Queen Chrysalis has been taking care with her hive, but when her most faithful soldier is injured in the line of duty she finds she must throw her old laws to the side in order to keep her protégé alive. All is not as it seems however. What will she find looking back at her from the mirror after she has raised the sun?
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Okay one little thing. In spite of the title this is not a first person story... it is in the third person. I just thought I should say that so people don't go into it thinking it will be something it isn't and end up disapointing them.
I haven't got much else to say... so here are the rolling credits for the vectors I used to make the cover art... Yay!
Twilight Sparkle Vector
Twilight Changeling Vector
Chrysalis and Celestia Vectors
Cute very cute
kind of confuseing (in my opinion) but it is good
4184269 Thank you very much.
4184285 Sorry... but also thank you!
4184532 your welcome, I hope later I understand it more
I liked it.
There is a part where you have "perha[s" instead of "perhaps," and some of the sentences seemed too long that they were almost awkward, but I liked it overall.
4184564 Me too!
4184532 welcome
i thought it was good also but trying to figure out the basis behind it made my head hurt
4184585 Thanks for letting me know... that perha[s is the only thing stopping me from word domination. Also before you correct me... I did mean Word Domination... not world.
4184595 Thanks... also I'm terribly sorry. I did not mean to break your mind.
Everyone has a sad fic that they write and this is the saddest I've seen D': and I've seen blind pony fics... This made me cry more then after i watched snowdrop and in a sweet and sad way too. Long story short I love this story
4184855 Wow... thanks... yeah Snowdrop was sad, but this one was crazy. I got the idea in my head and started writing, then at several points I couldn't write because I was crying and the moment I stopped and thought that I couldn't finish I just started writing again.
I think the only thing that got me through it was the bittersweet ending. I guess that means I could never write a proper tragedy, but I can still manage at least two sad stories. The other one isn't as sad as this one. So thanks again. I appreciate any kind of feed back, but I love hearing when people really liked what I wrote.
The dream sequence was a little interesting but that note in the end was the clincher for me.
4187125 Thank you very much, I had a ton of fun writing both those parts, though the note is where I got most of my own crying in.
Your welcome
this is a sad story but now that it's over hopefully celestia will soon find happiness 
maybe one day
4199706 One can only hope. It is the tragedy of immortality though that you find happiness but it only lasts a short time before it's torn away. Poor Celestia... she deserves better.
Even mortality is painful, every few minutes someone dies and we may or may not know them. I think the thing that pains celestia more then that is also being different. If she's a ruler I bet it's pretty hard to keep true friends close and her immortality makes her watch her only friends and family die around her. Being different is really hard trust me I should know
4200118 That's actually a pretty thought provoking way of looking at it.
I do believe you though... I'm about as different as they come.
Yes it is in a way, it saddens me to think about things like that because I've had two people in my family die already,
I'm pretty different and I can't say the good kind of different. A few years ago I woke up one morning my voice was really hoarse and at school I couldn't even speak so I was technically mute for some reason. But it helped me into the fimfiction community. Since I couldn't speak I devoted my time to writing and drawing. Unfortunately it made me even more shy then before. I was born with cleft lip so I've had to have so many shots and surgeries in my life causing me to get bullied at school by popular girls who are pretty stereotypical girls.
4200270 Oh don't get me started on popular girls... or do get me started... mostly the whole idea of popularity makes me sad. Just the idea of what they will do to themselves and others to be popular. My niece is one of the popular girls at her school and even though she says otherwise, I have seen her act in a less than honorable way for the sake of her popularity.
That said, the cause of you joining this community are quite sad, but personally, I'm really glad you're here with us. I can think of so many terrible paths that such abuse could have led you down, but instead you are one of us.
Oh also you use past tense a lot when talking about the loss of your voice, does that mean you've gotten it back?
Yes I have gotten it back. It was for a few months and it was so random no one knew what it was. But I keep on writing today and I'm glad I came down this road it's taken me pretty far.
The popular girls are so obnoxious at my school. First off they can't stop singing #selfie and it drives me insane. They also know I hate the word totally and now I just think they say it on purpose. Heck I can barely even talk about anything about me because of the popular girls. I feel like I'm hunted down by them just to have my self esteem destroyed
4200483 Well there was a time when I would say to Hell with the popular girls, but I'm trying to be a more... good, person... So I will just say it's their loss, you've already proven to me that you're insightful and quite intelligent. That and I like the cut of your jib.
Thanks
yeah the popular girls suck.
4200645 No problem at all.
That was beautiful. I've learned how to read fics where twilight never ascended into alicornhood and passed without my brain trying to, as you put it, throw a monkey wrench into the mix.
It kinda hurts whenever I do read these, because I always want to think of twi and celestia like an eternal mother and daughter, but these fics can be beautiful when done right, and you did it right
Well done, my friend, well done
4298615 Thank you very much, I really enjoyed writing it in the first place and then I cried .. a lot while righting the ending. Seriously in the middle of nearly every paragraph toward the end I would have to walk away and cry for a while.
Also when did I mention a monkey wrench? I do agree though the eternal Mother/daughter stories of Celestia and Twilight can be very nice.
4300122 you said it in the author's notes
4300548 Wow...I need to pay attention to what goes on in Arthur's Notes.
I was feeling very
until the scroll appeared then I felt 
only Twilight could send a letter from the thereafter.
4581626 Only Twilight would send a letter from the thereafter. Just one of the little things that helped me finish the sad part. I'm glad you liked it.
Only Twilight would send a letter all the way from the afterlife! Very well written!!!
4729151 Thank you, I enjoyed writing that part. Heck I enjoyed writing all of it. Also I cried... a lot.
i really enjoyed the story i would love to see a sequel to this to story one where we see what twilight letter said and Celestia then sends a letter back also by this luna and anyone else who is still alive wrights to twilight as well
if you don't want to do this i understand
again i loved this story
4862806 Thank you, I'm always happy to hear from readers. In truth I have considered wrting a follow up to this with pretty much what you have suggested. However I have found myself swamped by life and more often than not, inspired with writing other things. Still the idea sits in my fanfiction folder awaiting inspiration. Anything to keep Fluttershy from crying, right?
Once again thank you very much, like I said I love hearing feedback from my readers
4862950 no thank you for posting it
4863021 You're welcome.
Wow. That made me cry a little bit.
4960662 Well it is a sad fic, so I'll take that as a compliment! Thank you for reading and commenting.
4961985 It was.
4965310 Then in that case, thank you for the compliment as well.
4965490 Well,,it was too good for me not to.
4965519 You got to stop saying nice things about this story so I can stop saying thank you.
4966738 fine.
4966738 this was beatiful. But what changeling magic did Celestia use?
5653382 An application of the transformative stuff as a means of keeping Twi's body young and healthy, but after enough time that kind of thing just doesn't work anymore. Eventually a mortal body wears out. Then I cry.
5653470 you should read the bridesmaids of meep the changeling tho. Has an idea where this works.
5653486 Okay, thanks I'll check that out.
5653530 neat
Are we supposed to know who the scroll that arrived via dragon-fire was from?
5920990 You're free to guess. I wanted to leave it vague so that my readers could theorize.
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I had thought that, as a side effect of using Changeling magic, Celestia had accidentally turned herself into a Queen (hence the dream, where her subconscious acknowledges her new form). The gout of flame is her 'disguise' falling, and the falling scroll is the letter Twilight left getting dropped in shock.
I'd almost like to see the aftermath of that. Such chaos.