The Lunch Bell Rang as the students ran out the door and towards the cafeteria.
"Finally time to get some grub!" Smoulder cheered as she began to excitedly fly down the hall pushing aside afew random pegasui and changelings as she did.
"Wow, somebody's hungry!" SilverStream chuckled as she watched her friend speed off.
"Makes sense, listening to Head Mare Twilight drone on is so boring it zaps the energy right out of yea" Gallus teased as he approached his friend.
"Aww c'mon the prof. Isn't that boring, and I'd say a few creatures even find her interesting, isn't that right?" Sandbar smiled looking back at Ocellus ans Cozy who were still trying to put all their notes back into their saddlebags.
"What can I say, Princess er Head Mare Twilight's lectures are inspiring!" Ocellus blushed.
"Yea, and if I don't take notes on every little thing she says I might miss something and then if I do bad on our next test they'll think I don't wanna learn about friendship after all and kick me out of the school again! W-what if they throw me back into Tartarus!?" Cozy panicked as she grabbed a brown paper back seemingly out of nowhere and began to hyperventilate into it.
"Little Pony need to calm down!" Yona stated as she put her hoof on Cozy's shoulder "We know Cozy trying to be good now, Yona no let anyone throw little pony back into scary place." The young Yak reassured her friend.
"Yea, plus even if they did kick you out again they'd probably come up with a better punishment this time like making Trixie home school you!" He chuckled, the rest just giving him a stern look. "What?" Gallus huffed. "Sheesh, you guys are no fun, fine let's get going, I'm hungry" he grumbled as he began to grumpily stomp down the hall.
In the cafeteria ponies and creatures of all kinds gathered at the tables and began to chat to catch up on the events of the day between bites of their meals, laughing, arguing and doing all the various things one would do in a conversation. Meanwhile on a medium sized circular table near a large window the Student six or now seven set and enjoyed their lunch.
"Man, those fried gemstones really hit the spot!" Smoulder burped in delight
"Yea, we can tell" Gallus cringed as he tried to waft away his friends Dragon breath.
"These Salmon patties are pretty great too! You want some!?" Silverstream asked offering Sandbar one of her delicious fish meat treats.
"Ahh, no thanks I'm not too keen on eating anything else that used to have a face on it" he nervously chuckled.
"Oh right, forgot most ponies were vegetarians. Sorry" Silverstream chuckled as she wolfed down another Patty. Sandbar just giving an awkward no prob gesture.
"The diary habits of creatures are truly fascinating!!" Occellus added. "Back when changelings primarily fed on love we didn't think much about it, but ever sense our reformation we've been discovering so many things about our digestive tracts!" The young female changling exclaimed with glee.
"Oh, do go on" Gallus sarcastically egged the girl on.
"Well while all changelings can handle grubs well enough certain beetles can make us sick. I'm actually allergic to blue gem beetles myself. Oh and 30% of changelings are lactose intolerant. We can eat most flowers but Daisy's can cause 10% of changelings tounges to itch for a bit, oh and we're all deathly allergic to Purple catnips & Leather Flowers for some reason." Ocellus smiled.
"Well uhh....ok then" Smoulder replied.
Yona then let out a loud sneeze interrupting the rest as her hay fries went flying across the table. "Hehe, Sorry, maybe Yona allergic to people talking about allergies!" The Yak chuckled as the rest of the group joined in. Meanwhile Cozy set silent and slowly stirred her soup around.
"What's wrong Cozy?" Ocellus asked in a genuinely concerned tone.
"Oh, it's nothing" Cozy sighed as she looked at her reflection in her ever cooling meal.
"You know if somethings wrong you can always tell us" Sandbar began to try to cheer up the small pegasui before an unfamiliar voice interrupted from behind.
"Well, what is the League of losers up to today!?' It cackled as the rest of the Student six let out a sigh, this only adding to Cozy's confusion.
"Not them again!" Gallus groaned.
"Yep, afraid so'' Sandbar sighed.
