Fast and Cozy in Towers and Bishops

Chapters

After the previus adventure
Chapter 1: a long story
Chapter 2: a new friend
Chapter 3: Favors and magic tree
Chapter 4: 3 days, 2 nightmares and 1 truth
Chapter 5: tragic truth and disappointment bro!
Chapter 6: hours counted
Chapter 7: last breath
Chapter 8: the end
Epilogue
Chapter 9: forgive...

After the previus adventure

Every single night I look at my window and HE is there… that shooting star passes every time I see thought on my window, that gives me the signal he will never leave me… the sad is I can’t have it with my side since I moved out here

But I could talk to him "Friend are you still there… well today I had a great day… I get it back at my school in just 1 day, I meet 6 friends and are very cool, I would like to stay with them all the time but I want to be with someone special, you know who is bud?... Yeah she, is something cool have her… Well it was more than by that hug, anyway, can you help me with something?... I know I have many friends but I want to have one who is like me… oh you sure do that? maybe I’m asking you something really big... oh thanks, dude… goodnight… "

It’s a secret I give to you only… yet, don’t tell anyone about this… ok?

Days later, he grants my wish, and months later it got better:

Twilight announced "I’m glad you both arrived, I was thinking and I decided you both will be my assistant, and, what do you think?"

??? answered "Oh, golly, yes! I accept!"

I said "Yeah…, I can’t take it… I want she will be who represents us how we are"

??? asked "Wait? Are you sure Fast? We can be assistant friends"

I said "Yeah, golly wolly pal, you made my life better than it was, is the best I can give to you for all that"

Twilight comments about the little talk "Awwwww! That’s cute! As you both are"

I responded "Well that’s why and more we are best friends duh"

Chapter 1: a long story

It’s a snowy day, just a few days for hearth’s warming day and everyone is gathering in the school's living room, this day is storytelling day, where some students tell festive stories in their style and in a very varied way after all the stories are only a few hours for classes to end.

Twilight announces “I want to thank the students chosen to tell the stories, they have taken great care of it, and that makes happy to all of us that helps to cope with others, in their style, which will be very useful in these festivities.”

all the students were happy attending to what Twilight said, except Fast, who felt sad and upside down, Twilight looks at him with a calm face.

“Fast,”-Twilight says, and Fast looks at her-“do you feel good?”

Fast just says “I think so...”

Twilight asks “All good with you? it's not what we talked about?”

Fast answers “No, it's not that, it's another thing that worries me more, but it has a very long backstory, and I don't want to bore anyone.”

“Well, you have a lot of time to tell your story, telling your story will help you to let off steam and it seems they want to hear everyone right?”-Twilight says and the rest of the students say yes-” Go ahead! everyone is waiting for you.”

Fast goes to talk on front of everyone a little worried, his 6 friends are cheering him on and says “Well this story that I am going to tell you, it is not festive, it may not have many emotions as the other one I told, but I hope it may interest you...”

Chapter 2: a new friend

It all started months ago, exactly when it was my birthday and my friends organized a party at recess with a little help from Pinkie, the party lasted not much, but it was beautiful when it was time for the gift-giving, I liked it a lot, I get a spellbook called “5 spells and 5 fun facts about the artifacts,” a wooden log to destroy, a dragon-carved gem, a picture with the 7 on it, a plank of gold of Griffinstone, and a heart pillow made with love, needless to say, who it gave what gift.

After that I said “These gifts are great, thanks a lot!”

Gallus said “Just wait, there's even more.”

Silverstream covered my eyes with a scarf “Gallus and I have a big surprise that you may like.”

Gallus said to that surprise “Ok, now you can go out!”

Some small gallops are heard and Silverstream proceeds to remove the scarf that I saw later was a filly, who also went to school and it seemed to me that I saw in classes, it was.

That filly a little shy said “H-hello, my name is Cozy, Cozy Glow.”

“And I am Fast Tap, but everyone calls me Fast or Tap,” I said, and we shake their hooves safely.

Silverstream said after we met each other “we know the 2 can get along, and you won't have to wait so long to talk to a friend.”

Gallus added “I know that you have too much to tell us as friends about how your life was, and recess is too short, and don’t worry about us, we will always be waiting for you here at recesses, or in the living quarters.”

Silverstream finished saying “And we also know that you have difficulties in making new friends.”

I hate to admit but that was true, with everyone else it was difficult to talk to them, either because I didn't know what to tell them or when it was a good time to talk to them or I just didn't want to flex too much.

But let's go back to the tell, after meeting each other, the bell rang and we went to the class, with the small confidence of the other, in the class I realized that she was very smart, like me! We were the ones who lifted the hooves more often, had more questions and who had their qualifications very good, days later after meeting one each other we had become an inseparable team, we helped each other in the tasks, in studying, in everything! I even met her friends, and with her.

We lived a thousand adventures that reinforced our friendship more and more, as when in an expedition, We used a compass to return, or when we found everyone in the hideouts all over Ponyville, or when we were the winners in the Spellvenger.

I even remember that day when classes ended I showed her the great and high view and the sunset, I was rising through the skies in the form of a hippogriff, but Cozy was still close to the ground, I went down to help her get confidence.

I said “Scared?”

Cozy answers “A little, I get used to being a maximum of a meter of the ground.”

I said calming Cozy “Don’t worry, if you fall, I lift you.”

“T-th-thanks” Cozy said.

Cozy starts to fly higher, I was supporting her staying close to her, being close to her, we reached very high, enough to see the sunset.

Cozy said amazed “Wow!, It's very beautiful.”

I tell her “You know? this reminds me of something I learned on my own, friendship is magic, friendship can gather all your friends despite everything, friendship brings thousands of benefits for everyone, and can lead to knowing people of all kinds.”

We admired the sunset until night

While we were going to the living quarters, Cozy asks “Fast, can friendship do anything?”

