Accidental Soul Mates
Chapter 1
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Cadance, Alicorn and goddess of love, looked around in desperation at the crystal caverns that had held her captive for so many weeks. She could still not believe she had lowered her guard and been replaced by the Queen of the Changelings.
If she’d only paid more attention to how eager her dress maker had been. How was she to know the pony claiming to be the famous Suri Polomare had actually been the Queen in disguise?
It had been too fast for her to do anything. She’d been telling her how she wished her dress to look, there’d been a flash of green light, she’d turned to see the black, insect-like creature, another flash of green light and she had awoken in the caverns, alone, trapped and unable to contact her aunt for help.
“Cadance?”
The Alicorn blinked, shaking her head and turning to Twilight Sparkle as she stood at her side, concern on her face.
Twilight put a hoof on her former foal-sitter’s side. “Are you okay? Do you need to rest?”
Cadance took a deep breath and shook her head. “No, Twilight. I’m fine. Besides, I can’t worry about rest right now. I need to save Shining Armour from marrying that... that... creature, thinking it’s me.”
Twilight nodded. There was no way she was letting her brother be tricked into marrying a Changeling that wanted nothing but to use him for food. Cadance had explained everything.
They moved away from where they’d landed after the mine cart had propelled them into the air, Cadance’s wings saving the unicorn from plummeting to the hard ground below and where, a few metres away, the three mind-controled bridesmaids were now fighting over the wedding bouquet. Even under mind control, some instincts couldn't be held back, like a mare's wish to catch a bouquet from a wedding in the hopes it'll mean they'll be the next to get married.
Cadance stepped forward and looked at the crystal wall ahead of them, her horn glowing.
“Um, what’re you doing?” Twilight asked, rather confused.
“I’m using my magic to sense Shining Armour’s love for me,” Cadance said, her brow furrowing a little more. “It’s hard to find, but I think I can just locate it. But, for it to feel this weak, the Changeling must have taken a lot of his love for me by now.”
After a few seconds, she stopped, her horn pointed at a specific point. “There!” She lit her horn and fired a huge blast of magic at the crystal wall. The impact was powerful, causing the whole cavern to start shaking violently, like there was a quake happening. To everypony above, that would probably be what they assumed was happening.
“Cadance!” Twilight cried, barely keeping herself upright as the ground and walls around her shook. “Be careful! Don’t use too much power! You’ve barely got any left!”
“I will not wait, Twilight!” she shouted, her face contorted as the crystal wall in front of her started glowing red from the intense heat of her magic. “I will not allow the stallion I love, my one true soul mate, to fall victim to that beast masquerading as a pony!”
There was a huge explosion, the force of which sent the two ponies hurtling into another wall. When the dust cleared they both got up and walked forward. Where there had been crystal mere seconds ago, there was now a gaping hole, leading what Cadance could clearly see was the way out. Shining Armour was only a few gallops away.
“Twilight, we did it! Now we can—” Cadance’s froze as she turned around and fear gripped her heart.
Time seemed to slow down as she saw what was about to happen. Twilight was walking towards her while, up above, a large crystal stalactite had come away from the ceiling, no doubt due to the explosion her magic had created. If she didn’t react now, it would impale Twilight! There was no way the unicorn would survive it.
Cadance, knowing she couldn’t use her magic again until it had recharge enough, leaped forward, shoving Twilight aside.
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Twilight’s head slammed into the crystal wall for a second time and, for a second time, she felt a searing pain throughout her skull.
“Ow. Cadance,” she said irritably, getting up as she rubbed her head. “What was that for? Why’d you throw me... against...? Cadance!”
Horror flooded Twilight’s mind. Cadance was lying on the floor where she’d been mere seconds ago, a large crystal stalactite impaled through her back, blood seeping out and spreading in a circle around the alicorn’s body.
Twilight ran over to her former-foalsitter, her eyes wide with panic. “Cadance? Cadance! Cadance, please say something!”
The alicorn slowly half opened her eyes, looking up at Twilight with a weak smile. “I saved you. That’s good. I couldn’t bear it if... you... got... hur...” she trailed off, her eyes closing, her body going limp.
Oh no! No no no no no no NO! Twilight lit her horn and quickly levitated the crystal impaler from Cadance’s body, her pupils shrinking as she saw the full extent of the damage.
“No,” she whispered, her voice suddenly hoarse. “That should’ve hit me! You didn’t have to do that! You can’t die, Cadance! You can’t!”
There was no response.
Twilight looked around, her mind wild with panic. What’ll I do? What’ll I do! Cadance can't die! She can’t!
