Twilight was still up as everyone else headed for bed. She had requested a talk with Celestia to take place in the library.
"Quite the symbolic place for you, isn't it, Twilight?" Celestia asked.
"Princess Celestia, you know I hold you in high regard, but...after what Cozy Glow said there...I want to know what's going to happen to her." Twilight said.
"I suppose that depends on the courts and what they think. But, I wouldn't hold my breath on her getting a happy ending." Celestia said.
"You can't send an orphan to court especially someone as young as her." Twilight said.
"You forget that she almost drained all the magic out of equestria. Because of such a crime, she has to be tried as an adult." Celestia said.
"You'd really just turn this over to the court system when she has come back to us an entirely different sort of pony? She's not the same as when she left, I can feel it." Twilight said.
"Twilight Sparkle, you have to understand, I am looking after the citizens of Equestria as one of it's Princesses." Celestia said.
"One of it's Princesses huh? You want me to call you just Celestia, and treat you like a friend. You have ever since I became an alicorn. However, your actions speak louder then your words. You don't care for your citizens. Not the ones that really matter, like the children who have no hope." Twilight Sparkle said.
"If you'd just let me explain..." Celestia began.
"There is nothing to explain. I won't let you take this to the courts if I can help it." Twilight said before using her magic to grab a particular scroll. "...This here is something I did on a whim, just in case such a situation like Cozy Glow's ever came up that would ever come between you and me like it clearly has. I refuse to doom an orphan to Tartarus who simply didn't get the chance to have a loving family." The purple alicorn noted.
"Exactly what is that scroll, Twilight Sparkle?" Celestia asked.
"A royal decree that will separate Ponyville from your protection. I've made tons of copies and each one is fully filled out. All one needs is my signature and the dead is done. You know you can't stop me, being one of Equestria's princesses. Let me be clear though: I really don't want to sign this, Princess Celestia, I really don't. So, here's the deal: When Cozy Glow is done with her story, if you still feel like taking Cozy Glow's situation to court, then I will have no choice but to sign this. I will not allow you to doom a filly who has only just gotten a loving father and brother figure in her life. I can't allow that to happen. Not all ponies are as lucky as I am, and neither are you. You know it, but right now you are refusing to acknowledge it." Twilight explained.
"Twilight, you do realize that I can just as easily declare war on Ponyville if you sign that." Celestia said.
"My friends warned me you'd say that, and they feel the same way I do about the youth of Equestria. Of course, I can just as easily tell everyone in Equestria what you were planning to do to Cozy Glow and why it was a bad idea considering she's an orphan. If you're really willing to sentence an orphan to Tartarus simply because they didn't know better, then we can see how the public will react to that information." Twilight said. "As a Princess of Equestria, I have the right to protect my subjects just as much as you do. But as your student, I really don't want to have to act on that right. And yet, it seems that you have not learnt anything. Once again, you are driving a wedge between your citizans and your student. Isn't that exactly why Sunset Shimmer left Equestria to begin with?" She asked. A glare suddenly crossed Celestia's face. "...Okay yeah, low blow. But do you really want me to have to act on a similar premise? I really don't want to ruin any good faith, but I won't hesitate if I have to." Twilight said.
"...Fine...I'll willingly hear Cozy Glow's story out, but if she fails to change my mind by the time the story ends..." Celestia trailed off.
"Somehow, I doubt she'll change it. So instead of thinking about just Cozy Glow you could hurt with such a rash decision, then also think about how you'll be hurting me as your student and how you'll never gain me as a friend if you can't change your mind." Twilight stated and headed out of the room.
Alone, Celestia lowered her head. Admittedly, the white alicorn didn't want to admit it, but Twilgiht had a point: Cozy Glow was just an orphan, and now had a family who would fight like hell for the young pegasus filly. And who knows who else Cozy Glow has on her side. Especially, when Cozy Glow mentioned a name all too familiar to Celestia.
Malefor, the lost Dragon Prince. According to former Dragon Lord Torch, there was once a Dragon Prince from a lost dragon kingdom who mysteriously went missing. According to legend, the king of this Dragon Kingdom was more of a Benevolent Tyrant, one who enforced rules harshly, but fairly. The treatment of his subjects always went to sleep peacefully at night, knowing the King would always protect them. What's more, the Dragon King had the power to connect lands together through mysterious magical doorways, and the king's son; Malefor; showcased early signs of having the same powers. But one day, when a mysterious group of Shadow Walkers attacked the kingdom, the Prince and one female dragon citizen from the kingdom went missing and were presumed dead. The kingdom fell into disarray and chaos reigned, until before long, the kingdom fell to ruin.
This was the story Dragon Lord Torch's own father once told him as a child, and the legend has passed down through the family since then with the only other one to know the tale being the current dragon lord. No doubt by now Torch has told the tale to Ember, the current Dragon Lord as Torch will not be around for much longer.
Malefor...if Cozy Glow has indeed encountered and made friends with the Lost Dragon Prince himself, then that means Cozy Glow has access to the most powerful dragon ever. At that point, trying to put Cozy Glow on trial, would no doubt reach the prince's ears. Even if the world no longer acknowledges his linage or kingdom, he is still to be feared as it was stated that whoever crossed the Prince's Father would soon regret such a decision.