The LonelyFlame

Fire was sitting in a chair on a balcony at Beacon. The last couple of days have made him extremely confused and on top of it all he had to train nonstop if he was ever going to stand a chance against Adam. Fire sighed, this was one of the few moments Fire was serious and deep in thought. He was staring at the Sun as it started setting. Every once in a while Fire would be serious when he was alone... he hated being alone and he hated being serious. Whenever he was serious his heart would ache of loneliness. He started to think about Ruby and how confused she makes him. He tries not to show it through. Did she want to be his friend... or something more? It would be nice if someone finally cared about him. He pushed the thought away, thinking about it made his heart ache even more. Fire decided this was enough serious thinking for the day. He sat up and walked towards the door. When he opened it he ran straight into Ruby, who was on the other side. "Oh, sorry Ruby." Fire said absentmindedly as he started to revert to being deep in thought again. "Well actually, I came to... uh talk to you." Fire turned around and snapped out of his trance. "Yeah what is it?"

"Well, everyone was gone tonight... so I thought we could watch a movie together again."

Fire couldn't believe it! She actually... enjoyed last night? "Wait... is this a..." Fire's brain short circuited and with out even thinking he said, "Sure, sounds nice."

"Wow really!? I mean, okay I'll meet you at the dorm." Ruby skipped away happily and Fire stood there, completely frozen. What has he done! He doesn't know anything about girls and dates! He was born literally a few months ago! How was he going to... wait... Fire had seen every movie and Anime on FlexNet (clever name huh?)... including romantic comedies. All he would have to do is act like himself and put Ruby's needs before his. He would just have to not focus on how he felt or he would screw up. Thank you TV and common sense! Meanwhile, Arthur, Grim, and Dan were watching very intently. "Fire is totally done for." Dan stated. "He has a good chance... maybe?" Arthur was decently confident in Fire's "plan". Grim simply nodded.

Fire made it back to the dorm and sat down next to Ruby in front of the mini TV he used to watch movies off of. "So, what do you wanna watch." Fire was willing to watch anything and usually had a hard time picking out movies. "Um, we could watch the one about the ghost hunter guys." Ruby knew literally zero about movies. Fire nodded and started the movie. A few minutes in and Ruby and him started talking. Fire never had anyone to really talk too. He usually made a wise crack or said a joke that started a conversation and would talk about random subjects. Turns out him and Ruby have a lot in common. They shared the same favorite color, they liked the same music, and both agreed that Yang was a super saiyan. Half way through the movie Ruby had started to lean on Fire. It felt good to have her next to him. He didn't even feel awkward around her anymore. Fire started to relax, he had been on edge ever since he returned home and it felt nice to finally loosen up. Fire wasn't really sure how to respond to any romantic stuff, so he did what Arthur told him. He put his arm around Ruby and she put her arms around him. "Now what Arthur?" Arthur sighed. He really is hopeless. "You wait." Arthur replied. Fire was getting tired again, just like last time. He looked to his right and saw Ruby had already fallen asleep. Fire decided to go to sleep as well. Hopefully he wouldn't wake her if he got another nightmare.

Fire woke up the next day and looked around. He had woken up from another nightmare and looked to his right. Ruby was gone, but a note was there. "Went to get breakfast, Ozpin wants to see us afterwards. -Ruby" Fire got up and headed towards Ozpin's office. "This better be good." Fire arrived and saw Ruby sitting in a chair in front of Ozpin's desk. Fire sat down on the only one left and waited for a response. "I would like too inform you both that you are now eligible to go on missions. Before I let you choose the ones you go on I have to determine your rank. In order to do so I will be sending you two to Remington, a small village that has requested our help. That is all." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee and dismissed Ruby and Fire. Fire was just getting up when Ozpin looked over his shoulder at him. "I would like a word with you Fire." Fire sighed and sat back down, what a waste of time. "Fire, I know who you really are and I know about Adam. That's why I'm sending you on this mission with Ruby. Originally it was going to be her and Yang, but I want to make sure that you can... control yourself. If you can't..." Ozpin took a sip from his coffee. "I think you know what will happen." Fire was clenching his teeth. "You may leave." Fire got up and left the room, leaving scorch marks on the floor were his feet touched.

Fire was sitting on a train with Ruby that was heading towards their mission. He was uncharacteristically grim. Ruby placed a hand on his shoulder. "Fire what's wrong?" Fire didn't look up and said, "When we get back to Beacon there's something I need to tell everyone." Ruby was about to say something, but held it back. The train stopped and Fire walked outside. He seemed to have reverted back to his old self and couldn't wait to find out what they were going to do. He was looking around the town and was amazed by every aspect of it (considering he had never been outside Vale this was to be expected). He really enjoyed the small mountain town. The only thing he didn't like about it was all the snowmen that were all over the place, his third biggest fear. He knew it was stupid to be afraid of a pile of snow, but for some reason they really scared him. He was enjoying an ice cream cone (which melted the second he touched it) until a group of Faunus came up to him. "You got a lot of nerve showing up here!" One of them spat as the rest agreed.

"What do you mean?" Fire didn't really care, but didn't want try to start any fights since Ozpin would be monitoring him.

"You're the guy who owns Shnee Co.! How dare you, the filthiest of all humans, lay a foot in our village." Fire merely took of his hat and showed off his wolf ears. He put back on and continued to eat his soggy ice cream cone.

