Twilight is invited to Canterlot to compete with some of the greatest magicians in the world for the Moonstone Cup, a prestigious award for the most powerful and skillful magicians, unicorn and otherwise. Can she win? What sort of competition will she face?

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This is the story of the end. This is the story of the death of Equestria. It is the story of the reign of her royal majesty, Princess Twilight Sparkle of the Fading Sun.

The alicorn sisters are dead and Equestria has turned to Twilight Sparkle to guide it. However, just maintaining a dim sun a fraction as bright as her mentor's keeps the new princess near her limits.

Years have passed and Twilight Sparkle is sure of only one thing. Equestria is dying.

NOTE: Written before "It's about Time" in season 2. Everything after "Read it and Weep" was ignored throughout this story.

On a regular day in Ponyville, Twilight begins to study simplifying spells. Luna visits, just to ensure that Ponyvillians still like her. Twilight moves on from simplifying spells and begins to work on astronomy. She studies the complexity of stars, and decides to try a simplifying spell on one, which, unbeknownst to her, is one of the stars that helped Nightmare Moon escape. When she tries the magic on the star, it's dark magic causes a Magical Reaction, something that's never happened before, but has been dreaded. Twilight and all of Ponyville are plunged into a time long, long, ago, when Ponyville was in it's most primary state. Luna tries to take up the job of raising the sun and moon, but is only successful with the moon.
Pinkie Pie tries to brighten everyones day, with hilarious attempts to make fire. Applejack searches all of Ponyville for AppleBloom and the crusaders, and Rainbowdash contains a secret that's about to burst. Fluttershy misses her animals, and upon discovering a dinosaur, she decides to raise it, with disastrous results. Rarity is devastated on the loss of her designs and fashions, and becomes obsessed with starting new trends. Finally, Spike runs away with the dinosaurs, and discovers some odd habits.

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Night and day. Fire and ice. Creation and destruction. Everything has an opposite, and Chaos is no exception. Princess Celestia tells Twilight the true history of Discord's rise, the Alicorns' fall, and the creation of the Elements of Harmony.

She tells her student the story of Order and Chaos.

Okay, for those of you who loved this story, i'm sorry but I have lost all inspiration for it, and thats due to the fact that I am no longer being bullied by people, so instead, this will now turn into a HiE story, but one that is a little bit different from some of the others.

A thousand years i've lived here, and for a thousand years I have ruled over the badlands monsters, now thanks to a certain queen, I must deal with those ponies yet again. Why is life never kind to me?

Dragons have been relying on shipments of gems to live. These gems have served them well as a substitute for meat. They know that to go to war with Princess Celestia would be paramount to suicide. Yet food is running scarce. Their only remaining source seems to be the ponies. While Princess Celestia maintains the facade, the problem festers.

At first glance, Princess Luna's charioteers might appear to be little more than Royal Guards dressed in festive apparel for Nightmare Night. However, there is far more to the story than that - the Night Guards once played a pivotal role in the history of Equestria, and have sacrificed more for their beloved princess than most ponies are even aware of.