It is the thousandth year since Nightmare Moon's banishment and she has returned. When the battle with Nightmare Moon goes awry, Twilight's friends and family must cope with the destruction left in Nightmare's wake.

Note: This story is based off of the picture giuliabeck's You Are Mine and Sparkle No More.

Fillies and colts go to sleep at night wondering if there are monsters out there, just waiting to come and get them, only to be assured by those who love them that there isn't anything of the sort.

They are wrong. The monsters are coming, and the monsters are hungry.

Prequel to A Canterlot Wedding.
Audio reading by Pages Shiki.
Audio reading by ToonKriticY2K.

"At the end of the game, the King and the Pawn go back into the same box."

In the land of Equestria, there are no differences, no heartache, no progress, no purpose. There is just life, and whatever comes after. Everypony is equal. Starlight Glimmer won, but she may have also lost.

She built the box, but the game is about to end.

Entry for EquestriaDaily's Writer's Training Grounds.

Twilight Sparkle regrets a lot of decisions. Not spending more time with her family. Wasting away in a library rather than being out making friends, among other things. But when she can she attempts to make right what she feels she has done wrong.

And an opportunity to do that has presented itself.

When her friends return from Manehatten having encountered a former enemy, Twilight sets off in search of somepony Great and Powerful, to do what she feels she should have done a long time ago.

Sometimes though, the damage done can't be repaired, mistakes aren't forgiven, and the opportunity passes by.

Takes place after Season 4.

It is a dark time for Equestria. Rumours are circulating about conflict forming between the Princesses, rumours which soon turn out to be true when the moon doesn't set one day. It quickly becomes apparent that one Princess has turned on the other, but no one is sure who has done what, or who the enemy is.

Panic occurs quickly, sides are swiftly taken and loyalties are questioned as ponies start to take up arms against one another in support of their chosen ruler.

Now ponies loyal to Celestia and Luna are ready to charge at one another, some out of loyalty, some out of bravery, and some because it's what they were told to do. Right now they are just waiting, since neither particularly wants to make the first move.

This is not an action story! Much more of a calm before the storm sort of thing.
From the p.o.v. of a nameless pony. Contains profanity.

After the events of the Fall Formal, Rarity can't help but think about how things have changed. With the knowledge that magic and portals to other worlds exist, her perspective on life has been forever changed. And she can't stop dwelling on that. Luckily, a dose of Pinkie might just be the thing to help ease her fears.

Rarity accidentally flushes Gummy down the toilet, and Pinkie Pie is not happy. Not happy at all.

This story is a sequel to Messenger

Sunset Shimmer has found herself spending a great deal of time with the Dazzlings as of late, as they adjust to their new life-after-magic. Though, considering what the four of them used to be, does she really know Adagio as well as she thinks?

A big thanks to Bookish Delight for collaborative help with vetting my ideas, supplying a few, authorial advice, editing, and general encouragement throughout the process here.

And thanks, as usual, to Csquared08 for additional pre-reading and some brief technical input.

Teen for occasional language, alcohol references and light intimacy.

Sunset Shimmer was enjoying an iced coffee when a clearly distraught princess enters the cafe carrying bad news about her relation ship with Flash Sentry.

Really, No one can say no to a sad Princess.

This story is a sequel to Shadowbolts Adventures: The Real Friendship Games

One cold snowy night, Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle chance upon three faces from Sunset Shimmer's past who have lost their way.