Thought Fire and Flames

Flames secretly bought some furniture in disguise so no pony would notice who she was. Flames lived in the forest by herself but she could easily entertain herself by going down to the lake or reading and exploring in the nearby caves. After about a year or so she was finally bored and she decided that she was gonna go to Canterlot and find her big brother Blaze. She knew he had already graduated from Celestias school cause he was so talented so it might be more difficult to locate where he would be so she would have to fly overhead to find him. The flight to her destination was short but the finding was a bit harder. After some observing around she saw Blaze sitting at a picnic table with other stallions. Blaze had grown up a lot and his mane was a bit different, it was spiked up and dyed in some parts. He was wearing a pair of gray headphones around his neck with a skull in the center. His cutie mark was a shiny black controller almost like all the other stallions cutie marks but in a different variation. Flames guessed that they were all gaming nerds and geeks by their cutie marks and she could overhear one of them talking about something called Mortal Combat which was probably a video game. Flames hid behind a bush and thought of what she would say to Blaze. Flames was mumbling to herself a bit too loud and got the mass of gaming nerds attention. They mumbled amongst themselves also and decided to send Blaze over to see what was making that noise behind the bush. Blaze carefully walked over to the bush and peeked behind it. He saw a white mare with a red and black mane with red eyes. He instantly realized who it was. "Flames is that you?" Flames quickly looked up at the mention of her name. "Uh hi big brother." Blaze knelt down and helped Flames stand up. She hugged him tightly and said. "I've missed you Blaze." He smiled and hugged her back. "Same here little sis." After the short reunion blaze introduced Flames to his friends and they all talked about what happened to them since the separation. Further into the discussion Blaze brought up a story about how he read about this stallion who got permanent brain damage caused by this waitress who punched him in the face about a year ago. Flames eyes widened. "He got permanent brain damage?" Blaze looked a bit confused but said. "Yea I heard that the mare who did it was drunk when she punched him." Another one of the stallions said. "I heard that she was on drugs that night." All the other stallions had contributed to the reason why that mare punched him until Flames got angry and slammed her hoof into the table. "Those are all lies the reason I punched him was because he slapped my flank!" They all stared at Flames with wide eyes while she was breathing heavily. "You punched him?" Flames took a deep breath then answered. "Yes it was me who punched that stupid stallion." It was very silent for a moment or two until they all burst into cheer. "That was awesome!" "How did you do that?" "Could you teach me how to punch like that?" "Wow I've never seen somepony punch that hard before." Flames was still mad and didn't say anything to them. "I'm going home Blaze' talk to you later." But before he could reply she was already flying away fast back to the lake by her home in the forest. Flames sat down and looked up at the sky as the moon was slowly rising in the cool breezy sunset. She sighed then looked at her reflection in the water. "Why would they cheer I hurt that stallion and they think that's cool?" Flames slammed her hoof into the water where her reflection was. It rippled away from her hoof slowly then returned to its normal state. "You're not cool your a monster!" She screamed at her reflection getting angry again. "You even killed your parents why are you still alive!?" At this point she started to have flashbacks of the night her parents died. "I...I never got to say goodbye." Tears started to form in her eyes but that made her even angrier. Her eyes started to turn into a deep red giving off a weird smoke as her body started to tremble. "Its all my fault." A flicker of sparks appeared like if a match was just lit. Flames body, her mane and tail started to burn with fire. Her body was then engulfed into a inferno. Flames opened her eyes and gasped as she saw her reflection. "I...is that me?" She stood there jaw ajar for a minute or so until she carefully placed her hoof in the water then pulled it out. Her hoof reignited itself. "Wow." Flames was amazed that her body was capable of doing such a thing . Flames then remembered what her mother had said about her heritage. Flames looked up at the sky again and the moon was fully out as the stars twinkled in the background as they illuminated the lake reflecting it. Flames ear twitched slightly as the breeze gently caught her mane and slowly tugged on it. She heard a soft female voice whisper in her ear. "Reach for the stars Flames, fulfill your destiny." She looked at her reflection again, still fire. Flames crouched into a kneeling position and spread her wings wide gently flapping them. She counted her heartbeats slowly and on the tenth beat she flew into the sky. The feeling was unimaginable it was like flying through water but never being touched by it. Flames felt the breeze glide past her feathers as she soared higher into the untrespassed sanctity of space tumbling through the sun split clouds. Adrenaline coursed through her veins which made her fly even higher climbing the stellar skies hearing the silence of delirious night. Flames was now chasing the wind as she felt like she could fly forever. She finally got to the highest point in the sky and she could no longer go any higher she was flying on the edge until she let go and finally obeyed gravity. Flames was plunging through the sky swirling down the dark abyss making her way slowly back to earth. Her wings were folded to her side letting her free fall faster and as she reached the ground she spread her wings catching the wind in her feathers. She flew straight now leaving a trail of ashes and sparks in the sky and setting the grass below her on fire until she landed in the lake finally putting her body out. Flames slowly rose to the surface and opened her eyes. In the sky there was a new star into the sky, it was the brightest one in the night as it twinkled and glimmered. Flames noticed that two other stars next to the new one were fading away. A tear made its was onto Flames face and slid down as she watched the stars fade. "Goodbye mother, father thank you for everything." Flames smiled a bit and climbed out of the lake and dried her self off. She noticed that she had finally earned her cutie mark, it was a pair of orange wings wrapped around a fire. Flames was overwhelmed after all these years she had finally earned her cutie mark after so much trying. She went back home and got ready for bed but before she laid down Flames walked over to her window and opened it sticking her head out slowly. In the sky she looked at the stars again looking for her parents but they had disappeared "Even if you guys are gone I'll always remember you no matter what..."