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// Aftermath 
// Story: From Earth to Equus: An Utterly Impossible Oddesy 
// by CarmenColor 
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A blinding flash. Rainbow light cascaded around the room and I heard a loud shriek. I knew that it was working. The hissing voice of the nightmare faded and it became Sam's voice again. The voice it was supposed to be. That voice that I always listened to when no one else made sense. The voice of my best friend.

Sam was changing, but that wasn't all that was happening. The magic inside me was diminishing. I fell to the ground, feeling weak and drained. I was no longer needed, and my awakened time was ending. Which meant that Chance's would be too. I look over at him and see the young colt that I knew from my memories. The young colt that I fell in love with. Though I felt like dropping from exhaustion, I went to him. "Chance." I laid down next to him and leaned into him.

"Carmen? Chance?" Sammy's voice called, "What happened?"

"...It's a long story," I murmured, closing my eyes. Sleep came quickly and willingly, and before I knew it, I was out.

I awoke in a bed in Ponyville. How I got there, I still don't know. Nopony will tell me anything. They didn't want to tell me. However, they did find it very important to mention that the other ponies who I thought might have been changelings were most definitely not. The Nightmare had given them horns or wings, or both in one case, because I had envisioned it as such and to distract us from what it was doing to Sam. I was so glad that it wasn't my fault. We now have several normal ponies, who were a little upset that they were not as blessed as they had originally thought. I'm not worried about it though. I'm sure that they'll grow to love their new lives, even if they aren't royalty.

As for me, with our Nightmare problem out of the way, I finally had time to relax. My room became my life, intruded only by my 'siblings'. However, there was a time, many years later, when all that changed.

I was a mere few years away from becoming the final ruler of Equestria, being the youngest of us all. I remember how excited I was and how determined I was that I had to be perfect for when the coronation day finally came. I went to my room one night, and found Chance Wind, who had been crowned a few years ago but had never truly taken his title yet, waiting for me. Before I could even say anything, he pulled out the ring. The marriage was a whirlwind of new memories and revisiting the old ones. 

A few years later, on schedule, I was crowned Princess Chroma of Equestria, and Chance finally took the name Gale. There were now five rulers in Equestria, just like there still are today.


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And we could never be happier.

Never...