//------------------------------// // Boy meets Girl // Story: Fire and Ice // by mumboman123 //------------------------------// Twilight and Dragonflare started to walk over to a small little cottage near Everfree forest. It was covered with birdhouses and leaves, and animals were everywhere around it. The sight of seeing a bear snuggling with a rabbit surprised Dragonflare, “My, it looks like she quite talented with animals.” Twilight nodded, “Yes, she’s known to be very gentle towards anybody, she can be a bit excessively shy, but she’s a good friend.” As they crossed the bridge leading to her front door, Twilight stepped up in front of him to knock the door. A very quiet, famine voice, “O-Oh coming!”, then, a masculine voice, “Oh it’s fine my dear, I’ll get it.” Opening the door was Draconequus, smiling down at a glaring Twilight. He then took a look at Dragonflare and gave a very confused face toward him. “Oh my, I haven’t seen any type of Pegasus like you before in a long time! My, if I’m not correct, you look like one of those three dragons that live in those mountain ranges I used to go to when I got bored” the Draconequus said as he walked outside, saying goodbye to the feminine voice inside. Dragonflare was a bit scared that he was almost recognized. “Goodbye, Discord!” the voice said as she emerged from the inside of the house. She said hello to Twilight then introduced herself to Dragonflare. Dragonflare just stood there, looking at the yellow Pegasus right in front of him, he was blushing all over his face, and it took him five seconds to respond to her. “Ummm…M-My n-names Dragonflare.” He said as he continued to be infatuated with her. She looked confused as he just stood there, “Would you like to come in?” she said, as he finally snapped out of it, “Oh, yeah, thank you.” As Twilight explained to Fluttershy what the doctor said, Fluttershy told Dragonflare to make himself at home and settle in. As he was about to lie down, a small bunny blocked him from sitting down. “Oh, alright, fine I won’t be sitting here then.” He said as he walked away to sit down at the neighboring chair, the bunny continued to block him from sitting down. “Geez, what’s your problem, rabbit?” he said as he heard Fluttershy come in the living room after saying goodbye to Twilight. “Oh…I’m sorry,” she said to him as she picked the bunny. “Angel, be nice to our guest! He’s going to be here for a while…so…um…” Angel jumped out of her hands before she could finish her sentence. She flew up to Dragonflare, “Please excuse Angel, he’s not very warm to new people.” Dragonflare couldn’t stop starring at her, he was completely hypnotized by her beauty. He tried not to stare but he couldn’t stop. “So, um, do you want anything to drink, Dragonflare? You look like your burning.” She offered. She then put her hoof on his forehead before he could say anything. Just the touch of her was so relaxing to him. “Uh I’m fine, but thank you.” He said as he quickly looked down at her thighs. Suddenly, a clock went off in her house, as she looked at it and turned back to him. “Um…I’ll be back, I need to do something quickly, so, uh, make yourself comfortable.” She said with a smile. Even the smile meant a lot to him. He didn’t know what this feeling was, but he wanted to feel more of it, so instead of waiting, he slowly and quietly followed her outside. When he creaked open the door, he saw her with a green sweater on, and two basket of food with her. As he saw her getting farther and farther away, he limbed closer to her. After about 2 minutes of following her, she stopped in front of a field. As Dragonflare closely watched her, he heart skipped a beat again as he was examining her. Then, he started to notice that more and more animals started to surround her, as she was giving them food and cuddling with them. At that point and time, Dragonflare put the pieces together about what felt towards Fluttershy, “I…I’ve been taught this before, about if a man and a woman love each other… but the thing is… would she feel this about me???” He paused for a second as Fluttershy was packing up, as she kissed one of the rabbits goodbye. He smiled the most flustered smile he ever made, “I…think I’m in love.” Just then, he was about to turn around to hide from her, when he tripped on a rock and fell down. Flluttershy jumped up and squealed as she didn’t know who was there. “Fluttershy…don’t worry it’s me” He said as he was getting up. She then rushed over to him as fast as she could. “Are you okay?” he got up and smiled, “Oh yeah I’m fine, nothing wrong.” She looked confusedly, “Why did you follow me all the way over to the grotto?” Dragonflare kept smiling, “I wanted to see what you were doing, and I have to say, Fluttershy, you are so amazing with animals. You’re like one of the princesses I heard about in the stories my brother read me! The way you care for them it’s…well…unreal to me.” Fluttershy blushed, “Thank you, but I’m sure you could have done the same with them…” she said as she smiled playfully. Dragonflare looked down at the ground. “Well, I’m actually not sure if I could, I haven’t been really taught that much about that stuff…I don’t mean to be saddening, but I’ve kinda had a bad life.” Fluttershy looked at him, “How come?” he continued, “Well for starters, I never really met my mom or dad, I was raised by my brother, and the other night, my brother was killed by this monster, and my other brother blamed me for it, so he beat me up for it.” Fluttershy gave a sad face, “Aww, it’s alright, at least you have some new friends you made today, like me.” He looked up at her with a very surprised but happy face, “Y-you’re…you’d be my friend?” Fluttershy gave him a hug, which made Dragonflare become redder than he was. “Of course I’m your friend…and I always will be…” Dragonflare, still blushing, had one single tear showing up from his eye. “Th-Thank you, Fluttershy.” As the two walked home, they started to get ready for bed. When Dragonflare got settled in his bed, he saw Fluttershy come in to say goodnight to him. “Hey, Fluttershy?” He started as she turned around, “Thanks for talking to me today, it made me feel a lot better, and thank you for all of the hospitality you’ve given me, if you want me to help you with anything, just ask.” Fluttershy blushed, “It’s my pleasure, and sure thing, I could teach you how to be gentle with animals…If you want to…Well, goodnight, Dragonflare.” She said smiling as she turned the lights off. Dragonflare took a spare pillow from his bed and hugged it, pretending it was Fluttershy. “Goodnight…Fluttershy…” The original “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” characters are all owned by Lauren Faust.