“I’m going to miss you, you know that right”.

“Yes I know and I’m going to miss you too”

“Can you please stop, you are starting to get me sappy as well”

“Ha” Pyra laughs, “after all this time you can’t expect me to be a little emotional about this Colgate”

“Yes I know” Colgate said, “how was it that you called her, your eternal rival? I can still remember where your rivalry with Vinyl started,” Colgate said with a smile.

“Yeh I remember too, because I kicked her flank,” Vinyl laughed, earning an annoyed look from Pyra.

“I’m just kidding Pyra,” Vinyl mocked.

“yes I know” Pyra said with a sigh. “If I remember correct it’s 26 wins for you Vinyl and 23 for me.”

“Sorry Pyra but that’s not true, I have 27 wins. I just defeated you with arm wrestling remember.” Vinyl said with a smug.

“Honestly I have no idea how you girls keep doing it, you have challenged each other like crazy and became rivals in the process and still you are able to maintain a friendship as strong as it is,” Colgate said.

“Well you start with not holding a grudge if you lose”, Pyra said with a smile.

The girls talked for another hour reliving past moments the funny, the sad and the meaningful moments. But after that hour Pyra had to take her leave. Colgate already started to collect Vinyl’s items and clothes so they could start packing.

Pyra gave Vinyl a hug with her arms around her neck, after what happened with Colgate, she knew that it’s not very wise to touch her back.

When Pyra and Vinyl were training a few magic spells in the forest outside of Manehatten a year ago, a little accident happened and vinyl’s shirt was ripped beyond repair. Pyra stood up and saw Vinyl’s back and all the scars that were on it. After getting over the shock of what had happened and what she just had seen, she decided to ask about it.

Vinyl decided to talk about her past at the orphanage and how she ended up as an Apple. After she was done, Pyra offered to heal her scars but Vinyl declined her offer mumbling something about remembering. After teleporting herself and Vinyl back to the campus gates, not wanting to let Vinyl walk shirtless through town, she gave her shirt to Vinyl to cover up the scars. Before they separated, Vinyl ask Pyra to not tell anyone and to “not treat her different than before.” Pyra replied with a smile and said she wasn’t planning too and teleported away.

During the hug Pyra whispered in her ear, “you better keep up with your training , my rival or else you make things too easy for me next time we meet”.

Vinyl smiled replying in a whisper, "you don’t have to worry about that, you remember my sister Applejack? She will make sure I keep my game up."

"What was it you called her again?" Pyra replied, "The monster of Ponyville?" Both sharing a laugh. "When “I get my degree next year I’ll come visit you in Ponyville, I can’t to wait to meet this monster”

After the hug, Pyra made her way to the door while Vinyl started to pack, she opened the door and turned around.

“Vinyl not that you need it but good luck with your gig at the royal wedding” Pyra said. “And before I forget, sent me a picture of AJ in a dress, after all you told me that has to be quite a sight. Perhaps even a hilarious sight”. Earning a laugh from Colgate and Vinyl.

"Colgate I’ll see you tonight," Pyra said giving a wink, making Colgate blush instantly, and closing the door behind her. She could hear Vinyl laughing through the door.

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Walking through the hallway Pyra was thinking about the last three years she spent with Colgate and Vinyl. Smiling all the way, it was a good time she thought to herself.

BUT let me introduce myself first.

My name is Pyra Blaze, I’m an Titanian and I’m 21 years old, my friends call me a hothead for more reasons than one, I can appreciate a joke but if you make it personal or lie I will burn your ass or worse. I have orange/yellow hair in a braided tail and I have green eyes. And my body is something I’m quite proud off if I may say so myself. I lived my entire life in Manehatten with my parents and brother.

I’m the oldest of two children, my brother is six years younger than me. His name is Blitz Blaze, he’s and Eponian and a fast one, even when he was a child. His dream is to win gold at the Equestria games and to be the fastest on land and I’m going to make sure he succeeds in that.

You might wonder how it’s possible that I have an little Eponian brother, and ask yourself the question am I adopted, is he adopted. The answer to both is no. you see, my father is en Eponian and my mother was a Titanian. My father’s name is James blaze and he is a private detective. My father, James has a clean eye for details and does research as the best. He solved all the mysteries/cases he was hired for. On a regular base he got an contract from the guards to help them find a criminals. I got that from him, I use it to research and make or update my spells. My mother’s name is Arianna Blaze, she was a smart woman who was the CEO and major shareholder of the Biggest fashion and glamour magazine of Equestria called Equestria Fassion Time.

When I was nine years (almost ten), my father got hired to gather evidence against a local crime lord. Dad had taken the case without a doubt and started directly with the things he did the best.

When the crime lord found out about my father who was breathing in his neck, he sent his henchmen to intercept my dad and “persuade” him to drop the case. When my father refused to cooperate with the thugs, the crime lord ordered an attack on the him. He was beaten-up and had to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks. But even after all he has been trough he wouldn’t give up on the case and he wanted to make sure that, that crime lord got what he deserved.

