//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Children of Fire: Colts and Fillies of Chaos // by Red Gear //------------------------------// MLP:FIM Story: Children of Fire: Colts and Fillies of Chaos By: Red Gear Chapter One It was a calm afternoon at Fluttershy's Cottage, just one thing was out of the “ordinary”, Discord was walking in random directions scratching his chin with his right arm and his head with his tail, is like he was trying to remember something. “THATS IT!” Shouted Discord scaring some of Fluttershy´s friends. “ehhh… umm… Discord?, what happened?” “*chuckle* Aww yes dear Fluttershy, remember the incident with the seeds of chaos?” “Yes” “I just remembered another thing from that time” “oh no… you planted more seeds?!. what are we going to do now without the elements?!” “Is not that, just someponies that i created to be my own subjects in my reign of chaos… I wonder, where are they now?” ****************************** Meanwhile somewhere deep Underground “Its time for the 1002nd anniversary of our existence everypony, don't forget to praise Discord!” The proud mayor said officially opening the Fire Festival. Little fillies and colts playing on the parks, young couples walking around, the merchants selling their stuff, everypony was enjoying the festival, well except one of them, Fire Ashes the son of a humble merchant. These ponies call themselves “Children of Fire”, 1002 years ago, Discord the God of chaos got his hands in a peculiar artifact, the gift of fire, its rumored to have the power to create life, Discord wanted to use its magic to make sure that his influence will be even if he is defeated by the sisters. The first families of the children of fire were “The Coal”, “The Ember” and “The Flame”, they were banished underground to make an empire of their own. The Coal family worked with the fire seeds that Discord gave them to grow their own food, The Ember Family worked mining the terrain and building the city and The Flame family used the food and the materials that the other families wasted to make goods on improvised factories. The children of fire have the physical appearance of an earth pony, the difference between these ponies and the Equestrian ponies are simple, children of fire doesn't have cutie marks and they are able to use basic magic without horns. In memory of the moment that Discord gave life to the first 3 families of the children of fire they built a statue of blazing fire on the middle of the city with the following words “A soul is fire, it burns inside the body to make it stronger, the children of fire, born from the ashes of an empire”. This statue is a common meeting place for either young and old couples, Fire Ashes is a descendant of the Coal family, that means he is on the lowest rank of the Children of fire society, his only friend is his Bat pet, named shadow. He was wandering around the festival, he liked to see the different colors of the orbs that illuminated the street, his father was occupied with the fireworks that the mayor requested. 'Son, you need to relax a little go to the festival' Fire remembered the words of his father, lately his father wanted to have a grandson to help with the shop and persuaded (forced) Fire to date the daughters of the friends of the family, every date ended up with a bored mare. Fire looked at his little pet, patting the head of Shadow he felt like somepony was staring at him, he didn't mind it. “Shadow here boy” The bat flew and posted himself on the head of Fire, the duo went to the famous statue, the mayor was there waving his hoof to anypony who passes near him 'Nice work mayor, getting votes like a boss', Fire hated the mayor, every time they see each other the mayor stare at him like he was infected or something. “I Tell You The Outside World Exist!” 'Another mad pony' since he was a little colt, some crazy ponies wander the street shouting the same stories of the outside world, insanity for sure, since they born, the children of fire learned to fear the ceiling of their city, stories of nothing behind those walls scared little fillies and colts. “You know what Shadow?, lets get home and---” Fire was interrupted by a cloaked pony who crashed with him. “Hey watch it!” a feminine voice shouted at him. “SOMEPONY CATCH THOSE TWO OVER THERE!” The cloaked pony grabbed Fire by his hoof and trot with him until they got to the corner between the market district and the residential district, the mare pushed him to a pile of hay and she used a barrel