A lone Hunter and her companion stood in the smoldering walls of a fortress, a wasteland of death and destruction overtaking the once lush and vibrant land now bathed in crimson skies. A monster revived to revel in devoured flesh and crushed bone, to make blood run dry. For its fire to burn through metal and blacken the lands, boiling their rivers. Fate has awakened.

This story is a sequel to Legends of Equestria: Fire and Faith

Tom cannot catch a break. No sooner is he back from one adventure, then fate has changed him into one of Equestria's greatest war heroes. Thrust into battle against an ancient enemy, does he have what it takes to fight to the death in the hardest struggle he is yet to face?

Part of the Legends of Equestria continuity. Reading the other stories in the series first is strongly recommended, but at a bare minimum, you must have read Sands of Time in order to understand what is going on;

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/433091/legends-of-equestria-the-sands-of-time

It started simple enough for Twilight Sparkle. Classes at night in Canterlot Univeristy ending, and heading back to home. Unfortunately for her, her cars breaks down in the middle of the woods. From bad to worse, a monster appears, and gives chase to our purple haired gal...

Bloodhound isn't exactly the most imposing pony. She's scrawny, asthmatic, frail, and socially awkward. The only things she really has going for her are a semi-big brain and a nose like her namesake.

When the tragic death of a close family member happens directly in front of her, Bloodhound stumbles onto a shocking fact: It might have been murder.

But that kind of thing just doesn't happen in Equestria.

With only her personal trainer and an eccentric bureaucrat actually believing her theory, Bloodhound struggles to prove that a cunning killer is on the loose.

This is a work that is non-canon to the original Cheerilee's Garden. Please support the official story.

We all know the story.

Once upon a time, a schoolteacher became a serial child killer, and Twilight, while ripping her to shreds, inadvertently got painted the killer in a murder case.

When even her mentor had given up faith, Twilight threw herself from the roof, and thus began the rise of the Solar Empire...

...but what if Twilight, by some interference, had snuck her way to the mirror?

Escaped from an undeserved noose, Twilight Sparkle attempts to piece her life, traumatized by Cheerilee's torture and Equestria's lack of faith in her, back together, with the help of one last pillar of hope.

Sunset Shimmer, jarred from her corrupt ambition by the untimely arrival of a new girl wearing the Element of Magic who she suspects is Equestrian, almost handing it to her on a platter, finds herself learning the true magic of friendship and leaning away from her old plans as she attempts to help Twilight through her attempts to make a new life, away from a world that blames her for the deaths of its people.

But then again, some things never stop haunting us.

I know, this is a jarring paradigm shift.

But I read this story, and while I want somepony to write a story where Celestia goes Daybreaker and makes everypony pay, I want Twilight to find her peace.

Hence, I want to try to give Twilight a true caring shoulder to lean on (and redeem Sunset in the process.)

As for how an exhausted and depleted Twilight escapes jail and somehow stumbles on the mirror in that rare three-day window?

Let's just say that certain forces have conspired to facilitate Twilight's escape.

Oh, I wish Flash wasn't dying... so the stealth sequence would have some interactivity.

I would try to wean you off the dark side, but honestly, I had certain plans.

Gore tag for nightmares. Not quite sure if I want to ship in this one, but right now, I think a Dark Thriller fits perfectly. And no, I don't want Twilight to face the human counterparts.

Hmm... will I have the Bio-Ether scenario in this? Time will tell.

Long ago, there was a unicorn filly who made paintings with her magic that were said to be life like. However, she lived with two parents who were always fighting and abusing each other much to her sorrow. One day, she made a painting of a scary figure she had seen in her dreams. She put the painting up in her special room, but the next day the family was never seen again.

Hundreds of years later, Scootaloo visits their old abandoned house and sees the painting for herself.

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Stone Heart's 4th appearance.

In this Nightmare Night Special, Stone Heart is a struggling writer, as usual, and still being constantly harassed and picked on by bigoted ponies, but this time he has a little trick to get back at them all, and he strikes where they cannot possibly defend themselves...

...In Their Dreams!

LESSONS:

1: You cannot force your opinions on someone and badger them to comply with YOUR WAY of thinking and living

2: Just because someone is different than you, does not give you the right to treat them different

A visit to Fluttershy's home on Halloween night might not be a good idea. However...it's up to you, Anon, to help Fluttershy realize that there's nothing to be afraid of, and to show her how fun Halloween can be instead.

Fluttershy has been known for being shy over the years. As well as meek, kind, docile, etc etc. But what if she got some help from an unknown source...

Twilight, asked by Princess Luna herself, was tasked to lead an expedition to a recently uncovered monument thought lost to Equestrian History: A castle in the north that was thought to be Sombra’s original home before his reign over the Crystal Empire. Twilight, together with the help of A.K. Yearling to assist her and a team of archeologists, they seek onward to uncover the castle’s secrets.

However, some shadows should be left alone, and the secrets within left unseen...