What I respond “Anything, friendship also carries a lot of responsibility, is a diamond, something precious, but it is also a baby, it requires a lot of love so that in the future it is strong.”

“Thanks, Fast,” Cozy said

“You're welcome my friend...” I said

After that, we went to sleep

Chapter 3: Favors and magic tree

With Cozy new in my group of friends, it felt awesome, the 8 of us had fun with no stop, we played hide and seek, charades, there was nothing or nobody who could separate us, with Cozy, we asked each other for favors, she said that reinforced our friendship more, one day, she had made me a promise in front of her friends 3, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, better known as the cutie mark crusaders, and me, she promised to follow after anything the friendship, as in a group and we would never hide anything between us, after that, we played 5 until night, literally our lives were filled with love and joy when we met and so it was going to be for the rest of our lives, or that’s what I thought.

The days went by and every week Cozy asked me for another favor, one stranger than the other, she told me it was for a project, as a friend, I trusted her words, one day, something unexpected happened to me that gave me a new friend (boy or girl), in the library, we had agreed to see each other to study for tomorrow's test, had arrived late for reasons to enjoy the gifts of my birthday, well, let's say we were in the hallway and was going Something I decided to read about what they would take us while reading, she asked me something:

“Pssst, Fast do you know of a super-secret place in school?” Cozy whispers to me

“Cozy,”-I giggle-“We are not playing hide and seek, also we have a test tomorrow about Equestrian history.”

“oops…”-Cozy laughs-“Sorry, I got confused, that reminds me of something, you can help me bring our notes? they are in my living quarter, it's for our friends.”

“Sure do Cozy!” I answered.

And we both went to take our notes, after hard work, we found them, but when we returned to the library, we looked for our friends and there wasn't.

“I'm going to look for them again, maybe they hide, somewhere” I said still thinking they were hidden.

“Okay, I'll stay studying, as for 1 note of mine there are 5 of you Fast” Cozy said.

I looked all over the place until I saw something strange, a fence had gone out of his place because of some kind of crystal lifted it, I decided to search there, between, and I saw that under the school there was a huge cavern, when I look down, l see the footsteps of my friends, they should be close, I walked for a while and I saw a Twilight who was shining a little in front of me, who would say that a friend would show up like that every time you saw him or her:

“Welcome” said that Twilight.

“Twilight, is that you?” I ask without thinking.

That Twilight makes a gesture with her head moving it on both sides indicating no “I am the tree of harmony, and I wanted to know you since the chest opened.”

“You were a friend of that pony?” I said.

“We were friends in spirit, he told me he stayed in Equestria until someone opens the chest and shows he deserves the artifact, I made the promise to protect and befriend with the chosen one, and apparently, it's you” the tree of harmony responds.

I present myself to it “Nice to meet you, my name is...”

“Fast Tap, I know, my roots tell me everything” the tree of harmony interrupts

I look around and ask “I guess these crystal things are your roots, right?”

The tree of harmony makes a nod that said yes “I have opened the fence where you entered for 2 reasons, and one of them is meet you”

“And what is the other reason?” I asked

Tree of harmony said “It is for your friends, so they know about friendship is in their nature”
I said goodbye to the tree, she told me that I would always see him or her as Twilight, so that I get used to it and went to tell Cozy about this, but when I saw her, she was asleep, and with several notes on her legs, I organized all the notes again, and both of them, I placed her near that fence, so she knows about it when she wakes up, and I went to sleep in my bed, completely ready for him tomorrow's test, sadly, everything changed some time later.

Chapter 4: 3 days, 2 nightmares and 1 truth

A few weeks passed and what I knew, Cozy knew too and vice versa Cozy became Twilight's friendship assistant, Twilight also offered me, but I decided that Cozy be the one who represents us and it was only a few days before the semester ends, the craze started Wednesday, my day started in the school library, and I found Silverstream, who was solving a crossword puzzle using a pencil, I was a little surprised because she was supposed to go on a field trip with his friends:

So I asked her “Hi Silverstream, I wouldn't want to scare you, but aren't you supposed to be on a field trip?”

Silverstream drops the pencil with great fright “Oh no! I'm going late!”

I keep calm and I tell her “Don’t worry, I will help you, I learned a teleportation spell, just look…”

Making the spell ( and yep, I learned the spells to the letter), I took my friend in the blink of an eye, just in time, since I did not know what to do the rest of the day, so I decided to read more spells and learn them where she was sitting.

My favorites were the possession, never use it, but I was waiting for the moment to do it, the spell was to touch the subject to possess and pass your soul and magic to him, which would give a few seconds so you can control it and use its magic consuming yours, the other was of replay, whatever I heard was going to be stored in the artifact and just connect to it and remember what I want to replay, and my favorite fun fact that I read, is that the oldest artifacts (which have more than thousand years) cannot be absorbed in any way, due to an overload of magic that they would have, but it would be said that it is exclusively with mine.

When I finished reading and enjoying my other gifts, I was seeing how they were things at school and I see through a door that Twilight and her friends had to go somewhere, leaving Starlight in charge, Twilight told me that she was going to Tartarus to find out what was happening, the strange thing is that when she left, she closed the door with the hooves, not with magic… so I went to consult my tree friend at night to know more about what the hay was happening.

“Tree of harmony ... I know you might worry about it, but what is happening up there?” I asked to nowhere on the caverns of before.

The tree of harmony appears to me as before “Fast, it's a terrible thing! all the magic is disappearing! the magic will go away completely on Friday night.”

I got surprised by that “It cannot be, Equestria without magic, it would be a misery, almost nothing could be done, Equestria would be left in chaos that would be impossible to recover!”

And the tree of harmony gives me bad news “I know who is behind this, I had to have told you something a long time ago ... the truth is ... Cozy, she had been using you for a long time and she is behind of thi...”

“No, no! I can show you that she isn’t! she couldn't kill a butterfly, nor as our friendship is.” I go for evidence.

