This story is a sequel to Seven Years

Family had always been a strange notion to Princess Skyla, and anypony who knew her history would never wonder why the filly had such a vague grasp of the concept. Every memory she had of her family was tainted and dark, the photographs of her life smeared and marred by the decisions made by her mother and father, and she couldn't remember a time when she could even think about the word "family" without a black veil of disgust and sadness drawing over her heart. As such, family was never something that Skyla had ever given much thought, unless it was how she was going to get away from them.

Now, however, family is all Skyla can think about. Princess Cadence and Shining Armor have welcomed her with open hooves into their home, and their daughter, Princess Flurry Heart, is overjoyed to suddenly have a "big sister" to learn about and play with. She hasn't been officially crowned a Princess yet, but despite that the whole of the Kingdom is abuzz with news of her, and all of the Princesses of Equestria have all set aside time to come and see her for themselves...

...but try as she might, Skyla can't shake the feeling that something is wrong. Not with anypony else... but with her. She doesn't know how family is supposed to act around each other when they're not trying to scheme and stab you in the back; she has no earthly idea how sisters are supposed to behave around one another, or how a mother and daughter are actually supposed to talk to one another in normal, every day situations. She's a mess, with her heart and head all tangled up in knots that may never come undone -- and that's even before the nightmares start.

Flurry Heart, however, isn't about to give up on her, and with a little bit of help from a lot of different ponies, she'll work hard to show Skyla that a family isn't about the blood that you share, but about the bonds that you forge.

All things told, Princess Flurry Heart really doesn't have any major problems in her life. Sure, she's a Princess and heiress to the throne of the Crystal Kingdom and potential successor to her mother Princess Cadence, who has been, without question, one of the Kingdom's best rulers since it's inception, but she know she'll grow into that.

She might have Princess Twilight Sparkle as an overly-enthusiastic teacher who seems to think she can learn everything there is to know in the world before she hits her teens, but Flurry Heart knows that her Aunt Twilight means well and knows that as long as she tries her best the Princess of Friendship will be happy with her.

All in all, the Princess's life is pretty good, all things considered.

Now if only she could figure out why she's hearing voices late at night: voices that mention crystals, the sky, and her name...

This story is a sequel to The Chronicles of Dark Star: A Blade of Redemption

A thousand years is a very long time. Civilizations can rise and fall in a thousand years; landmarks can wither away and vanish; entire ideologies and belief systems can disappear as quickly as they appeared in the blink of a cosmic eye, leaving behind no trace or, at the very least, no explanation as to what things were like or how things were done in the ancient, by-gone days.

For Dark Star, it doesn't feel like a thousand years. The things he remembers are still fresh in his mind, like vivid pictures that were destroyed before he had the chance to enjoy them. The city he loved so much and knew so well is gone, reclaimed by the forest that had once been its salvation, and the ponies he grew up with are no more than a family name, if that. He is a stallion out of place in time, a pony from a different era struggling to grasp his place in this new world around him.

However, one night beneath the stars with Trixie opens up a door to a thousand years in the past, a window into the youth of a stallion who fell in love with a pony that he should not have... but now that Dark Star is freed from the bonds of his hatred, will those memories still have the same sweet taste that they did before? Or will the words of a childhood story bring a bitter clarity to the memories of the greatest of the Four Generals?

Nightmare Moon. Her name has survived for a thousand years on the tongues of scholars, historians and mares trying to get their foals into bed. It is a name that drove a primal fear into the hearts of ponies, a fear so dark that they would utter her name only as the vilest of curses for generations after they had forgotten who and what she truly was.

In modern day Equestria, the name Nightmare Moon has come to have a new meaning- one of redemption after mistakes, of forgiveness at the end of harsh trials. It is a lesson that will last another score of generations, but one group of ponies has not forgotten what truly made her name one to be feared: the Nightmare, the dark force that Princess Luna summoned to help her dethrone Celestia. It is said that the Nightmare still roams the darkness between ponies' dreams, waiting for a chance to be brought back into the physical world so that it may complete its final and most terrifying mission.

The Nightmare will answer the call of any pony brave or foolish enough to seek it... and where ponies seek to stir the Nightmare, the Coursairs will be there to stop them.

Short Hilt, an eager pegasus mare with an even more eager ambition, sets off to find the perfect spot to build a town. At first her original intentions were just to run a normal city like Ponyville. However, that changes to hopefully bringing equality to even rarer species of ponies as well as other creatures. She's a small pony with a big heart, and plenty of it to go around. However, there are hardships she hasn't come to terms with, and she will have to deal with them as they come.

Based on my comic Ponymunity on deviantArt.

Since time immemorial, the Grand Council of Immortals has watched over all aspects of Equestrian life. They determine the destinies of all things on the mortal plane, both great and small. They convene once every one hundred years, and the Immortal who plays host to the gathering is permitted one request.

This century, it is Princess Celestia who will host the meeting... and who will ask for an unprecedented gift be granted to the newest alicorn princess.

Inspired by the Rankin/Bass adaptation of the Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.

Excellent live reading by Goombasa.

Caramel is tired of his cousins ragging on him for having a pegasus marefriend, so he proposes a drinking game for the three of them to play.

Edited by Noble Thought.

It has been weeks since the defeat of the Dazzlings, and Sunset Shimmer's friendships have only gotten stronger. Whilst finally relaxing in the times of peace, Sunset discovers an old enemy: Sonata Dusk. Strangely alone and apparently homeless, Sonata's luck seems to be at its all time low.
Seeing a little of herself in the former siren, Sunset embarks on a mission to help Sonata find friendship.

(For anyone who liked the old cover art, here's a side-by-side comparison of the old and new: http://daniel-gleebits.deviantart.com/art/Go-Compare-Twiddles-moustache-581352606 )

TV Tropes page: Feel free to add whatever tropes you find
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheEveningSonata

Pinkie Pie loves Nightmare Night. She loves dressing up, and she loves candy. Most of all, she loves pranking ponies. One year she goes too far.

Reading by CaptainBron3y: Pinkie Pie's Last Nightmare Night
Reading by Jennabun (PegasisterReacts): Pinkie Pie's Last Nightmare Night
Reading by AShadowOfCygnus: Pinkie Pie's Last Nightmare Night

Translation into Russian by Dark Room Collaboration

Sunset Shimmer talks to Twilight about her feelings of idolization towards Celestia, and about the person she can only become without her.

Takes place during Rainbow Rocks.

Cover art: "Sunset Shimmer" by Koveliana on DeviantArt