Author's Note

This is the last chapter of Fireball's Quest. I'm sad to see it end but I've got the Coltland Chronicles series to write which I enjoy the most. There will be another spin off but it might be one chapter and it's set a few years before Coltland Chronicles 4. Sadly it won't have romance, but you'll see which MLP character it will be and I'll probably put the character that they are mostly shipped with. I'll try my best to write them and some romance (so my username can still fit).

Fireball's Quest Completed

Fireball's Quest Completed

Fireball woke up in the middle of the night to some soft knocking happening at the door. It was unusual as the captors would've knocked so loud that the room would shake. She threw the blanket off herself with her back legs and trotted slowly to the door.

"Who's knocking on the door?" Cinnamon asked with a whisper and he rubbed his dark green eyes sleepily. "It better be good because I'm trying to sleep here."

Fireball shrugged her shoulders and she opened the door. There stood two cloaked ponies but she couldn't tell if it was the captors or some other ponies. This made her confused and scared at the same time.

"Who are you?" Fireball asked with a tilt of her head and her carrot orange eyes looked at them with confusion and hoped that they were here to rescue them. "Are you here to get us out of here?"

"Yes, we are, now you need to be quiet so you can get out without being noticed." one of the cloaked ponies, who was a mare, replied with a small smile.

Fireball gave a big smile and her eyes widened, she walked over to Cinnamon, Honey and Caramel then shook them until they stirred and looked at her with sleepy eyes.

"What is it, Fireball? We're trying to sleep." Caramel responded with a whisper and she gave a big yawn.

"We're getting out of here, we're going to be away from this horrible place."

Caramel's eyes widened and she gave a wide grin. She whispered to Cinnamon and Honey, they had the same reaction as her. The siblings got the blankets off themselves, trotted over to the door and stood beside Fireball.

"It feels so good to be free. I just want to get home." Caramel said with a wide smile.

They all walked out of the room, quietly as they could, without making the floorboards creak like it was a horror film coming to life. It was already like one ever since they got captured or when they first spotted the captors.

"Don't worry, we'll be home, without a scratch on us." Honey responded with a small smile and she looked around for any signs of danger.

"Alright, we're almost there to the exit, once we are out, we'll take you to our home for the night then we'll bring you home," one of the cloaked ponies, who was a male, said as he looked down at the siblings, mostly at Fireball. "Which town do you kids live in anyway?"

"We live in Ponyendal which shouldn't be too far from Hoofsund. You just need to go through the forest and you'll be there." Cinnamon responded with a whisper and he looked back at Fireball who had a nervous look in her eyes and face.

They got to the front door, opening it quietly and slowly. They all walked outside, one at a time and as soon as they all did, they breathed sighs of relief. They got to a cabin that was in the middle of another forest that would take quite some time to walk there but a short time to gallop there.

"Wow, this is your home?" Fireball said with wonder and she looked around at it.

"Well, it's our second home, we lived somewhere else near Ponyendal but quite a lot of years ago, we had to move near Hoofsund as it seemed like a better place," the male cloaked pony replied and the Sweet Three gave side glances to each other, either agreeing with him or slightly offended that anypony would move away from Ponyendal. "We have a guest room with a bed, big enough for the four of you and we'll be sleeping in a room near the entrance, if somepony is going to come to the door."

The Sweet Three and Fireball were about to walk to their room when Fireball was stopped with a hoof that was on her shoulder. She looked at them in question, they signalled for her to sit down at the fireplace. Cinnamon had a protective look on his face but Fireball assured him that she was going to be fine. The Sweet Three nodded then walked to their room.

The cloaked ponies walked Fireball to the fireplace as if to help her find her way but she gave them a smile and they allowed her to walk by herself. They sat down on the soft chairs and the ponies took their cloaks off, revealing what they looked like.

The mare had the same hair, eye and body colour as Fireball and the stallion had a grass green body, bright purple eyes and cherry red hair. Were they her parents?

"Are you my mum and dad?" Fireball asked with widened eyes.

"Yes we are and I hope you won't be mad when we explain why we had to leave you with another family. An orphanage would be too risky." the stallion explained and he gave a look of regret.

"Why?"

"You would've been found easily in an orphanage so we had to leave you in the next town and we managed to escape them before they could see that we escaped with you," the mare explained with a sad voice and she looked like she was crying. "Let me tell you on what had happened."

Eleven years before

The mare pushed and pushed as she was giving birth to their first foal. It took some time and out came a filly, she cried loudly with the mare crying tears of joy. Her husband burst in through the door and saw the crying foal, kicking her legs and thrashing her forelegs about.

"Isn't she beautiful?" the mare said with a choked voice as her friend wiped her head with a wet towel.

"She certainly is. Why she looks just like..." the stallion said and he paused when he saw that the filly's eyes were not like a normal foal's. She didn't have black pupils and they were the same colour as her eye colour which was a carrot orange. She was blind! "...you."