full of ash apples as her hiding place. To make sure, the cloaked mare used a camouflage spell over them, including shadow as well. Her chest started to glow, a orange colored light covered them and soon the group were out of sight. “Buck! where did they go?!” shouted a shopkeeper looking at his surroundings, the other ponies that were with him suggested to go to the town guard and report the ponies. The mare waited until the ponies were gone, she deactivated the spell and looked at Fire “Hey kid catch, for the trouble” she threw a bit at him “keep it, it will bring you luck”. The mare went on her way, Fire and Shadow looked at each other, then they noded to each other “ok, buddy we are following her”. While following the cloaked pony Fire looked at the bit that she gave him, “Is strange, i've never seen a coin like this” he examined which marks the bit had, “Nation of Equestria?, what's that?” , Fire growled, a fake coin, that mare is surely going to have some explanation to do. The mare went to the Industrial District, it was still afternoon by the glow of the illumination Orbs on the sky, it was hard to Fire to keep track of her, she did unexpected turns on some random corners all the time, thanks to Shadow who was flying above him to keep track of her, he will surely give up 2 minutes after start. The mare took off her cloak, letting Fire see her beautiful paprika colored mane and her amber colored coat, the mare looked back at his direction, Fire tried to hide but it was too late, the mare smiled and kept going in the same direction. Fire thought that she didn't notice, but he did notice that she was getting easier to follow, thanks to the festival, the district was less crowded, and the industrial district is more plain and simple than the passage filled Merchant District. The mare came to a halt, she knocked 5 times a backdoor of a factory. A big pony opened it, the mare glared at him, then she looked in the direction of Fire and did a nod, the big pony went to the direction of Fire, Fire was scared, he froze in place while the big pony approached. “Boss... says... you... come” Said the big pony carrying the still frozen Fire. The big pony took Fire on his back and carried him to the inside of the factory, inside there were 4 ponies, all of them seeming too occupied to turn back and see who was entering their place. “Ok Pops, put him over there by the machines” The big pony called Pops moved Fire to the place that the mare requested. “Why did you follow me?” *silence* Pops tapped Fire´s back with such strength that made Fire cough a few times “Boss… Asked… you… respond”, Pops voice was threatening and his stare made Fire pray to Discord for his safety. “That bit-” Fire stared at Pops “*gulp*is false” “Really?, all that for just one coin?, you kiddin right?” “The nation of Equestria doesn't exist” The mare stared at Pops and they both laughed, then the mare whispered something to Pops. The big pony left the mare and Fire alone, “Boss… says… Supervise… others”, Pops went to one of the other ponies and started to talk with him. “Follow me, it may change your life” Fire noticed his winged little friend entering through a window, Shadow flew doing and posted on Fire’s head, the mare chuckled at the cute little act. “Ok little colt, what you will tell me if i say that we live under the real world?” “I have 19 years, and i will say that you are insane” “Ok, you know the story of our creation?” Fire looked ahead with an expression of ‘you kidding right?’ “Well, thats not the complete story” Fire arched an eyebrow. “Get comfortable, storytime!” The mare said the last word like a kindergarten teacher. “Discord our father, somehow gained access to the most powerful artifact in pony history, an artifact so powerful, it can even create life. On that moment of time 1002 years ago, our creator faced, two sisters with their own artifacts ‘The elements of armory’ or something like that, well Discord made some preparations, he used his own seeds of chaos, but those didn't work, before he could be defeated he created us, we don't know how our creator looks like, the only things we know about him are the information he told to the original members of the families” “Ok mare, thats the same thing that i know, well except the part of those two sisters and those elements, but, what does the so called surface fits in here?” “Well my mother went on a crusade to the surface, 2 days ago i received a letter from her with that bit and, actual photos of the surface!” The