A Burning and Loving Reunion

Celestia, the ruler of Equestria is sitting in her chambers when she receives a letter from Twilight. She reads it and has a concerned look on her face and heads over to Luna's room. "Luna!" she shouts.

"Yes, sister? What's happening?" Luna asks.

"Twilight has called me in. It's an emergency regarding somepony's life. I need you to look after the kingdom while I'm away!"

"Wait, somepony is in trouble? This could require BOTH of our help. Please, sister! Let me come with you!" Luna begs.

"No, Luna. I need you to look after the citizens while I'm gone. If I should need you while I head over to see Twilight, I'll send you a message straight away." Celestia says with a stern look on her face. Luna closed her eyes in frustration but then decided it was best to let Celestia go alone. After they settle their arguement, Celestia walks out of the castle and flies off to Ponyville. As she's flying she started thinking to herself.

"I hope it's nothing life threatening. I don't even want to think about what's going to happen if I don't make it in time."

With this last thought she hustles over to to Ponyville.

Meanwhile in the dungeon, Eternal Flames is still feeling the burning pain all over his body from his fight with the timberwolves. To ignore the pain, he starts thinking about his family back home and how happy they looked when they wished him luck on his journey to start a new life over in Ponyville. But it was short lived as he felt a jolt in his left hinde leg and grunted in pain. Soon he heard the cell door open. He looks up and sees 2 guards with a bowl of prison mush. Despite how it looked, Eternal wasn't in the mood to deny his stomach any food whether it be good or bad.

"Alright pal, it's dinnertime, now open up." Eternal looked up at the guard and nodded. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth wide open. The guard took a spoonful of the food and fed it to Eternal. Eternal chomped on the food fast to ignore the bad taste.

He started to cough after tasting the food, but he kept it down and looked at the guard.

"Ok...I'm ready for another bite." Both guards looked at each other and wondered why he wasn't trying to cause a scuffle, seeing as how he was bruised up and being fed such awful prison food. But they started giving him a few more spoonfuls until the bowl was empty.

"Alright now get some rest." The guard says as they lock up his cell door.

"Where is she? If she doesn't get here soon, he won't last long!" Twilight said in a panicing way. Sure enough, Twilight heard a knocking at her front door, she rushed over and opened them up. Low and behold, Princess Celestia had arrived in time.

"I got your message, Twilight, now tell me what's happened! Is anypony hurt?" she asked concerned

"Yes, Princess. There's a stallion who was arrested by the royal guards and taken into the dungeon. He's all bruised up and it looked like he was attacked by timberwolves!" says Twilight

"Oh no. alright then Twilight. I'll send a message to Luna." say Celestia

"Why, what for?" asks Twilight

"I'm taking him to the hospital in Canterlot. No offense, but there's only so much the Ponyville Hospital can do here." says Celestia.

"Can I at least come with you, Princess? I'm worried about him as well!" Twilight begs.

Without even saying a word, she gives Twilight an approval with a simple nod. Soon they both head to the dungeon to save the stallion.

"So that's what was going on. I guess I can't really hold it against Twilight for demanding me like that. I hope the guy's okay." says Spike as he heads back to do his daily chores.

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Luna, who is out on the balcony, is looking over the city of Canterlot.

"I wonder if this somepony is going to be okay. They must've gotten hurt pretty badly." she says quietly to herself. Soon she recieves a letter from her sister. She unwraps the letter with her magic and reads it.

"To my sister Luna

I need to you make an emergency call to the Canterlot Hospital, I'm afraid my it's far worse then I thought. There's a stallion in the dungeon who's been attacked by timberwolves and is in need of some medical attention. Please hurry, we don't have much time left!

Your sister

Princess Celestia"

Without hesitating, she teleports to the hospital.

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As Twilight and Celestia make their way into the dungeon, they spot 2 royal guards as they walk over seeing them stand guard in front of the cell door on each side. Celestia then gives them a look of anger and disappointment.

"Princess, what can we do you for?" They say in unison. Soon Celestia looked down on them and all too quickly...

"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! IF A PONY IS INJURED YOU TAKE THEM TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT, BUT SEEING AS HOW YOU FAILED TO REALIZE THIS, I SEE NO REASON WHY I SHOULDN'T PUNISH YOU!!!" Celestia shouted, making the guards bend down

"A thousand apologies, Princess. But please hear us out." One guard says.

"The prisoner inside is to be considered dangerous, especially when we saw the beam of fire from the Everfree Forest. We had no choice, we thought he was an enemy." Says the other guard.

"Oh? Well did he fight against you?" She asked, still upset.

"No." the guards say

"Did he try to escape? Even if he was already captured?" She asks again

"No." the guards say with their heads down.

"Then release him at once! I will not let somepony suffer anymore than they already have!" Celestia says glaring at the guards.

"Y-Yes Princess" They say in unison as they unlock the cell door and open it.

Celestia looks inside only to feel her heart brake. She sees the white stallion covered in his own blood from the scratches, scrapes, bruises, and bite marks but still alive with his hooves way over his head as they dangle from the shackles above. Eternal then looks up all curious. This makes Celestia gasp, the guards soon unlock the shackles imprisoning his hooves and he soon falls to the ground shouting in pain.

"AAAAH!!!" shouts Eternal Flames.

Celestia rushed over and picks him up with her magic and lays him on top of her back. "You guards better hope he still makes it, or you will never be an honor guard AGAIN!" With that, she darts off, and Twilight follows her thinking to herself.

"What's going on with Princess Celestia? I've never seen her act like this? It's like she knows this guy. Either way, I hope he's able to make it out of this alright!"

Twilight and Celestia make it out of the dungeon and back into Ponyville. Eternal was still wounded and his breathing was feint. Luckily though, he was strong enough to endure the pain. As they reach Twilight's castle, they see an Ambulance pulling up so they rushed off towards it but made sure Eternal wasn't going to fall off.

"HEY! OVER HERE! THIS STALLION NEEDS HELP!" Twilight shouts to the paramedics.

They turn to see the Princesses and a badly bruised up stallion clinging on for dear life with his eyes tightly closed. Princess Celestia levitates the stallion onto the stretcher and the paramedics carry him into the back. Before they closed the doors, Eternal rose his head

"Thanks, you two" he says still weak and slowly lies his head down. The back doors close and the ambulance rushes back to Canterlot. Twilight looked at Princess Celestia all concerned. Celestia had started to shed some tears looking worried.

'Oh please be okay' Celestia thinks as she closes her eyes tightly slightly sobbing with her hooves covering her face.