“Go ahead, but you will not go far.” The Tree of harmony advised.

From there, I decided to look for evidence, that it was not true when I would have time, but there was nothing to prove his innocence on that day, then, they all went to sleep, but I had the worst nightmare possible.

That dream was scary: I was in a version of Ponyville where the world was an incredible apocalypse, people were fighting around and some were attacking mercilessly, but a mystical voice is heard that stops the fights and puts their head down and on stage Cozy Glow comes out in a white robe and a crown of leaves, step by my side and I rub my head like a puppy, I look at the horizon and the teachers were approaching, Cozy just extended her hoove towards them and the teachers ended up in bones, I look towards Cozy and her tunic and crown are burned and they turn into a black queen's dress with red horns and stare at me and a statue that has my shape falls on me, all while she saying things that frightened me to hear from her.

I woke up just when she finished her great dialogue on that dream and it was midnight, I went back to sleep trying to forget that bad dream, but that moment I never noticed that the tree was controlling my dream, it was warning me of something.

It was another morning when classes were starting and there was a meeting, but, Starlight was not there, how strange... and Cozy took the charge, for some reason:

“Gooood morning friendship students! I know we’re all sad professor Sparkle is away, but don’t worry, because she left me in charge! To do just the way she would!” Cozy said happily

But I was thinking confused “¿¡What the…!?, she left Starlight in charge, not you Cozy”

Gallus said “Uh, I thought Starlight Glimmer was gonna be temporary the headmare.”

“She was, but she left me this note: ‘I have to go, Twilight needs my help, I know the school is in good hooves with you cozy’,” Cozy giggles “isn’t that sweet? We won’t let Starlight down, Will we?”

I whisper to myself “And now what? She wouldn’t tell us directly?”

I was starting to think the tree of harmony was saying the truth, but I have to make sure.

But Smolder had the same idea “it’s just kind of weird, isn’t it?”

“I don’t know what you mean…” Cozy grins

“Like, why’d she change her mind? Why did Starlight write a note instead of saying goodbye to us herself? Doesn’t make any sense” Smolder said

“Oh Smolder, you forget, we’re not scheming dragons, were ponies, sounds like some creature needs to do a little extra friendship homework” Cozy grins and boops Smolder, and that makes her angry.

But Yona defends Smolder “Yak not pony either, if Smolder get homework, Yona get homework”

Ocellus adds “Me too”

Sandbar too “I’m in”

“Yeah, Homework party!” Silverstream grins

Gallus said “Ugh fine…”

I go walking closer to them and I complain to them “There is space for one more?”

“What loyalty, professor Rainbow Dash would be so proud, you are such good friends, you all are! And I’m grateful because it will be awfully hard running a whole school alone, can I count on each of you to help me?”-Cozy said and the others said yes, while I and my friends knew something strange was happening-“Thank you so much! It’s just like our professors taught us Together, we can get through anything!”

After the meeting, something remained in my head: “Together, we can get through anything”… I began to investigate this further and when finish the morning secret mystery, when suddenly:

“Fast! I just wanted to talk to you, I will use everything you taught me and as a result, I give you the following days, a break!” Cozy talks to me

I was surprised “huh?”

Cozy keeps talking “You deserve it, friend, now go enjoy the day!”

“Bu-bu-but my friends...” I said a little worried

Cozy calms me “Don't worry, I'll take care of your back”

And I said before go “o-k, well, see ya”

Wait, if she left me free of classes, wouldn't it be so that she didn't discover her secret? Things were going to be questioned with me that day, first check the box with the artifacts, she told me that she had organized them, the artifacts weren't there, which reminds me of the favor of finding the perfect formation to use the 6 artifacts at once, then I saw the note that Starlight supposedly left without anyone watching me, it was equal to the letter of Cozy!, but what else it scares me that when I checked the letters she received, they were all from Tartarus and they all came from someone named Tirek, who knew he was someone who almost stole all the magic of Equestria, was getting into terror.

So I tried to relax the rest of the day in the courtyard, I say “I tried” because I couldn't, while I wanted to relax.

Cozy passed by in front of me “Oh, I forgot something, it's your early birthday gift.”

She gives me the gift and I open it and there was a Gamefilly Advance which had the game Rainbow Battle “oh, thank you very much”

The rest of the day I spent playing trying to forget about the morning and I went to sleep, while I went I met Sandbar, he went to the library to the study club of his friends, I would like to stay with them, but I was exhausted, pitifully that night, I had the worst nightmare, like a musical

On that dream, I was on the cavern entrance down of the school and the place was lightning up ”Lost in a doubt, of a friendship of the present, where was Cozy Glow, both sides were there, don't know if it's true, don't know if it's evil, not even, it's just friendly, one of them must be…”

Suddenly a shadow came out and it was Cozy's and it became a clone of me, but injured and said to me “How you couldn't know of her plan at the start? How is it possible you still don't found? I thought you were smart and you were going to discover it, how do you still not know about her goal?”

But I respond to him screaming while the echoes were around us “All of you are is a part of my dream! You really don't know Cozy!”

But he said ”This is not just any dream, I'm just what you see and what you think of her”

I told him “You would know perfectly she wouldn't make that plan, no one really knows truly”

He stomps on the ground and papers fly containing the favors that Cozy did to me and they transform into a great sphere of magic where underneath was a giant portal “Just look at their favors, my friend, and you will see it, she has fooled you for months and without knowing, I'm just trying to show you, you really don't want to see, cause this way you will not like it”

I say to he “You also know she wouldn't do that; you saw how friendly it has been”

He responds to me “I also remember this day, and the times you doubted it”

“I know that she has been my pal, long time I can remember, and I know she wouldn't do something like that“ A Cozy appears near the portal, I walk closer to her to hug her.

“She wasn't your friend” he advised.

“NO!” I respond quickly.

