“Twilight?” Princess Celestia asked softly as she pushed into the room to find the purple unicorn lying on a bed with a young filly pegasus. She was shocked when she arrived in Ponyville to hear the excited chatter of the populace rejoicing that Twilight had come home to them. It was easy enough to piece together what had happened after speaking with a few ponies which had the princess both excited and worried. Apparently the poor unicorn had amnesia and was using strange spells which helped not only a young filly who couldn’t fly, but defend herself when Rainbow Dash had attacked her. Well, some ponies claimed Rainbow Dash attacked her believing that she was a changeling since the flier was this village’s Sentinel while others thought it was just an argument that got too heated.
Then there were the other rumors…rumors that it wasn’t Rainbow Dash who Twilight had attacked. Rather it was Princess Cadence…apparently Twilight had freaked out upon seeing her. It didn’t make sense, Twilight loved Cadence deeply and even with amnesia she just couldn’t see it happening. Yet she used what Celestia believed to have been the blood magic that they sensed to mount the attack. She was praying that it was just a spell Twilight learned for protection and she wasn’t about to go out and slaughter a whole village just to gain some power.
Who was she kidding, this was Twilight. Even with amnesia Celestia doubted that the unicorn would turn dark like that. Sure she would be excited about learning some new spells, but Celestia would make sure that the unicorn stopped using the blood magic. It was just as dangerous for the unicorn as it was for those around her.
She was a little annoyed though when the nurse tried to tell her that she couldn’t go in and see Twilight, but in the end relented seeing who Celestia was. No pony was around though except the two sleeping on the bed. She couldn’t help smiling at how cute the pair was while wondering just who the little pegasus filly was.
“H-Hello.” The filly squeaked out as she looked up to see Celestia, her eyes going wide upon seeing the white alicorn. “Get away from my mommy!”
Celestia was taken aback by the exclamation from the little filly that jumped to her hooves defensively between Twilight and Celestia, her wings spreading out.. While she was floored by the claim that the still sleeping unicorn was the filly’s mother, she wasn’t too shocked by the reaction of a strange pony waking the pegasus.
“I’m not going to hurt anyone, I am Princess Celestia. I’m…an old friend of your mother’s.” Celestia said, waking the unicorn up who reached up and pulled the filly back down next to her.
“Its okay, Summer. She may be a big meanie…but I don’t think she would hurt us.” Twilight whispered, soothing the filly while once again shocking Celestia.
“I…heard you have amnesia.” Celestia said slowly, trying to decide what to say to the unicorn she had spent so long searching for. She missed Twilight so much and regretted her actions which had helped drive the poor mare away. She had beaten herself up every day thinking back to that day and how she treated the mare who she thought of as a daughter. The stress from the wedding and possible invasion had her stressed out to the fullest and she messed up because of it. The wedding should never have even been a priority at the time, but who she believed to be Cadence had insisted on it and she relented. If she wasn’t so preoccupied over the invasion she would never have let the changeling fool her like it did.
“I…had amnesia.” Twilight said, her eyes narrowing up at Celestia making the alicorn. Did she mean she remembered everything?
“Twilight…” Celestia got out before being interrupted.
“Don’t even start with me! I don’t want to hear anymore of your lies. I’m through with it, I have a life with my sister and daughter and I want nothing more to do with any of you so called nobles!” Twilight snapped out, tears filling her eyes. She was angry at Celestia, but she had to admit that she had nothing against Luna or Cadence…oh Faust! What had she done? Had she really attacked Cadence???
“Tw-Twilight!” Celestia gasped in surprise. Hanging her head, she took a deep breath coming to a decision. She just wanted to say her piece to the unicorn, and if she didn’t want anything to do with her afterwards…then Celestia would leave her be. Of course she would keep tabs on the unicorn and help her out any way she could from the shadows. “Just…please let me say something. If…if you still don’t want anything to do with me then I will leave you be.”
“Okay…I’ll listen.” Twilight said taking comfort from her daughter’s warmth next to her.
“Thank you. Twilight, what happened at the wedding should never have happened. I was highly stressed from the invasion and when who I believed to be Cadence came to me saying she changed her mind and didn’t want to wait for the wedding, I was foolish enough to relent to her. Between frantically running back and forth doing what I could to prepare for the wedding, taking care of my normal duties and the stress of dealing with the invasion…things just became too much. I was going to snap from something…I just wish it wasn’t at you. I…I love you Twilight. I spent years with you, raising you the best that I could and always thought of you as a daughter. I messed up Twilight…I can try and reason it away all I want…but I messed up. I love you and I’ll do anything if it would fix things. I’d give up my crown and move here to Ponyville if you wanted.” Celestia said, watching the expression on Twilight’s face as the unicorn snuggled with her daughter.
