A Burning and Loving Reunion

After being saved by the princesses, Eternal Flames was rushed out of the ambulance and into the Canterlot Hospital still in a stretcher. Upon entering, his vision gets blurry with his eyes becoming heavy. Soon they completely close but not after catching a glimpse of a dark blue Pony with a midnight mane that looks like it's blowing in the wind. Princess Luna sees Eternal close his eyes, immediately beginning to worry for the young stallion's life. As Eternal is brought to the E.R and the doors close, Luna quickly walks over to the waiting room and outside the hospital to wait for Celestia to arrive. About 15 minutes later, Celestia arrives along with Twilight and head inside with Luna into the waiting room. Celestia sits down still quietly sobbing to herself with her hooves covering her face.

"My dear sister, what's the matter?" Luna asks a bit concerned as she sees her older sister crying. Celestia then takes one of her hooves away from her face and turns her eyes towards Luna.

"I can't tell you in here, I'll tell you when we're outside in private." She says trying to be ferm, even though she is still shedding tears. Luna nods as she and her sister walk outside. Celestia looks back at Twilight and tells her, "Let me know if he's okay and if he wakes up." Twilight nods and the moon and sun princesses fly above the hospital so that no pony can hear them.

"Now sister, why are you so upset? I've never seen you act this way before. Even when it was just any other pony, you'd keep yourself composed in situations like this." Luna implies.

"I know, Luna, but this is different. You might now know this but the stallion you might have seen in there is a relative of mine!" She says with her head leaning down, eyes closed and tears still fallling down.

"What?! He's related to you? How can that be? I thought you and I had only our parents Queen Galaxia and King Cosmos, as well as my son, Prince Blueblood! How is that stallion in there related to you?" Luna asks both concerned and worried. Celestia raises her head up and looks at Luna straight in the eyes.

"That stallion in there...*sniff*...he's actually my own son!" she says as she starts to cry even more. Luna becomes shocked after finding out that her own sister actually bared a son.

"Oh dear, I never knew, sister! But that means he's...MY nephew! Oh dear, I hope he makes it out okay. I never even knew his name!" Luna says, getting teared up and worried.

2 hours have passed since Eternal Flames was taken into the E.R. Twilight is still sitting in the waiting room feeling concerned for the princess and the stallion.

"I wonder if they're doing ok. He's been in there for 2 hours now and Princess Celestia must have a lot on her mind." She says quietly to herself.

"Excuse me, Princess Twilight." said the voice, making Twilight look up and see a doctor. "I need to see Luna and Celestia. I have some news about the patient they brought us."

"Oh, ok, I'll go get them as soon as possible." Twilight replied. She rushed outside only to hear Celestia and Luna from above. She saw them both crying over each other's shoulders. She soon flew up to them and told them that the doctor has some news about the stallion. They both got wide-eyed with tears running down their faces. But they soon flew down fast and rushed back into the hospital while Twilight followed.

"Doctor, please tell me, is the stallion ok?" Celestia asks all worried.

"Well there's good news and bad news." He tells them.

"Well let us hear the good news!" Celestia said.

"The operation.......was a success, he's making a full recovery. All he needs now is a little rest." The doctor says with a reassuring smile on his face. After hearing this, Celestia and Luna both gasped in happiness and both sighed in relief. As did Twilight who placed her hoof over her chest feeling relieved knowing that the stallion survived. But then the doctor's smile disappeared and told them of the bad news. "Unfortunetaly, because of the amount of blood he lost, acompanied with the bruises and bite marks, he's got 2 cracked ribs, bone fractures in his left hinde leg and front leg." Said the doctor. Soon after hearing this, all 3 princesses dropped their jaws shocked from how much the stallion went through.

"Is it alright if I go check up on him?" Celestia asks as she approaches the doctor still having a worried look on her face.

"Sure, he should be wide awake, although he's still a bit tired. So try not to ask too many questions, Princess." The doctor replies back. Celestia gives a simple nod. The doctor tells her which room he's in before she leaves to see him.

It only took 1 minute to find where the stallion was. Celestia then opened the door to see him in a state that really broke her heart. Eternal was lying on the hospital bed with an I.V attached to his right hoof. His face had a few bandages covering parts of his face. He had a cast on his left hinde leg, which was disinfected. But the rest of his body was hidden underneath the covers. At first he wasn't paying attention since he was reading a book while catching a glimpse outside the window every now and then. Celestia approached him all concerned. Eternal sees the Princess approach him.

"Oh, hi there. Sorry you had to see me this way. But I thank you for saving my life back there. If it wasn't for you and that purple alicorn, I'd probably be dead by now." He says calmly while looking down. Celestia gently puts her hoof under his chin raising his head up. Eternal could see the look of sadness in her eyes as she starts crying.

"I'm so sorry you went through all this pain and suffering." She says wrapping her hooves around him gently. As she does this, she starts sobbing. Unsure of why she's sad, he wraps his right hoof around her to help ease her pain. It was then that Eternal would start getting this idea in his head.

'Why do I feel like I've actually seen her somewhere before?' He thought to himself. As soon as they stop hugging each other they hear the doors opening as Celestia sees her sister walking in on them. Luna saw the state Eternal was in and was just as heartbroken as Celestia was.

"I hope you'll make a full recovery soon." Luna says gently petting Eternal's right cheek on his face. He turns his eyes away blushing a bit, but he wasn't smiling.

"Thanks, I appreciate your kind words, miss." he says calmly.

"Perhaps we should introduce ourselves. My name is Princess Luna, but you can just call me Luna."

Celestia stands up and wipes her tears. "My name is Princess Celestia, but you can call me m---" She stops herself hoping Eternal wasn't catching onto what she was about to say. "---just call me Celestia." Eternal raised one eyebrow all confused. But he shrugged it off lowered his head to them.

"My name is Eternal Flames, it's a pleasure to meet you both." Eternal extended his right hoof for a hoofshake with the princesses only to see them gently hug him. At first, he was a bit embarrassed but embraced it by attempting to wrap both hooves around them giving both princesses a hug. 'I wonder if dad and my brothers are doing ok.' He says in his mind.

"I just have one question for you." Princess Celestia says.

"Go ahead and ask me." Eternal says as they let go.

"Why did you travel through the Everfree Forest? You know there are dangerous predators in there. Yet you proceeded. Why?" She asks with a tear in her eye. Eternal gives a long sigh and looks up at her.

"I wanted to be able to get here as soon as possible. I was so eager to start my new life in a new town that I ended up trying to take a shortcut. But I realized it was a stupid decision. I realized I could've been killed." As he continues, Celestia starts crying again but she insists on letting Eternal continues. "I do apologize for making you worry. If I have to be punished after I get out of the hospital, I'll take it like a stallion." Eternal says looking at Princess Celestia. But instead of yelling at him, she gives him one last hug that felt like it was lasting forever which made him feel warm inside. He proceeded to hug her again closing his eyes. "I'm sorry, Celestia." he says softly.