When facing Twilight Sparkle, Nightmare Moon was given a choice: redemption or revenge. What if she had chosen the latter? A grim fate awaits Equestria, but in a time of greater strife and conflict, Discord's return is accelerated. While he expected to bring chaos, he did not anticipate that he would end the Longest Night and bring hope and joy back to the land.
Discord struggles to reconcile his nature with his desire for admiration. While Twilight's friends strive to carve a new life in the ever-shifting Equestria, she searches for Celestia, the only one who can bring harmony back to her lands. But Nightmare Moon also seeks her sister in a desperate attempt to find her place in the world. New dangers lurk in the wild and more threaten to fall over Equestria. Nightmare Moon's decision broke the balance of the world. Will Equestria ever turn to peace, or will the spiral of chaos and destruction be the end of everything?
(An alternate history, this story takes the universe established by the canon and explores one possible outcome if Princess Luna had not been redeemed.)
Comments contain huge spoilers. Walk softly.
Special thanks to my pre-readers, MmmandarinOrange and DarkmatterButterflies for keeping my head on, taking the journey of the story, and making it so much better than it would have been if I wrote it alone.
38 Chapters:
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Prelude [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 17th, 2013
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The Longest Night [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 5th, 2013
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Daybreak [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
4,370
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Refuge for Wolves [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
2,686
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Family Lines [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
3,297
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Between Here and There [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
4,439
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Moonlight Shadow [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
3,806
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Into Dusk [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
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Touch and Go [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2013
3,541
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The Festival of Fools [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 11th, 2012
4,924
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Interlude [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 11th, 2012
1,893
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Light through the Cracks [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 15th, 2012
3,307
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Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 19th, 2012
3,141
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A Crack in the Door [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 29th, 2012
4,494
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A Little Hurt [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 9th, 2012
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Beyond the Pale [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 9th, 2012
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A Shadow Follows [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 13th, 2012
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Taking the Reigns [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 17th, 2012
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The Lost Ones [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 23rd, 2012
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Times A'Changling [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 31st, 2012
2,781
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Flicker [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 7th, 2012
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The Faraway Stars are Singing [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 13th, 2012
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Masks [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 21st, 2012
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Beneath Her [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 28th, 2012
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When Morning Comes [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 4th, 2012
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The Taste of Apples [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 30th, 2012
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First Victory [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 8th, 2012
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Kindness and Courage [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 7th, 2012
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Eclipsed [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 4th, 2013
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Nightmare [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 28th, 2012
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Broken [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 4th, 2013
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The Battle of Canterlot [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 19th, 2013
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Whom the Stars Love [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 16th, 2013
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Dissonance [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 16th, 2013
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Her Country in Ruins [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 17th, 2013
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Lucent in Tenebris [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 18th, 2013
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A New Dawn [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 19th, 2013
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Coda [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 19th, 2013
4,935