After following Ember for a while we were able to make our way towards Torch's cave as we approached the entrance which thankfully didn't require us to have to fly to, though that doesn't mean that the walk there wasn't any less tiring.

"I'm telling you Falkor as soon as we find Mom, I'm going to make her teach us how to fly," He said somewhat annoyed and exhausted.

"YOU are going to make MOM teach us how to fly?" I asked slightly amused and just as exhausted as I saw his somewhat annoyed look slightly falter.

"W-well not make her but I mean come onnnnn Falkor, you saw how Viserion was showing off when he flew away with his wings and what about your fight with him tomorrow?" He questioned

"What about It?" I asked

"If Viserion knows how to fly and you don't that's probably gonna be a problem that you're going to have to deal with during your rematch." He explained

"Besides we're probably the only three dragons left who don't know how to fly yet and I'd rather be able to fly anytime I want instead of having to walk everywhere," He said pointing at his wings slightly twitching.

"I second that but Dad won't teach me so I'm probably going to need your guy's help again," Ember said slightly annoyed.

"Don't worry we'll still do our best to help you out," I said reassuring her.

"And by we he means him," Garble added on narrowly dodging a blow from the back of the head from me.

"Either way," She said rolling her eyes.

"Thanks anyway for helping me," She said as we finally made our way inside Torch's cave.

The first thing I noticed was how minuscule Torch made everything else look even with the massive amounts of gold and gems piled together surrounding him.

However, I also noticed a familiar-looking carriage with two familiar-looking ponies currently talking with Torch holding a light purple egg with dark........purple, spots.

I start to slow down as I focus on the egg that would give birth to one If not my favorite characters In the entire show who would go on to be a forgotten sidekick and a remembered hero who was also a cool little dragon In the future.

-alkor"?

Just seeing him here still as an egg was so surreal to me, especially knowing what the dragon In that egg would go through and accomplish In the future, or would It be the near future?

"Falkor?" Ember asked as she shook me causing me to snap out of my thoughts as I focused back on the two of them looking at me slightly worried.

"Y-yeah?" I asked slightly startled.

"You ok? You kinda just, stopped for some reason and just started staring at the.....," He said looking back and forth between the ponies and me before he started coming to some sort of conclusion as he started to get increasingly angry.

"Did they do something to you when we were asleep because I swear to Maker If they did-"

"No nonononono, trust me they didn't do anything to me I was just thinking about other stuff that was unrelated to them," I said trying to reassure them.

"Oh, my bad then," He said rubbing the back of his neck In embarrassment.

"What were you thinking about then?" Ember asked still looking a bit worried as I looked back at the ponies beginning to leave.

"Just about that egg's future," I half-lied as they turned and focused on the ponies leaving with the carriage they came with.

"Oh, that makes sense then," Garble said sounding a bit upset.

"Nothing we can do except hope for the best for that egg's future," Ember said stoically.

"Let's just HOPE that those ponies can take care of a dragon," Garble said rolling his eyes.

"Raah," Smolder said nodding her head from atop of Garbles head.

"Exactly Smolds," I said agreeing with her as we began walking up to Torch until Ember began running up to her.

"Hey, Daaaad I'm baaaaack!" She said with joy as Torch looked surprised at her appearance for a second before recovering as he addressed her.

"Ember! Your back earlier, than I expected you to be," He said lowering his hand as she stepped on It before bringing It close to his face.

"Well we probably would've taken longer but those ponies that left were able to give us a ride back Into the Dragon Lands," She explained as he looked at the entrance of his cave.

"They did did they?" He asked
out loud before focusing back on her.

"Yeah, they did and look!" She said turning around as she showed off her wings."

I molted and now I got my wings!" She said In the excitement.

"Well would you look at this, my little hatchling is now a full-fledged dragon ready to destroy and crush anyone that crosses you all on your own now," He said looking directly at Ember with pride making her cheeks redden In embarrassment.

"Daaaaaaaad," She whined as Garble snickered until Torch's face snapped towards Garble causing him to stop.

"Something funny, Drake?" He growled out causing Garble to shake his head back and forth as Smolder hung on for dear life.

'Goddamn! I felt that In my bones when he said that,' I thought to myself as I looked back at him, 'Guess he's not Dragon Lord for nothing.' I concluded

"That's what I thought," Torch said placing Ember back on the floor before bringing his head back up as he sat In his original position as he locked onto Smolder causing him to somewhat soften his tone.

