Chrysalis is dying, and with her, the last of the Changeling race... but there might be a way to avoid extinction.

The queen of the changelings has a change of heart, and may not live to see the day when she can make up for what she has done.

A few days after the changeling invasion Fluttershy has a confrontation with a shape shifter in the deeps of the Everfree Forest. But the circumstances quickly change.

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Warning: Contains spoilers for the Canterlot Wedding.

====Originally Written June 2011=====EQD Link====
There is a shadow to all of existence, a place that all worlds are shielded from by a thin veil. A Dark Place, where a single presence plots and struggles to consume all creation with its darkness. The author Alan Wake is one who has defeated this Dark Presence, but to save his wife and his world Alan had to remain trapped in the darkness.

Now, through his struggles to return to his wife, Alan has unintentionally released the Darkness and an old villain upon Equestria. To fix the mistake, Alan starts a new story with Twilight Sparkle as the protagonist. Can the unicorn find the strength to face the darkness, or is all of Equestria doomed to be the victim in the dreadful horror story?

Note: Story assumes no preceding knowledge of the game Alan Wake. Written for any MLP:FiM fan to enjoy.

Everything has its origin. Who is Celestia's mother? All secrets have an end. The Fausticon, Lauren Faust, has dreamt of the day she would re-unite with her five children - Cadence, Celestia, Discord, Chysallis, Luna and Nightmare Moon. But...it remains unknown to her what her children had turned out to be since her departure...

[Featured on EqD and FiM Fiction] Chrysalis is brought to Canterlot to stand trial for her failed invasion. Thinking her fate is sealed, she is determined to be defiant to the very end. Loosely based on March to the Scaffold, the 4th movement of the musical piece Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
All links to the music pieces are in the Author Notes.
Dramatic reading of the entire story by Illya Leonov
Dramatic reading of Chapter 1 by xPsychoShyx
Picture is by Huussii

In this Story Princess Celestia has been kidnapped. Princess Luna calls upon the Mane 6 and assigns Princess Cadence to Rule over Equestria while she added in the attempt to rescue her sister, both to make sure she was safe and to clear her name from Nightmare Moon. Also please note that Chrysalis and Celestia both will not be in the story until Chapter 4.

The Mane 6 will be put through several trials, and there will be violence towards the end of the story. (There wasn't a listing for that on the content rating, so I went with Gore even though there will be very little blood.) There is also the possibility of death, I haven't officially decided. There is a new villain at work though in the Land of Equestria. One that could very well be it's undoing if the mane 6 should fail.

In the wake of Discord's return to stone and a restored peace to Equestria, the world is again plummeted into darkness as an ancient, forgotten evil returns. Celestia and Luna quickly find themselves forced into a deadly tournament, as Twilight and her friends race against time to save them.

Although this story features Pen Stroke's Nyx (Past Sins), this story itself is not related to Past Sins, nor does it require a reading of Past Sins.

After the disastrous invasion of Canterlot, an injured changeling wakes up near a small cottage and is quickly discovered by two of the last ponies she ever wanted to see. Now, with the help of her new "friends," she has to remain undetected in a town high on changeling hysteria that would not hesitate to throw her in the Canterlot dungeons should her true nature be revealed.

Simple, right?

Too bad she couldn't have picked a worse form to stay inconspicuous...

Many thanks to ZuTheSkunk for the cover image!

After a decade apart, Chrysalis is confronted by something she thought she'd never see again.
Her ex-husband.

A sequel to The Dragon and The Changeling.