The Flame to an Icy Heart

The Past of Flamespitter

In the town of Torontrot there lived a family of four Earth ponies. They were Autumn Night (mother), Wildfire (father), Flamespitter a yellow colored earth pony with fire colored mane and tail, and Grassy Knoll a light green colored earth pony with green hair. At the time, Flamespitter was 2 years old and Grassy Knoll was about a month old. It was the night of their ten year anniversary of being married, they wanted some alone time so they got a babysitter to look after the kids while they were out. Wildfire had made reservations at a five star restaurant, but unfortunately this would also be the night of their death. For as they were leaving the restaurant and driving home, a drunk driver was driving in the wrong lane too fast to stop and crashed into the vehicle Wildfire and Autumn Night were in at the time. Which caused an explosion that killed those in both of the cars. That night as all emergency vehicles where cleaning up the wreckage a note with the babysitter’s name and address was found in the wallet of Wildfire and one of the police officers took the reasonability with a heavy heart to inform the sitter of that night’s tragedy.

At the babysitter’s house came three knocks at the door. The babysitter after putting Flamespitter and Grassy Knoll to sleep hears the knocking at the door and answers it.

The officer (a blue Pegasus with a blonde mane and tail) looking at the sitter (a white unicorn with a pink mane and tail) “Ma’am may I come inside? I have some sad news to deliver and I think it would be easy if we were both sitting down when I give the news.”

The sitter looking at the officer nods with a look of worry “Just keep it down, I just put the children to bed.” She said to the officer.

As the officer is lead to the dining room table and sits across from the sitter “It is with a heavy heart that I have to report the death of Wildfire and we presume to be his wife.”

The officer sighs trying to keep strong for the sitter who looked to be on the verge of tears. The Officer takes a deep breath “There was an explosion caused by a drunk driver driving on the wrong side of the road going at an extremely fast speed.”

The officer watched as the sitter had put her head into her arms and started crying. “It is also with a heavy heart that I also have to inform you the children you are watching will be have to go into the foster care system, due to the issue of that they were the only family for them that were alive.”

The officer sighs biting back tears himself “The children will be going under the foster care system tomorrow. If you have anything to say to them please do so tonight.” As the officer finished a single tear runs down his right cheek knowing the life the children are going to have is not an easy one.

The sitter picking her head after what felt like an hour and nods at what the officer is saying before he leaves and just mutters “I just can’t believe they are gone.”

The officer gets up and walks to the door “Please try to have a good rest of the night Ma’am.” At that he extends his wings and flies back to the HQ letting the tears he was holding in out along the way.

The sitter gets up herself and checks on the children giving each a bit of wet kiss on each of their forehead before leaving the room and going to hers crying herself to sleep that night.

The next day, two Earth Ponies from the foster care system came to the house of the sitter knocking of the door requesting the two fillies. The sitter only nodded and relinquished the two fillies to them. The two fillies were crying as they were handed over to people they didn’t know. The two earth ponies were able to calm them after what seemed like hours. The two Earth Ponies looked as the sitter and thanked her for her cooperation as the sitter closed the door and went to bed again crying herself to sleep again.

The two workers would then split Flamespitter from his sister Grassy Knoll when they arrived at the first orphanage that Flame would be in for a majority of his life. At the orphanage he would get pushed by others so he would hide from others and play with toys he would be able to find. As he lived in the orphanage he would find things to scare off the bullies so they would leave him alone. At the age of six, he would be adopted to many families that would adopted children just for the money from it. He would move from family to family until the age of ten but unfortunately Flame was starting to turn into a punk, he'd always try to find a way to steal, write things on walls and vandalize a property, but also at the age of ten he would be adopted by the first real decent family he had ever met.

