A huge mixture of things is making me put this story on hiatus. At the moment and in my mind it is cancelled, but there is the slimmest chance where I might do something with this story again.

If I revisit any parts of this, it would most likely involve a complete rewrite from chapter one or simply be a new story with similar elements, events, and/or characters.

Before I explain why, I want to say sorry that I dragged it out before choosing to do this. I've had this feeling of just stopping since sometime in between the second and third chapter, but I hate not finishing things so I stupidly charged ahead in hopes of getting past the feeling.

Now as to why (since I don't like leaving things unexplained):

I hit a point where what was written left me wonderfully disgruntled. Rather than writing out chapters, I mostly coughed them out painfully and/or slowly, hoping that I'd fix it along the way. In between having changed the middle and end four or so times now, I feel (i.e., will unflinchingly believe forever) what I finally settled on made the first half a waste of words. That and the belief of the first ending was almost worse than Twilight (not the adorkable unicorn). Every time I found an ending I liked, I realized everything before a point still had almost nothing to do with it or failed to build up to it in a decent way at all.

So among attempts to fix everything and unsuccessfully charting a new path, I find no motivation to continue this as it is, but may take it and make something completely new from the corpse it has become. If I do eventually find a way keep the first half relevant and decide continue Trixie's story, I will come back to it. I Pinkie Pie swear with all the cupcakes in the world on that.

Sorry all, but I haven't even started the next chapter and will be off the grid for a couple of weeks. I will try to get it done as soon as possible and hope to be able to write following parts quickly.

Enjoy the remainder of your summers (or winters).

The fourth chapter is out. Enjoy more Trixie and pals.

Also, I went through the first chapter and tried to rewrite it a little bit, trim some of the fat, and change the voice a bit. Nothing remotely important has changed, but I deemed it necessary to do some quality control on it while my "editor" reviewed the fourth.

To those whom I made wait an excessive time for chapter 2:

I apologize. I understand it might seem irresponsible to take a month to write ~3000 words, and I assure you it did not take all this time to write it (only took the last few days actually). School had become excruciatingly consuming of my time for the 3 weeks after submitting chapter 1. So, I'm sorry for the terribly long wait and will try to make it up by pushing out a few chapters in relatively rapid succession now that I will have a good block of free time before my schedule becomes busy (no where to the level of last month hopefully) once again.

So, for those of you who want see the next chapter before it I decide it is finalized for publishing, you may join me on the Google Docs page here. It is currently at stage of second/final edits and small changes to diction and missed error, but the current part of the story will not change unless I decide it absolutely must.

Also, it has comments enabled in the event that you want to raise direct questions to me, on apart in particular, or even help with small grammar errors if you wish to do so (I do have others who will aid with this).