Equestria's Pyre

(Warning: Slight Alcoholism)

Flashpoint tapped his hoof impatiently; he was incredibly tense. He was waiting outside the tent where Pyre's holding cell was held. He was with Twilight's friends, also waiting for her and the Princess to come out.

Pyre's shrieking laughter had surprised everypony in the camp; Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow's wheelchair, and shivers went up AJ's spine, knocking her hat off. Flashpoint only gritted his teeth at the creature's howling, becoming angrier as the the time passed. That fiery mare killed Fire Fight, burned him alive trying to protect the ponies of Timberhill, and there was only one way Flash wanted to avenge him...

"Princess! Twilight!"

Flashpoint turned and found Celestia and Twilight exiting the tent, their faces pale and somewhat unnerved.

"So, what happened?"

"Wha'd she say?"

"What was that awful noise....?"

Celestia raised her hoof, and the the questions ceased.

"Pyre..." Celestia started with a heavy sigh, "...she's lost...insane...she has no concept of reality, nor the wonders of life.. She also has no connection with Harmony at all..., I don't know how to help her..."

"Why try!?!" Flashpoint spurt loudly, "Why should anypony do anything for that thing, other than destroying it?!"

"She is still a pony and one of my subjects!" Celestia raised her voice, startling everypony, except for Flash, "And I need to help her!"

"Then help her! Down to Tartarus! Where she belongs!" Flash scoffed.

Everypony was taken aback by his decree, including Celestia, who confronted Flashpoint face to face.

"I will not kill one of my ponies!!"

"THEN LET SOMEPONY WITH ANY SORT OF CAPABILITY DO IT FOR YOU!!!!!!!

Flash turned away and trotted off to his tent, leaving empty silence, the shocked open mouths of Twilight, Rainbow, and Applejack, Fluttershy hidden behind them, and Celestia, wounded from his hateful arrow.

Inside the cage, Pyre rocked back and forth on the floor, muttering, twitching, and tried to claw at the walls, but her enchanted bonds prevented her form doing so.

"Hehe... I will burn Equestria... I will... there is nothing they can do..." The ashen mare looked at the wall, "These walls won't hold me..." She chuckled, "My Fire... my Fire will come for me.... He will free me... like before... from that awful place..."

Pyre burst into another insane fit of laughter, this time, even more shocking and maddening than the first...

It was an hour later, Flashpoint sat in his tent, finishing his seventh mug of hard cider. He was also staring at his Fire-pony emblem, which he tore from his uniform.

"Flash..."

"WHAT, THERMAL!?!?"

"The Princess wishes to speak with you..."

"TELL THE PRINCESS TO BRING HER ROYAL FLANK IN HERE!!!!"

"Very well then..." Celestia stepped inside.

"SO, WHAT?!?!" He finished his mug and tossed it into the other six empty one.

The Princess walked up to him, "Flashpoint..........., I'm sorry..."

Flash turned away and began guzzling down his eighth mug.

"I shouldn't have kept the truth from you..."

Flash kept drinking.

"...but I had to...., because I knew this was how you'd react..."

Still nothing from Flashpoint...

"I understand...," Celestia sighed, "I know how it feels to lose someone you love..."

He stopped slightly and started to listen somewhat...

"When I banished Nightmare Moon for a thousand years..., I thought I'd lost my little sister forever..."

Flash said nothing.

"Even though she has returned to me..., the pain I felt was like the pain you feel now..., I just wanted to-"

The mug fell to the floor, tears soon following it.

"I MISS FIRE FIGHT SO MUCH!!!!" Flash cried between his sobs, "I just wish- I wish-"

"I know...," Celestia curled beside Flash, and warmly held him in her hooves "....you wish you could hold him..., one last time..."

"I just.... I wanted to be just like him.... but then... then..."

"It's alright Flashpoint...." The Princess looked into his tear-filled eyes, "It's alright..... I'm here.... "

"UUUGHHH!!! Guard duty sucks!!" Sky Blaze whined as he stood by Pyre's containment cell, bored out of his mind.

"PSSSSST..., Lights!"

A unicorn Firepony turned to him, "What?"

"A smoke?"

"Really?" Lights asked, "You really need one now?"

"Come on dude please?" Sky Blaze whined some more.

"Ugh.. I swear..." Lights took out a pack of cigurettes and handed one to Sky.

Inside the cell, Pyre's eyes snapped open to the striking match.

"Here.. and is Flash asks... don't bring me up..."

"Heh...thanks.." Sky Blaze smoked on his cigarette, the smoke exhale trailing to into Pyre's cell. The smoke crawled inside a crack and contorted into a shape that made Pyre giggle with delight. She stare as a the smoke formed into head, with fierce burning red eyes. Pyre's smile grew wider as the smoke began to form flames around her and she listened intently to her Fire's words....

"Time to play..."