A mother will do a lot for her child, even give them up if it meant them having a safer life growing up, despite the obvious pain that comes for the parent.

That pain is something Queen Chrysalis has gone through for eighteen years, but now the time is upon them, and she wants her daughter back. Even if that means invading Canterlot during a royal wedding.

Edited by RC2101_Copey
New cover art was created by the talented Jesuka
Now has a TVtropes page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Change
Go watch the reading by Skijaramaz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecqtu_Djrw4

(Featured on 18/10/2015, the first day! Thank you!)

Change is now a printed book, information here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/732008/i-got-a-thing-change-is-now-a-physical-book

Just one mistake. Twilight had underestimated Nightmare Moon. When she reaches the map and tries to preform the spell again, a powerfull blast seperates her and Spike from the scroll, which lands somewhere in the bushes. Twilight and Spike get captured in seperate places. Now the Alicorn has to find a way to get out of the dungeons, let alone save Spike. Twilight knows, she needs more information on this world. And what role do Mademoiselle Rarity and Captain Rainbow Dash play? Can they help her? Can Twilight befriend these harsh two to get a way to freedom? And will Nightmare notice?

Everything in the current Equestria is all because Rainbow Dash performed a Sonic Rainboom. But what if she didn't. If, for some reason, there was no race. There was no Sonic Rainboom. What then?

This story focuses on, what I believe, is what would happen to Twilight under those circumstances, and hence is headcanon.

Dark magic is a powerful and banned art believed to be long forgotten. Unbeknownst to the common Equestrian citizen, that art is very much alive and practiced in secret by less harmonious individuals. These ponies are part of a hidden society that has long opposed Celestia and her reign for well over a millennium, fighting a secret war away from the eyes of the Equestria's ignorant individuals.

When a necromancer, a vampire, and a ghost must abandon their home upon discovery, they find refuge in the town of Ponyville where they can continue their morally questionable practices. But with the inquisitive Elements of Harmony nearby, they soon find it harder and harder to hide their darkest secrets.

Slowly but surely, Twilight and her friends are drawn into their world, showing Equestria's true colors in the process; caught within a battle between light and dark. Will Twilight and her friends find fiends of pure malice or will they discover ponies with scarred and broken hearts?

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First story, feed back is appreciated and is my pride and joy!

FIRST FEATURED 3/16/2015

All Twilight had to do was finish Starswirl the Bearded's final spell. She didn't have to become undead, seal her soul in the Elements of Harmony, or enlist her friends in an effort to fix everything... but you have to play the hand you're dealt.

Even if it's rotting off.

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Big ups to Themaskedferret for all her support on this story.

A few hours after saving the Friendship Games, Sunset Shimmer and her good friend Twilight Sparkle are relaxing on the CHS lawn. The two are so close that Sunset finally feels like she can ask a question that's been on her mind for a while.

"Can I go home?"

Garble conquers the Gauntlet of Fire becomes the Dragon Lord. He then promptly goes ahead with his plan to invade Equestria. Bad idea.

Twilight wants to know. She wants knowledge. What scholar doesn't? So in order to gain some she starts looking into changeling magic. Which slowly leads her to the powers of dark magic.

What happens when Twilight finds a book on Dark Magic? Chaos. Never let a filly learn a death spell.

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Spoliers in comments
Based on this cover art

Do not take this seriously

Wut. This got an awesome reading?

Twilight Sparkle has failed at getting the Crystal Heart in time, letting the former king, who enslaved the entire kingdom over a thousand years before, return to take over the Empire.

Now, with the Crystal Heart permanently gone, Twilight is now bound to King Sombra for all eternity...

Because of this, it even left the only pony who can save her, her loved ones, and the empire, powerless against him.

Inspired by THIS image!!!!

Cover art by SapsDrow

Now with Dramatic Reading by ME!!!