My name is Chronicle. I have been a scribe, an assistant, and a confidant to the Princess; but now I am going blind. The lights in my eyes are slowly fading and I know that my days are coming to an end. As I stare down the darkening tunnel of my future I cannot help but think about the past. I am left with a sense of insignificance. It is not that I regret my life or the choices I have made, but as I look back I am left to wonder at what I leave behind. I am survived by no pony, I have no sisters or brothers, I never married, and children were never even a thought. I leave nothing behind me save for my work; notes, documents, and records compiled and stored surrounded by thousands of others in a vault beneath the castle. Would I even be remembered? So here I sit my final days stretched out before me and all I have to leave is, my life, compressed to the ink stains on so many pages.
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Special thanks to my Editor Inkiepie

Rainbow Dash is dead.

Scootaloo knows this, but that does not mean she will accept it. Equestria is a land of magic and hope—what is one more miracle among hundreds? This is the question that drives her forward when she stumbles upon a Daring Do book that seemingly shows her a means of bringing back the dead. Driven by painful memories and a desperation to make up for her own mistakes, Scootaloo ventures on a quest to bring her fallen idol back to the land of the living. Embarking on a journey far from the world they know, Scootaloo and her friends find the line between fact and fiction—reality and delusion—blurring with each step.

Originally envisioned and published in 2012. Resurrected in 2019. Be wary of potential spoilers in the comments

Cover by the awesome and talented Conicer