A magazine article inspires Rainbow Dash to ask Fluttershy out on a whim. Which is all very well, but when Fluttershy takes her up on it, and Rainbow actually has to consider the practicalities of the whole 'dating' thing...? She didn't think that far ahead.

Sunny and her friends discover an abandoned tower. Exploring it should be fun, right? A nice adventure for a bunch of ponies. Who knows what will be inside.

Who knows who will return alive.

This was originally abandoned after being started (a few months before the release of MYM ch 2 at latest). But I found it and felt it deserved a chance, even if it’s a bit cheesy. But since this was made so early in G5’s time, little no stuff from either series or comics will be present.

Redacted. Here to protect you in secret from the monsters that are invading Eqeustria.

By any means necessary.

Chapters to be posted everyday until complete.

Content Warnings will be noted at the start of all chapters. All Content is mild with no graphic depictions. Gore is tagged more to cover bases.

Entry to the 2024 Science Fiction Contest.

Edited by EileenSaysHi

Preread by The Sleepless Beholder and Dewdrops on the Grass

A princess and her nine companions are picked off one-by-one after stumbling into the hunting grounds of an ancient evil, in a mysterious forest of monsters. 

Spike had never thought he would meet his birth parents, he had been with Twilight for quite sometime now and he was starting to lose hope that he'd ever meet them. But when he goes to the Dragon Lands to see the Migration, he not only meets a kind dragon who helps him through the place, but he also helps find someone he never thought would get to meet..

Attraction can be a key part in bringing people together, but it is far from the only thing you need to build a healthy relationship.

A short RariTwi one-shot written in first-person from Twilight's perspective.

Rated T for suggestive elements.

This story is a sequel to Urban Wilds

Amanita. Quiet. Awkwardly self-conscious. Necromancer. Reformed. Newly hired by the Royal Guard and the apple of its eye. How could she not be? She’s a peerless expert when it comes to necromancy. But only because she’s the only pony with any knowledge of necromancy beyond the basics, she tells herself. She needs to be more than just a static source of knowledge; she also needs to apply that knowledge, to expand her mind. She can’t live her whole life in a lab. She needs experience out in the field.

Which is how she finds herself assigned to a ley purification team. There’s something wrong with a ley line. It’s not immediately dangerous, but if left alone, it could corrupt the land, killing crops and creating monsters. Amanita is part of a small crew that will head to the line’s source, the small mining town of Tratonmane, to identify and correct the problem. Fortunately, ley purification is a well-known science. It’ll be easy.

At least, that’s the idea. Far to the north, swathed in frost and snow, walled in by vertiginous mountains, Tratonmane is as isolated as can be. Miners and subsistence farmers eke out a living in what little land they have. Ravenous wolves stalk the forest at its border. Whispers abound at the team’s arrival. Tratonmane has existed outside the Crown’s influence for centuries and many of the townsfolk don’t appreciate it sticking its nose in now. Especially since no town lasts for that long without getting a few skeletons in its closets. Amanita and her team will have to navigate hostile environments — personal and terrestrial alike — if they want to get to the bottom of this.

For if they don’t, heads will roll. Perhaps literally.

Nothing a necromancer can’t fix.

Updates TuThS. Reading earlier stories will provide some context for this, but isn't required. Other entries in this series:

• Hinterlands
• Urban Wilds
• Death Valley

Jai Young is 20 fresh out of his parents house and happy to be away from home. Moving out was the best thing he'd ever done with all of the constant fighting at home. Despite moving out and landing a pretty good job as a cook at an upscale restaurant he feels; out of place. The sense of displacement doesn't last too long though. One run in with an interesting old man however changes his relatively boring life and immediately flips it on its head. He wakes up in foreign land with magic he doesn't understand how to use, with a threat known to most history books in Equestria and the Crystal Empire unfolding in real time around him. Yea that's fine, he can make this work; He always has.

Tags are subject to change as I write the story!

Following her dream about her friends as Alicorns Sunny can’t seem to be able to get Alicorns off her mind. So she goes to the one creature who knew multiple Alicorns, Spike, and discovers he thinks she’s something she isn’t. Naturally, Sunny feels the need to set Spike straight on the matter.