“She only used you” he keeps saying.

“NOOO!” I respond yelling to he

“If you continue on this way, late it will be, the world will end, and she will win” he said that, and that Cozy pushes me to that portal and the sphere of magic grabs me and puts me inside while going down to enter on that portal.

“I´m starting to see it… How could I not know?” I said scared.

“Your fear hid it!” he said.

“If it's true, who are you?” I asked

“I'm your other friend the tree” he said

“You always knew, the truth” I said

“Some friends are of cardboard” he told me

“How this, can I avoid?!” I ask to he

“You must remember this place” he said

I look around and I see it’s the caverns “I know very well”

“Come here!” he said.

“I will, I have already learned the lesson now” I said in tears before I crossed the portal at all.

“It was about time…” he said.

There I learned that a truth that hurts is better than ignorance.

Chapter 5: tragic truth and disappointment bro!

I woke up suddenly and heard the window that was opening, it was Sandbar.

“Sandbar, what are you doing?” I asked.

Sandbar looked that I'm awake “Fast! thanks, you're awake, you see, Cozy ...”

“...plans something on the caverns of the school and I hadn't noticed?” I interrupted.

“Y-yes Who told you?” Sandbar said.

I looked back and saw a crystal root under the bed and I looked back at Sandbar “let's say, a crystal plant told me”

“I need the crusaders for a plan, our friends are trapped in another living quarter, I had to fake my betrayal to get out of there.” Sandbar told me

I asked confused “But why?”

Sandbar said “The director of EEA took control of the school”

“Please, don't tell me it’s Neighsay who are we talking about…” I said

Sandbar responded “Yes, sadly”

I said “That explains some things, for now, I'm going directly to stop Cozy, but as I read that EEA rule book, discriminates other creatures, what do you think will happen if he sees me at this time of the day?”

“One way or another, you should avoid it, I have to go, time is running.” Sandbar said.

“Don't tell me, see you!” I said

After that, Sandbar goes out by the window, and I closed it so that there were no suspicions, and that reminds me of the afternoon, Cozy's gift! the gift wasted my time and prevented me from being in the walks, hiding the truth more, now I was asking why she would do all that, everything made more and more sense with her.

I left the living quarter by the door and closed it, the director was watching the halls, with the help of my artifact, I became a spider, it was stealthy but slow, and I came up with the idea of not going with my legs, if not swinging on the walls, I went a little faster, sometimes I fell, but luckily Neighsay didn't see me, or the times I was in his head, and believe me, it seemed that he was everywhere.

The only way I knew to enter the caverns where the friendship tree was in the library, in the gate before, after a long time, I managed to arrive and enter, already in the caverns, I became a pony, and The tree of harmony was waiting for me.

The tree of harmony said a little worried “It seems that in the end, you arrived”

“Thanks for letting me know, every precaution was necessary,”-I looked around-“but where is that thing you showed me in the dream?”

“let me show you..” the tree of harmony teleports me to the center of the cave through one of the doors and there I saw it.

It was something I couldn't believe: the formation of the artifacts, the super-secret place, she used it to absorb all the magic of Equestria, I was already completely unearthed, but something I saw was that where the magic was stored, inside it was Starlight.

I approached and spoke in a very low voice “Starlight! You're fine!”

She looked at me with a lot of confusion, giving the signal that she can't talk to me

And there I noticed “Oh no! so much magic doesn't allow the sound to come out or in! it is as if everything had focused on this formation, keeping the magic in a sphere, and now that I see it, why did I have to do the favor to help her with that and combine the formation that absorbs magic with the formation that creates a vortex that leads to limbo?”

Suddenly I heard some small gallops; I turned into a fly and I stay on the ground right next to one of the pillars of the place so as not to be seen, then I saw around and I see that Sandbar and the crusaders, also arrived and hid, and then the 5, we heard the Cozy's voice out through one of the gates to where we were:

“Enjoying yourself in there Starlight? I’m sorry I had to push you in, but what else could I do? You were going to ruin all my plans… you might get some company soon, if I can’t make that annoying Neighsay, BACK OFF!.... all this magic needs time to drain from equestrian before my vortex sucks into another realm, hehe 3 days can sure seen like forever huh, you know? you ponies got it all wrong, friendship isn’t magic, friendship is power, with twilight and her lackeys out of my way, all of the Equestria will bow to me! the future empress of friendship!” Cozy laughs like a maniac and puts on her head a crown of paper.

My heart broke and I become a pony, and as seas crying “H-how could you?”

“Fast, oh golly…”-Cozy flies a few meters from the ground “my good friend, I didn’t expect you...”

“...broke my heart in this way! ?, We were a team that followed friendship, a team that has no secrets from each other, one that knew that friendship was magic; Now everything makes sense, those favors were what destroyed this friendship, those times that you asked me for things, like the time I helped you to completely copy the book of the school, when you asked me to bring people to eat cupcakes, (I look at the vortex ) or when you asked me for an artifact formation capable of absorbing magic, they were all for your benefit and have the school at your side, you just wanted to have friends to be stronger and use them for power, not to have fun with them, as you said: ‘Together, we can get through anything’ or correction, get thought whatever YOU want Cozy, today you have made me learn something, a friend can help you with things, but never pass the line, but despite everything, a friend guides you to good, I know you have your motives, but…”-I transform into a changeling, and then become a pegasus foal and I open the arms for a hug-“we can solve that problem.”

“Oh Golly! I'm sorry, Fast I'm sorry for...” Cozy hugs me with pity and takes me without noticing the vortex and when she put me in it, she pushes me-“BEEN YOUR FRIEND!”

Some claws come out of the magic sphere and they catch me and tries to bring me with Starlight, I quickly transform into a hippogriff and nail my claws to the ground and I said “Listen to me Cozy Glow, you may have a lot of friends, you may have a kingdom, but you will never be or have a true friend, because a friend ... NEVER ... BETRAY...”-my claws are released and before I enter the sphere-“HIS FRIENDS!”

