MLP:FIM
Story: Children of Fire: Colts and Fillies of Chaos
By: Red Gear
Chapter Three
“Mommy, wait don't go, don't leave me please!” Luminous stretched her arm as far as she could, but her mother seems to get farther and farther away. “Mommy PLEASE!” Luminous started to cry, her tears disappear as soon they hit the void underneath her.
“MOOOOOOOOM!” Cried Luminous when she woke up, this startled everypony on the house.
“Luminous are you ok?” Said Fire.
“Boss…. ok?” Said Pops.
“Miss Luminous, are you ok?” Said Mr Ashes.
“Yeah yeah, i am fine, its just…. a nightmare” Luminous was sweating and her mane was all messed up, suddenly Fire hugged her, just like she did to him back at the prison.
“Is alright” Fire repeated the same words that Luminous told him when he panicked, Luminous blushed when Fire said “Is alright, i am here with you”, then it faded away when she noticed the smirks on the faces of both Pops and Mr Ashes.
“Mr Ashes, you knew my mother, tell me what happened when she left” the request caught Mr Ashes off-guard, the smirk disappeared from his face, the old pony turned around and went downstair without answering.
“I’ve never seen Dad acting like that, give him a break Luminous, he is like 59 years old by now”
“But-”
“No Luminous, *sigh* i know Dad, just let him rest for a while a he will gladly answer any question!” Fire finished with encouraging words to Luminous.
“By the way Fire, where is Shadow?”
“Oh, i told him to wait for me back at the fac- BUCK!” Fire trotted to the window to see if it wasn’t far, indeed the factory wasn't far, just a good 10 minutes walk, but there is a little problem, the evening special newspaper got the picture of Fire and the others and they will be on the wanted list for sure.
Fire took his cloak, he was kind of lucky, the festival got most of the city guard drunk and by that moment they will surely having the hangover of their life, well except the responsible ones and the boot lickers, the mayo too, hangover or not he will surely punish the ponies who dared to mess with him.
“Dad, i am going for Shadow” Before hearing a reply, Fire trotted out of the house with his cloak on.
“Pops, keep an eye on him can you?” Said Luminous.
“Yes…. Ma’am”
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The light embers on the ceiling marked the time with their glow, a brighter one means day and a darker one means night, it was still too early in the morning, Fire knew it, if he was lucky, he could be able to get Shadow when he was still awake, one of the weak points of having a nocturnal animal as pet and not a mole like anypony else.
“Please buddy, be awake” Fire got as fast as he could to the factory, ignoring everything that was in front of him, his eyes focused above to see if Shadow was flying around before going to sleep, to his surprise Shadow was flying above the factory, when Fire called his pet, he crashed at full speed with a mare who was just passing by.
“Hey watch it!” Shouted the angry mare, Fire opened his eyes to look at the mare, Shadow noticed him from above, the Mare looked just like Luminous, the only difference is that her mane color was red and that Luminous was a little taller.
“Luminous?” Fire said bringing a hoof to his head.
“You know my sister?” The mare got on her hooves, Shadow posted on Fire’s head, the mare chuckled at the bat, then looked at Fire “Answer my question peasant!”
Fire ignored the mare, it was hard for him, he liked Luminous, but her sister had something different that attrac-
Wait a second Narrator, that means that Fire is going to have a crush on me AND my sister!?
LUMINOUS!!, how the hell you got in here?!
Well, since you are too lazy and poor to repair that hole on the wall.
Shut up Luminous, Go back to the story and would you kindly STOP coming here?
Sigh, where was i?, yeah i remember…. Luminous sister had something that attracted Fire, her lower stature made her look kind of cute and the mane color matched her eyes perfectly, Fire got lost on the eyes of the mare both eyes shining like a ruby, Fire shook his head, he can't be in love with 2 mares, two sisters to make it worse, ‘But bigamy is technically legal in the children of fire community’ Fire shook his head again to take the thought out of his head.
The mare noticed that Fire wasn’t paying attention to her questions, she decided that the best she can do is, hitting Fire in the face with her hoof. She lifted her right hoof, it was charged up with her magic to increase the power of the strike, *POW*.
“WHY?!”
“Because you are ignoring my questions!”
“*sigh* are you Luminous sister?”
“isn’t that obvious by now peasant?”
“Yes i know her, but i ain't taking you to see her”
Fire trotted back to the safe house with Shadow on his head, the mare followed him as fast as she could to keep up with the stallion, a problem for Fire is that his condition is pretty bad, he was forced to rest from time to time, that gave the mare time to keep up with him until she caught him with her magic, he was 1 block far from the safe house when the mare got him.
“Put me down!”
“where is my sister?!”
“Why should i trust you!”
“Because-”
“CRIMSON FLAME!, PUT DOWN THAT PONY RIGHT NOW!” Shouted Luminous, to Fire’s luck, Shadow flew to the house and guided Luminous to where he was, being levitated like a ragdoll in the middle of the street.
Crimson looked at her sister, she let go Fire and trotted over to Luminous to hug her. Tears appeared in Crimson’s eyes.
“Sister *sniff* Ember said that you died *sniff* and when i saw you on the evening special i-”
“How did you know about the factory” Fire interrupted.
“Well the location was on the newspaper” Crimson kept a cold expression when she talked to Fire.
The other ponies around recognized the sisters, some because Crimson is the Head of the Flame Family, but thats just appearances, the real Head of the Flame family is the Mayor, Crimson is just there to show that tradition is still respected, but Luminous showed up on the newspaper as a traitor, 2 weeks after her sudden disappearance.
