Flame was flying away from the park as fast as he could laughing his feathered ass off as he held Kai in his arm close to him. Applejack hot on their tail completely steamed over what had just happened at the park to Winona. I don't think she minded though if you think back real quickly.

*Earlier*

Kai continued to thrust in and out of the happily satisfied panting female dog below him. He continues to whine happily as he quickened his pace and soon he put his paws on her head and pushed her down as he howled into the air.

"Awoooooooooooooooooooooooo!" he howled into the air as he began to shoot his wolf seed into Winona's womb wanting to fill her up as his knot became stuck in her as he fell on top of her and she fell to the floor.

*In the language of the animals*

Kai looked below him to Winona seeing her satisfied face, "Hehehe...not bad...for a pup eh?" he said with a grin as he pulled on her ear a bit.

She let out a moan of ecstasy as she felt all of his seed fill her up. She blushed heavily with a satisfied smile as she looked up to him.

"Hehehe...I'll say...mmmm oh sweet goddesses...you're knot's actually stuck in me...not even the neighbor’s dog is that big!" she said with pure bliss as she turned her head to him.

"Applejack's going to kill you...~"

"Not with papa backing me up...besides, I'll be here for about...don't know really, hehehe...~"

After the collective amount of minutes he was finally able to slide out of her and let his boner shrink away. Applejack wanted to ring his little neck for "violating" her.

"Why that lil' varmint! I'm gonna skin'em alive for-"

"AJ calm down, a guy’s got needs and I'm sure Winona did to." he said with a little smirk and chuckle as he watched his sister get all worked up over this.

"He shouldn't even be doin' that type of thing in public!"

"He's a wolf, ain't no time and place they could do this."

Applejack went to Kai about to grab him but he easily jumped onto her head pushing the Stetson down to cover her eyes as he hopped onto Flame's head. Flame chuckles and started to get off the ground with Kai in his arm.

"Look AJ it's perfectly natural for him to do this, poor guy needed relief and I can see Winona likes him." he said as he pointed a talon to the happily panting dog with her eyes in the shape of hearts.

Kai returned the stare and the eyes as he panted happily as well. "See? True love.~" he said with a happy smile.

Pinkie jumped around the two of the happily, "Puppyyyyyyyy Partyyyyyyyyy!" she cheered as she jumped around happily as confetti fell from the sky with not a trace of a source as to where she got it from.

Applejack got even redder and madder at the sound of "puppies" and Winona, she charged at Flame head on ready to ram the poor griffon into the dust showing no mercy.

"Uh oh." was all Flame could say as he flew up a bit to dodge her and flew off with Kai in his arms as the chase began.

*Present*

Flame continued laugh heartily as he flew around the town with AJ hot on his tail. He knew eventually she'd catch him so he looked around and saw the schoolyard, he grinned at this and flew to the school.

Applejack watched him I but she somehow easily lost him. She ran all around the school looking for the varmints but no such luck. She huffed out and walked away slowly grumbling about wringing them up and how Winona couldn't have puppies.

Flame unwrapped himself and Kai and came out of the school bell chuckling a bit. He petted Kai as he nuzzles his claw.

"Good boy Kai, already getting a lady man." he said with a smirk as he put him down on his paws.

Kai smirked to himself happily as he remembered Winona's eyes as he saw them on his own. Flame smiled and rolled his eyes at the love stricken pup. He walked away but forgot that he was on a rooftop and fell.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" he screamed as he landed on his stomach and face with a loud thud that made the students inside cringe and look out the window. Cherillee took notice and ran outside to him quickly to check I her hurt friend.

"Flame! Oh my, are you ok?!"

Flame slowly got up to his feet and shook his head as he saw birds flying all around him as he gave a weak smile with his eyes spinning around from the hi still.

"But mommy! I don't wanna go to sssssshhkool today!" he said as he fell onto Cherillee and she kept him up.

"Iiiiiii think you hit your head a little TOO hard there Flamey, let me get you into the classroom, come on." she carried him inside as he continues to spout nonsense.