“I don’t want you giving up your crown.” Twilight said as Celestia’s tears started and slowly turned to leave. “I do want you to promise me something though. If you ever take another student, I don’t want you keeping them away from their parents so much.”
“I promise.” Celestia sobbed out as she spun back around, “Does that mean?”
“Come here.” Twilight said sitting up and opening her hooves waiting for a hug that Celestia quickly accepted.
“Momma, what’s going on?” Summer asked as the two pulled back.
“This is Princess Celestia…she was like a mother to me growing up.” Twilight explained slowly.
“So I have another grandma?” Summer asked excited, though she still glared a little at Celestia as her wings twitched. “But didn’t you hurt momma?”
“It…was a misunderstanding honey.” Twilight said hugging Summer to her.
“If you’re sure…but if you hurt momma again I won’t forgive you!” Summer exclaimed, making both Twilight and Celestia giggle a little at the serious, yet cute looking expression on Summer’s face.
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“Auntie? What’s going on?” Cadence asked as the group left the room after hearing what happened to Twilight. As hurt as she was that Twilight had attacked her in the way she had, it didn’t compare to the pain she was feeling for her little Ladybug. She had been through so much and it wasn’t fair for any pony to suffer through it. Unlike some of the others, she did look at the silver lining in it all as Trixie suggested. She wanted to make up with Twilight and get to know little Summer.
“We felt a pony using blood magic and we were worried about you. Imagine the shock we felt when we arrived to hear rumors of what was going on here from the ponies. And the reports from the guards when I asked them when we got here…is it true that Twilight used blood magic?” Luna asked, no longer really worried after eavesdropping on the room. She still wanted to hear it from someone she knew was right there.
“Yeah…I thought she hated me at first when I woke up. She used it to defend herself though because she didn’t realize that it wasn’t me at the wedding, but the changeling.” Cadence said, feeling relief when she learned that it was all a mistake and she wasn’t mad at Twilight for defending herself. She was worried though for the unicorn and her mental state. “I don’t think she’s a blood mage if that’s what you are worried about. I think she…used blood magic to create a defense to protect herself though.”
“It is still blood magic and we will have to make sure that she understands that it is too dangerous to both herself and those around her to keep using.” Luna explained, “But I’m sure when she hears why it is forbidden, she won’t use it.”
“And what about her using chaos magic?” Discord asked from his pony form next to Pinkie Pie.
“We are no longer trying to keep you imprisoned, so it no longer matters if a pony uses rune casting so long as it is nothing dangerous. I’m sure Twilight knows what is safe to use, and it doesn’t matter if you get a little stronger by having a pony under your domain.” Luna sighed. She didn’t particularly trust the chaos god, but she knew love was a powerful force and a strong motivator. She was sure Pinkie would keep the god in his place…especially after what he did to her. Unlike the other elements, Pinkie Pie was now immortal much like Discord and the sisters. She had been given a piece of Discord’s power so that she could be by his side forever.
“Well that’s good to know! We can have a party for Twilight and Summer when they are feeling better then!” Pinkie Pie said happily, happier than Luna had seen the pony in a long time.
5631210 I've decided to go ahead and do two endings to the story having both a possession and non possesion ending so every pony can chose which they prefer.
5631256 lol thank you and here's another chapter.
5631348 lol I forgot it was president's day until I checked my email and learned that I have today off today because of the weather and President's day so I'm not complaining. Luckily our trash runs on Friday so I didn't put it out yet. Also, I decided, after talking to my GF that I'll do 2 endings, one with and one without possession so you can decide which you like better.
Good job with this chapter. I can't wait for the next few chapters to see how Twilight and Cadence make up. Good luck.
5632577 Heh, I did, too, for the same reason. But I found out from my sister (who is currently in St. Louis University Hosptital (SLUH) for treatment for her blood cancer) via a text that she sent me that ours is going to run today. (Ours run on Mondays, barring certain holidays.) So I went ahead and put them both out last night.