Suddenly, she remembered a spell she’d learned of a long time ago, back when she was a little filly. She had been combing the Canterlot Archives and had stumbled upon a healing spell. It was said to heal any kind of injury, no matter how severe.
She’d started trying to perfect it at once. However, when Celestia found her practicing it on a dying flower, she’d been furious! Twilight still didn’t know why, but the princess had told her it was dangerous and forbid her to go any further with it.
I haven’t even thought about that spell in years. But, if ever I was given a chance when I have to use it, now is that time! She lit her horn and focused as much magic into it, her aim the massive bleeding wounds Cadance had suffered. The alicorn started glowing with Twilight’s magic and was lifted up in the air, her wounds slowly starting to heal.
The unicorn strained under the force of the spell, but pushed forward. It was just like the other times she’d used this spell. It felt like something was draining out of her that wasn’t just her magic, but she ignored the feeling and pushed on. Saving Cadance’s life was worth a little discomfort.
Several agonizing moments went by with only slow healing. Twilight feared she wouldn’t be able to finish the spell in time to save Cadance, when a sudden surge flew through her and she screamed. It felt like something had ripped through her and was pouring into Cadance.
She became vaguely aware of something in front of her eyes. They looked like strings of thread. One was blue and the other was pink. They were tied together, intertwining with one another. She had no idea what she was seeing, but as she watched, unable to look away, even if she wanted to, the threads seemed to suddenly rip apart from each other and a new thread, this one purple appeared where the blue had faded away and intertwined itself with the pink.
There was an enormous flash of light and Twilight dropped to the ground, panting heavily. She was unsure how long she lay there, more exhausted than when she’d stopped the Ursa Minor in Ponyville, before she felt somepony nuzzling her.
She opened her eyes and smiled when she saw Cadance standing over her, healed and alive, smiling down at her. She struggled to get up and a few tears of joy slid from her eyes.
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The ground stopped shaking and everypony looked around, worry and confusion on their faces.
“What in the hay was tha’ all about?” Applejack asked, frowning as she looked around.
“I am not sure,” Celestia said. She too was frowning. Canterlot had not felt a quake in over five hundred years. And she’d felt something familiar in the air about it, for some reason. Something magical.
“Let’s not let some quake ruin our perfect day,” Cadance, or the Changeling in disguise that everypony thought was Cadance said, turning to Shining Armour. “This is the day everything changes. Let’s not keep ourselves from it.”
Shining Armour nodded, turning to Celestia and she asked the mare standing next to him the usual asked of brides at weddings, to which she replied, “I do.”
Celestia then turned to Shining Armour and asked him the same. "I—" he was cut off when a massive surge of pain suddenly ripped through his body. It was as if something was tearing at his very soul.
Behind his closed eyes he saw something that made no sense to his pain-addled mind. He could see what looked like two threads. One was blue and the other was pink. They were tied together, intertwining with each other.
As he watched, unable to see anything else, the pink one seemed to be ripped away from the blue, to be replaced several seconds later by a green one, that tied itself to the blue, intertwining like the pink one had.
He collapsed on the ground and blacked out, the last sound a banging of the doors.
Twidance, nice.
Chryarmor, also nice. Almost as good as Chrysadance.
I want to know how it says one view but two likes.
Good start
Neat! I look forward to more!
A pretty good start. My one piece of advice is that you use exclamation points too often. Those should be limited to dialogue, and only when the character is saying something *REALLY* forcefully. Other than that, you're doing well so far. Keep it up.
Neat, don't remember many Twidances.
Well, at least this time when the pairings switch it's not entirely inexplicable... although this seems like it's going to be much worse for Shining than it is for anyone else. I'd like to see something that can really pull this off well though, with both the frustration of the partners sudden switch (and possibly sexuality switch) and the trouble with Shining now basically forced into love with a sociopath.
The presence of a dark tag and not a comedy tag brings me hope the situation will be treated with the sort of gravity it deserves.
Good story. Have a like. Anyways I noticed a typo
it should be can't. Love the idea!!
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You know Shining Armor being married to Queen Chrysalis is gonna change some things from the canon universe. I Just imagines the alternate scenarios and I can see Chrysalis becoming the princess of the Crystal Empire just look these pics.:
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It's an intriguing start to what is an interesting concept. I have three minor criticisms, which I hope will be taken constructively.
1. There are a couple of grammar slips, most notably in the first couple of lines:
'queen' and 'changelings' should be capitalised given it's a title.
The rhetorical question in the second paragraph should end in a question mark, and the line before could arguably be finished with an exclamation mark for emphasis.