"I wanna stay home and bake cookiessshhh with yoooou!" he said with one final collapse and gave out.

"Oh dear..."

*an hour later*

The bell for recess rang out as the happy students ran outside giggling and laughing happily as Flame awoke and saw them exiting to the hard for some fun. He got up and saw Cherillee there as well as she walked over to him.

"Finally you're awake! I was getting worried there y'know." she said as she checked around his head for any hidden injuries.

Flame let her finish her check of injuries before he started talking, "Cherry you know I've taken worse hits than a fall off of a roof." he said with a confident smile as he patted her head.

"That's why I worry Flame, I don't want you always getting hurt, you're not invincible y'know."

"Doesn't mean one can't have a little bit of fun."

She sighed at his attitude but also smiled as she was glad the griffon she knew was still there. She looked out the window to see her students having fun, except for 3 fillies that were in an argument with a pink and silver one that we're laughing at the other three. She let out a sigh and walked outside but was stopped by Flame who took her place and headed over to the arguing 5 fillies.

"What are you blank flanks up to now? Coming up with more pointless attempts to get your cutie marks? Ha!"

"Yea ha! Blank flanks!"

*Diamond/Silver*
"Blank Flanks! Blank Flanks! Blank Flanks!"

"Why don'tcha leave us alone?!" Applebloom yelled in frustration.

"Yea ya big jerks! Let us do our own thing!" Scootaloo yelled in pure anger of the two stuck up bullies.

"Yea come on! Can't we go a day without you two bugging us?!" Sweetie Belle yelled with adorable little cracks in her voice but she was still very angry nonetheless.

"Or what you blank flank losers?!" Diamond said in a mocking tone.

"Yea! Or what?!" Silver Spoon easily mimicked her stuck up friend.

Flame got to them and had heard enough as he cleared his throat to get the attention of the five little fillies. When Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon looked over they had faces of shock over seeing the threatening looking griffon tower over them.

Whereas the "innocent" Cutie Mark Crusaders smiles at the griffon as they all recognized him before, Applebloom's smile growing the largest as she already knew the griffon was a fellow apple from her older siblings.

"Flame!" she said with pure happiness as she ran over and hugged the griffon's foreleg and clung tightly to it now fully wrapped around it as she smiles up at him.

"Hey there AB." Flame replied as he rubbed the little filly's head with a smile of his own.

Scootaloo stepped forward and looked to Applebloom. "How do you already know his name Applebloom?"

"Because he's an adopted Apple tha's why Scootaloo!" she said with a grin as she kept clung to Flame's leg. She giggled a bit as she felt his talons tickle behind her ears.

Flame looked down at his little sis and picked her up and put her on his head. Her forehooves and chin now on his feathery head as she looked around smiling still.

"Hey girls! Ahm a giant!" she said with an adorable giggle as she waves to her friends down below.

Little Sweetie Belle walked around to his wing and tugged on it a bit. "Heeeeey! Come on let us ooooooon! Pleeeeeeeeesaaaaaase?"

Flame looked to her and noticed her adorable pout and puppy dog eyes. He thought her voice was cute enough with those little squeaks but those eyes. Those...big adorable eyes! "Hnnnnnnnnngh!" he said mentally as he felt his heart melt at the adorableness. He couldn't resist any longer. He let his wing out and used it like another claw only gentle as he lifted her up as put her on his back as she let out another adorable giggle.

Scootaloo would never let herself do something as "uncool" as a pout! She just looked to the griffon then turned her head as she felt his tail wrap around her and she then found herself next to Sweetie on his back.

"Now, what were ya saying about my sister and her friends here? Hmmmmmmm?" he looked at the two bullies with a stern look in his eye.

Silver was about to speak but was instantly silenced by Diamond Tiara as she stuck her hoof in her friend's mouth. "We were just putting these loser blank flanks in their place! Like we should be doing with you, you filthy griffon." she said with a smug grin.

Flame looked at her then started to chuckle, then the chuckle became a full blown laughter as he heard the little pink filly's explanation. He laughed more and more till he was crying tears as he laughed. Eventually he- "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" oh, no, still going. Well, he eventually- "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"...eventually- "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" it wasn't that funny!!

