Heart Of Fire: Feathers Of Flame

Chapter III

The Start Of An Adventure

Blazing walked out of the school section of the orphanage building, a big smile on his face, a spring in his trot, and a look of excitement for the rest of the day. A day at school was always the best part of the day for him, not for the long, boring, slow, sleep inducing hours of what seams to be endless lesson after another endless lesson, but because that's a large portion of the day he gets to spend with his life-long friend, Spark Storm.

Spark's older sister, Cheerilee was starting to get a bit on the rebellious side in her looks. Her mane was getting more and more wild by the day, she wore ridiculous clothing, and she even started to back talk against Cherry Joy, their mother.

Spark had his own issues to deal with. He regularly got into fights, coming home with shiners, figuring out who his birth parents were, falling in love with a filly in their class.

Apart from his friends, Blazing simply tried keeping to himself. He did not like the way Cheerilee was going with her rebellious nature. Sure, it did seam like every-pony was going for that rebellious look these days, but Blazing just did not like it. Blazing would revert to crying whenever a bully would target him. Blazing just was not the one to get into fights. He just could not understand how and why others seam to enjoy getting into fights.

Eventually, Blazing took to workout training. With the help of his mother, and her girlfriend, he began to exercise regularly. Every morning before school, the three would take a half-hour long walk around the town. Blazing would do a number of wing-ups during reses every day at school, preferably in a secluded place where the bullies would not get to him.

With all the wing-ups he did on a daily basis for the last year, he was starting to fly as a natural. Soon, both the motherly figures in his life started teaching him a few tips and tricks on how to fly. And they did not have to go easy on him either. He was impressive. Almost as if he was on fire when he flew.

Because of Blazing picking up flying so fast, and his body being slightly more built than the other foals in school, he could easily make the bullies back down. Even though he did not like to fight, his quickly developing body made it easy for him to put on a tuff face and make help Spark defend their friends.

Now it was the end of another school day, and today, Blazing decided to fly up to the clouds. At the start of the week, he had already got an approval from both his mothers to take the day and explore the infamous Cloudsdale City. The home of most pegasi as well as the location the weather clouds were made. And since he had been spending so much time building up his wing strength he wanted to go where the wings grew and the clouds form. After saying his goodbyes to his friends from school, he took off to the clouds.

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The week before

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Autumn and Blue were working together early in the morning to prep a good breakfast for the young, growing colt they had charged themselves with caring for well over a year ago. Blue occasionally stole a kiss from her lover, be it on the cheek, the head, or even the lips. Many would question how a beak on lips would work, which would annoy Blue in a number of ways. That number depended on how many times she heard it. Not just in a day, but in the entire time she had been in a relationship with anyone. Gryphon, donkey, pony, it did not matter. She hated the questions revolved around kissing with a beak.

For Autumn, sometimes Blue would endlessly get on her nerves about a number of things. Cooking, caring for Blazing, bed times, but despite all that, she would not have it any other way. Blue made her happier than anyone else ever had. She just wish the question would be asked from someone she loved so much. It was starting to get to the point she was going to come up and ask Blue to marry her herself.

"Mom! Blue!" A familiar, loveable voice called them from upstairs. Autumn looked up to find Blazing coming down.

"What is it, my flying champ?" Blue asked as she picked him up in a power hug. Autumn giggled as she made sure the food was in a good condition to step away from so she could go see her son.

"Morning, sweetheart." She said as she kissed his cheek. She could hardly believe she had been caring for this colt for a year now. But, she could not be happier with the life she was living. A hard working lover, a child, a home. What more could one ask for?

"Can I go to Cloudsdale?" Blazing asked. The two looked at him with a bit of shock.

"Why do you want to go to Cloudsdale, sweetie?" Autumn asked. He looked to her.

"I want to see the city the weather comes from." He answered with a bit of a hopeful smile. She could not help, but have a sense of relief that he did not answer with 'I want to find my real parents', even though she knows he would eventually want to find the answer to that question some day.

"That's it?" Blue asked with a raised brow smile. "I can get you up there in a flash. Show you the works. Give you the VIP tore." Having a position in the weather station herself, Blue did know a thing or two or three about what goes on in that magnificent city.

"Actually, I was hoping I could go myself?" He asked, this time with a bit of fear in his expression.

"Why alone, sweetheart?" Autumn asked.

"Oh, why stop him from having an adventure?" Blue asked with a confident smile as she hugs the little colt. "He's just going to the one place either of us knows well enough to find him in a snap should he get lost!" Blazing could not help be chuckle at her enthusiasm, though Autumn showed signs of concerned skepticism. When Blazing looked to his mother he could tell she was going to say no.

Autumn had a look of serious thinking on her face. She went back to cooking so the food would not get burned while Blue brought him to the table and helped him get settled as they waited for her to say something. It was not until after they finished their meal before Autumn looked to her son.

"You promise to stay out of trouble?" She asked him. He nodded. She did not have to ask such a question, but she would never live it down if she did not go through the steps in her son's safety. "You won't follow strangers, cause problems, get into fights-" All the usual questions before Blue stepped in.

"Ah, Autumn, you do know who you're questioning, right?" She asked. It was not long after that before all three were giggling.

"I know, I'm just trying to ease my nerves." Autumn answered.

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Present Day

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Blazing landed on the cloud known as Cloudsdale, and stared up in awe at all the pegasi. He had never seen so many winged ponies in his life. He looked left and right as he glided through the air. He smiled and waved at a few pegasi he passed, right up until her round a corner, where he bumped into another foal his age. The two crashed and landed on the tuff of cloud below them.

"Ow!" Blazing said before looking up. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..." He noticed the other foal was a filly with a coat the same shade of yellow as his and a two toned orange and yellow mane. Not too different from his own.

"Ah, that's okay." She replied. "Not everyday you bump into a Pegasus who looks like he can really fly." She smiled at his wings. "Wanna race?" She grinned.