The crime lord wasn’t a good man, far from it but he wasn’t a murderer. My father’s perseverance was getting on his nerves and so he ordered two trusty henchman to scare the detective into submission. The thugs names were Mugshot Mole and Diderick Jones, he gave them a picture. On the picture was a woman with fire red hair and a little girl with orange and yellow hair, both with emerald green eyes. They were to subdue the woman and take the child as leverage.

The next morning, after dropping Blitz off at the kindergarden, my mother Arianna was walking with me to my elementary school, it was the last schoolday before summer vacation and I was full of energy and excitement. Well my mother was trying to hold me, her over energetic child, in check, I eventually broke loose from her grip and started to dancewalk on the sidewalk. My mother was smiling well trying to catch up. Even though there weren’t many people or much traffic, she still didn’t like it.

When I walked passed an alley, I got grabbed and pulled in. My mother seeing this happen ran after me into the alley. She saw two man, a Eponian and a Jupitarian. The Jupitarian was holding me in a tight grip and was about to fly away, when she used her magic to grab his wing and pull him back to the ground. When the Jupitarian slammed back into the ground he sprained his wing in the process, but he was still holding me. I was shaking and resisting but I couldn’t get free. The Eponian noticed the distraction and used it to pull my mother into the alley and threw her face first against the wall. When he came closer she swung around with stretched arms and hit him right in the eye with her nails, blinding him. The man pulled her from the wall and was looking at her with his good eye. In a uncontrollable rage he started to punch into her, all the while I was watching and screaming him to stop. Then he threw her on the floor and started to kick her. His partner was telling him to stop because they had me and they needed to go, but he didn’t listen. I was still screaming to him that he needed to stop, then something happened, inside me something snapped and everything went black.

When I came to, I looked in the eyes of a guard who was giving me a kind smile. I looked around to see the unconscious bodies of the two thugs with al kind of burn wounds on their body. Then I saw that paramedics were with my mother. I tried to crawl towards them but the moment I put my hands on the ground, I felt a sting of pain raging through my body. I looked at my hand to see that my hands also had burn wounds but they were far less serious than the one the thugs had.

I heard witnesses talking to the guard that they heard screaming. When they went to look they saw the little girl used some kind of fire magic on her hand while her eyes where glowing white. She attacked the Eponians face with somekind of fireball well he was distracted. She broke lose by burning the one who was holding her and jumped straight for the other one. Then the guard who heard the commotion sped to aid and knocked out the two thugs who were distracted by the little girl.

My mother was in a coma and was rushed to the hospital. The healers and paramedics tried everything they could but it was to no avail. That night my mother’s body had succumb to her wounds and she died 12 hours after trying to protect her me. I was crying in my father’s arms while we were in the waiting room. I vowed that I would get stronger so things like this wouldn’t happen to me or my family again, and I vowed that I would avenge my mother if the opportunity ever presented itself. Mugshot Mole would feel my heat.

With the confessions of the two thugs and the case my father had made, the guards had enough to arrest the crime lord and throw him in jail for life. The two thugs got both 50 years in jail with no chance for early parole.

My dad being a single father now, took some time off to take care of his family. He let me take fight classes so I could learn how to defend myself, but I wanted to do it so I could protect my family. I appeared to be really good at it and I got the black belt at the age of 14. At the age of 15 I learned how to use my fire spells and fighting techniques in combination.

The years without my mother were hard, but my father managed to do it with some help off me of course. I made sure Blitz made his homework and I brought him to school so my father could keep working. When I turned 16 my father gave me a necklace with a locket. Inside the locket was a picture of me with my mother. The picture was taken a month before the accident. It’s my most valued possession.

When I was 18 I got accepted into the Princess Celestia's Royal University of Manehatten. I can remember that day like it was yesterday for more reasons than one.

It all started when I came home after school….

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“DAD are you home?” Pyra yelled.

“Yes I’m home and you don’t have to yell young lady, I’m right here” James said.

“Hehe sorry about that, but is it here? Has it arrived? why hasn’t it arrived yet?” Pyra said faster then she meant to do.

“Relax honey, it hasn’t arrived yet, but did you remember to pick up your brother from elementary school. Seeing that he’s not here, I guess that’s a no.”

“Crap, I’m sorry I have been busy with researching a few spells at the library and I forgot the time I’ll be right back." After she said that she vanished in an orange flash.

"That girl still amazes me after all this time,” James said with proud smile. He went to the dining table grabbed the newspaper from the table, sat down and started to read it. After he read the headlines he started to frown.

After ten minutes the living room was lighten up with an new orange flash.

“Okay you go do your homework then we go train on your time, if you want to win gold you have to be faster,” Pyra said against her little brother.

“AWWW do I have to, can’t we go train now and not do homework, it’s not like I need it if I’m becoming an athlete” Blitz said with puppy eyes.

“You know those don’t work on me and no homework NOW, our parents want us to succeed in life and to help with that you need a good degree”. Pyra said while pointing to Blitz’s room, while holding her locket with her other hand.