Cozy looked around to see three ponies she didn't recognize walking towards them. The first a Unicorn mare with light gray fur and a braided purple mane. She wore black eye-liner and had three piercings in her left and right ears. Upon her flank set a cutie mark with a skull & crossbones symbol coming out of a cauldron. To her left was a male pegasus with green fur and a short brown mane and tail, his cutie mark being a cloud with a nervous face. And finally a purple furred earth mare with rose pink pigtails, goggles over her eyes and a cutie mark of a beaker on her flank.
"So I guess the losers club added another member to their half-baked herd." The unicorn mare cruelly teased the group.
"And who the buck are you!?" Cozy bluntly asked causing everyone in the cafeteria to gasp.
"Wh....Why I Never!!" The Unicorn growled. "I am Petunia Hexspeak" The one and only niece of Grand Chancellor Neighsay!!" The snooty mare huffed.
"Y-yeah, watch your tounge kid!" The pegasus stallion nervously stuttered.
"Shush Storm Runner. I've got this" The unicorn cackled. "So tell me my little pony, now that you know who I am, why don't you tell me who you are?" She asked the young pegasus filly with a devious smile.
"Oh well, I'm Cozy Glow!" The filly stated giving off her best sincere looking fake smile.
"Oh Mine Gawt! Ze Cozy Glow!?" The previously silent Earth Mare asked in excitment as she bolted up to the girl's side. "I am a huge fan!" She deviously chuckled "Your plan to drain all ze magic from Equestria vas inspired!!" The eccentric earth mare exclaimed.
"Um, thanks?" Cozy awkwardly replied as she noticed the mare was rummaging through her saddlebags and with some kind of odd prehensile hair power she'd only ever seen Pinkie use before this new Earth mare pulled out Cozy's medication.
"Ohh, Vats diz?" The mare asked.
"H-hey give those back!!" Cozy nervously shouted as the mare mumbled the label & ingredients to herself.
"Well Encessa what is it?" Hexspeak asked.
"Seems to be some form of anti-psychotic. Aww, poor frauline are you a tad bit of the crazy-wazy?" Encessa chuckled.
"Well if she is who she says she is, then she deffinently is" Hexspeak chuckled.
"I-I AM NOT CRAZY!!' Cozy shrieked, causing the rest of the students in the room to noticeably tense-up. Realizing how loud she had been Cozy just blushed and did her best to hold back her tears. "I'm not crazy" she rasped "p-please give it back" she mumbled as she bit her lip.
"Hmm, I dunno" Hexspeak taunted levitating the bottle with her magic. "What do you guys think" she cackled.
"OK. That's it" Gallus huffed as he got up and sternly walked towards the group. "Unless you want your uncle to find out what a brat you are give Cozy back her medicine. Or did you forget Head Mare Twilight has him on speed-dial in the fancy spell phone in her office." Gallus deviously smiled back.
Hexspeak just grunted and with a sigh uttered "fine!" As she dropped the bottle, Cozy quickly zooming in to catch it.
"Not like I need a psycho foal and her pet chicken on my case anyway!" Hexspeak growled. "Just remember this Cozy Glow. You may have been a big shot before, but this is my school now! So just be on the lookout ex-empress of friendship, because these losers won't always be around to defend you!" She snarled as she began to stomp off, her enterouge following close behind.
"T-thank you Gallus" Cozy stuttered.
"Eh, don't mention it. Brats like her are all bark and no bite, besides the only one allowed to pick on you is me, got it!" Gallus awkwardly chuckled.
"OK" Cozy softly smiled as she wiped the tears from her cheeks. Gallus just looking down at the foal with a blush.
"Hey, don't even think about it. I mean it's not like I like you or anything, just because the others are soft enough to forgive you off the bat doesn't mean I am!" He tried to exclaim.
"Sure, whatever you say" Cozy chuckled as she swooped in for a hug.
"D'aww" Silverstream stated as she leaped across the table and began to tightly hug Gallus as well, eventually the rest of the Student seven joining in.
"This is soo embarrassing and I literally hate all of you right now." Gallus stated as his blush grew brighter. The rest of the group just chuckling even harder. Meanwhile the three bullies looked on from across the room.
