Court had been cancelled. Every appointment, scheduled meeting or even public hearing had been postponed indefinitely.
No activity had been seen inside the tree-castle for almost a week. In fact, nopony had heard from Princess Twilight at all recently. They had assumed that Twilight Sparkle had simply important business to attend to; after all, that’s what Princesses did.
Rainbow Dash was the first to notice something was amiss. Being a part of the weather team meant irregular shifts and being awake during the odd hours of the morning tending to rogue weather from the Everfree, which is why a certain purple egg-headed alicorn not sticking to her schedule started setting off a few alarm bells. Rainbow Dash had become very familiar with some of her early morning habits - specifically the smell of food coming out from the kitchen area of the castle, or in this case, the lack of it.
Also, the fact that Twilight hadn’t summoned her or any of their friends for Friendship Court was a dead giveaway.
Five ponies gathered around the entrance to the tree-castle, each verbally stating their varying degrees of annoyance and discomfort.
“Are you certain, dear?” Rarity asked. It was still the early hours of the morning and Celestia’s sun had barely risen over the horizon. She was wearing her sleeping robes, her mane still tied up in curlers. “There could be a reasonable explanation we haven’t seen her.”
“Yeah, I am,” Dash replied. her wings fidgeted for a moment before she turned to Pinkie Pie. “Tell them, Pinks.”
The pink earth pony held a placid look on her face. “I - well, I haven’t felt...anything from Twilight. No doozies, no pinchy knees or even twitchy tails. Just…nothing!” she declared, her demeanor deflating slightly.
“Oh, my, that does sound serious,” Fluttershy commented meekly. Her eyes darted between the other four ponies, a terrified look of uncertainty behind them. “I mean - I think it does.”
Applejack remained silent, digging her hoof into the ground a few times as she stared off into the distance.
“That still doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong, dear,” Rarity added. She waved a hoof nonchalantly at the door. “Sometimes a lady does need her privacy.”
Rainbow Dash glared at the white unicorn heatedly, before pointing her own hoof. “I haven’t heard from Spike, either. And I know for a fact that Twilight has him scheduled to collect a new shipment of quills and inks every Wednesday. It’s Friday, Rarity.”
There was another marked silence as the five friends shared glances between themselves. Finally, Applejack took a step forward towards the hovering pegasus.
“And how exactly do you know so much about Twilight’s schedule?” Applejack asked, raising a curious eyebrow.
Rainbow Dash’s eyes narrowed slightly, her reply cutting into the air like a blade. “Because I’m her friend.”
“And what exactly is that suppose’ ta mean?” the farm pony shot back, her eyes narrowing as well.
Rarity’s sharp voice cut into the argument before it even began. “Girls. This is getting us nowhere.” She motioned towards Twilight’s door. “Let us just be sure that Twilight is okay before we jump to any conclusions.”
Rainbow Dash nodded in agreement. “Yeah. I don’t like barging in any more than the next pony but we seriously need to find out what’s going on.”
Applejack raised an eyebrow. “Well, what’re you suggestin’? That we knock?” The sarcasm behind her words made Rainbow cringe slightly.
There was a slight creaking noise, causing the five ponies to fall into a hushed silence. Four sets of heads turned slowly towards the large double doors with wide and terrified eyes.
“Oh hey, it’s unlocked!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed brightly, startling the others.
“Gosh darnit Pinkie, you scared the hayseed outta me!” Applejack cried. Her shoulders slumped from her tense stance, trotting over to the pink mare.
“So...now what?” Fluttershy asked meekly.
The five stood for a few moments, blank looks across their faces and at a loss for what to do. Rainbow Dash was ashamed to admit it but she was expecting more resistance than this. She was used to action and brute-force, and not just being able to waltz right in.
“I...guess we should go in?” Rainbow tentatively offered, waving her hoof in the direction of the now-open doors. The rest murmured in soft agreement.
The five friends carefully led themselves through the front door, an air of constant alert about them. Their eyes scanned about, ears perked and waiting for anything sudden or unexpected.
What awaited them was almost disappointing. Nothing seemed out of place in the strangely quiet halls. They all looked around, searching for anything that could be out of place.
“Twilight, dear?” Rarity called out. Her voice was gentle yet surprisingly sharp.
Silence answered her, sending a shiver up Rainbow Dash’s back as she hovered deeper into the castle. “Twilight?” she called out as well. Again, there was no reply.
