As I entered the building, the room was dark and silent. I could detect the mana reservoir for a couple hundred ponies hidden throughout the room, including the six mares I met earlier. I sensed the six at the front of the group and decided to just walk forward without turning on the lights.

Switching to my new Dragonoid sight, I calmly made my way to the staircase without touching a single pony. With my left foot on the first stair, I turned and addressed the group.

"I know what this is and I want no part of it. Everypony who I don't name leave now, or I'll use my magic to kick you out. Pinkamena Diane Pie, Applejack Apple, Rarity Belle, Fluttershy Hurricane, Rainbow Dashel Do, Lyra Heartstrings Bon Bon Drops, Vinyl Scratch, Octavia, and Derpy Hooves. The rest of you out!"

I heard a bunch of grumbling and watched as over 200 ponies left the building. All in the dark as my dragon sight had exceptional night vision. I had left the door open so the ponies could see.

After many of the background ponies had left, I started up the staircase. “Alright, ladies, you may resort to using whatever nocturnal illumination device or devices, while I go change into something more relaxing. Feel free to make yourselves at home and relax and I’ll rejoin you ladies as quickly as I am able.”

During all this Spike headed to the buffet and had just grabbed a slice of pizza when I entered my new bedroom. He saw each of them let down their respective glamor spells as the mane six revealed their alicorn forms. Derpy Shifted into her Thestral pony form. Her mane turned white while her coat darkened to an almost charcoal hue and her height changed from 5'2" to 5'8" Octavia also Shifted into a Thestral pony form similar to Derpy's, but she started at 5'3" and grew to 5'9" though she stayed an earth pony proving that each race had a Thestral sub-race. Vinyl, on the other hand, showed the other mares why she wore shades all of the time as she Shifted into her Vampony form. Her mane turned blood red and she gained five inches to her short 5' frame.

The thing about Vamponies is that they all grow wings in their released states but are not Alicorns. If they are unicorns in their sealed states they become Demi-Alicorns. The major differences are they aren't immortal, but longer lived and more durable than normal ponies and more resistant to disease than most. Fluttershy is the obvious exception as she is an Element of Harmony and granddaughter of the last pegasus monarch making her distantly related to me and my family.

Next Lyra Shifted into her own Draconian state, her wings grew out of her back and her horn lengthened. She was a rare mortal Dragonoid Pony; again more of a Demi-Alicorn than a pony with normal DNA, but she also had a slower aging rate than a Vampony so she would live a lot longer.

Then finally Bon Bon Shifted into her changeling form, which unlike in the show did not give her bug like eyes, she had eyes more like Chrissy's with an actual pupil and iris instead of their typical compound eye composition.

While this was going on, I dropped my own glamor for both my alicorn state and my Dragonoid form. Thus I looked like I did when I was at Flutters place and I stripped down to my bra. I don't wear panties as while they made special ones for futanari, they never felt right on my loins so I never wear one.

When I came back down the stairs the sun had set and the clock read 8:30, I saw that Pinkie’s hair had deflated and Pinkamena was present in her place, but while I knew the other pony in Pinkie that was Pinkamena I had never met her myself or even read about her much so I didn’t think I could talk to her till she walked up to me and said.

“We understand your want for a more private party due to the circumstances but my other half did put a lot of work into inviting those ponies Dakota. I believe she warned you about this so don’t get mad.” SLAP! “There, I’m done. Do you want me to stay or would you like my more energetic half to return?” She asked me as I thought of a way to help these two have a good life as sisters instead of one pony. Like lightning it hit me.

“No, I want you both to be here!” I said as I charged up my powers knowing that my aunt was now in a trance so deep she wouldn’t notice my power level rise,she did this whenever she entered her prophetic dreamscape. It was the only time I could do some Power flexing in my meditation sessions cause even then my power rose as I sparred with my past selves, to prepare for the events later on tonight. I let my connection to Magic and Destiny flow through me and latch onto the two souls in pinkie’s body and pulled them apart giving them each form and life.

It was as though I had taken a really large bone saw and cut exactly down the middle of Pinkie’s body. However, I was using magic and not something as crude, messy, or fatal as an actual bone saw. Magic, deep magic, kept the two divided hemispheres of Pinkamena Diane Pie alive and her internal fluids within their respective half, until slowly, the two halves became two wholes. First bone grew and formed the other half of the skeletal structure. Then blood vessels, the other half of the nervous system and the other half of the internal organs grew and formed within the newly formed half. Then muscles, tendons and ligaments interwove and connected, like the interweaving of thread. Skin slowly grew and covered the exposed muscle, as though paint had been poured over an object. Very short, fine velveteen textured hair then proceeded to spring out of the skin, like quickly growing colored grass. On the top of Pinkie’s head, her hair quickly grew out and became voluminous and curly, while Pinkamena’s grew out long and straight, like a dark bubblegum pink waterfall cascading down the back of her head and framing her serious looking face.

