• Story: Mark of the Magician


    [Sad] This is an "Interquel" by another Author that takes place in between the end of Out in the Cold and before Shades of Midnight


    Author: The Mysterious Pony
    Description:  During the joyful celeberation of Midnight's first birthday, Princess Celestia seeks from Trixie the resolution of a longstanding mystery. What she gets is an answer far more than she had bargained for. An answer that is not only great and powerful but unimaginably bittersweet. The tale of how an orphan filly would become who she became to be. (An interquel of EsperDerek's series, Out in the Cold, which takes place between Reaching Midnight and Shades of Midnight written by Phoe.)
    Mark of the Magician (Link fixed! I actually used the wrong one, my bad :3)

    Additional Tags:  Flashback, sadness, revelations, magic, adventure,

    29 comments:

    1. And then so much was written based on one fic

      it became the happy fic to cupcakes

      we just need liek 20 more endings to out in the cold

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    2. Well, THAT didn't last long.

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    3. GOOGLE CAN SUCK IT.

      I'd love to read more of this story thread... but... :(

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    4. GOOGLE!!!!! why do you suck so much

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    5. I'm creating. new term for this: Google'd.

      As in, "Your story got Google'd."

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    6. @NinesTempest
      Challenge Accomplished!
      1. Twilight and Trixie take home Midnight and they live happily ever after.
      2. Twilight and Trixie get it on in the hospital because they can’t wait to have another foal. Rainbow Dash joins the fun.
      3. Midnight dies suddenly for no apparent reason.
      4. Twilight and Trixie give Midnight up for adoption.
      5. Twilight and Trixie secretly kill Midnight because they’re so embarrassed.
      6. Twilight becomes an hero from the stress of being a parent.
      7. Trixie “ “ “ “ “ “ “
      8. Midnight is diagnosed with some bad illness and will be paralyzed her hold life.
      9. Another piano falls on Twilight’s head while returning from the hospital.
      10. Celestia comes in and chops off Trixie’s head with a guillotine for no apparent reason.
      11. Luna comes in and has more sexy time with Twilight because everyone knows TwiLuna is best.
      12. Trixie is cheating on Twilight with Snails (sometimes a with both Snails and Snips).
      13. Twilight goes crazy and stabs herself in the eye with her quill while studying and gets put into a mental hospital.
      14. Ponyville blows up for no apparent reason.
      15. Griffon invasion.
      16. Hydra joins forces with cockatrice and massacres all of ponyville.
      17. Midnight’s horn falls off; she grows wings instead.
      18. Midnight grows wings in addition to horn. Luna claims her.
      19. Midnight runs away (despite being a foal) and is never seen again.
      20. Midnight (despite being a foal) becomes mayor of Ponyville.

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    7. GODAMNIT GOOGLE!

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    8. @Narwhals' Bend

      Congratulations, you just won one free straightjacket!

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    9. There's something terribly amusing over the fact that the damn thing was sitting on google docs for about a week now, but the moment it's actually posted onto Equestria Daily...

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    10. Seth and Cereal need to do away with their update time restrictions. Just post the damn thing when it appears! Why bother waiting a week just for that empty space in the posting schedule?!!?!?!

      BLAHGARBL

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    11. @Crimson Valor

      Wasn't just the update time restrictions, it needed to be pre-read, and before that he wanted to check out what various people (including me)thought of it...

      Oh, for now:
      http://eshettar.deviantart.com/art/Mark-of-the-Magician-211698875?q=gallery%3Aeshettar&qo=0

      <-I found it on his DeviantArt page just now, so here's a backup link.

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    12. @Crimson Valor

      The update schedule is there to help keep stories on the top page longer. We do this stuff for a reason and because it helps the site and the authors more than just posting everything as soon as we get it. Ponies would never notice half this stuff!

      But hey, this is a nice story, isn't it? How about we all enjoy the corrected link and get back to reading instead of complaining, hm?

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    13. What Esper said.

      I had to confirm it was ok with the authors, and have it pre-read.

      Believe me... you don't want me to dump my stories in review folder here. It's filtered for a reason.

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    14. Well, it started out really strong.

      However, personally I feel that when Trixie starts narrating most of the emotion is drained from the story and the pace really drops. Mostly because of the vocabulary. Its understandable, Trixie is a show mare after all, but because of it the story just doesn't do much for me on an emotional level.

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    15. Wait, did someone just suggest we post everything Seth receives the moment he receives it?

      ...hoo boy. Think I'm gonna go screencap my inbox real quick, just for demonstrative purposes.

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    16. I want to see more.

      Confound this series. its making me wish midnight was canon and is pushing Trixie up the ranks

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    17. *And then Rose came along*
      Ha-HA! I knew I wasn't the only one inspired by EsperDerek and Phoe!
      I have this bookmarked now. I'll read it when I get off from work.

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    18. If you ever visit ponychan, I'm samurai jack there.

      I can't write all I want to say about this right now due to lack of time but I would like to say this makes me very happy.

      I shall be putting my review on this later.

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    19. Five stars for the story, but I've spotted something odd:
      "lay asleep when the stars of Luna's Night blazed overhead".
      At this point in time, Luna hasn't been released yet, so why would it be referred to as "Luna's Night"?

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    20. The Mysterious PonyJune 11, 2011 at 2:55 AM

      You raise a good point.

      The thing is that I've always kind of assumed that nopony knew Luna and Nightmare Moon were the same entity (remember that Twilight and co were surprised to discover that Luna was Celestia's sister) and, as Luna only really came out during the night before her return, Celestia was able to keep that she was banished a secret by taking charge of night herself. Feeling guilty for having to banish her sister, she continued calling it Luna's Night to honor her. Therefore Trixie, and many other Equestrians, would assume that the beauty of each night was still being woven by Luna.

      It seems like a plausible explanation to me. I don't think it's contradicted by anything in any of the episodes.But then I may be wrong. If it is, let me know.

      I'm glad that everypony's enjoying this so far.

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    21. @The Mysterious Pony OH SHIT, THERE'S AN EXPLANATION FOR IT!

      Well played, very very well played. I think that "mistake" might've been my only gripe with this. Looking forward to more parts.

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