This family wasn’t like the others because when they brought Flamespitter home he would be welcomed by the family’s other siblings (two brothers and one sister). While at this family they taught Flame to behave better and they also offered Flame books to read which he especially took interest in ones on science because through them Flame learned better ways of making explosives, detonations, etc. Which is why his favorite book was the Anarchist’s Cookbook. Unfortunately the happiness he would with this family would end four years later due to the death of the mother. The father tried his best to keep all the children together, so Flamespitter said his good byes to the family and soon lived on the streets at the age of 14.

It was on the streets that Flamespitter would meet a pony named “Wolf” even though his real name was Longshot. Their meeting could’ve been better, but Wolf saved Flamespittrer from a couple of thugs.

“Just give us your money as well as any valuables ya got and you may go out with a few brusies.” A big bulky Earth pony said as him and his partner closed in on Flamespitter.

“Ya, all we want is your money and anything of value your hiding.” A smaller and agile Pegasus said stand next to his partner.

Flame smirked and casually put his hands into his pocket grabbing a match and a homemade smoke bomb “All right. No need to say the same thing twice just give me a couple of minutes to find my wallet.” He light the smoke bomb and chucked it at the two hitting the big one square in the forehead and the smoke started pouring out of the bomb.

“Ow, that hurt.” The big one said rubbing his head and coughing.

“Aaaaaah, Get him we’ll make him pay for this.” The little one screamed at the big one.

Flame not wasting time started running further down the alley from the two as the smoke came out. As Flame took a right he ran right into a grey unicorn called Wolf.

“Oof, hey wa…” Flame said when he saw who he ran into “Ah shit.”
The two goons caught up to Flame “There’s the bastard.” The little yelled. As they got closer they started to go pale and both in unison said “Fuck.”

Wolf smirked and looked at the two goons, “You two trying to extort one of my people? Because if you are then you’re extorting me as well”

The two goons looked at each other and bolted when Wolf said that both yelling “We didn’t know he was with you!”

Wolf then turned his attention towards Flamespitter “So handy with explosives eh?”

Flamespitter shivering in place just nods.

Wolf notices this and adopts a friendlier look. “Hey, you're okay now they aren’t going to hurt you any longer. Now why are you out here and not inside with your folks?” Wolf said to Flame as he kneeled down to be on Flame’s level.

Flame starts to become a little calmer now “I don’t have a family to go to.” He said while looking at his feet.

Wolf looks a bit sad at hearing the news “I won’t ask what happened or how long you haven’t had a family, but if you want, you're welcomed to come with me.” Wolf said to Flame trying to cheer him up.
Flamespittter looked at Wolf and nodded at the offer.

Wolf smiled and put an arm around Flame’s shoulder as he guided him to his place which he would live with him for three years at which they would find other hoodlums. Buzz an orange male unicorn who was crazy yet brilliant at the same time, next was Trail Blaze, a bright red female Pegasus who was lean, fast, and agile, third was Tack, a blue male earth pony who was tall and older, and finally was Beat, a brown earth pony who was strong and a bit bulky who could lay a beatdown on anyone who messed with her music. It was when they were together that called themselves The Devas. Flamespitter involved himself further with the group as they vandalized, stole what they could to survive, or whatever they thought was fine at the time.

Unfortunately, they eventually tipped off a high level gang and they started coming after The Devas. The first to go was Tack, he was killed by the other gang while The Devas maintained what ground they had. Flamespitter crafted an abundant of explosives to try and distract the other gang, but unfortunately they didn’t work. Everyone except Buzz and Flamespitter was killed by the other gang, but soon afterwards the police showed up and put into custody what gang members weren’t put down by the police. After the issue with the gang Flamespitter just perfected his graffiti as well as his art of bomb making. Flamespitter then started firework shows for his fallen friends. It was at one of his shows that he was approached by the head of a firework show company and asked if he would be interested in doing firework shows for money. Flamespitter accepted the job offer and worked for the company.

