This story is a prequel to The War for the Sun & Moon.

Twilight and the bearers have been missing. When they return, Celestia has to deal with how her student and friends have changed. Will she be able to, when they now possess as much power individually as the Princess of the Sun?

I would like to thank everyone/pony/ling/hyperintelligent shade of the color blue who reads this, and my sister, who attempted to be the editor for this story.

Tags: Adventure for some globetrotting, Dark because... well, look at that cover art!
Comedy for general Pinkie-ness.

[A/N] The cover art is one of my favorites from the comics. It doesn't have much to do with the story, or does it?

Sonya is a young college student, living a normal life with her parents and quirky elder brother. When her brother, Peter, develops an online game based around his strange obsession with equines, Sonya is thrust into a quest that, unfortunately, only she can fulfill. What started as a harmless game, quickly turns into a life-threatening nightmare. The only chance she has at stopping this horror is to confront the very man that started it; Peter.

Cover art by CosmicUnicorn
Sunrise in Equestria

A brony is transported into Equestria, but he finds himself in the body of a huge wolf. Can a carnivorous predator really befriend ponies, herbivorous equines, or will his new predatory instincts and the ponies instinctive fear of him make it impossible? His strange situation does not dampen the joy of actually being in Equestria, but that changes as an alien hatred starts gnawing at his mind...

Nightmare Moon won. She defeated Celestia, broke the Elements, banished the sun. This all happened a very long time ago. So long ago, that she has had plenty of time to change her mind.

Of course, fixing our mistakes is never so simple, and never without consequences. Even with particularly potent help.

"If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day. / But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away."
— "No Control" by Bad Religion

A big thanks to Craine, Sorren, and Idylia for prereading and editing. If you enjoyed the story, don't forget to check out their pages.

Equestria Daily
Royal Canterlot Library (FIMfic version)
Russian translation by Doof
Chinese translation by Dreams Set Free

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Comments contain spoilers.

An old friend brings an ancient evil to Rarity's home.
Will she survive one of the worst things ever?

Ponyville. That is where my fall from grace began. Twilight Sparkle and her insurmountable talent exposed me for the charlatan I was. After that inauspicious day, my shows were no longer a thunderous triumph of magic and trickery. They were a blighted sideshow—a mockery of the splendor they had once been.

In my desperation to retain the life I once held, I stooped lower and lower. I finally hit rock bottom on a remote rock farm. There, I assumed the life of some ordinary, mundane pony, hammering away at boulders until nothing but pebbles remained. It was beneath me, humiliating and degrading. The days dragged on, but my dignity fell no further. It was the bottom, the very bottom, where nothing could fall any lower.

If I had it to do over again, I would have clung to that humble bottom. I would have held on and never let go.

I made the worst mistake imaginable. In my desperate bid to claw my way back up to the graces I once knew, I put my faith in dark magic. While I may have found the bottom on that rock farm, that accursed amulet drug me even deeper, pulling me into the abyss of hell.

Thanks to RaylanKrios for pre-reading.

Submitted to Nonpareil Fiction's Early Autumn Contest.

The Dazzlings head to Donut Joe's to lick their wounds after the Battle of the Bands. Unfortunately, they run into the ones who defeated them and strike up a conversation that brings up old memories.

Edited by Rainedash!

What if, when the Rainbooms defeated the Dazzlings at the Canterlot High Battle of the Bands, instead of being stripped of their powers, they were instead sent to Hueco Mundo and became Hollows?

How will they adjust to their new lives in a new world? And after losing everything, can they find what’s truly important? After all, they still have each other.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is copyright of Hasbro
Bleach is copyright of Tite Kubo

A dangerous dragon causes havoc in Ponyville, so their newly appointed Royal Taskforce enlist the help of the closest thing Twilight Sparkle had to a friend before leaving Canterlot. But hereditary alicorn Amber Aldis quickly reaches the conclusion that Twilight was a poor candidate for Princess Celestia’s new member of the Royal Family, and devises a plan to take Twilight’s place on the day of the Summer Sun Celebration when Nightmare Moon returned…

Panic strikes when a prisoner breaks out of Tartarus and Apple Bloom finds a strange list with virtually every Equestrian citizen’s name on it. Soon, Twilight and her friends are faced with a foe they cannot win against, and Apple Bloom, the list holder, is faced with a difficult challenge that could either make or break hers and Equestria’s future…