Heart Of Fire: Feathers Of Flame

Chapter II

A New Life

The streets of the town were full of activity with ponies going about their regular day with smiles on their faces. Couples could be seen trotting proudly along side their loved ones. Shop keeps' tended to their respective stands and job titles. Foals ran around freely laughing and screaming with joy at the games they were playing.

Blazing could not help, but smile at the sight of the other foals his age playing games and such. That is until he thought about his friend he left behind at the orphanage. Autumn took notice of the little colt at her side looking out at the scene around them. She scooted closer to him and draped a wing over his shoulders. He looked up to her to find her offering him a small smile.

"You thinking about your friend, Spark?" She asked him. He gave her a silent, sad nod as his answer. "You know you'll still be able to see your friends, right?" She asked him. His ears drooped down. "You will." She encouraged. He looked up to her. "We still live in the same town, you'll be going to the same school, and we're not far from the orphanage." He looked to her with a bit of hope in his eyes. She smiled at this.

The carriage soon came to a halt and Blazing looked out the window as the driver unsaddled himself from the cart to help with the bags. Autumn got out of the carriage and turned back to help Blazing down. He looked up to the house they had stopped at in awe.

The new house made the orphanage seam much smaller than it really is due to the lack of so many foals running around. It was a three story building much similar to a simple child drawing of a house with a door dawning the middle of the front with two windows at either side of it with two more windows above them and one window above them at the middle where the attic space would be. The next thing that caught his attention was who came out of the front door to greet them.

Coming out of the front door with a big smile on her beak, grey fur from the shoulders down to her hind paws, white feathers from the base of her neck up to the feathers in her eyes and claws for her forelegs instead of paws to match her hind legs. "Autumn!" The gryphon called, getting Autumn's attention.

Autumn looked up to find the gryphon running up to her and smiled. "Blue!" Autumn cried out and rushed up to great her apparent friend in a warm, tight, and rather passionate hug that lasted several seconds before the gryphon started to lean in, only to have her beak stopped by Autumn's hoof. Blazing stood there watching the two ladies in a bit of confusion before Autumn turned to him with a smile. "Blazing, honey, come meat my girlfriend."

"Girlfriend?" He asked himself before he started to walk up. "Does she mean a friend that's a girl? That has to be it" He looked up to them as he reached them, who both smiled at him. Autumn looked to her.

"Blue, this is my son, Blazing Feathers." She introduced. Blue smiled at him.

"Hi, Blazing." She greeted him. He smiled at her with a wave, but they could tell he was a bit confused.

"Blazing, Blue is a gryphon." Autumn explained. "She's half eagle and half lion and she and I are in love." The two smiled as they stood together.

"But..." Blazing stuttered. "... You're both girls." He observed as he looked between them. "Aren't girls only suppose to like boys?" He asked.

"Usually, yes." Blue answered. "But, sometimes, two girls can like each other and two boys can like each other. It doesn't matter when you're in love." She finished proudly as she smiled to the mare she loved and planted a kiss on her cheek. Autumn smiled at her. Blazing inclined his head and started to smile.

"Cool." He said.

Blue picked Blazing up and helped him get settled into the house. The next couple of hours were spent unpacking Blazing's things and getting him set up in his new room. He was full of energy at the fact there was so much more room now. He always had to share spaces with other foals and now he had a place all to himself. Pictures were placed on the walls and dressers to while a bed lay in the corner opposite the door.

After putting up the last of the pictures he packed with him from the orphanage, he looked at his room while the two ladies smiled at him from the door. He soon smiled and plopped on his back on his bed, smiling up at the ceiling. "I love it!" He beamed. The two girls giggled.

"I have a son, now." Autumn said under her breath, though not low enough for her lover to go without hearing it.

"You mean "we" have a son now." Blue kissed Autumn's cheek, earning a blush from the Pegasus mare. Blazing looked up to the two and scrunched up his nose at the sight.

"Blach!" He spat out. The two looked up at him and chuckled. They expected no less from a young colt barely older than five to be grossed out by a couple showing affection. Most colts his age did not like to see such things going on in front of them.

That night, they all celebrated their new family by going out for dinner. The two older ladies agreed to take their new child someplace he could have a blast and they could enjoy a good meal. And to top it off, they invited Ms. Cherry Joy, Cheerilee, and Spark Storm to join them at their dinner. The older three of the group sat down together, chatting, eating, enjoying each other's company, while the younger three played almost relentlessly together in a foals play area at the restaurant.

When Cherry Joy first found out Autumn was a fillyfooler, she had concerns for Blazing. She initially thought Autumn was just a single mare who wanted the joy of parenthood, but the more she conversed with Blue, the more her worries faded to nothing and she could not be any more happy for the new parents Blazing now had in his life. Honestly, Cherry Joy is a lot more happy on the fact that Autumn would not be razing Blazing alone, being a single mother of two herself. She knew the hardship of being a young, single mom, but she would have it no other way. Even though Blazing was pretty much set for his new life, Cherry would always be willing to help whenever she had to for multiple reasons. Two of which being the two colts she had to raise, and were best friends since they were newborns, Blazing and Spark.

Autumn could not be anymore happy. The last time she was so happy was when she started dating Blue some time ago. The only thing that could make this any better when the next step of relationship, but she did not expect this to happen for some time, though she would always hope and dream for the day she sees her lover offering the question. She had no shame or guilt in being a fillyfooler, even if her parents disowned her for it. She had a firm belief that if something felt right for you than that is how it is meant for you. No one would ever change her mind about that.

Blue was one who just went with the flow of things. If she felt compelled to do something, by Celestia, there was no chance of stopping her. She felt she had to ask that mare on a date, and she would not rest until she got that "yes" or "okay". Unless she felt the first rejection was meant to be, than she would move on. With Autumn, there was no other option. She had to have this mare. Even if the gryphons were not so supportive of interracial relations, but they have no real reason to stop one of their own from choosing a mate. And Blue never had any regrets of the choices in her life. She never bothered with the past, even if she repeats the same mistakes. She never worries about the future, unless she makes plans for her lover, which is never a major problem with her. She mainly focusses her life on the here and the now.

Blazing Feather's day was by far the best of his life. He now has a mother, a best friend, a new home, and a whole new wide world of opportunity ahead of him. What more could any foal ask for? As far as this little pegusus is worried, nothing would come between him and his family and friends.