King Sombra survives his supposed destruction by the Crystal Heart. However he is thrown far away in the process, left in what seems to be a frozen wasteland.
Defeated, humiliated and barely even alive, Sombra must rebuild himself from the ashes, and find a new home.
How will Sombra live? Will he be able to accept his failure and defeat?
And what does a former monarch do when he has lost everything he fought for?
And why does the world just not want to leave him alone?

Story Notes:
The sex and gore tag is not because that is the main focus of the story, it is simply a warning that if you want a story with absolutely NO sexual refferences, or gore at any time, then you most likely didn't make a good choice of picking a story about a unicorn who was known to have slaves.
And Dark tag is not due to everything being dark or depressing, but that its some dark subjects that is going to be brought up.
I wanted to put comedy, but the sad is just balanced out, and I wanted to put Slice of life, but really, its more of an adventure for Sombra.

Any comments are appreciated.

Cover art by my amazing friend 50-Shades-Of-Faye

While Princess Luna is away celebrating Nightmare Night in Ponyville, Celestia tries on a strange black bauble from her sister's jewelry box. The result will be the creation of the most terrifying thing Equestria has ever seen. The Sun herself turns against all the ponies in Canterlot. Can Luna and her Lunar Stallions possibly hope to stop her? And if so, does Luna have the fortitude to strike down her sister in the end?

FEATURED May 16th 2012!

This story is a sequel to Boast Bypassed

Manehatten is an impressive town, and the center of Equestria's theatre scene. Everyday, dozens of productions both on and off the famous Broadhoof Street. And when the human turned unicorn known as Skitch-Sketch is offered work in the city, she brings her friends Rarity and Pinkie Pie along for the ride. But not everything is as it seems. Now tricked into directing one of the worst plays ever, Skitch-Sketch will have to scramble to try and salvage it.

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie has met one of her foal hood comedy idols! But with his career in a ditch and depression setting in, it'll take every trick in the Element of Laughter's bag of tricks to help him turn it around. Finally, Rarity has some personal business to discuss with her father. Personal business that drills straight to the heart of her life.

Cover Art By NekoKevin

Queen Chrysalis sees an opportunity to break up the Elements of Harmony before they spoil another one of her brilliant plans to rule all of Equestria. Since all of them are unmarried mares, all she needs to do is get them fighting over a stallion. And if one stallion isn't enough, she sends one male changeling for each of them, plus a spare.

Too bad she didn't think this one through first.

Editors: Tek, Peter

Vector credits: Wiki, Bocchinocullen (sign), Ackdari (changeling)

Does King Sombra like rock crystal candy? What happens when a lonely lumberjack finds an amnesiac villain on her doorstep during a snowstorm? Will the power of friendship overcome Sombra's desire for revenge? Read on to find the answers to all these questions and more.

Written for the Everfree Northwest 2014 pre-con writing contest.

As featured on Equestria Daily.

Princess Skyla, Daughter of Cadance and Shining Armor, recounts a day in her foalhood when she met the imprisoned soul of Sombra. She argues with the ex-tyrant, believing that her parents are perfect in every way, especially her Father. Sombra says otherwise...

Art -- http://dragonwolfrooke.deviantart.com/

When a familiar presence enters the free Crystal Empire, the scattered remains of King Sombra begin to take shape once more...

Shining Armour is prince of the Crystal Empire by virtue of matrimony with Princess Cadence. But is he really fit for the royal authority bestowed upon him, or is he just one of those lucky stallions who has the perks of marrying an alicorn princess?

Sombra returns to the Crystal Empire unexpectedly and retakes it, by weakening the will of the young unicorn prince and banishing him to the Frozen North, leaving his beloved Cadence and the Empire at the mercy of the dark king. Shining Armor now has to fight the king to regain his throne to the Empire and to prove to himself that the throne of the Crystal Empire is rightfully his.

rewrote the first chapters because I felt like it could improve more.

Collected here are the interviews and impressions of Jade Ring as he sought out the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony to gather their recollections of the day that Princess Luna rose to power.

Originally written in script format, I've restructured the story into a narrative that I hope still captures the essence of my original work. Additionally, new details have been added revealing the ultimate fate of certain charcters. I hope my readers will enjoy this revised look at one of my personal favorite works.

Would you rather die, or become a slave to darkness?

NB: This is a continuation of a comic dub I found on youtube. You can find the link here and there. You MUST watch it before reading this, otherwise it won't make any sense haha. Also, I'm yet to come up with a decent description of this so it may change at some point, as will the tags.
This takes place in the same universe as the IDW Comics that featured Rarity turning into Nightmare Rarity.
Dialogue sentences that appear in italic is the conglomerated voice that gets mentioned, so don't get it confused with normal dialogue or words that appear in italic in the middle of other sentences.