And I turn my head back left towards Twilight, who’s currently taking a sip out of a brown bottle and say, “And uh, Twilight! I do care about you and I don’t like seeing my friend hurt themselves, so uh, could you maybe put the bottle down? At least when I’m around… Please?”
The glowing bottle swivels upright on her left and she smiles as she says, “No problem!” and then turns her head back left to take another drink while the bottle floats there…
“You’re drinking Royal Pony whiskey right now!”
The bottle goes back upright, and she sits on her throne, and turns her head right towards me and she says, “I’ll have you know, this is not Royal Pony!”
Hyacinth standing next to me casually adds, “I think it’s Pony Beam?”
Twilight finally snorts, “It’s Wild Pegasus!”
I widen my eyes, “Oh, golly! Wild Pegasus! You’d think the Princess of Friendship would buy better whiskey?”
Hyacinth turns her head left towards me, “I know, right?”
“I’ll drink what I want!” The alicorn barks at me from her throne before taking another belt!
I turn left towards her, “So, you admit that you’re a drunk?”
She stares at me with a glazed look in her eyes, “I am the Princess of Friendship and I will drink as much as I want, when I want!”
Hyacinth giggles and starts chanting, “Twilight is a drunk! Twilight is a drunk!”
“STOP IT!”
I join in the chanting, “Twilight is a drunk! Twilight is a drunk!”
Twilight furrows her brow, “I’m about to banish you two to the moon!”
I smile at her and whimsically say, “Fine! Send me to the moon and utterly fail to reform me then! I’m sure the papers would love that! See if I care!”
Hyacinth chimes in, “Yeah! Princess Twilight Sparkle, the big failure!”
Her eyes narrow as the bottle turns in the air again so she can take a drink from it…
“Oh, golly Hyacinth! She’s still drinking! What do we do?”
“It’s fine! It’s fine! The bottle is out! I still got some vodka in the freezer for later though… “Twilight says as the bottle floats upright again…
I stare at the alicorn, as a trail of spit goes out the right side of her muzzle, and say to her, “Twilight, I think you’ve had enough?”
Hyacinth’s horn glows , and the bottle slowly flies to our right, and gently sets on the ground, before it finally stops glowing…
Twilight wipes her mouth with her right hoof , and stares at me with disgruntled purple eyes as she says, “I didn’t come here to be judged by you!”
“Maybe not, but we do care about you!”
Hyacinth adds, “Yeah, Aunt Twilight! I don’t want you boozing it up! Please stop! For me?”
At that point, her purple eyes grew large , and I think she realized what her drinking was doing to her niece? She stared at her , and somberly replied, “Hyacinth, little angel, what if I slowed down?”
Hyacinth frowns, “I’d sure feel a lot better if you quit!”
Twilight frowns as well, “But uh, I don’t want to!”
Hyacinth sighs, “Okay Auntie Twilight… Just uh, slow down please , and don’t do it around me, okay?”
I ask her, “Why do you drink again?”
Twilight turns her head towards me, “It’s uh, the only thing that makes me feel better… “
“Feel better?”
Twilight’s muzzle frowns slightly before correcting itself, “I uh, yeah… They’re dead now… All but one , and she’ll be gone soon too…”she sniffs… “Soon, I’ll be all alone… They’re all I really had , and now… Now, I don’t have anything… “
“What?” Hyacinth asks…
Twilight closes her eyes, “Applejack was the first! Yeah, I kinda saw that coming from miles away, but I didn’t think Fluttershy would be next! Then Rainbow Dash died , and Pinkie soon after! , and then, many moons later, Spike went on to become ambassador to the Dragon-Lands!”she opens her eyes to us, and I witness tears falling from her eye sockets, “I am alone, Cozy! It’s just me, here!”
“What about Rarity?”
“She’ll be gone soon too! Soon…” Twilight closes her eyes again and I see more tears going down her muzzle… “Soon it’ll just be me…”she opens her eyes again… “If I’d known this was going to happen, I never would’ve agreed to become an alicorn!”
“I uh, oh, golly!”
Hyacinth says, “Twilight! We all need to die when our time has come! It’s only natural!”
“I didn’t think nature would be so cruel!”
I say to the alicorn, “Twilight, you’re drunk! Uh, why don’t you teleport to your room and sleep it off, huh?”
She stares at me, “But I have that luncheon in the afternoon!”
“Skip it!”