"I'm glad that you not only were able to pass the test I gave to you but that you also were able to care for this young drakina while achieving your molting Ember," He said with warmth directed towards her causing her to smile back at him.

"Thanks, Dad but If being honest It wasn't mostly me taking care of her," She said as she faced us," They helped me a lot out there too," She said smiling at us causing us to look away abashed.

"Yes, I suppose they did," He said narrowing his eyes at us as we felt an unnatural pressure suddenly push down on us as we focused on just being able to stand.

"I just wanted to make su-"

"Raah!" Smolder grunted out as she frowned at Torch causing him to somewhat falter at the look she was giving him before the pressure on top of us disappeared allowing us to relax again.

'Thank God Torch isn't immune to baby Smolder,' I thought to myself as I looked at Smolder In silent thanks.

"I see you've made a connection with this young hatchling while you were out there," Torch pointed out as Garble picked Smolder off of his head and held her In a cradle.

"Yeah, I did and I love her with all I am," He said poking her causing her to laugh as she reached out for him as he gave her his hand to play with.

"Well as glad as I am to hear that you've managed to take care of her I still need to figure out what to do with h-"

"Me and Falkor are taking care of her," Garble interrupted as his face hardened while Torch narrowed his eyes at Garble.

"That Is not a joke to make lightly, drake." Torch said

"I never said I was joking, Maekrix," He responded raising his voice causing Torch to snort out some smoke from his nostrils as he focused fully on Garble.

"Watch yourself drake, I may have allowed you to get away with that tone last time but you best remember this isn't last time," Torch said coldly causing Garble to look away with a frown on his face.

"Now I don't doubt that you've made a genuine connection with this drakina but unfortunately the reality of the situation Is that a young dragon such as her requires more than just somedrake loving her," He said causing Garble's frown to deepen as Torch continued.

"She requires food, attention, somedrake to watch her greed from overtaking her," He explained as Garble slowly hugged Smolder close to him trying his best to not be rough with her.

"Somedrake to be able to protect her, explain to her how this world works now that she's In It, Somedrake to be able to show her how t-"

"OK! OK! I get It!" Garble yelled out In annoyance at Torch.

"Then If you 'get It' why are you being difficult about a problem that doesn't need you present to solve It? Why not just pick the easier option and let somedrake else take care of It?" He questioned causing Garble to pause as he looked down at Smolder who was looking up at him In worry.

"Because I want to be," He said sincerely keeping his attention on her as he smiled reassuringly at her which caused her to smile back at him before he focused on Torch again.

" Just 'wanting to be' won't solve anything, 'just wanting to be' won't be able to take care of her." Torch pointed

"When we out there taking care of her we were able to provide and take care of her, without your help," Ember said causing Torch to turn toward her.

"You were able to take care of her because of what I provided you with Ember, that IS with my help," Torch pointed out.

"Oh ok, so I guess the Roc that we had to deal with on our own was only because of you right?" Ember sarcastically asked causing Torch's eyes to widen In surprise.

"A Roc!? Are you- no that's a stupid question," He said looking over at us again before closing his eyes and slightly sniffing In our direction as he opened his eyes again with a slight look of respect In his eyes directed towards us before It disappeared.

"So It seems you have, but even If you managed to protect her from a threat like that which I assume you only managed to do from a bit of luck and with the help of these two that won't always be the case, and you won't be able to protect and provide for her all the time," Torch said to him.

"Then WE will, because It's pretty clear that no one else at least TRIED," I said speaking up as I stood next to Garble putting myself Into Torch's crosshairs as he shifted his attention to me.

"We might not always be able to make the right decisions," I admitted before looking up at Torch.

"What we won't do, Is abandon her because It'd be EASIER for us to deal with, because the truth Is It just makes It more difficult," I said trying to convey to him how serious we were.

"Like I said I can't promise you that we'll make the right decision every time, but what I can promise you Is that this little hatchling will never go a day In her life unloved by us and unprovided for, even If we have to starve ourselves to feed her we will," I declared as Garble nodded agreeing with me.

"And If she needs more than what you can provide for her?" He questioned

"Then we'll do everything to make sure she gets It," I said as he stared down at us for what felt like hours before closing his eyes and sighing breathing In and sighing deeply.

