Twilight Sparkle had always regarded immortality as both a blessing and a curse. It was like chains of gold, gilded shackles. Seemingly enticing, but in reality, a grasp of which you cannot break free. Twilight missed her children. She missed her husband.

She missed her friends.

There were pictures of them, of course, countless photos and historical paintings and memorials and glass windows. A picture can speak a thousand words, but a memory priceless. She cherished their memories.

Sometimes she felt often like a star in the night sky. A soft, glowing glimmer of fiery aura burning valiantly against the unknown abyss above, a constant guiding light, leading her people through the darkness.

Bright, and lonely, in the way that only things that lived forever were.

When Luster Dawn tries to cast a spell to impress Princess Twilight, it goes awry, and she finds her self cast into an alternate Equestria that is both colorful and terrifying. An Equestria where Canterlot stretches beyond the horizon and the mountain itself has become a castle.

Now she needs to find a way home with her terrible social skills, and the only ones capable of helping her are a strange, gigantic bird and a grumpy, elderly sorcerer stallion.

Thanks to Kryostasis for spotting errors and typos and showing them to me.

This story is a sequel to The Broken and the Damned

A mysterious magic surge has been discovered just off the coast of Creui. Praetor Rainbow Dash is apart of the contingent sent to investigate, only to be caught in it.

At the same time, Luster Dawn has returned to Canterlot for her first Grand Galloping Gala since heading to Ponyville. While there, she demonstrates a spell that she found in the archive of the Princesses old castle.

Said spell may create a situation that neither is properly prepared for, nor even want. However, it may just be what they need...

Life after ruling for Celestia is boring, almost too boring. However, on one of her strolls, she comes across a lost runaway filly. It quickly becomes clear that there is more to the filly than what meets the eye.

This story has been submitted to CONTEST: Depth in Innocence

Twilight Sparkle has always respected the laws of science and magic. It's a respect that got her a scholarship to SGU, where she formed a small but comfortable group of friends and has received top grades in her two years there. It's a life that makes sense.

With her final year beginning and a special instruction from the Princess to bond with a fellow pupil, Twilight has enough to fill her life and her mind. It doesn't make sense that she should have recurring dreams about a mysterious mare, that this mare seems eerily familiar despite being a total stranger, or that she can recall the dreams with unusual clarity.

Twilight has questions about Equestria and about herself, and the answers could reshape her perception of both. She begins her research with a central question:

What lies beyond the edge of a dream?

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Fluttershy has been known for being shy over the years. As well as meek, kind, docile, etc etc. But what if she got some help from an unknown source...

This story is a sequel to Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S9

Many years have passed since Flash Sentry sacrificed himself to save everything. Now, Princess Twilight Sparkle is facing an issue with one of her best students. How will she help the mare see the value of friendship, and what is everypony else doing?

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(Tagged AU due to conflicting information involving Starlight Glimmer as the mother of Luster Dawn.)

Luster Dawn has settled into life in Ponyville pretty easily and has even begun to make some friends. It helps that her mother is finally giving her space to be her own pony.

However, when Luster is told she'll have to give a progress report, she finds out it'll fall on the same day Queen Twilight is coming to Ponyville to celebrate an important anniversary: The first encounter with her friends.

Will Luster be able to get everything together in time for Twilight's arrival? And what will Starlight Glimmer have to say about her own daughter's decisions?

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Princess Twilight Sparkle has a vast knowledge of different magics, including magical afflictions, and so she's come to expect, when the truly unusual things crop up, to find letters from Equestria's hospitals showing up at the castle. And every time, she's dropped everything to help one of her subjects.

Luster Dawn is taking her first hospital trip with her mentor, to visit a sick pegasus filly. It's Nightmare Night, and the princess is bringing the celebration to the filly, alongside her weekly dose of a potion used to treat her illness. Luster doesn't know what precisely she's sick with, or why Princess Twilight even wants Luster to come at all, but she's assured her it's not contagious, or at least there's no risk of unicorns or alicorns catching it.

The longer she's around the filly, however, the more this disease looks familiar. But the book she saw it in was folklore. Just an old pony tale. There's no such thing as bat ponies.

Is there?

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