Chrysalis is dying and she has but one thought on her mind. When she is gone from the world, who will care for the one thing in the world she values above life itself?

What will she sacrifice? How much of her pride will be thrown aside? To what lengths will she go to ensure her daughter's life? Will she beg a mortal enemy for mercy, not for herself but for an innocent foal? She is already willing to die for her child so what else could she give to be certain of the filly's sustained happiness?

This is my entry for the EFNW 2014 Writing Contest. I'm really happy with it so it doesn't matter whether I win or not. Seriously I'm glad I got to tell this story.

Alright big shout out time. As of March 13, 2014 the impeccable Goombasa has posted this... HERE ... Now that a YouTube fanfiction reader has read one of my stories I am one step closer to world domination!

New big shout out time! As of August 28, 2018 the lovely CountessRose has posted this HERE ... Now that a second YouTube fanfiction reader has read the same story as last time, I am yet another step closer to worlds domination!

Now on to the important details, the shout outs to the artists responsible for the vectors and background I used to make the cover art.
The Chrysalis Vector
The Celestia Vector
The Background
Many thanks to them.

My name is Kadie, and when I was eight years old, my people, the griffins, went to war with the ponies of Equestria. My mother never wanted me to think about that, so she never talked about it. The Emperor told my father that he had to go off and fight the ponies, though, so I know that she thought about it a lot.

A few months after I turned ten, a messenger came into our town and told us that our emperor didn't want to fight anymore, so the ponies won, and we lost. Mother said that since we lived so close to our capital, we needed to go see the pony army meet our emperor.

I did not like that.

Edited wonderfully by Prak

Trixie had planned to have a quiet night under the open stars without Ursa Minors, enchanted amulets, and especially not other ponies to bother her. When a scroll turns up and commands her to attend the Princess for a night of deeply inappropriate fun, she just has one particular problem:

There’s more than one princess in Equestria.

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Story is set a couple of weeks after the end of season 3.

Massive thanks to my pre-readers/ideas tasters: Bronetheus, Mooncalf and RK_Striker_JK_5. Go check out Night Errantry, To Romance a Magician and Spanner in the Works for three great fics that are well worth your time.

Image composition was done by me, vectors used from left to right are from blueathombomb, nickman983, chamomiletung, santafer and andreamelody.

By Royal Command now has an unofficial sequel/inspired by fic written not by myself in the form of Waiting for Celestia.

Harvest Peach is a mindreader. Aside from that, things aren't going so well for him. He just found out that he's been assigned to a job he doesn't want in the old hometown that he ran away from. His new partner is a lycan. Plus, there's been an unusual string of murders.

But hey, there's nothing like going home, right?

Editing by metalIusionismagic

It's been a month. I lost her one month ago today. Noticing my distress, Princess Celestia said I should try and write a letter to my lost companion whenever I am feeling down or if I find I'm missing her very much. Here I shall compile the letters, in hopes that one day she may read them.

I'm sorry, Princess Celestia. I have failed you as a student, and I have failed you as a friend.

Spacetime accidents-
A foreign invasion-
Friends with stuff to haul-

The new 2013 Applejack can handle all this and more!

Celestia who? That tall, awkward schoolfilly?

Twilight finds the sports section of an ancient newspaper. The pony on the front page looks strangely familiar...

Fluttershy thought she would like her job, but years of drudgery and abuse have slowly broken her spirit. That changes when she is sent to the tropics to escort a rare bird to its owner. Unknown to her, danger lurks behind the blue seas and sandy beaches. Fluttershy may have been betrayed, abandoned, and kidnapped by pirates, yet she's never felt more free.

A crossover with Black Lagoon