When Twilight was sent to improve relations with the Griffon Kingdom due to a glacier running through the sea that divides the two kingdoms, she was more than a little excited. However, when she and her friends landed on the shores of Griffonstone, Twilight realised this mission might not be as leisurely as she might have hoped. As nice as the griffons were, and as much as her friends were enjoying the "vacation", Twilight couldn't help but be entranced by the titanic ice sheet in the water. Could anyone else hear it talking? How is ice talking? And why... why does it sound exactly like her?
(For context, this book takes place somewhere in the middle of season 5 of the show, but after episode 8.)
Chapters (45)
Well, it's Dark + Horror + Mystery so I know I'll like it. excited to follow this
Ok this is a good start. The mane six are all mostly in character. Let’s see what you do with this!
Interesting... you have my attention.
Interesting update. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
foreshadowing???What they need is a penguin in a sled-launched aircraft to ram the wall and break it
(did anyone get that)
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lol. too bad they don't have old flash games in Equestria.
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I don't get it. What's overdue talking about?
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If I'm correct, they're referencing Learn To Fly, which was an old flash game about a penguin trying to break a glacier by flying into it really fast.
I’m interested to learn what’s talking to twilight from the ice!
Time flies when ... there's nothing to compare it to ...
Same.
Ok this is a interesting turn. Let’s see what happens next!
Thank you for the update and I hope to read more soon and see how twilight helps her alternate self!
Hmmmm, magical 'Ice IX' or maybe 'Ice X'
Twilight really agreed with that? it looks like she's being mentally affected already
Hey, at least Equestria now has a tower to space for free.
So I'm guessing no pony was allowed to talk then.
I hope that actually happens.
Also so far I keep seeing it approximately like this:
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A cold, much older Twilice and her "puppet".
For some reason I keep seeing her ship with Cadance later.
All hail our God-empress Cadance.
Is she ever going to tell Cadance how much her other self loves her?
Then they wipe away Twilight while Twilice just sits back and go: "That was easy."
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Yooo I didn't even notice that.
I'm terrible at commenting on this story, but it's become one of my all time favorite mystery novels.
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That may be a spelling mistake, but I'm not sure. Also, have you looked at the chapter titles? :D Very clever :D
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I'm glad you like the story so much! I didn't expect anyone to read this thing, so it's nice to see people like it!
I'm also bad at commenting on things, but I always appreciate hearing what people have to say about my work, positive or negative.
Just asking for clarification, is Twilight 'somehow' already forget her prior discussion with Gillian?
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Yes, this happened between chapters. I apologize if that isn't really made clear.
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I thought that wasn't even her talking to Gillian.
I hope this isn't the last time we see Cadance.
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It won't be, don't worry.
I don't know about this memory wiping thing. It seems to make Twilight more paranoid.
She even swore on Boiuna, not Celestia. That doesn't sound good. Whatever plan Twilight makes up, it better be good.
Yes. Thinking is bad for you. Embrace it like a good mare.
If this somehow veers into Twilice x Cadance given the lack of a death tag, I'm faving it.
Corrupt Twilice's mind with thoughts of friendship.
Then recording was invented and it changed everything.
Also I keep imagining him as a male Twilight for some reason.
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It's actually very hard to find a picture of an evil looking male Twilight annoyingly.
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I've been thinking about drawing Twilice just for the heck of it, but I really really wanna finish this story before I go branching off doing anything else. Might get around to it eventually.
Okay, now you're just torturing us with these murderously short chapters :P
That was fast.
Sammakött, meaning "Same meat" and Forzoa meaning "The force"...?
Oh lord.
Rip dreams of god empress Cadance.
There's gotta be some kind of mental mechanic at work here. The ice moving on its own and branching out like that in such a blatant and intelligent manner means that everyone involved would have been aware of it long before now, but seemingly only Pinkie and Twilight noticed. With Twilight only figuring it out after Pinkie basically forced her to acknowledge it. It's like the ice has some sort of SEP (someone else's problem) field lol.
Huh, it's kind of bizarre that she's hiding the voice considering it seems pretty obvious that it's the main reason they're over there to begin with. And, "They'll just think she's gone crazy" doesn't work because they trust Twilight, know that magic can do some pretty wild stuff, and already have experience with other worlds (if the movies are canon here at least) and things like mind reading (helping Luna by going into their dreams). So her hiding what happened just seems out of place.
Only a few chapters into the story and already I ship Twilight and Gillian.
Eh, at this point I might stop here. It's an interesting premise and pretty well written, but the characterization has just been rubbing me the wrong way. Everyone just seems really callous and kind of mean spirited for no real reason and most of the conflict so far just seems incredibly contrived. It's happened more and more over the chapters, but this is one part that just leaped out at me. So they've all been seeing their best friend (practically family) weirdly rambling about things like destroying and avenging and they just write it off?!
They've dealt with mind control and impersonators and basically a million other things that should be setting off red flags for every last one of them and they just aren't doing anything. At this point when I see them reveal things Twilight has been doing and just antagonize each other all I can do is roll my eyes. There's so much good here and it's interesting, but I just don't really like the execution I guess.
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That's a more than fair criticism. This is my first story, and considering it involves six characters that had nine seasons worth of character development, it can be a difficult tightrope to walk (though it's unbecoming to make excuses). Upon looking at my older chapters, it's very easy to see that, and it's something I should be sure to improve upon later.
Either way, Thanks for reading my story and sharing your opinions. I apologize that it wasn't entirely to your liking, but I'll be sure to try better next time.
Cadance sure has weird skeletons in her closet.
Didn't expect it to end on a cliffhanger.
Something wrong here. Twilight will not notice, is she?
So... The spell, that was supposed to enclose Twilice in the ice. A lot of creatures, wounded presumably the army of the Crystal Empire in the same ice. Twilice, do you want to tell us anything?
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Yeah, too many obvious things that no one pays attention to. For example, Cadance, who talk about the importance of send a letter to Celestia. She won’t think of writing it herself, is she?
- Ok, we have a dangerous monster that hides in the forest and only one of us can fight him, what should we do?
- Let's split up!
- Oh, this is a great plan!