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....Eventually he stopped laughing and wiped away the tears with his talons. He looked to the little filly with an amused face which quickly turned into one of anger.

"You really think because my little sister and her friends here don't have their cutie marks makes them lesser than you? If anything it makes them better!"

The two fillies gasped and yelled in pure shock, "What?!" at the griffon for such a claim he so boldly made.

He smirked at them knowing he just blew their minds since no many ponies take this little secret seriously. "So they don't have their cutie marks, big whoop! I just means they're open to a number of possibilities to discover their talents, they can be a royal advisor to the princesses, perhaps new captains of the royal guards, a singer like Sapphire Shores! Famous fliers like the Wonderbolts! Even the next pony engineer that easily out smarts those who made the Pony Express!" he said every word with a confident smirk as he heard little squees come from each of the fillies on his back and head whenever he mentioned something they'd really like to grow up to be or he just gave them new ideas for them to try out.

Diamond tried to think of a smart aleck remark but she easily came up short as she shot out nothing but little syllables of other words.

"Wel-...we uh- no- how can you- ughaaaaaaaaa!" she groaned in frustration as she continued to shoot out these responses. She turned her head with a 'harumph!' and walked away.

"C'mon Silver Spoon! We're leaving these losers!"

Silver Spoon continued to stare at the griffon having her mind racing at the information. He was right and she knew it! But her father would hate her if she broke off her "friendship" with Diamond Tiara. She had no choice but to stick by her side no matter what she did, even if she had to lose the opportunity of new friends.

"Now Silver Spoon!"

That snapped her back to reality as she ran off after her friend quickly shaking off the griffon's words from her mind as she caught up to her "friend" in order to keep up the little act.

There was silence for a few seconds before Scootaloo jumped off of his back "That...was...AWESOME!" she cheered as she watch the two bullies leave. "You totally told them off!"

"Yea! Nopony's ever stole up for us like that before!" Sweetie Belle said as she noticed his wing extend downward and she slid down it like a slide.

"Wheeeeeeeeeeee!" she cheered as she slid down his wing and he flicked it up making her fly up a bit before she landed on her hooves and headed back over to Scootaloo with a big smile on her face.

Applebloom got off as well and got back to her friends the very second the school bell rang out signaling recess was over for the day. Sad sighs and "awwwwwwws" were heard from the colts and fillies all around as they all headed back inside to continue studying.

"Well looks like that's your girls’ cue to head on back inside. Now go on! Before you're late!" he said as he nudged them forward with his claws as they got the message and ran inside.

Applebloom came back very quickly and hugged his leg again with a big smile before she ran off back inside.

Flame smiled at her as she ran back to class and gave a light chuckle as he spread his wings and instantly shot himself upward and flew off into the sky.

He landed on top of a cloud and laid down as he looked down to Ponyville. He'd already been here about 2-4 days but it already felt better than two years in one of the other regions. He closed his eyes slowly wanting to catch a nap on the nice soft fluffy cloud.

Before he could though he heard the sound of flapping wings, not pegasi or griffon wings. They weren't even birds’ wings to begin with, they were fast, very rapid like...insect wings.

He instantly looked to his left where he heard the sound coming from and saw a black robe land on the cloud. A black hoof with holes all through it took off the hood and revealed itself to be a changeling.

This changeling was different though, she had regular pony like eyes. The usual green was there though it was transparent showing a set of regular pony like eyes. This one also had a feather in one of the spikes on its head as well as it also showed eyelashes, identifying that this was a female changeling.

Flame looked startled at first but soon he began to smile as he jumped over and landed next to her on the bigger cloud she was on.

"Well well look who I see here, Raven, I didn't think I'd see you here in Equestria after what happened with the Royal Wedding." he said with a smirk.

"Ha ha, well unlike the rest of the hive I'm not afraid of the ponies!" she said with a confident smirk.

"Thaaaaaaaaat and you're banished from the hive as well."