“I can’t! Uh…” She blinks… “Equestria needs me… “
“Oh, golly! Equestria will be fine without you for a couple of hours! Now, rest!”
She sighs… “Why am I giving into the demands of a filly?”
I smile at her, “Because you know I make a good point and because you know that Cadance can handle your duties while you’re out?”
She widens her eyes, “What makes you think Cadance has time for that?”
Hyacinth turns her head towards me as I explain, “I’m sure she’ll be fine with it! Or, use a diplomat! Whatever! The point is, you’re not available!”
She narrows her eyes, “I knew you were persuasive!”
“But you got drunk and released me anyway! And now, I’m here to help you stop drinking!” I blink… “For some reason?”
Hyacinth says, “Please Twilight?”
She blinks, sighs, and says, “I-I’ll think about it…” before closing her eyes and forcing her horn to glow purple and her body soon disappears in a blue flash!
Hyacinth turns her neck left to me again, “You think she’ll quit suddenly?”
I frown, “Probably not, but stranger things have happened… “
She frowns too, “Well, what do we do?”
“Only thing we can do Hyacinth! Be there for her!”
Hyacinth stares upward, “Well, hey Cozy! I’m busy today, but you wanna play tomorrow afternoon?”
I stare at the white alicorn filly and surprise myself with what I say… “Sure Hyacinth! I’d like that!”
She brings her eyes to me and smiles, “Great! I finally have a friend! I mean, a real friend! Somepony who’s not just wanting me for power and influence!”
My muzzle frowns, “How do you know I don’t want you for power or influence?”
“Because you’re a prisoner in the castle and couldn’t have any power or influence!”
That kinda stung! I grimace, “What?”
She smiles, “Think about it! Twilight has you on house arrest and you’re in that room most of the time! Me and Twilight are the only two ponies you talk to!”
“I talk to the maid!”
“Oh? What about?”
At this point, I honestly can’t think of anything I’ve talked to the maid about that wasn’t related to tidiness in my room or what I wanted to eat? “Stuff!”
She giggles, “It’s okay Cozy! Now we got each other!”
“And a drunken alicorn princess!”
She sighs, “Yeah, uh, Cozy! Will you keep an eye on her please and make sure she doesn’t go overboard?”
I surprise myself again when I smile cheerfully at the other filly! “You got it Hyacinth!”
She adjusts her eyes to me, “I gotta go now! Will you be okay?”
I flit my hoof in the air and nod, “Please! I’ve dealt with a lot worse than this before!”
She smiles and then does the unthinkable… She trots forward a pace and hugs me with her forehooves!
“EEP! What are you doing?”
“Hugging you!”
“Why?”
“Because you’re my friend and you need to know you’re loved!”
“I am?”
“Of course!”
I tentatively move my own forehooves around Hyacinth’s body and embrace her myself…
“This is nice!”
I’m still not sure how I feel about this, “It is?”
She cuddles in closer to me, “Yeah, just being close to somepony like this! It’s nice not to be alone anymore!”
Not being alone anymore? Is that what this is? “Oh, golly!”
She releases me from her hooves and goes to all fours in front of me, “Alright Cozy! I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon for a full report on Twilight! Remember, don’t let her go too far!” before forcing her horn to glow pink and her body soon disappears in a white flash… I often wonder how that works and why they’re those colors and why it always changes like that?
I decide to forget it and return to my room… I need a nap after all that!
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While deep in my slumber, I smell something peculiar… It smells pungent and strong… It smells like…vodka!
I open my eyes to see a tall purple alicorn standing over me… She says in a slurred voice, “Cozy, I think I’m ready to become reformed?”
I adjust my body to my right side to face her and bring my eyes to her, “What are you talking about? I was the one getting reformed here, remember?”
“I-I know Cozy… I know this… I also know I haven’t exactly been the best pony lately… “
I widen my eyes and glower, “Huh?”
She gulps, “Y-yeah Cozy… I drink a lot… I uh, I think I drink too much?”
I fix my face, “Gee, what was your first clue? The whiskey in the morning, the day drinking, or the fact that you’re almost always sloshed?”
She cringes, “I-I know Cozy…” she then brings her eyes to me… “Could you help me?”
“You know, me and Hyacinth were already doing that, right?”
“What?”
“Remember when we spoke in the throne room?”
“Uh, what?” She repeats herself and stares at me blankly and I can already tell I’m about to have a long conversation…
“Oh, golly!”
(To be continued… )