I AM SO SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN UPDATING

I'm putting a delay on this, and I will probably continue to not update. Sorry guys.

BUT HERE'S A CHAPTER TO PACIFY YOU.

Velvet ran to the cradle and snatched up her baby, who had stopped crying.

"Why would she do that?" Velvet cried. "My poor Twilight!" Night Light rushed to his wife and child. "Can you help us?" Celestia shook her head sadly. "There is nothing I can do. I cannot undo another's spell, and I have already given the child my gift."

As have I, Luna said.

"I can help," Cadence said softly. Everyone in the room turned to the young alicorn. "I have not yet given Twilight my gift."

"Can you take away the curse?" Night Light asked.

"I'm sorry." Cadence shook her head. "As my aunt said, I cannot undo the magic of another. But," she continued, "I can alter it." She approached the couple clutching their daughter. "I can make it so that she does not die."

"Do it princess, please!" Velvet said without hesitation. Cadence lifted the foal and her horn sparked with the effort of the difficult spell. Twilight glowed for a moment, then the light subsided, and Cadence shook her head. "There," she said. "She will not die, but sleep. She will fall into a deep sleep until a kiss from her true love awakens her."

"But how long will that take?" Asked a colt who was suddenly standing beside the princess, who blushed. "What if we are all dead by the time my sister wakes up? What if she grows old and dies while asleep?" Cadence thought for a moment, and her horn lit up once again. When the light subsided, she turned to the colt, Shining Armor.

"I have made it so that anyone on the castle grounds will sleep. You will retain your youth while you sleep, so that when Twilight's true love comes, you will all be waiting just as you were the moment you fall asleep.

"We must not allow this to happen!" Night Light declared. We will rid ourselves of every spinning wheel in the castle. No, in all the kingdom!"

"But how will you do that, father?" Shining asked.

"We will make a ban!" Night Light cried. "No one is allowed to have a spinning wheel from this point on!" Celestia approached the king and rested a hoof on his shoulder. "It is her destiny now," she said gently. "Nothing can prevent destiny."

"We can try though." Velvet cradled her baby as though she were afraid a spinning wheel would suddenly appear and prick the little princess.

Luna shook her head sadly. "Fate has decided, I'm afraid."

"We can try," Cadence said firmly. "We will do all we can." She walked over to the baby. "I will stay with her. I will protect and watch over her, and when the time comes I will find her true love to wake her." She smiled sadly. "It is my duty, as the guardian of love." Twilight looked up at her new guardian, eyes full of wonder.

A ban was placed on owning a spinning wheel in Canterlot, and royal guards rounded up the existing ones and burned them.

The princess was taken in by Cadence, who took her to a small cottage in the Everfree Forest to protect her. She lived there for nearly sixteen years with Cadence, who adopted the title of her older sister.

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