Suddenly, just before entering, the tree of harmony teleports me to another place, from everything else, I could only know that the other witnesses closed their eyes for the terrifying and unexpected end that happened.

Chapter 6: hours counted

When the tree teleported me, I went into a dream, in that dream, there was nothing completely, it was just me in a white place, and suddenly my friends and ex-friends appear around me telling me something they told me on the past, everyone in order, but in the end, there was a voice that said something additional:

“I just wish to relive those moments” The voice of Gallus said

“This is the best future of all” The voice of Silverstream added

“Thanks Fast” The voice of Sandbar added

“There is no time to lose!” The voice of Ocellus too

“Pony friend doesn't give up” The voice of Yona said

“Wooo, we did it Fast!” The voice of Smolder said

“Do you know of a super-secret place…?” The voice of Cozy said

“I made the promise to protect and befriend with the chosen one” The voice of the tree of harmony said

“I'm more or less your guide today” a voice unknown said

And my voice is heard saying at the end “You had good times with her, you shouldn't worry about that, you have achieved and will achieve a lot in the future, and your friends thank you for what you do, but now they need you and there is no time to lose, don't give up, You can still come back, I know you can do it, I have protected you from a bad end, and you are in a hidden place to have someone to guide you… ”

Then everything went black, I was starting to wake up and just heard some voices:

“Do you think he still alive?” Someone said.

“Where did it come from?” Other ask.

“Must be alive...” Another said.

“Wait! I know how to wake him up, I read it in a book...” Someone said.

When I finally woke up, the first thing I saw was a creature that I didn't know seconds ago was about to kiss me.

I cover her mouth surprised “wowowow, please don't”

It was morning, it was the 3rd day, Friday, all the magic will disappear at night! thanks to Celestia that the sun has not yet come out.

“I told you it will work, hi, my name is Autumn Blaze and welcome to the Kirin village, I'm more or less your guide today, locate... “-She hears a cough-“ah, yes, what happens to your shinny friend?”

I see that friend and it was the tree of harmony who coughed it falls rampantly and I try to lift it saying ”Friend! you can't leave me now, not even now.”

“The magic in me begins to disappearing, Fast,“-the tree of harmony coughs-” it’s the end! there is nothing we can do ...”

I think of something and remember the spell of possession and the curious fact of its artifact “There is still one last thing, there is a spell that allows me to recover your powers and save the magic! but I don't know how to release it in the 1st place, if I try to approach on this way directly, it will happen like before, but you will not be able to save me this time, I need my friends”

The tree of harmony was disappearing slowly and coughing “I know you can do it, if you ask your friends for help, victory will be assured, but there is something that does not say the spell you're talking about, it can take life who uses if you don't go out alive, say hi to that pony by me...”

I see it disappear and I said “And I swear to do it...”

Autumn Blaze said “I don't think it's a good time, but can you tell us how you got there?”

“it's a long story, but I can sum it up, does anyone know how to play the guitar?” I said

And another Kirin plays a chaotic and tragic music

I sing “Tap fell in a trap, called Cozy Glow... I had a friend who was called Cozy Glow, and nothing in the world could separate us, we made favors for friendship reinforce, but it was the bomb that friendship destroyed, she became evil without noticing it, the tree of harmony warned me what was happening, I didn't want to hear thinking it was fake, I was too wrong and he showed it to me she made, And after that? I saw everything that happened, she saw the friendship like a piece of nothing, I tried to stop her but she betrayed me, for her I almost go to limbo with all the magic, and you know the rest, now I'm here and I must go back now, for save everyone, or she will win, after she rule the school she will rule Equestria, there is still hope and it is my magic, I know the risk more, I can die, but I must stop her… or Equestria will be on the end”

“So your friend Cozy Glow betrayed you and is taking all the magic to limbo, right?” Autumn Blaze resumes the song

“yup” I respond

Autumn Blaze said “Well, that explains why our magic doesn't work anymore, but what magic do you mean it can save all Equestria?”

I look and lift my necklace “This magic, this artifact haves thousands of years, and is one that cannot be absorbed, due to the great overhead that would do”

“Well, I think you should go now” Autumn Blaze said

“That's the problem, she easily took control of the school and if I try to go back like this in front of her, she could catch me with the help of all the students, as she said: ‘together, they can do whatever she wants‘ “ I said

Autumn Blaze said “Don't worry, I learned to be more smart and agile, I can teach you my maneuvers and you could save everyone and I could be your official coach and ... and how do we get back? And do we have all the time to go?”

“We only have until sunset to stop it, we can return to school with a spell that I learned” I show her the teleportation spell and replay spell

Autumn Blaze said “you know? can you also teach me those spells after all that? Nothing interesting has happened since we recovered our voice and I also want to help you save everyone, can I go with you?”

I respond to her “Autumn, this is not your battle… but any advantage is necessary”

And so we both prepared for the grand finale of the semester, we were both against the whole school so far, Autumn prepared me with speed training, jumping high, jumping on the walls and thinking smartly

I stayed a little while, to get to know the culture of that village and to know more about my new friend, and I like her, she was the one who gave the idea that everyone would recover their voice in the village, I also found out that being Kirins, with only a little magic and negative emotions could turn into Niriks, it was impressive, but already, going back to history

After being ready for whatever comes, we made a campfire to talk in the 30 minutes left before classes start and take action.

Autumn Blaze asked me “How important was that friend to you? The one that betrayed you”

I respond to her “Negative to what she really cared to me, we were a team, a perfect friendship, that would overcome all obstacles, had to have thought that friendship is only power to rule Equestria, that other friend, the one who disappeared, she was the friend that I had to pay attention in the first place and none of this would happen”

Autumn Blaze told me “I wouldn’t say that all this has been for something bad, now you have a true friend who will accompany you, in fact, I have had worse problems in the past, like trying to convince everyone that speaking and expressing yourself is fine, I wouldn't have done it if some friends came to help me and that is what you need now, am I right?...”