“I have a mighty bad feeling about this,” Applejack said softly. Her eyes darted around and her whole body was tensed, ready to react.
The group made it to the main throne room without incident. The residual lighting from the sun illuminated the room through special windows near the top of the chamber. Each pony stood in front of their designated throne. Rainbow looked at the remaining two seats, no pony (or dragon) next to them.
“Ugh, when last did she have this place cleaned?” Rarity commented, wiping the tip of her hoof along seat. “There’s a layer of dust over everything!”
Rainbow squinted before looking at the crystalline surface. Sure enough, upon closer scrutiny, a tiny and near-unnoticable layer of dust clung to it.
“It’s only a week, Rarity,” Applejack said. “If she’s been away then it’s expected for things to get a little dirty.”
Rarity shot the farmpony a dirty look but before she could open her mouth to say anything, Pinkie Pie’s head shot upwards, her neck straight and stiff. Her eyes widened and her entire body went stiff.
“Pinkie…?” Fluttershy cautiously asked, taking a step towards her friend. “Pinkie, are you okay?”
“That….” the pink mare started, her body loosening up again. “Was a doozy. A - a bad doozy.” She looked around at the others, her eyes wide and almost fearful. “My Pinkie Sense is telling me...that we’re not going to like what’s about to happen…”
Rainbow Dash blinked a few times at Pinkie, the thoughts running through her brain. The look on her face sent a dark chill through the pegasus. During their friendship Pinkie had never looked scared.
A sixth voice rang out in the chamber, sending a jolt to kick-start Rainbow’s heart. “Hi girls!”
All five of them whipped around to see Twilight Sparkle entering the chamber.
“Geeze, Twilight!” Rainbow called out, dripping at her chest. “You scared us half to death!”
“Oh, sorry!” Twilight apologised quickly. “I didn’t mean to scare you. If I were expecting guests I would’ve tidied the place up a bit!”
“Good gracious, dear!” Rarity said. She held a hoof out towards Twilight’s face, a worrisome frown forming on her face. “You look dreadful! What ever has happened to you?”
Rainbow landed, walking up to the purple alicorn, allowing her to get a better look at Twilight’s face. She did a double-take at noticing the sullen look in her face. Dark rings were under her eyes and her mane looked like it hadn’t been brushed at all the past week. Streaks of fur were matted under her eyes and on her cheeks.
But Twilight still held that calm smile.
“So - what can I do for you girls?” she asked, circling and moving to take her place next to her seat in the Friendship Court. “Oh, excuse me - it’s so dreary without any lights on. Let me fix that!” A spark of magic later and several torches lit up, providing proper illumination.
A marked silence filled the room. All five of them stared at Twilight in deep worry for their friend.
It was Applejack who finally broke the silence “Twilight…? Are you alright?”
“I’m…” she stumbled over her words for a moment before correcting herself, straightening her posture slightly. “I’m perfectly fine, Applejack,” Twilight responded. The corner of her eye twitched slightly.
Rainbow Dash landed, taking a few steps towards the alicorn. “Twi, where have you been for the past week?” she asked, her voice thick with worry. “We’re all worried sick about you.”
“Uh- princess duties!” she replied almost too quickly.
“Twilight…” Fluttershy said. “Where’s Spike?”
A cold silence filled the room. Everypony’s eyes slowly turned to Twilight, the alicorn freezing in place. Her face locked up in panic as her eyes darted between the other five ponies.
Rarity was the first to speak. “Twilight...where is Spike?”
“I - I - I - ,” Twilight stammered, taking a few steps backwards away from the group. “P - Please don’t hate me, girls.”
“Twilight, dear, why would we hate you?” Rarity said, taking a few steps to keep up with Twilight.
“He’s…” Twilight choked, her face scrunching up as her eyes screwed shut. “He’s gone.”
Rainbow cocked her head slightly, a confused look on her face. “What do you mean gone?”
Twilight looked liked she wanted to cry. Her face scrunched up and her eyes clenched shut, her jaw grinding. The dry sob escaping her throat told them her tears had dried up a long time ago.
“Spike...is gone,” she croaked. “I - I don’t know if he’s alive or, or… or. Dead.” Twilight stumbled towards her throne, before collapsing onto it for support. “His - his furnace went out and I had to give him up to an elder dragon.”
Applejack placed a comforting hoof on Twilight’s shoulder. “Furnace? Elder dragon? What the hay are you talking about, Sugarcube?”
