After a run in with Somnambula, Scootaloo quickly realises that something is wrong. Enlisting the help of her fellow Crusaders, she knows for sure that they'll be able to help put a real smile back on Somnambula's face.

After all, what's Hearth's Warming season without some friends?

Thanks to Not Enough Coffee for helping proofread.

Luna hasn't been a princess for long. She managed to wrangle the moon, find herself coronated, and now she finds herself able to visit ponies in their dreams, something which she learns to share.

An entry into the Pillars Shipping Contest.

Thank you to Silver Mint and Sunlight Rays for proofreading and editing and for dealing with my neurotic ramblings

Cover art is edited. Original is The Milky Way over Mt Rainier by Michael Matti by Michael Matti is licensed with CC BY-NC 2.0.

It's the big wedding between Princess Twilight Sparkle and future Prince Flash Sentry, and everyone in Equestria is excited. Captain Flash Magnus of the Royal Guard is very happy to see his decedent marrying the girl of his dreams, but he cannot wish that he was in his place. Long ago, Flash Magnus had fallen in love with Somnambula, but discovered she loved another and kept his feelings a secret. With the wedding almost here, Magnus wonders if there is a second chance for them and soon finds out his answer upon meeing Somnambula the evening before the wedding.

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Daring Do writes fictional stories about the hero she wants to be. She wishes she had the courage to confront villains and curses but the truth is she’s spent her whole life running from both. She studies heroes of the past so she can try to be like them, but when she discovers the phylactery of Queen Somnambula she learns she’s not the only one to fictionalize history and that some heroes are better left unmet.

All of my stories share a common cannon that splits after season 2. The official stories of The Pillars of Equestria exist but the reality is much different.

This is one of the 50 or so stories that has been kicking around on my hard drive for a while. I had to curtail it significantly to meet the word count of the Pillars Shipping contest and will add a few chapters once the contest is over. This expands greatly, and makes some minor retcons to Hunter and Prey.

Once again, my deepest thanks go to Awalex for providing the artwork. Check out his page for some amazing stuff.

This story is a sequel to Secondo

Over a thousand years ago, a great crime was committed, and three innocent souls, acting only by the rules of nature, were locked away. Until recently.

Recently freed from their ancient prison due to the growing strife among seaponies and hippogriffs, the sirens emerged from the waters. Though a resistance quickly arose to oppose their new musical rule, they too were eventually swept aside and drowned out by the song that ruled all.

Hippogriffia was theirs, and their victory tasted sweet, but they all knew these were baby steps. There was a long road ahead of them. A treacherous path filled with dangers and revelations, one that would challenge everything they once knew and held dear, sometimes turning expectations on their head.

Zebrica, the ancient home of the Zebras and more lay just beyond the Seaquestrian channel and, with it, a land of mystery, opportunity, challenges, and surprise. A new, modern world is rising, one which strikes at the very type of magic with which the sirens have so long claimed supremacy over others. It is time, now, to weather this great current and let their song stay true throughout it, to let it be heard far and wide, through the trenches and cities, over the boom of artillery and the roar of airplanes.

The shores of Zebrica await, and the show must begin.

This story is a sequel to Secondo. Reading it is advised but not ultimately necessary. The description above (and the first chapter) give a sufficient enough description of what happened in the prequel.

Similarly as the prequel, this story is set in the Equestria at War alternate universe.

And life would pour down like water to a well, attempting to drown out their love. For Meadowbrook, she could either stay afloat or drown.

This story was written as part of a gift exchange by reviewers from Nailah’s Review Group, as a gift for AppleZombi! Hope you like it!

Edited by Wishcometrue!

This story is a sequel to Impossible Numbers' Flashfic Anthology, Volume One

Twinkleshine simply wants to bask in the untarnished glory of the heavens with her best friend Minuette. Is that too much to ask!?

Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy
Prompt: "A Lovely Night, Ruined"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/349811/closed-flashfic-150-february-2018-a-lovely-night-ruined#comment/6309117

Despite being sisters, Dinky and Amethyst are as different as rocks and hearts. One must live as her own mare and not as a patronized child; the other just stifles her. But what will Dinky learn once she leaves home for her own life?

Genres: Drama, Bittersweet
Prompt: "What You Leave Behind"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/352754/closed-flashfic-150-march-2018-what-you-leave-behind#comment/6339368
N.B. Since the original version received substantial criticism, this version has been updated accordingly, to meet that criticism without fundamentally changing the spirit of the original text.

From humble beginnings, Lyra Heartstrings just wants to make her parents proud when she finally makes it to Canterlot.

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life
Prompt: "Waiting Time"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/308613/flashfic-150-open-practice-thread-prompt-waiting-time#comment/6365448

Minuette takes part in the Advanced Chronology course. Twinkleshine takes a moment to find out what that entails, and soon regrets it.

Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Prompt: "No Time Like the Present"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/355571/closed-flashfic-150-april-2018-no-time-like-the-present#comment/6380855

Somnambula longs for the grand gardens of her forsaken past. So, against all common sense, she hires the Flower Trio to make a new one.

Genre: Comedy
Prompt: "Kindness and a Garden"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/359312/closed-flashfic-150-may-2018-kindness-and-a-garden#comment/6418894
N.B. Similar to Outclassed above, this entry has been edited in order to meet the criticisms of the original.

Twilight wants Applejack and Fluttershy to tell her honestly what they think of her latest friendship-teaching tool.

Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy
Prompt: "Now We're Friends"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/363089/closed-flashfic-150-june-2018-now-were-friends#comment/6466140

When Dinky recruits a living Pillar of Friendship for her history project, Somnambula is asked to relate what life a thousand years ago was like.

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Prompt: "What were you thinking?"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/365346/flashfic-150-july-2018-what-were-you-thinking#comment/6494074

After the element bearers managed to free the Pillars from limbo, all they had to do now was find Stygian, and all would be right. The problem is that they do not know where their former friend was hiding or if he was alive. Starswirl hadn’t seen his former friend since he banished the other Pillars, so with nothing to go on, the element bearers and the Pillars ventured into the far reaches of Equestria, hoping to help their friend.

Based on the idea ALoneWolf had in his take on my own story of Dictators Of Ponyville.—Side Chapter: Dreams

The cover art is from Shido-Tara on Deviantart.

Daring Do, after she saves the town of Somnambula is greeted by the ghost of the town's namesake. Somnambula thanks her for her great services to her town and gives her a crown and necklace of shimmering Glopaz.

Before the Elements of Harmony, before the Royal sisters, before the Pillars of magic, Somnambula was just a beekeeper's daughter. A Simple girl who would be courted by a prince, loved by a mare of rare beauty, save her kingdom from war and eventually defy a god. There are many stories about Somnambula, many lost to time, but this will be the first time her whole story is told in her own words.