When a joyful picnic at the beach celebrating Discord's TRUE reform takes a dark turn, The mane six are left with one question in mind, what was Discord's history? What pushed him to conquer Equestria single handedly? Unable to answer it, the ponies go to Celestia and Luna to learn of their friend's traumatizing origins

When a blizzard descended upon the Crystal Empire, everypony felt their fear of the unknown return. Twilight and her friends were instantly on the next train, and found the Crystal Empire almost as if it had never been saved in the first place. Fortunately, the crystal ponies were standing strong against the onslaught, and their city was not in danger.

That did not mean Twilight was not in her own danger, as she walked the short distance to the protected part of the capital.

Discord has trapped Twilight in a vast, seemingly unending library. This library has a copy of every spell checked book that could possibly exist. Twilight's only way out of the library would be to find the book that explains how to escape. But when every single idea, story, possibility, and random book exists, how can she find the one book that can teach her how to leave this unfathomably large library?

This fanfic is a crossover based on the ideas presented in the short story, "The Library of Babel," by Jorge Luis Borges, and influenced by "A Short Stay in Hell" by Steven L. Peck.

The sequel to this story is also sequel to A Place for Pinkie.

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There is a moment in history that most think they know by heart. They think I was overcome by jealousy and rage and lashed out, attacking my sister. They think it was being ignored that pushed me down a dark path of vengeance and power. But there is something that was kept from the stories. Something was erased from history to keep them from finding it and making the same mistake I made.
That something was the Darkness.

NOTE: This does NOT take place in the EMU.

"An interesting look at the part of Equestrian history no one remembers."- theponymaster
Editor: Jarkes

Princess Luna's daughter, Dawn, has one simple wish for her birthday that is anything but simple to grant. She wants to see her father. Problem is, he was banished for 1,000 years and despite her insisting he is not a bad pony and that there is still good in him, she may never get the chance to find out. How can a mother who is also a demi-Goddess and Princess of Equestria bear the weight of refusing her child's deepest, most fervent wish, especially when she was the one who had to destroy him in the first place?

Cover art by Oriana-jua. Thank you for letting me use the beautiful piece of artwork that inspired this story.

This story is a sequel to Lingering Shadows

He broke her heart once already. Luna learned her lesson when Sombra last tried to manipulate her, and she wants nothing more than to forget about what happened and put it behind her.

Sombra cannot forget, nor does he want to. Regretting what happened between them, when the chance to make things up to Luna comes from some very unexpected sources, he takes the opportunity and wants to try to court her properly.

But once bitten, twice shy, as they say. Will the two ever find happiness with one another?

I have to offer a huge thanks once again to everyone who read the previous story, Lingering Shadows, and encouraged me to go ahead with my idea for a sequel. Apologies for the wait, but here you have it at last. I'm going to try to get on a regular update schedule of at least 1-2 chapters a month with this one.

A huge thank-you to Kelisah of deviantART for graciously allowing me use of her artwork as a cover piece for this story!
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Princess Twilight Sparkle has always been quite the student, even before she earned the title of Princess. However, her new responsibilities require some new knowledge; an idea of what Equestria was, what the world was before Order was established and the Princesses came to power. The problem is finding somebody who can teach these things.

If only there was some ancient being who had been through everything, who had been alive before the time of Order, before Princess Luna became Nightmare Moon, before King Sombra ruled over the Crystal Empire. Perhaps someone from the Era of Chaos, when Discord Draconequus had reigned over everything... But where in Canterlot Castle would they ever find somebody like that?

This story is a sequel to Moonlight Palaver

Upon Discord's release, the leaders of other nations must unite to curb the threat he poses.

Easier said than done.

Cover art by anima-dos.

I wasn't always evil. There was a time, long ago, when I was known across Equestria as the Guardian of Harmony. So what changed? Oh, nothing changed, really. The... conditions... were always there. What are these conditions, you ask? Well, for one, I'm unstable. I am also schizophrenic. And I have Dissociative Identity Disorder (Once called Multiple Identity Disorder). It all just... took a long time to reveal itself. And when it did? When I finally snapped? Nothing had ever felt more liberating... or more painful... in my entire life. I began to hurt my loved ones. I began... to kill. I am Discord, and this is my story.

Luna helped Celestia turn Discord to stone before she became Nightmare Moon. It's a fact laid out plain as day. But when Luna got banished to the moon, she found herself alone in a dark void. Well, almost alone. The only other creature? A draconequus named Discord...