TInto the Storm: The Flight of Firefly
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Before the Wonderbolts, there were the Bolt Knights. And before Rainbow Dash, there was Firefly. The story of Rainbow Dash's ancestor, the founding of the Wonderbolts, and the outbreak of the Great Pony/Gryphon War.
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Feathered Heart continuation story will release in ten days · 6:30pm Mar 17th, 2021

But it will not yet contain the continuation itself, sorry, since I still have a slew of chapters to get through updating first. It will eventually appear in this new story, however.

So why do it now? Well, as it's hard to get people reading and commenting on the edited chapters by blog alone, and I don't want fans to have to wait for new content instead of the merely updated original kind, I'm currently working on what amounts to an all-new bonus chapter similar to the ones I did for Turnabout Storm.

As it's entirely original, I would be permitted to post it under a new story, thus at long last raising the Feathered Heart banner anew and giving readers a place to go--and comment--for the coming continuation. It would also, of course, link to the Google Doc chapter edits, thus placing the bonus chapter in its proper context even without posting the edited chapters to the story.

So what's in the the new chapter? Well, it's going to be a bit of a lore dump. It fills in the gap between chapters 3 and 4 of the original story, which involved a time jump between the attack and Chris and Marco at the end of chapter 3, and then restarting what seemed like a day or two later with our heroes watching Braveheart at the beginning of chapter 4.

So what happened in between? Well, it would seem to me that there is certainly some aftermath of the attack to explore, and decisions to be made regarding how they would protect Chris, Marco and Tara from there on out. I'd imagine Ambassador Goldberg would try to get Marco sent home, as it's established later on he doesn't like Marco, and Gilda would have a long chat with Lieutenant Nantz--who was seen only briefly in the original story--about how to do things going forward.

They would agree that some form of cultural education for civilians and soldiers alike was in order to head off future incidents, and Gilda and Fortrakt would start it by taking our three human friends to a museum--the Kingdom's Hall of Heroes, an enormous museum located on a higher level of Arnau. That is where the lore dump would happen. You'd learn about a lot of historical figures both griffon and non, including some very familiar ones for fans of the Firefly series.

The new chapter is currently 5k words long and growing quickly. I'll aim to have it ready within the next week, with the new story itself launched shortly thereafter. Additional bonus chapters are possible, and perhaps even likely as I go along. I'll post a teaser for the new chapter in the next few days, once the content is a bit more finished and polished.

One final note: by site rules, the new story cannot use the same title, art or description as the old. That has to be all-new as well. So I'll do some sort of play on it, like Feathered Hearts - Chronicles and Continuation (yes, there would be a reason for the plural!) I'll give it some thought, and thanks go to regular commenter Posted for the suggestion there.

And before anyone asks, I'm tagging this blog for Into the Storm readers as the new chapter will definitely tie into the series, and will give some tantalizing hints as to the future feats--and fates--of some of our favorite characters.