8. The Possession Begins
Everything proceeded normal the next day in Ponyville. The villagers were thankful to finally be rid of Cozy’s mischief, but they also knew the truth about her parents as word had already gotten out. There was already debate on what should be done with Cozy once she is found. While Spike was out watching Flurry and her friends, Twilight had a meeting with Starswirl, Zecora, the teachers, Discord, and the princesses.
“I think it’s safe to say that the Elements knew exactly what was going on that entire time with Cozy,” said Twilight.
The teachers all nodded their heads in agreement.
“That’s why they didn’t work,” Gallus added. “After all, the Elements weren’t what turned those three to stone years ago; the Elements only took their magic. It’s like they were trying to tell us something. To think all these years they were kept in stone. We should have known this.”
“I wish I had known,” Discord said. “I would have at least spared Cozy and immediately begun searching for her real parents.”
“We have to keep en eye out for them,” Celestia added. “I just hope they’re good parents.”
“I don’t know, Princess. Leaving a child on the steps of an orphanage doesn’t sound like good parenting if you’d ask me,” said Sandbar.
“I know what it’s like to have loving parents, but I also know what it’s like to have a horrible grandmother,” said Ocellus. “It’s no excuse for what she’s done, but I understand what she’s going through. I just hope she’s alright out there.”
“She’ll come back to us someday. She has to,” said Silverstream with a smile.
“That right. She can’t stay in Everfree Forest forever,” added Yona.
“I’m going to have my guards start patrolling the forest and see if they can find her anywhere,” Twilight told them. “She’ll be brought to me personally and I have a feeling I’ll be met with a repentant filly this time.”
“A good idea, Princess. Here’s hoping she is not in distress,” said Zecora. “I too shall keep my eyes peeled, and hopefully soon her heart will be healed.”
“Can we also admit that what she did yesterday was mostly just the amulet controlling her and not her doing it on her own free will?” Smolder suggested.
“Well, I do think she still wanted revenge on Discord, my sister and I, but it seems what she wanted most was to have loving parents.” Luna stated. “ The three of us saw her almost forgive us until the amulet shone. If she is repentant, I will forgive her myself even after all the trouble she caused me. What’s been done has been done.”
“And when the time is right, I will move to have her pardoned,” Twilight said, standing up from her chair. “Starswirl, did you take care of the amulet and bracelet?”
“I did, your highness,” Starswirl answered. “They’re kept separate in two different places nopony will find, guarded by powerful spells. I don’t know a spell yet that can destroy the amulet for good, but I will work to find one.”
“So be it. Then you’re all dismissed. I pray our next encounter with Cozy Glow will be a good one.”
Elsewhere in Ponyville, Spike and the kids were playing and trying to forget yesterday’s events. Stormy had a hoola-hoop in his hooves and was hovering between Chip and Annie who were bouncing a ball back and forth through it.
“Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three…aw bummer!” Spike said.
“That’s okay guys, you did better than last time!” Stormy added.
“Here Annie, let’s get a little closer this time when we start,” Chip said, positioning himself on the ground as his sister did likewise.
“Think we can beat Stormy and Pound’s record?” Annie asked.
“I think we can! You ready, Stormy?”
“Ready when you are, slackers!” Stormy teased.
The Apple Twins continued bouncing the ball as Pound and Pumpkin cheered them on.
“Come on guys, you can do it!” Pound shouted.
“Not bad for starters! Keep it up!” Pumpkin added as they kept bouncing the ball.
She turned to her brother who was looking behind. She looked in the same direction to see Flurry sitting on the ground by the pond. Pound couldn’t ignore her and finally walked over to cheer her up.
“Hey, Flurry,” He said, sitting next to her. “You okay?”
“I guess,” Flurry sighed. “I’m still upset about Cozy. I just feel so bad for her.”
“Yeah, I feel bad for her too.”
Chip let the ball stop bouncing and signaled to Annie to get her to see what was happening down by the pond. Everyone went silent and walked over to Pound and Flurry.
“Still got Cozy on your mind, Flurry?” Spike asked.
“I just wish she could let us talk to her,” Flurry continued. “I wish we knew where her parents were.”
“What if they’re really bad parents?” Stormy asked.
“That’s what I’m afraid of. It’s pretty bad that she was left to the orphanage like that. If she finds her parents, they might not be as good and she won’t take that very well.”
“Don’t worry, Flurry,” Pound said, putting his hoof on her shoulder. “If Cozy ever comes back and says sorry, we can all be friends with her.”
“Yeah, maybe that’s all she needs is some friends,” Pumpkin said, cheerfully.
“We’d all be happy to make friends with her someday. Right, Stormy?” Chip asked.
“Alright, I’ll be her friend,” Stormy said, sarcastically. “Just as long as she doesn’t try to turn me into a newt. What is a newt anyway?”
