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// 13) Betty's Gift to Princess Twilight 
// Story: The Ghost of Cozy Glow- A Redux 
// by SapphireRose87 
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{Betty}

"Are you kidding me Dae?" I said. It made me angry when I heard what Dae just told me about what Princess Twilight's thoughts were. "Yeah, there's no way that's happening! If you want to marry her, fine. I'm not doing it, no way!"

"Let's see Betty," said Dae, "I've been rejecting her marriage proposals for two years now. I'm not marrying her either. It's a shame I have to keep a line of communication open with her for military purposes, but still, I wouldn't go through with marrying her, even if you made me! I'd rather sit in a dungeon instead. But the funny thing is, not even my dad wouldn't marry her! If he told me that if he did, he'd probably have to keep her on the other side of the castle and he mentioned that the only way he would have sex with her is to produce a heir to the throne."

I snorted. "Wow, if a king won't marry her, that says a lot about her character!"

"Yeah, no kidding!" Dae agreed with a slight sardonic chuckle.

"Can you do me a favor and try to intercept those marriage proposals?" I asked with a gleam of hope in my eyes.

"I don't know if I can?" Dae said. "I can talk to Fluttershy and Discord and tell them what to look out for, but that's it! I'm pretty sure one or two will still slip by them..."

"Great," I groaned while looking down and sighing. I looked up at Dae, "So what should I look for?"

"Be on the lookout for an envelope addressed from the princess, with the royal seal on it. The top left of the envelope should be the engagement ring on it." Dae replied. 

"Lovely, I'm not looking forward to seeing any of it." I said before shaking my head.


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The next morning, I went downstairs and it pissed me off when I saw exactly what Dae said to look for, sitting on the kitchen table. It was no less than a marriage proposal from the Princess! I facepalmed and groaned before seeing Norman eating breakfast. He looked up and frowned at me. "That letter from the princess came yesterday. What's the ring for? An apology ring?"

I shook my head. "No, it’s worse! It's a marriage proposal!"

"Wait, what?" Norman said in shock with wide eyes and an open mouth.

"You heard me!" I said before nodding, "A marriage proposal! It's the same type of letter she's been sending to Dae for two years! And well, now that I'm Dae's girlfriend, she's sending me letters too now, thinking if I say yes, Dae will follow suit."

Norman's jaw dropped. "Seriously?"

I nodded as I chuckled slightly, "Yup. I'm not even going to bother to read it. I don't care if she's apologizing to me or pleading or promising me all sorts of royal favors! The answer is the same...."

Norman frowned, “A big resounding NO, I take it?” 

I took the letter and ripped it up while giggling as I exclaimed, “Exactly!” I then used my fire powers to melt the ring down after crushing it underneath my boot. After I did that, I threw everything in the trash and dusted my hands off before grabbing some breakfast.


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Through the next two weeks, I got two marriage proposals. Dae didn't answer his marriage proposals, and according to Celestia, the princess has been sending her letters asking her to convince us to say yes. Yeah, that's not going to happen. 

I didn't feel like doing anything today because I hadn't recovered enough to after Tirek and the rest of the escapees, so I was homebound for the time being. 

Since the engagement rings the princess sent to me are considered gifts, I can do whatever I want to them. And that's exactly what Dae's been doing with his, mostly chucking them in his furnace along with the letters. 

I decided to do some 'artwork' with the rings Princess Twilight gave me. So I got some construction paper, glue, and a hammer. I sat down at the kitchen table and smashed the rings into pieces. Once I did that, I used the pieces to spell out the letters 'n' and 'o' and then glued them to the construction paper. When I was getting ready to put my finishing touches on it, I suddenly heard Dae laughing. Since he could read my thoughts, I could only  wonder how long he had been standing there listening to them.

"In case you're wondering," said Dae. He smirked. "I've been standing here for a while now. I didn't think you would actually do it!"

"What?" I said with sarcasm while smirking at the demon lord. "Since the Princess just loves to give me these lovely gifts, I figured I'd give her one in return!"

Norman came downstairs to see what me and Dae were laughing about and asked. "What's so funny?" with a frown on his face

Dae cleared his throat and composed himself enough to speak before looking at Norman, "Well, it seems that the Princess’s marriage proposals she sent to Betty have sparked her creativity!"

"Huh?" Norman said. 