The "fun" thing about it all was going to be taking my dog (a Chihuahua) out this morning (it's still snowing this morning; just not as hard as last night and earlier this morning). Fortunately, I have the sweetest neighbors, two of which not only shoveled off our driveway and sidewalk this morning, but one of them used a snow-blower to clean off our part of our cul-de-sac! Talk aboiut sweeties! Pedro and I were out and back in in about a minute. (MY pooch doesn't like the cold all that much...as you'd guess from him being a teeny l'il ol' Chihuahua, so he likes to get out, do his "biz" and get back in the house just as quick as he can!)
And that's a good idea. Your GF has a good head on her shoulders. I can't wait to read both versions of the endings, and what happens in them!
And on another note, one thing that I noticed was that Celestia thinking that Summer is a unicorn (like her mother, aunt, granfparents and brother. Didn't she notice Summer's wings when they met?
Now, that said, I'm sure that things will get straightened out on all that before long. As I said above, I can't wait to see what happens next!
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I have to say this ending was kinda left field to me but after reading your author notes I then became ok with it, you know setting as you're going to write an alternate ending right? Anyway I'm looking forward to the alternate chapter or chapters, oh and if you can try not make her become an alicorn that's just too cliche and predictable.
5631387 Sorry, meant to finish replying to the comments earlier, but had to go for awhile. Anyways, Legion isn't really isn't part of the Nightmare Forces, not that I know a whole lot about them. The following is a major spoiler to the possession route, so please don't read unless you really want to know. The past of Legion starts back in the Dark Ages long before the founding of current day Canterlot, back when demons roamed the earth more freely. What would become Legion was a very high ranking officer in an army known as the Legion. A very powerful demon approached him with an offer to become not only immortal, but a general of his hordes. All he had to do was sacrifice his entire platoon. Drugging them he performed a blood ritual making him the very first blood mage absorbing their powers and a piece of their soul and essence. He became a literal demon that would absorb pieces of darkness and chunks of creatures souls who used dark magic when they were either killed or cleansed. So each time a weapon that was created for the light through means that in reality was questionable, Legion absorbed more pieces of soul and power making him stronger. Even when he was banished with the rest of the demons to Tartarus and sealed, he still recieved pieces of these creatures that was banished using his so called legacy. Rituals to create supposed weapons of light that would feed him the very cretaures these weapons either cleansed or destroyed. Everything ranging from the rainbow of light to the elements of harmony and beyond. Even weapons such as Excalibur aided in making Legion stronger. Legion was defeated by a mage that was instrumental in sealing the demons in Tarturus, one that would be cursed to be reborn again and again to become great unicorns of history such as Marelin, Pony of Arc, and Starswirl the bearded. Everytime the reborn soul used blood magic, it would draw it's attention and weaken it's own seal enough to escape and face the unicorn again only for it to be sealed again and the cycle to repeat itself.
5631464 I don't think I've read any of those, but do you mean Twilight meeting Derpy again or Derpy meeting Dinky again? If Twilight meeting Derpy again, I can fit it in the story.
5631558 There won't be alicorn Twilight for the non possession route but a very strong possibility for alicorn Twilight for the possession route. Especially if I go with the idea my GF gave me for the epilouge.
5632491 Twilight's actually one of my favorite ponies, doesn't really matter to me if she's an alicorn or not as it doesn't really change who she is in my opinion. Seeing her try to learn to fly though was kind of funny. I agree with you very much though on it could have been spread out more over several episodes on her becoming an alicorn.
5632621 Cadence will get her chance with Twilight next chapter for sure
5632717 I am so sorry about your sister, I really hope her treatment goes well and she gets better. And I know how tempermental Chiuauas and MinPins can be as my mom always had a pair of them for as long as I can remember. Sadly she's lost 2 of them, one of them by cancer and the other old age. They're so lovable, yet can be so picky at times. Glad you have great neighbors like that lol thanks, I'll tell her you said so. And oops, I'll have to go back and check and fix it if she thought she was an alicorn as I meant for her to see the wings to make her wonder who the pegasus was and not think about the filly being Twilight's daughter right away. There is only a few chapters left for this path, there will be a few extra chapters for the other path as they have to deal with the demon and the repercusions of what happens with it. Especially with the continuing changes being made to it thanks to suggestions from my GF and talking about it with her lol. Hope you enjoy the rest of the story.
5633239 Hope you enjoy the alternate chapters and I can't promise either way about the alicorn as my GF and I are talking about an idea that would spawn a sequel that I hope is really original that will be based off the alternate ending. And I hope what happens to Twilight everybody will like as it may seem like a punishment of sorts to some at first, it isn't meant to be.
5633411 Well, she's one of my faves, too (wings or no wings); my third fave, right behind Applejack and Rainbow (in that order).
