This story is a sequel to Idol Hooves and The Deathly Tired Princess

Recently promoted to the rank of Colonel, (not his fault) Idol Hooves is tasked with the supervision of rebuilding the Crystal Empire's Guard Force. As the first Colonel in several centuries, Celestia, Luna, and his friends Shining and Cadence feel the rank and his stoic demeanor will be a boon for the traditionalist crystal ponies.

Plus his recent fame thanks to the plush dolls made in likeness are sure to draw recruits in by the wagon full!

How will Idol and his family handle this new life in the land of the far north? Can Idol keep Cersus out of trouble long enough to finish his task before being court-martialed?

NOTE: This story is a sequel to my own Idol Hooves story, which is based off Vdarke's Changeling of the Guard. Events depicted in this story are not cannon unless he decides later to borrow some!

Commissioned the cover art from Scope from the COTG Discord, and it looks lovely! You can find him on Twitter, and Deviant Art

Editor in Passing HorseWordFan is the one you have to thank for the newest round of edits!

When you have an accident-prone filly, you make her wear a helmet.
When you have an accident-prone filly who is incapable of feeling pain, you keep the hospital on speed dial.
When you have an accident-prone filly who is incapable of feeling pain and you have no insurance because you’re self-employed, you learn to take care of things yourself.

Because that’s what sisters do.

An entry for Bicyclette's 1000 words contest (group / info) in the "Grim" category.

Earth-pony Twilight Sparkle has always been a little "out there". But while testing her latest crazy idea, she finds that there are places even farther than that...

For more of this AU, check out the entire series:

• When Ponies Fly
• The Two Unicorns
• Pinkie Pegasus
• The Muse of Fire

Once upon a time, in the mystical and whimsical Land of Ooo, there lived two self-proclaimed sisters. The oldest, a Demon tied to the Setting Sun, and the other—younger by just a few years—a Vampire Queen.

Together they could do anything. And so, they embarked on an epic quest: To bring the sickest, gnarliest licks their guitars could produce to the unsuspecting people of Ooo.

And possibly save the world if they felt like it.

(Art by DustySculptures)

I like to think of the Company as an island of order and sanity in a sea of chaos, selfishness and irrationality. My fellow soldiers tell me I'm a damn foal, and an idealist, and I white-wash the mercenaries of the Black Company in ways that doesn't serve either the Company or them. But I've been given the role of Annalist, in the absence of anyone better-suited and properly lettered, so until they take the Annals away from me, I'm going to write them as I see fit. The Company has been my home since it forcefully recruited me from my unending apprenticeship, and I've seen more interesting medicine in the years since then than a hundred apothecaries, a dozen chirurgeons, or three other doctors with, pfft, "degrees". Most of it screaming for its mama and bleeding out on my surgery table.

They call me Sawbones, and this is the story of the last of the Black Companies.

When a thousand years has passed, Luna was supposed to return.

But when Nightmare Moon returns dead, Celestia is flabbergasted and shocked.

Then she sees Luna, who claims to have killed Nightmare Moon.

She is very confused.

Written by iAmSiNnEr. Not to be taken seriously

Helped by Chris the Cynic, who gave me a paragraph to work on.

The stars were made to be explored, were they not?

That's what Princess Short Flight believed, at any rate. You never know what you'll find out there- and who knows, maybe the legends were right.

Maybe there really is a world called Equestria out there, just waiting to be discovered, and maybe it really does have magic on it.

And maybe, juuuust maybe, her civilization wasn't the only survivor of the ancient apocalypse.

A rewrite of the once-maybe-popular Just Like Magic of Old, this story will be taking over the Monday publication slot... when I have chapters. No guarantees, for a few weeks at least.

And as always, tags may be updated as the story progresses.

Oh, and before I forget: Thanks to my editors, the usual Gerandakis and this time also one of my siblings.

The worst thing about Land Ponies is they’re always out of water. Always out of reach. Living close to the coastline is enough to drive a Sea Pony crazy with curiosity. But with grit, engineering, and the timely return of Magic to the world, she may make some friends yet.

(If the older comments referring to "Koi" are confusing, reference this blog post. Replacement cover art was provided by the very generous Ahobo.)

This is an entry in the Snippet Series, an anthology of old oneshots that I (and my good buddy Str8aura) wrote based around interesting pics I found. New ones will be posted every other Thursday for the foreseeable future.

Twilight and her friends have done it! Nightmare Moon is defeated. But now the celebration is over, everypony is moving on, and Celestia has some pointed questions for her most faithful student.

Specifically, about Twilight's faithful-student loans...

Fourteen years after the Terrible Trio's attack, the windigos are dying. There is not enough strife and hate to sustain them.

One windigo approaches Princess Twilight for help.

Twilight and Cadance create a plan to help them. For the plan to work, they need the support of everycreature.

Let's hope they have that support.

Helped by Dewdrops and Sleepless!

Inspired by chris the cynic!

Set in the future after Season 9.