Old Canterlot Burying Grounds, known locally as "The Tombs" because of the elaborate mausoleums that dot the landscape, has long been rumored to be haunted, the long forgotten paths and old crypts stalked by a restless soul from beyond the veil between life and death. Throughout the years, people visiting the cemetery at night have encountered ghostly apparitions and mournful wails and cries deep within the old burying ground.

Six girls from Canterlot High, along with some old rivals turned new friends, dare to venture into this dark and foreboding place one Halloween night. Their goal? The see if the legends about this final resting place are, in fact, true.

What they discover there will be beyond anything they ever imagined.

There are creatures science refuses to recognize.

But new technology makes us question what is real.

If our eyes see it, if our cameras capture it... does it exist?

Enter a real where fact meets fiction, science meets legend, where nightmares come to life.

Do you believe?

Everyone deserves a second chance.

That's what Twilight Sparkle told them when she first came over, and left a broken, remorseful Sunset Shimmer in their tender care. Taking her words to heart, they took her into their circle friends, giving her a gift that can't be priced... a gift that saved them in their darkest hour against their worst foes yet.

Months later, Sunset Shimmer is a changed mare, and the Rainbooms are finally, seemingly, able to rest on their laurels. Until, an old foe returns... but not the same as she was before. Things have changed, and the Rainbooms may have another chance to give the gift that had so enriched their own lives... and restore hope to someone who feels as though deserve nothing.

Working on a farm is not easy.

Sunup to sundown, in the burning summer heat, harvesting the crop that brings you your livelihood, can be pure torture. Big Macintosh knows this all too well.

Thankfully, today he has a very good reason to tough it out.

Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all?

I beg to differ.

Whoever said that crap has never had to deal with the pain of broken heart, much less the pain of knowing that it's because the one you love will never, ever love you back. You feel like you're drowning, but you just won't die. You don't want to get up in the morning. You think about the one you love, and it fills you with such joy, but then you come crashing back down, and it feels like your heart is lying in a thousand broken pieces; and no matter what, it will never be whole again.

My name is Spike, and this nightmare is my reality.

Because I will never have her by my side.

What is the cost of freedom?

It is not free, as many would like to think. It isn't guaranteed by words on paper, or by ideas formed in the minds of great thinkers. It's paid for at a cost; a dear cost.

Three little fillies are about to get a lesson in the true price that is to be paid to remain free.

Love.

It is a powerful emotion, the feeling of sheer ecstasy when in the presence of one the heart yearns for. It's the feeling of intimate connection deeper and more exhilarating than any on Earth. The feeling as though the entire world has disappeared and the only thing that is left is the two lovers locked in each others' embrace.

Caramel Apple knows this all too well. He has been harboring secret feelings for a certain unicorn for a long time, almost since they first met. But he has a problem; she's a high class filly from Canterlot, who has studied at the finest school in the realm and has a personal connection the Their Majesties themselves. He's just a working-class schlub who was born and raised in the boondocks who makes his living getting his hooves burned in his blacksmith's shop. He knows that there isn't any way that Twilight Sparkle will see him as anything more than a good friend.

Just goes to show you how little he knows.

Master and student. Two roles, each distinct in authority and purpose. The master teaches the student, the master passes on the craft they seek to instill in the mind of the student. In turn, the student follows the master's lessons with utmost dutifulness and devotion, and takes care to complete whatever tasks the master sets to them.

But there are times, when the role of the student and the master change place, when the master is the one opening their mind to the words of the student, when the student shares the knowledge they have gained with the master.

There are times when the student teaches the master.

Apple Bloom is having a normal day at Ponyville High; taking notes, listening to boring lectures, dodging doofus jocks and bullies like Diamond Tiara... that is, until she finds a note on her locker from someone she didn't think she would be seeing again for a long time.

Silver Spoon, the Cutie Mark Crusaders former bully alongside Diamond Tiara, has returned to Ponyville and invited them to attend her upcoming birthday party. But why? Follow the Crusaders and their friend as they prepare for the day, while reminiscing on the events, good and bad, that brought them to this point.

They'll soon find that gold isn't the only thing that can remain untarnished.

Life. It's one of the most precious gifts in the universe. Tiny heartbeats knit in the womb, little souls brought into being by the love of two parents. Fluttershy and her husband Hailstorm wake up one morning to realize she's feeling strange, but soon will realize their own little miracle is about to arrive.