid? My horn is just a single jut from my forehead though and my eyes are a reddish shade of orange I’d say!

So uh, yeah! That’s me! Skyfire the kirin! I’m uh, I'm not very good at social interaction. You see, earlier, when we kirin couldn’t talk, this was never much of a problem! I’d have nothing to say, but that’s fine too because I have no way to say it! Now that everypony in the village is talking again, I mostly keep to myself. Yeah, I’ll go to the movies or a restaurant all alone and just enjoy my own company. Uh, that’s the other problem I have. I enjoy my own company so much that I’m honestly not sure I care for anypony else?

And then, I saw her… Do you believe in love at first sight? Because I sure don’t! Well, at least I didn’t think I did? But well…