Hearth's Warming.

A day viewed by some, namely foals, as a day where you receive presents and eat until you're fat. Then there are some who prefer instead to treasure the gifts of family and friendship they are blessed with year after year.

One unicorn foal, hiding away in an abandoned cottage while waiting for his friend to arrive, will come to realize that dreams and friendship will be the greatest gifts he could ever hope to receive. And through it all, the fire in the hearth will provide him the warmth he wants from his family.

Searing Shield is both an Alicorn and the current Envoy of Flame, but for the last three hundred years she has remained cold and temperamental towards other ponies, acting hostilely towards even her tutors, the Princesses Celestia and Luna. Celestia and Luna both attempted to help Seeri, but she always dismisses their concerns. Desperate to save the fiery Alicorn; the Princesses send out a cry for help that crosses time and space to find the one pony that could ease her suffering and help Seeri find herself once more.

So, yeah. For those who've read "Dawn of a bright, new life", this is the story that spawned the OC Searing Shield and also sparked the idea for "The Rising Elements" project that is currently in the works... release date unknown for "Shield's Line" so don't get (too) excited. Now I'm gonna be honest, this story was more of a "concept work" than anything else and we're... still not really sure how it'll fit in the canon of "The Rising Elements", so until we figure that one out, this story is a kinda separate timeline from the series.

It's been one year since the Second Network Crisis, one year since the world nearly came to an end due to an unknown cause. Though the world has more or less managed to repair the damage, people still feel the effects of the disaster, particularly the numerous coma victims.

But despite that, there are still a large number of people who log into C.C. Corps incredibly popular MMORPG, "The World". Three such people, linked together by their online group or "Guild", are out on a normal dungeon adventure when they are inexplicably taken from their world to an idyllic paradise.

But not everything is as it seems... beneath the peaceful exterior, a vanquished evil ahs been called forth that now seeks to wreak it's vengeance upon an unsuspecting populace.

For the three friends, what once started out as an average dungeon crawl will turn into their greatest adventure as they try to defeat the evil before it has a chance to find the secrets buried within the sunny world, a land known as... Equestria.

This is an MLP/.hack crossover.

Twilight had found love in a man from another world, but after a terrible encounter he was taken from her. However, she has found a way to bring him back... or so she thinks, but to ease the ache in her heart she is willing to do whatever it takes.

Leon lives each day as a lie; though on the surface he is calm, with a tendency to make light of nearly any situation, on the inside he seethes with hatred towards his world for a terrible injustice committed against someone he had cared for many years prior.

Fate will bring these two together, and through their shared heart-ache, will create an everlasting bond. This is just the beginning of their story.

Human/Brony in Equestria, Anthro-ponies, Some modern technology, Twi x OC, Crossover (don't ask what, many things make an appearance).

Warning: Story name subject to change if I happen to think of a better one.

Has your adventure hit rock bottom and you don't know where you went wrong?
Are you hopelessly lost in your travels and need a helping hoof?

Then let us step through the fourth wall, wayward foal, to the Realm of Dreams, where our esteemed Princess Luna shall bestow upon you a fragment of her infinite wisdom...

Or perhaps something that resembles infinite wisdom, anyway. And helping her along is the intelligent and beautiful, Professor Kokonoe!

Will there be tears, laughter, SNACKS?! All of these questions and more will (probably) be answered in...

Assist Me!! Princess Luna!

*NOTE: This is an MLP/Blazblue crossover... sorta.