A new student at the Orange Seeds Schoolhouse heralds a wave of change for the small town of Citrus Hills. But are the changes for good or ill? And how much is he even involved in? Lemon Drop's students will need the power of friendship more than they ever guessed.

Teen/Sex mostly for innuendo. No sex will be depicted in this story.
Dark because Citrus Hills is a lot less ideal of a place than Ponyville.

This story shares universe with Itinerant Kingdom, and begins with a retelling of chapters 1-6 from a different perspective. Reading that story should not be required to enjoy this one. But it will explain some of the mysteries that will not be revealed within this story and cast some things in a different light.

This story is a sequel to Itinerant Kingdom

The Itinerant King has collected dozens of ponies and changelings to himself, bound them to himself and each other with the nanotechnology known as the 'kingsblood', and spread them about Equestria while focuses on more dangerous matters.

While the Itinerant Kingdom has something of a tendency to go looking for trouble, Equestria is a mostly peaceful place, and sometimes a scattered seed can just bask in the sun and grow into a beautiful flower. Sometimes.

This is a series of shorter stories following individuals within the Itinerant Kingdom as they go on with their new life, struggling to define their new society while hiding in plain sight within the old one.

Parallel story to King and Kingpin, but much less linear, and a lot less dark.

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It all starts with: The Equestria Diaries.
This is a Sequel to Itinerant Kingdom.
This is Parallel to King and Kingpin.
This is a Prequel to Kingdom in Shadows (at least one more story will come between)

This story is a sequel to Itinerant Kingdom

My name is Daniel Holden, but since coming to Equestria I have been known in public by a number of aliases such as "South Wind" the pegasus, or "Blank Slate" the unicorn. But privately I am known as the "Itinerant King" by those who have sworn their loyalty to me, or have begun to quietly spread my legend.
The powerful 'Kingsblood', nanotechnology running through my veins, gives my subjects and I powerful advantages, most of all the ability to communicate and forge a weird extended family, closely bonded even over a great distance. Thus helping to repair not only bodily harm, but also the scars of the painful pasts I was able to rescue them from.
Now, while the scattered seeds of my Kingdom grow within Equestria's fertile soil, I am taking a handful of changelings in my employ to Manehattan, to see where my deceased former enemies were shipping dangerous, magical dark crystals.
Will I find more ponies in need of rescue? Or just more bad ponies in need of a smackdown? Either way, I'm going to poke into shadows that hide from the light of Celestia's sun and even Luna's moon.

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It all starts with: The Equestria Diaries.
This is a Sequel to Itinerant Kingdom.
This is Parallel to Scattered Seeds.
This is a Prequel to Kingdom in Shadows (at least one more story will come between).

This story is a sequel to Itinerant Kingdom

Time-skipped continuation of Itinerant Kingdom, picking up in MLP Season 5 / The Silver Stars chapter 64.

The fate of Equestria is held in the hooves of five terrifying beasts: creatures with magical horns, powerful wings, and in one cases a pair of deadly fangs. Princesses. Now Daniel Holden, the Itinerant King, will face these dangerous beings, not in the relative safety of mortal combat, but in the most dangerous of contests imaginable: diplomacy!

If everything goes well, his subjects will be able to emerge from the shadows, wear their allegiance openly, trade for rare and restricted materials to enable their more experimental industries, and have an impact on the world beyond the personal. They will also have the freedom to bring their combat potential to bear to protect ponies and others from threats they dare not engage before, for simple fear of being discovered.

And if all goes poorly? If they thought hiding in the shadows was hard, just wait until the Sun itself is their enemy.

This story is a sequel to The Equestria Diaries

Twelve humans came to Equestria and were thrust into a deadly 'survival game' by the mysterious Text. Seven survived to return to Earth. Their game is complete, but a new game begins, as they return home to find those who have been charged with making friends with them. But with friends like these...

Meanwhile, Equestria is still reeling from the effects of the Humans' War, and all of the changes they left behind after using the ponies' nation as a battlefield.

This story is a sequel to The Equestria Diaries

I have memories that aren't my own, from a timeline where I was thrust into a deadly survival game with eleven other humans. In that time, many of us died, I began to succumb to my own dark side, and the artifacts we were given killed countless innocent ponies and tore up the world with reckless abuse of magic. But my former self was able to send Wind Chaser, a changeling who had sworn loyalty to me, back in time to avert disaster and get everyone home in one piece.

I stayed behind with Wind Chaser, bonded by our shared memories of the time that was undone, and the dangerous nanotechnology that we carry in our blood. Our life and death struggles have been wiped clean, leaving us to face.. life itself.

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This is a Sequel to The Equestria Diaries.
This is Parallel (alternate timeline) to Friends Like These
This is a Prequel to King and Kingpin and Scattered Seeds .

A mysterious force sends a group of human strangers to Equestria, grants each of them any one item of their choice, and tells them it's a "Survival Game". Will they find the magic of friendship with the ponies? Each other? or will they opt to kill each other in order to be the last man standing?

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This is a Prequel to Itinerant Kingdom and Friends Like These .