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// Ch. 2 The premise for the story and the end 
// Story: Slay the Dragon 
// by Bromad 
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[A/N: After Fireside Chat discover's his cutie mark, his parents adamantly deny that his career is in slaying dragons, but through a passage of time, or by slipping away while he's still a young colt, he makes his way to Ponyville to take on Spike. Despite his parents, the Wonderbolts, and a few other authority figures in his life telling him that the dragon's death was an accident and purely coincidental to landing next to Fireside while he was playing,  Fireside is still internally convinced that his role in life (and the more awesome path) is to slay dragons.

Since this story was started long before the dragon lands, Ember was never considered, but now it gives more leeway for a more plausible true ending that would fit with what was already planned.

After Fireside Chat (Please tell me someone was forced to read a history book in school and understands the reference), makes his way to Ponyville, he states his intentions that he's a dragonslayer with a cutie mark to prove it, and challenges Spike to a duel. 

The main six react nonchalantly to Fireside, but since he's a colt, they try to stall him by asking broad questions, allowing Spike to slip away. This leads Fireside to chase Spike around Ponyville, swinging around a sword.

After landing running into Spike, Twilight and the others all try to ascertain more information about Fireside and the origin of his cutie mark. Held aloft in a magical telekinetic grip, by Twilight, then later Rarity, the ponies piece together Fireside's story and try to figure out if his cutie mark was actually in slaying dragons, or something else. 

Fireside goes charging off again after Spike, with Rainbow Dash flying overhead, trying to convince Fireside that maybe there's another aspect of his cutie mark he doesn't realize, while the others figure out a best-case scenario. Rainbow Dash tells Fireside she'll reveal where Spike is hiding, so long as he talks to the Cutie Mark Crusaders first. 

After the CMC speak with Fireside, he tells them the whole story, adding in what he says to the first dragon. The CMC instill a little doubt into Fireside, but Spike who was hiding with CMC in their clubhouse is convinced enough was said to get Fireside to stop chasing him, and reveals himself to Fireside to talk with him. 

Fireside immediately picks up his sword and chases after him, with the CMC in pursuit. Rainbow Dash tells the CMC to keep an eye on Fireside and distract him from getting too close to Spike, while she flies ahead to see if Twilight and her friends figured out a solution yet.

Spike runs back to Twilight, and he laments that Fireside would never stand a chance against a real dragon, which convinces Twilight that what Spike said is true, Fireside would never stand a chance against a real dragon, in a real fight.

This is the first ending, which all-in-all wouldn't do as well without the inclusion of Ember, in my opinion.

Calling out Fireside, Spike agrees to the duel.

Protected through his friends magic, armor, making it so that no matter how hard Fireside tries to hit Spike, his blows glance or bounce off.

Eventually tiring Fireside out, Spike tells Fireside that there's some challenges and fights in this life that are like hitting your head against against a brick wall. That no matter how much effort we put into a single idea, maybe it's not worth it in the end when you yourself end up getting hurt, and the end result doesn't get you any farther, it just gives you a tougher forehead.

I didn't know how to write the dialogue and conversations in a way that would lead FIreside to understand his true purpose, of becoming a mediary between ponies and dragons, an ambassador to the Dragon Lands.

The second ending, they call Ember to fight Fireside to show him (the same scenario) that there are some fights that aren't winnable for reasons a person doesn't understand yet, because they don't know all the facts about life and the world around them. She tells Fireside she is the Dragon Lord. Ember tells Fireside that she is friends with the Princesses of Ponies, and asks if he still wants to fight.

Shaken but not deterred, Fireside still challenges Ember to fight, but he no matter how hard he tries, Ember is holding back the entire fight. She tells the kid he needs to understand in the real world, things don't always go the way he wants it to be. 

Rattling off the ways she could eviscerate, burn, maim, or drop from ten-thousand feet to make Fireside go splat, Twilight cuts in and thanks Ember for all the graphic details for the way she could defeat him, it's after learning this that Fireside drops his sword and apologizes.

Ember admires his courage for dueling the Dragon Lord, commenting that maybe he just didn't know enough about dragons at all to begin with, and his ignorance of the fact that makes Twilight and Ember come up with Fireside becoming an emissary to the Dragon Lands, as part of a fact-finding mission to prevent the same mistakes of another colt or filly believing they should grow up to be a dragon slayer. 

With the expanded knowledge being made available to Equestria, the two cultures are able to understand each other more easily. 

The end.

Epilogue 
Meet Boulder Break! He was being bullied at the base of the mountain the miner ponies were in, and is shoved into a cliff face the moment the explosion goes off, splitting the mountain in two!

He goes on to say he can split a mountain in half with nothing but his forehead!