After a night of fun and catching up, two best friends begin their walk home. While everything seems well and good, even the most well-worn mask can have cracks.

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This story was loosely based on the "Beautiful Sunrise" prompt from Bean's Writing Group. It started as something else, but I decided to create something different from that. Thus this story exists. I would like to thank my friends Bean, Mykola, Ran, Smokey, Gadot, and Short for all their help with editing and critiquing this story. I don't think I'd ever get this far without them.

Limestone Pie takes her youngest sister to the Peaks of Peril in search of something important. Marble Pie finds something else.

Collaboration with Short-tale. Based off the prompts "You Shouldn't Let Kirins Lie To You" and "From A Certain Point of View" from Bean's Writing Group Discord server. Thanks to Bean, RDT, Techno Flare, Thesmokingguy, Mykola, and Sledge115 for their feedback.

This story is a sequel to Control the Power

Flaming Star felt as if his father was trying to force him into becoming a business man, but being the music lover that he is, he came up with a plan to maybe put an stop to his fathers attempt. But was it successful?

Edited by Helping Hoof

A brutal attack on her caravan invites a great warrior to step in for on last fight, if a slaughter could be called that.

It's the night of the biggest fashion show of her career, yet all Fleur de Lis can think about is how she would rather be anywhere else. Just one night away from the prim and proper lifestyle she's surrounded by couldn't be so bad, could it?

Luckily, with Spike to chaperone her around town, she's able to see just how fun life can be.... at least for one night.

Edited by Curify.
Coverart by Doctor Disco!

After her latest concert series in Canterlot, Miss Octavia Melody went to her rented room to rest. Before heading out the following morning back to Ponyville in the friendship kingdom. Her roommate DJ-pony three would be starting her party tours before she returns home, which Octavia would not mine because she must compose a few new music scores for her next tour, and she needs the quiet for that.

As her eyes were closing, their knock on her rented room door. Octavia went to answer it and discover a young lawyer pony. He told her that she is the sole heiress to her uncle Lyric estate in Coltifornia in the City of Grazing Hills. She knew Lyric's name; the pony was one of the greatest music composers in all of Equestria. She has played many of his music scores at her concert series during her career. His music scores were always perfect in tone and beat. But Octavia never knew she was related to that famous music composer; she will admit after leaving Ponyville, she lost contact with her only family, an aunt of her. That taught her how to play and love music.

We all know how the Dazzlings treated everyone, but what if they wanted to make up for their actions by making new friends? Let's see just how they try to do that at Vinyl Scratch's party. That is, if they survive the night...

(Profanity because of Aria's mouth. )

One morning, Rarity discovers a strand of gray hair in her mane. It shouldn't bother her, not really; after all, it was bound to happen at some point or another. But when she begins to see the signs of aging appearing on most of her friends, she is forced to confront a harsh truth about life, and what that means for the future.

Special thanks to my pre-readers, including:
ponybird21
TheAncientPolitzanian
MeowofyMLP
Several Discord friends

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Sunset Shimmer was a model student when it came to academic achievements. She aced every test, topped every chart, and became the personal student of the Sun Goddess.

Even after becoming friends with the most inspiring people around and changing her life for the better, Sunset can’t help but criticize her time in Equestria.

Pinkie Pie breaks her leg while hiking.

Twilight Sparkle falls in love with a mystery girl at a concert.

Sunset Shimmer carries on a long distance relationship with a magical pony princess from another dimension.

Multiple melodies, weaving in and out of one another, sometimes overlapping, sometimes competing, sometimes complimenting one another. Voices join in then fade away, adding to the collective whole. And in the end, maybe this symphony will lift the heart and dry the tears of an old foe.