Dealing with loss is never easy. 

Ponies can lose a lot of things - loved ones, pets, houses, jobs. For Twilight Sparkle, though, her biggest loss is a limb. 

Her right wing is gone. Lost in battle, Twilight struggles with her changed body, confusing feelings and a crushing lack of hope.

And in the midst of it all, she wonders if sheʼll ever truly recover. 

Behind-the-page: To Lose & To Heal
Written for: Bicyclette’s A Thousand Words II Contest - Drama
Proofread & edited by: JinxJTL
Review: Nightmare_Omega
Featured in: Equestria Daily, 30 More Fanfics to Read for Twilight Sparkle Day

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The princess just finished her last task for the day. Spike is out of the castle on an official errand. You know how to slip by the guards without drawing attention to yourself. Everything is falling into place.

You have business to take care of, but you'll have to do the unthinkable first: You have to kidnap Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Uhh... why?

Everypony knows that Celestia is the princess of Equestria. She's been one for as long as anypony could remember, and she will probably be for generations to come. Some would even argue that there is no 'Celestia' without the 'princess' before it.

And yet, this morning Celestia has no idea why she is a princess, and her subjects have no idea why she isn't being one.

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Art by ImDaKosmos. Special thanks to Mica for helping me out a lot!

An accident causes Celestia to end up in a frontier town amid the wilderness without her memories, leaving Twilight Sparkle feeling devastated as Luna tries to help her—plus, there's a little mystery to solve.

Certain TAGS that apply to this story are spoilers and will be added only when the relevant chapters make them unavoidable—there IS a mystery to reveal in due time, after all. Have fun figuring it out

My other two stories are pretty good sized and I've been bouncing between them on posting chapters. But since those chapters are rather large and highly detailed, I thought to post this in increments to pass the time. This is story is completely unrelated to my others and it has considerably few chapters, with a new chapter to be posted about 1/wk.

Okay, a few words about the points to award:
1 point for the first one to guess the origin of the "crossover" in this story -- that's way too easy.
5 points for the first one guessing who Tumbleweed is from that "crossover" series -- not so easy
10 points for first one who guesses Filly's partner prior to Ch 6;
5 points for first one to guess who she is if no one has by Ch 6 but before Ch 7;
0 points if after, because the answer will have been given.
25 points for first one who guesses the overall mystery of the story prior to Ch 10;
15 points for first one to guess what's going on if no one has by Ch 10 but before Ch 11;
0 points if after, because the answer will have been given.
Again, just have fun

oh, and a bonus of 20 points to whoever can guess the "crossover" that's referenced in "Night the Lights Went Out in Canterlot"

Picture source: http://www.melodyranchstudio.com/

Right Angle, Ponyville's resident building inspector, has seen a lot of strange domiciles in his life. Twilight Sparkle's castle, however, just might be the strangest.

The castle seems to think so, too.

Inspired by a discussion with the lovely Perfectly Insane. A big thank you to ChudoJogurt, gapty, and AllThatShimmers for prereading.

Ko-Fi. Y'know. If you feel like it.

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The End of Harmony, once shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, is at last bought to light through a series of letters discovered in the shattered ruins of a castle long abandoned to the earth.

Yet those letters reveal not just a lost history, but an uncomfortable truth that puts to rest a mythos millennia in the making, to part space for something new.

While exploring the beach of Maretime Bay, a young Sunny Starscout discovers a locket in the sand. Though old and worn, she feels that this item holds some significant meaning to the ancient past of Equestria. Little does she know how right she is, but not in the way one might think.

This story is a sequel to The Enchanted Kingdom

Hello!

I am completely restarting this story as an entirely new story to go live sometime soon. Go here for more info!

Once upon a time, there was a mare who did not believe in fairytales, and a very different mare who did not believe in herself. Their lives intertwined, weaving together a fairytale like no other, filled with chaos and love, friends and enemies, adventures and tragedies. A fairytale they felt would last forever. But it couldn't.

Be it with a bang or with a whisper, everything eventually must come to an end, whether we like it or not—their story is no different.

With nothing left to lose and everything to gain, all Rarity and Twilight can do is make sure it's an ending worth telling.

Final story in The Enchanted Trilogy.

I have moved on from Fimfiction but The Enchanted Carousel is still actively being written and published over on my personal website TALES FROM HOLLOW SHADES!

If you like my work and can afford it, please consider joining my Patreon! Funds go to paying for the chapter artworks and paying the artists more! And also helping me pay my rent ,,,,

Cover art by the fantastic Dawnfire. Chapter artworks by the incredible Arcticwaters.

When Luna reconnects with Twilight, Cadence, and Flurry Heart for the first time in decades, she realizes that she is short. Celestia has a little fun at her expense.

This story is a sequel to Your Faithful Disciple

Izzy Moonbow has always been a dreamer. Her imagination is boundless, and her energy bottomless. Most of her family and friends have learned to take what she says with a grain of salt. So when Izzy starts talking about her dream of the mare with the mane made of stardust, most everypony goes on with their lives. Magical manes? Alicorn princesses? Myths; relics of bygone history. 

But Izzy knows that Luna is real. And Luna has a dream…

A Chinese translation by forgivenlove is available here here. | 这里有forgivenlove的中文翻译。

Part 2 of Equestrian Scions, which began with Your Faithful Disciple and continues with To Be a Princess.

[08/13 - 8/16] - Made it into the featured box at some point during the quiet hours of late night/early morning and was still there two days later. Thank you.

Cover art by pkbunny, used without explicit permission; if the use of the image offends, I will gladly remove it.