She pouted at him and bonked his head as he laughed a bit. He rubbed his head as she kept up her adorable pout. He couldn't help but give her a hug and hold her close as she squirmed a bit.

"You're lucky this isn't how I take your love you crazy griffon." she said as she hugged him back and had a big smile on her face once she closed her eyes.

Flame patted her head again and removed her robe. He didn't like I when she his herself from others. He wanted her to just be her and they might love her like he does. She blushes once he did and covered herself with her hooves as Flame gave her the deadpan expression of "seriously?" as she removed her hooves.

"Raven you just- wait wait, how did you find me anyway? Last time I saw you was when we were with the Dragons."

“I tracked you down duh! I mean it’s like you said, ‘your friends are always in your heart’.”

“Yes that’s true, but why come to me is the real question.”

She shuffled her hoof into the cloud as she looked around.

Flame raised his eyebrow, "Weeeeeeeeeeell?"

"I uh...I um...." she said as she continued to shuffle her hoof in the cloud and looked away from him feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Well? I'm waiting Raven."

"I...need a place to stay ok?! My hut in the outskirts of Dodge got burned down." she yelled at him as she laid back on the cloud with her hooves crossed.

Flame looked at her in quite a bit of shock as he laid next to her and looked at her, "How the hell did your hut burn down? You're like...super careful about what you do there."

She looked to Flame then looked away with another pout, not an adorable one, only a sigh and a sniffle. She looked back to Flame and was sighed knowing she couldn't lie to him, she had tried before when they first met so she decided to give in before he started questioning her.

"Well...there's a slight teeny tiny near impossible, hypothetically I-"

"You lit a match and forgot to completely douse it didn't you?"

She glared daggers at the griffon but then hung her head in defeat with a sigh as well. She had her eyes move up only as she nodded to him.

Flame sighed as well as he rubbed her head, "Raven...how did this happen?"

Raven sighed and laid back on the cloud with the griffon now. "Well...I was cold, winter was coming in and with Dodge being a dessert like town it gets really really cold there at night, I tried to light a fire but I was so scared I let the match burn me and I threw it...the next thing I know I'm outside watching my hut burn down."

Flame held his friend close for comfort as she needed it. She snuggled against his feathers needing the warm hug from the kind Griffon.

"So...when was this?"

".....A year ago." she said to him as she kept in his feathers.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?! You know you can reach me!"

"I didn't want to depend you! Nor did I want to mooch!"

"Hey hey! Remember that feather on your head? Do you remember why I gave it to you? Do you?"

She felt the feather with her hoof as she remembered the promise he made to her. He had promise to always be by her side, he would be her guardian, her protector, if she was ever in danger she could call to him for assistance.

History Lesson #2. For Griffons, giving a feather from the LEFT wing is a way of marking your mate, to say that you're going to marry this male or female. A proposal of marriage really, simple as that. But! A feather from the RIGHT wing is a symbol of loyalty, a way to say that you will die for this one. You have pledged yourself to be their guardian till your very death.

Raven smiled a bit with tears in her eyes and gave him a tight hug. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" she continued to exclaim with pure joy.

Flame hugged her back tightly with his own smile as he looked down to her. "Now then, how about we something? You gotta be starving."

"Of course! Love isn't the only thing we Changeling's need to survive y'know, it's just natural that we take it." she said with a smug smirk. She then breathed in then breathed out.

A green flame spread over her body as she began to change form in order not to scare the ponies below. Once the flame was clear she now had a pegasus pony body. She had dark blue fur along with a jet black mane and tail. Her tail was done in a luscious way, her mane done into two pigtails with one on each side as they were a few inches away from her hoofs. Her wings were the typical pegasus size as he eyes were now green without the transparent changeling green over it. Her false cutie mark, a red cartoon styled heart with the bird raven styled wings on the side of the hearts as they closed around the heart.

Flame saw her new body and chuckled a bit at her disguise. "This old one? The one you had when I met you?"

She gave him a little giggle as she moved the feather to her new right ear having it right behind it. "Yea yea, it's the only believable one I have AND it attracts a lot of attention from potential dates."

