Yellow sun; wet, green planet; barren, dust-ball moon. When I saw the images from the surveyors, I knew instantly that this was the place where I'd set up my hermitage.

The captain told me there were intelligent creatures on the planet, but she doubted they would venture beyond the atmosphere for centuries. That meant I'd have the moon all to myself for six standard months before her ship came back to resupply me.

Six months of peace and contemplation with only the Increate and the sound of my heartsbeat to keep me company. No distractions, no neighbors, no mad aliens with their endless demands.

Solitude. Silence. Paradise.

Or so I thought.

(Kudos to Lunae Lumen for correcting the Latin in the title)
(Added AU tag due to the IDW comics)

It's been three days since the Equestrian Railway Service incident, and things are finally calming down in the wake of the Dusk Guard's first mission. Three days since the team's first mission came to a successful conclusion. Three days since their first trial by fire. Three days since Sky Bolt, the team's engineer, had everything she'd created put to the test. And it all worked. Nothing went wrong.

So why can't she sleep?

First of the Side Stories to The Dusk Guard: Rise. Familiarity with Rise is not required, but recommended.
Side Stories so far:
Carry On
The Definition of Strength
Old Habits
Emoticon
Remembrance
Trust

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Added to Twilight's Library 12/5/2013
Featured on Canterlot's Finest
Special Thanks to Sonorus, Jorlem, Sinister Voice, Templar22 and Bronze Aegis for their help pre-reading and editing.

Should the powerful and sexy alicorn Dark Demon King Ravenblood Nightblade follow his destiny as savior of Equestria, or his love of interior design?

Why not both?

BASED ON AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER BY DEVICE HERETIC!!! This is my first alicron Mary Sue self-insert fic, so plz b nice. Maybe Ill write moar if ppl like it

Reading by AShadowOfCygnus!
On EQD Oct. 20, 2012.

* As of February 16th, 2014, this is going through a complete revision. Chapters III-V have been removed for now.*

Edited by; SongCoyote, Mr+GrimdarK

From the mouth of Celestia:
"For we have defeated the Plague. The Pandemic that took billions over the course of 18 months, 13 days and 21 hours before it was announced by the newly formed world-government, The Hierarchy, that we completely eradicated the infected. But the Resistance still poses a threat. Dare we fight another war? A war that causes climates to shift, and millions to become homeless and driven to savagery? Where Harmony and law cease to exist? You tell me, my little ponies. Shall we fight a new war that's filled with mindless enemies like the last? We have lost 6.2 billion ponies worldwide. How will the 1.1 billion still standing react to this new barbarism, unless we do something about it together? My former faithful student, Princess Twilight Sparkle, destroyed the infected with the Elements Of Harmony, suffering heavy casualties...

Let us build a new world, one without fighting. Let us rise after this setback. Let us live!"

She spoke from the highest balcony in the old, worn-down castle that had become her temporary residence. Her imploring speech fell on the ears of 2 million ponies, protesting to halt a new war that loomed ominously in the heart of Equestria.

This is going to be a long story. With Pt. II and Pt. III in the pre-production stages.

Pt. I will feature harsh, gory and malicious stuff. And it's twenty to thirty chapters long. I haven't decided yet.

Princess Twilight Sparkle wakes up to an urgent letter from Celestia about a new, vague threat! The Elements of Harmony arrive and are unable to do anything! Her brother randomly shows up to save the day!

A collaboration with (seriously, this is becoming a habit) electreXcessive. The idea was originally his, and we took it away!

Warning: Contains satire and a ShineLight FiW joke. Read at your own risk. Seriously, don't take this seriously.

Much of Princess Celestia's past is a mystery and nopony truly knows all the details of her life during the thousand years that Nightmare Moon was banished. Mistakes were made, enemies were fought and most were lost to the times... But there is one mistake she made that continues to haunt her to this very day...

Now years later, her faithful student and her friends must help two heroes summoned from another world to vanquish this great evil before the world is plunged into darkness. The Shadow Games have returned...

A communication scholar from Canterlot, a mailmare from Fillydelphia, and a zebra diplomat in training, brought together by a hunger for knowledge, embark on a journey of discovery to the mysterious homeland of the dragons.