What does it take to rule Equestria?  Following an argument, Celestia has abdicated the throne and vanished from the memory of Equestria’s citizens, leaving Luna the chance to learn for herself.  Twilight, one of the few that still remembers Celestia, has grave concerns about Luna's leadership capabilities.  The nobles are restless and foreign enemies circle like sharks, sensing weakness.  Meanwhile, far off in the frozen north, Sombra stirs, dreaming of himself on the throne.

After the completion of the Friendship Games, Sunset hopes to complete a long overdue assignment before Twilight departs for Equestria.

Better late than never.

Princess Celestia has finally decided to introduce her two prized pupils to each other, hoping that together they'll finally start to appreciate the beauty and magic of friendship. Sunset may be proud and brash, and Twilight might be obsessive and oblivious at times, but surely they'll get along fine, right?

They'll go above and beyond that in time, but the road they'll take to get there is a rocky one.

Written for Oroboro's Sunset Shipping Contest: Changing Seasons

Cover art by Novel-Idea
Original Sunset and Twilight image by Sikander-MLP

Featured on September 1, 2017!

Updated 10/27/17: Minor edits to existing chapters; 3 new chapters added (Reconciliation, The Twilight Zone, Sowing Seeds)
Updated 11/27/17: Cover art added!

Following the events of the movie, Tempest Shadow accepts responsibility for her actions and attempts to atone for her actions while serving under the Storm King.

Author's Note:

Chapters 11-15 were written at Canterlot KC 2017 in Kansas City, MO

Chapters 59-61 were written at CONglomeration 2018 in Louisville, KY

Edited by SuperPinkBrony12

The foggy feeling like you're wandering through a dream, disconnected from the world around you. Sunset Shimmer experiences that every day. Ponies struggle to remember her, she suffers from random bouts of exhaustion, and at eighteen, she still has no cutie mark.

Despite the claims her mother makes, Sunset knows she is broken in some way. It isn't until her nineteenth birthday that she discovers why.

When her perception of herself and the world around her shatters, Equestria will face the consequences of the villain... or the hero, it was never supposed to have.

Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer are the only two living ponies in the world that can lay claim to one of Equestria's most prestigious titles: the protege of Princess Celestia, ruler of the land of Equestria and perhaps one of the most powerful magic users to ever walk the face of the planet.

However, they are not the first: since Equestria's medieval ages, Celestia has held pupils under her tutelage. Some of these pupils went on to do great things, while others fell prey to their own ambition and power, but even though those students have been dead for years, Celestia still remembers every name that came before.

Her reminiscing becomes more than memories, however, when her very first pupil shows up on the castle steps. One by one, Celestia's former students begin to appear in the prime of their youth, their minds seemingly leaving off right after their deaths. It's up to Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer to find out why these ponies have risen from the dead, and what they're being drawn to...

Rated T for sexual references, profanity and violence.

Featured on 4/14! Thanks everyone!

Narrowly avoiding imprisonment due to the intervention of the Princess of Friendship, Tempest Shadow reflects and prepares for the new role she has been given in Twilight Sparkle's kingdom.

Cover art by imalou.deviantart.com

Princess Twilight Sparkle is celebrating her first Gala without her friends, though her first-friend ever makes a sudden return...

A Spilight I'd written on New-Years.

(Warning: massive spoilers for the MLP Movie and "Kid Icarus: Uprising")

The Storm King is defeated, Equestria is saved, and all of the allies made have gone their separate ways to live their lives free from the tyrant's rule. Everything should be alright... except Twilight Sparkle is haunted night after night by dreams of her own actions. Actions that almost caused a rift between her and the ponies she holds so dear, leading her to question her worth as the Princess of Friendship.

Meanwhile, in the world of Angel Land, a returning threat has begun to arise. After a decade of Palutena's Army and Viridi's Forces of Nature fighting over humanity's right to live, the Underworld Army has returned to resume what they started: the killing and consuming of human souls. However, they've set their sights upon a new world: Equestria itself.

Upon realizing this, the two warring armies must quickly band together yet again to stop this threat and save this new world. Together, both sets of heroes will learn what friendship really means, and Twilight will understand the true essence of her role as princess.

A situation with the Dursley family gets Harry sent off to America to live with his mother's cousins, Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna. Of course this brings a whole new set of problems to both the world of wizards and the girls of Canterlot High School.