"I'll just be going now, good luck with your daughter." the mare's friend said with a wide smile and she levitated her bag of medical supplies and walked out the door.

The stallion levitated the filly over to his wife and she held her very close. She gave a look when she also noticed the eyes that the filly had.

"She is blind?" the mare said with sadness and she stroked the filly's fire orange mane.

"That's not a problem, is it?" the stallion responded and he sat down on a chair and stared down at their daughter who was just giggling and moving around from side to side.

The filly started to have a sneeze and as soon as she did, powerful fire magic shot out of her horn and it burned a hole through the ceiling to the roof. The couple stared with their mouths hanging open and widened eyes. They stared back at the filly who was still giggling.

After a few weeks, the couple were happy with their daughter. She managed to control her fire magic each time she sneezed. They had already planned for her to go to a special school to help her with her blindness so that she wouldn't be bullied by other foals in a public school. They still hadn't figured of a name for her since it was so difficult. A few weeks without a name? How was it difficult to pick one out for a unicorn that only had fire magic? It usually took a few hours or a day!

One day, somepony knocked on their door and the stallion went to answer it. Three ponies in cloaks stood there and they didn't look like they were good ponies.

"Gives us that filly right now!" one of them which was a female, yelled and she held her hoof out.

"Why should we?"

"She's a freak and we don't accept freaks around here. That includes a blind one and a unicorn that doesn't have unicorn magic."

"Or you can just get rid of her and the problem will be solved."

The stallion stared the ponies down for a moment then kicked them everywhere until they were knocked out.

"Go, go, go!"

The mare nodded, grabbed her cloak and the filly, galloped out of the house and the stallion followed with her, also grabbing his cloak.

They stopped behind a house, shivering and keeping their daughter warm so she wouldn't freeze to death in the snowy wind. They decided to do the right thing and it was to give her to a loving home so she could be safe and hidden. But who could they give her to? They turned to the castle where the new neighbours had moved in a few days ago.

They looked around and found a cardboard box from behind a cafe and grabbed a marker from a desk in a classroom of a school. The mare cuddled the wrapped up filly close to her chest and they walked to the castle. They took out the marker and wrote 'Please raise her well' on the cardboard box. The mare cuddled the filly close and shed a tear then put the filly into the box.

"We have no other choice, sweetheart, we can't do it the worst possible way. I hope they don't find her and get us or her killed."

The couple walked away from the castle and back to their home where the ponies from before, were standing there.

"We got rid of her, now please, leave us alone!" the mare yelled and the cloaked ponies blinked their eyes in shock.

"Very well but if you had lied to us, we'll get rid of her ourselves." the female cloaked pony responded and she giggled a little then they all walked off.

The couple stared at each other with sadness and sighed.

"We might as well move to a new home. This town is going to make me remember these bad memories." the stallion responded with a choked voice and he wiped a tear from his right eye.

"What about Hoofsund? That town always seemed nice." the mare said with a small smile as if she was trying to look happy but it didn't seem to work.

The stallion nodded and the couple walked into the home to pack their luggages to start a new life.

Fireball stared at them with her mouth gaping open and she seemed like she was going to start crying because of how moving the story was.

"But why do I have fire magic and why am I blind?"

"We don't know either of the reasons but we aren't ashamed of it. We loved you no matter what and we wouldn't care what anypony said if they did anything insulting," the stallion responded and he wrapped his foreleg around Fireball's shoulder. "Now off you go to bed with your friends and we'll give you breakfast and walk you home tomorrow morning."

Fireball nodded, got off the couch and trotted to the guest bedroom where Honey, Caramel and Cinnamon were sleeping. She sighed quietly and got into bed beside Caramel.

Morning came and the Sweet Three and Fireball woke up and walked to the kitchen table where plates of scrambled eggs were there with some glasses of apple juice. They sat down and ate their breakfast quickly and drank their juice quickly with Caramel almost choking and coughing on it.

Fireball's parents, the Sweet Three and Fireball, walked through the forest that was at the side where the entrance of Hoofsund was. They walked through with no problems with bandits, dangerous animals like bears or foalnappers.

As they got into Ponyendal, Peppermint and Sugar were standing outside their castle and the Sweet Three and Fireball galloped over to them and hugged them tightly. They kept repeating apologies for leaving home without a reason. The parents were mad but they forgave them and were sure that they had a good reason to be gone for what seemed so long.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a huge rock flew from the forest but before it could squish somepony or something, Fireball used her fire magic to break the rock into small pieces. The three cloaked ponies galloped from the forest and stood over Fireball who looked at them with anger and bravery.

"That's it, little brat, you're coming with us and we'll take 'care' of you." one of the male cloaked ponies said with anger but Fireball bucked him out of the way.

