Princess Amore has been murdered by the soon to be King Sombra. He faces off against the elite crystal guard as his wife Radiant Hope watches in horror.

Her mind is racing with where it all went wrong and what she could have done to stop this before another thought worms its way into her mind.

A thought that leads her down memory lane and perhaps... a different path.

Edited by... no one as of yet.

Cover art - A cropped version of a piece by Polina_Graff on FA goes by LeonErdman on deviant art. Check them out, their stuff is absolutely gorgeous.

Princess Cadence lives the life many dream to live as the princess of the Crystal Empire. After growing up in the Crystal Castle alone she dreams of her prince charming to come and be her new king. Her expectations are tossed aside when she meets her betrothed, the umbrum prince, Sombra.

King Sombra has been reformed. After falling in love with the the former king, Princess Luna is looking forward to sharing their first Hearth's Warming together. But, Sombra has other ideas.

The holiday has brought up only bad memories and after a chance meeting with a filly those memories become all too real.

Can Luna show him the true meaning of Hearth's Warming? Or will Sombra let the past consume him?

Written for Ice Star's Lunbra contest.

With thanks to JackRipper, ChudoJogurt, thatguyvex and others for their help and support.

Jai Young is 20 fresh out of his parents house and happy to be away from home. Moving out was the best thing he'd ever done with all of the constant fighting at home. Despite moving out and landing a pretty good job as a cook at an upscale restaurant he feels; out of place. The sense of displacement doesn't last too long though. One run in with an interesting old man however changes his relatively boring life and immediately flips it on its head. He wakes up in foreign land with magic he doesn't understand how to use, with a threat known to most history books in Equestria and the Crystal Empire unfolding in real time around him. Yea that's fine, he can make this work; He always has.

Tags are subject to change as I write the story!

A crystal pony thinks back to the time before King Sombra's reign, when he was a normal and she was his very special somepony.

Rated teen for suggested violence.

The Crystal War. A battle so long and brutal that it has shaped an entire era of righteous bloodshed. Ponies don't have slumber parties, or read bedtime stories to their foals, or even so much as smile. And when they do smile, it's the kind of smile that would keep ponies of a more peaceful era awake for days.

The madness of Sombra and his slave army claims lives every day. Soldiers in service to Celestia fight tirelessly to hold onto even a shred of what Equestria used to be. Its citizens do everything they can to feed the bloody machine, from canning food to holding funerals.

And at the heart of it all, there stand three mighty warriors. They have lost a great deal to this war, though none of them know just how much. What they do know is that they made promises back home, and they are not in the habit of breaking promises. No matter the cost.

This is the story of Iron Wing and the Demolition Crew.

King Sombra knows he is losing.

The Crystal Empire is about to fall to Equestria, and he can do nothing about it.

Or can he? Preparing his last resort spell, he steels himself to do what may be the hardest thing in his life. He will endure the passages of time. He will persevere.

For he is King Sombra.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns III, using the prompt King Sombra/Perseverance, maybe even Determination.

This story is a sequel to The King Of Pizza

Here is the much awaited sequel to The King Of Pizza!

A year ago, King Sombra was sent to earth instead of being killed by The Elements Of Harmony.

He landed in a human girl's house. The girl's name was Esmeralda.

They got along with each other most of the time.

And now, in The King Of Pizza 2, their adventures will continue.

When the Crystal Empire returned, it did so without incident, bereft of its former ruler - the Mad King nowhere to be found across all the frozen wastes. Many believed he perished, lost to whatever magics he used to banish the Empire into the aether. And yet...

Within the confines of a quaint and curious club, nestled into the depths of Canterlot, a returned Sombra ekes out a comfortable existence. Unburdened by his prior madness, he has taken to the life of a humble bartender, offering advice and a listening ear to those who find themselves at his establishment - and soon comes to find himself intrigued by the plight of a moonlit mare. When all one has known are lies and deceptions, can the dancing embers of compassion thaw his stony heart?

King Sombra has taken over the Crystal Empire. All hope seems to be lost yet Twilight Sparkle still never gives up. She comes up with another way to win over the king. This process, however, doesn't involve rainbow lasers or being sent far away.

What could it be? Well, read below to see!!!