"You mean meals?" he said with a snicker.

"Watch it." she said with a glare shot right to him.

He chuckles at her and jumped off the cloud and flew down to Ponyville with her behind him. Once they landed they headed off to the bakery known as "Sugarcube Corner" to grab a bit to eat. Raven walked in with him as she looked around at the many possible meals, but she knew she had to repress these urges and she knew how to as they walked up to the front counter.

A blue mare with a pink cupcake frosting styled mane was behind the counter as she had her rump in the air as she was putting stuff into the display glass behind the counter.

Raven was giving a look to the plot in the air. She gave a lick of her lips as she saw it, it was perfectly round and looked just ready for a good lick. Flame saw her changeling tongue like her lips as he pulled her ear.

"Noooooooo." was all she said as she took the pain from it and got her ear back. She rubbed it with her hoof as she shot another glare to the griffon.

Mrs. Cake looked up finally as she switched to be giving them a smile.

"Hello dearies, what can I get you two?"

"I'll have one of your chocolate and banana muffins please."

"Regular size of small?"

"Regular please."

She took down the order then looked to Raven.

"I'll have a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting please."

"Regular or small size?"

"I'll have one the size of your delicious plot.~" she thought to herself as she eyed the mare up and down imaging in on her back with her legs spread open, as she begged for her tongue to penetrate her wet-

"She'll have regular as well."

"Okay, that'll be...8 bits in total." she said with a smile as she ripped the order off of the notepad.

Flame paid her the bits as she then took them and entered them into the register and headed off into the kitchen with the order. Once Flame and Raven found their seats he gave her head a nice hard bonk.

"Ooooooooow!" she said as she rubbed her head and glared at the abusive griffon. "What was that for?!"

"For eye banging that mare, she's married and possibly not into females." he said as he gave her a slight glare for what she just did.

"Well excuuuuse me for thinking she was hot." she said with an irritated tone and roll of her eyes as she slumped a bit in her seat with her chin on the table.

Soon the familiar pink party made jumped into the scene out of nowhere and landed right next to their table with her ever so cheerful giggle. This scared the living crap out of Raven making her sit right up in her seat instantly. Whereas Flame just smiled at his new pink friend and her ninja skills.

"Flamey! I got your choco-banana muffin riiiiiight here!" she said as she put the plate on the table with the muffin on it of course. "Aaaaaaaand for your friend here, here's her cupcake!" as she placed the cupcake on the table she kept up her smile and giggling as she did.

"Thank you Pinkie Pie."

"You're welcome Flamey!" she gave him a tight hug as he returned it himself before she hopped away back into the kitchen.

As Flame started to eat his muffin with a happy smile, Raven just continued to look to where the pink made was once standing with a lol of shock and confusion.

Flame looked at her as he had some muffin in his beak, "What?" he asked her.

"Who and WHAT was that?!"

"Oh, that was Pinkie Pie, a new friend of mine here in Ponyville."

"But she-...she appeared out of nowhere! I mean she- look she just jumped out of that flower pot in the corner!"

He turned his head and saw her climb out and shake the pedals off herself as she delivered the muffin to a pink unicorn. He simply shrugged at the scene and kept eating. Raven just shook her head as she licked the frosting off of her cupcake first before she dove into it. They both continued to eat their delicious pastries until the wrapping was left and they threw it away and returned their plates rather than have Pinkie or the Cakes do more work.

As they exited Sugarcube Corner they turned to notice little Kai running again as he jumped onto Flame’s back with an angry Applejack catching up to him and did a harsh stop as she dug into the ground a bit picking it up before stopping only a few inches from her adoptive brother.

“Why that little varmint! He’s lucky he’s on you and you have a guest with you!” she then looked again and also played what she said again in her head. “Who’s this?”

Raven got a little nervous as she didn’t have a pony like name and ‘Raven’ was too odd to be a pony name even. She started to shake a bit and wanted to say something but couldn’t as Flame answered for her.

“Applejack this is a friend of mine I met in Dodge, this is Black Heart, she prefers to be called Raven though, Raven this is Applejack my adoptive little sister.” he said with a confident smile as he shot a wink to Raven.