Everyone started laughing and then went for a group hug around Flurry.
“Thanks guys,” Flurry told them. “I feel better now. So, you guys wanna see if Chip and Annie can break that record?”
“Yeah! Come on guys!” Stormy said, picking up the hoola-hoop.
“Alright, ready and GO!” Spike said before he started counting again.
Epilogue
Later that night, in the Everfree Forest, Cozy sat alone next to a still pool of water. Her hair was still uncombed and messy with no way to have it taken care of. She was still very miserable about everything and could not bring herself to smile. The past few days were nothing but a fiasco for her, and now she regretted it all. She wished she had never thought to steal and use the Alicorn Amulet. She even wished she never came up with the make-believe characters of King and Queen Kriegspiel just to make her feel better. She missed them, for they were the only ponies that treated her right despite her villainous ways, but Cozy now thought she didn’t deserve such sympathy from anyone. She had gone as far as she could and had nowhere else to turn now.
She looked down at her reflection in the water for a few moments until she began to grimace. She finally slapped the reflection and let water splatter everywhere as she wept bitterly. The last thing she wanted to see was her own face after everything she had done.
“Why…” she asked. “Why am I like this? I just wanted to be loved. Why can’t I just have loving parents like everyone else? This wouldn’t have happened if I had parents.”
She closed her eyes and continued crying, wiping her tears away and blowing her nose into a leaf from a nearby plant. Her crying died down a little until all was quiet enough for her to hear what sounded like a voice.
“Oh poor Cozy Glow…”
“Wha…what?”
“Poor child. What a sorrowful sight to see.”
“Who…is somepony there?!
“Somepony? Oh little one, you’ve known all along.”
“Where are you?”
“Down here.”
Cozy followed her mysterious visitor’s instructions and noticed her reflection now had a sinister grin on her face and no tear-stains on her cheeks.
“WHAT?!”
“There there.”
“Who are you?!”
“I’m you, Cozy. I’m inside you, guiding you.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Don’t worry, dear sweet child. I’m here to help you.”
“You are?”
“Of course. Who would turn a blind eye to such a poor little filly? It pains me to see you like this: not having anyone to love you. Not having parents.”
“Do…do you know my parents? My real parents?”
“Sadly no, but I will make up for them.”
“I just want to be happy. I want this pain to end.”
“I’ll be here for you. You won’t have to worry about that pain anymore.”
“So what do I do then?”
“Just follow my advice, and I will make everything better. I have a proposal for you that will help you with all your problems. You and I can work together as a team.”
“A team?”
“That’s right. You won’t be alone anymore. I can find you some parents.”
Cozy was confused about what she was hearing and she was suspicious about this mysterious spirit talking inside her, but she wanted so much to be free of the pain that she felt she had no one else to turn to. The words from this creature were somehow convincing and helpful. Her face turned serious and grim. She closed her eyes for a few seconds and then opened them to reveal slit pupils.
“I’m listening,” she said.
The End
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Oh no...
Oh boy about to see Spider-Man and now this scene reminds me of back in Tony’s Spider-Man 1 film were Osborn talked to himself and LOTR Golem as well.
Awesome story!! Bravo can’t wait for the next adventure
Btw, I might take that theory I made and make it a story lol it sounded way to good
you sure inspire us
Uh-oh... Nightmare Moon is back... Or the spirit that turned Luna into Nightmare Moon, at least.
Well, now, that’s one heck of an ending. It seems like Cozy isn’t ready for repentance yet, even after everything that’s happened, but it looks like there’s even more to her than we could’ve thought. I’m worried about where this’ll lead, but I’m interested to see what comes of this.
Another excellent story in this intriguing saga!
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Yeah, I was inspired by Gollum and Norman Osborn talking to their demons. I was going to do the thing where their actual face move and expresses how their evil half is talking like how it just showed Gollum from two different angles and with Norman it just switched back and forth between him and his reflection, but it was a bit difficult to describe it in words so it's just her reflection that is moving differently and she hears it in her head.
Yikes. Really good work on the exchanges, characterizations, general story wrap-up and future story set-up in all the right places. Really appreciated the reflections on certain things following the fight with Cozy (including the reason the Elements didn't work and how Cozy's real parents might or might not have been). But, yeah, that bit with Cozy and her inner voice was appropriately spooky. Here's hoping Flurry and her friends can get through to Cozy the next time she appears.
VERY definitely looking forward to the next story. And Happy Holidays to you and your family and friends.