The alicorn looked up, her eyes slowly going through each of her friends before she drew deep breath and spoke.
They all waited in a muted and shocked silence as Twilight explained what happened to Spike, from the importance of a dragon’s furnace to the fact that he could be dead. Several painfully long minutes passed, each caught up in their own thoughts.
“T - Twilight…” Fluttershy whispered, finally breaking the silence. “We don’t blame you…”
“B - But I blame myself, Fluttershy,” Twilight half-sobbed. “I should’ve known. I should’ve put more effort into it…”
“Stop, just please stop,” Rarity’s voice cut in. Her eyes were bloodshot, tears brimming. “I know for a fact that you did nothing on purpose. None of us blame you for what happened Twilight, we just…” she paused, taking a deep breath. “We’re here to support you Twilight, is what I believe Fluttershy is trying to say.”
“I - I’m sure the little tyke will be fine,” Rainbow added nervously. She didn’t want to admit that she was scared of Spike never coming back. None of them wanted to admit that - the mere concept was just too terrifying to try and deal with.
Pinkie Pie’s mane had deflated slightly, losing a little of its colour as she stared sullenly at the small throne next to Twilight’s, picturing the small dragon that should be sitting there.
Applejack held her hat over her chest, her eyes closed.
Twilight looked around at each of her friends, taking in each one before her legs collapsed out from under her as she began dry sobbing. “Oh Celestia, what have I done?!” she cried out, burying her face into her hooves. She wailed softly into them, heaving a dry sob occasionally.
Her five friends moved in to comfort her. They didn’t say anything - there was nothing any of them could really say. Twilight grew oddly silent as the other mares gently rested hooves on her shoulders and back.
“Celestia…” she whimpered, before hiccuping. “Celestia doesn’t know yet.”
“Sugarcube, you’re going to have to tell her eventually,” Applejack said softly. “Ah’m sorry. Ah really am.”
“But...how am I going to tell her? I can’t - .” her voice choked up, dying before she could finish her thought. “I can’t even send a l- letter…”
Rarity’s eyebrow rose as she resisted the urge to titter. “Dear, you can use the postal service. Or have a chariot take you to Canterlot.”
Twilight lay motionless for a moment before speaking, her voice tired and weak. “I don’t think I can face the Princess right now.”
“I understand.”
“Look, Twilight,” Applejack began, “I understand you want to be on your own. We all do - but you can’t lock yourself away like this.”
The alicorn looked up at the farmpony, her eyes bloodshot red. She didn’t make a sound, instead just giving a pleading look.
“I…” Applejack hesitated, swallowing loudly. “I lost my parents as a filly. I know what it’s like to lose family. The last thing you need to do is keep it all in.” She cleared her throat, her voice becoming stressed and sad. “All it will do is hurt you more. We’re here for you, Twilight. We’re your friends and we’ll always be here for you.”
The others murmured their agreement.
“We can get through this together, Twilight,” Rarity half-whispered, her hug tightening warmly around the alicorn.
Twilight remained silent, tears once again flowing from her eyes.
Unlike Spike's flame, it looks like this story still has a spark of life after all.
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W-what? No, I'm not crying! It's...just the rain, honestly. You know how it is, it'll just start pouring randomly...
Please be okay, Spike. I don't think my heart can take it.
Spike is dead..... Or is he?
I was half expecting another breakdown from Twilight after the postal service was mentioned.
A sequel would be nice but honestly I was hoping to see a little of what Spike's going through. He's going to have a very interesting year assuming he's still alive.
Oh well, your story.
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I think all we can do at this point is hope for the best, but prepare for the worst and just hope that Kaptein doesn't have a black hole for a heart.
I'm glad I read the authors note... As my initial thought was "Nooooooooo!!!!! You can't leave it there!!!!"
Hot damn, I hope the little guy will be ok
I swear if Spike doesn't survive, I will find you and I will drown you in my tears
Oh moon and stars above, you've done it again.
Please may Spike survive. Please.
Umm, is this story marked complete by mistake, or is this some kind of sick joke? Because that is not an end. Or is there a equal lying around somewhere that I haven't found yet?
6133066 Not a sick joke, I'm sad to say. There will be a sequel in good time, titled 'One Year Later'. At the moment it's still being written. If there are any other 'short-term' scenes you'd like to see, I'd be happy to explore writing them for you.
