To help Pound and Pumpkin cake get to sleep, Pinkie tells them fairytales with her own special little twists. Join Applejack as she journeys up the beanstalk on an adventure with a giant, a tuba, and a talking tree

It's often been said that the difference between friendship and love is a small, nearly imperceptible line that's easier to cross then most think. After Applejack saves Fluttershy, one discovers the other had crossed that line some time ago.

A/N: FlutterJack/Appleshy. Currently searching for artwork.

Flight School is where it started for her. An infatuation with Rainbow Dash that Fluttershy would carry for seven years, eight months and fifteen days (not that she's been counting). All she has to do is tell Rainbow Dash how she feels, and, really, its not as if its a daunting task.

Right?

Cover Art by the amazingly generous iJab

This story is a sequel to Alternate Beginnings: Year Three

In the fourth year of Doug's arrival in Equestria, Applejack and Pinkie Pie expand the members of Herd Apple, with Fluttershy apprehensive but hopeful with her choice to be next. Rainbow Dash's venture with Sunset Shimmer takes a heavy toll, the pegasus now on the road to recovery.

Reading of previous books is not required, though some events from earlier years may be referenced.

Set Approximately four years before the events of MLP:FiM

Sex tag is for relationships between human and ponies (no clop)

Previous Year:
Alternate Beginnings: Year Three

Continued In:
Alternate Beginnings: Year Five

Twilight and Applejack have just discovered their feelings for each other, and all is well until their budding romance is interrupted by an urgent missive from Princess Celestia. Now, Twilight finds herself at a crossroads. Will she leave Ponyville and achieve all that she once desired, or will she decide that she has all she needs on an apple farm in Ponyville?

Meanwhile, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are faced with their own choices. Are they just friends, or could they be something more?

This is the sequel to Three's A Crowd. Reading that story isn't required, but it'll give you some additional background.

Returning home after an errand, Fluttershy encounters an escaped unnatural storm from the Everfree Forest heading toward Sweet Apple Acres; determined to save Applejack's life, she sacrifices her own in the process. Later, at the Castle of Friendship, an impostor shows up claiming to be Fluttershy ... but she can't possibly be, can she? She has quite the story to tell Twilight and Applejack about what happened to her.

Some days you save Equestria. Some days you just live a normal life. For Applejack, today has been one of the latter. Nothing interesting or world changing. Just minding her family's cart in the marketplace.

An ordinary day.

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Written for the 2014 Friend Off Revival event on EQD.
The pic I found for inspiration will be in the author's note at the end to prevent spoilers.

Winona is writing her final thank you to the apple family. She has loved them so much over the years, but she could never tell them. Her time has come to an end on the Equestrian world, something had to of been said.

Being an up-and-coming business pony's not easy—Carob knew that when he opened his plant nursery in his hometown of Ponyville. But since the local librarian became a princess, he's found it much more difficult to focus on, well, on just about anything other than her...

Inspired by the 4th and 5th prompts in Obselescence's Most Dangerous Game contest—"Second Person Perspective" and "An OC and a major canon character (such as one of the Mane Six) fall in love with each other"—the original version of this story ended up in 10th place out of 66 entries. The cover image was commissioned from DarkerSounds.

Fluttershy just can't seem to get her wings down today and has to get food delievered for her animals. The worst part about it? She has to walk through the town with wings fully erect and nopony is leaving her alone.

This is rated for everypony becuase it's not really that bad. This is in no way meant to be taken seriously. I think that everyone who reads this can read the word "wingrection" without thinking that this needs to be a teen fiction. There are one or two inappropriate moments in the story, but nothing horrible. /)