A Burning and Loving Reunion

Eternal Flames, a young stallion with fur that’s white as the snows of winter, eyes that resemble sapphires with a scar-like birthmark under each of his eyes, and a red mane resembling that of the fiery hot sun above, ventures through the Everfree Forest. His goals of becoming the strongest guardian of Equestria and finding his mother are all that are on his mind at the moment. But he was stopped dead in his tracks at the sound of a low and nasty growl. “Who’s out there?! SHOW YOURSELF!”, he shouts. Soon thereafter, he catches a glimpse of 2 piercing green eyes, with no pupils appearing out of the bushes. He widened his eyes as he was discovered by a timberwolf and it was ready to devour the young stallion. But instead of giving into fear, Eternal Flames hunched his back like a lion ready to pounce at it’s prey and growled back at the timberwolf. "If you think I'm gonna go down without a fight, you're dead wrong. I'm not going to lose my life to the likes of YOU, ya overgrown howlin' TWIG!!!"

As the two circled around each other, *WOOSH* both Eternal and the timberwolf jumped towards each other with. In a flash of blinding speed, both the timberwolf and Eternal Flames landed safely on all fours…or so that’s what it seemed at first. After a good 5 seconds, the one who fell to the ground was the timberwolf.

“The next time you try and attack me, I won't hesitate to burn you into smitherenes.” He said calmly as he looked back at his fallen predator and continued to walk towards the place his father recommended: Ponyville. With only 2 miles of walking left, he start to smile a bit, but only for a brief moment as he started to hear growling and rustling bushes. “So you won’t learn your lesson, huh? I gave you a second chance to at life, but you leave me no choice but to-“ he soon paused as he spotted not 3, not 4, but 5 timberwolves, all eyes on him. "Damn it all! Looks like I should've finished you off when I had the chance! That doesn't matter now!" He says to himself. Without a seconds thought, he sprinted towards Ponyville hoping to outrun his vicious predators.

However, his hungry predators were hot on his trail hungry for his flesh and blood. He was nearly 10 minutes away from Ponyville at this point, but he was soon tackled by one of the timberwolves and landed SMACK right onto a tree with devastating force. He gets up and realized that he’s corned and has nowhere to go, so he resorts to his last attempt to escape: He fought his foes.

He charged in shouting angerly and started to overpower 2 of the 5 timberwolves, but his hungry predators got to him and sank their teeth and claws into his skin, leaving brutal scratches all over his body and bite mark on his left hinde leg. He couldn’t keep up the fight too long as his wounds start to take their toll. Blood had started running down parts of his face and body. Grunting in pain and backed up into a corner, and with only a fraction of his strength left, he’s forced to use his “special powers.” He gathered his anger and focused it within him and suddenly, sparks of flames circled around him and his predators, unaware of what's going on, they all pounced at him as he spoke.

“I gave you a second chance to walk away, but it's time for all of you to DIE!!! NOW BUUUURRRRRRRRRN!!!!!” He shouts as the flames erupted from under the ground and as his former predators were consumed by the flames, they let out their last howl before completely vanished with their ashes. As the flames shoot upwards into the sky and disappear, he collapsed on his side injured from the brutal fight. He is soon discovered by a group of soldiers in gold armor. "Be sure to be cautious with this one. We don't know if he's a friendly or not." said one of the guards as he lead the others out of the forest with the injured stallion.

Elsewhere, the Princess of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle, is in the library reading some books. But it was all cut short as she heard a thunderous loud noise outside her castle. “What in Celestia’s name was that sound I heard?” She shouted, worried that something happened somewhere in Ponville. Twilight soon dashed out of her castle and out onto the balcony only to see a beam of fire erupting in the distance. “Oh no, something must’ve happened in the Everfree Forest!” Fearing the worst, she sprinted towards where the fire had slowly disappeared. “Oh I hope nothing bad has ha-“ but before she could finish her sentence, she lets out a gasp of shock and terror. She sees a group of Princess Celestia’s royal guards carrying a young stallion with white fur, red mane, and scars under his eyes and was covered in scratches and bite marks, and he was in quite the bloody mess.“What happened to him? How'd he get hurt?” she asked, concerned for the stallion’s life.

“Do not get close to him, Princess. He’s dangerous!” says one of the guards.

"Dangerous?! He's injured and probably close to dying and yet you say he's dangerous?!" She shouts at the guard. Soon the injured stallion looked up at Twilight and spoke.

“Best if you didn’t see me. Especially in this condition, young lady. Besides, nothing's gonna get through these guys' heads.” He says in a low grunt.

"W-Wait, I..." she paused in shock. But then she shook her head with a serious look on her face. "I have to inform Princess Celestia about this whole situation! There's no way I'll let that stallion suffer!" She says to herself as she dashes off back to her castle."SPIKE!" she shouts, making Spike jump up shouting in fear.

"Twilight will you stop startling me like that? You almost made me spill my precious jeweled cake batter." He says looking at Twilight with a mild glare.

"No time for small talk, Spike. I need you to write a note to Princess Celestia! This is an emergency!" She demanded.

"What's the occasion then, Twilight?" He asked

"Spike just take a note and HURRY!" She demands even more.

"Okay, okay, jeez!" says Spike as he grabs a quill and an empty note. Soon Twilight spoke.

"Dear Princess Celestia, I need you speak with you right away. It's a serious situation regarding a stallion's life. He's in the dungeon injured. Please come to my castle immediately! Your fateful Princess of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle." With that Spike sends the letter over to Princess Celestia.

Meanwhile the guards in the dungeon have chained Eternal against a wall with iron shackles on his front hooves, making them forced up above his head while spacing out with his mad, yet straight face. "Don't take this personal, sir, but we're taking precautions just in case events such as what you showed happens ever again." says one of the guards.

Eternal looked up, "Right...right." he says as he looks down trying to keep it his straight face enduring the pain from his bruises. 'It looks like my very first journey outside my homeland is cut short. I never knew this might actually be my last.' he says in his thoughts. 'Father, if I don't make it out of this. Please tell mom and my brothers....I'm sorry.' He says in his thoughts still grunting over the pain as his blood run down his body.