When Flamespitter turned 18 the contents of his parents will came to him. Flamespitter would inherit the house and some money to live with. So now Flamespitter had a home, a little money, and a job which he worked as pyro technician for two years. In those two years Flamespitter had asked out a female charcoal colored pegasus named Ember. Things were going smoothly until Flamespitter went to Buzz, who now was doing alchemy now, and asked to be something different. Buzz owing Flamespitter his life obliged with a few tests that turned Flamespitter into that of a dragonoid. When Flamespitter’s girlfriend found out about this she instantly dumped him for what he looked now. Flamespitter’s heart was broken from that day forward, he had lost the first thing he had loved along with everything else that had happened to him in his past. Flamespitter started going solo from that day and closed his heart from everyone.

Then one winter night Flamespitter’s life would change. Flamespitter was in his house drinking some chai tea to help him get to sleep. It had almost become a ritual for him to drink some tea before bed. It was then he heard the bellowing.

“T-T-THANK THEEEEE GODS FOOOOR GOOOD’OL JAACK!” someone bellowed outside of his house.

Flame looked outside of window and saw the snow. “The drunken idiot needs to get inside before this gets worse.” Flame said as he was cleaning up everything he has used to make the tea.

The drunk then slipped on some ice and with a thud landed on his back then started sobbing “W-w-what I’m doooing to meee self” they slurred.

Flamespitter hearing this sighed and turned the porch light on and poked his head out of the door and saw the batpony on the ground sobbing. Flamespitter started walking and asked “Hey, everything alright?” as he was walking his suspensions were correct as he caught a whiff of alcohol on the batpony.

The batpony looked at Flamespitter “Oooh yaaah everything is just peachy just decided to sleep here fort the night OF COURSE I’M NOT ALRIGHT!” he bellowed at Flamespitter. Then the batpony started laughing “This has been my worst night yet here I am drinking to forget the past and I slip and fall on my ass and lose two bottles of good’ol Jack.”

Flamespitter hold out a hand to help the batpony up from the snow.

The batpony says “Thanks” Before taking the hand. “The name is Icewing.”

“Flamespitter” he replied back to Icewing as he helped him inside the house. “So you going to tell me what you were doing out in the cold winter night?” Flamespitter asked as he put Icewing in a chair in the kitchen.

“I was drinking to forget…the past.” Icewing said as he stooped in the chair. “This stemmed from just one nightmare…”

“Really that bad?” Flamespitter asked Icewing while making some tea and setting it down on the table “Do you wish to talk about it?”

“Not really… I know this a bad thing to ask since you just picked me off the street and all, but you wouldn’t a room to spare would ya?” Icewing asked Flamespitter

“Yah I do as a matter of fact it is down the hall on the left.” Flamespitter said to Icewing as he was getting up “I guess we can talk more in the morning Ic…you what I’ll just call you Icy.”

Icewing chuckles at the name “Alright and thanks again for the help and the room.” He says shambling to the room.

Flamespitter smiles “Don’t worry about it, no-one deserves to be left alone in the middle of winter when a snow storm hits. Now go get some sleep.” Flame start making his way to the master bedroom while Icewing heads to the guest room.

As Flamespitter goes into the master bedroom and sets on the bed he started feeling something in his chest. What Icy didn’t know was that Flamespitter has been alone in that house for a few months. After helping Icy in that night Flamespitter felt something towards the Batpony, but he couldn’t figure out what it was, but Flamespitter was tired and wanted to get some sleep.

It was this fateful night that the life of the earth pony turned dragon Flamespitter would forever change because the next day he would he would realize that his heart has slowly started opening towards Icewing. Flamespitter would gain a friend in that of Icewing, that friendship would change into a relationship which in turn would lead to a marriage and Flamespitter in the process would make a few sacrifices to keep Icewing part of his life, and Icewing would do the same to keep Flamespitter in his.

Now you know the pasts of The Changeling Icewing and The Earth Pony turned Dragon Flamespitter. Now the real story begins with the new day.