Taking that one necessary step forward to begin changing our life for the better requires a lot of courage. We must hold out our hearts and open up to others who will help us, even if we're scared of getting hurt. Life will not wait for us, so we must chase after it with all we've got. No matter how hard, how far, or impossible it may seem. We've got to find our happiness.

This is the story of one such changeling as she takes those first steps forward, her whole world changing right before her eyes.

((Cover art drawn by the fantastic Little Tigress.))

Ebony Dew has a friend that nopony believes is real.

However, she knows in her heart that he exists.

After all, it's his heart in the first place.

An entry for the Science Fiction Contest run by Bicyclette.

To rise against the tyrant. To taste victory. To become what you hated. He had experienced that loop and, given this chance, he would do it right this time. He would turn his suffering people on a better path from its tyrant, Queen Chrysalis.

This story is a sequel to Changing Expectations

When ages are segmented and divided in the annals of history, it is done so with great events as breakpoints. The Second Age of Heroes was unanimously declared to have started with the return of Princess Luna and the changeling Invasion of Canterlot.

For thousands of years, the changelings survived beneath The Great Tapestry, that which connects all living and nonliving things. Hundreds of generations worked endlessly to keep their existence a secret. With one command from Queen Chrysalis, the Masquerade was broken.

In a single night, the changelings waged war against Equestria and took the Kingdom by storm. Months later, the war between changelings and ponies has ended. A new tapestry, a new story, must be woven between the two species. Equestria and the Fifth Hive have gone through a dark chapter and have emerged stronger for it.

One war ends and another begins.

As The Sword of Damocles hangs above the heads of the formerly-human King Phasma and his Equestrian counterparts, the forces of light must work on an ever-shortening window before war once again brings Hell to Equus. Dark powers grow in the places that the light does not reach, and they bring one irrefutable truth.

Epitaph is coming.

Cover art by Nixworld.

Special thanks to my pre-readers!

This story is a sequel to Royal Twilight Inn

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I was offered a chance, to a new life, in a new world; and just as they said, it's a new chance to an entire new world.

Just that this world is indeed new, to me. No Ponies. Though they do indeed have Horses; but Horses are not Ponies, and thus useless to me.

What I find in the form of people, are Humans.

I had been promised an empty building, fit for me to establish a hotel; which is indeed true, it is where I had found myself. I made the basement, the sub-levels into my home where I established my hive. It is comfortable, underground; where any decent hive should be. Out of sight, and out of mind.

Being alone in a strange world is not my thing; so I set off, establishing the hive by laying a few eggs. I am after all the Queen of the Changelings. With my first Changelings, workers ready; I could open business and business is good. Booming, in fact. At least, by my standards.

People enter the lobby, booking suites for a night, a week, a month or til further notice.

My workers tend to them all, serving them anything and everything. The guests tip well, in the currency of a Changeling anyway; since I get all the Love I could possibly consume. And more, and more, and more..

One thing, leading to another; and before I knew it, I had established a school for little girls; a boarding-school, where they can study and learn to be Ponies. Ponies, of this world; not Equestrian Ponies, but I guess I had forgotten all about these by now.

I have everything I need, right here; and I am served, on a silver-platter (as they say). I don't need to lift a hoof, but the love just continue to stream in.

Illustrated by: N/A
Written by: Kentavritsa
Edited by: Kentavritsa
Re-edited by: Kentavritsa
Aproved: Auto
Rating: Teen
Status: Incomplete
Puns: Intended
Prequel: N/A
Sequel: The Gift of a Changeling
Sequel: Mixed Identity

A thestral awakens in the Everfree forest after being subject to a deep dreadful darkness. Once found, our hero discovers the world is under an eternal night sky, and Nightmare Moon queen of the lands has driven a line amongst the various pony tribes. Now a rebellion looms, and politics are thick with corruption and fear. In a world clad in stars, what hope can there be for the ever waiting dawn?

Or will shadow consume shadows and let darkness reign forevermore. It doesn't always take a hero, sometimes it takes something more.

Featured on 10.05.22. What a way to make my day.

I thought that maybe, just maybe, this "Butterfly Cult" would know what happened to my boyfriend, or be responsible for it.

As it turned out, nothing was quite what it seemed. I got in way over my head, but at least I had a Plan B, right?

Title Change very unlikely. Please PM me suggestions. Cover Art is also temporary but is of Lightning Sunrise.
Harry Potter, adopted as Lightning Sunrise, has spent from age 1 to 11 growing up somewhere other than with the Dursleys. How will this change things? Especially given he's a pony-adopted and raised changeling now.

Note: Death and Violence tags are for the opening and sparingly elsewhere.

Woo! Featured on both 2/22/2022 and 2/23/2022 for like 3 minutes each.

This story is a sequel to A Very Batty Hearth's Warming

The small village of Nocturnis is growing, things are peaceful, the magical dome to protect the town is close to completion, the train is once more working to connect to the rest of Equestria and Princess Luna is coming to visit. Things are looking good for Prince Page!

He really should have known better than that.

Cover image by DALL-E AI.

This story is a sequel to Beginning Anew

Prince Mark Wells' interdimensional business with Earth is expanding into new locations, and those require managers with knowledge of the existence of the magical nation of Equestria. Several men and women are selected and introduced to the new world and each must learn how to cope in their own ways with the culture shock.