Chapter 5 - Realization/Rekindled

As Flame flew to his house he took notice that there was not a single pony anywhere, he raised his eyebrow to this as he landed outside his house. He looked left, then right, no pony anywhere in sight.

Flame tapped his talon to the bottom part of his beak, "Just where did every pony go? A minute ago this place was crawling with ponies." he said with a shrug as he entered the house.

He noticed how dark it was and reached for the light switch, when he flicked it on a whole group of ponies jumped out at him.

"SURPRISE!"

That was all he heard as he saw the rainbow of ponies inside his house just jump out at him. A certain pink made jumped up to him and smiles widely and happily as she hugged him then hopped back.

"Hii'mpinkiepiewhatsyourname?You'reagriffonwhyisthat?ineverthoughtidseeoneagainbutthelastonewasabigoldmeaniepantsandahe-"

As Pinkie Pie continue to go on without taking another breath, Flame was shocked on the outside yes, but inside his heart and mind were racing as fast as a sonic rainboom. Now yes that would kill him but he has a good reason for all of this.

"Panic attack!" shouted Lovely Sweets as she lifted up the pink made and moved her. Though Pinkie somehow remain still as she continue to ramble on.

Once Big Mac and Cherillee heard those words they dropped what thy were doing and ran past the ponies in their way. They pushed a familiar rainbow maned pegasus and purple curled maned unicorn to get to him.

Cherillee looked to Big Mac as she checked Flame's heart beat, "Mac! Hurry and go get some water and his pills! Now!"

Big Mac nodded with an, "Eeeeyup" as he ran upstairs to the bathroom to look through the medicine cabinet.

Flame was still going into the shock of it, his heart going too fast for him to handle, his left foreleg began to shoot with pain and then eventually go numb as he felt what was coming and let it get worse.

Applejack ran over and put her hooves on his chest, "Flame! Calm down ya hear?! Just relax your breathin', think calm and soothin' thoughts." She continued to repeat in his ear to try and reach him.

Everypony looked worried and looked back between each other and the griffon who currently went from panic attack to cardiac arrest or "heart attack". Five other ponies came over, a yellow Pegasus, the pink earth pony from before that hopped over, our familiar rainbow maned Pegasus and marshmallow coated unicorn with a lavender unicorn-...my mistake Alicorns walked over to them.

Rarity looked more worried than the others as she saw her new friend just to I to an attack from them yelling "SURPRISE".

Pinkie looked confused still, normally ponies start to laugh and smile she they see a party thrown in their honor. ESPECIALLY a surprise party from her and when everypony comes to say hello.

Rainbow looked with concern as well but also kind of disappointed as she noticed at how he reacted. In her own mind she expected a bit more out of this griffon and no too be so...in her mind weak and she wasn't in the right about this thought.

The alicorn looked worried as well but also she was a bit shocked to learn the newest "pony" in Ponyville is a griffon. She was scared for him though, she had read about heart attacks and how to treat one but has never actually had the experience of seeing the real one.

Fluttershy was watching shaking a bit in quite a bit of fear as she looked at the griffon. She knows how to deal with animals, not other species of Gaia, she just let out an adorable "Eep!" and hid behind Rainbow.

Big Mac luckily came back in time as he came running in with a bottle of pills and a glass of water. He quickly opened the pills then made him take 2 of them and ran the water down his throat, gagging him but for his own good.

Flame was able to swallow the pills as his pinprick pupils grew back to normal, eyes no longer as wide as dinner plates, feathers soothed down, wings dropped down as well.

He was calm again as he let out a defeated sigh and collapsed a bit with Lovely and Cherillee keeping him up as they helped him to the couch and helped lay him down as two unicorns used their magic to fluff up the pillows as he was put down and closed his eyes, going to sleep.

Lovely stayed by his side petting his head with her hood and wrapping her wing around him, "It's ok Flame, we're here bro, you're okay." she said holding back a sob, she hated seeing her brother like this.

Big Mac stayed close with the water and pills in case this was needed for him again when he woke up.

Cherillee put her ear to his chest to check on his heart rate wanting to make are they did calm it down. Not too much, just to stabilize it and keep him ok when he woke up.

Applejack was getting steamed as she turned to her friend Pinkie and got in her face, "Dangit Pinkie! Ah told ya he wasn' one fer parties!"

Pinkie began to stutter as she tried to reply, "Bu-But...everypony loves a pinkie p-p-party!" She said trying to keep up her smile.

"Every warnin' I gave ya, ya ignored it! Pinkie you have ta listen just once except actin' on what YOU know!" Applejack normally would never be like this to anypony except maybe Rainbow when she was being a bit much.

"I'm sorr-"

"Save it! Apologize at him!" She said with a hoof pointing to Flame resting on the couch. "When he wakes up!"

Applejack walked over to Flame then looked to the crowd, "Party's over everypony! Go home! Go on get!"

They all knew the party was over when they saw the guest of honor have a heart attack in front of them. They all left with sadness as they turned and left, some giving a glare to the party mare.

Rainbow was about to get up in AJ's face but was cut off by Lovely as she somehow got infront of her without a gust of wind coming in.