Raven was worried though she wouldn’t believe it, she saw the mare approach her and look her up and down with a serious look, normally she liked such a thing but this time she was shaking a bit and felt very uncomfortable. Applejack continued to stare at the new pegasus before she took her hoof into her own and shook it with all her strength making Raven shake up and down.

“Well pleased to meet’cha! Any friend of my brother is a friend of mine as well!” Applejack said with an honest smile as she let go of her hoof.

Her hoof kept shaking up and down as she lost control of it before Flame grabbed it and stopped it from shaking anymore as she rubbed it a bit in pain. “Ooooooooow…” she quietly said to herself as she kept rubbing her hoof.

“You’ve gotta stop hurting ponies AJ.”

“It ain’t ever on purpose!”

“And you chasing Kai? Still? Come one AJ its basic animal instinct for what he did and they both enjoyed it and that’s a fact here!”

Applejack scrunched up her lips with a glare but eventually sighed knowing he was right. “Don’t mean I forgive’em, I will leave him be ah guess.”

“Thanks sis.” He smiled at her happily as she smiled back and gave him a quick hug.

“Well, ah better get back to the farm for some apple bucking before Celestia’s sun sets.”

Flame started to think back to the days when he helped them out, he also thought back to where he finally had a mother like figure, Granny Smith Apple. He smiled as he began to remember the kind old mare and all she ever did for him to make him feel a part of the Apple family. As he saw AJ walking back he ran in front of her and stopped.

“Hey! Think I can come back for a visit to the old place?” he asked with a pleading smile.

AJ laughed a bit and patted his head, “Ya’ll don’t have to ask Flame, yer an Apple, you’re always allowed there.” She said with a tip of her Stetson and continued on.

Flame flew back over to Raven and let Kai get on her back as he whispered in her ear, “Take Kai back to my house, I’m gonna go see the old family.”

She nodded to him but before she took off she hit his head with her hoof as his eyes rolled around in his head for a bit. “Where exactly do you live feather head?” she asked with a deadpan expression. Flame rubbed his head and pinched her ears tightly for hitting his head. “I live on the other side of Ponyville, look for the Carousel themed building, I’m the house next door.” he then let go of her ears as she hovered off the ground and rubbed her ears with Kai hanging onto her now.

“Okay I’ll get him there, but now you owe me buddy boy.”

“Yea yea just go, I really wanna see the farm again.”

She saluted but sighed as well as she flew off to the house as Flame flew into the opposite direction to the farm. As he flew closer he smiled to himself at the very memory of walking in and being greeted with the smell of Granny Smith’s famous Apple Pie after a hard day’s work. Before he could even reach there though he let his memories distract him as he crashed into a certain cyan pegasus and he came down hard hitting his head hard on a tree shaped house.

“I’m just not having…any luck today with my wings…and the damn air…!” he yelled before everything went black on him.

Twilight came outside and instantly saw Rainbow on the ground rubbing her head with her eyes spinning around like a scooter wheel. “Rainbow Dash! What have I told you about doing tricks near my library?!” she said as she levitated the pegasus into the air.

Rainbow shook her head a bit so her eyes would stop spinning and soon regained her vision and glared at the lavender alicorn. “It wasn’t me Twilight! Something hit me during my trick and THAT hit your house!” she said as she pointed with her hoof to the unidentified lump.

Twilight looked over and trotted over to the unconscious griffon with Rainbow still in her magic. She let out a gasp as she saw the griffon.

“Flame! Oh are you ok?!” she said as she checked his head for any dents, cracks, cuts and such. Rainbow looked as her eyes grew large but her iris’s shrank to that of pinholes at the sight.

All she could do was blush in embarrassment as she rubbed the back of her head with her hoof with a nervous little chuckle escaping her lips as she looked away a bit her eyes kept on the griffon.

“Hehehe…oops..?”

Author's Note

In his first injury, does ANYONE here know where those lines he says when Cherillee picks him up came from?

If you do, you're a 90's kid!