The other ponies ignored the scene, they have to go to work or their bosses are going to fire them and they have to live in the Ratway, right underneath the city, a job is something that you MUST have, if the census shows that you can't pay for something, you will be banned to the Ratway.
Fire, Luminous and Crimson, entered to the house, Pops was waiting for them while Mr Ashes was making fireworks in the basement.
Crimson tried to explain the situation that she was having at the moment and thanks to the journalist that she contacted to get the information about Luminous, that means that the journalist that worked for Luminous didn't betrayed her, she just did that to help Crimson.
All the ponies except Mr Ashes went to the living room and letted Crimson explain the situation.
“Luminous you have to go back, Ember is messing everything up!”
“NO”
“Luminous you know what that psycho is capable of!”
“I WON'T GO BACK, and i know that he's still a pony like us, nopony had find the gift of fire in 1002 years, why he would now?!”
“*sigh* he found the archives of the flame family”
Luminous eyes widened in shock, how does her half-brother Ember could find it, the scrolls containing such information are exclusively opened by a pure example of Flame family's blood, he can’t, he has the blood of the ember family, he is not entirely a Flame but he is still the mayor.
The room kept a silence, not a normal silence, an uneasy cemetery like silence. Pops and Fire looked at each other trying to know what's going on, the two sisters had different expressions, Crimson had a serious face and Luminous had a face of pure horror, if the archives of the Flame family are used the wrong way, something terrible is going to happen to Candlelight City.
“whats the plan Luminous?” Fire asked.
“Get the archives and hide in the Ratway”
Crimson’s eyes widened this time, the same happened to both Fire’s and Pops eyes, the Ratway is full of thieves and murderers, but some of them are still sane and may help Luminous with her cause.
“You know, the mayor is going nuts about finding us now” Crimson said.
Mr Ashes came from the basement with a box full of fireworks, old habits die hard, and more for the old pony.
“Mr Ashes!” Crimson trotted over to the old pony and gave him a tight hug.
Fire was now interested in the past of his father, Fire expended all his life with his mom at the fireworks shop while his dad went out to work as a alchemist for the Flame family, thats why he is so good with fireworks. Now that made sense, why his dad know the sisters?, but what about Pops?, is he related to the sisters?
Luminous seemed to be thinking the next move while her sister was getting the oxygen out of the poor old pony, Fire tried to have a proper conversation with Pops.
“Pops, do you know Crimson?”
“No”
“How did you met Luminous?”
“Farm…. closed… she…. helped”
“why do you work for her?”
“she…. needed…. help”
Luminous levitated everypony on the room, then positioned each one on the various chairs that she prepared.
“alright everypony Flame mansion is going down, Crimson they know that you are here?”
“No, i don’t think so”
“You are going to enter and open the way from the inside, tell the guards that we are special guest or something like that”
“Luminous, since our brother became the mayor, that mansion is a fortress, is not that easy to trick security”
Luminous sat down again trying to think about a new plan.
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Meanwhile at the Flame House
“Sir, you sister Crimson is nowhere to be found”
The mayor was drinking his Flame Apple cider, a special breed of apple that only the children of fire know how to grow, when he heard the new he spilled it all over the guard.
“Sir, some civilians reported the location of Luminous, and Crimson is with her”
Now the mayor smiled, if Crimson is with Luminous, that means that she knows about the archives, but the mayor can’t open it, he can use Luminous or Crimson, that silly filly is just going to help him open the archives.
“Get them here as soon as you can soldier”
The guard turned around and went to get some soldiers for the mission. When the guard got out the room, the mayor closed the door, then he moved to a painting of him when he was a little colt by the side of his father, the head of the Flame family by the time.
“You old pony, you said that i wasn't worthy, that i am not a pure Flame, well look at me now, i found the archive, then i will find the gift of fire, and all Candlelight city will crumble beneath my iron hoof!” The mayor pushed a button behind the painting, then a secret door opened revealing another bottle of flame apple cider.
The guard had his own plans too, he was loyal to the Flame family, but the corruption of the mayor and the desaparicion of the Lady and Luminous made things harder to control, even the mayor’s insanity got worse since the incident at the Fireworks shop and what happened at the end of the festival, without counting the assault he got from two prisoners.
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Back to Luminous and her Incredibly complicated stupid plan
Crimson was trotting ahead with Fire and Pops, both stallions disguised as city guards, it was getting easier to get that armor, now that Pops stole some during his rescue of Fire and Luminous, Mr Ashes was levitating a box full of fireworks and Luminous was chained up, simulating that she was captured.
The mansion was just on the hill of the wealthy district, the whole district was property of the Flame family, the only family of the 3 originals that stayed pure without mixing their blood with the other ones, until the birth of Ember Flame, the mayor.
Crimson and Luminous are pure Flame blood, Luminous refused to follow the tradition of the family when her mother disappeared, Luminous was supposed to be the new head of the family, but when she escaped that responsibility was for Crimson, but she refused saying that she can't take the place of her sister, at the end the head of the family was Ember because there were nopony else to do the job.
The main door of the mansion stood there, 5 guards guarding it while other 10 patrolled the garden, the inside is swarmed with guards and the mayor standing there with his mug full of flame apple cider.
Now is time to begin the crazy plan of Luminous Flame.
OOOOH Cliffhanger
Luminous GO BACK TO THE STORY…. I really need to repair that wall