“Welcome home Adam. Welcome home my son.”

My stance, one that was drilled into me during my training, one that was meant to show strength and honor, fell after those words were spoken, my sword clattered to the ground and I fell on to my knees, a look of disbelief in my eyes. I could not believe what I was hearing, this pony, this completely different species, was my mother. I had nothing to argue with, my father said that the sun symbol on the toy I had when he first adopted me looked like it meant something important, it’s her symbol. It was in the room, it’s on her flank, it can only mean one thing... she was not lying.

My years of training crumbled beneath me as I tried to find words, there were none that I could say. I was feeling so many things, Anger, joy, sadness, confusion, the list went on. Finally after what fealt like an eternity, I spoke.

“Why?”

She looked taken aback by that question.

“Why what?” She asked.

“Why leave me alone all those years? I was left in an orphanage for six years of my life, it was hell! Why did you never come for me?! TELL ME!?” I stood up and yelled.

My outburst must have frightened the guards as they brought up their weapons and pointed them towards me, I payed them no mind and started to walk towards my “mother”.

“I was beaten repeatedly after doing the slightest thing wrong! Hell I was beaten because they found it fucking fun! Do you know what that does to a child?! Huh?! It changes them, it turns them into monsters! It made me one, I killed one of them ‘mother’, I killed one of my tormentors as a child! And guess what!? I felt nothing from it! If my father hadn’t found me then I would be a madman slaughtering hundreds!” “So tell me mother” I said with venom, “Why leave me there and not come take care of me yourself?” I was in her face now, my eyes staring directly into hers. She was on the verge of tears, but I didn’t care I could tell she was trying to think of a reason. And she apparently found

“I-I had responsibilities my son, I am a princess I have to make sure peace stays in Equestria-.” She tried to reason, but I was having none of it.

“Oh so taking care of your country is more important than taking care of your son?! Your own flesh and blood?! At least someone cared for me when I was young, and he is dead now.” Walking back to my sword, I grabbed it along with my helmet which I put on! I moved to pass her but I stopped next to her and coldly said, “If you send any guards to find me, they will die. Do not look for me, if you value the lives of your subjects, ‘mother’.

With that said I ran off into the garden once more and called for the power of nature to lead me to a safe place in the Everfree forest. I ran for hours, fighting off tears and the urge to yell out, after who knows how many hours I finally collapsed in the forest, I had made it to what looks like the castle where I helped those ponies out before. I crawled my way inside and placed my back against the wall of the castle, I was tired, no exhausted, emotionally and physically, after fighting the tears for so long I gave in and the started flowing, I yelled into the sky with all the rage and sadness I had, I had hoped that she could hear this, the angry and sorrowful scream of her son. I had hoped that she would know that she did this, she made me like this.
After yelling my sorrow and anger away I took my helmet off and lay my back against the wall once more, I was tired and I needed rest. I didn’t care about what was going on around me I just wanted to sleep, and so I did.

“Adam... Adam... Adam, wake up I have something for you...”

I shot up awake, there was another feminine voice, It called to me. Looking around I see nothing but the castle I was sleeping in. Was I truly going mad?

“Follow the fire sprites Adam... let them guide you... guide you too me...”

There it was again, I grabbed my helmet and sword and shot up, looking around frantically, I didn’t find anything other than small fire orbs floating around me, I reached out to touch one but it shied away from my hand. The little orbs were floating away into the forest, no doubt wanting me to follow them, which I did. I put my helmet on and walked after the orbs carefully, I was on edge, you would be too if you heard a whisper in your ear as you were sleeping. After a few minutes of walking we reached a massive mountain, It was a volcano of some sort, the heat around the area was high, not high enough to kill me, but high enough to feel uncomfortable, especially in this armor. The volcano had a cave like entrance where the little orb was waiting for me, it started floating away and I ran In after it.

After a few more minutes of walking the air started to get hotter and I was feeling more and more uncomfortable, but before I could say anything the orb came to a stop in front of me, halting my walk. I looked around the room we were in and then it all hit me like a war hammer, this wasn’t just a volcano, this was the home of the fire spirit. It had called me here for an unknown reason.

After waiting for a couple minutes I was growing fed up with waiting in this heat, so I yelled out for the spirit.

“Hey! Fire spirit! You called me here what do you want with me? Do you want me to do some sort of trial? Make me earn the ability to use you powers!?”

“Ooh, clever little human, aren’t you. Yes I indeed want you to do my trial, make you earn my power and maybe more” it giggled. I looked around the room for the voice but I couldn’t find it.

“Show yourself! I am in no mood for games, give me your trial and let’s be over with it!” I yelled.

“Aw, you’re no fun, fine let’s get this over with then. I am Ignis, I am the spirit of fire and today, you take my trial, or you will die trying.”

Author's Note

Oh what’s this? Another chapter so soon? Hell yeah it is. Your welcome by the way.

I honestly don’t know what to say here other than, the story was stuck in my head so I decided to make the next chapter and be done with it. Well, yeah that’s pretty much it. Oh wait, I forgot to say again, I am looking for help with this story so if you want to help just send me a message and we can talk, that’s all cya guys in the next chapter! Be sure to comment and let me know what you think.