A Long Road Ahead

by superdupersillymoon

Rating: teen
Tags: Profanity, Random, Violence, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Romance, Flurry Heart, Comedy, Other, Cozy Glow
Length: 2291

Cozy Glow is released from her stone prison by Flurry Heart.

Turns out, the stone prison that contained the pegasus wasn't as permanent as everypony had hoped

This story is placed about 13 years after the three were imprisoned and follows Cozy Glow along her redemption arc. Nopony is exactly glad that Cozy is no longer in stone, causing her to face several challenges on the path of her redemption.

Now, before anypony asks, yes this does contain Cozy x Flurry, but since Cozy was stuck in stone and allowing Flurry to age, this makes the two around the same age, Flurry to be around 14.5 and Cozy being technically 14 years in my little AU

COVER IS NOT MINE!!

Published 2025-01-16 09:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2025-01-17 04:57:20 UTC

What time is it?

Author's Note

dont mind any mistakes, this is my first time writing a fanfic

What time is it?

CRACK!

The first thing Cozy Glow could feel was a soft breeze against her coat. It felt as though it had been centuries since she could feel anything (which it may have been, Cozy wasn't too sure), her wings lifted her into the air as she could finally feel the cool breeze against her coat. Although, Cozy forgot about the other two creatures that had been turned to stone along with her until she heard a loud and menacing growl nearby. Cozy nearly crashed back down towards the ground at the sudden noise before she looked over to see who it was.

"Fuck! I hit my damn hoof against this stupid podium!" the voice hissed, Cozy realizing it was Chrysalis. She heard another loud crack as Chrysalis raged and destroyed the podium below her and Tirek. As Cozy attempted to dodge the debris, she ended up getting hit by a few of the small stones that had broken off of the stone podium. Cozy let out a soft hiss at the pain, but ignored it.

"Golly, well while you're getting used to being able to move again, I'm going to go to Ponyville-" Cozy was cut off as an alicorn with a pink coat and blue and purple mane engulfed her inside her sunshine yellow magic and lifed her away from Tirek and Chrysalis before casting the two others back into their stoney prison.

"There ya go! Wow, you're so much cuter when you're not stone!" the alicorn exclaimed. "My name is Flurry Heart! Nopony would tell me your name when I asked, only said that you were 'too evil to give me your name'! You don't seem THAT evil! Also, did I mention you're cute?" She lifted Cozy higher up with her magic before flying up herself and getting level with Cozy before squeezing the pegasus into a tight hug.

Cozy gave Flurry Heart a weird look before asking, "What year is it? I feel like I've been stone for a millenia!" Flurry giggled before allowing the pegasus to fly on her own. Cozy took a second to get used to flying again by climbing onto Flurry's head and flapping her wings a few times.

Flurry silently complained as Cozy got onto her head, but let the pegasus do whatever just as long as she got herself back into the air. "Well, it's (xxxx), my 15th birthday is in a few months! Say, can you hear while you're in a stone prison? Can you feel anything? Can you even SEE? CAN YOU THINK??" Flurry began overwhelming Cozy with questions about her encasement in stone, causing Cozy to attempt to fly as fast as she could to get away from the overexcited alicorn.

She looked back only to see Flurry flying upside-down and quickly gaining up on her. Cozy attempted to fly faster, her wing muscles aching at the sudden speed after so long. Cozy then realized Flurry was only going easy on her when she noticed the alicorn slowing down slightly and not seeing a bit of sweat or ache on her face or in her pride until Cozy couldn't fly any longer, her wings giving up on her mid-flight.

Flurry flew as fast as she could to catch Cozy in time, but when the pegasus fell through her hooves she lit up her horn and once again engulfed Cozy in the yellow glow of her magic, carefully bringing her down to the dirt streets of Ponyville and landed beside her.

"Golly, you're quite fast! Is it because you're an alicorn?' Cozy Glow asked, tucking her wings to her back to give her muscles a rest. Flurry only giggled in response.

The alicorn then made a thinking gesture with her hoof. "Hmmm, what if we go visit my Auntie Twily back in the Canterlot Castle? I'm sure she wouldn't mind, especially when I introduce you as my new friend! That reminds me, what's your name?"

