It has been a year since Queen Novo and her hippogriffs have returned to their home of Mount Aris, and they have managed to accomplish so much since. Re-establishing contact and relations with Equestria and other kingdoms, restoring all the damaged and abandoned structures, and getting back to how life use to be before. As the hippogriffs get ready for their own Friendship Festival to welcome the heroes of Equestria, a seemingly harmless prank goes awry, and scars from the Queen's past might prevent her from fulling enjoying the festival properly.