Fanfiction: A Charmed Life

[Slice of Life][Drama]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Ponyville was supposed to be Ditzy’s fresh start, a chance to leave the past behind and be her own mare. So what if that fresh start includes sleeping in her second cousin’s spare bedroom? So what if she’s working double shifts at the Hay Burger? She’s got a plan, a plan that starts with the expensive items that mysteriously appear on the second-hoof store’s shelves on a very special day of the month.
A season one story.

A Charmed Life

Additional Tags: Ditzy's fresh start in Ponyville

Fanfiction: The Paths Beneath Us

[Adventure][Drama]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: The deepest gem mines were there before Equestria, and so were the donkeys. Every facet of their way of life, from its trials to its triumphs, have stood unchanged for eons. Mica knows this. She also knows accidents happen; the last one took her parents. Hopefully she and her twin sister can survive the next.

The Paths Beneath Us


Additional Tags: Sisterly bonding takes many forms

Fanfiction: Where We Belong (Update Parts Complete!)

[Romance][Drama]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: In the wake of Twilight’s escape from her kingdom, Nightmare Moon sentences Rarity, her palace steward, to a terrible fate: bound in gold and priceless gems, she’s to be thrown into an ancient dragon prison to be messily devoured. Except the prison isn’t what it seems, nor is its sole occupant. Rarity just might find her life instead of losing it, and alter the course of Equestrian history in process.

Where We Belong (New 16!)


Additional Tags: Rarity finds love, friendship, and herself

Fanfiction: The Root of the Problem

[Comedy][Romance]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Rarity is turning into a plant, which is the least of her troubles.

The Root of the Problem

Additional Tags: Growing a plant together. Sort of.

Story: After Action

[Romance][Drama]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: The life of a Wonderbolt is full of cheering crowds and awe-inspiring feats of flight. For Soarin, some of the most critical moments of all, the moments that have shaped and reshaped everything and everyone he holds dear happened away from the crowds and out of the sky. Sometimes the greatest changes wait until after the action is over.

After Action

Additional Tags: Soarin and Spitfire’s Wonderbolt Journey

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Story: Daring Do and the Wailing Mountain

[Adventure]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Historians call it the Wailing Mountain. The locals call the surrounding desert Forbidden. Daring Do calls them both nuisances, annoying physical obstacles between her and a clean escape from her latest adventure-gone-south. Visiting this secluded peak, and learning why its resident’s screams echo across the sands, might change her mind.

Daring Do and the Wailing Mountain

Additional Tags: Mountains have their secrets

Story: Forever Twilight

[Adventure]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Belvedere awoke to a misery he couldn’t explain, as if he’d experienced a great and terrible loss while he slept. His only clue, his only hope for regaining control over his life, is a curious image in his mind, an image he needs to draw. 

Twilight awoke in a different world, a world where a dim sun never sets, where magic is scarce, where monsters haunt every shadow. Her only aid, her only friend, is a stallion named Belvedere who’s just as lost as she is.

Forever Twilight

Additional Tags: What lurks between nightfall and daybreak

Story: A Dragon's Age

[Adventure]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: I don’t go on a lot of adventures, not unless I’m with my friends. Still, when Princess Celestia showed up and told me I had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet one of my dragon parents, how could I say no? If I’d known what I was going to find, I might have…

A Dragon's Age

Additional Tags: Spike's adventure for family

Story: Friendship 101

[Slice of Life]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: A pony only gets one cute-ceañera. Twilight Velvet knows this, and she knows exactly how her friendless daughter wants to spend hers: nose-deep in a book, just like every other day. Twilight Velvet has other plans, all revolving around finding somepony to come to her daughter’s party, somepony to be her friend.

Friendship 101

Additional Tags: That magical first friendship lesson

Story: The Secrets We Keep

[Romance]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: In the midst of doing a favor for Ember in the dragon lands, Spike tells Rarity about his not-so-secret feelings. Rarity responds with a secret of her own, one that she's guarded for most of her life. They picked the wrong day, and the wrong kingdom, for a quiet heart-to-heart.

