You are King Vortex, the first alicorn, lord of the heavens, whose very purpose is to guide Equis through the heavens and make life possible. You are the mightiest in the world, but you are held at the mercy of your dreams of days glorious and wretched, of days before, before you became king of nothing. How did things get this way? This never was supposed to happen!
Most Dangerous Game contest entry.

Roanan the Cimmareian aids a force of Equilonians as they fight against the Jacks of the north. Join her as she trains, leads and fights beside her soldiers against enemies, both natural and otherwise.

Note: This was originally published as a chapter of the Roanan the Cimmareian story collection, but due to low readership, I've decided to break the collection up into its component stories to try to get more folks to read it. I know this is against the rules and I hope that I'll get a pass because I'm not publishing a chapter of a story as a separate story here, the original had two short stories and I'm just publishing one on its own. And it would be weird to have one story with two short stories and all the others as one shots.

Roanan the Cimmareian is a barbaric warrior mare with a taste of combat and adventure. Join her as she fights against a cannibal host in this adventure in the nameless islands of the Buck Coast in the south of Hayborea!

I had originally intended to publish all of the stories in a single volume, but due to low readership (coupled with some very encouraging comments) I think I'll publish them separately from now on. They won't be in any particular order; the original Conan stories weren't either.

All Private Shadow Heart wanted was to protect others, so she joined the Solar Guard in an effort to fulfill that dream. However, it seems as if her dreams are crushed when her first assignment is to babysit some self-important, arrogant Night Tribe noble.

However, events quickly disabuse her of that notion as she is thrust into a world of political intrigue, espionage, and piracy.

Oh, and to top it all off, the princesses themselves have charged her with taking down an international sapient trafficking ring.

It must be a Monday...

The Dark tag is there for some more mature themes and a grittier depiction of the evil being confronted by our heroes. (namely the pirates and the slavery ring.) I don't subscribe to describing gruesome scenes of death and destruction, but the fact that there is a slavery ring automatically earns this story the dark tag in my book.

Also, the alternate universe tag is there because this is a far more seedier and troubled Equestria. All characters and events from the show still happened and are depicted as such, but there is also a distinct presence of pirates, griffin warbands and slavers, which have never appeared in the show.

The setting is just after the Canterlot wedding episode, but before Discord is set free again.

MLP:FIM and related characters are owned by Hasbro and Faust.

I only own my name.

Coverart by Esuka, on Deviantart at: http://esuka.deviantart.com/art/Cumulus-331391259

Cimmareia is a land lost to legend long before the founding of Equestria. Herein are the tales of Roanan, a barbarian who stamped her hoofmarks into the history of the lost continent of Hayboria and carved a bloody path to forge her own destiny.

Note: I had originally intended all these stories to be in a single volume but I think marking them as incomplete is causing people to skip over them, so I'm going to publish all new material as a new story. If you want to see other stories in this series, please just click on my user page.

Twilight Sparkle has been betrayed by Celestia, all her friends brutally killed in front of her eyes after the young unicorn woke up one morning with wings. Celestia had realized that Twilight had been chosen by the Elements of Harmony to replace Luna and herself as the leading force of Equestria, and correctly surmised that the other Elements would have followed shortly after and become a united force the current princesses couldn’t hope to defeat if they chose to contest their position for the throne. Even though Twilight doesn't want to acknowledge her destiny as Equestria's next chosen ruler, the new alicorn cannot let the tyrants she has now seen Celestia and Luna really are remain in power.
Armed with only the Elements of Harmony and her burning rage, Twilight sets out to avenge her friends and free Equestria from Celestia and Luna's tyranny.
The fate of Equestria, as well as the balance of this entire universe, hinges on Twilight's success.

Warning; This is not to be taken seriously, and the degree by which humans win (spoilers) has been amplified for the purpose of comedy.
Have you been reading a 'Human/Pony War' fic and been wondering how the ponies are putting up a fight with medieval level weapons and magic, while we have firearms, nuclear weapons, armies the size of their entire population and most importantly, years and years of perfecting the art of war. This is how an actual human/pony war would go.... with comedy.
9/11/14- FUGGIN A, I GOT FEATURED! Holy crap I go to sleep after sending it for submission, wake up, check it, pretty good support, I go to school, come back and I have hundreds of comments, favorites and 10 new people followed me
10/11/14- Christ, we're 3 likes away from 1,000.

For Equestria to survive in a world like this, it will need to go down dark paths, and do horrible things. For Equestria, Yol Toor is the answer for that need. For Equestria, and its leaders, there is nothing he won't do.

*The new Chapter 1 has been posted!*

While this is NOT a Skyrim crossover, the words used for dragon names come from that game's Dragon Language, and belong to Bethesda studios. I do NOT claim ownership of them!

I would like to thank ocalhoun, PxDnNinja, J Hamtrot, Craine, and Vedues for proofreading and help

Princess Celestia receives a declaration of war from the Zebras. A woefully unprepared Equestria faces annihilation.

A (formerly) one-shot/exercise story based on a dream.
Rated Teen for violence.

"Some of you will fall, others will make it through. but you all will suffer before this is over." - Centurion Cobalt Snow, 8011 After Empire

In the year 8010, Twilight Sparkle refused the crown. In that same year the Fallen Gorge War started, drafting all able bodied men and women. Twilight revived a Cohort, the 7th of the 1st Legion.

Now, with their fates seemingly sealed by a nonexistent king and a rebellion 3 million strong, Twilight and Fire Flight must be willing to face impossible odds and their own inner demons if they hope to save a crumbling empire.

"It is an endless cycle of Night and Day, war is what begun this nation, and it will end it just as swiftly."- Commander Hurricane, 504 A.E.