I had the others leave the room, since I wasn’t sure of how well they could handle gory things like seeing Pinkamena divided into two halves and being able to see her blood, organs, the exposed skeletal structure, or her exposed muscles. I also wasn’t sure how well they would handle seeing the two halves become two wholes or the process by which it happened. I don’t understand why Pinkamena thinks that Pinkie Pie is a manifestation of a multiple personality disorder instead of simply a mask which she wears when in front of others, because she desires to bring joy, good cheer, and laughter to others. Now, after having separated the two, I felt as though I should have talked to Pinka more and why she considered Pinkie Pie as a manifestation of a multiple personality disorder and why she felt that Pinkie deserved a separate body to inhabit, rather than accepting and embracing the depth of her real self, that of Pinkamena.

Once the bodily halves became two wholes and then the magic involved in the transferal of one of the personalities into the other vessel, I collapsed to the floor, feeling exhausted after expending so much magic, or the focus and concentration such intricate magics required. I watched dazedly as Pinkie exuberantly embraced Pinkamena. One thing was for sure, Pinkie/Pinkamena’s visit to the Pie homestead was bound to be … interesting. Suddenly I heard clapping from behind me, and I looked over my shoulder, with my mind dizzy from the strain I had placed upon it and my vision swimming from a mixture of exhaustion and from the mental strain I had just recently placed upon it. I closed my eyes in hopes that the swimming affect my vision was suffering from might go away, as I felt Rarity’s hand gently squeezing my shoulder as she tried to come to grips with the sight of two pink ponies, One with curly hair, and the other with long straight hair. Pinkamena had a coat and mane color that was several shades darker than her counterpart, but aside from the coat, hair, and personalities, they could have looked like twins!

"I get it now. I've seen the power you wield and see why it would've been very dangerous to just drop your glamor. If you can give those two, two separate bodies with just a flex of your powers, I'm sure your glamor was powerful enough to block Celestia's Sight. I'm just as sure you're glad that your Cutiemark is complete once more, 'Dakota,’" she said and then chuckled. "It's rare to have a cutiemark which either undergoes an alteration, to reflect a pony’s discovering additional abilities, skills, or passions during their journey on this ride called life. Or sometimes a pony’s cutiemark can change completely to reflect the newest way which makes them special. Let me guess your talents lay in magic?"

I looked at my flanks and noticed that she was right! Just like Shiny I now had something behind my star an icon of sun and moon joined together with a reversed S shape. In the center of each ‘spherical’ section was a smaller sphere. So in the middle of the spherical part of the sun, was a small white dot representing the piece removed from the moon and overlaid onto the sun icon. Conversely, in the middle part of the spherical part of the moon was an yellowish-orange sphere which represented the piece removed from the son and overlaid over the ‘sphere’ of the moon. The whole thing looked like two curved tears, with the outer perimeter forming a perfect sphere, while the inner perimeter curved in that reversed S shape. It was basically a Yin and Yang symbol, but using the sun and moon, rather than pure black and white. Along the outer arc on the sun side of the sphere, wavy sun rays, exactly in the style of how Princess Celestia’s cutie mark sun rays were stylized, rose up from the edge of the sun side of the Yin and Yang symbol! I instinctually knew what this meant, Cosmic balance, Twilight, and destiny itself. the inner border of the circle touched the tips of the six-pointed star while the five white stars were in the circle surrounding the whole thing.

"Wow guess this fits me even more than just the first stage of my cutiemark,"I said. "The star sparkles bright while the moon and the sun together represent Twilight among other things." I chuckled "Hey, Pinkamena, Pinkie Pie! You two now have an even better reason to party! I just finished my cutiemark!"

"Nice!" Rainbow Dash called out. "Hey mind if I ask why you’re just in a bra?"

"No offense, Sugarcube, but isn't it kinda indecent to wear so little when not at home?" Applejack queried while blushing.

"The library is my home for the next week or so," I replied. "The princess set it up for me to stay here as a vacation from the nobles for a while, so I'm okay like this. Plus, like I told Fluttershy earlier, I barely wear shirts at home anyways. The bra is actually me being somewhat modest."

"She's not kidding, ladies, if she was alone she would be completely nude! This is her being considerate," Spike said as he grabbed another slice of pizza. "And before you ask, I'm around 15 years old. Twilight hatched me when she was 8, so while I'm still a baby when compared with normal dragon's lifespan, I'm pretty much a teenager to everypony else. Since she’s pretty much nude whenever we’re at home or wherever we’re staying at the time, and has done this ever since I can remember, I’m pretty much inured to it, and the novelty of having a naked female in front of me has pretty much vanished. Also, she’s my mother/sister figure, so if you ladies think that I’m thinking about her in a perverted way, I’ll be both offended and grossed out that you would think such nasty thoughts regarding me and your perceptions regarding what I think about Twilight."

