Banishment by the power of the two sisters was supposed to be an agonizing experience. No ordinary mortal mind should have lingered on as the years passed. Anypony should have succumbed to the extraphysical nature of the kind of prison Sombra found himself in and found themselves reduced to pure instinct.

Sombra was no ordinary mortal, and he had all time he would need to plan revenge.

Only eternity awaits him.

An older piece I had lying around and now polished and prodded into being a standalone story and a sort-of side tale to Spare Him His Life. Preread into being a thing by the great Cynewulf. Contribute to the TVTropes page!

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Little bits of world building, style experiments, character pieces, and all sorts of under 1,000 words such dumped in this anthology. I might turn them into larger stories at some point, but not really. No spoilers unless noted otherwise. May also include deleted scenes and discarded first draft snippets as well as one shots that can't stand on their own (but lack proper sequels/prequels) and cancelled stories (if I have any, they'll be moved here)*.

Character tags represent the most recurring characters, however in this case the 'Other' tag merely reflects other canon characters. Each bit takes place in the Iceverse, so your mileage may vary.

Oh, and a warning that this may also contain any of the following (which will of course be noted in the author filibuster box):

• Poetry
• Extensive rambling
• Lore!
• Really short stories
• Dialogue-only drabble
• Experimental poetry
• Potentially unexplained happenings
• Shipping
• Seriously, lots of rambling from yours truly
• Prompts
• Since this is an AU anthology expect plenty of headcanon and utter (possibly) nonsense on my part
• Anything else my mind may come up with (the tags will/might start to reflect this as time goes on) There's an anthology tag for that now, because knighty finally did a good thing! Wow!
• At this point let's leave it at "(Your Ad Here) have mercy on your soul."

Although this is marked as complete, it technically isn't. I just keep it like that for organization's sake. Updates whenever I have writing scraps. If you're looking for missing Luna/Sombra chapters, please check out this story here.

*As will notes about the plot and what would have happened if I continued. This only applies to published stories that ended up cancelled, not discarded drafts. Whether or not the contents of the story is still canon will be noted in the A/N as well as the lack of a [Scrapped] tag.

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King Sombra finds himself in a dreaded ice cave for a short ammount of time. He manages to get out and tries to retake the Empire. After failing and being imprisoned in his horn for three years, King Sombra is forced to be reformed. Not only that, but fight other villians.

Sidenote: It moves a little fast and I don't have any sort of outline for this, so I'm pretty much just writing as I go and calling it good. Solid stars mean that the chapter is fully edited and star ouline means that the chapter is being edited.

A three arced story that begins slowly as partially Comedy and Slice of life and rotates more towards Adventure and Dark in later chapters.

Some school fillies have to deal with school crushes. Others with bullies. Sometimes they have to deal with both. But no filly has ever had to deal with an Evil Tyrant being bound to their shadow and have the power to control their every action. This, of course, seems to be no big deal for Sweetie Belle who seems to even enjoy the stallion's company. Though the feelings aren't mutual. The small filly reminds the old king too much of a filly he used to know... Though it's strange the only place he'd seen her before are in these strange dreams of his. Recollections of a past he can't remember.

Perhaps Sweetie Belle will awake in him that version of himself before he was a Tyrant. Before he was labeled evil. A time from when he was a father. Perhaps she will help him forgive.

First featured on 9/4/2014!

The cover art was sketched by me and colored by the very talented Midnight Sonare

King Sombra’s dark influence was obliterated by the Crystal Heart, and the villain is well and truly dead. But when he attempts to steal the afterlife of an innocent victim, a human spirit is left hurtling towards Equestria, where this unfortunate soul is revived into the only vessel available: the reconstituted body of King Sombra himself.

Thus, a cheerfully oblivious alien is crammed into the form of the most evil and malicious being Equestria has ever known. Not that Shining Armor and Cadence know this, of course. As far as they are concerned, the King is back and he’s lost his fricking mind.

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Luna give birth to the first of the next generation of ponies. Her daughter, Moonbeam, is a very powerful Alicorn filly. However, she cannot harvest nor control her powers. Luna seeks help from one of the last ponies she ever wanted to talk to only to find out that her daughter is in danger. With Moonbeam being so young and so power, it will be really easy for anypony to use her powers to their advantage...Anypony.

Cover: Moon Solace or KuroMasaru on DA

Based on Civ 5; World Congress and other Civilization sketches by Door Monster.

With many nations in the world of Equestria, there are many different rulers, and they all have different agendas and goals... naturally, these don't always align.

Daring Do finds an interesting creature. She isn't going to take care of it, so she brings it to the Royal Sisters to deal with. Surely they can handle it, right?

Unsettling dreams are starting to worry Princess Luna. She is positive these dreams hold an ominous portent for all of Equestria, but there is only one stallion who knows for certain the answers she seeks. King Sombra has been imprisoned again in Shadow since his defeat and the shattering of his body, but he is no less cunning and ruthless. And as Luna tries to interrogate him over time, she finds there is a softer side to the unicorn king, one nopony has seen before. But Celestia fears for her younger sister, warning Luna against Sombra's advances. Is the once-tyrant truly starting to court Princess Luna...or is she simply being used as a pawn in his plans to regain power?
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Cover art by the amazing MickeyMonster, who has permitted me use of it for this fanfiction, as this image inspired me to write this story in the first place.
Edited and proofread by my girls TheOneBehindYou and LabyrinthineMind.

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How many alicorns does it take to take care of a living nightmare that was torn away from its host, a changeling, a shadow of a tyrant, and the spirit of chaos?

Evvidently, two, as Celestia and Luna will find out. Now with three of their most hated enemies, plus one reformed one, how will they take care of them?