Mane Melody survived its first few weeks and a visit from Phyllis Cloverleaf, letting Jazz Hooves finally find her place at the newly opened salon. When she is left in charge on a slow day, a strange customer stumbles through her door. As she gets to know the timid mare, Jazz discovers that showing just a little kindness in something as mundane as hoof care can make all the difference in the life of another.

Entry for The Red Parade's May Pairings 2024 hosted by the Original Pairings group.
Edited by: TheAncientPolitzanian
Preread by: Jymbroni, Scriblits Talo, and ItsVelvet
Cover Art: Heartfelt Hooficure by @Marenlicious on Twitter
Commissioned the artwork while at ポニコン11!

Just a random bunch of random I had in mind

Jazz’s ears escaped her head again. She hates it when this happens. Well, guess she’ll just need to look for them... again

Takes place a while before “Make Your Mark”

Everypony thinks no one believed Sunny when she said the three pony kinds could live in Unity until Izzy came to Maretime Bay and proved Sunny right, but that’s not entirely true. Jazz always believed her.

It had been a few months since Rocky and Jazz started dating. Finding themselves as a match, perfect for eachother. No way to be ripped apart.

When you have a date, and hopefully a future spouse. You get eager parents. Perfect for the next date to be at their home, right? But your date meeting your family can be rather an experience at times.

Rocky and Jazz experience this. Thanks to Jazz’s curiosity and Rocky’s excited parents and wild siblings.

Since I’ve written stories that focused on a few duos of G5. I decided to make one of these two. Since I made stories that mostly focused on one rather than the other and not both of them at the same time, alive.

I also decided to try something new, Romance. Since the ship of these two seem kinda popular, I decided to make a romance story focused on them. Even if I don’t really care for shipping, no harm in trying something new.

(MYM Universe based. But should be able to work in TYT and the comics)

One afternoon, an unsuspecting mare finds a dangerous quest given to her by a creature who took the form of a filly. Who is she and where did she come from? Unknown to the ponies of Maretine Bay. These lives as they know them are at stake.

So it’s up to a stylist named Jazz and her friends, new and old, to face the calamity in their own hooves

Disclaimers:

Cleanups are slowly happening in the first few chapters. But they are still readable

Inspiration has been taken from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. But if you never played the games, then it doesn’t matter. Just wanted to give credit for inspiration. This story has nothing to do with the franchise

To make writing easier and likely reduce any stress/make it more fun.

Nothing from the, books, comics or YouTube series will be canon to this AU. So I don’t have to keep track of whatever happens and keep checking so much media. This will also be in a timeline where CH 6 happened very differently (But the events will unlikely be in the story)

The events of MYM either happened before (or offscreen, but before seems more likely)

Since Lost in Mysticia and its remake were canceled. I think it’s fair if the characters who were going to be the heroes in those to be the heroes in this one. Since it was best i could only choose one au/adventure.

Pipp is excited for the upcoming ice festival. She even gave her musical salon workers, Rocky and Jazz a part in it, they are good at dancing, right? What could possibly go wrong?

This was part of a Christmas theme fan fic that was a collection of tales that focused on a few of the side characters leading up to the day. But the middle chapters were never uploaded instead of one. But this chapter was good enough for its own fan fic, and close to completion. Since there was no major connection to the main plot. Also, compared to the Thunder/Zoom, Haven and whetever else I planned, was not so far into being completed