Skades are ice demons. They're heartless and cruel, along with being banished from Equestria over a millennia ago. That is, they were, until the fateful day sixty years ago when they broke free from their imprisonment and declared war on the world.

Of course, like I said, that was sixty years ago.

Now, we live under a new government and different rules from when my grandparents grew up. Want a Cutiemark? Good luck with that! Need to use magic? Enjoy your time in jail! Does this sound unfair to you? Too bad, suck it up!

This was just the way of life, until a crazy rebellion leader dragged me into a heroic quest to uncover the Elements of Harmony, along with five other foals. Did I mention we could be killed any second?

I really hate my life sometimes.

He arrived in Canterlot four years ago with a sack of bits, good eyes, and a greater vision. Now he's the sixth-richest CEO in Canterlot, the third strongest Grandmaster in the Pro Magical Duelling Circuit, and the most handsome, in his personal opinion. But behind the charming smile of this Gentlepony Adventurer lies a dark secret: When not selling enchanted armours or food imported from alternate worlds in his supermarket chains and fast food stores across Equestria, the well-connected, creative, unforgiving and absolutely brilliant Unicorn known as Silver Star has been running a rather profitable side business: Donning disguises and conning the richest, stupidest, and most corrupt monsters around the world and across the multiverse out of everything they own. Sometimes, the Canterlot Police Department, the secret multiverse-mapping "Map Club", and that law firm he bought will pass the cases they deem "Impossible" to him. Other times, he seeks out his own prey, or the wounded and helpless will come to him for aid. The risk, the rush, the thrill of a good plan executed perfectly, or better yet, salvaged despite unforseen complications... It's incredible.

But when even gold loses its lustre, Silver Star - formerly Star Apple - must make new bonds, reconnect with his family, and embrace friendship. But what does it mean when feelings start to appear in a heart he had believed to be beyond even the warmest touch? And when something is traded away... is it possible to get it back?

In the heart of Ponyville, oblivious to the machinations of Canterlot in his absence, as a disaster of his own making prepares to tear Equestria asunder, Silver Star Apple is going to find out.

But those pleasant slice-of-life adventures are put on hold when a new threat to the world rises. 21 magical cards have hidden themselves around Equestria, and the underground Diamond Dog Empire isn't the only group trying to collect them. Gather them all, and none can match your power. Can Silver and his new best friends find them in time?

A long time ago a prophecy was made by my ancestors, that a time would come when one of our wolf kind would be needed. A dark presence was coming toward our land, our homes. What it wanted most of all was to destroy our peaceful way of life, take our forest village for its own, and bathe the grass and trees in our blood.
But the prophecy states, if a pony can love the wolf for who he is, together their power would be enough to defeat this evil, and vanquish it back to the bowels of Tarturus from whence it came. So comes our story in the present day, when the evil looms near. Will we succeed? Or will we be doomed?

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Nightmare Darkness

In this world, there are ponies with amazing talent, incredible abilities, and great skill.

Coral is not one of those ponies.

This doesn't change when her family is taken by a birdlike beast beyond her world and imprisoned in a pocket dimension with a limited air supply, or when he gives her an ultimatum: If she enters a dangerous ancient temple legendary in his world for its difficulty, a magical anomaly filled with traps and puzzles that only the pure of heart can enter, and succeeds in taking its treasure and bringing it to him, he will give her family back to her. Besides, it's not like this pony will lose anything when the temple's magic resets her every skill back to the baseline average for a Pegasus upon entry. It's do or die, and she has seven days before her family runs out of air. Can Coral get her family back before it's too late?