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A couple of days passed since Valor Flame brought Sunfyre to the beach area of Mount Aris, away from Hippogriffia. Some Hippogriffs were enjoying themselves along with some Seaponies as well as visiting tourists. Despite the upbeat yet peaceful atmosphere, Sunfyre was still very grumpy.

"So, are you ready to start?", Valour Flame asks, all fill with glee, but he gets the usual 'no' response from the disgruntle red Pegasus. "Come on Sunny. It's been two days. How long are you going to keep this up?"

Sunfyre looks at him and says, "Until you let me go home and forget this ever happen."

"Now Sun, you know I can't let you do that. As your best friend I'm obligated to help you in your time of need. And to be honest, this is as good a time as ever. Besides, you know you can't leave here."

A grim and dire look was on Sunny's face. "How can I forget? My mom made it clear she won't let me leave here until my 'quote-on-quote' personal lack of confidence in myself is resolved, even if it must be resolved with disregard of my well-being and done so by reckless abandonment and by any means necessary."

"Good thing I interject then as your insecure relief specialist. I can't imagine what your mom would do to resolve your insecurity?" Valour looks at Sunfyre, back facing him and see he was as stone cold as ice. "But…let's not think about how ruthless Mrs. Gail Wyndstrom is. After all, she did somehow manage to get the Friendship Express conductor & the Hippogriff National Guard to make sure to not let you leave Mount Aris. Let's work on restoring your confidence."

"My confidence is fine. I just want to go home and not be bother by this!" Sunfyre shouts to the heavens.

"Goodness. He's more stubborn than I realized. Even if his mom threatens to beat the confidence back into him by unconventional intent methods he still won't back down. And its been two days now & I'm no closer to getting Sunny to admit his insecure problem. Hmm…how can I get him to open up? He's more free to open up about racing and." Suddenly a thought came into Valour's head. "Competition? Of course! Contests! Sunfyre loves competing. I bet if I can."

"Hey Sir Dorkulus, what are you plotting?", Sunfyre asks, noticing Valour Flame deep in thought.

"Hm? Oh, sorry. I was just wondering Sunfyre, how much about us Hippogriffs do you know?"

"Huh? Why ask such a question?", a puzzles Sunfyre asked. A smile cracks along Valour's beak as he says, "I'm just curious, that's all. I love to study, observe & explore the world. So…I was just curious what you know about my species."

Not thinking too much about it, all Sunfyre says was, "Honestly, not much. Besides you & your family, there's General Seaspray, General Sky Beak, Stratus Skyranger of Queen Novo's guard, Queen Novo herself as well as her daughter Princess Skystar, and there was that bubbly one…Silverstream I think, who attended Princess Twilight's School of Friendship."

"Sounds legit. But…what do you know about us in terms of our history?" Sunfyre gives him a confused look. He replies,"I'm afraid not much. Even meeting you many moons back it never dawned on me to ask about the Hippogriffs & Seaponies. I do recall your people went into hiding from some kind of tyrant and lost so many. All I know was that the tyrant was defeated and your people began to rebuild your lives. But…that's all I know. In all honesty, I can't recall if my friends & I were around when this tyrant appeared. But why bring it up?"

Valour smiles & says, "No reason. But as you can see despite those events my people are flourishing. If we haven't turned into Seaponies thanks and all to Queen Novo, the Hippogriffs would no longer be here. Anyway, there are some who like being in they're Seapony forms and others as Hippogriffs, though there are those who choose to live as both. That brings stability here on Mount Aris and for Seaquestria. We all live in harmony with one another. Anyway, I just thought…but…nah, you wouldn't go for it."

"Huh? Go for what?"

"Well…I was going to ask you how would like to see our other world, but a stubborn equine such as you wouldn't last very long as a seapony."

"Excuse me?!", Sunfyre shot up.

"Seems I got his attention.", Valour thought to himself. He then says, "You heard me. I bet that insecurity complex did more to your confidence in competition that you would sooner give up being a Seapony!"

"Pffft! I so could make it as a Seapony! Just because you've been one longer doesn't mean a thing!"

"Oh? Care to put your bits where your snout is?", Valour asks Sunfyre. Sunny makes a gesture that Valour can confirm as Sunny's was of saying 'bring it!' He holds up two clawed fingers. "Two hours. All you have to do is last two hours as a Seapony. You do that and I'll forgo helping you with your insecure problem. But if you don't last those 2 hours, you'll allow me to help you no questions asks or complaining."

"Only two hours? Please, I can do that with my eyes closed & my wings bind. How about adding that no matter how much I plead you won't turn me back until those 2 hours are up."

Valour crosses his arms. "Confident in yourself I see. Okay, I agree to your terms. Besides, I promised my mom & dad I'd see them & Harmony Wind. this way works best."

"Good. And I'll-." Sunfyre stops, thinks for a bit, then sits down in the sand with an unamused look on his face. "You just goaded me with my weakness for contests didn't you?" Valour Flame just smiles. All Sunfyre says was, "Well played my friend. Well played…"

Continuation from this—→www.deviantart.com/peregrinsta… Sunfyre is showing to be more stubborn than Valour Flame could have thought of. Knowing the red Pegasus wasn't just going to admit about his insecurity issue being a weakness of his, Valour thought of a strategy that could work on Sunfyre. When the icy-blue Hippogriff recall Sunfyre's love of competition (mostly from racing) & knowing his quota is never to back down from a challenge, it wouldn't take long for Val to pick a good plan, one that would not only work in his favor but also would cause an unexpected event that will rattle Sunfyre.

Artist's Tidbit: While looking at screenshots of the MLP Hippogriffs, I tried to make Valour Flame's feathery mane & tail be a bit more feathery looking & added a bit more rose pink to the front of his mane feathers. I also updated Sunfyre's Cutie Mark & the collar he wears.

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Posted previously at: 2019-02-13T07:33:19 | Posted previously by: Mildgyth