She tried to give her a chance, she tried to redeem her. But the time for that has passed. And now Princess Flurry Heart must confront the villainous Cozy Glow and settle things once in for all.

My second entry in the 4th Cozy Glow Short Story Contest.

Prompt: Cozy Glow vs...

Cozy and Flurry only realized three hours before their movies' premieres that they both wanted to see different films. They're both also too stubborn to compromise. The other one has buried herself in her room.

A 5-chapter story of three friends who are complete opposites of each other and get along about as well as you'd expect a psychopath, a Princess, and a nerd to get along.

NOT written for any contest.

Twilight thought she was coming into her own as Princess of Equestria.

With each passing day, she grew more confident in herself, her choices, and her ability to rule. She even began holding her own court these days, and enjoyed hearing out problems and working on solutions for her subjects.

Yes, she really felt like she was getting a handle on it all, and could deal with just about anything her subjects and the position of princess could throw at her.

Then a little green filly waltzed in and threw her one heck of a curve ball.

"I believe Cozy Glow should be freed."

Excuse me, what?

Twilight had no idea what she was in for, and all the aspirin in Equestria wouldn't be enough to sooth the headaches to come.

Was there something in the Equestrian water supply that was turning cute fillies into devious little monsters, or is she just that unlucky? Well, at least this one didn't seem bent on world domination. At least, Twilight hopes she isn't. This green nightmare might be even harder to stop than Cozy Glow if she ever put her mind to it.

This is not a "Cozy did nothing wrong and the main cast is evil," fic. Just a little filly who may or may not be more than they seem offering a different perspective on the whole situation involving an evil little villainess and what is the best thing to do with her.

Cozy tells the untold tale of her time growing up at Sunrise orphanage. Where her intelligence makes her an outcast until she befriends another filly named Aurora who starts to idolize her. Cozy and Aurora Grow up practicing chess with each other and this leads to Cozy realizing she has real passion for the game. This is until disaster strikes which puts Cozy on a dark path.

This will be my submission to the 4th annual Cozy Glow short story contest.

Oh, and the Prompts used are "Gap story" and "And that was when she realized that it had all gone wrong"

After years spent as a statue in the garden of Princess Twilight Sparkle, Cozy Glow is rescued by a mysterious unicorn calling herself Sunset Shimmer, who intended to take her back to the mirror realm for rehabilitation. But something went wrong with the portal and they instead ended up in the realm of Everglow. A realm much like Equestria, but where ponykind has still to unite under one banner.

Making their home in the Unicorn Kingdom of Taralos, Sunset meets and befriends the griffin Silverwing while Cozy makes a friend in the royal court, the mysterious intelligence operative Cipher who, like Cozy, hides a dark secret.

When the horn of the son of the reigning monarch is stolen before his coronation, Cozy vows to find it in order to increase her standing with the royal family. The first step of her plan to one day take over as the reigning monarch, to rule Taralos as the Empress of Friendship. Will Cozy succeed in her ambitions? Or will Sunset's influence be enough to make her become the hero Taralos needs?

Inspired by the To Found an Empire Ponyfinder adventure path by David Silver for Pathfinder.

Manipulation. That was the thing Cozy Glow knew all too well. It's what she attempted to use to become the Empress of Friendship. Right now, she's out on parol, with her wings still stuck as stone until the pegasus filly learns true friendship. She thought she had found that friendship, when she came across a mysterious shapeshifting blog creature named Gorzon.

Boy was she ever wrong.

This story is a contest entry for the Cozy Glow Story Contest. So please do not judge the story based on it's tags. That being said, I am trusting you guys to not basically spam downvote JUST because of the tags. Because if I see a massive downvote on this story when it's being made as part of a contest, then this is the last time I'm trusting you guys with anything.

The prompts that are being used are: Cozy Glow vs. ... and And that was when she realized that it had all gone wrong

The former in this case being "Cozy Glow vs. Gorzon". Yes, that same shapeshifting evil blob from many of my other stories. However, full disclosure: While Gorzon is indeed basically Cozy Glow turned up to eleven, I had created him waaaaaaaaaaay back when; just after Super Mario Galaxy 1 had hit the states. At that point, I'm not even sure if MLP:FiM even existed and even if it did, Cozy Glow certainly didn't exist at that point.

But considering that Gorzon is Cozy Glow turned up to eleven...this contest was the perfect chance to really show just how evil Gorzon is and give Cozy Glow some much needed redemption.

Oh, golly! So, six months ago, I became the Supreme Empress of Friendship in all of Equestria, right? Yeah, I dethroned the existing princesses and imprisoned the Mane Six in Tartarus... But later, I found this Guardian Amethyst thingy and that transformed me into an alicorn! And then, for four long months, I was the only pony with magick... I saw how they all looked at me... I just knew they weren't happy and well, I can't really explain it, but something inside me kinda just broke?

And then three months ago, I decided that I needed a new assistant! Now, I needed somepony knowledgeable on what the other ponies want and need... And so, after talking with her about parole and freedoms, I released and employed Twilight Sparkle! Her friends must remain locked up for the time being as there's simply too many of them...

And then there was yesterday, when I decided to open the vortex again and allow magick to stream back into Equestria... I saw how happy that seemed to make everypony. I went to bed shortly thereafter and later woke up. I just had breakfast and was meeting with my assistant later that morning...

Twilight was never comfortable with the decision made on that day. After a decade of cleaning up the messes her predecessors had left behind, she couldn't in good conscience leave another behind for whoever followed in her hoofsteps.

Written for the Thousand Words Contest II in the Horror category because sometimes you just gotta.

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Think that's actually a first for me.

It had been nearly a decade since Cozy Glow was freed from the binds of her petrification. Still at large, and at the tail end of a visit to Kludgetown, she stumbles across a battered up filly who had just escaped some nasty creatures.