This story is a sequel to Dawn of a New World

This story is also a sequel to The Forgotten World

The prophecy has been fulfilled. The ancient race known as the Sleipnir have returned, resulting in a shattered Equestria and leaving little hope for all ponies. Equestrians look to Griffonia for help, although the winged beasts seek to claim Equestria for themselves. Ponykind's only remaining strength lies in the Crystal Empire, whose citizens grow afraid of the threats around them.

Among the greater power struggle between ponies, Griffons, and Sleipnir, several ponies seek to make some kind of peace for all. Fluttershy, who learned of her ability to communicate with the Sleipnir, envisions a world where she can live peacefully with her remaining friends, without having to resort to violence. In the southern deserts of Zebrawe and Saddle Arabia, the Cutie Mark Crusaders fight for their own lives against the Changelings. Will they be all be able to rejoin and survive the inevitable battles to come?

Because of how multiple events take place at the same time and throughout the world, the narrative is split into chapters each focusing on a different character or group of characters. In this story, there are 6:

-Fluttershy, who is traveling south in order to confront the Sleipnir and find her friends.
-Berry Bunches, the filly Fluttershy had saved, who awaits her safe return in the Crystal Empire.
-Twilight Sparkle, newly-dubbed Princess of Equestria along with Princess Cadence.
-The Cutie Mark Crusaders: Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle. Lost with Spike in the southern deserts.
-Peyton, a loyal griffon soldier of the Griffonian empire.
-Roddel, a Sleipnir knight with a troubled past.

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

This story is a sequel to Dawn of a New World

This short story actually serves as a prequel to the above story, and everything else MLP. However, I do recommend reading the above story first before starting this one.

Everypony knows the tale of Hearth's Warming Eve, but not many know what happened before then, back when the first ponies came to exist. Ten thousand years before Celestia and Luna's rule, the then-unnamed land was ruled over by beings known as Sleipnir, eight-legged horse-like beings that kept order in the land. They constantly fought with the Draconequus, who upset the order with a mix of chaos. While the Draconequus take reality and make the impossible, the Sleipnir take the impossible and make it reality.

For many years, balance was kept between the two races. However, everything changed once the Six Sleipnir kings found an ultimate weapon to keep order: six keys to amplify the creation power of the Sleipnir. This threw the world into an unbalance as the Sleipnir soon strayed from their ideals of order in a lust for true power.

Follow Roddel, a young Sleipnir guard, as he witnesses the birth of a new era. Roddel's loyalty to the High Sleipnir King is unmatched, yet he will have to make very important decisions that put loyalty against safety, life against death, and will pave the way to the Equestria we know today.

(Credit for the Cover Image goes to everyone who worked on the Double Rainboom fan-episode.)

"And the world shall end in fire. From it, a new world will be born in its ashes. A world of tragedy, of fear, and of an unclear future...only to be cleansed by the ancients who used to roam this earth. Such is the way life on this planet will go."

This is the hidden prophecy that very few knew about. Nopony knew when, and nopony knew how. They would only know after the fact. And their fate in the new world would be left to the gods.

This tale of adventure and self-enlightenment follows Fluttershy, a very timid and soft-spoken pegasus, and her friends as they face a post-apocalyptic Equestria and all of the hardships, encounters, and struggles they will all face as they try to survive...and nopony is safe. Survival can bring out the worst in us. Will Fluttershy be changed by what she faces in this new world? Will anypony else? Is an even bigger threat just around the corner?

The first eleven chapters are written as an adventure story from an omniscient POV, while the rest of the chapters are written from various characters' points of view, and detail what happens after the first eleven. It used to be twelve chapters, but I combined chapters 6 and 7 and reordered the rest.

As of right now, it's complete, but I'm always ready to go back and make some parts better if needed.

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno