Lets pretend that, for whatever reason, Shining Armor never fell in love with Cadance. Lets also pretend that during the events of Season 2, Twilight's brother had found a somewhat different bride...
I wonder what that would've looked like.
Special thanks to nomotag for proofreading!
Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnn. This was a really good story, I hope you make a sequel.
OTP wedding with a cliffhanger? SEQUEL N-O-W!!!
This story just screams more. A prequel would be great.
Well that was... different. But also rather nice! I wonder how Twilight feels about the fate of her ex-foalsitter in all this.
Thought this was Shining x Celestia at first, and was excited.
Then realized it was not, and was sad.
Then the story was awesome, and was excited again. Good show!
Your formatting broke down on the last several paragraphs.
It looks like something interesting is going to happen soon, seems like the perfect first chapter of a series, but as a one-shot it feels like it didn't have enough like the story isn't complete. Generally speaking squeal baiting is kind of annoying in stories that don't feel complete.
This fic, I like it.
ANOTHER!
Damn...
Why do all the good fics stop after one chappy?
I implore you my friend, keep going! This is a pretty original piece of fiction and I am most happy to have read it
Here's hoping for more!
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If it gets over 20 faves, I'll start work on a second chapter. Ok?
I'm actually crying a little bit. That was a beautiful story.
We're gonna need a sequel for this. Definitely.
When I saw the character tags I thought at first that Shining was going to marry Celestia. Which would be, different.
But that was and interesting. And, cliffhanger.
This is great! I love the idea and it's funny! There was just one problem. You need an editor. I found many errors. I would be willing to lend a hand if you need it.
P.S. Can I make the prequel to this story? You know, the story before it. I want to tell the story of the war and how they met and all that based off of what you said.
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Please, go ahead.
sequel por favor? :)
<3
Perspective flip! I LOVE it!
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Good god, man!!! For the love of all that is sacred and holy in this world, GIVE US A SEQUEL (or make this an actual story and not a one-shot)!!!!!!!!
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Say "Pretty please".
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Pretty please with whipped cream, marshallows, and a cherry on top?
What, you thought I wouldn't? I want this!
This is to good to not get more content, sequel! Sequel!
I imagine their kids will looke a bit like my avatar...
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!
Kidding!
You definitely wrote something original. Which begs the question: Who put Cadence in the caverns? Was it still Chrysalis? Hmmm???
4525515 Actually that's a fair question.
Welp, there's 51 favorites here my friend.
Better get acrackalacking with that sequel
4519501 Well now you better get busy then huh? You were looking for 20 but you got triple that plus 1. Quite an awesome story. Though a little unnerving to see a psychotically insane Cadence with an obsession for Shining Armor. I'm gonna feel sorry for them when they have to deal with her. Especially Twilight if despite this being an AU, Cadence was still the best foalsitter ever to her. Makes you wonder through, why is she in the caverns then? who put her there and why?
hi hi
Dear Cadence: don't be a creeper. Nopony likes a creeper.
4525515 Maybe she put herself there, like its her evil lair.
This is how it should have been in the first place. Love transcends fear, differences, love conquers all, Chrysalis should have been his wife all along. The wife he choose. Could have made best episode even better.
This...I teared up during their vows. I'm not going to shout sequel like these stereotypes, rather I would like a prequel. Not them meeting, not earning each others trust(that has already been mentioned) but maybe them going to Canterlot together for the first time. Shining getting Celestia, Twilight and others to trust Chrysy, and maybe Cadance throwing a fit saying just what she's thinking to the bride and groom. Maybe? That would be a longer story, or several short (5-6Kwords each) ones scattered.
Also, I can't listen to "Here Comes the Bride" so I played this instead. I think it's better wedding music anyway.
btw, did Twilight's friends do their tasks like in the canon version?
4525515 no one. Cadence was madly in love with Shining Armor, but never had the courage to say anything about it. After she had heard that he was missing in action, perhaps even dead, she sealed herself underneath Canterlot, in the mines, and she wept for sixty days, eves, and nights. after which she had no more tears to cry. But, when she tried to leave, she found that she had laid her spells too well, and couldn't escape. She was an alicorn, so sustenance was not a problem. she could physically survive on next to nothing longer than most live naturally.
