Based on the comic Equestria Girls Holiday Speical and will contain spoliers for it.
Warnings: Spoliers, dark thoughts, and attempted suicide. Read at your own risk!!!

For the first time since coming to this world, Sunset was to have a happy holiday spending time with her friends. That isn't to be though as a new blog by an, "Anon-A-Miss" turns the whole school against Sunset, including her friends. After the truth is revealed though, Sunset isn't really offered any apologies by anyone other than the real person, or people behind the blog; Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle. Leaving Sugarcube Corner while everyone is talking about what had happened. As memories of the past week plauges her mind, Sunset decides to just give up since all of her hard work trying to prove that she had changed was for nothing if everyone could so easily be turned against her. Will the girls save her and prove that they love her, or will it be too late?

This story is a sequel to Hope and Fear: Sunset Past

You should probably, you know, read the first story first. It might be a good idea.

Princess Celestia saw Alan get turned to dust in the caves under Canterlot. She saw her former student Sunset Shimmer run through the magic mirror just before it closed. She now knows the possible danger Equestria is in. She found six bearers of the Elements of Harmony to help protect the land. The six helped save Equestria many times. But now, their biggest challenge is coming, and they're going to need all the help they can get. The mirror to other worlds is reopening, and nopony knows what's going to walk through.

What dangers will show themselves, and what secrets will finally be revealed?

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**In the process of cleaning up/reworking**

Princess Celestia is worried about Sunset Shimmer. Her student seems to be slipping away from her.

Sunset doesn't understand why her mentor has given the task to learn about the Magic of Friendship. All she wants to do is learn about magic, and move onto higher level spells.

Princess Celestia is willing to do just about anything to keep Sunset Shimmer from giving up on her lessons, including telling her a secret she's kept for over 1000 years. But when the secret gets out, how will it affect Sunset, and how will it effect all of Equestria?

And when you're done with this story, and you liked it, you should pop on over and read the sequel. It's right over here!

The Element of Magic is lost, the portal to Equestria is closed, and Sunset Shimmer is staring down 30 more moons in the human world with despair. But from the ruins of her plans comes hope in the form of Star Swirl the Bearded, a ghostly guide left behind by the Elements of Harmony. Can Sunset Shimmer learn from her failures and earn the friendship of a few friends? Or will the demon one day come back? Who is Sunset Shimmer now?

Fills in the gap from Equestria Girls to Rainbow Rocks, diverging slightly from continuity to tell a more complete story, slowly building Sunset Shimmer back up as a character worthy of having the HuMane 6 as her friends.

Planned to continue on to fill the gaps to the Friendship Games, but that is still TBD.

*** SIGNIFICANT RE-WRITE: Yes, I completely removed the first Arc of the story and integrated parts of it into the second. This has, in my opinion, significantly improved the focus of the tale and creates a more complete story. I apologize for making such a drastic change, but as I continued to edit and re-edit it, I kept coming back to the idea that the first Arc simply wasn't contributing anything exciting to the story.

Sunset Shimmer was redeemed, and together with her friends they summoned the power of the rainbow to defeat the sirens, friendships that if she were still a pony would last forever. But high school ends, people go to college….and one does not become a direct conduit for the magic of The Rainbow without being forever changed.

Now Sunset returns home and discovers she has changed far more than the world she once left behind has.

Nobody has seen the Sirens since the Battle of the Bands, and nearly everyone is fine with that. Months later, Sunset Shimmer feels her entire life is going better then it ever was since the Fall Formal. She has her best friends, the school no longer hates her, and it's summer vacation.

One night on her way back home from band practice, she finds the three powerless Sirens who are now homeless. Deciding to be a nice person, she takes them in, but the question becomes how long will they stay? And what will happen to them in the future?

Commissioned by: Dashhole

Edited by The Myth and DBZorDie and InsanityCorps