As Chrysalis holds her wife one night, Twilight just can't seem to doze off. The semi-newlyweds have cuddled their way into dreams many times but tonight, Twilight finds herself unable to rest. The alicorn dwells on a mare who held her like this before, when she was only a filly, chasing away the nightmares when her parents weren't around. She can still remember her sweet, sad singing- but what was that tune again...?

We are all familiar with the story of the Canterlot Wedding, where the queen of the changelings foalnaps and impersonates Princess Cadance during her wedding as a ploy to invade the city with her army. Yet there is another Equestria out there where the roles of the impersonated and the impersonator are a little different.

We enter at the wedding ceremony; the nobles, the friends and family, the bride and groom have gathered, but the best mare hasn't been seen since her outburst at the rehearsal...

After returning from the wedding in Canterlot, Fluttershy finds an unexpected house guest waiting for her.

After crashing next to a cottage in Ponyville, Chrysalis is determined to return to her hive. If only that element bearer wasn't a master of forces beyond her control.

Or had a lamp.

Entry for the May Pairings 2022 Contest.

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Cozy Glow, for her treason against the crown, thought she would be sent to Tartarus. To her misfortune, the Royal Guard aren't letting her off that easily. There is something out there that scares her even more than Equestria's worst prison.

Her mom waiting for her back home.

Fluttershy lives a peaceful life with her geese, taking them every night to graze in the meadows above the palace, hurrying home before the forbidden sun rises. She tries not to look at the statues of the fallen princess with her sun cutie mark, broken and half-buried in the undergrowth. She tries not to look at the Midnight Spire as it rises before her, dark and terrible.

Trigger Warning: and please take these seriously, as this story gets dark - blood, injury, violence, elements of abusive relationships, and even some slight suggestions of non-consent. These aren't used gratuitously and are treated with the appropriate horror by the main character. Please do not read if any of this will be triggering to you. This is an exploration of what the Nightmare Moon AU would be like for poor Fluttershy, and is correspondingly dark.

This story is the first of four. The second is The Sorcerer and the Seneschal, with the others coming soon.

This was originally written as a christmas present for Zontan and if you like the tone of it I suggest you read his Shadow Within.

This story takes place after the episode "Do princesses dream of magic sheep?"

Big Macintosh lies deep within the dream realm, where he repeatedly has dreams of being an alicorn princess. Each one has a variation of how becomes one, or sometimes it seems he always was an alicorn? But Princess Luna then comes to the rescue and helps guide him through these dreams giving him advice and pushing him forward to return to the waking world.

Cover Artist: Pridark

the baby dragons Fluttershy helped hatch have become strangely attached to her. they surround her and refuse to leave her side. they don't listen to their mothers and every time Fluttershy tries to leave they screech. they cried so much Ember BEGGED Fluttershy to stay until she could fix the baby's strange attachment. but what happens when the dragons continue to attach to the yellow pony

And a dark evil is in the shadows.

Fluttershy and Rainbow dash love each other as sisters. What if they were sisters?

Arachnid. Perhaps the most feared name in all of Equestria. An assassin of renowned infamy, Arachnid never failed to complete a contract killing. Anyone or anything unfortunate enough to become his target would be dead before the next sunrise, with proof of his success in hoof. Be it the severed ear of a haughty noble, or the freshly skinned flank of some wannabe criminal, Arachnid always delivered.

He was the stallion who made ponies fear to tread the streets at night, and even made Princess Celestia wary of the shadows. But at the height of his career, he vanished off the face of the planet. Never to be heard from ever again. Some speculated that he cashed out when the going was good and retired to live a long and happy life. Others say he went on to bigger and better things whilst hiding completely in plain sight.

While these explanation seem plausible, none mention even once about the legacy that he left behind. A legacy that he bestowed to his only kin and heir to his name. His daughter, Fluttershy.

One shot, not sure if I'm gonna expand on this

On the Day of the Dying Sun, she performed Astrum Nova. From then on, that world ceased to exist.

Twilight Sparkle, daughter of the highly exalted Captain Night Light, was (to put it lightly) hilariously underwhelming. The only reason why she was one of Princess Celestia's students? Because a place as a personal student of the princess was a reward for the captain. Other than that, she was a scrawny unicorn with no actual magical talent, other than the whole bunch of magical theories crammed into her head. To make it worse, Sunset Shimmer, greatest unicorn the world has ever seen, was her only classmate. But Celestia has entrusted her with a journal, and the knowledge of the Elements of Harmony and the harmonic energy field they radiate, keeping Equestria safe from harm for eons. As a sinister plan for a coup emerges in Canterlot, Twilight must find and gather the Elements and their bearers. But how is this possible, in a world where castes and tribes separate true friendship? In this story, Twilight must discover new friends as she uncovers dark truths and questions about the events leading up to the present-day Equestria. Who was Starlight Glimmer? What was Astrum Nova? And most importantly, how is it possible that the journal was written by another (and for some reason, winged) Twilight?

***FEATURED 25/5/2016***
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