Cozy wrapped her small wings around herself, clearly becoming anxious. "Well, my name is Cozy Glow, but Professor Sparkle hates me after I tried to steal all of the magic from Equestria!"

Flurry flinched at the pegasus' sudden confession, not expecting that to have been the crime she had committed to be turned to stone. She didn't respond, only surrounding Cozy in her magic once again and flying off to Canterlot Castle.

"Wait! I thought I said this would be a BAD idea!" Cozy shrieked, her hooves flailing around in the empty air and hitting the magic surrounding her.

"I won't let Auntie turn you back into stone, promise! If I tell her about my plan of reforming you, maybe she would let me!" Flurry spoke, lifting herself and Cozy higher into the air around them.

"Halt!" commanded one of the royal guards, causing Cozy Glow to freeze into place as though she was stone once again. "Why are you bringing a dangerous criminal here, Princess Flurry Heart?"

Flurry giggled, "Oh come on! She won't hurt anypony! I wanna tell Auntie Twily I wanna reform her! To be her friend!"

The guard gave Cozy a fierce look that clearly said "Don't fuck anything up" before allowing the pair to pass through the entrance to the castle.

Flurry suddenly used her magic and teleported the two right in front of Princess Twilight Sparkle, the current ruler over Equestria. The princess shrieked at the sudden sight before baring her teeth at Cozy.

"Cozy Glow! What are you doing here?! Flurry Heart, get away from the-" Twilight was cut off when Flurry got in front of Cozy, keeping Twilight from being able to hit the pegasus with any magic.

"No, Auntie! I wanna reform Cozy! I wanna be her friend! Also, you'll be happy I made sure the other two were still stone!" Flurry told her aunt, her wings opening up in front of Cozy's face, earning her an annoyed grunt of disapproval from the pegasus.

Twilight glared at her niece, "You want to REFORM her?! Flurry, she's tried to destroy Equestria TWICE! Once by trying to steal all of the magic from Equestria, then forming a team with Chrysalis and Tirek and ruining my coronation!" Cozy's ears flattened to the side of her head, finally realizing what she had done was a little too evil after having so much time to think.

Flurry continued to keep Twilight away from Cozy before saying something she may regret sooner or later,

"What if I told you I like her?"

Misunderstood words

Cozy Glow looked at Flurry Heart in shock. "What?! We JUST met! What do you mean you like me?"

Flurry's eyes darted between Cozy and Twilight, realizing she had just said something that has multiple different meaning than just the single one she intended. Twilight used her magic to levitate Flurry behind her before sending a beam of burning purple magic towards Cozy, an aggressive expression on both their faces. Fortunately, Flurry quickly recognized the danger and form a force field around the pegasus to protect her from Twilight's magic.

"Flurry Heart!" Twilight shouted at her niece. "Don't protect the damn enemy!"

Flurry flew in front of Twilight and spread her wings out in hopes to protect Cozy from Twilight's vicious attacks. "But I said I wanted to reform her! I believe there's still good inside of her!"

Twilight's wings spread out menacingly behind her, their humongous size sending a shiver down Cozy's spine. "Somepony who attempted to destroy Equestria twice no longer has any good inside them," she growled.

"Ugh! It seems as though all you care about is who I wanna be friends with right now!" Flurry snapped, startling Cozy at the sudden reaction. Flurry Heart created a shield around her and her new pegasus friend before blasting a large beam of magic at her aunt, fed up with Twilight's treatment towards Cozy Glow.

Twilight gasped before she defended herself with another ray of her own burning purple magic, canceling the two out. "Flurry! What are you doing?!" she hissed at her enraged niece. "I can't believe it! You used to be so kind, what happened to you?"

Flurry's blue and purple tail swished behind her angrily, hitting Cozy's face behind her a couple times by accident. "You don't get it! I don't have a single friend, and you know I have been visiting Cozy's statue in the garden since I was 10! Why can't you see that maybe I could help bring Cozy towards a better life, to redemption!" Flurry assumed a fighting stance. "But all you think about is how well I do in school! Well guess what, TWILIGHT, I don't give a flying FUCK about school! I just want a friend!"