2. While I'm aware it's a stylistic choice, I felt that the speed of the fic somewhat detracted from the drama; if you're going to use changing perspectives, then I would advise maybe elaborating a bit upon the internal thoughts of your characters and their emotional state, especially at the moments of high drama, such as Cadance's impaling, to really bring out the significance of the events.
3. I would personally avoid jumping back and forth between two different perspectives in the first section:
It just clutters up the narrative a little, and there's no need for the switch in perspectives at this point; Twilight could have vocalised it if it needed to be said.
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Oh, this is gonna be good.
This seems like it could be really good, it is certainly a premise I haven't seen before.
In A Canterlot Wedding, those were Cadence's actual bridesmaids that had been brainwashed, not Changelings
Neat!
upvoted on concept.'
stuck on read later until more chapters are made, then will read.
Well....This will be quite something not seen before.
*Takes a seat with bowl of popcorn.*
Let me know when the show continues.
More please. I love it
Hurrr....
Concept of Soul Mates with a tangible twist. Ok I'll follow
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I can't wait for the next few chapters to see what damage Twilight had done. Also I wonder if Celestia will catch on to what she did and will she re-act that Twilight basically forced Cadence to be her soulmate and that she inadvertedly made Shining Armor and Queen Chrysilas soulmate
you sir get a favorite also watch out for wheels any body who gets this mangled reference gets a blue nothing!
Please. More
"This is the day everything changes."
If only you knew how true this is Chryssy ...
IMO , I think the most interesting reaction is going to be Chrysalis's . Shining and Candance already know what true love is while Chrysalis don't , and most likely don't even understand it's meaning (as she only considered love as a food source before) .
All in all , this is going to be fun.
Celestia, Celestia, Celestia. You ought to have known that forbidding Twilight from using a spell without explaining why, could possibly result in Twilight having to use it again someday. I hope this isn't a trollfic. I will be keeping an eye on this.
Now your just rubbing salt into da wound!
I've got to wonder how much power Chrysalis will get from love directed at her specificially and not the form she's wearing? If it's enough to make her act like a drunk, well, I can see her just collapsing to the floor and dropping her disguise, only to get a nuzzle from Shining Armor.
BOY, THE NEXT BIG FAMILY DINNER IS GOING TO BE AWKWARD!!! But I can also see Chrysalis standing with the Princesses against Tirek and proving that love hurts!
4766920 SHIP IT LIKE FED-EX! SHIP IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!
WHEN'S THE NEXT CHAPTER?!
Well then, this is a bit of a predicament. . . It's a very interesting premise. I'm curious to see where this will go.
My one question is, what happened to Twilight's own soulmate? If one's soulmate is bound to destiny then what happened to them? I know that at first it sounds like a little thing, but it's definitely some food for thought.
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She didn't notice it at first because it was tied to her own hoof.
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That wasn't clever nor was it funny.
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The logical explanation is that now that pony is tied to whoever Chrysalis's soulmate was. Unless, of course, Twilight's spell continues to cascade, reassigning one bond after another, throwing the entire soulmate-verse into disarray, chaos, and eventual oblivion. Either way.
I'm gonna fave it to see how it goes.
4790820 Someone likes.watching Gonzo then
4803782 Eeyup.
4803793 Well as you tell so do I, what's your favorite dub?
4803799 Eh, I'm not sure.
4805336 Ah well that's OK
4805893 Okay.
Interesting - have put on my watch list.
If this is a soulmates spell and not a love-switch spell, as other reviewers mentioned it does raise the question of who Twilight's original soulmate was, and what happened to them? Unless Twilight's original soulmate was Chrysalis, which would be pretty trippy. Or unless she never had one, and had originally been destined to never have another person like that.
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I'm terribly sorry for that, I just wanted to be the first to post this. Even though I loathe Flash Sentry and any fics that portray him.
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I suppose Flash was subsequently matched with someone that could compliment his personality... like an inanimate carbon rod.
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4816191 you two make an interesting idea. i too am not fond of flash centry and the idea that i just ruined his chances with twi would be hilarious. it would also, strangely enough, along me to sort of work this with the cannon of Teatime on Hearts and Hooves day aside from the fac that shining and cadance are still together in it. still, it would explain flash's marefriend in it, since twi can't be his no more. sucked in, flash
4766920 while the second picture does make sense, the others do not. Cadance is still the crystal princess. chrysalis marrying shining will not change that and i doubt she'd be that happy when twilight became a princess.
the pic about Three's a Crowd could work, i suppose. though not quite the same way. that would have probably been them trying to get along and put the invasion behind them.
the pics with chrysalis wearing the crystal empire mane-style and shining tossing her however, make no sense.
One chapter down and I'm liking it already!