Phoenix Rising

Put on your war paint

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down
Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground
We are the jack-o-lanterns in July
Setting fire to the sky
Here it comes, this rising tide
So come on

Put on your war paint

Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies
Silver clouds with grey lining

So we can take the world back from a heart attack
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart

Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

- The Pheonix - Fall Out Boy

ARTIST'S COMMENTS

... heh. You all knew I'd try for this horse, right?

If you don't know who this is already, it's Import 594! Or as I shall be taking to calling her, Phoenix.

Long story behind the image short, since dragons are cold blooded animals and wouldn't do too well on the snow and ice, I had her fighting a phoenix. OuO

Story

   A crack of a tree snapping under the heat of fire jerked her head. Everything she knew was crumbling around her. Originally being drove out of Skagenrak without capture, and now, this?

    A sharp whinny brought her out of her trance, jerking her head in the direction of it. A blazed limb was falling from the tree, soon smothering the mare underneath.                Keep Moving.

    She pushed further, faster, nearly flying out of the woods. The grounds of Aleria were burning under her feet but now was not the time to stop. She turned back to see if anybody had made it out onto the ice shelf with her, but the ground was silent. No hooves were clawing into the ice. Only strangled cries escaped from the fire, the last cries of her herd.

    Turning on her heels, she started a brisk trot down the ice, trying to put distance between herself and that horrid fire. What had even started it? There was enough snow on the ground anything should of been put out almost instantly.

    Out of the dark flew in a fire-engulfed mob, diving and swooping like a bird. Fire shot down out of the side, clipping her side. A deep throated cry was all that sounded the attack, sending her running down the ice at full speed. It slipped under her hooves and creaked under her weight, threatening to crack under her. Looking up just in time to see the mob raining fire down, she pulled up just in time to clear the fire, the heat searing at the bottom of her hooves.

to be continued..