This story is a sequel to Set In Stone

I don't know how long it's been. I just know one thing: I'm not alone in this stony prison. No, I'm not talking about Chrysalis and Tirek.

She speaks of me.

It made me relive my life countless times; it made me relive my greatest failure.

Why?

To get you where you are now, Cozy Glow.

Cover art by dankPegasista

With feedback from Thesmokinguy, Sword Tune, and GoldenWing

Featured on January 24th-28th, 2020

You stumbled apon facing the toughest challenge since coming to Equestria; fighting off three overpowered villains with a bell to take all the magic from the ponies. It is up to you to help stop them from getting more powerful by using yourself as bait. When Chrysalis encounters you though, a clever idea struck your vision.

To ask her out!

Cover art by mirroredsea

Audio reading by StraightToThePointStudio

This story is a sequel to Flurry Heart's Story: Elements Assemble!

Tirek, Cozy Glow and Chrysalis wake up to find that their stone statue has been broken and they have been set free. After narrowly escaping the Canterlot guards, they discover they have been asleep for over eight years and immediately start plotting revenge. While Chrysalis desires to rebuild her changeling army, Tirek is tired of Equestria and just wants to return to the Midnight Kingdom to confront Scorpan. Cozy is still angered with Discord, Celestia, and Luna and desires something else very personal. After a long argument, all three of them agree they can no longer continue their alliance and part ways.

This story takes place during the events of my earlier fanfiction "Elements Assemble" and is part of my series called Flurry Heart's Story.

The most wicked alliance to ever threaten Equestria has been vanquished, ushering in an era of peace for all. But one pony in particular feels that, with so many enemies-turned-friends under their belts, they should at least try with their latest defeated foes. With a little help from her chaotic bestie of course.

After Starlight and Discord released the Legion of Doom from their stony imprisonment, one part to get rid of the “Cozy Glow did nothing wrong” protestors and the other out of genuine guilt, they realized rehabilitating them was going to be a lot harder than they thought.

Good thing Twilight found a copy of those reformation spells Discord destroyed all them years ago.

Thirteen years is a long time, yet old wounds have a habit of coming back to haunt those who bear them.

The Princesses of Equestria decided to spare the holdout villains, offering them counseling. Humbled from prison and asylum, shown kindness and acceptance where there should have been punishment and hatred, the last barriers of the unredeemed disintegrated like sand before a wave. Their rehabilitation fell under the auspices of the Princesses themselves, as well as Starlight Glimmer - the preeminent redeemed villain. The tensions of the past saw the Royal Family of the Crystal Empire sundered, but it also saw new families created in shocking arrangements.

A teenage Flurry Heart struggles to make friends at the School of Friendship, confused and angry at the divorce of her parents and their remarriage to the Crystal Empire's greatest enemies. An adult Cozy Glow struggles to forge a path of her own in a world that refuses to forgive actions she made as a filly. Chrysalis and Sombra struggle to adjust to life as domestic spouses, and loving step-parents to the youngest alicorn. Tirek struggles not to give into his hunger for magic. Everyone else struggles to accept this new paradigm, to forgive the final holdouts.

And, unseen by all, a final darkness stirs, enticing a filly with promises of power.

Alright, this was a project I was working on for... well, a few months at least. 10 chapters complete, I figured I'd upload what I have. It started as a simple fic about a what-if situation where Flurry Heart tries to adjust to her parents being divorced and remarried to the greatest archenemies of her foalhood, but evolved into a story about all the unredeemed villains.

Unusual for me, I've kept shipping to a minimum. I tried to keep the pairings as "canon" as possible, according to the hints at the end of Season 9 (AppleDash, FlutterCord, CheesePie, StarBurst, etc.) but I also threw in ShiningChrysalis and SomDance, which are pretty central to the plot.

As she prepares to take over for her longtime mentor, Princess Twilight reflects on the tribulations that got her here, and what the Elements of Harmony intend for her to do next.

Contains spoilers for the finale of Friendship is Magic.

Cover art:
'MLP Villains' by chocolatepenado@derpibooru.org

A four-way-tale through the eyes of Princess Flurry Heart, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Tirek. Flurry Heart has just been passed the crown by her mother, Princess Cadance who now acts as her advisor, right before a letter arrives and a certain stone statue.

Her Aunt Twilight, Princess of Friendship has deemed her the only one able to redeem the villains from oh so long ago. Her. Little Flurry Heart. Without anything but Hope on her side, she lets them loose. Was Twilight right? Can Hope win the day when Harmony could not? Does Flurry Heart have what it takes? We can only hope.

Someone realizes that the dastardly trio would have more use doing a bit of community service, as opposed to having the three act as a pigeon roost for all eternity...

Kinks Include: A Fate Worse than Death

Artwork by CBTwi (Twitter @ColdBloodedTwi)

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When Lord Tirek asks Cozy Glow what seems like a normal question, he has no idea the floodgates that will open... and how his relationship to the little villain might ultimately be changed.

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A small bit of villainous sweetness inspired by both the dynamic of the Evil Trio and the cover art by soundwavepie.