Dae pointed at the kitchen table at my 'artwork'. When Norman looked down at it he busted into a fit of laughter. Dae and I joined in on it. 

"And look," said Dae, "she even used the gold chains to connect the pieces!"

Discord and Fluttershy came into the kitchen to see what we were laughing about.

"Something this amusing that I’m not privy to yet? Do tell?" Discord asked.

"Well Dad," I responded before looking up at the draconequus, "I decided to make the Princess a gift, you know, as a thank you for knocking me up against a wall and putting me into a coma for two weeks!"

Discord looked at me with a confused look on his face. "What?"

I pointed to my 'artwork' sitting on the kitchen table. Discord and Fluttershy gathered to the table to see it and suddenly almost died laughing. Fluttershy grinned after her hysterical giggles. "Can I send the letter to her?"

I cracked up wide-eyed with a smirk, "Sure!"

"Oh goodie! I'll have to bring the camera and get a shot of Twilight's reaction!" Fluttershy said.

I couldn't catch my breath because of my continuous laughter. 

I don't know which is funnier, the day I humiliated Marble or this. I thought.

I think it's a tie? Dae thought. 

I still hadn't stopped laughing and now I can't wait to see the picture of Princess Twilight's reaction to my 'gift'.


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{Celestia}

I sat at my desk in my office, laughing at Twilight's reaction to Betty's little 'gift' she made for her. Thankfully, because Twilight is on punishment for what she did to Betty, she won't be allowed to come to the Land of the Dead until her punishment is up and I heard she got three years house arrest and so, that won’t be anytime soon!

While in a fit of hysterical giggling from the fiasco, I suddenly heard Dae clear his throat. I looked up with a grunt. "Your Highness!"

I got up and bowed to him. "It's okay Celestia, you can look at me now."

I rose and snorted, "So, I got an angry letter from Twilight today!"

Dae cracked up, "It seems the Princesses' marriage proposals have peeked Betty's creativity."

I floated over to Dae the picture of Betty's 'gift' that Twilight was so upset about. Dae and I started laughing at it.

Dae composed himself enough to speak after shaking his head, "Fluttershy even showed us a picture of Princess Twilight's reaction when she opened the box!"

"Wow." By this time, my eyes were watering from laughing so much. I wiped my tears, "I wonder what Betty's going to do with Twilight's proposals next? I would hope that Betty's 'artwork' would give Twilight a clear ‘no’ for answer, but probably not?"

Dae groaned. "Seriously, when is she going to get the picture that we don't like her?"

"I have no idea." I said as I shook my head. 

Dae sighed, "Well it's time for me to head back!"

I nodded. "Sure."

When Dae left, I resumed my laughter at Twilight's angry letter. 


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{Betty}

The following week, I recovered enough to go after Tirek and the remaining escapees from the prison in the afterlife. The day before I was getting ready to go out, Dae and I were on a date at Sugarcube Corner.

"Aww," said Pinkie Pie as she walked past us, "you two are a cute couple."

Suddenly, out of nowhere there was a loud roar coming from somewhere off in the distance. I went outside to see what was going on. "What in the world is happening here?"

I heard Cozy Glow gasp inside my head. What's wrong Cozy Glow? I thought.

I know what the roar is connected to! Cozy Glow thought. It's Tirek 

Are you sure? I thought.

Yes I'm sure! Cozy Glow thought. Bet you anything he's going to want to fight the Child of Prophecy! 

Great, okay then I'm out of here! I thought.

As I flew after Tirek as fast as possible I heard Dae's voice in my head. How is Cozy Glow's thoughts inside your head?

I'll explain later. I thought. I looked down while I was flying to see Dae running alongside me. 

When I got in front of Tirek, he looked up and let out a belly laugh. "Well if it isn't the Child of Prophecy! Now that's my type of opponent to fight! What do you say, wanna have a go?"

As I hovered in mid air, I smiled. "Wow, since you're so eager to fight me, I'm going to give you a condition."

"And what might that be?" Tirek said before lifting his left eyebrow.

"You have to race me!" I said before circling around in the air. "Last one to the outskirts of Equestria is a rotten egg!" And then, I flew as fast as my wings could carry me!

I started flying toward the outskirts of Equestria, when I heard Terik's loud thundering footsteps behind me. I could hear his heavy breathing as he ran after me and I couldn’t help but giggle because it reminded me of the day I humiliated Marble. 

