When you lose someone or something you love, your whole world will seem black, but the largest hurdle to jump is the time when you have to say goodbye. When a very dear and close friend departs, this is just the very thing that a unicorn filly has difficulties with saying.

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Credit Source for Cover Art: http://esuka.deviantart.com/art/scootloo-and-scooter-425401205

Pinkie comes home after a visit to an old friend, but something seems to be bothering her. Something has wounded her, and Cheese wants to know what.

But he never could have prepared himself for what he was about to hear.

Gift for Summer Dancer

Special thanks to Tranquil Serenity for editing input.

Ed is showing Double D his new favorite comic book, Horsies from Space, when a portal opens in the room.

The Great and Powerful Filly Trixie falls out.

Princess Twilight Sparkle has sought long and hard for the weapon of which the old tales tell. Hellpiercer, mystical lance and bane of the Wraithworm, has at last fallen into her possession.

She sets out to take it to the great dragon of the Badlands, praying she arrives in time.

An utterly fluffy story.

Part of same 'verse as How to Hug a Five-Hundred-Foot Tall Dragon.

Dramatic reading by Zephyscribe aka Zephysonas found on Equestria Daily!
Recommended by PresentPerfect.

Derpy ponders life and wonders about the one question that has always bugged her, "Am I important?"

Dragons. Big. Selfish. Treasure mongers. No other creature in Equestria is as selfish as they. The spend their entire centuries long lives building and hoarding huge stockpiles of treasures, which they guard fiercely and frighteningly. Many are the treasure hunters who've attempted to cash in on the goldmine that is a dragons hoard. They almost always regret it.

One dragon is actually really strange about it, however. Oh, he has a hoard, which he guards just as fiercely as any other. But! But, he actually has the capacity to trust certain ponies and other creatures enough to let them gaze upon his most precious of treasures. This isn't the most surprising thing, however, despite its seeming impossibility. No. The most surprising thing is just what treasures his hoard contains...

Cover image by Wildheart Wolfsong, used in a dramatic reading by Dr. Wolf.

Can now be read in Spanish here. thanks to Spaniard Kiwi.

After making amends with each other at the end of 'No Second Prances', Trixie and Starlight Glimmer decide to put on another magic show together for Ponyville before Trixie leaves town.

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Reviews from other Writers

Obabscribbler - "Get lost I've never forgiven you for making that twerking animation of my OC"

MegaPone - "0 out of 10. Needs more big boobed anthro ponies with little character development"

MythrilMoth - "Stop spamming my notifications!"

Wanderer D - "Post any more Caddicarus videos on people's stories and I swear I will ban you! And your fanfic leaves much to be desired compared to mine!"

Cloperella - "I vant to suck your oh goodness wrong user!"

UniqueSKD - "Meh. I thought it was alright. Nothing great but nothing awful. Then again I did write the fanfic so of course I'd say that."

RainbowBob - "You'll have to type your comment louder, I'm wearing a towel."

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Kimba the White Lion - "UniqueSKD didn't ask me to review this. He better not make up a review and say I said it or I'll kill him!"

Soaring Soarin - "...and that's why I had to get rid of the jock strap. Oh sorry, what were we talking about before?"

AnimatedJames - "What the **** are you doing in my house!? Get the **** out of here you white cracker!"

Saitama - "Watashi wa hoka no monsutā o panchi shite ita mae ni, soreha jikan no sūbun o koroshimashita" [TRANSLATION - "It killed a few minutes of time before I had to punch another monster."]

Twilight breaks into Starlight’s room to figure out why she locked it.

Now she’s in, and regretting every second of it.

Reading by Steven1992 and Scribbler!

Grief can give you new perspective.
Anger can give you new strength.
Love and wisdom abide.

Written for the November 2016 Writeoffs, where it reached ninth place.

A predator chases his prey heartlessly. Yet prey can be predators too. Does one predator owe mercy to another?

This is dark. It's pure vent fic, if rather indirect; my real frustrations have nothing to do with wanting to kill and eat people! Still, read at your own risk.

Posted without editing or input from anybody, because I'm sure anyone I asked would probably have told me this was a bad idea.