And what you said about her still being the same adorkable pony (my words on the "adorkable" bit) that she always has been, and yeah, watching her learn to fly (from what Season 4 episodes that I have seen so far) has been absolutely hilarious! (You'd think that having Rainbow as a flight instructor would have helped, though, wouldn't you?)
So her having wings does have its goos points at times.
Thank you. Yeah, it should have. But that's Hasbro for you; always rushing ceratin things just so they can sell more MLP toys 'n' such. Yeeesh.
5633411 And thank you. She's doing well now; to the point that her doctors are tell her and my brother-in-law Steve that she's doing so well, recovery wise, that she just might be to the point where she can come home this Wednesday, rather than around March 9th, like they originally though that she would. So that's good news.
She'll still have to keep going back down to SLUH to her doctors' for awhile to make sure that everything's going alright, but that just entails her having to go back for doctor's visits every few days (I think), rather than having to stay in a hotel down in St. Louis for that sort of thing.
Heck, like she told me over the phone the other night, she's already hit the bottom of this, as her doctors told her she would, as part of her transplant, so now there's nowhere to go but up for her. Which, again, is good news.
The thing is, the kind of blood cancer that she has (can't remember the name of it for the life of me atm!) isn't cureable. The best that she can expecrt is to be put into remission for a long while. And, they told is that if this stem-cell transplant (the stem-cells were hers, hatvested from her own bone-marrow) went as well as they expected it to, then she won't have to go through this kind of thing again for between arounn 5 to 15 years. We'll all hoping that it's the latter, as none of us want her to go through this type of thing anytime soon.
As for Pedro; well, he's not so much tempermental (okay, he can be sometimes), as he just flat-out doesn't like the cold. And it's that in spades here, plus which we have anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of snow on the ground here!
Hence him not liking to go outside unless he jusyt absolutely has to!
And that latter is true. I know that he can be both, when he wants to be.
And yeah, they are. They told Steve and Terry that they'd keep an eye on me while they were gone, and they have.
Now if only the danged Wentzville city snow-plow hadn't just gone, and messed up what they did.
All I can say is, it's a darned good thing that the mail didmn't run today, or they'd have a problem pulling up to our mailbox!
And don't even get me started on me trying to get to it! Yeesh! I'd like to have been able to give that driver a piece of my mind for piling the snow back up like that! I almost couldn't get the trash and recycling cans back up by the house, either, because of that! Good thing that they were both empty, or I couldn't have even managed it!
Well, you're quite welcome; glad that I could help!
And that's a good point. Can't wait to see everything else that you have planned for the rest of the story, even the alternate ones about the other path dealing with the possession thing. All of that should be very inteesting! Can't wait!
5625413 Yes, they can.
Just like us, or dogs or cats.
"making both Twilight and Summer giggle a little"? Wasnt Twilight AND Celestia THE ones who giggled?
5633411 Yeah well I guess I can except that being its a setup for a sequel, but as long as it's not something so cliche I can except it even more, heck in my story I'm in the process of figuring out how she becomes one as well. Maybe after reading your take on her ascension I'll get some ideas from it. Anyway I'll be looking forward to the other chapters, keep up the excellent writing.
Love this story and can not wait for more
5633411 I meant Twilight meeting Derpy!
Oh and twilight nightmare I've read it again just to make sure it wasn't me but I believe you've made a mistake where you have celestia coming into the room you have "No pony was around though except the two sleeping unicorns. She couldn’t help smiling at how cute the pair was while wondering just who the filly was." I could've sworn that her daughter was a Pegasus, but you have her as a unicorn throughout the rest of the chapter. Now if you did that purposely just to see if others are truly reading it then that's a kind of a good trick if not then you should correct it.
Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOAR for meeeeee!!!!!
5633605 Yes.
5633686 I have a hard time placing favorites as they shift places all the time, but my absolute favorite would be Twilight followed in no particular order: Luna, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie and Vynal Scratch. I love that, "adorkable" lol, that's cute
I am so sorry that it isn't curable, but I really hope that it can be kept under control so she can have a happy life. I really do hope that things go up for her and quickly. She deserves a chance at a happy life, everyone does, and it truly stinks that some people have to get sick like that.
I don't blame him on the snow, we don't have as much as say new York, but we've had a decent amount lately and it is going to be in the negatives the next few days. I really am not looking forward to it, and I know my GF isn't as she absoultely despises it. I'm not sure if it is a goo dthing or bad thing that we don't have to worry much about the snowplows. They don't really come on the back roads as much here, though they keep the main roads clean. It can be a nightmare sometimes when there is a lot of snow, but when there isn't much I kind of prefer that they are lazy about plowing our road lol.
