The "Great and Powerful" Trixie has headed out to Appleloosa for a new start and a clean slate, but can she really leave behind a lifetime of bragging and showmareship?

*Edit: 26 Nov. 2014. Changed tags to 'Teen' and added 'Dark'. But it's a light-dark.
Luna wakes in a cavern, blindfolded, gagged and bound by magic runes. Her captors are exultant. They have captured the co-regent and sister to the highest power in all Equestria. They can name their price!
Or can they?
Luna won't cooperate, Celestia hasn't answered the ransom demand, and Canterlot is acting like nothing is amiss. The moon rises and sets just like it always has.
If they have Princess Luna, why doesn't anypony seem to care?

Ponyville has grown boring for Rainbow Dash. Sometimes, an entire week will pass between monster attacks.

What's a mare of action to do when her neighbors are all celebrating apples and hard work? When the weather bureau insists on gentle showers and sunny days, instead of something more exciting?

She has to find adventure, obviously. And when an airship captained by a pegasus pony flies through Ponyville one lazy summer day, dragging a flying iceberg behind it, Rainbow Dash realizes this might be the opportunity she's been waiting for.

But nopony ever said adventuring was easy.

When a royal guard in the prime of his life gets assigned to guard Princess Twilight's castle, he figures it'll just be another post to stand at. However, when he gets to Ponyville, he realizes that this job may be more tricky than he first anticipated... especially with all of this "friend-making" business.

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Just a little something I whipped up. I really enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it.

Rated Teen for a fairly momentarily but still rather graphic gore scene. It lasts a little, but everything else is tame.

EDIT: apparently, this story is featured by twilight's library. Thanks a bunch, seriously.

In a world where the movement of the sun and moon is down to the whims of alicorn princesses, other ways must be used to keep track of time. High up in the mountain above Canterlot, there lies an old abbey, home to the Order of the Time Turners, a monastic community of ponies founded by Starswirl the Bearded, who follow a strict timetable of daily duties to regulate the length of day and night. After following the same routine for over seven hundred years, things are about to change.

A tale of Equestria from the time before Luna’s exile, told by Doctor Hooves, with further commentary by Twilight Sparkle and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

After a mishap at a local cafe leaves Twilight and Fluttershy heavily in debt, the two decide to enter a tournament in order to pay it off. However, they aren't the only grandmistresses planning on winning it big—do they stand a chance against The Black Queen?

Cheerilee receives an official instruction from the Ministry of Education and is obliged to tell her class of young foals the truth about Santa Hooves.

Twilight wants to reorganize the library again. Pinkie volunteers to help, despite her rather unorthodox classification system.

The waggle dance is a performance used by social bees to communicate information about sources of food to other members of the colony. Understanding the details of how it works has been the result of many years of research.

For Fluttershy, it is just part of her special talent.

Cover art by Chingilin.

This story is a sequel to The Art of Rainbow Engineering

Following Twilight Sparkle's explanation of the scientific method, Diamond Tiara asserts that the sonic rainboom is a scientific phenomenon. Scootaloo insists it is magic. The Ponyville schoolhouse is the scene for an unprecedented intellectual dispute.

It's a sonic rainboom. How not scientific could it possibly not be?

A side story to The Art of Rainbow Engineering - you don't need to read that first.