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That definitely is a great choice for her. Can’t wait what you will do next
Ohhh talk about a cliffhanger so anyway everything was getting back to normal in Ponyville Twilight and the others what are they going to do if cozy does come back the princesses even though they are retired they wanted to see if they can find cozys parents and probably that's why the Elements of Harmony did not work despite the danger of the Alicorn Magic it was just a poor kid just wanted to find love but still it doesn't excuse for what she's done but they wanted to see if they can try to reason with her if she does comes back meanwhile flurry heart felt really bad that she could have done anything for cozy but her friends comfort her to knowing that she can still be reason that someday she can be redeemed but deep in the forest cozy glow was by herself but she wasn't alone there was a unknown voice telling that she can find what she's looking for and he is basically putting a group of villains the face off Twilight and the other has it probably the teachers so now she wants in there goes her Redemption who is this mysterious voice but I guess that is another story to tell another day boy that was a pretty intense story I mean there's a lot of villains from the previous My Little Pony or if you're interested probably in the comics as well there's a couple of villains I can actually think of because I did my research on the previous generations but whatever the income I can't wait keep up the good work
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Thanks but I am already aware of the previous generation villains and I plan to use some here.
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Sweet I did see a couple of old generation to look like the My Little Pony friendship is Magic which I kind of wish we could have seen them to come back you know to add more villains and even from the comics as well but like I said whatever you decide I just want to put out there
Oh geeze, the hits keep on coming don't they!
and was that Nightmare Moon's spirit? 
Glad at the very least that stupid amulet's in a more secure place, as for Cozy it seems like her road to redemption's not starting anytime soon, given recent events. When she finally starts on it at the very least I hope she admits to be sorry about all the pain she has caused!
As much as I want them to help Cozy; they literally destroyed her. Emotionally I mean. Celestia, Luna & Discord screwed up and now what Flurry did… made it worst. I mean Flurry got Cozy to murder her fake parents and she’s mentally unstable because of her actions. And the eyes, I have theory that the Alicorn Amulet must of created another mind from Cozy’s rage. Like a Nightmare Moon but I’ll call it Rook Rage.
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Rook rage!! 😂😂😂
Oh boy, Cozy isn't done just yet. I understand Flurry and her friends want to help Cozy, and I respect them for it, but are they sure they can do it? Cozy had friends back when she attended the school but still threw it away.
Now we have to be careful with Cozy's further team. We have gotten stories that focus on Tirek and Cozy, so maybe Chrysalis will be next?
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It's still a ways off from Chrysalis's story, but we will be getting another episode for Tirek pretty soon!
Nightmare Moon's spirit? could be. The pupil slits are a tale sign, but something tells me Twilight won't find Cozy in the Everfree forest anymore.
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Ok I remember a really interesting theory sometime ago when talking to other users. Not sure if it was ever a story but someone had an idea that Cozy Glow parents were the two ponies in the scene were young Twilight and Cadance were walking by and see two ponies arguing with each other and Cadence sends a heart spell at them. This was in the show with both of them being super young which would fit the right time period for her to be born.
Anyways, the idea was that Cadance made a terrible mistake assuming they were a couple in a argument but they weren’t at all rather they are either neighbors, friends, or other but what the result was that these two ponies already had families and what Cadance did cause them to well bring Cozy Glow to the world and family problems.
I think the families resolved by putting Cozy in the orphanage since both ponies never love each other. I don’t think they ever knew it was her since she was on the other side of the street and they probably didn’t even see her.
It’s a interesting theory since the topic was about Cadance magic and her cutie mark of how it all works since there are other forms of love like loving your family, friends, and others then just romance which always seems the show has focus more on as well the fandom.
There definitely is consequences when miss reading the situation and acting on it without the consent of the party even when they didn’t know you got involved.
Another Pony Theory thanks for reading
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I like this theory too! Connecting Cadance somehow definitely makes it interesting, and you gotta wonder if one of her love-spells did ever end badly.
Same, I’m pretty sure she has made mistakes with it here and there
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Might even make a good story someday!
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Indeed!
I can’t wait for your stories. So the next one is in 2022 right?
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Yeah. I’ve just started working on the first chapter for “Let My Ponies Go”, but I’ll post “They Can’t Stay Encased in Stone Forever” first to get it out of the way.
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Is the story a reference to the song “Deliver Us” from Prince of Egypt?
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Well technically it's a reference to the Bible when Moses tells Pharaoh to let his people go. Prince of Egypt just used some scripture for their songs.
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Cool can’t wait
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Actually have you read the “Reflection” storyline from the MLP comics?
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Is that the arc about the AU mirror universe?
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Yeah the one with the evil Celestia and Luna
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No, I haven't read it. The only comic I read was the Chrysalis arc. I don't think I read anything after that except for some of those little short single-issue stories.