"You were saying? What? I thought you hated Shnee Co., it's a little racist if you don't anymore because I'm a Faunus." The group was stunned, but Fire ignored them and kept eating. Ruby sent him a text on his scroll as he finished eating his ice cream cone and he left to go meet her at the mayor's office. He arrived in the mayors office and was told what the needed to do. Apparently a huge Beowolf was on a rampage. The villagers tried to deal with it, but it seemed to heal almost immediately after being wounded. This wasn't that much of a problem until nine more showed up out of no were. Fire didn't really pay attention, so Ruby summed it up for him after the walked out of town hall. Fire saw another snowman and shivered. Creepy. Ruby noticed that he was shivering and saw that he was still wearing his usual shorts and T-Shirt. "Maybe you should buy a hoodie and some jeans while we're here." Fire shook his head. "Nah, I'm not really effected by the cold considering I'm a living Sun." Ruby was starting to notice all the attention Fire was gathering by walking around in forty five degrees with a pair of shorts on. "Well could you buy some so all the villagers stop staring at us, I hate being the center of attention." Fire sighed and headed for the nearest clothing store. He bought a black hoodie that was read on the inside and some faded jeans, maybe now he would blend in. He decided to go to the room they had gotten at a hotel to wait till dark. Until then the Beowolves should stay away from the town. When they arrived there was only one bed and it was a surprisingly small room. Fire could care less, he was used to sleeping on the floor. He walked over to a corner and dumped off his stuff and started to get ready to go to bed since the mayor said the Beowolves wouldn't arrive until deep into the night. Fire assumed either his alarm clock or screaming would wake him up. Meanwhile, Ruby was standing in the doorway blushing. Did Fire plan on sharing a bed with her?! Her face got redder. The doorway of the bathroom in their room was slightly open just enough for Ruby to "accidentally" see Fire with his shirt off. Fire walked back out with his new shirt on and got ready to go to bed. Ruby was slightly disappointed, but relived when Fire passed out in the corner of the room.

Fire woke up to hear screams. He ran over to his window and saw the biggest Beowolf he's ever seen. It was about two stories high! "Someone ate there vegetables." Fire mumbled as he went to go wake up Ruby. He had to shake her since she fell asleep listening to music. Fire ran towards a window and jumped out of it, managing to grab a Beowolf by the neck. It tried shaking Fire off and would slam him into buildings, but Fire would move to avoid getting crushed. He got on top of the Beowolf's head and smashed it's head open, and it fell with a thump. One down, nine to go. Meanwhile Ruby was having a slightly harder time. She had found two Beowolves and they were just as fast a she was. They could dodge any of her hits, the bullet wounds healed, and even if she did manage to cut one of their arms off they would stick back on and it would reconnect. She was about to cut another one until a huge boulder flew into it's head and knocked into a building. Fire had thrown the boulder and was heading for the second one. He grabbed a lamp post and chucked it at the other Beowolf's head like it was a spear and impaled it. He kept moving, searching for the remaining six, not noticing he had just ran past Ruby. He needed to focus on the task at hand. He pulled out his scroll and sent Ruby a text that explained that she needed to destroy the heads to kill the Beowolves. He was on a roof top looking around and was having a hard time finding the rest of the Beowolves. They may be big but they were really hard to spot.

Ruby was having a hard time killing the Beowolves. It took 3 bullets to kill a Beowolf, two for the armor and one to finish it off and she only had seven bullets left. She didn't have super strength like Fire did to chop their heads open and if she cut their heads off the would reattach them. This healing factor was unnatural though, were did it come from? Ruby pushed the thought away as she just barely dodged a giant claw. She ran up the Beowolf's arm and managed to find an opening in it's plated skin and sliced it's head in two. She got a message from Fire saying he killed two more. Ruby had killed three and Fire got five so the last one is probably hiding or ran away. Once Beowolves lost most of their pack they would lose their confidence and run away with their tails between their legs. She was about to tell Fire there was only one more until she saw him get falling fro above her. He was covered in cuts and had a huge bruise on his face. A Beowolf jumped over a building and landed in front of Fire. This one was twice the size of the other ones. He tried to crush Fire while he was down but he rolled to the side and started chucking fireballs at it. The Beowolf seemed unaffected and continued to walk towards him. Fire jumped up and shot fire out of the bottoms of his feet, launching him towards the monster. He punched it as hard as he could and it seemed not to notice. The Grimm smacked Fire away and he went flying into a building. The hulking Grimm turned towards Ruby, but it's ears stood up and it turned back to Fire. His flames had started to become white as he stood up. His pupils disappeared and the white flames were coming from his eyes and the flames slowly healed his wounds and made the tears in his clothes vanish. Fire's hair also turned white as well as his hoodie. He made a white fireball in his hand and all sound seemed to disappear. Fire threw it at the Beowolf and there was a flash of blinding light. Sound returned and Fire seemed to be back to normal. Ruby looked to were the Beowolf had once stood, only to see smoke coming of the ground.

Fire walked out of the hospital the next day and Ruby was waiting for him outside on a bench. "How did you do that!? It was so cool! And why don't you do that all the time?" Ruby continued asking questions as Fire took off his sunglasses and gloves and removed the bandages from his hands, revealing burn marks. "This is why. I can withstand temperatures as hot as the sun but I was as hot as a supernova. If I stay that way too long I'll turn to ash and so will everything around me. I would prefer if that didn't happen... plus it hurts... a lot."

"Oh, sorry." Ruby didn't realize Fire could actually be burned.

"It's fine, so... we have three days to kill until the next train to Vale shows up. What do you wanna do?" Fire might be in unimaginable pain, but he was bored. "We could head back to the hotel and watch a movie." Ruby was smiling. Fire smiled back. "Wow, you really seem to like movies for some reason." They walked back to the hotel, and for the first time ever Fire didn't feel lonely.

Hurrah! I've finally overcome my writers block! :D Hopefully it doesn't come back, I had to rewrite this story 15 times, but it was worth it! Camp Fire out!