Over the following weeks, Sugar’s after school hour schooling goes rather well and she finally decides to tell her teacher, Ms. Cheerilee everything. “Well,” starts Sugar Stix, “first promise you won’t tell any pony else.”
“Promise,” responds Cheerilee. “I Pinkie Promise.” Sugar Stix then proceeds to tell her everything.
“Well, Cozy Glow is our sister,” sighs Sugar Stix, “and when we were little she murdered our real mom. After that, she was deemed crazy and taken to a mental hospital that she later escaped using her wit, cunning, and manipulation. She never came home after that. Mom always warned us that our sister had a few screws lose and was crazy. We didn’t originally believe her. Now we do believe her, obviously. That’s why we’ve been hiding. Ponies have been whispering about us being related to that magic stealer and they’re right-she’s our crazy sister. That’s why we’re scared, terrified. What if they decide to come after us next?”
“That makes sense, you also skipped when she was thrown in TarTarUs. Well, I’m glad to know the truth. I won’t tell any pony else, although I do advise you and your sister take this before the princesses.”
“Are you sure?” Inquires Sugar Stix.
“Of course, they’ll understand,” responds Cheerilee.
“Ok, we’ll do it but only if you come along.”
“Fine, it’s almost Christmas holiday, we’ll go then,” responds Cheerilee. Later that afternoon, Sugar Stix tells her sister Winter Lotus and she reluctantly agrees that they should bring it up to the princesses after being told that Ms. Cheerilee thinks they’ll surely understand.
A few weeks later, the sisters along with Cheerilee take the train to Canterlot alongside the Princess Twilight Sparkle. “You’ll be fine, the Sisters will understand,” Twilight assures them.
“Are you sure?” They gulp nervously.
“Most certainly,” responds Twilight. A few hours later they arrive in Canterlot where they’re greeted by Celestia, Luna, and Cadence. They’re then led into a secret underground corridor and follow it to a gigantic meeting room where they all sit down around the long rectangular table engraved on each corner with the cutie marks of Celestia, Luna, Cadence (with Flurry Heart’s underneath her own), and Twilight’s on the final corner.
“So, we’ve been told there’s something important you have to tell us,” says Celestia.
“Yes,” sigh the sisters in unison, “Cozy Glow is our sister. Now let us explain, the mare we call mom now is only our adoptive mom. Our real mom was murdered by Cozy Glow. Something snapped in her as a foal causing her to kill our mom. We had no choice but to have her locked away and to go into hiding ourselves. Somehow she escaped though and ended up in Ponyville where she manipulated her way into Twilight’s school. We’re deeply sorry for all the pain our sister has caused. We’re not like that at all, the poor thing just needs help.”
“Well,” responds Celestia, “we understand that. You’ve both proven yourself to be safe and functioning members of Equestrian society.” She then gets close and whispers in the sisters ears out of earshot of Luna, “besides, I know how evil sisters work, remember, Luna used to be Nightmare Moon after all.”
“You know I can still hear you, sister,” says Luna.
After several more hours, the meeting comes to an end and Sugar and Winter are shown to the guest rooms upstairs where they’ll stay the night. They’re just relieved the meeting went as well as it did. Super duper relieved. Honestly relieved. From the window of their room, the two look out into the garden at the statue of Chrysalis, Tirek, and their little sister.
“Shame it had to end that way,” says Winter Lotus as she lets out a sigh as her eyes well up with tears.
“Yeah, but she was putting other ponies in danger, us in danger,” sighs Sugar Stix. “It’s for the best.” She sniffles as she starts to cry a bit as well. She wipes them away. The two turn away from the window and head down into the castle gardens to get some fresh air and to see the statue in person. They walk towards it and touch it, rubbing their hooves across Cozy Glow’s face. They begin to full blown cry. Why they miss their murderer, manipulative bitch of a sister, not even they truly understand. They just feel guilty for her actions more than anything else, but why they feel sorry for her still confuses them much to their dismay.