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// The Reveal 
// Story: A Royal Secret 
// by Changeling 26 
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		Queen Chrysalis stood there, chuckling to herself. She was clearly amused by catching Twilight Sparkle off her guard. She walked further into the room, observing all the old scrolls around her, pushing a few back into their places with one of her hole ridden hooves.
“Surprised to see me, Twilight?” The Queen asked with a hint of sarcasm.
Twilight stood where she was, taking on a battle stance ready to attack “You could say that! How did you get in here?”
Chrysalis gave out a joy filled laugh “Have you honestly forgotten Twilight? I’m changeling, remember? You would be surprised how many times I have come here without anypony noticing.” The Queen walked up to the purple unicorn “besides isn’t a Queen allowed to visit her own home once in a while?”
“You’re no the Queen and you know it!” declared Twilight
“Oh but that is where you wrong my dear, Twilight” The changeling queen walked away from Twilight, looking out the window “For you see, many years ago, your Queen and me became one. We now share our personalities, ourstrengths, our…” She paused slightly, while she looked lost in the distance, “memories. And it kills us to not be welcome in our own castle. It nearly crushed her heart when she had to fight her own daughter and defeated her!”
Twilight relaxed herself slightly, noticing the truth in the queens words. She could see that there was more in here then just a hated filled changeling, there was the heart of a pony deep inside. “but why have you come here? Why now?”
Grinning, the queen explained, “I noticed that the orange pony you know as Apple Jack was taking a nap. So I decided to attempt to gain more information about my enemies and take her form. Then a little annoying earth pony walked up to me and started to explain how you were talking to Zacora about a mysterious scroll she had found.”
She moved around the room as she spoke, watching Twilights reactions, observing more and more of the dusty little room she was in. “We realized that you had found the very memoir that one of my changelings wrote before be transformed into the glorious creature he is now, the very memoir that I had taken from his hooves and hidden in the archives. You were asking questions that were not meant to be asked. So we figured you would decide to return the scroll, but we didn’t expect our daughter to stumble upon the memoir. It reversed the memory spell making, making her remember everything.”
Queen Chrysalis stopped in front of the door Luna had walked through minutes ago. He body language told Twilight that she was remember the same things the princess had been forced to remember. She reached for the door handle with her hoof, wanting to open the door and see her daughter again. The Queen stopped herself and turned back to Twilight Sparkle who was now sitting on the floor taking in all the information.
“We were forced to do what we did all those years ago…” there was a pause, and Twilight could have sworn she saw a tear or two arise in the Queens eyes. “We wiped our daughters memory, forcing her to forget us all over again. DO you know how painful it is for a mother to make her children forget everything about her? To force them to forget all the happy cheerful memories that they had, To make them believe that their mother was dead?”
She turned away from the unicorn and wiped a few tears from her eyes, “But we did what we had to, it is better to make them forget then to live with the pain.”
“So are you going to make me forget everything as well? Are you going to destroy the only thing left that remembers you?” Asked Twilight, started to get defiant again
“No” the queen sighed “I’m not, instead I’m going to let you leave. As long as you swear to never tell anypony. This is something that I never want my daughters to remember. I don’t want them to remember the pain I have caused them. But we still believe in the importance of keeping our history written. I shall leave it up to you to hide it somewhere Celestia or Luna will ever see.”
The queen’s words shocked her. Was the queen of the changelings actually going to just let her go? No, the queen of the ponies was letting her go. She could see that in the changeling’s eyes. Behind the large, green, inpony eyes, there was a kind, gentle pony Queen trying to control her body but filled with despair for what she had become.
“This was all a bad idea, we should have never of come here. We are remembering thigs that we should never remember!” whispered the queen as she turned and began to head towards the exit. She stopped and looked back at Twilight, “Please make sure that my children never know about this?”
“I will, you highness” Said Twilight with a little bow
“You are far to kind to me, Twilight” With that the Queen transformed into a royal guard and started for the door. At that moment, the door she was heading for opened and the graceful form aof Princess Celestia walked in. The disguised changeling gave the proper greeting to the princess and rushed past her. The princess alicorn looked over at the dumbfounded Twilight sitting in the middle of the room.
“Twilight!” the Princess said happily “What are you doing in here? It’s a wonderful day out?” She noticed the scroll sitting on the table and headed toward it “What are you reading, dear pupil?”
The purple unicorn raced over, trying to stop Celestia from picking it up, but it was too late. The Princess had already picked it up with he magic, and began to read the title.
“ah…” sighed the princess mournfully “You found discovered the greatest secret we have.”
“Princess, please! I can explain, just don’t read the paper!” begged Twilight. She didn’t want to see the very pony she looked up to become a crying mess.
“What is there to explain, you found the scroll that explains out of my biggest secrets.” Twilight was confused by how matter of fact-ly the princess was talking
“I… I don’t understand!” said Twilight with a confused look
“I discover this scroll years ago Twilight. I horrified me and I didn’t want to believe it, but I eventually came to terms with it.” Celestia walk over to a nearby shelf and placed the scroll gently amongst the rest “I remember everything that happened; My Mothers happy smile, my Fathers boastful speeches at the dinner table. I vividly remember the day we got word that Father had been killed, I recall how mother reacted, how she changed.”
Celestia walked over and sat beside Twilight. “I saw how she changed from leader of the ponies to enemy of the ponies. Yet I could see the internal struggle she was having against Chrysalis. I saw how Chrysalis welcomed Discord into our home.” The Princess looked at twilight with honest eyes, “ but it was in those dark days that my sister and me became the united leaders we are today. Even though it pains me to say this, we owe a lot to chrysalis. She brought in a new era to Equestria, even if it did cost my parents.”
The princess stood up and looked at Twilight who was also rising to her feet. “You must know, Twilight, that none of this is to be repeated to anypony else, right?”
“Yes, of course you highness” said Twilight with a nervous smile “You can count on me!”
Celestia smiled “Good, now run along Twilight. Im sure your probably needed back in Ponyville” A letter suddenly burst from flames near Celestias head “And it seems Spike is already trying to find you.”
“Yes of course.” smiled Twilight as she ran out the door, leaving the princess alone in the archives. When she was gone the Princess walked back over to the shelf with the scroll. She stared at it, think about the past that is talked about. The light coming from the door behind her shone on the shelf in front of her, until a familiar form blocked the light.

Celestia looked up, and gave a half smile “Hello mother, how have you been?”