"Don't! Even think about it RD." She said with a glare as she went back to petting her brother's head.

Rainbow was kinda shocked to see how fast Lovely went from her then back to him without a single sound of wind. She just looked back and forth between them and her friends and landed down on her hooves and looked to the Applejack.

“AJ! Why’d you yell at Pinkie like that?! It’s not like she did anything wrong!”

Applejack looked to her best friend and glared at her, “Are you bucking kidding me?! I tried givin’ her warnings about his heart- heck me, my brother, Lovely AND Cherillee all tried!” she said as she got closer to her now face to face.

“She jus’ kept saying how “silly” we were all bein’ an’ how he would jus’ loooooove it!” she practically yelled at her, her tone full of sarcasm as well in the end.

AJ getting steamed at one of her best friends was also way out of character for her. But then again Flame was a second brother to her and when you mess with the apple family, you mess with all of them. She huffed and walked over to Flame to see if he was ok still.

Big Mac sighed and walked over to the other five. “Look girls, Flame here…he’s like family to us, Granny even made’em an “honorary youngin’” making him an Apple, we look after each other, AJ just needs time to cool off is all.”

Pinkie sniffled a bit but her mane stayed puffed up as she bounced over to Dash, “Yea Dashie, it’s my fault for not listening! I really should’ve rather than just go ahead with my plans. I was being a silly filly not using my brain!”

She put her hoof through her ear and her brain came out the other side, then pulled it back in still smiling as if nothing had happened. Everypony looked at this in horrible shock as they moved one step away but continued on.

A groan was heard from Flame as he began to wake up and rubbed his head. Lovely nodded to the others as she shooed them away and she walked away as well till they were outside.

“Why’d you make us leave?” the lavender alicorn asked the pegasus.

Lovely turned to Twilight and sighed, “Because he needs to calm down now, normally after events like these he can be a bit…unpredictable- nothing violent I assure you princess! He just…gets easily shocked and I think more than two ponies in there, last time he became as quiet as Fluttershy.”

“Seriously? That’s pretty damn quiet.” said the Rainbow maned pony.

The others agreed to this knowing just how quiet the yellow pegasus can be at times. They all began to scatter except for Lovely as she waited outside with a smirk once they all left. She crept over to a rustling bush and poked it with her hoof.

“Ouch!” was all that was heard from the bush as it stood up and shook itself free of some leaves revealing grey legs of a certain wall eyed grey pegasus. Lovely smiled and got the rest of the bush off of her.

“Derpy! Good you made it, Flame’s inside resting up, now’s your chance for you two to catch up!” she said with a sultry tone and a wink. She giggled and hugged her B.B.F.F.F (Bestest Best Female Friend Forever) tightly.

Derpy let out a giggle and her cheeks flushed into a bright red blush, “Oooooooh I sure hope he remembers me Lovely!” she said as she bounced a bit in excitement.

Lovely smiled at her, “Oh he will Derpy, he can’t forget his sexy golden eyes!~” she laughed at the way she said it knowing only Flame called her such a name.

“H-How did you-” she asked with a blush and an embarrassed expression across face.

“Oh please, you two weren’t the most quiet in your room, after all you were my roommate at one point.”

“Oh right..sorry Lovely.”

“It’s ok…though I didn’t know you were such a screamer!”

Lovely started to bust a gut laughing at what she just revealed as Derpy began to stammer in embarrassment but she quickly fixed herself and her hair as Lovely continued to laugh.

After a few minutes of laughter Lovely regained herself and patted Derpy’s back, “Don’t worry about Derpy, now get in there and woo you’re griffon!”

“Yeaaaaa!”

“Wait!”

“Huh?”

Lovely bonked her head as her eye went off angle again reverting back to its normal self.

“Much better, now, move you!” said Lovely as she pushed Derpy inside the house and closed the door behind her and walked away with a little sway in her hips with a smug grin across her muzzle.

Inside, Flame was recovering slowly as he just finished chugging down a glass of water over the sink, he couldn’t believe he had another attack, it’s been a whole years since his last one.

“One year…to the date…a whole year round.” He meant that on this day a year ago in Zebrica he had an attack that lead him to be dead for about 5 minutes before they brought him back. He hated these attacks, but he’s always had to deal with them for as long as he could remember. He had to get these special pills from a doctor in Canterlot just to be able to cope with it, they cancel out all the effects of a panic and heart attack in a matter of seconds due to a little addition of Lazarus, a tiny drop is still dangerous but doesn’t have much of the agonizing affects that a pit of the stuff would have on the normal griffon/pony body.

He sighed and brushed it off as he put the glass on the counter and was met with a gentle brush of a tail under his beak. He looked and saw the tail, he recognized that tail anywhere. The golden mane, the gentle touch of it, they movement in the stroke.

He smiled happily with a bright blush, turned his around to see-

“Mmmmmm…hello Flamey~”

Author's Note

Yes, Derpy is with Flame, Fleur being mentioned maaaaaaaay add a little something to something in the future

And yes, Flame's condition is from me, it's just his is what mine can be if I don't control my anxiety problem soon