After the once Great and Powerful showmare Trixie Lulamoon fails to take her own life, she falls into a comatose state, and shows no signs of waking up any time soon.

Twilight Sparkle vows not to leave Trixie's side until she wakes up. If she wakes up at all.

Warning: This is a sadfic. It does not have a happy ending. You have been warned.

For years Trixie has been living with a secret that has drove her to challenge Twilight Sparkle for the title of Equestria's greatest magician. Till now, no pony knew what that drive was, and once it is learned, can things ever be the same for them again? Or will this revelation bring about a change? Whether if it is for better or worse is for fate to decide.

My second entry for the Everfree Northwest 2014 Writing Contest

Featured on 2/27/14

Note- The story isn't that dark.

This story was written with my friend, Godzillawolf. After stumbling upon a homeless Trixie, Twilight tries to help her get a new job in Ponyville. However, an unexpected visitor to the town wants to leave Trixie homeless and feeding off scraps. Checker Monarch is set on ruining everything Trixie does, for reasons not yet explained. Trixie must discover new friends and must face this old danger through new eyes.

"If you are so eager to re-enter the physical world, Richtofen. I will grant you that wish!"

Richtofen was torn from the MPD by Maxis, and put back in a physical body. Thats not as bad as death, right? Unfortunately for Richtofen, Maxis has a cruel sense of humor. Richtofen is now stuck in an equine body known as a pony, and if thats not bad enough, these other ponies know nothing of death and violence! And they want to be friends with him! These ponies seem friendly though, maybe he can manipulate them into getting a few artifacts...

(Note: Full Maxis conversation can be found here. No, you can't play zombies with me.)

"I'm just trying to get on with my life, but these ponies won't stop saying they know me, even though I've never met them in my life. Is a little peace and quiet too much to ask for around here?"

Possible Twixie Rarixie.

Updates will not be frequent.

Whilst Magic Duel ended better than I thought it would (thank Celestia Trixie was not turned into a full-time villain), I felt that the ending was lacking two things:

1) Twilight knew that Trixie was having rough times, but did not offer a friendly hoof towards Trixie. Isn't Twilight supposed to be learning the wonderous magic of friendship?

2) No Pinkie party for Trixie? Yes, Pinkie seemed a little more aggressive towards Trixie than she usually is, but she offered Gilda a party, so why not Trixie?

Granted the ep only had 22 minutes to fill, but still... So, yeah, this is sort of an extended ending dealy for Magic Duel. I may also make some new Trixie stories using this a base, after some of my current stories are done.

A/N: Not sure what to tag this, so I'm tagging Slice of Life for now. What do you all think?

Trixie has been run out of Ponyville twice. Since then, finding meals and somewhere to sleep has been a struggling challenge for the former show mare. When she ends up stumbling into Ponyville once again, she finds herself waking up in the homestead of the pony who had caused a lot of her troubles. The town's local librarian, Twilight Sparkle.

The two soon form beautiful friendship that buds into something more. How exactly do you tell you friends that you are in love with the pony that enslaved their town? Let's just say this does not end up well for either of them.