The War for Friendship

After the allies had arrived, Twilight gave Link and his branch the news that Cozy had died and that her parents wanted to see them at once. At the hospital, Link and Brandon met with Citrus and Hickory.

“We want her to be cremated, but we don’t know where to look for a place to do that.”, said Hickory.

“We have the equipment for that on the Lemurian Star, and we will inform you once we are ready.”, said Brandon.

After obtaining Cozy’s body from the hospital, Link had the medical team start the sanitization process to prep it for the crematory. Once the equipment was prepped and preheated, Brandon and Colin put on heat suits and then placed Cozy’s casket on the platform to move it into the chamber. Then they did something that was surprising to Cozy’s parents. They flipped a panel around to reveal the start button for the cremation.

“Why are you delaying?”, asked Citrus in a confused voice through her tears.

Brandon nodded to Link who flipped a safety switch and put in a keycode as Colin explained what was going on.

“For a cremation, it is common for a family member to press the button.”, he said.

“All set.”, said Link once the start button was lit up.

With a shaking hoof, Hickory pushed the button and the platform started moving into the chamber. As soon as the chamber’s door had closed, both of Cozy’s parents closed their eyes and cried their hearts out. Their sweet little daughter had been critically injured to the point of death by the villains, and now she was being reduced to ash by propane gas flames.

Once Brandon had said the gas flames had shut off 30 minutes later, Link led Cozy’s parents to a waiting area. Brandon came in an hour later with a sealed clay urn that contained the remaining ashes from the cremation and gave it to Citrus and Hickory in silence. After the funeral service was held in Canterlot, Cozy’s parents left to go home and the soldiers began setting up their vehicles and defense equipment around the world to take down Grogar’s attacks. They did not know when the attacks would start, but they had to be ready.