This story is a sequel to Light's Rising, Shadow's Fall

Years ago, after the fall of Discord, Luna had done all she could to preserve the happiness of the foals who were left homeless and parent-less. This is the story of how the Light of Equus itself preserved her kingdom after her fall to her Nightmare, and how the Princess of Shadows, Darkness, and Light came to be.*^

This story is based on the song and video Children of the Night from YouTube. All rights of both the song and the video belong to their respective owners. My Little Pony and its respective characters are owned by Hasbro; this story is written in accordance to all free speech laws.

*Dark tag is added for future chapters, as there are some dark themes involved in later chapters of the story.
^For those of you that are interested in being a pre-reader, PM me here on fimfiction for my unpublished view password. You can also search for each chapter in Gdocs; keep in mind that you will have to puzzle out things like italics and underlining, as I use the tags that fimfiction uses for font editing. Yes, I know, that's what copy/paste is for, but I'm lazy. I'd rather just upload the Gdoc and be done with it; less work that way.

Edit, August 26th, 2016: As of the newest chapter, the Incomplete tag has been reinstated. Also, the Gore tag has been added due to graphic scenes. Seriously folks, I had no plan in adding that tag, but you know muses; they're like women in that they can always change their minds.

*Slap!*

Ow! Grumble...

This story is a sequel to Rainbow Unicorn: Griffon Grief

A traveling unicorn by the name of Lightning Blast arrives in Ponyville to perform her show. However, she is a loud, flashy, braggart who takes too many risks. This does not go over with the citizens of Ponyville.

This story is a sequel to Who is Grand Heist?

Thousands of years ago, two princesses defeated a powerful being and became more than what they were. Now, thousands of years later, the enemy they imprisoned has been freed.

Discord is more powerful than any enemy they have fought before, but surely Rainbow Dash (Element of Magic), Pinkamena (Element of Honesty), Applejack (Element of Loyalty), Twilight Sparkle (Element of Generosity), Rarity (Element of Kindness), Fluttershy (Element of Laughter) and Spike (Voice of Reason) can defeat him.

If the world doesn't break first....

When Discord hears that his botanical creation, poison joke, continues to flourish in the Everfree, he simply cannot resist a good prank. Poison joke in hand, he storms Canterlot Castle.

Needless to say, the princesses are not impressed. But then, neither is Discord, since the joke also has an unexpected effect on him. And none of them know the cure.

Rainbow Dash finds herself trapped in another world. A world that her family apparently has a history with. But just what will it take to find a way home?

Tag note: Oh hey, new tags. tags edited on: 1/5/2018

Thrust into the world of her favorite book-series, Rainbow Dash finds herself dragged along for the ride of Daring Do's latest adventure. Mind-boggling as it may be, things are about to get far more complicated. For Rainbow Dash, breaking the fourth wall may very well prove to be a learning experience.

TAGS: Learning curve, Breaking the Fourth Wall for beginners, "Rainbow Sense", Where is Pinkie Pie?

This story was conceived long before the episodes "Daring Don't" and "Power Ponies".
For the sake of this story, Daring Do remains a fictional character, the author remains anonymous, and there is no such thing as a store selling "enchanted" comic-books.

This story is available as an audio-book (text-to-speech synthesized), see individual chapters for links.

Story excerpt:

It still bothered her how she had gotten here, how it was even possible that she was walking side-by-side through some buried underground-structure, with her favourite fictional character become flesh. But as they resumed trotting deeper into the temple, Dash's thoughts kept going back to the event.

"No", Dash told herself, sternly. "That's - that's not it."

She almost would have compared the experience to "Pinkie Sense" of all things!

But she had seen something out of the corner of her eye. It had been... letters. Words. A sentence.

Something along the lines of "... the characteristic noise of a ... spikes closing in right behind ... Rainbow Dash slammed her body into ... ".

And then she had acted, before the trap was even visible. She had known what was going to happen, before it happened.

She ... she had read the next paragraph.

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What lengths would you go to for family? Would you care for them? Be honest with them? Keep a secret for them? Sometimes, family relationships can become strained or volatile. But once you feel love towards your kin, it never truly dies. A certain dress-maker from Ponyville can attest to that fact, in more than one situation. But when a secret she and her sister tried to hide begins to fall apart, a secret that hides a past so painful it brings tears to her eyes just to think of, will she be able to tell the ponies she loves the truth?

Co-Authors: Ghosttown Brony
Editor: Prophet
Cover art by: Ragethebatfox

EDIT: FEATURED 1/7/14 5:13 PM

* This Story has been rebooted

Sunset Shimmer is a school bully in the making, The Doctor is a intergalactic hero, clearly these two couldn't become companions right? Right?

Co-Writer: Doc Grant, Disavowed Ash

This is the story of "I" a random human with no recollection of my name and stuck in the body of Nightmare moon.

Join me, breaking fandoms, smashing the 4th wall, and rewriting my little pony as you know it. Because of course, there's more than one way to live a Nightmare.

Sometimes your passions are at odds with one another. In some cases, they're so at odds with one another that you need to hide behind a different name just to be yourself. Living two lives is hard, and in the case of Photo Finish and Rainbow Dash, it's about to get harder.

Rated Teen for mild cursing, alcohol, and mild adult themes.

Thanks to my good friend Falkon for edits, MelodicMarzipan for the awesome cover art, and everyone who has pestered me to work on this story since I had the idea back during Season 2

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