In Blueblood Returns, the prince's nefarious scheme was undermined, he was disgraced, and the heroes prevailed. However, has he truly been punished enough? What drives a pony to be such an egotistical villain? Blueblood's Redemption explores events a week later, from Prince Blueblood's perspective, as he finds himself swept up in an adventure involving a certain mare magician.

For the sequel, see The Blueblood Conspiracy.

After becoming an alicorn, Twilight heads to the Canterlot Library for information about what she has become. What she finds is a confusing pile of myths and contradictions. To get her answers she will have to hear the truth from Luna and Celestia themselves.

It is three months after the Royal Wedding, and normalcy has returned to Equestria... for the most part. Pinkie is the same old Pinkie, Rainbow Dash is still addicted to the Wonderbolts, Rarity is still trying to learn Prench... but for Twilight, things are not the same. Ever since the Wedding, she's noticed an almost unnoticeable distance from her friends and from Celestia. This alone would be enough to bother her, but to make matters worse, she has been tormented by a dream that she cannot remember and physically cannot rest for fear of.

The tension is building, and something is bound to snap. If you've felt death and loneliness... what would you do to keep your loved ones from suffering the same fate?

Hello, this is your author speaking.
I know you're anxious to get to reading the story with the cryptic description would just like to point out a couple things before you get reading.

First of all, this is my first MLP fanfic, and it is set as an AU beginning just after the S2 finale, so I would appreciate constructive criticism. Not flaming or silent downvotes; give me criticism!
Secondly, it is important to understand that the AU tag seen above possesses two meanings. Not only is it an AU in the literal sense as it utilizes my own expansive worldcanon (dubbed Nidus) but in addition to that, it is an AU in that it does not accept the events of season three as canon. This is due to it chronologically beginning only 3 months after season two. The events of season three may appear, but they will likely be warped.
Lastly, I need to point out that I will probably be editing the tags and characters as this story goes. This being my first story, I'll need time to get a handle on the nuances of the submission system.
Thirdly, Please tell me if any of the fonts I use in the story go wrong. There are bound to be a few errors even with my prereading, so if you find them do say something.
Finally, I'd like to thank RoseyTail for her permission to use this marvelous image as my cover.

Thank you, and enjoy the story of Dark Horizons.

Based on a non appearing character to the real My little Pony TV series.
Writing Glory is another unknown Alicorn that bears no genectic or blood relation to the Celestial sisters. she was exsiled from Alicorn-Hala for an outrage she can't remember. she was then enslaved by the imfamous flying Serpent, Sting-Ra, and his personal platoon of Cy-bats (like one-eyed Bat monsters) who wants her to complete his dark evil plan. but, Writing Glory escapes, but comes to ponyville a weak mare, but saved by the Celestial Sisters from death. Will Celestia and Luna welcome this troubled Alicorn into their family, help her ajust to a new life, find love, and defeat Sting-Ra as well, or is it gonna end very bad for Writing Glory?
I released this story back when i hopelessly waited for someone to granted me a title idea (which never came) till i desided i was on my own.
image by johnjoseco. (again, i can't stop using his/her images for some reason. but i am desent enough to give what credit is due.)

What if two mares of great magic had been born in each other's towns?
Twilight Sparkle in Hoofington, and The Great and Powerful Trixie in Canterlot?
Would that change their destiny?

Brought up in the rich and high-class city of Canterlot, Trixie had all life could offer. When her magic began to blossom, her parents did everything they could to make sure she got into Celestia's Private School for Gifted Unicorns. Out of sheer pride, Trixie knew she had to pass that entrance exam and make her parents proud.
Unlike the test of the Dragon Egg that is posed to students who have already been accepted into the school, the test posed to Trixie was to lift a Phoenix feather a foot into the air. This test is actually much more difficult than it sounds, as it requires perfect control and power to lift such a magical item.
After struggling with the feather for almost an hour, Trixie was about to give up when a crashing boom ricocheted across the sky, and startled her into awaking power she didn't know she had, causing her to not only lift the feather far into the air, but also imbue it with life and create a newborn phoenix. As the instructors dived for cover from the brilliant blue flames that were beginning to surge, a red phoenix could be seen winging off towards the Solar Tower.
Before any lasting damage could be done, Celestia arrives to calm the awoken magic, and take the young filly under her wing as her personal student.

So it seems that destiny has indeed changed... But will the change of two fillies' paths change the path of a black Alicorn's as well?

Throughout all of history, one concept has kept both the written and spoken word from becoming an unintelligible mess. That concept is that most holy of grounds known by some as "grammar." It sets down rules for language to follow, and keeps it free of distortion.

Yet something is wrong. The rules are failing. And only one pony so much as suspects that something is wrong. Something that goes deeper than a simple appearance of errors. Something that could be an attack on the very root of language itself.

"Whoever holds the pen, writes the books."

Truer words have never been spoken. No matter what happens, words will always be used to describe the event.

They are in spells. In the air. The seas. They are everywhere.

Should one master the art of words, they can alter the universe itself.

(Despite being a tag.. Human actually has little to with the actual story.)

After being defeated by Nightmare Moon, Twilight is transformed into a puppet of darkness called Lunar Eclipse. But when she starts to have flashbacks of a certain baby dragon, she realizes that there may still be hope for Equestria.

Will Lunar Eclipse be able to see the error of her ways in time?
Will Twilight survive?
Will Equestria be saved?

Read on to find out!

Credit goes to Giuliabeck for the photo which gave me inspiration for this story.

Link to picture

The sequel to this story 'For Want of Eternal Nightmare' is out and can be accessed quickly via the link. Its a lot longer compared to this and has higher quality writing. It's worth the read, trust me.

There's a strange, powerful attraction between Canterlot Castle's captain of the guard and a certain princess of the night. What will happen when the two give in and lose themselves to the power of lust?

Cover art is a cool piece of fan-art by LA Crow.

Trixie returns to her home town of Hoofington at request of her brother. Her journey through town back towards her old home sparks memories of a time long past.