//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // 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 Two The other 4 ponies that Fire noticed while Pops was carrying him approached the group. “Miss Luminous” One of them said, she had reading glasses and was carrying some papers in her hoof “The reports say that your ‘incident’ on the market district brought the city guard to the festival” “Excellent, now lets get this thing in function” Luminous smiled and lifted the papers with her magic, then she gave them to Fire and Mr Ashes. ********************************** Meanwhile at the Fireworks shop *knock* *knock* “Mr Ashes, hello?, did you finished the request?... Would you kindly open the door for me?” The mayor was knocking at the Fireworks Shop door, he was followed by 6 members of the city guard, the mayor gave the signal and the biggest guard destroyed the door. *crack* The door fell and the 7 ponies entered, the mayor looked around while the guards destroyed the place apart. “Mr Ashes, you know what happens when somepony steals, the merchant said that he saw your son” The voice of the mayor sounded like he was enjoying the feeling of threat somepony. “Sir, there is no sign of the owner of this shop” “Keep looking, in the basement, the cellar, in the toilet, i don't care just find him” One of the guards went downstairs to look at the Fireworks storage “Wow this is dark, better light something” the guard lighted a torch just to reveal the tons of fireworks stashed “well shi-” *Boom* *Boom* *Boom*. “Sir, i think that he is not here” Said a guard all covered in ash and gunpowder. “No shit sherlock” Said the mayor with steam coming out from his nose and ears “you blew up the freaking shop!!”. A signal suddenly fell from the ruined shop and conveniently landed in front of the two ponies, ‘Fireworks Storage, DO NOT USE FIRE MAGIC’, the mayor glared again at the guard. ******************************************* Back to our heroes “You seem like enjoying this narrator” Shut up Luminous, get back to the story “Awwww, party pooper” Ahem…. now Back to our heroes “By the way Luminous, what did you exactly borrowed this time?” said one of the inventors. “You will see… Pops, want to make the honors?” Luminous gave an ember to Pops, embers are the main component to keep all mechanical and electronic functions of a factory and other things. Pops took the ember and positioned it in the main circuit of the factory, as soon the ember was in its place all the machinery and lights started to work. “So, now our place is more comfortable” Luminous smiled. Fire trot beside Pops and tried to have a conversation with him, while his dad was talking to Luminous about her mother. “So, Pops what's your story” “I… was… farmer” “Cool, i just assist dad with the fireworks, got any family?” “Dad… Dead… sister… merchant” Fire looked at Luminous from time to time, while asking nonsense to Pops, unluckily for Fire Pops noticed him looking at his boss. “You… like… Boss?” Fire blushed and started to act like a little colt with a crush. Luminous asked Mr Ashes if he can make some fireworks for a special event the group is planning for the night, just a little surprise for the mayor. “Fire, would you kindly come here for a sec?” Luminous called Fire to a part of the factory to explain about the next move. “Well Fire, now that you are with us, you have to be useful, you see we are going to the surface but your father told me that the only way to go up is through the dungeons right beneath the city council, you know the office of the mayor.” “and how are we going there?” “Simple, i stole the ember and the city guard will surely be searching for us cause the merchant saw you with me, come i am going to explain it to you when it happens” Luminous went upstairs to a balcony, the same that a normal supervisor will use to direct important announces to the employees. “Alright everypony, Pops you stay here with Mr Ashes and help to carry the fireworks to the rendezvous, inventors help with the fireworks, the other ones know what to do.” Luminous took her cloak and gave Fire another one, Shadow was still on the head of Fire. ******************************* “Alright everypony is time to end this festival with the best fireworks show you had ever seen i your life” The mayor standing on a podium placed just for the occasion. ‘alright Mr Ashes i hope that you did it right’ thought Luminous looking at the podium, Fire was at her left looking up to see if any fireworks are fired. *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *laughts* the podium exploded thanks to the fireworks The guards rushed to help the mayor, all the ponies who were there were laughing at the event, in the other hoof the mayor was burning in both ways, with anger and with all the fireworks exploding right underneath him. Fire and Luminous still in the public, they both took off their cloaks, the merchant who saw Fire early that day recognized him almost immediately “Guards get those two”. Fire and Luminous didn't even tried to escape, everything was just as planned. “I hope those two know what are they doing” Said Mr Ashes from a nearby window. “Boss… Smart… you… wait” Pops was behind him wearing the armor of an unconscious guard. ********************************** “Next” Called the jailor. Fire and Luminous entered the room, accompanied by 4 guards. “Crime?” “Sir, this two are ember robbers” “May Discord have mercy of your souls… Next” The guards pushed the two ponies, they opened a big door, behind it was a long hallway with cells on both sides, they were tales of the cells themselves driving a pony to insanity. It was dark, you can only hear the hoofsteps and the screams of the prisoners, not even rats roam this jail. It was a long walk, the darkness was horrible and the prisoners screaming for help didn't made the things easier, no wonder why the jail is under the office of the mayor. Finally they made it to their cell, the last one, reserved just for the ember robbers, steal an ember is the second worst crime in the children of fire laws. But it was all as planned, on the last cell is a hidden door leading to the office of the