A Burning and Loving Reunion

Royal Blaze is pacing the room worried about his son, Eternal Flames. Fearing the worst, he decides to pack up his stuff.

"I know Eternal is strong, but if he doesn't make it, I have to be by his side! Hold on, son, I'm coming!" He says to himself. As he's packing up he hears a knock on his door.

"Hey dad, what's the matter? Is it Eternal? What happened to him?" shouted Blue Blaze. Royal Blaze opened up the door  and let him in, showing him the letter from Princess Celestia. "Oh no, dad, I have to go with you!" said Blue Blaze.

"No, you have a responsability here as the new king of Rogue Mountain. You mustn't neglect your duties!" said Royal Blaze with a stern look.

"Dad, you don't understand, if Eternal is hurt, I can't just sit hear and wait for a miracle to happen. He might die! I'll get Master Panja to watch over the kingdom, just please let me come with you! Eternal's my brother and I want to be by his side if he gets better or if he passes!" Blue Blaze says all worried with tears running down his eyes. After letting out a long sigh, Royal Blaze looks at him and nods.

"You'll have to bring Heat Wave along with us. He loves his older brother as much as you do." Royal Blaze says, making Blue Blaze nod. He soon walks out of the room. Royal Blaze continues to pack his bags trying not to think about Eternal's condition.

Blue Blaze wonders into Heat Wave's room where he's sleeping. Blue Blaze then shakes him left and right.

"Psst, hey, Heat Wave, wake up!" whispers Blue Blaze. Heat Wave groans as he wakes up with his eyes opening slowly.

"It's late, bro, I'm trying to sleep." Heat Wave says all cranky with a yawn.

"Heat Wave, you're going to have to come along with me and dad. It's an emergency." Blue Blaze says. After hearing that, Heat Wave's eyes are flung wide open.

"What, what happened?" Heat Wave says all worried.

Blue Blaze places his hoof next to Heat Wave,

"It's Eternal Flames, he's been hurt badly." Blue Blaze says. Heat Wave gasps

"WHAT?! WHAT HAPPENED?! IS HE OK?!" He asks grabbing his older brother, swinging him back and forth. But then Blue Blaze stops him.

"I'm afraid he's in critical condition and he's in the Canterlot Hospital. All I can say is that he needs us." Blue Blaze says, making Heat Wave tear up. He lunges onto Blue Blaze hugging him tightly. Feeling his pain, Blue Blaze hugged him as well with tears in his eyes. Heat Wave began crying fearing that his older brother might not make it. Blue Blaze pushes him off a bit. "Come on, Heat Wave. We have to go. If you want to stay with him where he's at though, you'll have to pack your stuff." Blue Blaze says.

"Wait...you mean you're letting me move out? You're not gonna feel upset?" Heat Wave asks all surprised with tears in his eyes still.

"At your age, you're more than ready. Besides, you'll be able to see Eternal more often and I think you deserve it. You made our entire kingdom proud. Including me." Blue Blaze says. Heat Waves gives off a small smile and jumps out of bed getting his stuff packed.

After an hour, at the bottom of the kingdom, 8 stallions were standing in front of the gates leading to the outside world of Rogue Mountain. 5 of the stallions were Eternal's life long friends, Shadow Force, Tidal Wave, Spark Wave, Hurricane Blitz, and Ground Dasher. Tidal Wave had turqoise fur, black mane and brown eyes. Hurricane Blitz had minty green fur like Lyra and a silver spiky mane with brown eyes, Spark Wave had light yellow fur and a golden yellow spikey mane, his eyes were light blue. Ground Dasher had fur that was a mid tan color and brown mane, and his eyes were green like emeralds. Shadow Force looked like a younger version of King Sombra but much nicer.

"Now boys, the journey to Canterlot is going to be long. But luckily we have enough bits to last us for a whole week. Now come on. Eternal Flames is waiting for us!" Said Royal Blaze.

"RIGHT!" shouted the others. Royal Blaze signaled the guards on top of the gates to open it. With a nod, they rotated the lever clockwise causing the gates to rise. With one final sigh, the stallions, Royal Blaze, Blue Blaze, Heat Wave, Shadow Force, Tidal Wave, Hurricane Blitz, Spark Wave, and Ground Dasher set off on their long walk to Canterlot. None of them, except Blue Blaze looked back at their home as 7 of them knew they were never coming back. Soon Blue Blaze sees the gates close and he turns back around catching up with the others.

"Our prayers are with you, bro. We'll be there soon." Blue Blaze says to himself

Back in Canterlot, it was still night time. Luna had decided to try and see what Eternal was dreaming about. Only to discover something that no other pony has ever dreamt of. In his dreams, Luna saw Eternal as a young colt playing with a white lion cub. Luna smiled at the sight knowing that Eternal had a friend. But it all changed as she witnesses the skies turning red. Luna looked down and saw Eternal look towards his home. He dashed off towards the kingdom with an angry look on his face as he sees the dragons destroying towns and burning the villages down below.

"NO!!!" Eternal shouted as he sprinted faster towards them. His entire body engulfed in flames and soared high into the sky as he used the flames to glide.

"What kind of magic is this?" Luna asks herself. Luna then sees the citizens running and taking shelter in a nearby cavern. Now at the top Luna watches in shock as her nephew, Eternal Flames is charging straight at Torch, the former king of the dragons while Torch was blasting fire at Eternal. Eternal was moving straight forward at the flames as they collided with his own flames which were protecting him.

"I'M GONNA MAKE SURE YOU NEVER COME BACK YOU STUPID TYRANT!!!" shouted Eternal. Torch couldn't say anything as he was still shooting his flames at Eternal who broke through the attack and smashed into Torch causing Torch lose his balance in the air and slam straight onto the ground below. Eternal on the other hand had begun to fall as his powers had faded away. He felt like he was about to meet his fate and kept his eyes open ready to collide with the cold hard ground. Even though Eternal was still dreaming, she and Eternal felt like it was too real. So Luna flew towards Eternal with her hooves extending towards Eternal. But she felt herself slip away as she ended up in her room. Eternal however was still in the hospital, he had risen up gasping, still in a cold sweat.

"Ugh...I guess it was just a dream." Eternal soon laid back down staring at the ceiling. 'Get a hold of yourself, Eternal. The kingdom is finally peaceful again. We've finally made an alliance with the dragons.' He says in his thoughts. Soon he slowly closes his eyes and falls quietly back to sleep.