The morning air was crisp and cold, the snow from two months ago was still piled on the ground and I had my mate and son huddled close to me to keep warm on the only place the snow could not stick to, which so happened to be my nest. I'm glad I made it so wide, otherwise we would have trouble fitting the three of us here; I rose up and looked over our home, Atlantia's nest was frozen over and about another inch fell to the ground last night. It's now been five months since the peace meeting and union of clans was made, considering the news brought on by messengers around the world, fire dragons and water dragons are getting along with a peace never thought imaginable since the war began; I looked back on those events and breathed a sigh of accomplishment. I decided to go and search for food and even considering the cold, it isn't too hard; I fully stretched out and made sure not to disturb Atlantia or Heatpool too much, I walked on over to the edge and took one step out, the snow crunched and began to melt underneath my paw and all snow within three feet of me did the same, I took off to the sky and began my morning hunt, I flew over the ocean to where the ice seemed to be the thinnest and made my landing, although I picked a spot too thin, and my weight along with my outward body temperature, I was plunged into the ice cold water and was forced to fly out instantly. I hovered over the ice and began gently breathing fire on the water and ice to create a concentrated hot spot of water where more fish would be likely to swim by, and within the hour it was hunting time; I spotted two large tuna and made them my primary targets, I swooped down and caught both of them, I had to hold one between my front paws and another between my back ones, I'll tell ya, flying with two tuna each half your size is not easy. Eventually I managed to make it back to our island and by that time the tuna were finally done flopping and I could cook them properly. About half an hour later I was done and Heatpool had woken up and hovered over to me.

"Da-dadaadyy!" I smiled, picked him up and put him on my back.

"Hey buddy, how are you? Wanna go for a ride?"

"Yeah!" During these past few months we taught him basic talking, he knows a few words but still needs some work. I held on to him with my front paws and we took to the air, I began looping around and flying belly up while throwing him upwards slightly, he enjoyed this a lot, I did a quick look down and saw that Atlantia was about to wake up so I decided ride was over, we did one more thing at the end of every one.

"You ready to end this buddy?"

"Yeah, yeah, do it!"

"Alright, you asked for it." I tossed him into the air and as he began falling nose down I began to plummet as well right next to him in an arrow dive, just as we were about a hundred yards from the ground, I spread my wings, grabbed him and swooped over the land until we made it to the right spot, I then landed and put him down just as Lanti woke up.

"Well now, what are you two up to, it seems like your having fun?" Heatpool ran over to her and then climbed on her back.

"What can I say, the little guy's got a lot of energy in him, it'd be a shame to let it all just disappear."

"Well I'm glad that you have time to do fatherly things with Heatpool, now, what's for breakfast?"

"I just so happened to take it upon myself to catch us some kingly tuna, fresh from the sea and cooked to perfection if I do say so myself."

"Well it smells amazing, now let's not let the cold get to the food though"

"Agreed, let's eat." The three of us ate our breakfast and by the time we were done only half of a tuna remained. I stored it for later and we flew off to the Island to visit the others. Within these months nothing much has changed, although there is a new pairing at the island, Tidal and Sting are finally together, it happened last month, now Blaze and Breeze were actually thinking about having an egg, there was also a new arrival in November, a firestorm dragon by the name of Zeal. We stopped by Greenroot's place to ask something.

"Yo Greenroot, you home man?!"

"Yeah, I'm right here, what's up?"

"Well we were just wondering, who's taking care of Sprouter for you, I mean I know that you and Grallya have something planned right?"

"Yeah we do, we were thinking of possibly letting the caretakers watch him for the night."

"Well that was always an option when we were young, might as well, were just wondering since Atlantia and I are doing something special today, that we would find someone to watch Heatpool."

"Well, the caretakers are always willing to help so you can go ahead with that."

"Alright then, and considering the entire island is going out for Valentine's day tonight, leaving only the young ones here it probably won't be too rough on them." The rest of the day Atlantia and I went off exploring other regions of islands that we've never encountered before, as well as hunting together for lunch. The sun was now beginning to set and I told her to go and look her best while I get everything ready. As she flew off, I put the setting into action, something I've been preparing these past few months, I flew down to the shore and pulled out the woven canopy of branches and leaves I've been assembling and propped them up, I also brought out the hand carved, long oak table that I prepared for this night, and then I brought the main course; perfectly aged, top grade bison steaks with a fine, nature made wine on the side in two small bowls for each of us, and the final touch, all illuminated and heated by a circle of ignited charcoals.

Atlantia knew where I was and flew down to the shore, her face was in a happy shock, at the sight and I was much happier to see that.

"D-did you set this all up yourself? just within a few short hours?"

"Oh no, this took months to prepare, but tonight I'm glad I share it with you Lanti." She pulled me into a kiss and afterwards we ate, the coals eventually burned out, but the reflection of the stars on the water and ice were even more beautiful than before, we laid there for quite a while and she eventually fell asleep next to me, I soon followed, but not after giving her a kiss on the forhead and said to her.

"Happy Valentines day Lanti."

Author's note: And Happy Valentine's Day to you too all you lovely people out there. I'm sorry if you guys were waiting all day for this thing to update considering it is a romance story and all, but hey, I had a lot of stuff to do today and couldn't update till now. Also I would like to give a shoutout to my new girlfriend, she doesn't have a fanfiction account, but for whoever check out Wattpad be sure to look up Soulover99 she has some pretty good content and I'd recommend it, and if you're reading this babe, love you. BUt for the rest of you, have an amazing day and i will see you guys next chapter, peace!