The Four Black Stars have returned.

Empress Celestia, worried for the future of her empire as an old evil descends upon it, calls upon her most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, to find the reincarnations of six powerful warriors, each her weilded a spark of harmony that helped her seal away the evils during their first encounter. Twilight takes up the task... but she doesn't know where to start looking.

Follow the adventures of a student of the empress, a street performer with dreams of greatness, a half-foreigner aided by a powerful firearm, a bored noble's wife turned righteous thief, a quiet and loving druidess, and a circus clown with an unfortunate secret as they journey the land in search of answers to their own questions, and in doing so, deign to seek out each other.

(Written as part of NaPoWriMo, September 2013)

When an old enemy of Celestia's returns, capturing both her and the reformed Discord, Luna is forced to flee and warn Twilight and the other element bearers of this new threat. But, before anything can be done, Twilight finds her friends shoved between the pages of several different books, literally weaved into the narratives. With this new threat working constantly to cement his place as the newest ruler of Equestria, and her friends desperate to find happy endings, Twilight needs to take a journey into the medium she loves so much, and find a way to save not only the elements, but also the worlds within these stories before all of Equestria falls under the dominion of the charismatic Purple Prose and his mysterious and sinuous associate, Lady Ninetails.

It is a tale of adventure, a tale of romance, a tale of libraries! If you have ever felt as though the character you were reading about in a story was far more than just a collection of words on a page or a screen, then please, read on...

Taking place after A Canterlot Wedding, Queen Chrysalis is none too pleased about this state of affairs. Battered, bloodied, and with only a fraction of her forces left, she immediately takes off to Ponyville, refusing to stop for anything, not even the welfare of her own army. In order to satisfy her own sense of pride, she ignores everything in favor of destroying that which Celestia holds most dear: her dear student, Twilight Sparkle.

But as the march takes its toll on her subjects, will she realize what she is losing before it is too late?

Dramatic reading by ObabScribbler!