" Then I hope you can keep your promise, " He said with what looked to be the first genuine and proud smile aimed at us as we stood there shocked for a bit before I recovered first.

"T-Thank you Dragon Lord Torch, I swear to you that me and Garble wi-,"

I cut myself off as a thought popped inside my head that confused me as I focused back on Torch.

"Why were you so insistent on making sure that we would be able to take care of her?" I asked causing everyone to look at me confused.

"Falkor I think we should just-"

"No, I want to know why he was so insistent," I said cutting him off as Torch now looked slightly annoyed.

'Is this INCREDIBLY risky? Of course, It Is but something doesn't make sense here,' I thought to myself.

"Because I had to make sure that you two would actually try to take care of her instead of just saying that you would because of what you thought you felt when she was born." He explained

"No I get WHY you asked us, but I don't get WHY you had too, shouldn't you be discussing something like this with our Mother?" I asked as I saw a flicker of surprise flash across his face before It disappeared.

"Ah right, I knew I was forgetting something," He said sighing, "I decided that since you three were going to molt together when I sent you off I decided to send your Mother off to help me with a certain problem that needed attending to," He explained as Garble slowly shook his head.

"But that doesn't make any sense even If we were somewhere else she would still wait for us to come back," Garble said as Torch sighed.

"You are also correct about that which Is why I told her that while she was gone I would be the one who would be In charge if you for In the meantime," He explained

"Wait what!?"
"Wait what!?"
"Wait what!?" We all asked shocked at his answer.

"Wait a minute why would you offer to take care of us? Not that I'm not thankful for It but It just feels out of place for you to offer to our Mother that you would take care of her children for her," I said still confused at the situation.

"It was to return the favor for allowing me to have her two drakes go with my Ember to help her during her molting." He explained

"Though In truth, It was more of a just Incase she didn't come back In time, originally I had assumed that by the time you four made It back, she would be done with the task I gave her, though seeing as how your earlier then I accounted for and also the fact that she hasn't returned yet It seems like I will have to uphold my promise after all." He explained

"O-ok then, uhh," Garbel said looking towards to which I just shrugged.

"Thank you for taking us In Lord Torch," Garble said slightly confused.

"Your welcome drake." He said

'I got a gut feeling that there's more to this, but what exactly am I missing?' I pondered to myself as I focused on Garble and Smolder.

'Whatever It Is no reason to focus on It too much right now, for now, we have somewhere to live still and Smolder gets to stay with us so let's just count our blessings,' I thought to myself as another question made Its way In my head.

"Wait If you offered to take care of us then why did you question us so much about If we would be able to take care of Smolder?" I asked

"I wanted to know If you were truly willing to care for her needs or If the 'love' you claimed to feel for her was a spur-of-the-moment feeling you felt when you watched her hatched and held her for the first time, Maker knows Its happened before," He explained shaking his head

"Do not misunderstand me drakes, If you showed even a moment of hesitation I WOULD have taken the drakina and cared for them myself If needed be, though thankfully that won't be needed," He said as he proceeded to lay down and get comfortable.

"Now as much as I would like to relax for the rest of the day even I know the importance of being able to fly." He said

"So I guess I'm just supposed to wait until you three are done while I watch from over here." Ember said upset

"Do you want to wait?" Torch asked raising an eyebrow.

"Of course I don't." Ember said glaring

"Then get over there and I'll teach you," Torch said causing Ember's to widen In surprise.

"But you told me that I would have to figure out how to fly with my wings on my own," Ember said

"I said you would have to figure out how to fly with them yes, but I never told you would have to figure It out alone," He told Ember as she stood In shock for a second before an excited smile spread across her face as she sprinted over towards us hopping on one foot to the next excitedly waiting for Torch.

'Cute,' I thought absentmindedly.

"Now listen carefully as I won't repeat myself," He said before closing his eyes.

"Now you may think flying Is the easiest thing In the world to do right?" He asked

"Yes?" Garble hesitantly answered.

"Well If you did then you would be right, as long as you are a dragon that Is," He helpfully clarified.

"Thanks, Dad real helpful," Ember said causing Torch to grin showing off his massive razor-sharp teeth as he closed his eyes again.