"Come on big boy!" I taunted. "Don't you wanna fight me? Or are you too out of shape to catch up?"

I looked down as I was flying to see Dae laughing as I taunted Tirek. Finally, I saw the outskirts of Equestria coming up. I noticed I wasn't even out of breath and I hadn't even broken a sweat. That’s interesting, because any normal person, including a half and half wouldn’t be able to do that! I looked over and chuckled when I saw Dae stop to catch his breath.

"It's probably because you're a… Death Walker… Betty…" Dae said, still trying to catch his breath.

I tilted my head to the right. "But you're the King of Hell! How can you be out of breath?"

"I don't know. I haven't been training much lately. From what I know of, Death Walkers tend to be stronger than demons." Dae replied.

Finally, Tirek caught up to me and as I hovered in the air, I kept taunting him. "You sure you wanna fight me Tirek? It looks like you’re already out of steam?”

Dae must’ve found my continued taunting of Tirek funny, because he was laughing pretty hard now. 

"That's not funny!" Tirek roared while stretching out his muscular claws. "I'm going to fight you, Child of Prophecy!"

I groaned and moved my eyes skyward. "I swear, if someone calls me the Child of Prophecy, one more time."

You keep denying it, but you know it's true! Cozy Glow scolded me.

Whatever. I thought.

"Okay let's do this!" Tirek said as he clenched his claws together. He began to form huge balls of fire in them and proceeded to throw them at me! 

I easily dodged the balls of flame as I did backflips in the air. One of them almost grazed my leg and another barely missed my head, but I could already tell the centaur was growing irritated, not that I cared.. 

I corrected my body in the air as I hovered and said, "What's the matter, Tirek?" with a playful smirk. "Am I a challenge for you?"

"No," Tirek growled, "you just won't stay still!"

I giggled, "No honey, that's not really how a fight works dear."

He lobbed two more flaming missiles which I easily dodged by doing barrel rolls. I smiled when it seemed I had this fight in the bag, when somehow Tirek used his powers to summon a boulder and dropped it on me. 

"Oh well," I heard Tirek laugh, "I guess the Child of Prophecy couldn't win the fight afterall."

For some reason, I felt a strange burst of power. While I know not the origin of this power, I used it to bust through the boulder as quickly and easily as if I were cutting a piece of paper! I looked down at my hand to see a black outline around it. I gasped when I saw it. I remembered seeing this right before Princess Twilight threw me up against the wall. What is this? What's going on?

Calm down Betty, it's called the Dark Aura, Dae thought, it happens based on a person's strength. I've been able to achieve it once, so far myself. But normally, it takes a while to be able to do it and a lot of training. You just recovered from what Princess Twilight did to you. And you've already achieved it. Interesting, that's probably because-

Oh no you don't! Don't even say it! I thought.

Tirek looked at me and laughed, "Oh, daydreaming during a fight? That's so rude!"

"And I have to be nice to you because?" I said as I rolled my eyes.

Tirek grinned. "Oh well, it doesn't matter, all good things must come to an end. And this ends with you dying!"

"Oh really? Cause so far, you haven’t been able to kill squat!" I took out my staff and used my glass and darkness powers to turn it into a blade. I used the strength from my dark aura and threw it at Tirek with all my might. Somehow, my staff got caught between his horns. This is an interesting change of events.

Somehow, I was able to use my powers to make my staff longer by turning my hands into a fist and moving them away from each other as if I were stretching out an invisible pole. My staff broke Terik's horns in the process and he fell backwards howling in pain. Huh, I didn't think you could do that to a dead person!

"Betty catch!" Dae shouted. I turned around and reached out with my right hand to catch the crystal prison that is used to capture dead souls right before it fell beyond my grasp. I then turned the crystal to Tirek and let it’s white glow consume him and pull him in! I smiled as he got sucked while screaming in agony from his horns. 

When I landed on the ground, Dae smiled at me. "You are definitely the Child of Prophecy if you can achieve the dark aura after you just recovered from an injury!"

I rolled my eyes. "Uh, no for the last time, I'm not the Child of Prophecy!"

"Yeah, sure, keep talking Betty." Dae said with a smirk.

Before I could reply, I fell over and passed out.