Queen Chrysalis believes that she has tasted every kind of love, and that it cannot stir her heart.

One day, a visitor brings her a love that is new, unique, and powerful. And in that moment, she feels something awaken within her.

But even at its strongest, love is not so simple; and the love that now sustains her may yet have the power to break her.

This story was expanded from its original appearance as a finalist in the March 2016 Writeoff ("It's Your Funeral") with the assistance of Icenrose and the late, great Miranda Laufeyson!

Twilight Sparkle visits the Crystal Empire to get over her Hearts and Hooves day solitude, only to find what might have been, had life taken a different turn.

Disgraced. Dethroned. Unwanted by her own parents. These are just the few things that describe the former queen of the changelings. For Chrysalis, the only thing she can properly call herself is desperate, hungry, and lonely. Fortunately for her, she isn’t fully alone. Fortunately for her, she carries the unwanted offspring from a pony that sent her hurling across Equestria with a blinding light. Though she has nothing left to live for, she reluctantly chooses to raise the child once it’s born. The only question is, does she have enough strength to deliver it?

Edited by: Sorren, SolidFire, and Mikemeiers

A week before her wedding, Cadance receives a letter from one of her exes for a rendezvous. Cadance agrees to meet her, hoping to catch up with her old friend, but the meeting takes a turn for the worst.

A big thank you to my friend Jackie for the cover art, and for helping to develop this idea. A special thank you for the people that pre-read this and helped me improve it. Here's hoping someone else is entertained.

When a million other realities are just a magic mirror away, Twilight does have to wonder what makes her own so special.

When Starlight Glimmer escaped capture, everything that could've gone wrong did, in fact, go horribly wrong. Now, with a fatal wound and an indefinite time to live, an unlikely—and hideously unwanted—savior finds her.

The good news? She needs only to solve a riddle she's never heard before she bleeds out.

The bad news... well...

Rated 'Teen' for intensity and slight gore.

Enjoy!

And a special thanks to the ever-prodigious Pearple Prose, Dubs Rewatcher, cleverpun (bless your heart), and Idsterian for aiding and proofing for me in this quest for undisputed power story. You guys are just wonderful!

Featured 6/21/2015... Somehow... Huh.

After a long time--she would be more precise but Twilight has lost track of time--she emerges from the dark of the library. Her candles are burnt down to nubs. There is no food left in her pantry and furthermore, no coffee. So she goes to seek both.

And finds the town changed. Or is it Twilight who has changed?

We all know Shining Armor to be the hero that gets thrown around and beaten by the abnormal enemies of Equestria.

We know him to be the good guy that keeps going headstrong in a fight.

He's done it with Sombra.

He's done it with Tirek.

This new challenge, however, is going to be his most difficult one ever. He is alone and broken by the lies his friends and family have used to keep him in the dark.

Now that his loved one have brought the truth to the light, there are going to be consequences to lying about what has happened with Cadance' pregnancy.

Shining Armor is not going to understand for them. But they will understand this. . .

He is hurt.

He is angry.

He is done with his friends and family, especially Cadance.

Author Notes

Inspired by Zamairiac. Thank you by the way.

A Semi-Dark Short Story to the alternate universe of Shining Armor and Cadance having a screw-up in their marriage. And by "Screw-Up" I mean they are both in the wrong of what has put the gap in their love.

No, there is no rape or gore in this story. The twist of their conflict, however, is going to be a little messed up.

I can't see anything. I can't smell anything. I can't feel anything. And all I hear... is beauty.

They don't understand it, though.

On an expedition to explore the deeper depths of the Castle of the Two Sisters, Twilight finds something far older.

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In the quiet, she will be tested. It may prove her undoing.

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She will not return the same.

Artwork credit to GroaningGreyAgony.