mayor, there they can get the location of the way to the surface. It was easier said than done, Luminous didn't count the darkness as a factor, well she can use magic anyway, the chest of Luminous started to glow, but the spell dispelled in just a blink. “Well Luminous is obvious that we can't use magic, is a prison genius.” Luminous tried to hit him with her hoof, but she only got darkness and fell on the ground, Fire ignored Luminous, he was focused on keeping his mind clear and breath, he was scared of the darkness since he was a baby. With Luminous tapping the wall to find Fire or the secret passage if she is lucky, Fire on the other hoof found a corner and sat in there with his eyes closed, his calm breath turned into panting. Luminous heard the panting of Fire, this time it was easier for her to find him in the dark just by the sounds, the other prisoners got quiet when the guards disappeared behind the entrance of the cell, Luminous kept one hoof in front of her just for caution. She felt the shivering Fire, he sounded like he was getting out of breath, when Luminous touched him, Fire jumped in surprise and hit his head with the wall. Luminous did not said a word, she just hugged Fire as tight as she could whispering “Is alright, i am here with you”, Fire was still shivering, but his quick breaths were slowly getting calmer until it turned into a relaxed sigh “You feeling ok?”, Fire returned the hug to Luminous as the answer, the hug lasted for another 30 seconds, it felt like minutes for Fire “There, that was Nanny used to do when i got scared”, Luminous sat beside Fire. “You know, when i am in a place so pitch black like this, i start to see things that are not there, creatures moving and looking at me, then i start to hear voices like they are talking to me and finally i feel like they are trying to get me” Fire let another sigh to calm himself, Luminous didn't kept quiet and grabbed one of Fire´s arms and hugged it. “Fire, lets focus on searching the hidden door, the sooner we found it, the sooner we will get out of here” Fire let out a sigh and grabbed one of Luminous arms and hugged it “Okay we can keep our hooves together to know where is the other.” Both ponies got up and started to tap each part of the wall, keeping their hooves together, *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *click*, Luminous heard the click and dragged Fire to where she was standing, Fire started to pat that zone with his hoof and heard another *click*. The wall moved revealing a light leading to a corridor. Both ponies didn't think twice, they went to that corridor as it was their last hope. Bad thing though they crashed with the Mayor who was casually trotting by, he was covered in ash and gunpowder, his business suit was all burned up and filled with holes. The mayor got to his hooves and glared at both ponies, the reaction of Fire was grab a nearby vase and break it on the mayor´s head, Luminous looked horrified at the unconscious Mayor on the floor. “Fire, For the love of Discord, what the heck are you thinking!” “Sorry i panicked!” Luminous did a face hoof, then looked around for what are they searching for, the mayor´s office. The information that they got was wrong, the hidden door of the cell took them to a corridor next to the cafeteria, things couldn't get worse now. Narrator this is ridiculous, every time they say things couldn't get worse they Do! Shut up Luminous, not this time trust me. What?, Fire is going to bring his inner hero and will carry me to safety, that's like a nightime story or something conveniently hanging around? Luminous, you know that i hate the Deus Maquina things, now GO BACK TO THE STORY Ahem…. some of the guards were still at the festival, the ones stationed on the Mayor's building were getting drunk at the cafeteria, the Mayor gave them the all clear for the festival, no alcoholic prohibitions for the day. If Fire and Luminous are lucky most of the guards will be drunk enough to not arrest them, the operation ended up as a complete fail, Luminous stole an ember for nothing, Fire got a panic attack and almost hyperventilated for nothing. “You…. Come” A big guard came behind them. Luminous arched an eyebrow “Pops i know its you”, Pops sighed, Fire smiled “Ok Pops, can you get us out?” “Thats…. Plan” “Did you know that this was going to happen?” Fire said with a confused look on his face. “Journalist…. Traitor” “What do you mean?” “Journalist…. turned…. everypony…. against…. Boss” Pops took out a newspaper, the special of the evening, the front page had a photo of Luminous, Pops, Mr Ashes and Fire, written in big letters it said “THE SURFACE REBELS FACES REVEALED!”. Luminous couldn't believe it, the only journalist who knew that was HER journalist. Pops positioned himself behind both ponies, the armor that he was wearing gave the impression of a city guard escorting two civilians to their home, the other guards were distracted by the festival or getting drunk, some of them were with their families ignoring Pops. Maybe the firework shenanigans was supposed to be the close the festival activities, it just opened the door to the night time festival, normally the children of fire work all day, the only recess they have is when they eat and go to sleep, festivals are planned to keep the morale high. Pops escorted Fire and Luminous to the residential district, there Mr Ashes was waiting for them, Pops looked around to see if there was any guard, when the coast was clear, he took off the armor. “Armor…. heavy” Fire hugged his Dad while Luminous talked to Pops on what was going to be the next move. ************************ Meanwhile at the Mayor’s office The mayor took a bath to take off all the remains of the day, his head hurt and it was bandaged, luckily for him there was still a nurse on the cafeteria, and she wasn't drunk, by the time. The Mayor heard somepony knocking at his door, then one soldier came in. “Sir, we found your sister” The guard gave the evening special newspaper to the Mayor. “Soldier, you know what to do” “Yes Sir!” You silly filly Luminous, you don't know what's coming to get you.The Mayor smiled and started to laugh.