There is a place beyond the world where every living soul visits when the time comes. For convenience, the gods of all known realms (well, most of them) agreed to make it a single place where souls from all the worlds will come, and where their further fate will be decided, under uniform rules. Of course, someone must do this work, so Gods have selected Grados and Catharia and put them in charge of this meta-realm. But once in a while, they're allowed to take vacations to break the routine and keep them in high spirits. This time, they're visiting Equestria.

Of course, this isn't a normal journey. They travel there by being born as real foals, with real father and real mother. They have whole lifetime to spend there, being a perfectly normal pony being. However, their life is anything but normal. You see, gods are very vulnerable to prophecies...

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I wrote this fic, including above description, about half a year ago, and only managed to finish the first chapter before the life got in the way and stripped me off of all my free time. There will be no follow-up chapters, sorry. I'm posting it only because I spent so much time (and my dear friends' time who proofread it over and over again) on those 4k words that it would be such a waste if I never published it.

Special thanks to Gloaming, ElectricErger, Assertive, Gem and Wariyoshi.

Equestria has changed. A lot. Nothing is like it was before. After another chaos crisis, the world became very unhospitable, and pony civilization has been brought to the dust. It has been partially rebuilt, but not at all how it was - how it should be. Extreme injustice, corruption, and no perspectives for a change for better. But still, there is one pony who is trying to make the difference. She wants to bring the world back to what it was in past - before the chaos crisis emerged. But she can't do this by herself. She needs help from the ponies of Equestria, in order to bring back the ways of the old gods, so the world will be joyous again, as it was before; as it should always be. Her name is Luna.

Cover art by nerow94 (deviantART link)

Special thanks to ElectricErger