As Twilight looks around the stained glass windows surrounding her in the palace, tears start to trickle down her cheek. And it takes an old friend's words to help with what she has been dealing with.

[Updated again at 07/09/2016!]

Now with Sequel!

This story is a sequel to Antumbra

Twilight Sparkle has an dream about the desert. Or at least she thinks it's a dream... until she starts to hear a voice that claims to be her.

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There are three of them, all Alicorns living to the desert land south of the Everfree Kingdom, which is the land that will one day be Equestria. They are a family of three: an elder sister and the younger kin she raised long before Celestia and Luna had even been born.

Elinora of the White Flame rules wisely, alone until the others are of age and get their marks. Hasad is charismatic and an excellent mediator. Stellaura is nervous, paranoid, and wants nothing more to be like her brother and please everyone, including herself by overcoming her inferiority complex. All of them have their own wishes for the world.

Only one of them will have their wish fulfilled.

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Upon seeing an advertisement, Rarity and Applejack discuss the proper way to pronounce certain words.

Many unique creatures have come to many different lands, but what happens when a pixelated sprinter from an 8-bit world finds himself in a world inhabited by ponies? One big adventure awaits him as he makes some unusual friends.

Celestia finds out Luna has depression, but instead of making her feel better, Luna ran off. But, when one draconequus finds her in the the garden, things change for the better.
T cuz there is references to cutting and wanting to die

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Strange forces are at work in the frozen north. Princess Flurry Heart has been afflicted with unnatural nightmares, and the sorcery that has precipitated them is still a mystery. Luckily, a temporary cure has been found in a potion brewed by the Princess's crystaller, Sunburst. As the newly appointed Court Wizard of The Crystal Empire, the foal's night terrors only compound his problems--especially when he has to prepare a new batch before dusk.

This story is about a stallion named Bolts and is told in few of view of his time in his bunker.
(Not a FoE story)

In the year 25XX, a young pegasus gets an urgent message. One that will ultimately change her life forever. What things will she see? What ponies will she meet? What struggles must she over come? Only one way to find out!

There is a fear that hides in the future. A fear that consumes the world. Alone at night, when you look at the stars, you might feel it. In the dark places between the stars you might just see it.

There is another fear. This one lives in our heads. That we'll never be good enough to get off this rock. Or, will we dwindle in our vices until the sun runs dry. Will greed rob us of the fuel to lift us into the stars? Will sloth rob us drive to kick off into the unknown? Will wrath strip us off anything worth striving for?

Equestria falls in a fight it never could have won. But as the hands of the clock wind back to give them one more shot at victory, it soon becomes clear that they won't be alone for round two.

Tied by gravity to a species much unlike their own, they must somehow unite and learn to overcome their own natures. If not, there may be very little left when the true fight actually begins.

A fascinating and tense story true to the roots of science fiction. This is far more than just a first contact story.