Ten Years Later
Civil Town: Far from Equestria's Borders
A pink pegasus known as Cozy Glow sighed. Once again, the adults of her hometown were fighting with one another.
"Ugh. I'm really getting sick of this." Cozy Glow said as she flew over the town where she had stopped living in after she had outlived a majority of the friends she once made. "Year after year, the adults continue this endless civil war." She added.
"Psst." A unicorn colt said.
"Huh? What do you--" Cozy Glow started to ask but was forced into where the colt had come from. "Hey, what's the big idea?" Cozy Glow asked.
"It's not safe out there with the adults feuding like they always do." The colt said.
"Thanks, but I can take care of myself." Cozy Glow said.
"That's what Jimmy said once. He was a Pegasus just like you, and he was too stubborn to stay hidden with us." A Pegasus filly said.
"But he went and got killed by a stray attack from the adults. Since then, even other Pegasi foals like me and my sis stay hidden." A pegasus colt said, hugging the pegasus filly who spoke up.
"That's nice and all, but you don't really under--wait..." Cozy Glow suddenly realized something. "...This cival war stuff is affecting you all in such a negative way?" She asked.
"Yeah. Trouble is, we can't really tell the adults that." The unicorn colt said.
"And why can't you?" Cozy Glow asked.
"Because none of us want to end up like Jimmy." An earth pony filly said.
"That was only when one of you went though. What if you all went at the same time? So many foals would DEFINETLY catch the attention of those adult ponies." Cozy Glow said.
"...Kid, what's your name?" The unicorn colt asked.
"It's Cozy Glow, but your mistaken, I'm not--" Cozy Glow tried to say.
"YOUR A GENIUS COZY GLOW! LET'S DO IT EVERY PONY! LET US FOALS UNITE!" The unicorn colt said.
With all the foals praising her, Cozy Glow no longer had the heart to tell them that she wasn't their age despite looking as such.
Cozy's plan worked out, and the town was no longer subject to a civil war.
"Heh. I always knew I had a knack for this kind of strategy." Cozy Glow said as she held a red rook; the same mark that was on her flank. "...It's just so sad I'll outlive them all all over again." Cozy Glow said. Suddenly she felt herself teleported away.
"Hey, where's Cozy Glow?" The unicorn colt said.
"Well, wherever that foal is, I do hope she realized how thankful this town is." The colt's dad said. "From this moment on, this town shall become known as Cozy Glow Village!" He added.
Cozy Glow meanwhile was in some sort of strange plane of existence. "Where am I?" She asked before Twilight Sparkle appeared. "P-princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria." Cozy Glow said before bowing.
"There is no need to bow before me young Cozy Glow. Although for you, 'young' is a realtive term, is it not?" Twilight Sparkle said.
"Yes. You could say that." Cozy Glow said. "My first friends, and some others I've made since, I've outlived them all. I don't understand why I have the appearance of a foal. And I want to see them all again. To know that it wasn't a waste." She added.
"You need not fear. Here they are now." Twilight said before the five friends Cozy Glow made first suddenly appeared.
"What?! How are you here?" Cozy Glow asked.
"This place exists inbetween the world of the living and the realm of the dead. That's what we were told." The first pony, a Pegasus filly like Cozy Glow said.
"Every pony you've made friends with is with us too. We aren't the only ones here. We were just the ones you need to see the most." An Earth Pony colt said.
"I don't understand. I want to join you, but I can't seem to." Cozy Glow said.
"You will one day Cozy Glow. Sure, that day is far in the future for you, but we're willing to wait for you. All of us." An earth pony filly said.
"And you shouldn't fret about making new friends. Even if you'll outlive them too, you'll see them when you do finally join us all on our side." A unicorn colt said.
"You mean, you're willing to wait for me? No matter how long it takes?" Cozy Glow asked, on the verge of tears.
"Of course, we are Cozy Glow. We would never abandon you." Another unicorn colt said.
"You guys..." Cozy Glow was in tears. "Come here, let me hug you before you go." She said before hugging her first five friends.
Twilight smiled. Cozy Glow didn't need the alicorn princess to tell the pegasus what this meant for Cozy Glow; Twilight knew.
"Cozy Glow, they can't be here for long. But fret not, you will see them again. You are not immortal. Just like how I am not immortal." Twilight said.
With tears still in her eyes, Cozy Glow turned to her friends. "You better make sure when I get where you are, we play lots and lots of games okay?" Cozy Glow asked.
"We will. We promise." The five ponies said at once before they faded.
"So, was that why I'm here? To be reassured I'll see them again? Because I did need that, Princess. So, thank you for that." Cozy Glow said.
"Not exactly Cozy Glow. There is another reason you are here." Twilight said before Cozy Glow felt her inner magic suddenly appear before her and then mold itself around her and a bright light to shine from Cozy Glow.
The town was still looking for Cozy Glow when she duddenly decended from the heavens, and spread her wings, though wings weren't all she had.
"C-Cozy Glow? You...your a..." The unicorn colt said.
"Your an alicorn!" The pegasus colt from before said.
"H-huh?" Cozy Glow felt her forhead, finding a horn there that wasn't there before. "I am an Alicorn. Whoa..." Cozy Glow said.
"Yes, you are Cozy Glow." Twilight's voice said before the purple alicorn in question appeared.
Twilight said she wasn't immortal. So even now, I'm not either. Cozy Glow thought to herself.
"Princess Twilight, what a pleasant surprise to see you in our town. We didn't make you mad with our silly squabbles, did we?" The unicorn colt's father asked.
"Not exactly. I am here because of Cozy Glow's accension." Twilight said.
"But she's just six years old." The unicorn colt said.
"I kept trying to tell you, I was older than you thought I was." Cozy Glow said. "In fact, I'm exactly three hundred, twenty-nine years old." Cozy Glow said.
"Th-three h-hundred...Tw-twenty..." At those words from the unicorn colt, everypony in town fainted at once.
"...And this is why I no longer lived in this town persay." Cozy Glow said.
After some time, Cozy Glow went to Canterlot with Twilight Sparkle. That same night, Cozy Glow looked towards the night sky.
"My friends. I know you'll be waiting for me for when my time is right. But I know that this country will need me in the near future. Already, I hear that there are enemies that threaten Equestria itself. I suppose my time here is not done yet. It's up to me to defend this land from its enemies. Only when there are no more threats to the country, can I consider my services no longer required." Cozy Glow said. "But until then, wait for me, my friends. I'll continue to make more, so you better make sure the other friends I make feel at home there with you, or you know I'll make sure there's hell to pay." She said with a giggle. "...See you guys then." The pink alicorn went inside the castle after that.