"Well, isn't that cute" Hexspeak growled. "Cozy Glow eh, uncle told me about you, but it doesn't matter, I won't let you being here ruin my plans, I'll just have to work harder and make sure you learn your proper place." She deviously smiled as she continued to look on.
It's here! With such an epic title too! And just when I have to go to sleep. xD I can't wait to read this tomorrow!
I just want to STOMP bullies like this......
Yeah more story!
Woop! It's great to see more in the story. It's even better seeing a whole new story forming after getting Cozy through everything. Now we get to see what the bullies have in store for the school and Student Seven.
What captured me the most in this chapter was when Cozy had her medication stolen. That's an extremely compromising situation. It's even more compromising when, if I guess right, there is still a part of her that is worried that not taking the medicine will cause her to revert into what she once was. She clearly doesn't want to get herself back in Tartarus. No doubt the bullies will find some sort of way to exploit this.
Medication is always a sensitive topic. I've always had to carry some sort of medication with me at all times to treat my chronic condition. I never like knowing I need to remember it and that it is there. I know it is what helps me stay healthy but I'd be quite unhappy with someone scrutinized my meds. (I have an eye condition that caused me to lose all my physical eye sight. However I still need to treat the condition or I may have to go through another surgery to remove the eyes. Not wanting to do that.)
Looking forward to the next chapter. Keep up the great work!
Thank you all for the kind words, glad this chapter was enjoyed. And yes big plans ahead. Hope everyone has a happy holiday and we can all look forward to a prosperous new year!😁
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Just try not to make us wait over a month again. Please.
cant wait for more
MORE CHAPTERS, STAT!!!
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Ah.
Given the environment, at least we know with the teachers will and should do something about the bully situation. Unlike real life.
Also really skull and cross bones, could you be anymore obvious?
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That assumes that they even know about the situation in the first place.
please i need more.
I'm kinda want to see Cozy meet the crusaders again
Well, this was a long time until "tomorrow" came..... But now I could finally read this.
New chapter and it already drives in the wrench.
I didn't know she's so traumatized from that year in Tartarus.
"Me? Oh, nopony special! I'm Cozy Glow, you know, the filly who joined forces with Tirek, one of Equestria's greatest enemies, who almost drained Equestria of all its magic forever and bent the entire kingdom to its knees! What's your story, school bully?"
Oh, how I would have loved to see her face if Cozy would have dropped that sentence.....
Tsundere Gallus. That sentence got me laughing, this fits him nicely.^^
Great chapter overall! Petunia Hexspeak doesn't seem to trust Cozy, thinking she could try the same thing again, hence why she sees Cozy as a threat. This is going to be interesting. I wonder how Cozy will deal with this, but I have a feeling Petunia will soon have to realize that she's better not messing with her..... You simply don't bully a filly who made Equestria almost defenseless in one swoop.
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Thanks for the input and apologies for the lack of updates for the story. Life has just kept me busy you know. 😅
Ideally I'm hoping to get at least a few chapters up this month as I feel I've more or less finally decided where I want the rest of the "return to school" arc as I'm calling it in my silly little head to go.
Though I'm sure by the time I get around to getting back on track on this again season 9 will come along and eviscerate everything I've done. Not that it really matters cause hey fanfiction so not like anything has to be canon anyways as it's just for fun.
Was also thinking of being bold enough to start a Equestria Girls story later on at some point this year. I'd probably suck at it but hey it never hurts to try, right!?
Anyway more is coming down the pike, sorry for the lack of updates but I should hopefully have some free time this weekend to fix that. Thanks for understanding.😅
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A life sign! I'm so glad for this, I had fears that this story is dead!
Not necessarily and it depends on how long you have planned this story to be. Season 9 won't start in February, the earliest start that is to expect is, from prior experience I have since Season 5, at the end of March. If not then, it will be the beginning of April.
So, there is still time. But if Season 9 does come before this fic is finished, as you said, it's not too big of a deal as the story will be interesting all the same.
And the basics of Cozy getting out of Tartarus and back into Twilight's school are already established, so there's already a good amount of potential future you had in your fic first.