A Golden Date
"You what?!" I yelled out after my brain restarted itself after a brief moment of it being shut off. I was just told by Rarity that she had set up a date for me...without me saying yes or no-- behind my back of all things--and I was not bloody well...
The Anvil of Dawn, Chapter 9: Suffer in Truth
"Tell me again what you hope to gain from this?" Twilight sighed. The past three weeks had been busy, more so than nearly any she had ever had in her relatively short life. Didn't really help that the progress they had made was largely...
The Anvil of Dawn, Chapter 8: Do Not Look Down
The break from dream to life was strikingly sudden. Cynder's world was a void, her mind gone in a black pit where no life existed. Suffocating and lifeless, the black dragoness learned something during her time in desolation and darkness; the art of...
The Anvil of Dawn, Chapter 6: Soul Burn
Everything seemed normal at the time. For once his dreams were peaceful, filled with happy surroundings. The evening in his thoughts was nice and quiet, with crickets chirping and peaceful streams of moonlight coursing down against his face. Nearby,...
The Anvil of Dawn, Chapter 3: When Our Chains are Broken...
She was alive. The nearly fatally fast pounding in her chest told her that much. Blood as hot as an open flame coursed through her veins at unhealthy speeds. Her ears picked up a thudding, she didn't know nor care if it was simply the pounding of her...
The Anvil of Dawn, Chapter 2: The Long Way Down
The day passed rather slowly to her. Nothing to do, besides wait. Cynder had always considered herself patient, but even that had it's limits. She was on edge, needed something to do, something that would stop the insistent itch across her scales. She...
Friendship is Hunted: Origin of the Hunt
Twilight Sparkle had spent the entire night with her friends and with the people of Ponyville, speaking of one thing and one thing alone: how to deal with the Cosmo Sapien that had landed in Equestria. How to contend with this hunter from beyond the...
A Tale of Lost Souls: Part Three
The young colt blushes deeply as he gently towels himself off with the torn curtain that 'grabbed' him not even a few minutes ago. He squirms slightly, mentally cursing himself out. "I can't believe you got scared over s stupid stuffed bear! And a...
07 - Between Heaven and Equestria
The world was on fire. The stone burned like a forest and but instead of ashes and dust it went molten and spread along the ground. Lava pooled in craters only to boil over and rush down the mountains toward a village of uncaring ponies. The grass...
06 - Observations
The train out of Canterlot chugged quickly through the starlit night with a different type of cargo than typical. A dozen sleepy pony soldiers sat in silence in various stages of unrest, some snoozing, some staring out the window, and all were...
Breaking the Barrier: Chapter 4
With nothing left to do, and dying of curiosity, I decide to do as the note instructs. Mane Avenue is a long street, and quite a ways from here, so I only wait a minute before setting off myself; not wanting to miss the meet time. The night air helps...
Twilight Performs a Spell That Goes Just Fine
Twilight calls her friends to the library to assist her in a spell she wants to try out. Her friends freak out when the spell turns out to sound a little more serious than initially assumed. They soon find out, however, that their fears were entirely...