Spike feels funny. Not sick or anything. Just... funny. Like his legs want to just move. After spending some time thinking on this, he decides he needs to go for a walk. A really long walk that takes him from Ponyville. With Twilight's hesitant blessing, Spike embarks on an adventure that takes him across Equestria and beyond it's borders. It is on this walk that he learns more about the world, friendship, and courage than he would have thought possible.

Luna has returned to Equestria, but she is as cold and distant as the moon that held her captive. Celestia broods on her throne, regretting mistakes made and prices paid. Twilight Sparkle contemplates betrayal, and as her faith drains away, bitterness takes its place. And in the darkness, a relic of an ancient tragedy watches, his life consumed by greivances that he can neither remember nor forget. Betrayed and betrayers all, four ponies in need of a redemption that only one seeks. Will Honesty be enough to save them? Can one hoof, extended in trust and forgiveness, mend four wounded hearts?

Includes Applejack X Luna and slight Twilight X Celestia shipping.

With thanks to my editors, peppermint-roo.deviantart.com and sosweetntasty.deviantart.com

Written prior to season 2, so severely jossed by canon.

Two-hundred years after the after the fall of NIghtmare Moon, her evil spirit has found a new host and threatens to plunge the whole of Celestia's empire into darkness once again. When Nightmare Moon finds a new source of near-unlimited power rooted deep in the past, Celestia has no choice but to turn to one higher than herself to save her kingdom; one who will set in motion a chain of events that will change the fate of Equestria and that of the world forever.

While he may not know it, Strato Sparkle is the distant relative of Twilight Sparkle: the brave mare who defeated Nightmare Moon the first time. While he thinks he has wandered into the forest to explore, fate has assigned another task for him: to fulfill his legacy and stop Nightmare Moon before she becomes

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**My first fic!** Leave any constructive criticizms on the comment board: I plan on reading every last one of them. Also every chapter is going to contain a reference from the Inheritence Cycle, which is by the way the best book series ever. Shoutouts to everyone who catches them! Message me with answers. Enjoy!