Heartfire

The beginning

Outside the castle of friendship, Celestia's sun made this day beautiful. The birds chirped in the clear blue sky and the ponies who lived in Ponyville worked hard at their jobs. But inside the castle of friendship was an older purple and green bellied dragon.

Spike has grown in the years since living in Ponyville. He has almost the same height has Princess Celestia now. His scales have gotten harder to penetrate. Spike found that out after he took a sting from a manticores tail before it struck Rarity's sister Sweetie Belle.

That was two months ago.

Walking the halls of the castle he hears voices echoing down the hallway to the Friendship map. One of the voices sounded like Twilights.

However, Spike could not make out who she was talking to so he decided to find out.

"Are you sure? you never sent me a letter about this event" Twilight said before seeing a purple tail behind the door trying to hide. "Excuse me for one sec" she walked over to the door and opened it with her magic.

A purple aura covered the door as it moved revealing spike behind the door. Spike looks at Twilight until he turns his head to see her visitor.

It was another dragon with scales that were cyan, she was a little shorter than spike but not that much. Her eyes were crimson red and her wings were a deep blue color.

It was Ember.

It has been a while since they have seen each other mainly Ember still getting the dragons to learn friendship. So far it's been successful but there are a few who still believe in the old dragon ways.

"It's been a while Spike"

Spike only smiled and his heartbeat. Ever since he first met Ember he developed a crush on her. Yeah sure he still had one on Rarity during that time but as time moved on so did his crush for Rarity.

The crush was like a candle in rain. Burning bright till it was finally extinguished

"Yeah it has Ember how's everything in the dragon lands?" spike walked up closer to his friends while Ember rubs her claws on the back of her head.

"It's going alright most dragons have accepted our new ways of this friendship thing, however there's still few that prefer the old ways, Garble is one such as he tried to force himself on me once while I was having a lava shower in the volcanic springs" suddenly there was a fire that sparked inside spike.

"Garble I know you are low but I did not even think you'd go that far," Spikes mind said as Ember heard a small growl come from him.

"What happened?" Spikes class slightly scratched Twilights carpet as she put a hoof on his shoulder to calm him down.

"He didn't last long as my guard knocked him out and he served his time in prison".

Spike calmed down knowing Garble failed like the idiot he was. "Well thank god for your guard".

There was silence after Ember admitted Garble attempted to rape her.
"Well there's something I also came to tell you, Spike, it's mainly dragon business "

"There's an Ancient event in the dragon lands called 'HeartFire', this dates backs before your princesses were born, it is where dragons from all over come and pledge their life towards a mate during an Eternal Night Once every four years".

Spike just stopped thinking for a quick few seconds. "M-mate?" he stuttered.

Ember nodded. "But there is a catch to finding a mate, you see if you set your eyes on a dragon and another dragon is going for the same dragon you will have to fight for the dragon, after you two go at it for a while she will see who deems worthy to be with her