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AK Yearling is an award winning author that moonlights as an artifact seeking adventurer and regularly stops a rogues gallery of villains...or is it the other way around?

When an autograph signing accidentally activates one of those artifacts, AK Yearling comes face to face with her greatest challenge: her own creation, Daring Do.

What happens when the real pony meets her ideal self?

A commission from Alexwarlorn. This was really fun to write! Chapter 2 is commissioned and incoming!

Thanks to IFlySNA94 for the preview pic!

My Little Pony Belongs to Hasbro!

(Takes place between Seasons 7 and 8.)

Ahuizotl has gotten fed up with Dr. Caballeron and his repeated failures to defeat Daring Do, especially since Ahuizotl himself is still nursing his wounds from a recent defeat at Daring Do's hooves.

But this time, he's determined to succeed where Caballeron failed, breaking Daring Do's spirit. And he's once again set his sights on the village of Somnambula, where he believes Daring Do will be most vulnerable.

However, Ahuizotl didn't count on Daring Do having help. Now free from limbo, Somnambula has returned to her village, and she'll be darned if some fiend tries to harm it on her watch. Besides, why should Daring Do get to have all the fun?

With Daring Do and Somnambula working together, has Ahuizotl finally met his match?

It all started so simply. An offhoof comment from Strawberry Sunrise, a moment of righteous indignation, an effort to protect her livelihood...

Then Shoeshine ran into an unexpected extra mare in Princess Twilight's castle, and everything went off the rails.

Winner of the Season 9 Bingo Contest.

Cover note: Daring's not tiny; she's just far away.

This story is a sequel to Why Ancient Rituals Don't Always Work

It's been almost eleven months since the event at the Ancient Mareyan Sun Temple. Ahuizota and Derring Do are settling into the life of a family, ready to raise their kid. There's still much for the young couple to learn, and it can only be taught with time.

They just cross fingers and feathers and hope they don't screw it up.

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A/N:
Title name by The Shade

A.K Yearling has an unfortunate case of writer's block, trying to write romance can do that to any mare, luckily Ahuizotl can help with that but not what you might think.

The beautiful cover image was created by: ChaosQueen

A.K. Yearly's epic continuation of Daring Do is coming up. While fans eagerly await the next installment of the series, Yearly's publishers eagerly anticipate the estimated profit.

So what happens when they find out everything was real?

Picture by Austiniousi

Daring Do had been searching for the Winter Pearl, rumored to have incredible power. But, when it is stolen by a new enemy she would have to join forces with her old and bitter enemy, Ahuizotl.

When Rainbow hears about the Daring Do book release date being pushed back, she immediately pays a visit to her favorite writer to find out why. And while she's excited to get to see her again, Daring seems a bit unnerved by her presence.

Just what is she hiding?

Cover art by: Soren-the-Owl on DA

Daring Do's amazing, adventurous life has come to a complete halt. Ahuizotl has seemingly vanished and Daring Do now has nothing to write about. She's been on plenty of adventures, so she could probably just make one up, but she has other things on her mind. Like the last adventure she went on, for example. That was the last time she or anypony else had seen Ahuizotl, and for some reason it bothers her.

Fed up with sitting around and doing nothing, she sets out to find Ahuizotl herself. As she heads through the remote jungles looking for him, she starts to wonder if she's doing this for her fans or for herself. What she may find, however, is something nopony could have predicted.

What am I doing here?

That’s the only thing Ahuizotl could think of as he stepped into the Daring Do convention.

Edited by Vivid Syntax