For a thousand years, there was just Celestia. Then Cadance appeared, Luna returned -- and now Twilight has ascended. There are ponies who are very curious about just what happened, why -- and how. Especially the how. Twilight herself is on that list, a freshly-minted princess with far more questions than answers, about to face a brand new one: what truly makes an alicorn?

And what happens if it goes wrong?

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Cover art by Harwick.

Meeting herself was not really something Sunset had ever planned to do. But once she does, she insists that they’re different people. What that leads to is something she was not expecting to enjoy.

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_{Sex tag is only for suggestive jokes and comments. This is not as serious as the title and cover art makes it seem.}

With Halloween upon Canterlot High, Sunset and her friends want to make the best haunted house ever. Luna tells them about the ghost that once haunted the halls of their school, unknowingly sending Sunset on the path to uncover the mystery of the hoofbeat haunting and forcing the girls to try to rid the school of its terrors before it's too late.

Soarin introduces Rainbow Dash to another Wonderbolt tradition: a monthly dinner outing with his best friend in the Royal Guard.

She soon realises that they have an awful lot in common to bond over.

(Rated Teen for some naughty jokes.)

Applejack's tired of Rainbow's antics so she decides to do something about them.

Twilight gets a visit from her future self (again). She's expecting some kind of emergency, and it is. Just not the kind she was anticipating...

Inspired by 1trickpone's comic (which is also the cover image). Written in about an hour.

EDIT: Featured?! Wow! Thank you so much everyone!

A tale from history. A pegasus, broken and injured. Alone in a cave.

A voice in the dark.

I don't know why I'm here...

I don't know how I got here...

I don't want to keep going like this...

But I don't have a choice...

I just don't want to wind up like her...

Preread by: MyLittleGeneration, The Cynical Brony

It's been a while since Twilight stepped foot into Canterlot High, six months in fact. And now that she's back, she's got something that will change Sunset forever.

The girls sit Sunset down because her jokes about dating horses have stopped being funny and have actually become really concerning.

Idea and cover art from my talented friend faith, aka fencingclubshimmer on tumblr.https://fencingclubshimmer.tumblr.com/post/173742593871/small-brain-sunsets-friends-make-horse-jokes-and