After getting dumped by Adagio and Aria, Sonata has to decide what to do with herself. It's only when she makes her decision that things go wrong and now she won't have that chance, or will she?

Seven years has passed since the defeat of Tirek. Everything is peaceful and happy for all ponykind, but, a young stallion named Fang comes to Ponyville and brings his past with him, stirring a dangerous group known as the Mystics. Some of the most powerful magic wielders known to ponykind, however, this group has been plagued by evil and death. They are labeled as criminals and are wanted by the Royal guard. Will the heros prevail or will the evil consume them.
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Cover art by this awesome person-
Ryuku the creative

For all her life, Gilda has been living in an alien society. Feared by ponies and shunned by the few griffons living in Cloudsdale, she has spent her life largely adrift. The only times she never felt alone were those when she was around Rainbow Dash.

Now, five months after being brushed aside for her rude behavior, Gilda has come back to Ponyville. Her hope is to spend the holidays with her old friend as they've always done, that maybe their relationship isn't wholly over. But those new friends of Dash’s are still complicating things, and Gilda's lingering, crushing depression isn't helping matters either.

Out in the woods north of town, away from ponies and their irritating antics, the griffon finds something different. It doesn’t complain. It doesn’t judge. It is accepting and it is unforgiving.

But, above all else, it is silent.

Created for the EqD 2014 "Friend Off"

Edited and beta read by Nightwalker

Mildly edited and cleaned up in December of 2020.

Takes place during season one.

Now with Spanish translation. Thanks to SPANIARD KIWI for that.

Home from school, with nothing worth watching on the TV and no homework, Trixie heads for the kitchen to make a peanut butter and chocolate masterpiece.

Reading by AShadowOfCygnus

Twilight, my Faithful Student, my friend, if there is anypony that can create a world of Harmony, true Harmony, it is you.

More than a thousand years ago, my sister and I sought to create a perfect world, a world ruled by Harmony. A world free of evil. We were powerful and believed ourselves above the laws that governed this world. But this world is governed by the laws of Magic, and Magic, it seems, demands balance.

Where there is Light, there is Darkness.
Where there is Order, there is Chaos.
For there to be Love, there must be Hate.
For every Dream, there is a Nightmare.
Each begets the other.

And like boiling water over a fire, each can extinguish the other.

I should not have been surprised when the day came that the evil I had to fight was my own sister. It was the world restoring the balance we so foalishly ignored.

Perhaps, it is for this balance that I now stay my hoof. I have chosen to have you,Twilight Sparkle, act in my stead as the evils I thought vanquished, inevitably return to Equestria. It is in hopes that you may learn this balance, that you may learn from my mistakes. It is not something I alone can teach you, when I myself still understand so little. It is why I must now rely on the help of an old nemesis.

He intends to take you away, my protégé, and make you his own. You must not succumb to his influence. Yet if you are to learn the balance that is at the essences of all things, it will be through him. For the future of Equestria and for the sake of Friendship, you must prevail.

I hope that some day you can forgive me.

A darkness is settling over equestria.... one that can't even be stopped by celestia herself. when all is lost, not even Artemis Art can prevail over the darkness. Only a insecure but kind pegasus can.

It's that time of year again. The leaves are turning, the air is cooling, and the chimneys are smoking.

But to a young Shining Armor, this can only mean one thing: pony flu season has arrived. And, thanks to his mother, this inevitably means a date with the dreaded needle.

Only this time, Shining isn't the only one who has to be worried. His filly sister is coming along for the ride for the first time... albeit, against her will.

And despite having fears of his own, Shining Armor knows that, for Twilight's sake... somepony has to be brave.

Warning: Cuteness abound.

Featured on Equestria Daily on 12/17/2014.

Nightmare Night, a holiday full of fright.

For one yellow mare, this isn’t her main affair.

But on this very night, that is about to change.

For a cyan mare with a rainbow mane takes her on a spooky, haunted stage,

Where things even those who use magic could not create.

A story about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, two mares with one mission. Escape the haunted house… alive.

Collab done with Soaring

Swirling Line, your average pegasus mare, lives in Manehattan, working an ordinary day job until she finally reaches her dream of getting a career in the world of art. However, when finds a building on fire with a foal trapped inside, she saves the child.

At the cost of her own life.

Met by a strange spirit calling himself Nevermore, who takes the form of a raven, she makes deal that brings her back to life - though not quite as she expected. Now gifted with extraordinary powers, she will fight to defend the ponies of Manehattan, facing whatever threats may come her way.

Her name is Swirling Line. She is the Raven.

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Co-written by Zodiacspear and DarknessRising

Cover art by Swirling Line

In case it wasn't obvious enough, the OC Swirling Line belongs to the artist Swirling Line. Now she can't sue me.

Daring Do has had a long and illustrious life. All that waits is to see what sort of legacy her colleagues will bestow upon her.

(Cover image by Sophie Cabra.)