"Flash, we need to talk."

Flash turned around to seeing his Aunt Thunderstar leaning at the doorway. Arms folded. With somewhat of a stern look to her face. He arched his eyebrow. Especially from the same stern demeanor from her voice. "Uh, What happened?"

"Me and Spark need to talk to you."

Well that didn't give him anymore context. But he got up. Obeying her order. Though, still really confused by the sudden need to talk.

The two walked over to Thunderstar's room. She opened it. There, seeing Spark sitting on their bed. With her arms folded as well. Flash could even see her pouting. That just made it even more confusing as he couldn't begin to decode what was going on. "Uh...What is it? I thought we cleared the ice from yesterday."

"Well, think again." Spark retorted.

To that. Flash's eyebrows furrowed. That definitely was a first. He'd never hear his Aunt be so blunt. Responding to that. "Hey. What's with the blunt attitude?"

Thunderstar justified her wife's tone. Sounding a little more earnest. "Look she's kind of conflicted right now."

Flash glanced at Thunderstar. Still unknown to the situation. "Why? You two left yesterday accepting me. Why the sudden, confliction?"

Thunderstar responded. "It's because of your cause. Wanting to go after the Serpent."

Flash. Now kind of understood the whole confliction. So he glanced back at Spark. Talking to her. "Look Aunt. S. Firestar felt the same way but I'm fine. I know what I'm in for. It's as easy as beating him and handing over to the police. I mean now that you two know, I wont have to leave this time." There was a moment silence thereafter. Flash, didn't even know where to begin with that. This whole thing was starting to get pretty confusing. He responded to the sudden awkward silence. Looking at the two of them. "What?"

It took a little longer. But finally. Spark mustered enough courage to talk. "When I was young....Me and My brother were playing in the woods. One that was right behind our home. It was like an escape..." Flash to the whole thing arched an eyebrow. Seeing how the response he'd been given was weird. But likewise, Spark continued. "...We'd been there for at least five summers in a row. But, our fifth summer would be our last summer we'd ever spent there..."

A younger looking Spark stood with her brother. A boy a lot more taller than her sister. They shared the same orangish hair. Just his was a lot more shorter. The two were in pretty causal clad for their age.

They were in the woods. Like Spark had explained. Tall trees and everything.

"We were playing a game of Hide and Seek. I was the hider while my brother was the seeker."

The younger Spark spoke to her brother before hiding. "準備はできたか！(Are you ready!)"

Her brother nodded. Showing the same enthusiasm. "私はいつも準備ができています！(I'm always ready!)"

With that Spark nodded. "はい！ しかし、二条に数えます (Okay. But count to twenty!)" She ran off. Knowing exactly where to hide. She didn't want to go too far. So she hid in close proximity of her brother. With it, hearing her brother count to twenty.

"He was counting as usual. Everything seemed pretty normal."

But. That's when the wheel of faith spun into action.

A snake. But it looked very, unique so to speak. It was, gold. But not in the sense that it was solid gold. It was more like a pale gold. But that wasn't what was unique about it.

What was is the fact that, it was glowing. Glowing a similar yellow. Radiating a small surface area of the ground around it. Slithering and hissing, though unbeknownst to the two children.

Well, not for long....

Spark's brother was still counting. Keeping his eyes closed while he still counted. But unknown to him, the snake was slithering right near him. Also in close proximity.

Eventually, as the serpentine kept at his slither. It spotted the older sibling. Upon seeing the child, it stuck it's tongue out and flicked it. Letting out a hiss. Seeing the child, he slithered right for him fast. In an almost impressive motion.

"I still remember what had happened. I remember giggling as I was hiding. Due to how excited I was by the game. But all of that excitement practically disappeared because the next thing I knew. I heard my brother let out a scream."

"A...scream?"

"Yup. At the time I didn't know what had happened. But I remember running up to him. Only to see him lying on the ground, clutching at his right leg."

Without any warning. The Golden Serpent struck! It thrusted itself from side to side faster and faster towards Spark's brother.

By then, the boy stopped. Finally hearing the hissing. His eyes widened. In his head, he was hoping that the culprit wasn't what he thought it was.

Slowly, he glanced downward. Slowly turning his head before lowering it to see what was causing the chilling ruckus. It was there, he saw the glowing serpent.

His eyes widened and he gasped immediately. Having never actually encountered a snake before. But before he could react the snake did!

Quickly, it lunged forwards at. Going right for his uncovered calf as he was wearing shorts. Sinking it's fangs into the poor boy. Prompting him to let out a loud shriek.

Spark's eyes widened. Her excited expression turned startled. As far as she was concerned. Her and her brother were the only two people she knew that were in the forest. And that shriek was very close in proximity. "Flare?"

Flare. The brother to Spark Flamewalker. Fell right to the ground. The Serpent? Well, it's glow was slowly disappearing as it pumped it's venom into Flare through his fangs. So much so that as soon as Flare fell, he let go. Slithering away. Leaving Flare on the ground, letting out cries. Tears swelling out of his eyes due to being startled and in pain.

