As if dying of embarrassment in the middle of a Crystal Empire celebratory dinner wasn’t bad enough, now Shining Armor has to entertain the worst guest imaginable. No, not Lemon Hearts. The one with the inexplicable agricultural tool. No, not Crazy Lace Agate. The one with the ominous powers and the unstoppable determination to – No, not Cadence. Look, Death, all right? It’s Death. Death’s the worst guest imaginable.

And when the spectre at the feast wants you dead and can’t die in turn, not even love and friendship are strong enough to stand in the way of grim destiny.

Not that this will stop them. Love and friendship are funny like that.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns IV, using the prompt "Princess Cadence and Shining Armor/Harmony".

Ever since Dean Cadence became Principal Cadence, she's learned the hard way that running a school as prestigious as Crystal Prep Academy is a bureaucratic knife-edge. Among other things, she has to deal with spiky students, a terrifying janitor, and constant comparisons between her and Cinch – which are somehow always in Cinch's favour.

Hardest of all might be getting one of her students – Sour Sweet – to apologize for years and years of bullying. Not least because she must convince the girl it's for her own good too…

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns III, using the prompt "Dean Cadence/Justice".

Losing someone can be hard. But it can sometimes be even harder when you never really got to know that person in the first place.

As everyone around her mourns this tragedy , Princess Cadance upholds her role as ruler of the Crystal Empire in the only way she knows how: with dignity and grace. In carrying out her royal duties, she knows she has to put aside her own feelings of grief, and act as any princess would.

No one would ever know that, deep inside, she's completely falling apart...

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WARNING:
Contains miscarriage, brief scenes of violence, mentions of blood, and adult non-sexual themes. This is a story about losing an unborn child. Please be aware of that before you read.

This is not a normal anonpencil story. Does not contain Anon. Does not contain jokes.

It's Cadance's first Hearts and Hooves Day since she's come into her own as the Princess of Love, and she has high hopes for it. However, the day starts with a visit to Twilight's classroom that doesn't go at all the way she planned, and from there things only spiral further into chaos. By the time it's all over, Cadance will realize just how much she has to learn about love.

If you would ask creatures what they thought of Twilight Sparkle, most might say she is one of, if not the most successful mare in the country. Along with being a princess, living in a castle, and running her own school at such a young age, she has the most amazing group of friends she could ask for. They have helped her get to where she is now, and they enjoy helping her, right?

When an ancient magical mirror of unclear function is unexpectedly uncovered on the edges of the Dragon Lands, along with hints that it might be originally of griffon construction, Gallus joins a small party sent to retrieve the mirror and bring it back to Canterlot, hoping to find out more about what it has to do with his kind and why it was found so far from his homeland.

What he learns instead was that the mirror should've stayed buried.

An entry in "The Discovery" Young Six contest.

In her late retirement, Princess Celestia starts feeling a little blue, perhaps feeling something tugging at her heartstrings that she hasn't felt for some time. In an effort to cheer her up, Princess Twilight sends an old associate of Rainbow Dash named Ace Hart, to see if he can provide her some company. Perhaps the only pony willing to treat Celestia as more than just former royalty, their story plays out in a unique way that shows that it's never too late for love to blossom.

A Trolls x MLP Crossover Fic

As the mane 6 were summoned by the Cutie Map one last time months before Twilight's Coronation Day, they were led to a lone Tree up a hill. A portal opened beneath them, changing their appearance all differently from each other.

They each woke up separated and confused, where's their horns? Their wings? Their other two hooves? Their tails? Well... for some, they have the other of those and lack the others... But where are the others and what is the place they were transported in?

With each in their own, they try to learn more about this new world and find their way back to each other soon. Will they be able to do it along side this Rockapocalypse?

What comes after the text "United we stand"?

Lux Festus, the youngest and last wielder of the Philosphers Stone sacrificed himself to save the future of Earth from the darker side of humanity. However, God had others plans for the early teen, besides the afterlife. Which of course, was a reincarnation to another world! But Lux failed to comprehend the sheer differences between his world of alchemy and the new world of magic.

Will Lux be able to understand and regain the childhood he had lost, or will his past life catch up to him?
Find out in Season 1.

Applebloom, Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, friends until the end of time, now embark on a new adventure beyond the boundary of the Harmony System's final frontier. Tasked with testing the first interstellar capable ship and exploring the great unknown beyond their home system, our intrepid trio will face mysteries and discoveries beyond their wildest dreams.

Join them in the adventure to end all adventures and enjoy every thrilling twist and turn alongside our trio as they brave the exotic, the weird, and the downright terrifying, all waiting to be found in the dark expanse Beyond Harmony's Edge.