"Everydragon has draconic bakir flowing In their bodies that gives them their strength and abilities, so when a dragon needs to control their wings to fly all they need to do Is distribute some of that energy to flow through their wings allowing them to easily control them from just using their mind." He explained

"How exactly do we get the bakir to flow towards our wings?" I asked causing him to open his left eye.

"You have the basics on how to do It figure It out yourselves." He said

"Come on Dad that's stupid and you know It," Ember said causing him to sigh.

Oh Elda, how much easier this would be with you here," He said to himself before focusing on us.

"Try to focus on the feeling you get when you begin to breathe fire and instead of focusing on breathing fire instead focus on separating It from your flames and holding It, then while holding It bring It up to your chest and force It back towards your wings," He explained begrudgingly.

"Now after that explanation I'm confident In your ability as a dragon to be able to do the rest yourself," He said closing his eye and leaving us to ourselves.

"Well might as well try and see what happens," I said as I began to breathe fire only to feel It dissipate inside of me as I focused on what I assumed to be the bakir that was sustaining the flame, very slowly bringing It up towards my chest as I feel It shiver and shake looking for something to sustain.

After finally bringing It up towards my chest I realize that I've begun to slightly feel tired just focusing on holding this energy In place to prevent It from disappearing, as I focus on forcing it towards my wings until It feels like something snatches the energy out of my grasp as my wings suddenly feel as If they've been filled with life as I gasp In surprise.

"Did you do It?" Garble asked as I turned back to my wings.

'Fly,' I thought as my wings started to begin to slowly flap picking up speed as I was lifted Into the air and proceeded to hover five feet from the ground.

"Holy SHIT! I don't fucking believe It, but I can fly now!" I yelled out In excitement as I started flying around.

'God I don't know why but I feel so FREE right now just being able to fly now, and thankfully like Torch said this Is stupidly easy just being able to think of what exactly I want to do with my wings,' I thought to myself as I flew around for a few more seconds before coming back down to the others.

"So how was It?" Ember asked

"That. Was. AMAZING!" I answered feeling exhilarated.

"We could tell just from how happy you looked when you were flying around, and I've never seen you so happy like that before," Garble said grinning as Smolder nodded agreeing with him.

"Just the feeling of the wind passing you and blowing In your ears letting you know how fast you're going It and not to forget the absolute FREEDOM you feel just from flying for a little bit," I explained still coming down from my little fly high.

"Trust me you HAVE to try It for yourselves," I said to them.

"Don't worry they'll get their chance," Torch said as he opened both of his eyes and stood back to his original position.

"Though for now, Ember will have to wait as I need to speak with her In private," He said lowering his hand toward her.

"Wait why not just tell her here?" Garble asked as everyone Smolder included looked at him like an idiot.

"Unless you have suddenly gone deaf drake I said It Is a matter that I would rather discuss In private," Torch said pausing as he seemed to think about something before he began to start grinning which set off some alarms for me.

"Unless you think It's not too much for you two to handle?" He questioned

"You know what ma-"

"If Ember could handle It then of course we can," Garble said confidently as Torch shrugged and retracted his hand.

"Alright then, well In that case," He said before facing Ember, "I had thought that explaining this In private would be beneficial for you but since the drake here has assured me he could handle It I'll just explain something to you that you'll need to know In the future now that you're a full-fledged dragon out here." He explained

"So what Is It then, can't be too bad," Ember said innocently.

"Oh trust this will be for me, you, and your companions." He said before sighing, "Especially for me," He said to himself as he prepared for something.

"You see Ember, when a drake and drakina love each other very much," Torch began to say grinning In our direction as my eyes widened In horror.

'Oh nooooooooo, Goddammit Garble why couldn't you have just kept your mouth shut,' I thought as I resigned myself to this fate that I seemed destined to repeat even In another life.

Author's Note

Maekirx-Ruler
Bakir-energy

Yes, yes I know I can't write Torch and I know can't write for shit BUT, I would like it to go on record that I did try my best at trying to, though we all know that isn't worth shit around here anyways.

Beside all that I hope you guys are able to enjoy this trash heap of a thing I call a new chapter, though If you don't and leave a comment detailing In excruciating detail on hoe I thought I could make It as a fanfiction author then I will go ahead and use to fix whatever mistakes I made and to avoid making similar ones In the future.

Though If your able to somehow find some sort of enjoyment from this chapter then also comment down below what you enjoyed as I enjoy reading those

See ya later!