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Do you honestly believe I will change my heart just in response to your post? I like my heart just the way it is - and I will write the story the way my heart deems is the best way to write it
In all seriousness - I'm not revealing ANY details regarding Spike. I'm sorry to say but you'll all have to wait for One Year Later.
6132742 I'm very sorry it took this long to finish this chapter. I hope to get the sequel out much faster.
6133090 Oh good, I thought I was going to have to be angrier. About the only other thing I think you could write about for this story, would be Twilight telling Celestia what happened, and having Celestia feel like shit for not having Twilight use her own magic to send messages.
By the way, you see this bird:
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This is what I feel like right now. So angry even gravity is afraid to get me down. Now imagine a swarm of these outside your window, watching you. Some haven't been able to contain their anger so well and have already slammed into your window. I don't see any cracks yet, but that's because most of us are patient. We know there will be more, what we don't know is if it will be sufficient. Please do not disappoint us. Thank you for reading this menacing paragraph.
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Or maybe he'll come back bigger from having learned how to control his growth...
Aw, come on, you had to spoil that?! I wanted to be surprised![/joke]
6133119 Look at his icon. It is an owl with a baseball bat. You think that's gonna scare him?
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He He He He He
Depends on how many heart-raged readers there are.
You dragon brute release me!
Mate come. . .
How dare you ! Release me!
Mate come. . .
I'll have you know I'm a special dragon friend to Spikey Wikey and the Princesses of Equestria , You'll pay!
Spike mate come light fire. . .
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That's a moving ending, see
This is getting interesting I wonder what's going to happen next. Keep up the good work.
This is a moving chapter, seeing how Twilight is falling apart without Spike. The one thing I question is this: Twilight seems unwilling to accept a year with Spike as a Schrodinger's Dragon. I would expect her to try some sort of scrying spell, just to see if Spike is alive or dead.
i forgot about this story but im really happy it update when i saw a chapter have been added i was excited
batchy balls! he lives.
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It's the rain.
IT'S ALL THE RAIN.
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Yes, it's just the rain! Totally not me sobbing and worrying about Spike, no siree!
Please don't die, please don't die, please don't die...
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Not sure if telling everypony to calm down or just dark foreshadowing from a sadistic author.
6134262 Who? Me (the author) or Spike (the dragon) ?
Because, well, we're not sure if Spike is alive. Schrodinger's dragon.
(And now, many years later, Professor-Princess Twilight Sparkle reflects on this experience when discussing her revolutionary thought-experiment, Schrodinger's Dragon).
Fantastic update, the emotion is real and can be felt by each and everyone of the girls.
Looking forward to seeing more in the future, take your time as need be!
Well...I guess it's aptly named, then.
Seriously though, nice to have an update you're still working towards it. This was a wonderful chapter, even though it still leaves us all in the dark about what's to come...which I sorta expected anyway, so we're good.
Actually, I'm glad that's what you did and didn't cave to pressure to give more details before the proper time. I do find it funny, after all, that some of your readers don't seem to understand the concept of a two-parter cliffhanger...you'd think they'd be more than familiar with the concept; I've seen it done repeatedly before on this site. It's not like it's nothing that hasn't ever been done before.
I'm glad that there will be a sequal. I was worried that this was the last chapter. My fears are gone. Love the story keep being awesome!
Loved this chapter! Pretty small, without anything unexpected, but heart wrenching.
wow, that was not a very good ending, I'm not saying that its bad because I did or didnt like it, or even if it was a cliffhanger, but on the premise that if you make a story and make sequels to answer/solve plot holes, make sure the origianl can stand by itself, to be honest, it would have been better to end it at chapter two and maybe have this short chapter as a footnote, because it just abrupty ends on a random semi monolouge, no recap of the story so far, no predilections on a plan of any kind besides wait, no "Next time, on dragon ball z!" nothing, it feels kind of empty like you cut out the second part of this chapter for one reason or another but even as a cliffhanger, the ending doesnt feel right, like there is something missing in the formula
see the end of that paragragh? that's kinda sorta my "example" because I'm being way too abstract about this, regardless of the ending you still have a good writing style and I shall continue to read about spike's plight
Well, sad to see that it ended so abruptly, sad to see that Spike has to suffer.
At the very least Twilight is taking responsibility.
Whelp, guess i have to read the sequel now.
Good job on this my friend.
