"What? Hey!" Pinkie shouted, pointing up at the title of the chapter. "What gives?"

Since she was dreaming, she didn't kn-

"Shush, I know what you're doing. You're canceling the story!"

I mean, yeah, there was that blog post about it...

"That was putting it on hiatus. But now... now you're getting rid of it? WHY?"

Hey, no using emotes in prose. That's not h-

" You're canceling the story I can do what I want."

Fine.

"Good. Now explain to me why you're bothering to make an entirely new chapter that'll get people's hopes up only to dash them when they read the first few sentences? Sounds cruel. Why not just quietly wipe this thing away?"

Well, because while I'm canceling Yiyxa, I'm going to be re-using a lot of ideas from it in another story. A re-imagining of sorts, if you will. It's called The Protagonist.

"Ooooooh. Am I the Protagonist?"

No. The readers get to create the Protagonist themselves in the story's comments.

"Wow! Do I get to meet this Protagonist?"

Probably.

"Right. So... We just leave it here? With me drugged and everything?"

Well, I am going to rewind everything and erase a lot of the world's finer edges... You won't be drugged. In fact, everything that happened will just be undone. The world will even change far beyond what I had in mind...

"How much?"

More than I'm willing to reveal to the readers!

"Aw, drat, I was hoping for some juicy insider tidbits!"

That's the problem, I need to keep this a level playing field. Interactive stories are a fun little juggling dance, you know?

"Nope!"

Ah. Right. Well, let me just... reset this all.

"Do you have a nice explanation for the reset? Or is it just because I say so?"

Oh, I do have a nice explanation, but most people won't understand it. Ahem.

ZAP!

I stood at the grave Lone Crypt had created at the start of the story that would have no ending.

I frowned. This grave remained. What else? I knew not.

I flared my large purple wings, allowing the rain to cover every part of me. I took a moment to relish in the simple pleasure of the water.

Then I sighed - who was I kidding? I couldn't pretend to revel in this. A story had just been undone, left without an ending. Maybe somewhere in the expanse of existence, it was completed. But not here.

"I'm sorry," I said, looking down - at the world below my hooves. The center of the universe known as Yiyxa.

So many things they didn't get to figure out...

So many mysteries.

How many mysteries would be kept in the redefinition?

"Take care of this world," I told the readers. "It is in your hands. And... many of you know what can happen at your hands."

I spread my wings and took to the air, leaving the grave behind. I tore a hole in reality and left Yiyxa behind.

Endings are lies.