Equestria Ninjas: Friendship School

Father and Daughter Issues

April and Karai were currently sitting on two boulders discussing the situation, "Well, we know what our friendship mission is." April began.

"Yeah. Question is how to solve it." Karai added.

"Well, let's look over things. Ember is Dragon Lord now and she's trying to rule her way." April pointed out.

"But her father seems to be so caught up in old traditions and is afraid of change is constantly questioning her choices making her feel like she's failing as Dragon Lord." Karai put in.

"The way I see it we need to get to know both their feelings on the matter before we try and get them to bury the hatchet." the redhead suggested, before standing up.

"Agreed. And might I suggest we start with Ember since she's the one who's dealing with all the stress." Karai suggested, as she got up.

"Then let's go." the two kunoichi got off their boulders and started looking for Ember.

The two eventually found ember sitting by a lava pool dipping her legs in it while trying to calm herself. The kunoichi not wanting to startle her approached carefully until the dragon lord spoke, "You don't have to sneak up on me. I heard you two coming."

April and Karai got startled before getting themselves together, "Sorry about that, Ember."

"We were actually looking for you." Karai stated.

"Did you find the problem you were looking for?" Ember asked.

"Oh, we found it alright." April answered while rolling her eyes.

"Have you and your dad always been like that?" Karai inquired.

Ember sighed, "Sorry you had to see all that drama. But that's how he is. He's always been overprotective of me since I hatched. But no matter how much I grew I could never measure up to him, especially by size." she clenched her claw.

"What does he expect? You're not an adult dragon yet." April replied.

"Still, he didn't even want me to compete in the Gauntlet of Fire because he claimed I'm no bigger than Spike."

"Is your dad blind or something?" Karai asked in disbelief, "I mean Spike's short because he's still young. But you're the height of just about all the other teen dragons here."

"Tell him that." Ember grumbled.

"I can understand where you're coming from, Ember." April said.

Ember turned to the redhead, "You do?"

"Yeah. For a long time my dad has been overprotective of me too. It was always so frustrating when he worried about me staying out late. At first I just thought he was just trying to keep me sheltered. But after everything I learned about the Kraang and our connection to them since my mother disappeared I realized he was only trying to protect me. I was all he had left, and he didn't wanna lose me."

"Whoa." Ember gasped.

"I'm not saying your father is right about you, but you should look at things through his P.O.V. And how he must worry about you even if you can handle things."

"Somehow I don't think my dad ever did think I could handle it. He may have admitted he was wrong about me when I proved I could handle the Gauntlet, but since then he's still treated me like every choice I made was a mistake. He was skeptical of the idea of letting Smolder go to Twilight's school. He only went along with it when I had to mention that all the other creatures were sending a student there and didn't want our kind to be overlooked." Ember explained.