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Twilight Sparkle has been an alicorn for one hundred and fifty years; not a day passes with out her thinking of her long lost friends. Their descendants still stay close by, but it's not the same. Only Rainbow Dash's descendant, Sky Blitz, seems to want to maintain interaction with the violet alicorn.

After Celestia and Luna witness another visit to the graveyard by Twilight, they fear she may be losing her mental stability and wish to do something about it. However, Celestia's idea may not be the best. Can another pony who's experienced the same loss help Twilight move on and live her life without remorse?

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Hmm.. I am likely what I see so far. How will Twilight deal?

read “Apple Jack, Element of Loyalty”. with a slight flap of her wings, Twilight lifted herself up and turned to leave.

something wrong there... :twilightoops:

Edit: I am still reading it, that one was just kinda glaring, I only just spotted another error... I will add more as I go.

The white furred, cyan manned pegasus

maned*

“I don’t wanna talk abut it, Sky. I’ve been hurting all day.”

missing a 'o' in about

just finished the first chapter pretty good so far :twilightsmile:

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yay free proof reading lol. thx i'll correct them soon. and as for that first one you pointed out...i keep correcting it yet it keeps reappearing...stupid computers.

Wow, Celestia, such fail! Luna probably had a similar reaction and I doubt it caused her to go all Nightmare Moon. I think Twilight Sparkle is allowed some moping.

I found a bunch of misspellings... :derpytongue2: I think there might be some grammatical problems too, but the spelling issues are worse.

This chapter:

Engraved on its surface sat a lightening bolt jutting out from the underside of a cloud. Above the symbol read Rainbow Dash, element of Loyalty.

* lightning

I'd recommend rephrasing the above like this:
Above the symbol, a lightning bolt jutting out from the underside of a cloud, the engraved text read 'Rainbow Dash, element of Loyalty'.

Cadence stood behind her friend, a look of sorry expressed on her snout.

* sorrow?, worry?

“And nor should you. Twilight…I miss Shining Armor more than anything else, but I can't let it affect me. I have a kingdom to run, just like Celestia and Luna. The same is expected of you, as Arch-Unicorn of Canterlot, and the element of Magic, it is your duty to watch over the kingdom’s spells.”

I wouldn't start that sentence with 'And', it sounds weird. Also, the same can't be expected of Twilight since what she is ostensibly Princess of isn't a Kingdom. Also, why do spells need watching over. It sounds a bit vacuous. You may want to find something more substantial that she should be paying attention to or find a way to rephrase that so it sounds less silly.

Cadence sat her young friend back up and stepped back. “Do you want to go back inside?” she asked. Twilight wiped a way a tear with a now well drenched hoof and made a solomn nod.

* away, solemn

young?! Well, relatively.

Without any exchange of words, the two mares meandered into the castle, through the halls and finnaly ending at Twilight’s chambers. There Sky Blitz was sitting outsaide, waiting imprssivly patiend for them to arrive. She was bouncing an old rubber ball off the wall untill she saw the two alicorns come up the winding staircase.

* finally, outside, impressively, patient/patience, until

I'd recommend rephrasing to something like these:
'patiently waiting for them to arrive'
'waiting for them to arrive with impressive patience'

they entered the Starswirled the Beareded wing and Celestia didn’t even have to go down any aisles.

* Starswirl, Bearded

“Indeed he is. Before you came to life, little sister, mother told me a story of how he was able to raise and lower the sun and moon without any help. I rememebr her telling me tales of how he, when younger, would mischievously lower the sun in midday, to have a laugh at grandmother.

* remember

It seems unlikely that Luna would be totally in the dark. Would make more sense that she knew of him somehow, but didn't connect the dots since she wouldn't have the perspective.

“Indeed he did. He created the Elements of Harmony that not only destroyed the demonic creatur’s doorway to our world, but also sealed him inside.

* creature

With her horn aglo, books began to dance down the aisls and land infron of the regal pony of day.

* aglow, aisles, in front

Celstia said as she spun the book around for Luna to see the depicted imige. “Galaxy Sparkle the Gifted. He was, in mom and dad’s openion, the most powerful unicorn to have ever lived on this planet. He also was the first unicorn to become an alicorn.”

* Celestia, image, opinion

“As time passed, his friends grew old, and then died naturally. The comfort of their decendednts didn’t last long as he continued to mourn the loss of the friends he had made to create the Elments of Harmony. Giddy Pie, Apple Blossim, Tornado Dash, Secret Gem, and High Shy.

* descendants, Elements, Blossom?

Just as an aside, it feels a little tacky to give the past Elements of Harmony (or proto-elements) such eerily similar names.

“Then would Twilight Sparkle be destend to follow the same path?”

* destined

“Oh, Dusk Bell…it’s just you…” he said in relife.

* relief

Rarety, the unicorn that had stolen his heart at a yong age was buried in the nearby graveyard.

* Rarity, young

“Even though I never retunred your love, Spiky-wikey…you were the best friend any mare could have had. Twilight is lucky to have a friend like you, who will live as long as her. Keep her close to you Spike, and never lose her friendship.”

* returned

** There may be other errors in the first two chapters, but I don't want to try and hunt them all down right at this moment.

Unless you wrote this on a phone or something, you might want to run your writing through spellcheck in the future.

P.S.
When you make Twilight into Twilight's you end up with the possessive rather than the apparently intended contraction of 'Twilight is'. You should leave it as the latter. You could also make it 'Twilight was', provided the rest of the words' tenses agree.

P.P.S.
Feels a tad bit cliche, but not so bad thus far. That is, it follows the well worn track of Twilight being depressed over the inevitable loss of her friends to Time's endless onward, unceasing march. Celestia seems awful hasty to turn Twilight into a statue. Almost like she's more worried about what Twilight might do in her grief than Twilight's actual well being. It makes Celestia's characterization seem not quite right. You might want to bring in some more stories of the past to help ground that point if you're going to keep on with this train of thought. Other instances that would give credence to her concern. The notion that many of Twilight Sparkle's descendants ascended or could have and they died an effective suicide of grief (I'm being very general, since they sort of killed themselves in a way) is sort of a flop otherwise.

I think that freeing Twilight of the other elements would make sense as something that might improve her condition, story wise. Being the other elements as well may tie her to the past a bit too strongly and force her to experience Loyalty to them and Kindness to herself and so on. Clearly laughter isn't well represented. Also, I can't see Luna or Cadence letting Celestia turn Twilight into a statue, so they'd be the obvious antagonist if Celestia were to go down that road...

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