Richard Emmerson, a retired US cavalryman, and his somehow talking horse, Coal, are transported to Equestria. Their circumstances lead them to adventure all around the land and cause quite a commotion. Join them in their undertaking to find a way back home as they dodge all sorts of obstacles in this seemingly hostile environment.

Author's Update: This story has been placed on hiatus for the time being. I am more focused and have more drive to finish "Put it to Rest" at the present moment. In addition, this was my very first story and contains a lot of nonsensical plot points, weird characters just popping out of nowhere, and plots that I basically glued together with a bunch of Elmer's glue and threw it in. I hate to admit it, but when I started this story, I was in my edgy teen stage and it CLEARLY shows. I'm still trying to figure out where I'm taking this story or if I want to continue it at all. If I end up cancelling it, I will make sure to release what I envisioned ended up happening to Richard in the end. I'll likely rewrite it as well since I think the concept of an old US Cavalryman engaging in Equestrian society is an interesting one, just not well-executed here.

Light. A good thing. The sun, the stars, the moon, shining bright and powerful, lighting the way for life to progress. Good things are often called bright, hope is viewed as the light at the end of the tunnel. Darkness. A bad thing, if not evil, then sinister. Hidden places, nightmares in the dark, monsters lurking where they are hidden. Dark hearts, dark thoughts, evil things. The absence of light. All of this is true.

However, light can burn, or blind. And darkness can save, cloaking you to hide you from enemies. Where roles are reversed, and what was good becomes bad by sheer purity, and what was bad become good due to use. Light and darkness are not good and evil. They might err toward their respective morality, but they are not good and evil.

Equestria was taken by darkness a long time ago. What little light is left is barely enough. But it is a time when not all is right. Not everything is known, or understood. When good and evil blur together, and every action cannot be known to be correct. Can the world be saved? And if so, from what?

The Grand Galloping Gala is awful.

It can banish itself to the nearest heavenly body willing to put up with it, for all Celestia cares.

That doesn't change that fact that she has to be there, as head of state.

But maybe, just maybe, with a little help, it will be different this year.

Written for FanOfMostEverything's Imposing Sovereigns Contest.

Spike and Rarity meet at a formal gala and have a long overdue conversation. Truth's are shared, feelings made clear and both come away on good terms if unhappy.

I feel the writers have abandoned the whole Spike X Rarity thing and this was a short resolution that came out of my head one interminable train ride.

Rainbow is the ruler of Cloudsdale,as well as the Princess of Loyalty,and to her Princess Luna is her real mother..

But what happens when the Wonderbolts get invited by Celestia to stay a few nights ,what will happen to Dash when she meets Soarin

After an argument with Twilight, Luna is out of sorts. Smasher, a clumsy colt with a penchant for breaking valuables, isn’t having the best day either.

TwiLuna.

Celestia has received an invitation to a meeting over tea with two beings more powerful than she could imagine. Two beings who she had only hoped on meeting until she got the invitation. But will she be satisfied with the answers they give her?

Everpony knows Celestia and Luna. But in reality we know nothing about them, all we know is they defeated Discord, Luna went mad, Celestia banished Luna, 1000 years passed and then she came back.

But rest easy, for this is their tale.

New student Lemon Hearts has come to Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns to begin again. Thanks to a kind stallion named Green Fields and the careful tutelage of Sunset Shimmer, Lemon Hearts is going to do what no first-year student has done before.

She’s going to be a Princess.
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Historian’s Note:
Set in Novel Idea’s Wavelengths timeline, wherein the Sonic Rainboom didn’t happen, the events of Little Truths occur eighteen months before The Alchemy of Chemistry, during Sunset Shimmer’s third year.
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Cast: Lemon Hearts, Sunset Shimmer, Green Fields
Guest Stars: Raspberry Tart, Dean Silver Slate, Minuette, and Twinkleshine
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Third-Place Finisher for FanOfMostEverything’s Imposing Sovereigns contest!
Featured on EQD on April 11th, 2017!

Cover art by Novel Idea
Sunset Shimmer art by Karzahnii
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Beta Reader Credits
Novel Idea, who inspired both entry and submission
Beltorn, who waited patiently
Little Tinker, who could give ninja lessons

Once upon a time, there was a magical kingdom called Equestria that was fighting a great war.
During unordinary conditions, a Unicorn named Rarity meets a dragon called Spike, and the two find happiness with each other.
However, their forbidden love might never be accepted.

Never.