I have lived my entire life among the ice at the top of the world with my pod. I knew little of the world outside of the ways of We of the Sea, and as a filly, that suited me just fine. But one day, the steel whales came, and on their backs, they carried creatures not unlike myself, yet wholly different. For while I swam in the sea, they walked on the land and flew through the air. Yet they reminded me of my kind, so curious, so tragic, and so infinitely precious. Where they did not understand, they sought to learn with a foolish stubbornness. Where they wandered far from home, they extended their hooves in friendship.

Where they waged their wars, they fought with a violent savagery that was frightening to me.

As I held a dear friend close, the breath fleeing from his body, I only wanted to know one thing.

Why?

Cover art and inspiration by JhonnyRebel. Pre-reading provided by djthomp.

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Russian translation of this story can be found here, courtesy of NovemberDragon!

A young colt who was taken in by the Order is told a tale of the four princesses of Equestria's golden age.

Inspired by Monochromatic's Story The Enchanted Library(Original One-Shot)

This story is a sequel to The Cadenza Prophecies

Princess Flurry Heart inherited her mother's beauty and grace as well as her father's strength and bravery. The Empire couldn't hope for a better or more suitable heir to the Crystal Throne. Everypony in Equestria admires her and thinks she will be an ideal ruler.

They're wrong.

Young Flurry Heart has no interest at all in being a prim and proper princess, and would much rather have wild and dangerous adventures like her Aunt Twilight.

Book 5 of the Alicorn Adventure series.

Agent Sunset Shimmer is part of an organization known as The Agency that protects its borders from potential foreign and domestic threats. After discovering a list of possible sleeper cells, Sunset is tasked with finding the source of these cells, which ultimately leads her to Germaney.
But as she soon finds out, her target is as cunning and dangerous as she is, leading to a cat and mouse game that could potentially put the world on the verge of chaos.

Fifteen individuals were selected to become the new hope for all of Equestria, bringing together all sentient races in peaceful resolution - Calling Elites from many different fields of expertise so they can hone their skills and become friends.

That was the idea.

However, even the best laid plans can fail. The fifteen are taken by a maniac to a world where logic is thrown out the window and the only way to escape is to murder another!

Who will survive? Who will die? And what is the reason behind being kidnapped just to kill each other?

This story is a sequel to Culling of the Hives

It's been twelve years since Twilight awakened as a changeling. With Phoenix Roost's focus on economic and population growth, the hive has grown strong.

The rest of the changeling hives have been ravaged by war for years with Twilight's brood remaining aloof. Sphinx psyker immigrants have dispersed throughout not only Equestria but as far as the Griffin and Minotaur nations, eager for a new life away from the paranoia of their homeland.

Yet for all of Twilight's desire for leave the rest of the queens to their wars, the Home Guard's proclamation will force Twilight to return to the jungle of her rebirth.

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This story is a sequel to Of the Hive

Having fully embraced her new changeling heritage, Twilight Sparkle turns to the past to learn more about her people. A difficult task, given that every other queen cares next to nothing about it.

What she finds will shed unwanted light on a secret better left forgotten.

Editor in Chief: ABitterPill

Coverart: Tulip

In the wake of Chrysalis' failed invasion, a different hive breaks tradition and steps into the light to open relations with Equestria. The ever eager scholar, Twilight Sparkle, uses this truce as the perfect opportunity to learn more about this enigmatic race. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, she will learn all there is to know about what it means to be a changeling.

But will Twilight lose herself in the hive, or will she regain what she has lost? Only time will tell.

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My Editor in Chief: Cloud Hop

Note- ponies in this story are Level 3 Anthro
After a horrifying attack of ponies gone mad, Ponyville is left in ruins. Rainbow Dash is left with a broken wing and Scootaloo in her care, the filly orphaned during the attack. And if her task wasn't difficult enough, Fluttershy, Applejack, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle had gone missing, all either injured after the attack or worse.
Now Rainbow and Scootaloo must leave their shelter to find their friends before the monsters of Ponyville destroy them all.
But there are many other dangers besides the mad ponies, the Everfree forest has begun to grow into Ponyville, allowing the monsters within it's tree's roam free.
Unable to fly, Rainbow Dash must face these terrors with Scootaloo by her side.
But how long can a mare's sanity, much less a filly's last in such a dark, twisted, and corrupt world? And how is a pony supposed to defend herself with only a katana, a gun, and a limited amount of bullets. And even more important, how is a pony supposed to find seven missing ponies when they all may be out to kill her?

In the magical land of Equestria, two sisters controlled both the sun and the moon. The elder sister known as Celestia shone the sun upon the land. Ponies would play and bask in the sunlight. The younger sister, Luna, raised the moon and painted the sky to become a gorgeous night. While most ponies would sleep and gather their rest, some would look up to the stars and watch in awe.

On one faithful day, the elder sister became corrupt with power and threatened to bring sunlight upon Equestria forever. But the younger one could not reason with her, for she had become a powerful mare of darkness: Nightmare Star. With no other choice, the young Luna gathered the most powerful magic in all of ponydom: the Elements of Harmony. Using the power of the Elements, Luna reluctantly banished her sister into the sun.

Shortly after her older sister's banishment, the ponies of her kingdom rose up in resistance and waged a terrible civil war. The war ultimately ended in a ravaged land that was inhospitable to ponykind. They were forced to live underground ever since.

Now, nearly 1000 years later, Luna has foreseen the end of her sister's banishment is coming to and end. When that day finally comes, the fate of the world will hang in the balance. It is up to her faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, to help save Equestria from the end of all things.