Twilight's life is going great. She has incredibly nice friends, finished her studies under Celestia and even got ascended into an alicorn. She should be content, but deep down she feels like her role doesn't actually equate to all that much.

She shouldn't have such feelings, they are not like her. Still, she can't help it, and even after her fellow princesses tried to calm her down, those feelings still linger.

It takes a conversation with someone who has experienced just how dangerous such feelings can be to truly put the lavender alicorn at ease.
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Not a shipfic.

Edited by tommal, go check him out.

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The duchy of Maretonia, a mysterious land on Equestria's border that few Equestrians have ever visited. It is a strange land, fraught with danger, mystery, and Romance. But when Maretonian Native Fiesta Flair gets homesick, she takes a group of friends back to visit her native land. They enjoy their vacation at first, but they soon find themselves on an adventure that will throw all of Equestria in danger.

*Watercolors and Moonlight are both OC's, used with permission.*

(republished) Finding an ancient map left by the left behind by the legendary pirate, Captain Celaeno, the pony Pirate Crew of the Saucy Mare set out to find a treasure lost since the age of Equestria a thousand years ago. But with a deadly journey on the high seas in the islands beyond the pony lands, does a grand adventure await Captain Barnacle and his shipmates, or will they all be walking the plank?

(Cover art by Little Tigress)

I'm a plushie!

I was made from love, by a creator, I know, who cares about me. However, as time goes on, something happens to my creator. I'm now worrying about him. Why is my artist wearing that frown?

Edited by Elkia Deerling - Thank you! Go support him!

Artwork by: Little Tigress

"Live to fight another day."

There was, some importance behind the phrase that she had heard so very often from her peers, it was almost immobilized in the stone that buried most of the original Spartans that used it.

"Spartans never die, they are just MIA."

Sure any normal civilian, hell, any normal soldier could think as such. Not Laura. She was on the
inside, inside of everything that ONI tried so deeply to snuff out. She was apart of this giant organization that covered everything she tried so hard to accomplish for mankind, in that horrible black ink. She was a Spartan. A Spartan-III to be exact. See, Spartan-II's like the Master Chief everyone knew about, everyone looked upon, and everyone looked towards as heroes.

But not Laura. She would forever be doing undercover Black Ops missions and nobody would even bat an eye. Invade the enemy, recover intelligence, don't get caught. "If you do get caught, you're dead." She was always told. "Shoot first, ask later."

If it sounded all horrible, that wasn't the original intent. Laura liked being undercover, but it's those who get all the recognition, all the honor, whom she feels objected towards. Those are the UNSC's heroes, while Spartans like Laura die in the backdrop, and nobody cares.

One day what if she were to... Disappear? Perhaps forever? Would anyone care?

That's what it's like to be expendable...

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Twilight disappeared, fifty years later Celestia receives a letter that will set her on a journey. Celestia will put aside her crown and allow Harmony to guide her hooves one last time. Perhaps she will find more than she ever dreamed, or a nightmare.

Cover art by Little Tigress

Politics are awful, especially when you are the newest princess of Equestria.

But you know what? I don't care. Sadly for me, Celestia does care and she will do everything in her power to teach me a lesson. Sadly for her, I tend to ignore boring things, like, a lot.

So what do I do? Escape to Las Pegasus and start gambling of course!

This story is a sequel to The Mare In Gold

When a Royal Guard of the Crystal Empire finds an abandoned changeling foal, she takes in the infant and raises it as her own daughter. It’s love at first sight, and the bond that forms between them gets the guard in a lot more trouble than she bargained for.

Up Next: Black Gold

Celestia called Twilight to the palace, to help her sister Luna who is lonely... Well that's what she wanted her to think.

Aaron thought he was going to have a boring Saturday night. However, due to a universal mishap, the single man's lonely life will forever change when a small, magical filly enters his life. With these new, unexpected changes, challenges and complications are certain to rise for Aaron and Luna as they must go to battle with the hardships of the world they live around.

Edited by LordBucket (1st Chapter), tommal, & Javarod

Artwork by: Little Tigress