I shake my head up and down giving a sign of yes when it was time for class, I teleported my friend to school ready for action, only Cozy knew I could bring her problems, no one else at school by luck, or I thought.

When we arrived it was very early, it was about five in the morning, the door was closed, but we could see what was happening through the windows.

The "new" headstallion, Neighsay, that EEA dude, announced that he would now have to correctly guide the school, with the EEA regulations, but everyone already knows how catastrophic it was, just thinking about it, gives me a headache, so Cozy didn't think 2 times and she turned the cake to him with a speech:

“Thank you chancellor Neighsay for that rousing speech! I know you’re a stallion who truly believes what you say, and when you say the school will run according to the EEA doctrine I know you mean it, AND when you say there won’t be any more lessons of the princess of friendship at the school of friendship I guess you mean that too.” Cozy said and the students' murmurs and Cozy have a face that says: ‘I got you now’

Neighsay said “That’s not exactly what…”

Cozy Interrupts ”BUT, twilight decided to run the school outside of the EEA guidelines and even though you tried to stop her, princess Celestia and Luna trusted her enough to support her”

Neighsay said “Well I would say that…”

“So since I know you mean what you say, my question is really for the students, are we going to give the pony who already tried to wreck twilight school once another to do it?” Cozy said and there was a hustle all of a sudden that they were protesting against Neighsay

Only after that I looked back to my right, wondering “What happened to you Cozy?... why?"

And it was confirmed, Cozy had an army, and it was the students, and it was worse than I imagined, I thought they were just going to throw him out of school, but hay no, they caught him and took him away.

When all that happened later I saw my friends with the crusaders coming out of a door, they were also watching what was happening and they also wanted to stop her, we knocked on the window to be opened and we could talk.

Sandbar, Gallus, Silverstream, Yona, Smolder, and Ocellus said “Fast!”

Smolder asked “Hey Fast, who is that pony dragon?”

I answered “Ah, yes, I almost forgot, Autumn Blaze, my friends; Friends, Autumn Blaze”

Autumn Blaze said “Nice to meet you, Fast told me everything, I came to stop her once and for all with you guys”

Applebloom, one of the crusaders said “About that, there is a small problem with that”

Yona added “Team needs new plan”

We talked and talked about what we could do until I got an idea “Bingo! I know how, but I will need everyone, they are 2 plans that will join in the end on this one, this is what we are going to do: Sandbar, Gallus, Silverstream, Yona, Smolder, and Ocellus, go for Neighsay and warn him about Cozy, he should tell the princesses and then go to where all the magic is headed, hence Sandbar, you will lead the group; Crusaders, you take care of Cozy and keep her busy and distracted for as long as possible, Autumn, you will knock on the door of the school, you say you want to join the friendship school, that will keep Cozy much busier, then you join them and become the nicest to win the heart of the students, prevent them from approaching us, or seeing us”

Ocellus said “Wait, you won't do anything?”

“The opposite, I will have the most difficult role, I will be in charge of all this show continue as it is, if something goes wrong, I will help, well, the time has come, everyone in their positions!” I said

Chapter 7: last breath

The plan was going perfectly, the Crusaders and Autumn Blaze managed to distract her for an hour, enough for my friends to do both things when my friends left going to the cave, I went to see how it was going to Autumn, after Autumn's class, she managed to get students away from my 6 friends, leaving everyone almost in one corner of the school, then I went to see how the crusaders were doing, but they ended up being betrayed by Cozy, ending in the shed without being able to leave, seeing that, I went quickly to a place where she doesn't would see me, but surprise, when I saw a good time, she put me in a bag until I could not breathe and pass out, when I woke up, I was in the cave with Autumn Blaze, but it was in a place I did not know of that cave, tied to a chair by s rope and only Cozy was in front of both

“Did you think you could fool me Fast Tap? Golly you found out about my plan too late and I cheated you several times” Cozy said with a maniacal face and tries to take my artifact, but I give her a small spark as a threat

“You can't have the artifact, only the true and best friend can have it and it's me” I respond to her

Cozy said “It doesn't matter, anyway, the magic goes away and you can't do anything about it, in fact, that reminds me, thanks Autumn for telling me what they want to do! that way of taking them all to the edge of the school was Too suspicious, now just 6 left...”

Autumn Blaze said before she left “I thought Fast was exaggerating about you Cozy, but as I see, you are the worst monster ever”

“But I don't have nothing to worry about, I will soon go for my friends to stop your last part of your dumb plan,”-Cozy laughs and leaves with a cutie face–“goodbye!”

After she left, I was trying to take the rope off and I said to Autumn “Don't worry, we'll get out of this… somehow”

Autumn Blaze was moving the rope “Ugh, if I could become a Nirik, we would get out of it!”

“That's it!” I thought that if I turned into kirin and then we held on to the hooves and became a Nirik, she would do it too, I became kirin” Take my hoove!”

I use my artifact to transform us into Niriks and by contact we made it, and the chair and the rope burned to let us out

Autumn Blaze said “New plan I will intervene in something in the plan if something goes wrong to lighten the problem, leave me like this, then I will return to normal”

I transformed back to a pony “We will both go, but we must reach the center of the cave and warn our friends, but where are we exactly?”

We didn't know how to get there until we heard the voices of our friends, we followed them without stop, we knew they were in the center of the cave, looking for a way to release all the magic, there were very high steps along the way, we used the high jump to reach them, then sometimes the voices changed position, to help us and not lose speed, we used the wall jumps when we could, already at that time, we already saw the center of the cave, and we hid so that we could jump into action quickly.

