Hey everyone! First of all a happy new year to all who celebrate new years as we enter the new year of 2019! its been a long year and another curse hitting my family every time we go to visit our family members in Baltimore! And by curse I mean we caught the flu! Every time we go there we get the flu and we even made preparations this time to avoid this! Enough of my ranting as I move onto everything else! I was able to type up at least one chapter for several stories its been a while since I updated! Which reminds me to have to get a chapter typed up for the Requester of the story Growing Pains!

Forgive me for my procrastination I just have been unable to properly sit down long enough to type enough for that story to make even a chapter! Also I have a large announcement to make concerning two stories!

Angel of Magic Final Version!

And Silent Singer!

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are now being Beta'd!

Someone had come up and requested to be a Beta and when given the choice he picked AOMFV and I picked between two he had thought he could work with and picked Silent Singer from the two as the other was one I promised I myself would work on!

The name of the beta is Tarnum427!

He sent back a chapter for Silent Singer I decided to post today instead as I wanted to do the reveal on upload day! Don't really have much to say except that I'm going to do my best to type up chapters for stories I've barely updated! Have a happy new year and hope you all made your new years resolutions!

I sat in the room that housed the one pony who was my true friend when we were younger... he lied on the gurney in a vegetable state. His body twitching randomly every so often as his cutie mark just disappeared ever since this happened. "Twilight you need to rest..." Shining Armor spoke as he approached. "he wouldn't want you to be like this."

"i caused him to be like this... if only I stopped myself from casting the spell back then." he put a hoof onto my shoulder as I turned my head and looked him straight into the eyes.

"the princesses are doing their best to help him. Trust them to do what they need to do..." I only proceeded to shrug off his shoulder.

"that's what she said before..." I could hear him sigh as he walked back out of the room. I proceeded to wrap his front right hoof in my own as I looked at him with a saddened gaze. "please..."

Shining Armor's POV

I walked out of the room and walked down the hall. I gave a small sigh as I soon reached the waiting room. Considering the only ponies allowed into the asylum to visit were close friends and families at the moment and yet it was still packed with ponies. About half of them being my own guards in case Danger decides to make another appearance. Not long after I walked out the princesses walked out talking with Safe and Danger's main doctor. Soon it looked like they were close to entering a shouting match until the doctor pulled himself away and went through the doors I just came out of. Approaching the princesses I couldn't help but worry seeing the looks on their faces. "your majesty s." I quickly bowed to them. "he shows no signs of waking up anytime soon and his magic is all over the place. His vitals are all random but they chalked it up to it just being due to the fight for dominance in his mind."

"thank you Shining Armor... and of Twilight?" I hesitated for a moment before I spoke.

"she's once again entered her regret phase much like that of when the incident first occurred... and she appears to hold a small amount of anger to you princess Celestia after I spoke about how you promised to do what you can and she responded in kind with 'that's what she said before'." staying silent as she and her sister seemed to process this I spoke up for my sister's defense. "Princess I know she said it out of anger for what has happened to her best friend when she was younger and to see him like this again she-"

"you do not have to worry Captain." princess Luna spoke up. "my sister knows of how she would react before even entering this building. She and the doctor have been... arguing for a while about what is to be done about this... pony." she declared for me. "with his actions as of late and the deaths of a good number of both guards and with how the doctor has dealt with him since he was admitted. He recommended immediate termination." my eyes widened in shock.

"e-execution?" I spoke to her with a small sputter as princess Celestia looked ashamed. "but its not his fault hes like this!"

"it was only a recommendation Captain and I must kindly ask you to remember who's presence you are in."

"apologies your majesties. But I have known Safe since my sister brought him home from Preschool. He wouldn't willingly become like this."

"this has been taken into account captain." princess Celestia spoke up for the first time. "but from what I have been told they have tried everything... even the ones that would require our own signatures to enact. All of what they have done has done nothing but hurt him. We have run out of options. Keeping him contained is no longer a possibility as he destroyed the cell made and specifically reinforced for him. We do not know when he will wake or who he would be once that occurs and it would take months to get it back to its original state and even longer to find ways to make it better." I looked away saddened by what I have been told so far.

"princess... what about my sister? You know she is the only one since she came of age that is allowed to authorize anything that is to be done with him." they looked surprised at this new information as I gave them a confused note. "she got permission from his parents to be his guardian while he is admitted and to do away with him without her permission would... break your own laws your majesties." I spoke the truth on the matter. Being extremely worried for him and the fact that his parents were unable to do much without the knowledge of what each treatment did to him and with the fact they were to busy getting the bits to keep him admitted... they shifted their guardianship over to her with a single promise...

help our son...

ever since she was the one who received all the mail concerning his behavior and actions. "is there really nothing that can be done princess?" they both nodded their heads.

"while Side's parents could have been persuaded easily... Twilight will not be so easily convinced." princess Celestia spoke up. "may I ask where you plan on going off to your honeymoon with my niece?"

"we planned on going to a summer home along the west coast your majesty for a few weeks." I spoke up confused as to why they were asking.

"i must ask you to... postpone your honeymoon." I looked at her surprised.

"may I ask why princess as Cadance... would not be happy to hear this." she chuckled.

"i will go and check upon your student sister." princess Celestia gave her a nod as her own younger sister walked off before turning to me and speaking.

"because I believe you and my niece would be the only ones capable of convincing her there is nothing else that can be done for him." I looked at her in shock. "before you ask captain... I have thought of all others and only you two could possibly come close to changing her mind on the matter."

"but what of the friends shes made in Ponyville? Couldn't they change her mind."

"I'm afraid that they wouldn't be able to help her decide. I believe they would most likely take her side on the matter despite all that he has done. They could be persuaded yes but that would take time that we do not have. And to choose from a friend she has known since foalhood to the friends she has just recently made... a friend who she could always confide in regardless of what happened. I have no doubt... she would always pick him over them." as she spoke of these points I couldn't help but agree with her. She was right of course but to try and talk my own sister in... agreeing to that... just...

"princess... you do know of what you are asking of me correct?" she nodded. "you asking me to try and talk my own little sister... my little star... after having learned of the values of friendship on her own in Ponyville... into having her be the one say to kill him?"

"Shining Armor. I know what I ask is absolutely horrible to ask of anypony. But it must be done. Nothing can be done short of killing him and allowing him peace." she spoke to me.

"Princess with all due respect are you certain you have done everything you can for him? Maybe there is something you missed or-"

"i... am... Certain." she spoke through grit teeth as her motherly tone disappeared. "i do not want to do this nor do I wish to live with yet another mistake that I was unable to fix!" I flinched at her tone. "she is like a daughter to me Shining Armor. To cause her this grief is going to near break me when the time comes. But should he awake and it find it is Danger who is in control I don't think we will be able to do anything to stop him again. The only reason why he was stopped in the courtyard was due to the fact Safe used a spell bordering on dark magic and used it to stop his split persona from killing your sister. My sister is going to use her magic to keep him asleep for as long as she can but anypony can gain resistance to her magic if enough time has passed. If she doesn't change her mind... I fear I will have to use my status as ruler to order him put down..."

"which would break her even more to the point she herself would be unstable." I spoke as she nodded with a sad gaze before turning her attention towards the doors the doctor and her sister had gone through. "princess I have... no... need to ask this again to be certain. Is there nothing?"

"no." silence was all that was heard around us as I flinched internally.

"very well. I will do what I can to convince her." she gave me a sad smile but a smile nonetheless.

"that is all I ask. I will notify my niece of what is to occur. Now then..." she gave me a even happier smile. "i believe it is time for you to renew preparations to join the royal family." and with that my white fur almost became a permanent red.