Fireball turned to the Sweet Three and her parents to help out and they did. Cinnamon kicked one of them down and jumped onto them really hard, Honey gave a puppy eyed look to distract them until Caramel pushed them against the wall and had her hooves against their throats. Those two got knocked out with a punch to the head or chest.

Fireball and the female cloaked pony walked in a circle and stared each other down. She shot her magic at her but the pony blocked it with hers and it went towards Fireball but it was so fast that she had no time to move out of the way. She started to fly towards the castle and she hit against it.

"Ha! I knew it! You're weak as a newborn puppy or kitten! Now time to finish the job!"

Fireball stared at her weakly and she didn't have the strength to stand up or defend herself. Cinnamon, who was standing there, saw what was going on. He wasn't going to let anypony hurt her! He galloped really fast and he jumped in front of the female cloaked pony and he took the hit.

The police ponies finally arrived and tackled the female cloaked pony to the ground. They pulled her into the police station and went back for the other two later and pulled them into the police station as well.

Fireball woke up to a beeping noise and she saw her parents, Peppermint, Sugar, Caramel and Honey, staring at her with concern.

"Thank goodness, you are alright!" Caramel squealed and she wrapped her forelegs around her adoptive sister's neck.

"Where's... Cinnamon...?" Fireball asked weakly and Honey gave a small smile.

"He's fine, you've been knocked out for a few days and he's been fine since yesterday."

Cinnamon walked in an hour later and he was levitating some flowers and set them on the table. He grabbed a chair and sat beside Fireball.

"Cinnamon...? Is it true... you have a... crush... on me?"

"It's true, I always have."

"Well, I love you too. I was just afraid to say it."

Cinnamon blinked his eyes in shock. Without thinking, he kissed her on the mouth and put his hooves to the side of her face. As soon as they finished, they looked into each other's eyes and smiled.

Cinnamon walked out of the hospital, deciding to take a walk around town. He had kissed Fireball! He felt like he had just flew high in the sky and could touch the soft, white clouds. He looked around at a few of the couples that were sitting at the tables of the park, including Honey with an earth colt and Caramel with a pegasus colt.

"Cinnamon, Cinnamon!"

Cinnamon turned around to see Pearl trotting towards him and he sighed with annoyance.

"What do you want, Pearl?"

"Look I'm sorry about being mean to Fireball but I can't help myself when she gets out of control and I start to freak out. Anyway, will you date me?" Pearl responded with a puppy eyed look.

"No, I can't, you're not my type and I can't forgive you for being mean to Fireball. She's family and you need to accept it. Did you even see the fight that went on in town?" Cinnamon said as he gritted his teeth and he turned his back to her.

"No, I didn't, I couldn't bear to see it with Fireball around!"

"Goodbye, Pearl, go find a colt or filly that's your type and stay the hay away from me."

Cinnamon trotted away from her but she called his name so many times but not once, did he turn to look at her.

Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Fireball sat in her hospital bed, sleeping peacefully with a book. The door opened and a nurse walked in with a clipboard levitating in front of her.

"Hello, Fireball, how are you feeling?" the nurse asked as she set the clipboard on the table beside the bed.

Fireball stirred a little, opened her eyes and rubbed them a little with her hooves.

"Very tired and less sore than when I got here."

"I just want to ask you an important question that the other doctors and I have been wanting to ask since we first met you when you came to the hospital after you sprained one of your legs," the nurse said as she took out a blue pen. "Do you want to get surgery done to give you your eyesight back?"

Fireball's eyes widened and she felt more wide awake. She being able to see? Would she want to see what the world had looked like since she was born? She put one of her hooves under her chin. It took her two minutes for her to give her answer.

"No, I rather stay the way I've always been. I've learned to live with it, if anypony starts to insult me because of it, I've learned to ignore them and not let the words get to me. I'm fine with who or what I am."

The nurse nodded and wrote on the clipboard with the pen.

"Alright, we'll not do anything about your eyesight. You'll be out of the hospital tomorrow."

The next day, Fireball was out of the hospital and had to have an important talk with her parents and Peppermint and Sugar. She walked in and sat beside them on the couch in the living room of the castle.

"Fireball, we have a question. Who do you want to live with?" Peppermint asked with a look of reassurance.

Fireball looked at both the couples for a minute and gave a sigh.

"I'll choose you. You've raised me for all my life and I'm nothing without the Sweet Three. They've helped me through the good and the bad. They've defended me and cheered me when I'm sad or being made fun of. I don't think Cinnamon would want me to leave." Fireball responded as she pointed to Peppermint and Sugar.

"That's perfectly fine with us. Remember to visit us soon." Fireball's mum said with a big smile and Fireball did the same.

"I will."

Fireball walked to hug her parents goodbye before they left the castle. Her life was indeed going to keep being good along with Cinnamon.