Hearts ablaze

by Fuster Cluck


Chapter 3

Luna awoke from her sleep. Uh, what a dream she thought. She was about to get out of bed when she noticed something... strange. This isn't my room!, she stared at the damp ceiling, where am I!?. She shifted her view to the rest of the room. It was a small cave illuminated by two candles on either side, there was a dresser, table and of course, the bed she was sleeping in.

"But how...?" she whispered under her breath.

Her train of thought was broken as something stirred beside her. She looked down only to see a unicorn staring back up at her. I didn't... am I really that lonely?

"Good morning" He said.

"Uh, hi..." she nervously replied.

The unicorn got out of bed, and to Luna's surprise stood eye to eye with her. She glanced down, scanning over the unicorn. He was an orange-ish red with a long ethereal tail, a flame cutie mark adorned his flank and so did a rather large pair of wings on his sides. She continued up to his nec-. Wait, WINGS. Luna took a step back, the dream... She looked up to his head, sure enough there was a horn on his forehead. Above that was his dark red mane, it was short and spiky, also ethereal and the way it flowed it looked like a fire atop his head. His face was like any other, the only thing out of the ordinary was his hypnotizing red eyes.

"B-Blaze!" Luna said, shocked

Blaze's happy face morphed into one of confusion, "what?"

Luna remembered to last nights "dream". Her pupils dilated the moment she realized she wasn't insane. Last night she passed off as a dream. Even when he spoke she thought it was just her subconscious making up excuses, but still she couldn't hold back her emotions, which were invoked by seeing him again. But it wasn't a dream, there infront of her stood the stallion she so desperately tried to forget, and she almost did.

She pulled him in and hugged him tightly, as she did the night before. Blazed gasped as she crushed all of the air out of lungs.

"L-L-una, your c-crushing me" Blaze gasped.

"Oh, huh, sorry" she said as she backed off. "So, I was wondering, how did no pony find you? I mean, wouldn't somepony notice an immortal fire deity roaming around in the forest?"

"No pony dares travel this deep in the forest, and even the few that do travel this deep are here when I'm gone."

"Gone? Gone where?" She asked.

"I usually stay with the dragons when they migrate to Equestria, they treat me like they're own, after all I can breathe fire just like them. You just happened to catch me between migrations, I stay here when the dragons leave." Blaze answered.

"But don't you get lonely?"

"The Phoenixes keep me company. I send them out every week to Canterlot to collect newspapers for me so I can keep up to date on current events."

"Oh" Luna looked down at the ground. "So you know about my... temper tantrum?"

"Yes, I am well informed on what happened to you, I cried for days upon hearing what happened to you, sweet, sweet Luna, turned into a monster."

"Are, are you mad at me?"

"No" blaze replied "We all have our own demons". A fireball engulfed Blaze. Luna had to look away as the blinding light illuminated everything in the dark room. The flames receded and there stood the the flaming skeleton of an Alicorn.