mare levitated the cloak that she was wearing with her magic, she took the pictures and showed them to Fire. The pictures showed various landscapes, some with a big city on the edge of a mountain in the background. Fire´s jaw almost hit the ground, the pictures, he knew it was true, such beautiful eyes can't lie him, it is impossible. “And why did you gave this to me?” Said Fire showing the bit that the mare gave him. “Well, they saw you with me, sorry but now you are a criminal like us” Fire thought about his Dad, what will he say?, his son suddenly disappeared and he was last seen with a criminal, a tear slowly descended through Fire´s eye, now he bucked it up, the name of his family, his father, everything went to hell. “Can you, protect my Dad?” The mare´s eyes widened, she didn't thought that he was going to say that. “ehhh… sure, where is your father?” “Merchant District, Ashes fireworks shop, he is the owner” “Pops?... Can you go to the fireworks shop on the merchant district and bring the owner to us?, careful he is an old pony.” “Yes… Boss… right… away” The mare turned to face Fire again. “Where are my manners?, my Name is Luminous Flame, and yours?” “Fire Ashes, a pleasure to meet you, Luminous Fla-.... Wait WHAT?!” Fire tried to hide his surprise but it was already too late “Flame family?, why you a noble doing this?” Luminous smiled, not a warm one, a more psychotic one “Don't bring politics here” Fire tried to say something, but he preferred to kept his mouth closed, the mare was indeed a Noble, but why?, better change subject. “So what are you exactly, Thief guild?, conspirators?, assassins?” “Fire you are so funny, we are free ponies, nothing more” “And how many ponies?” “The 4 over there are a columnist faking articles to put them in our favor, 2 inventors that, well invent stuff, the other one is a farmer who grows crops here in our base, Pops is the physical work, me i am the leader, and you?, we will think about it” Fire was surprised but how well structured they are “Luminous is pretty and smart, i am amazed” Fire turned his head again to look at Luminous, she was staring at him blushing, her cheeks were red as a fire apple “Did i say it loud?” he just received a nod from Luminous as an answer. ********************************* On the Market District “Fireworks… shop” Read Pops, finally finding what his boss said, now the hard part, take the owner with him without harming him. *knock* *knock* The door slowly opened by an aged up pony, the pony narrowed his eyes so he could see the big stallion that was in front of him. “Pops?, long time no see, hows your father?” “Dad… Dead” “I see, what brings you to my shop?” “Your… Son… stole…something… come” The smile on the old pony´s face disappeared, he turned back to his shop, and walked behind the counter, there he had a carefully hidden saddlebags with unknown content. ‘Oh Fire you are in trouble now’ “Ok, Pops lets go” ********************************** Fire was playing with Shadow waiting to hear about his Dad, *knock* *knock* *knock* *knock* *knock*, Luminous opened the door to be pushed aside by an angry old pony. “FIRE!, YOU HAVE SOME EXPLANATIONS TO DO!” “Mr. Ashes?, is that you?” Fire noticed his dad looking at him with such anger in his face, even more than when he played with matches on the storage room of the fireworks shop, when Luminous distracted his dad he took the opportunity to slip away and hide behind a machine. “Miss Flame?, where is your mother?” “She made it Mr. Ashes, she is free” Luminous was crying with joy, she knew that Fire´s dad helped her and now, maybe he will agree to one more escape. Fire heard the conversation, “Dad do you know this ponies?” “Just her mother, AND DON'T CHANGE SUBJECT!” Luminous looked at Pops and whispered to him “what did you told him?” “Nothing… miss” Luminous led an annoyed sigh and explained the situation to Mr. Ashes, the rage on the old pony´s eyes disappeared on an instant, Fire let out a sigh of relief. “So…” Mr. Ashes looked at Fire “You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time, thanks Discord this ponies found you” Fire lowered an eyebrow, ‘Dad knows Luminous´s mom, how?’ . Luminous clapped her hooves together and with a wide smile said “Father and Son together, fighting for their freedom, THIS STORY GOT INTERESTING!!”, Fire and his Dad looked at Pops, he just shook his head, Luminous looked at the ceiling of the factory and said “We the Children Of Fire are just getting started, stay tuned everypony!!”