Have a moustache
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Uh... No. That's how sequential stories work. Each section (that is, book,) of the story ends with a subplot resolved, but the overarching plot isn't resolved until the final section. In this case, the subplot was finding someone who could save Spike's life, with the climax being giving Spike to Mal'Gorath, and the falling action and resolution being Twilight's friends discussing it with and comforting her. The overarching plot is Spike's complete recovery, and their attempts to restore things to how they were before he fell ill.
For example, consider The Lord of the Rings. The first book ends with Sam and Frodo escaping on a boat after the Fellowship falls apart. The One Ring hasn't been destroyed, Aragorn hasn't taken his rightful place as King of the Reunited Kingdom, and the shadow of Sauron still hangs over the land. Does this mean that The Fellowship of the Ring was a terrible book? No, because several subplots had been resolved throughout it, and progress was made towards the resolution of the overarching plots.
However, this is all the realm of creative writing, which isn't something you should worry about too much right now. Before delving into the art of fiction (or criticism, for that matter), you should first master written English.
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(Sorry in advance for the bad grammar, I guess I got too steamed up to properly word my thoughts.)
but it doesn't feel like a story all on its own, even if it is technically a sequential series, it feels more like a prolouge than anything else, even less a story in it's own right, there isn't enough content to justiy making a whole new story which would have presumaby the same amount of content, it's like if you only ate a small part of a meal and moved on to the next course acting like you ate all of the previous one, no you didn't. It's funny becuase I know that were this an actual published piece, a short chapter in an otherwising engaging book would be perfectly fine, but if the author took one or two chapters and made that the book itself and charged it? people would be outriaged. now obviously that isn't whats happening here, but i think a similar rule still applies, The author is treating this like many game developers and publishers do, only getting a part of the game done, *cough destiney cough* and even if there is way more left to be covered and resolved, they just go on to work on the "DLC" or in this case next chapter, it especially works when you see them making day 1 DlC ith cut content from the original, it shouldn't work there, why does it work here? also if this is the same exact story, but a long time later, the author j=could just add a time shift or specially mark it with acts if they wanted it to differentiate from the perevious, it puts more work on the admins setting it up, making sure it doesn't mess up the feature box if it gets there, it is just misleading and likely a big turn off to ne readers, I understand the author wants this to be the next part of this part of the story, but that's what the new chapter feature is for, it isn't like knighty and the others didnt give the fanfic authors choices, and besides there really isn't a reason for this problem to exist, now I'm not going to tell the author how to write their own story, but I think its kind of strange how they wrote it in such a way as to make them think they needed a whole other story for it, when there isn't much here to neccesitate it to begin with, again, nothing personal against the author or their choices, but it seems a bit wasteful and could potentially take the spotlight away from new stories and authors if he has multiple stories like this every couple chapters like this cluttering up the front page
my 2 cents
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The reason it can work here and not in a video game is because this isn't a video game. Furthermore, unlike a video game, you're not being charged to read it. On that note, it's not actually a book either. Yes, if an author published a book that was three chapters long and promised a sequel, it would be stupid. However, it would be stupid because of issues regarding distribution and sale, both of which are a non-issue over the electronic medium. Yes, people get outraged when they buy something in small pieces when they could have the whole thing for the same price, but you must remember, you're not paying to read this story.
Maybe you feel like there isn't enough content here to justify making this its own story. However, the way you feel is subjective. The fact is, structurally, this covers at least the bare minimum of elements of a complete, insular story. This is objective; that is, it is an identifiable truth and cannot be argued. In fact, from a mechanical point of view, this is a good place to split the story. Closure of of one plot line has been reached and there's going to be a shift in mood. If the author instead chose to add some of the chapters from the sequel to the end of this story, he may end up splitting it up in places where it wouldn't make sense, which would be a much bigger mistake than making one story significantly shorter than the other.
The issue with making this one story broken up with acts or other literary devices is that it would force it into a narrower appeal. Believe it or not, there are some people who want to read a sad story - just a sad story. On that same note, there are people who aren't interested in a sad story and just want to read an adventure. If he were to combine them into one unnecessarily, it would complicate that issue. Again, it's an issue of mood; there's a big enough shift that it's worthwhile. Furthermore, I do not see how having two stories would hurt the feature box. In fact, if the author was focusing on getting features, splitting the story would make it even worse, as it's harder to build up hype for a new story than it is to rely on the hype that's already there from a popular story. The only way this could hurt other authors is if both stories got featured at the same time, which hasn't happened.