The Secrets We Keep

Additional Tags: Shared secrets are best secrets

Story: Generous Gifts

[Romance]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Hearth’s Warming Eve is coming up, and Spike knows just what to give Rarity. The perfect gift, the gift that will impress his lady friend and nourish their budding relationship, is on his mind and within his price range. Nothing can possibly stop him, except for three little words that he’ll quickly come to dread: anonymous gift exchange.

Generous Gifts

Additional Tags: anonymous gifts are the best gifts

Rarity Day Story: The Best of Tensions

[Romance][Comedy][Random]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: A massage is just a massage, isn’t it? Apparently not when Spike is involved. Somehow finding a book on pony massage specifically for handed creatures like himself is fated to end the way that most of his adventures do: with the untimely destruction of Ponyville.
Unless Rarity can help, of course.

The Best of Tensions

Additional Tags: Out of This World Massages

Story: Apple Boom

[Comedy][Slice of Life]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: If Zap apples make such phenomenal jam, why aren’t they used for the Apple family’s other famed delicacy: cider? Apple Bloom wants to know, and dooms all of Ponyville into finding out.

Apple Boom

Additional Tags: Zap apples and cider don't mix

Story: Cleave

[Dark][Drama]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description:
Candy Heart knew she wasn’t a normal pony. Between her unmatched intellect and unshakable ambition, she knew she was destined for greatness. She was destined to be the best, and once the incantation was complete she truly would be: everything holding her back, from loneliness to regret to remorse, would be gone. She’d be free, and she’d be unstoppable.
Except that isn’t what happened.
Instead, two more ponies came into being. This is their story.

Cleave

Additional Tags: It's all in your head

Story: Idols

[Slice of Life]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Scootaloo and Spitfire have a little chat.

Idols

Additional Tags: Idols have idols too

Story: Water Pony

[Romance]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description:
"He had to look down to see her. A pony, a creature no bigger than a goat, stood on his doorstep. Her pale blue fur and ragged, blood-red mane couldn’t have looked more out of place in a town of goats and minotaurs. Kev stared at her, wondering what to do. His father would’ve chased her away with a club and a string of obscenities. His grandfather would’ve eaten her. His great grandfather would’ve eaten her and not gone to prison for it."
A story about one minotaur’s relationship with his society, his family, and his wife.

Water Pony

Additional Tags: Life is complicated. Love doubly so.

Story: Last Words

[Slice of Life][Romance]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Big Mac doesn’t say much. That’s just his way. However, when a routine medical exam reveals he’s going to lose his voice, he decides he’d better get his last round of speaking in while he still can. Saying a few last words to his friends (and asking out a certain schoolteacher) is all he planned on doing. If only he understood the full repercussions of opening his big mouth.

Last Words

Additional Tags: Big Mac talks up a storm

Story: First Act

[Sad]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: The Great and Powerful Trixie grew up having it all: loving family, supportive friends, and an unbeatable magic show. That’s what she tells herself, at least.
There is a time in The Great and Powerful Trixie’s past that she would prefer to not remember. A time when she knew only one spell. A time when she lived in a backwater town. A time when she went by a different name…

First Act

Additional Tags: A great and sorrowful beginning

Story: ‘Til Sunday Do Us Part

[Romance][Comedy]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Rarity receives an invitation to Equestria’s most exclusive and secretive social club. The only catch is, she can only attend if she brings her lawfully wedded spouse. Fortunately, there’s a certain purple dragon who’s willing to help her overcome this little difficulty. It’s a simple, foolproof plan: get married, attend the club, and then get an annulment. Nothing is ever that simple, however… not their weekend, not their friendship, and certainly not their marriage.

‘Til Sunday Do Us Part

Additional Tags: Comedy of Errors and Vows

Story: Apple Knots

[Slice of Life]

Author: BlazzingInferno

Description: Lotus is a professional masseuse. She sees the pony below the skin, and tends to coax just as much out of their mouthes as their muscles. Late one day, she gives three very different massages to three close friends, all of whom mention a name she isn't familiar with: Applejack.

Apple Knots

 Additional Tags: Applejack has some unexpected stresses