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Well its a really interesting storyline. I think you might enjoy it and/or might give you some future story ideas. It’s issues#17-20 (Volume 5 of the MLP comics) which I think you can read online at any website that lets you read comic books
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I have been interested in giving that arc a try. Some of what happens in the comics really doesn't impress me at a glance, but the mirror arc and King Sombra's arc do seem interesting.
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The king Sombra arc is Fiendship is magic #1 and My Little Pony Issues #34-37 (volume 9)
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Got it.
That’s not necessarily true, Sandbar. There are situations where a parent isn’t able to take care of their child and sometimes the best thing they can do is give them up to someone who can.
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Finally someone said it!
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I'm really hope that the author takes an interesting option when Cozy would be redeemed that she refused friendship of Flurry and her friends. Because while Flurry did a right thing, she did something worse then a murder of Cozy - she destroyed her dreams. And what a person if they don't have a dream?
It can make a good hard lesson that you can't always have what you want and that actions have consequences.
But I doubt that author have a... courage, let's say, to use such unpopular and grim ending of Flurry/Cozy arc.
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"I'm really hope that the author takes an interesting option when Cozy would be redeemed that she refused friendship of Flurry and her friends. Because while Flurry did a right thing, she did something worse then a murder of Cozy - she destroyed her dreams. And what a person if they don't have a dream?
It can make a good hard lesson that you can't always have what you want and that actions have consequences."
Uh....okay. Did I not already do something like this in this story by having Cozy no reform yet and bark angrily at Flurry before flying off? Cozy isn't ready to say sorry yet because she's mad that her parents are gone (even though Flurry didn't mean to make them disappear and clearly feels sorry that it happened), though she has already technically admitted to being wrong since she said she caused trouble for everyone and will probably never be forgiven. She'll come through eventually, and how that happens remains to be seen.
"But I doubt that author have a... courage, let's say, to use such unpopular and grim ending of Flurry/Cozy arc."
First of all, you do realize you're commenting TO me in this thread, right? You don't have to speak in the third person, I'm right here.
Second, why would I want to do that? Where is the rule on this site that every author has to do that? I'm not a cynic and I'm not one of these people who hates Cozy just because she's a villain that makes no sense. Instead I'm actually giving her a proper backstory, but I'm putting her through rough times in order for her to grow as a character and eventually be redeemed. I'm doing that with Tirek and Chrysalis too.
what about the whole draining magic out of equestria and wanting power thing. what about that
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what do you mean?
why did she want power when she really wanted to a family
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In the S8 finale she didn't have a way to make her own parents, so I guess she just wanted to get rid of all magic cuz not having a family and being in a bad orphanage caused her to lose her way. After getting the amulet, she finally was able to make some parents and get her revenge, but at first she only wanted revenge on Discord, Celestia, and Luna, but the amulet corrupted her to want to take it further by taking over the school and then Ponyville. As for why she didn't use her alicorn powers to make parents during the S9 finale: she either wasn't powerful enough at that time or she didn't feel she needed any since she thought of Tirek and Chrysalis as being like parents to her.
make's sense
are her parent evil
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her real parents? You will see.
Oh Crap! Cozy Glow is developing multiple personality disorder!
Anyways this is the best story yet. It's going to be hard to top.
I do not how to tell you this but... you are just making me hate Discord even more.
Here is the thing: i hate reality warpers. I always hated Discord bcuz he is unnecessarily overpowered. First he canonically turns out to be a necromancer and now you are just making it worse in these fanfics. He can erase anyone's memories at will and stop time to send others with him to other dimensions without anyone noticing? Are you sure you wanna go that far? I have read many books and comics, i have listened to many radio shows, i have watched many films and tv, many of them that included reality warper characters. And every single one of them was complete shit because writers always come up with some dumb excuse in order not use their powers, which makes me question what was even the point introducing that character anyway.
It does not matter if Discord is evil or not, giving this many powers to him will just bite you in the butt sooner or later. You are gonna write a fanfic in the future where you make up some bullshit excuse to make Discord useless, aren't you?
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Uh...okay, despite the fact that in this story (which you conveniently made this comment on) has him getting overpowered by another villain and looking weak throughout the entire story?
Please keep in mind, I am going off of how he was established in the official cartoon as an over-powered character. I know mistakes were made in Season 9 with his portrayal, but with scenes like the one of him slowing down time to tell Celestia and Luna what he really wants to do with the Trio, I am trying to mend the writing flaws with him in the finale. I didn't like that he decided to turn them all into stone like that since he was given a second and even third chance in earlier seasons. It felt hypocritical of him and ruins his arc as a redeemed villain, so I put in that scene to make him look better and I had him create the "Villains Anonymous" group to show how he's grown past his villainous days and is actually working to help reform other villains. As for the whole necromancy thing with bringing back Sombra, I like to think Sombra wasn't really dead and Discord just rejuvenated him, because I don't like the idea of necromancy being used either.