Now, I mean this all due respect, but you need to go and look up sentence and paragraph structure, preferably before you respond. Your block of text is bordering on incoherent, and if you tried to read it out loud, there's the distinct risk that you'd suffocate (remember, commas are a brief pause, not a stop). Writing is built to imitate speech, and if you don't use proper grammar and punctuation, then it will end up seeming more like frenzied babbling rather than comfortable speech.
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There is a time and a place for proper grammar, and I suppose I thought it didn't apply there, sorry for that. I already explicitly stated that I understood the context and that I knew it didn't follow commercial rules, i just meant to give the closest example i could think of. I understand my personal feelings on the content are my own and not needed, but in the personal interest of the (at least my view) story, it didn't work very well with the story, i also understand that this follows the technical definitions and such that follow. I am not disputing these, however splitting the stories into acts (which would still fit the feel of different sections as much as separate stories) would keep a closer cohesion to the overall conflict: dealing with Spike's dying flame.
Tonal shifts notwithstanding, there have been plenty of great works that have major tonal shifts and still kept to the story and flowed properly. for example take macbeth: the first act deals with macbeth as a valiant general, coming home with his dear best friend, when they stumble upon some fortune telling witces, they prophesize of macbeth gaining great power and being killed by his best friend's children, and of his friend's child becoming king. They come back home to discover a thane who has become a traitor to the enemy, and that he has become the new thane when the celebrating his new title as thane, with some of the experiences the new title brings: more prestige, presumably better pay,and an overall better reputation as far as his allies go. The time it takes from the start of the story till the party where the tone shifts to that of macbeth slowly becoming corrupt and trying to coup the king is roughly around the same length of the story (at least event wise, the approximate number of notable events and conversations that serve as mile stone is on par with the first story) it becomes more sinister as macbeth and his wife invite him over and think and plan for a successful way to kill the King Duncan and they come up with a plan to poison the guards and stab him in his sleep wouldn't you say that was a pretty strong change from a general enjoying his victory and hunting down a traitor? Yet the story changes slowly until you barely even notice the difference if you aren't looking for it.
The change ends when you hear about animals eating each other and black birds and other omens. The point is just because your story takes a drastic change of exposition, pace, tone or what have you it doesn't necessarily need its own story, he could slowly foreshadow the difference from sad to adventure, or even give a pre-emptive warning. although this has little to do with my argument and is a tad standalone some people will read a story of a certain genre and notice such changes and are okay with them because of how well written they are, maybe they came for a certain thing and were happy they found entertainment in another thing. I understand you think the new story is worthwhile but it just isn't necessary, especially if the author plans to continue the story and spike's flame doesn't end up being the over arching plot line, then this whole story would end up as a sub plot, and making different stories would end up being like taking individual strands out of a braid of strings. Yes you could do it, but does that mean you should? no, because the strand would have little to do without anything to support it and would wound up becoming a waste of time. I guess in the end it is up to the author's decision, but I beg you to make sure you have a story that can stand on its own two feet before you make another that could potentially have the same mistake. Regardless of who is right, I'm still probably going to read it, but I sincerely hope the author doesn't make it two stories, or if s/he did, don't do it with the next story
6272486 6280546 ... I am... still on the internet, right? I'm confused and frightened to see such well organized discussion that pays attention to proper grammar. Even if neither of you included indentations at the start of each paragraph, it's close enough that it's unnerving.
And now I've commented so I'm obliged to read the story. Fiddlesticks.
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1v1 me on cod, and maybe I'll tell your mom to stop eating smegma
yes, you are still on the internet (no such thing as sarcasm, so don't get your "insert noun here" in a twist
6319651 What kind of knee jerk reaction is it that, when I see that statement, I'm more amused by the fact that you still used a comma, and capitalization and the apostrophe in "I'll" than anything else.
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I guess that made my look like a hypocrite a tiny bit, by making sure you were on the internet, and with the very same grammar that made you question it in the first place.
I'm just happy my art was put as the picture.
;____; I can't believe it took me so long to get started on this! I sunk so far into Twilight in the second chapter that I even had this uneasy sense of foreboding.
An unfinished story, marked as 'completed', remaining chapters shoved into an incomplete "sequel" for no good reason. Not nice.
6573683 I'm sorry you feel this way.
I didn't feel there was a proper way to 'add on' One Year Later's story to this one without causing problems to the overall narrative, as both stories focus on two completely different story arcs.
Although, this is certainly a trend I'll be avoiding in the future.