Upon arriving, I knew that I had to use the spell if or if, it was the only way to ensure victory, I also realized that where we were, it was the arena of the end, our final destination, our friends were about to release all magic, but Cozy arrived with all the students, we didn't want to intervene, there would be worse problems if that happened, but we could hear everything:

Cozy approached my friends, acting “After everything Twilight's done for you, why would you want to destroy her school?”

Gallus yelled “WE DON’T! you’re the one using these artifacts to drink magic from Equestria!”

“ME? We are you saw you and your claws all over them!…”-Cozy gasps-“it’ll make sense; these creatures want magic gone from Equestria because it’s the only thing ponies have that THEY don’t!”

Ocellus told to Cozy “Technically there’s a magical component with Silverstream and I transform”

Yona adds “And Yona’s friend’s friendship is magic, Twilight said!”

I was whispering to Autumn “At the count of 3 we jump into action, you stop as many as you can, you know what I will do…”

Cozy was contradicting what my friends said “And you repaid her by sending her to Tartarus on a wild goose chase so you can destroy everything she build!”

I start to count “1…”

“They even trapped Starlight on that t-thing!...” Cozy was kept saying

“…2…” I said

“WE HAVE TO DEFEND…!” Cozy said

“3!”-I shouted at heart-“LET’S SAVE...!”

And I and Cozy said at the same time “…THE SCHOOL!”

And so the CRAZE begins, the other students were heading towards my friends, but Autumn created a wall of fire leaving many students unable to reach us, I and Autumn entered the scene to help them, but there were only a few who They were enough to catch us, Autumn broke free and without realizing the floor where the artifact formation was, leaving it with all the magic next, becoming Kirin again, my friends got scared and went to try to save her but one by one they were finishing Like her, I was the last one I tried but again the claws that concentrated the magic caught me, being in the same situation again, I had to reach the pillars that I noticed there, which were the roots of the tree of harmony, the only way I find is teleporting myself just when everything was going to end, and I succeeded, my friends, from the magic sphere, looked at me while I was making the spell, I looked at them until and my magic and my soul were transferred to the tree, when I achieved it, I noticed that I had my same pony shape and that the portal had already been opened and the magic had just been absorbed with my friends, when it was already closing, I entered to try rescue them , but as soon as it entered, the portal closed...

When it closed the magic no longer existed in Equestria, the creatures became weak and useless, the potions were only jars with colors, the artifacts were only things...

A conversation started with the students and Cozy

Ruby, that was one of them said “They sacrificed themselves trying to save their friends! That was the most loyal thing I've ever seen in my life...”

Cozy told to her “They made it themselves! There is nothing we can do now!”

Thunderlight, another student added to her friend “But that doesn't sound honest or loyal or kind”

Cozy said to him “Yeah, yeah. The Elements of Harmony are very important. They're just not applicable in every circumstance. And with magic gone from Equestria, I'm not even sure the Tree of Harmony will be as helpful as it once wa...”

Suddenly the floor shake, sparkles appeared around the cavern, and a rainbow laser shot from the ceiling where all this happened to give just where the portal was

The colors of the rainbows split and opened the portal again and the magic came out of the portal with my friends (Sandbar, Yona, Smolder, Gallus, Ocellus, Silverstream, Starlight, and Autumn) raising all the magic.

I yelled “FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!”

Then the portal closes and I released all my friends from the magic sphere, my friends when leaving, they had colors similar to the teachers, then I look at myself and I had a green color around me and in the mane, then the rainbow before lifts and Keep the sphere with me, my 6 friends went for the artifacts.

Gallus said “Guess our friendship is pretty magical after all.”

“You said it...” I said

Cozy was surprised “But what? What are you doing!?”

I respond “Saving school with my friends, supporting them, never using them...”

Sandbar said suddenly “I hate to interrupt, but this thing can destroy the school”

When he said that the students fled, Cozy did too, but Autumn and Starlight caught her and they bring it closer to what she caused

Autumn Blaze said “The time has come for you to look at what you have done”

“On the count of 3, we raise the artifacts, 1 ... 2 ... 3!” Ocellus said

And they lifted the artifacts at the same time, I knew what could happen to me…

I approached them and said “If something happens to me or this will destroy us, I want to tell you that I love you friends, you have been my best family I ever had, I know you are the only one but you understand...”

My friends said to me “Us too Fast Tap, our best friend”

And from there, the sphere exploded, finally releasing all the magic…

Chapter 8: the end

When I opened my eyes, I saw that it was where I did the spell in the first place, I looked around and it seemed that time was freezing, I walked around the place for a while and started calling:

I said to the nowhere “Hello? is anyone here?”

A small magic light appears and transforms into the tree of Harmony, walks and greets me “Fast! Congratulations Fast, you saved me, me and everyone in Equestria”

I looked at detail how were the things “Oh, that thing? yes, it is the fault of several what happened here...”

“Not that, you have made a friendship so strong that it is so magical and powerful to save all Equestria, it was time to give you a gift, you proved to be strong and friendly enough to be, and you managed to do something that none would, nor Starswirl...” the tree of harmony said

“I don't understand; can you explain to me?” I asked

And the tree of harmony sing “You proved to me, your soul is very strong, you never gave up even where everything was lost, I saw what you achieved, I saw how you grew up, I saw what you became now, you are a hero and a legend little Tap, the time has come, to have an improvement, you will live thousands of more adventures, and you will see your road, you will see your friendships, you will see your future, and its time Fast Tap, for get more than have”

After that sing, 4 particles left my friend and revolved around me at the speed of light, until the 4 entered my necklace, exactly in the pearl, which left me with my eyes closed, letting time go on.

When I woke up, I saw around me and all my friends and I were in the schoolyard, I and all my friends were scattered on the floor right in the middle when we got up.

I said “We made it!”

“And nobody got hurt! that was the best” Autumn adds

I looking at the sky how many particles of magic were falling and going back to everyone “It seems that all the magic returned to Equestria, the teachers should come right no...”

