Equestria's Pyre

by BludgeonWarrior

Pyre

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Twilight opened her eyes and saw the now setting sun. All the fire and smoke had disappeared, as did the Alicorn of Fire, though the area around them was a desolate waste, utterly destroyed by the inferno. Twilight looked around and found her friends were also awakening.

"Ugh..., I don't remember my head hurting this much the last time we used these...," Rainbow groaned as she got up to her hooves.

"Rainbow, your leg! It's better!" Fluttershy pointed out.

"It must be a side-effect of the Elements," Twilight theorized, "Everypony okay?"

"Yeah..., Ah'm fine...," AJ got up.

""I've been better...," Rarity complained as she cleared some ash out of her mane.

"Same as always!" Pinkie jumped.

"We're fine too, thanks," Flashpoint smirked. The princesses were standing beside him.

"Celestia! Luna!"

"We're alright," Celestia comforted her student.

"ARE YOU NOW!"

They all turned, and in the center of the scorched area where the flaming dome had been, lying on the gound was Pyre, beaten and breathing heavily.

Everypony there was shocked, including Celestia, but the princess just walked up to the edge of the circle, "Candelle..., you've failed in your insane mission..."

"Hehehe..., have I... have I....?" She began contorting her body on the ground, screaming and flailing wildly.

"You have nowhere to go Candelle...," Twilight spoke softly, "Turn yourself in......"

"FIRE!! FIRE! Where are you?! FIRE!!!" Pyre began to cry, again not shedding any tears.

"Candelle...," Celestia walked closer to the burnt circle.

"HE WAS MY ONLY FRIEND! My last friend..., everything I had left..., He wanted me, and me alone, and He destroyed everything and everypony I loved to have me..."

Everypony that witnessed this, despite the fact Pyre was responsible for hundreds of deaths, and destroying two entire cities, took pity on the wretched mare, including Flashpoint. As the Firepony chief looked at her he realized something in Celestia's story: Pyre couldn't have killed Fire Fight... She was unconscious, and couldn't control any of the flames. She was only a filly... she wouldn't of had any control over her immense power...

"Candelle.....," Flashpoint started, "I understand how you feel.....I lost someone dear to me to Fire as well, and even though it still hurts....I became better for it. Please, turn away Candelle.....Don't look for revenge...."

"I also lost my family to a fire...." Applejack came forth, "I miss them...., but I made my life to honor what they did fer me. I committed myself ta make them proud of me...Make yer family proud of you, Candelle...."

"STOP CALLING ME CANDELLE!!!!" Pyre screamed as she writhed in the burnt circle and continued to flail and moan. Her screams and wails echoed around everypony, surrounding them and spreading like the fires she created. Then she suddenly stopped, and looked to the ponies.

"Candelle burned away that day..." Pyre proclaimed, "...She is dead, and now so is Fire........HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!" She erupted in manic laughter and kicked up the ashy earth around her before turning to them again, "But Fire will burn again in Equestria.....someday......."

With that, Pyre was engulfed in roaring flames, laughing as it covered her entire body. The maddening cackle echoed around the nine ponies as they saw her body being consumed by the blaze, until she burst in a great cloud of fire. When the smoke had cleared, they saw that nothing was left, but ashes, and the faint echoes of Pyre's laughter...


No knows what Pyre had done to herself, if she simply disappeared to some sort of hideout, or simply incinerated herself and ending her own life, though nopony wanted to think about it all that much.

In the weeks to come, reconstruction began in Fillydephia, Baltimare, and parts of Manehatten, to fix the damage done to the once great cities by Pyre's flames. Celestia revealed to the public what had happened and of Pyre's. Though many ponies were greatly disturbed by this, some were more suspicious and decided to dig deeper into where the ashen mare had come from.

While Twilight and her friends were again, celebrated for saving Equestria, Flashpoint received a medal of honor and valor for saving Celestia in Manehatten, and saving her and Luna in the final battle, and was even recognized as a royal captain for his service, though he remained Canterlot Firepony Chief.

Much of the vegetation that was burnt and incinerated grew back in the time to come, except for that one circle where the fire dome appeared, and Pyre had vanished...

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