“Fiiiinnne, but could you make me some food please?” Blitz said.

“Sure I’ll come bring it in a few minutes. With that Blitz went to his room and Pyra went to the kitchen.

“Hey honey, I see you’re back,” James said in a neutral tone.

“Ow hey dad, yeh I just got back, I’m making a snack for Blitz do you want some to?”

“No thanks, honey I want you to sit down there is something I need you to see.” James said.

“Ow ow ow did it arrive?” Pyra said full with enthusiasm.

“No honey it did not, there is something you need to see” James said while giving the newspaper to his daughter.

“What’s the matter and why are you so serious all off the sudden” Pyra said while taking the newspaper from her father and started reading the headline. Her eyes went wide and she started to shake.

MUGSHOT MOLE ESCAPED FROM PRISON

On the night of 6 and 7 May, was a riot at the Prison of the Royal Sisters, the riot started at midnight and lasted for only 20 minutes. But in those 20 minutes a lot happened. It started with a fight between two prisoners Diderick Jones and Heel Stone. When the guards opened the gates to intervene they turned against the guard and overpowered them in a surprise attack. The two prisoners then made their way to the control centrum of the prison and opened the cell doors.

A fight between the guards and the prisoners followed. After 15 minutes the guard had the situation under control. The prison has a total damage of 100.000 gold bits. No guards were killed 10 guards were seriously injured, but are out of any life threatening danger, one prisoner was less fortunate, the criminal Diderick Jones was stabbed multiple times and died on the spot. The guard think it was a fellow prisoner who had a grudge against Jones.

When the riot was under control the guards did a headcount and came to the discovery that Mugshot Mole was nowhere to be found. He had used the chaos from the riot to escape.

Mugshot Mole A.K.A. One eye Mugshot was arrested for the murder on Arianna Blaze, the CEO of the Magazine Equestria Fassion Time. The whereabouts of Mugshot Mole are currently unknown. If you see this criminal, alert the guards and stay away from him. This man is extremely dangerous and will not doubt to harm those who get in his way.

Below the news message was a picture of Mugshot. A tall man with a robust upper body with a nose too big for his face, an eyepatch on his left eye and he had a fat moustache. On his left cheek was a scar that indicated where he was hit by the fireball.

It disgusted Pyra. She grabbed her locket and looked at her father.

“Did they hire you to catch him?” she asked her father.

He looked away from Pyra, she could see a tear in his eye, “No.”

“WHAT, WHY NOT?!” Pyra yelled.

“Calm down Pyra,” who was shaking again.

“I got a message from the guards and they told me that they couldn’t hire me because it was to personal,” James said quietly.

“To personal, TO PERSONAL!! Have they lost their mind!?" Pyra yelled while her hands started to light up.

"THIS MAN, THIS MAN KILLED MY MOTHER AND THEY WON´T ALLOW YOU TO LOOK FOR HIM.” Her eyes started to glow and her hand lit up burning the newspaper in her hands.

“I wi… I will find him and when I do. I.. I… “ she couldn´t go further than that because her father had her in a tight hug, calming her down. She started hugging him back while she cried.

“I just miss her so much dad,” Pyra said while crying in his shoulder.

“I know honey I miss her too, But never forget she is always with us in our heart and our memory,” James said well stroking his daughters head.

Blitz who heard his sister yell, went to look what was happening and was standing outside the kitchen. He went in trying to calm his sister down by joining the hug. After standing there for five minutes Pyra finally calmed down.

"Let’s… Let’s get you to training," Pyra said against her little brother.

“But what about my homework?” Blitz asked.

“We’ll do that tonight together,” Pyra said with a smile.

"Let’s have some quality time together, I need to be with my family now, and I can use the training myself to get my mind of this… pile of ash." Pyra said while looking down at the burned newspapers.

“That reminds me Pyra, you got a letter,” Blitz said.

“When did that happen?” Pyra asked.

“Well when you were yelling it came in the mailbox. But forget about that just open it.”

Pyra took the letter and inspected it. On the letter was an official seal of the Princess Celestia's Royal University of Manehatten. She started to smile.

“This is it,” she said while opening the letter.

Dear Pyra Blaze,

We the managing board of the Princess Celestia's Royal University of Manehatten are proud and glad to inform you that, because of your excellent grades and your work for your family, you are accepted to begin your study for healing and combat magic.

Your first schoolday will be on Friday august 26th, you will get an introduction on that day and you will get your schedule for the following eight weeks. The next Monday will be your first official day of your classes.
Keep up the good work and make us proud.

Signed,

Penn Lite,

Principle of the Princess Celestia's Royal University of Manehatten

The only thing Pyra could do was smiling, while being hugged to death by her father who was telling her how proud he was. She took her locker in her hand and thought about her mother.

Author's Note

Well that ends the first chapter.

I wanted to show that after all what has happend, Pyra and her family are very close and support each other all the way.
If i made a grammer mistake please let me know, so i can fix it.
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