How did King Sombra take over the Crystal Empire? What were his motivations? How did the princesses defeat him?

This story is a prequel to The Trouble With Unicorns, and is part of the Unicornverse.

This story is a sequel to Fall of Harmony

It is now March. Sunset has been excelling in her studies at Crystal Prep, running top marks in all of her classes and gaining the attention of the Academies Principal. She is going to have to rely on her friends to help with what is about to happen in her life.

This is an alternate take on the Friendship Games, and will incluse some personal changes to the happenings as well as the structure of the Games themselves.

Gore warning for aftermath of self harm as well as later events
Rated Teen for discussion of the aftermaths of self harm

Chrysalis's plan might've failed in Canterlot, but she has a plan B.
To have a changeling/pony hybrid (thanks to a late night with Shining) and use the child's powers for her own doing.
But when a regular earth pony (that almost looks like Shining) spawns with absolutely no changeling features or powers whatsoever, she realizes that, not only will she bring it to the father, since she has no idea how take care of a pony, but that that was her last shot at getting food for her subjects. Her plans at helping her children have failed one too many times now.
Maybe she shouldn't try anymore...Maybe she should just...give up...give up and take this abomination away from her so she can finally end this!
Unless the child and his step parents can change that.

Authors words...yo: As per usual. Editing by Alticron.
and don't worry. This is Chrysie's story here. Not Shining's.

Long ago the world was frozen. The sun and moon frozen in place in place in the sky by the sole ruler of Equestria.

Nightmare Moon.

But that was a very long time ago indeed. Civilisations have risen and fallen and risen again. Equestria faded into myth... then into nothing...bathed in the pale moonlight of its eternal moon.

But on this day a lone figure has trudged across the border. Perhaps the long night is coming to its end.

Written for the Nightmare Moon 2017 Summer Contest

Twilight Sparkle is now a princess, and she has acclimated into her position well. This year, she will experience her first Nightmare Night as a princess, but being a princess means sacrificing free time for hard work.

But tonight is not her best night. On this Nightmare Night, the night where nightmares come true, the past will come back to haunt her.

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This story was originally written to be for the EqD Nightmare Night contest/competition thing. As you can tell, I have missed the date. But I promised that I would release it, and so I am.

Title is thanks to the Great and Powerful ToixStory. The fantastic picture is thanks to this guy and the picture can also be found here.

Ruling all of Equestria for countless years without her friends was hard enough as is but losing Spike was almost too much for the Princess of Friendship to take so an old unlikely friend gives her the chance to go back in time and see her old friends again, but not without a few annoying additions

A new pony has come to Ponyville, a blue-colored pony by the name of Ocean Blue. Though mysterious, he soon finds himself among Twilight and the others, unintentionally becoming a welcome addition to the town. But when Princess Celestia and her sister Luna arrive in response to a letter from Twilight, the mysterious stallion is promptly arrested. The next day, for the first time in over a millennium, a pony will received the death sentence.
Twilight is left stunned and confused. Celestia tells her that Ocean Blue is a villain and must be stopped, but her own experiences don’t add up to what she is told. Can Ocean Blue be trusted? Is he a villain, as Celestia claims, or is Twilight’s own heart telling her the truth?
Equestria’s newest princess faces the hardest choice she has ever made: she can accept Celestia’s word as truth and watch Ocean Blue be killed, or she can risk her crown, her safety, her friends, and the companionship of her oldest teacher… and follow him into the wild.

(Artwork done by the extremely talented Neko-Me of DeviantArt)

A work of moral philosophy.

Have you ever loved someone? I think that love is one of the unifying factors that defines us all, and is really the ultimate satisfaction in life above all else. Hospice details the relationship between an unnamed narrator and Rarity, and how their relationship rises and falls in the wake of choices that they both make. The intention of the story was always to engage with the theme of relationship breakdown; view the story as distinctly metaphorical and make sure to read between the lines.

Rated ***** on Equestria Daily.

Many idolise the imortal princess's of Equestria: Celestia and Luna. However we cannot begin to understand their sadness after thousands of years of life. A quick story, just to tide my readers over until i finnish writing other projects.

In a place as strange as the Everfree Forest, is it really so surprising that its Trees should communicate? They have, after all, been there for a long, long time. Even so, that doesn't mean that nothing ever changes in the woods, or that the Trees have always been that way...

An entry for Mockingbirb's Arboreal Yearnings Contest.

"yo, that is a great fic :D" --PresentPerfect

Cover image: Background: Everfree Forest Clearing by 90Sigma.