Author's Notes:

And here’s the final chapter, I think it does a good job as a bookend but I still want to know your thoughts on that. Daring’s last Adventure was an interesting ride, that isn’t quite done yet. And I’m aware there are a few loose threads hanging about, I intend to deal a few of them in the future. Namely, The story of Twilight and Jing, of which I’ve only just made passing mentions of throughout the story, and Star Log’s story, which will be a bit darker than anything I’ve posted before. I have a few pieces of works in progress that sort of dip into the DARK section but we’ll see just how [Dark] Star Log’s story goes.

Daring was almost worried about Lilac a little too much, to the amusement of Spike and the filly in Question. Lilac would be having her first day of school just days from now. Her little filly was now five years old and had taken after her aunt Twilight a bit more than anticipated, and Star Log to a lesser extent but only because of the similarities Daring’s own sister had to Twilight Sparkle. Lilac had a habit of being buried in books almost as soon as she could read, which she had been able to do so since a short time after she was two years old. She didn’t require the basic magic training from her aunt anymore, but still very much enjoyed learning new things about magic with her.

Twilight herself was happily married to her new dragon counterpart, with a daughter of her own that was two years old. Spike’s shop was doing better than anticipated, they had been required expand its size a bit and he had been required to hire on a bit more help. Zelshirska worship was a bit higher than when it had all started but just barely enough to qualify as a fringe religion. Still, Celestia and Luna saw that as an improvement.

Pinkie and Rainbow Dash were sharing the same stallion and both had three-year-old foals now, Pinkie had a colt and Rainbow had a filly. Both were expecting again and were four or five months pregnant. They didn’t seem to mind too much, Rainbow even joked about just spreading more of her amazingness around.

The Apples built a bathhouse out behind their main house in Ponyville, a few of their other places of residence followed suit a year or so later. Applejack, true to family form, was raising a pretty big family. Her husband, Soarin of Wonderbolt fame, actually seemed to enjoy this very much. They had a pretty even mix of pegasus and earth pony foals.

Rarity managed to expand her business further, helped along by her daughter’s talent being an aspect of fashion that complimented her mother’s. The young mare had yet to start her own business, for the time being, she was more than happy to help expand her mother’s brand. Rarity was also expecting another baby, being a good six months pregnant. Her pregnancy prompted an increase in the production of maternity and baby clothes.

Fluttershy also had further expanding ventures with her wildlife sanctuaries for rarer animals that didn’t seem to be doing well without assistance. She had met a buck, from a deer nation, while scouting out potential new refuge sites and had ended up marrying him shortly after. The marriage served as a good political foundation between Equestria and the nation known, simply, as the Forest Empire. Fluttershy was now expecting her own little bundle of joy, although what to call pony/deer hybrid children was still being debated.

Starlight Glimmer was still looking around for the right stallion, she had tried dating Sunburst a few times but that special connection lifemates are supposed to have wasn’t ever something she felt from him.

Cadance had a beautiful set of new daughters, who were thankfully just a unicorn and a pegasus. Shining was both relieved and terrified, they didn’t have another baby alicorn to contend with but did have two baby ponies to deal with. The pegasus filly was named Amber Garden because of her coat colors and the apparent enjoyment she had around the plants she saw; and the unicorn filly was named Pearl Shield because of her pearly white coat and how she seemed to compliment her father's easily, he also had a habit of carrying both of the fillies around and calling her that seemed to always make her giggle in approval for some reason.

Flurry was still exploring her sexuality, but it seemed like was very much attracted to both mares and stallions. Now that she didn’t have to be an observer she was free to go home and deal with her revelations with her family. No matter what, she knew that her parents would be there to support her, even if they didn’t always show it.

Zelshirska was feeling far more energy than she had in a long time, thanks mainly to the interest in studying her that was generated by the town itself. Zelshirska didn’t mind being studied or prayed to; both were more than enough to transfer energy to her, prayer just did so a bit more effectively, as was the case with all deities. She still wasn’t at a point to be able to inhabit a pregnant mare, which many of her priestesses took on being, amusingly enough. But since Daring was holding off on getting pregnant for a few years, she did inhabit the mare a few times over the years Daring abstained from getting pregnant. Many ponies that were having trouble having children of their own for medical reasons did actually come to her worship with skepticism but left being believers and spreading her word throughout Equestria. Some of the minor priestesses started to hear her voice as well, with their assistance and that of Daring Do she worked on developing her first official collection of religious texts. The book was completed by the time Daring’s daughter, fantastic little thing that she was, had turned three years old.

Zelshirska also met the visiting dragon, Jing, who had expressed his own interest in her history. It turned out many deities were worshiped by the different races that made up the archipelago that was his nation, and they were also on the lookout for various cultural markers of interest to introduce to their own land to further its strength and diversity. She had met him through his use of the idol Twilight Sparkle had crafted to come in contact with her. They had a few interesting conversations, both rather enjoying the learning of new things, before he crafted several smaller idols of her, of surprising quality, and sent them in packages to his nation of origin.

It wasn’t even a full year later when a notable dragon deity from that nation made his presence in her pocket space and they had many different conversations, many centering around family and the roles of those members. It seemed this dragon god, whose form was very different than any other dragon she had seen before Jing, approved of her in some way. By the time Daring’s Daughter was five she could feel the presence of her sisters beginning to gain power, she wondered what this would mean for the ponies they had bonded themselves to with their essence.

No matter what, everyone knew their family would be there for them as their adventures moved forward. Twilight and her friends were probably done with the amazing adventures, but the adventures of the next generation were yet to happen. As the years moved forward so did the chance for the new generation’s adventures.