“Where is Cozy?...” Autumn asked

“YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!” Cozy appears as if she was burned

“Excuse me?! YOU…!” Autumn said so upset to transform into a Nirik

But covered her mouth in a signal that I take care of this “Correction, you almost ruined everything for students and even all Equestria”

Cozy tries to defend herself “You too? how could you blame me best friend, you don't even have evidence...”

“You bet?” I use the replay spell in play just when she says his words, words of truth

From the artifact it could be heard all that she said while several guards enter the scene, Mr. Neighsay, and the princesses, then twilight with her friends and none with a good face.

“Enjoying yourself in there Starlight? I’m sorry I had to push you in, but what else could I do? You were going to ruin all my plans… all this magic needs time to drain from equestrian before my vortex sucks into another realm, hehe 3 days can sure seen like forever huh… you ponies got it all wrong, friendship isn’t magic, friendship is power, with twilight and her lackeys out of my way, all of the Equestria will bow to me! the future empress of friendship!”

“… Checkmate Cozy…”-I lift her with magic without notice it-“I would like to help you, but, you deserve this more than anyone I know, but I want to leave you a few words before you leave: you broke the diamond; you lied more than you talked; you know, if something had no rules, it wouldn't be something; and I would help you get out of this one… but I'm doing what you made me, your truthful friend...”

And the guards take her away

Silverstream and the others come closer to me, and Silverstream said “Wow, Fast, you surprised us all”

I asked “What do you mean? I just talk to Cozy...”

Ocellus explained “Doesn’t refer to that, means the new power you have”

Sandbar adds “You levitated Cozy as if you had done it several times”

“Huh?”-I try it again with Yona and I realize it was true-“Wow, this is great!”

Yona enjoys the small flight “woohoo, Yak fly, where purple pony discover power?”

Me I just said the truth “Let's say ... it was a gift, from a magical friend, a friend who accompanied me at the end, will protect me until the end of time and knows more than anyone in the world of truth and does not regret that”

Gallus said “Well, whatever it is, we were surprised”

Twilight comes towards us “And I agree, and I think I know where that came from, does the tree of harmony, right?”

“Yep, but,”-I look at Autumn-” it isn’t the only friend I made in this journey”

Autumn Blaze said “Aww, that's very nice Fast, in fact, I think you have to introduce me to your friends better since all this madness is over, in fact, I remember you, you were the one who was fading away...”

I giggle “Autumn, it was the tree of harmony, not her”

Twilight asks “Ummm, can you tell me what happened?”

I respond “it's a long story, I'll tell you one day”

The Crusaders enter the scene and they speak at the same time ”We try to distract her what we could, do we win?”

I just said “Yes”

And so, all this school craze came to an end, all the magic returned to everyone, Cozy was imprisoned in Tartarus with her message partner Tirek, my friends told me what happened with them about the plan and it was successful, about Autumn Blaze, I teach her many new spells that I could have fun with and safely and more with the new powers I had, speaking of that, many approached me for the new magic I had and end up with dozens of friends, and acquaintances, now with all of them we asked for favors, but not exaggerating, as once a month or rarely, this story was a happy ending.

But there is still another thing when I went to the cave to see where the craze happened, I saw that the crown of Cozy remained intact, I took it and kept it as a way to remember her, since even after all, in the center of my heart, It said she was my friend, and despite everything, I miss those great moments that I had with her.

And knowing this holiday is approaching where everyone spends time with friends and family in the snow drinking hot cider and meeting everyone in company, don't you think she should also spend it with a friend, despite everything?

Epilogue

and so Fast spent the holidays with his friend Cozy Glow, friendship is a friendship despite what happened.

When the parties passed, Fast said goodbye to his friend and went to see his other friends, including me, Autumn Blaze, in fact, he is going to spend the holidays with me!

Well, I already have to go, Fast and I are going to make a meeting for all our friends, bye bye!

/ (- + * END * + -) / -

Chapter 9: forgive...

All the students think about that and claps, Fast was surprised, he felt that a great weight he was carrying was relieved

Twilight says “Wow, Fast, you learned very well about friendship, if I were in your place, I would do the same, and I understand you, I also went through that, even with all the pain she did and made, you want to amend the friendship, that is very friendly and a true friend of you”

Fast tell her “I know, and I think, if I want to arrive on time, I think I have to...”

“…Say goodbye to all of us?” Twilight says

“Not yet…“-Fast puts on a red cap using magic-“I must deliver the gifts to all my friends”

Fast goes quickly to his living quarter and pulls out a sleigh with many gifts and returns to the living room at speed

He comes back and says “ho-ho-ho, come for your gifts friends! you too Headmare!”

Twilight approaches and gives him a gift, with a book in the form of 3 gifts left at the end, and Fast says “Please open it at midnight on hearth’s warming day, I know you will love it, now, I have a road trip to do, these gifts are they deliver in pony with much love, see you when classes start again!”

Some friends respond “See you Fast! Have a great time!”

Fast says “see you soon guy…”

But before Fast goes with his sled Gallus gives to Fast some presents for him “Fast! wait, we have to you gifts too!”

Everyone gives to Fast so many gifts and Fast receives with happiness all of them, and carries all of them on his back with the help of magic

“Wow, thank you very much all of you, these gifts I know will be for me a way to remember every friend I made here, I’m glad to have you like my awesome friends, welp, its time, see ya everyone!” Fast said and he goes to the Tartarus.

In the Tartarus one hears that someone opens and closes the door, gallops are heard much closer to Cozy until they reach her

“Hello, my friend” Fast says

Cozy was still upset with him “What did you come for?”

“I came to be with you on this day, I know that maybe I was a bit rude in the past, but I want to fix it”-Fast gives to Cozy the last gift oh the sled, Cozy opens it and sees that he gave her crown to herself, Cozy smiles-“ ¿aww, you like it?”

Cozy says “Thanks Fast”