Spark found Flare like that. On the ground crying and screaming. Immediately, she ran for her older brother. Screaming out his name. "FLARE!" Running up to the kid. She knelt down quickly, seeing her brother in pain. Immediately asking what's wrong. "Flare どうしたの!? (What Happened)"

Flare however, didn't answer. As he kept letting out loud heart wrenching screams.

The Younger Spark was confused. She didn't know what was going on. That's when she noticed Flare clutching his right leg. Seeing blood right between his fingers. Seeing that as the culprit to what was causing all of it.

Because of it. She let out a loud shriek as well. Moving back upon seeing that. "出血しているフレア (YOU'RE BLEEDING!)." Tears came out of the young child upon seeing that. Not knowing what to do."

"I remember crying. I didn't know what was going on and...."

Spark was tearing up. The memory not being quite a good one. The memory that forever defined the turning point in her families life. How everything had changed because of that. She began sobbing. Glancing away from Flash. Continuing. "He--Our parents were nearby. They were doing garden work in our home when they heard both of us scream. They had ran over toward us and found me crying while my brother was on the ground screaming and crying."

Flash raised both his eyebrows upon hearing that. He hadn't seen his Aunt Spark cry before. "Aunt Spark..."

But she continued. Still sobbing. "He was taken to the doctor...and it was determined to be a snake bite. But, the snake had given my brother something in his leg. An unknown sort of infection from the poison. It put him in immense pain. For a while, he had to stay at the hospital because Doctors didn't know what was going on with him. My Parents and I were always so worried about him. And as each day passed, his condition just kept get worser and worser." She wiped her tears away. Sniffling before speaking again. "But...then one day he had gotten better. It was like a miracle. Somehow one day, his leg had just stopped hurting and that infection within him had just disappeared. Like Magic or something."

Flash then arched on eyebrow. Hearing that sounded good in theory. But even so, his Aunt still looked depressed. But, he commented otherwise. "Aunt Spark. I..." He trailed off. He never actually knew his Uncle Flare Flamewalker. He was just told that he had died way before Sabrina and Spark had met. "What does this actually have to do with The Serpent?"

She again sniffled. Wiping another tear away. She looked at Flash. When she did, Flash's eyebrows furrowed. Frowning at the sight of her being sad. But she continued likewise. "Because Uncle Flare never Died...."

Flash let that sink in. He let those words resonate for a slight second. Before widening his eyebrows. He glanced at Thunderstar. She had this look. A very guilty look.

Flash glanced back at his Aunt. Shaking his head. Denying what her implication is. "Aunt Spark you're--you're....no! You're not saying what I think you're about to say."

She continued. "After the whole thing. My Parents didn't want us to stay in Tokyo no longer. So we had packed our bags and left to America. So we could all have a change of scenery and leave Kyoto behind. We had gone to Canterlot, Equestria. We heard the place was safe and good for immigrants such as ourselves. It wasn't long before we got enrolled into school and start our new lives. But things were different. For Flare I mean."

Flash arched an eyebrow. Replying quickly. With clear urgency in his voice. "How so?"

Spark nor Thunderstar reacted to the urgency in the slightest bit. With Spark responding to Flash. "Flare had gotten these abilities. Fast Reflexes and speed. Like that snake bite had done something to him. But with that his behaviour changed. He had slowly began to grow more and more negative as the years passed by. It didn't help that he hung out with bad influences during school. Eventually it got so bad that he had cut off everyone in his life."

There was no denying what she was saying. She was saying exactly what Flash had feared her to say. "You mean to tell me that Uncle Flare. The man you've insisted to have died at least over twenty years ago to be The Serpent?!" Spark nodded, confirming the statement.

Now this--this was a new yet terrifying development. There was so many questions to be asked. But even so, what was Flash even supposed to begin with. Heck, his whole mind had just exploded to that. He didn't even know where he was supposed to begin. But that also meant. His Other Aunt knew just as well.

He glanced at her. Folding his arms and asking with Urgency. "How long have you known?"

She diverted her glance to the floor. Answering. "About Five Years now."

Flash couldn't believe it. Never once in his life had he had ever heard something so, he couldn't put it in words. It went over the whole 'just' emotion he had felt a few days ago. "Guys how do you even know he's that he's the Serpent?"

Again. Thunderstar responded. "Flash, the term Gold Serpent was something he went by back in High School. It wasn't hard to put the pieces together on that one."

Flash's eyes narrowed to the ground. Right then and there he would've asked why they had kept this a secret from everyone. But...for the first time he could see why they'd want to keep it at that. He was somewhat in a situation like that. Where he had to hide something really big and quite possibly dangerous if it got into the hands of the wrong people.

But still, that could be the least of his problem. "Spark he's--I...." He was lost out of his mind. He rubbed his temples. Electing to leave for a moment. "I need a moment to take all this in..."

He started for the exit, heading straight for his room. Neither Aunt stopped him. The two just watched as he had left.

Flash speed walked to his room. Closing the door. Before leaning back and sliding down into it. "Oh Man this whole thing could not have just gotten any worse!"

Author's Note

So, continuity change.

Why? Because this felt more fitting. Now, this was a really tough chapter to wirte. But I took my chances (Criticizie me all you want.(Actually critics are pretty good though)) And winged it!