//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 - Bottled Anger // Story: Glimmer & Glow // by Yosh-E-O //------------------------------// “I don’t believe you!” raged Cozy Glow. “Do you expect me to believe I’m a doll? Some sort of children’s play thing?” Cozy Glow’s scarlet eyes burned with anger as she dove towards Starlight. POOF! PLOP! Cozy Glow found her momentum quickly stopped as she plopped to the ground with a crinkle. When she tried to speak she found something had been put into her mouth and each of her hooves were covered in mittens. “Ooh!” gleed Trixie as she watched the effect of the magical ring that Starlight had attached to her horn. “This could come really handy with those who heckle the great and powerful Trixie.” Cozy Glow’s eyes continued to burn red as she tried to remove the foal attire she had been magically placed into. However it was to no avail. “Thought it would be better than a cage if you got out of hoof,” remarked the physically regressed Starlight. The pink Pegasus crossed her hooves over her chest and looked away with a very displeased expression. Starlight came over and removed the pacifier in Cozy’s mouth. “So this is what being Twilight’s lacky has taught you?” Cozy spat. “Humiliate those who get in the way of her ideals?” “That’s not it at all, Cozy,” replied Starlight. “However I did need to make sure you did listen as I worked my way to a genuine apology.” “Apology?” flailed the filly. “For sending me to Tartarus? For making a fool out of me? For not just letting things happen the way they were supposed to when I was draining all of Equestria’s magic?” Starlight grew closer. “Take a good look at me, Cozy,” stated Starlight. “Now think. What do you remember before joining The School Of Friendship?" Cozy glared towards Starlight as she thought on the topic. "I...," she replied. "There was..." PSHEW! FWOOM! Starlight's size grew to that of a young mare. Cozy Glow's expression seemed to soften for a moment. "A town...," she trailed. "One where everything was fair and no pony had any advantage over any other pony but... you?" The periwinkle-colored Unicorn nodded sadly. "Wait?" questioned Trixie. "You're saying you created her?" Starlight faced Trixie and lowered her head with shame. "Do you remember that time I kind of sort of bottled up all that anger I had towards you when you went all tea cup crazy and lost The Cutie Map?" she asked with a shrug. "I do," admitted Trixie as she turned to her side. "But Trixie is understanding and forgiving and holds no grudge for Trixie should have also been caring and thoughtful." Cozy Glow stopped her struggling and took in the exchange between the two Unicorns. "Golly gosh," she said as a look of worry came over her freckled face. "I've always resented friendship and magic and desired to see both destroyed so that I could be the only one in a position of power. The only one who would ever have friends and the one every pony would come to. The one pony whom would never be abandoned as I alone would be the friend of all friends." "I know," added Starlight. "It's because I made you that way." Tears started to well up in Cozy's eyes. "IF what you say is true," she started. "Then you owe it to me to take back all that hate, misery, anguish, and everything else that has made me desire all that you gave to me and ruin my life!" Starlight felt tears of her own. "I...," she trailed sadly. "I can't." Cozy's eyes narrowed as she went to attack Starlight. However the bulk of the diaper and the mittens on her hooves put the assault to a quick end as she fell on her padded rear. "As I learned with Trixie and my bottled anger," stated Starlight while looking down upon the anguishing foal. "Feelings can't just be 'stowed away' nor 'taken away'. They need to be shared so that we can learn and move on past them." "And how do you propose I do that?" grumbled the pink Pegasus. "By being your lil' baby doll again?" Starlight sighed as she looked to Trixie. "Remove the spell," she said. "What?" baffled Trixie. "That's the only thing keeping her from trying to rip us to shreds?" Starlight stomped her hoof. "I said remove it!" she snapped. "If she tries anything you can use the ring again but, for now, please remove the spell!" "Okay, okay," Trixie groaned. "Don't say I didn't warn you." POOF-PAFF-POOF Cozy Glow was freed of her foalish garments and now facing down Starlight.