Stygian, still haunted by his past, looks deep inside himself to find out exactly what led him to become the Pony of Shadows. If friendship really is magic, how is it that his friends couldn't have saved him without Twilight and her friends intervening? How did his inner darkness convince him to turn evil? Was he really so wrong in what he did if there is no light without darkness? This origin story provides all these questions with an answer.

Cover art is an edit of P2P: The Pillars by SambaNeko.

https://www.deviantart.com/sambaneko/art/P2P-The-Pillars-796228634

A princess interning as a beautician, a thousand year old author and a dendrologist go cave-diving in the Dragonlands to rescue a Pie from dogs.

For love.

Written for the Season 10 Bingo contest, where it took Judge's Choice from Sky Serenade!

Featured 2/11/2020!

Reviewed by PaulAsaran, with a rating of Pretty Good!.

Unsettling tales tell of a gilded pastry box that holds more than mere sweets. Legends whisper that it is, instead, a gateway to unnameable vistas of culinary experience—and that it wishes to be opened by a pony of comparable desire. What will become of Equestria’s blood sugar when a pony of means and passion comes to possess it?

Created for: The Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest

Special Thanks to CoffeeMinion for his editing prowess.

The Cover Art is a compilation created by CoffeeMinion.

Original images are from:
https://www.deviantart.com/sol-r/art/Sad-Pony-Emoji-676492582
And
https://www.deviantart.com/artist064/art/Lament-Configuration-06-129832435

This story is a sequel to The Odyssey of Sunlight Blaze--Rise of a hero Vol.2: The adventure truly begins.

Two weeks had passed since Moonlight had been defeated. Chrysalis passed this time to learn more about her new friends. Each of them were back to their normal lives, except for Sunlight, who left the city to explore the world and see what it have to offer. But soon, Moonlight come back from his recovery, ready to take his revenge on Sunlight and the others. Only this, time, he decide to find allies and start recruiting the human counterparts of well known villains from Equestria. Will our heroes be able to face this new danger? Who will win this clash? Only one way to be sure.

Princess Twilight Sparkle, Principal Starlight Glimmer, I hereby send this letter to formally request a meeting, in private if possible. There is something important I have share, urgently. Signed, Starswirl the Bearded.

Warning: Romance-driven story written by someone who has never personally experienced romantic love, only stories about it both fictional and not. Not that I mind, but I'm just putting this out, in case this might come off as, eh, stiff, or something, though I hope it won't be.

Written for the M/M shipping contest.

also fun fact no-one asked for, this was originally inspired by the Pillars fic contest, but I kinda forgot about that entirely until it was way too late to even start so here it is now I guess woo

This story is a sequel to Legends of Equestria: The Long Road Back

Hello. It's nice of you to stop by on this quiet night. I imagine you're here to hear my story.

Well, my name is Stygian, and I was there during the Great Calamity all those years ago.

But I wasn't always a bard and a musician, telling heroic tales and travelling all the time.

I wasn't always a pony...

A side story in the Legends of Equestria timeline. Reading the other stories in the series is recommended in order to understand what is going on; https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215129/legends-of-equestria

Long ago, in ages gone by, I was once the daughter of Equestria’s most potent magic wielder, the mighty Star Swirl.

But an ancient evil known as Stygian returned to the world, tearing my family and land from me.

For years, I trained my mind, body, and faith in Celestia’s holy magic, and when I was of age, I became the wielder of my father’s sword.

I alone stood against the darkness, fighting to free the world from his cold, shadowy grasp. Alas, before I could lay the death blow, he cast me through a mystic portal to the future, where his rule is absolute.

To save our world’s future, I must find a way into the past to finish what I started long ago and undo this nightmare.

((A Samurai Jack/MLP fusion with hopefully some unique flavors))

This story is a sequel to Name Rater

Name Rater used to be an old hermit living in the middle of nowhere, busy being totally miserable. Then the CMC happened, and he wound up as a handsome prince leading a reasonably happy life in Ponyville. Obviously, there were multiple intervening steps. Still, in the shenanigans capital of Equestria, he found that many days were far too hectic for his liking, regardless of anything he could do about it. Naturally, he's gotten plenty of practice expecting the unexpected, even in the most sacred of seasons. But Aurora, Bori, and Alice showing up? Only they could have predicted that.

This story is a sequel to The Odyssey of Sunlight Blaze--Rise of a hero volume 3: Rise of the Shadows.

As Sunlight was peacefully enjoying a well deserved rest by a sunny afternoon. Until Sunset proposed him to go visit Equestria, as she wanted to have new of her pony friends. Not wanting to let Chrysalis alone, they decide to bring her with them in Equestria. But as Sunset meet Sunlight's adoptive parent, she suddenly got the need to learn the truth about her and her brother true parents. This will bring both of them on a long adventure across Equestria, during which they will uncover little by little who were their parents and a lot about their own origins. Meanwhile, Moonlight Frost is wandering around the world, looking for new allies to recruit for his team. And at C.H.S, our 6 intrepid ass kicking girls receive the visit of someone they would never have expected.

What kind of problems will Sunset and Sunlight encounter in their quest for their parents? Who will join Moonlight's villain alliance? Who is that unexpected visitor the girls will meet? Read to have the answers.

Often it is that two ponies will meet and discover an affinity for each other, deciding to spend more and more time together. Time brings familiarity, familiarity brings comfort, and comfort brings happiness.

Two such ponies are Stygian and Sunburst. Following Stygian’s return and subsequent reformation (in which Sunburst played a key role), the two found themselves drawn to one another. Long talks in the library, comparing Sunburst’s knowledge of historical events to Stygian’s memory of the same events, there was a little something that they seemed to enjoy about eachother. After one particularly awkward night, Stygian popped the question, one thing led to another, and now they’ve been officially dating for a good three months.

Today, they’ve gone out to a cafe together. Maybe later they’ll take a look in a used bookstore. Who can say what will happen, until it indeed happens?

A Sunbust X Stygian ship fic.

A mirror is available at Offprint: https://offprint.net/prose/SidemtuF0ETu5OXF8rgGm/two-nerds-walk-into-a-bookstore

Pre-read by the lovely Bicyclette