Really hope you keep finding the story interesting. We made a few changes to the final plans that is going to be a bit of a twist, even if some might find it a little cliche I'm hoping it is original at the same time.
5633873 Thanks I fixed it.
5633970 Eyup
5634748 I hope it doesn't end up being too cliche, there might be some clicheness in there, but I'm really hoping that it is original as well with the plans we have made for it.
5635102 Thanks, I hope you keep enjoying it.
5635103 Oh lol, well I can add a scene with Derpy. And you mentioned that Ditzy was born from rape? Maybe she could be a support for Twilight having experienced it.
5637827 That was actually a huge mistake...I went back and fixed it, thank you so much for pointing it out. I can't beleive I messed that up like that. Thank you again for pointing it out.
5638227 lol I'll try to have another chapter up tomorrow, I was going to try tonight but my GF just got home and we are probably going to watch a movie and have a late dinner, so have a great night.
5638266 It's Dinky that was born from rape, not Derpy.
5638247 Cool. You have some nice favorites.
And I can't take credit for it. I saw it online somewhere, and it was referring to Twilight, so I thought, "What the hay?", and used it here.
Well, no, it isn't, but this treatment will put her into long-term remission, so that's what counts.
Thank you. Other than a few bouts of nausea, and weakness here and there, she's doing great!
And yes, she does. Things are looking better and better, and we're hoping that she can be released from the hospital so she can go back to their hotel for awhile. (She definitely wants that, anyway.)
And remember what I said earlier that she might get to go home? Well, I misinterpreted what she mean (when she said that, I naturally thought that she meant that she meant that she was going to get to come home home (which meant coming back here to our house). Turns out that she meant by "home" was just getting to go back to their hotel room (which I got to see the day before she and Steve went back for their stay til she can come home, and despite it being one the lower level of the hotel (which meant no windows to see out of) it is awesome! (It's basically a suite-like room, with a small kitchen)). So I felt rather silly thinking that when they both told me that she probably won't get to come home to the house here til March 9th, or a bit later.
Yeah, me, neither. But then again, as I've gotten older, I don't deal with the cold and the snow very well myself. So I don't blame your GF one little bit about hating it! I'm ready for spring now myself!
Yeah, that sounds a lot like where I used to live in southerrn Missouri, where the snowplows getting to the backroads is concerned. Howell and Shannon Counties were really bad about slacking on keeping the dirt-roads clean in the winter, but they really got into a bunch of trouble back in the mid-90's (yeah, that's been quite awhile ago; it was when my oldest niece was still in school) when a bunch of the local schools had to call off classes for longer than they should have had to. They got their respective tails chewed Modot for not doing what they were supposed to on that. Which was only right and proper.
The sad thing is, they still do that every now and again. The jerks.
Oh, I do, and I plan on continuing to. Don't knbow what they changes are that you two came up with, but I'm more than anxious to see what you have it store for us.
5638266 hey no problem but I'm surprised no one pointed it out that's what made me think it was a ploy to see if anyone was paying attention to the story
5638287 Oops, sorry, but still if you want to see her meet Twilight in the story I'd be happy to add her. It could even provide some support for Twilight as she has some experience with it.
5638438 Thanks, I love hearing who everyone's favorites are. Even if I don't really care for a pony a lot, I can't really say there is any that I outright hate. So if I seem that I am bashing a character in one of my stories if you ever come across it, it's solely to advance the story and not because I'm bashing them for the fun of it. (Just a heads up lol)
I'm glad that she's doing great.
Sorry that she does't get to come 'home' home, but it sounds like the suite might be kind of nice. Maybe she can look at it as kind of a vacation in a way so that it might help her deal with having to be there. Hopefully she will get much better faster though so she doesn't have to wait so long to come back to the house, but don't want her to rush either and get sick, so we will keep her and your family in our prayers.
ODOT, or whatever it's called has had some complaining lately as well, but I kind of don't think they really care half the time. They promise to do better, but I never see it. I wanted to get a chapter out yesterday, but some stuff came up so I'm hoping today or tomorrow at the latest. I have some plans with my gf this weekend, but I should actually still get a chapter or two out during the weekend as well.
5638818 lol I guess you have a point, but I guess most people probably corrected it in their mind as they read or knew it was a mistake lol. Just glad it was pointed out and I could fix it.