"Language!" shouted Twilight, seemingly less worried about Flurry's outburst. "Did that stupid pegasus teach you that?"

"Actually, no," Flurry said. "Mom and Dad when they fought taught me those words, but that's not the point! The point is that I care about Cozy, unlike you obviously!"

Twilight flew above Flurry and Cozy, aiming another beam of magic at the pegasus before Flurry shot a ray of sunshine yellow magic at her instead. Twilight nearly was hit by Flurry's unpredicted attack until the pink alicorn flew high above her aunt and shot another beam of burning magic at her, hitting Twilight this time as Flurry threw herself onto her and knocking her aunt into the ground below them.

Flurry dug her teeth into Twilight's throat, gripping the fur tight. She heard Twilight gasp at the sudden pain and giggled menacingly. Flurry let go of her aunt's throat before using her magic to slam her into the furthest wall, grinning as she heard the loud THUD! as Twilight hit the wall.

"Flurry, wait!" Cozy shrieked, lifting herself off the ground and flying in front of her alicorn friend. "I think she's had enough!" Cozy used a hoof to point at a heavily breathing Twilight a few hoof steps away from them as she gasped for air.

Flurry's ears pinned themselves to her skull as she realized the damage she had done. "Sorry, Auntie. I guess I was a little mad that you wouldn't let me be friends with Cozy..."

Twilight shot her niece a look that clearly said "a LITTLE?" as she rose to her hooves, grunting in pain from being thrown into the castle wall. "I'm just not sure if she's the best pony to he friends with, after all she is a villain."

"But Twilight! She doesn't have to be! Your pupil Starlight tried to destroy the world before, right? So why should Cozy be any different?" Flurry was curious as to why her aunt believed Cozy couldn't be reformed even though she was a pony just like her.

Twilight never responded and only sent the pair away and telling Flurry Heart that now wasn't the best time to explain why Cozy Glow could never be redeemed.

Back at the Crystal Empire where Flurry Heart lived with her parents Princess Mi Amore Cadenza (more well know as Princess Cadence) and Shining Armor, Flurry lay in bed on her back as she thought hard about the other day about her fight with her aunt, Twilight. Cozy Glow say comfortably next to her, carefully preening her own wings.

"Are you bored? I'm bored," Flurry said in a flat tone, sighing.

Cozy stopped her preening and looked at her friend. "Well, if I'm honest, kinda. Your mom has kept you in this room because of me, she seemed just as pissed off as Twilight was about my return."

"Mhm, but can you really blame her? You sorta are supposed to be a super evil villain or something." Flurry sat up and turned over to lay on her stomach, her front hooves crossed over each other. Her coat contained a few burnt patches of fur from her fight with her aunt.

"Yeah, but not anymore! After all, I think I would rather do friendship than be stone for a few millennia!"

Flurry giggled, she enjoyed the company of her friend while she was grounded. If she was completely alone, she would have already blown up the whole castle!

Just after a few minutes of silence, the two could hear Flurry's parents outside the door.

"Shining, I know you don't like that I'm allowing that villain over to talk to Flurry Heart, but maybe this redemption thing will work!"

"But you know that filly is supposed to be stone right now, I don't even know why she freed that... that monster!"

"Will you shush? She may be a villain, but she's no monster! And besides, Flurry seems to like her! Would you really want to take that away from our daughter?"

"Well... no, but-

"Exactly! Flurry needs a friend, you know how lonely she is at school."

"But a villain? Isn't that a bit much?"

"Maybe, but can we really take away our little Flurry's first friend?"

"...No"

The conversation faded off as they got further from Flurry Heart and Cozy Glow. Flurry looked over at her pegasus friend to see her ears pinned to the sides of her head, seemingly devastated.

"It's okay, Cozy. I won't let them keep you away from me!" Flurry tried her best at a comforting tone, but she failed miserably as she noticed her friend burying herself under Flurry's bedsheets.

I'll make sure they never take you away from me... never.

Author's Note

oooo some actiom this time! quite nice since i did add the violence tag!

also, this time the chapter is more Flurry Heart's POV than Cozy Glow's so i apologize for that