Her mind was not so fortified.
She found she could find out about the goings on in canterlot from underneath using powerful hearing spells and, to a limited degree, vision spells, but she couldn't communicate. She was already unstable from thinking that Shining Armor had been dead for two months, so when he returned, not only with another mare, but with plans to marry her, Cadence's last shard of mind broke. She's been down there every since, mad as a hatter, planning a revenge that could very well become a couple centuries too late.
4524738 'Pretty please'
NOW GIVE US THAT CELESTIA-DAMNED SEQUEL!!!!
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Is it strange that i want both a sequel..But, First, i want a Prequel?
Lovely story. I love how you had the explanation of how it came to be in the vows.
Pretty please can we have a sequel to this? What would come later, with a maddened Cadance and a returning Crystal Empire in the near future, with a demon king of hatred hitching a ride, would make for very interesting things.
Please?
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Have you ever read and/or watched Stephen King's Misery...?
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I've heard of it.
4533246 I said that already. But yes, that would be much better than a sequel.
4539335 ...........Okaaay?
Unnecessary confrontation?
.... wat?
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And I came in expecting a Shining x Twilight fic. Lol.
Interesting. Liked.
Drop the closing quote and add an opening quote in front of "In".
Demoted to princess, bummer.
There were quite a few grammar errors I spotted. I only picked one since I am kinda tired, but there were no spaces after periods, a formatting error in the last sentence, and some other quotation errors. The story itself was enjoyable, but I feel we need more insight into what went wrong with Cadance and just how bad the break up was.
4519501 How many more favs are needed?
4524738 I kinda like this as a One Shot, BUT at the same time it could make for a compelling story. If you started with Shinning and Cadance before he went to the badlands and then somehow explained how Cadance got her horn broken and went from there it could be very intersting.
And then the hole thing later on with the Crystal empire, now that would be one heck of an intersting story!
Ah yes, Murphy's Law, makes sense that it would be the guard's rule of thumb.
Cadance's treatment is a bit.. inexplicable and OOC, and while i can imagine Chrysalis doing so as you've explained why, the snippet really needs to explain why Cadance has gone... bat crazy.
Another fantastically awesome story from your amazingly skilled quill, yet another crying out for a sequel.
Weddings will do that to you.
Here comes the Bride sounds a little different in the pony world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8
Wasn't expecting that the first time, but it was a pleasant surprise.
And who's been running one of those kingdom's for a thousand plus years? This is on you Celestia.
All. On. You, Celestia.
I'll say it again, this would have made a much better episode than what we got.
There's a part of you she's still going to suck dry, but you are going to want it empty too.
...I don't cry at weddings. I don't cry at weddings...
This has been my headcanon since last year.
I love happy endings.
Good thing someone kept that crazy bint Cadance away.
Guess which two ponies are losing their V Cards tonight?
With this being such a big event, you would think the 'Lings would show up in their true forms.
This day is going to be perfect,
The kind of day which I dreamed since I was small.
Everpony will gather 'round.
Say I look lovely in my gown.
What they know is Chrysalis loves them all.
This day has been perfect,
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small.
Now when having cake,
With all my friends to celebrate,
Those wedding bells will ring and be heard by all.
I could care less about the dress, I shall partake of all the cake.
Vows, I won't be lying when I sa-ay, That through any kind of weather,
I'll want us to be together, the truth is I care for him above a-all!
Yes I so love the groom, my heart beats for him,
Very soon he will be, all mi-i-ine!
Good for you Cadance, admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving them. People have been calling you a whorse for years, now you see the truth.
Because this shows the power of her love people. This shows her to be the Princess of Obsession.
There was an editing glitch here. You did not finish the start of the italics, nor finish it so the text is not slanted.
Now that was beautiful! Princess Chrysalis is best Princess!!
Pretty please.
So is there gonna be a sequel?