I turned to Bon Bon/Sweetie Drops, "You're a changeling huh? Cool. Nymph or Queen?"

"Neither. I'm a Loneling. We tend to look more Pony-like than most drones and we can passively feed off the love in the room," she replied. You're bonded, are you? She remarked through my link with Chrissy. Who is it?

Chrysalis herself. I told her. In fact she is almost here to rebond with me.

"Wait a second! You're the pony the Queen bonded with! She said that you had died 1,000 years ago in the Nightmare Wars.”

“You were part of Chrysalis’ hive!” Lyra exclaimed. “Is that why you told me not to ask about your past?”

"Yes and no. Honey, it isn’t about my time in the hive,” Bon Bon assured. “Mostly. It’s more about what I did after I left.”

I know, Sweetie Drops. I sent through the link. ‘Tia told me about your agency as a countermeasure in case I got foalnapped. Too bad she never knew about my true identity.'

No kidding. If she knew about the alicorns here she'd flip her shit and try to gather them in the castle for protection. Chrissy sent to the both of us. Dakota, I'm about to land. Do I still have to disguise myself?

I guess not, but keep it as a backup just till you get inside. I sent back.

Okay. She sent as I heard a knock on the door.

"Hey, sis, can you get that? Chrysalis is at the door," Pinkie asked her new sister as she headed toward the stairs. "Hey, Twilight? Mind if I grab something from your room? I kinda placed it there earlier and forgot to bring it down at the start of the party."

"If it's what I think it to be, sure, Pinkie, just don't grab any of my clothes while doing so. I'm pretty sure my backpack is trapped, so I don't think you should touch that either," I warned her.

"Okie Dokie Loki, don't grab any of your clothes or touch any of your guns and swords, gotcha. I'll be right back," she said as she made her way up.

Pinkie’s POV: I decided that the vodka would be best served now, now that Pinka had been separated from me. She was always there, but after the Rainboom we switched places. It tore us both up to be one pony as we both wanted to experience life, but as the years went by Pinka started to quiet down and leave me alone, unless I couldn't deal with something. Then she would switch with me for a time.

As I entered Dakota's room, I saw that she had found the bottles, but she had just moved them from behind the books which had hidden them. There was also a note next to them.

Pinkie Pie, please bring this downstairs for the party. I know you put this here as I haven't brought my own supply here yet. Russian is the best, am I right?

ps: Please, next time bring three bottle

s.

I grabbed the bottles and the note and came back down as Pinka opened the door.

My POV:

Pinka opened the door and Chrissy stepped in. Her disguise was that of a light sky blue pegasus with a mane of white. She kinda looked like Trixie if she was a pegasus instead of a unicorn. When Pinka closed the door she dropped the disguise and revealed her true form.
Sweetie Drops/Bon Bon bowed out of respect even though she had left the hive some 40 years prior.

"Bon Bon, it is nice to see you have stayed alive all this time. I'm particularly glad you’re well fed as my own drones are low on love at the moment." Chrysalis said as she scanned the room for me. "Dakota, honey, could you please come here, I'm fucking starving!"
“Now hold on a moment! Who in tarnation are you and who is this, 'Dakota,' pony ya'll are talking ‘bout?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "The only new pony round here is Twilight. Besides, ‘Dakota,’ sounds like a stallion's name. Though it’s a weird name, I still think it fits a stallion better. Who are you talking to, Miss Changeling?"

"Rainbow, she is talking to me. You know how I'm an alicorn like you guys, right? Well I kinda have a story to tell you all. And this is why I asked the others to leave so I can tell all the hidden Shifters in Ponyville who I really am," I said as I walked up to Chrissy and hugged her tight, and feeding her the power she had given me to keep me awake earlier.

I'm sorry about leaving you. I know now that you missed me. Even when you saw me back then I felt your sorrow. I sent through our link as I brought her to sit next to me.

Thank you, Koty, I truly missed you. You’re right in that I did feel great sorrow back when I shadowed Cadance. Chrissy sent back with tears in both eyes. Seeing you as a unicorn, even though I didn't know it was you, hurt. The two of you were so much like we were back then.

Again I'm sorry for your pain. but now we can tell Mom and the rest, starting with them. I sent right before saying "If you want to hear my life story, then you had better sit down as it's pretty lengthy. Oh and Spike?"

"Already on it," the young dragon said as he handed out pillows, snacks, and drinks to everypony in the room. When he was done, he sat on his own pillow with a glass of Vodka and a couple slices of pizza with hay bacon baked in.

"Cool, let's get started," I said as I cast an image projection spell I had learned awhile back to help me study.

Author's Notes:

hey sorry about the cliff hanger but i promise the next two chapters are the last of just plain story for now.

ps this is my second stage cutiemark's background.