Hurricane Blossomforth (Old)

Hurricane Blossomforth

Chapter 3

-Neigh York Botanical Gardens-

In the Neigh York Botanical Gardens, lays a sobbing white pegasus near the lily patches. The pegasus crying is Blossomforth, bawling her eyes out. Blossomforth often comes here whenever she feels upset or something makes her sad. Ever since she moved to Manehattan, she had to find another flower patch to go to whenever she felt bad. She found the botanical garden in Neigh York here in the city, and now comes here very often. In this case, she let her friends down with her slow wing power. It has only been a few hours since she was yelled by Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts. Although yelling at her was uncalled for, she was right to call her out on her slow wing power. Afterwards, Blossomforth flew off crying. She then went to the gardens, as this usually helps her calm down. She often gets over things like this in a minute or two, but this has lasted for hours. She doesn't want to fly again in front of all the other pegasi, but she doesn't want to let her friends down and abandon them. She's in a dilemma of how to fix this problem.

Before she knew it, she hears somepony come near her. She figures it may one of the garden caretakers. Makes sense since she did come in unannounced. She gets up and wipes her tears away to look at the pony. She then sees Daring standing right in front of her. She then turns away from Daring, ashamed. Daring doesn't say anything, but instead puts her wing around her friend to comfort her. Blossomforth is shocked to feel her friend's wing wrapped around her body. Daring, without a word, motions her to turn around and walk out of the garden. Blossomforth knows that Daring is going to comfort her by first talking to her, but not bringing her somewhere else.

When they both reached the end of the gardens, Daring then lets her go and trots in front of her to meet another group of ponies. Blossomforth sees that Daring is standing next to the rest of her group of friends. Twilight, Trixie, Sherbet, Octavia, and even Spike came to see Blossomforth. Blossomforth sees that all her friends have come to see her to cheer her up and be there for her. Blossomforth then realizes that her friends have always been loyal to each other, herself included, but felt abandoned after leaving flight practice.

Daring approaches her again and says, "Just remember, no matter what happens, even if you feel like letting anypony down, we'll be there to help you get back up."

Blossomforth wipes away the rest of her tears and says, "Thank you everypony."

Twilight then walks up and says, "We'll all help you with anything you need."

The whole group murmurs in agreement. Blossomforth wants to ask for help with her flying, but doesn't know how to say it.

She then gets the courage to ask her friends, "Um, c-c-could you all h-help me with my, f-f-f-flying?"

Daring then goes up to friend asking, "Of course we will, we're friends."

Everypony else agrees to this. Blossomforth then goes to hug her friends as everypony gets in together for a group hug.

Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Spitfire comes along from above. She lands right next to the group and approaches Blossomforth.

"Blossomforth, can we talk?", questions Spitfire.

Daring gets between her and Blossomforth and interrupts her.

"What do you want?!", says an angry Daring.

Spitfire steps back and kneels down in front of her.

"I want to apologize for my rash behavior today.", apologizes Spitifre.

Daring couldn't believe her ears, the leader of the Wonderbolts  and head of the Academy, is apologizing in front of her hooves.

"My behavior wasn't the best to handle the situation with you. I acted too harsh with you. This behavior comes with the job. So I just hope you can give me a second chance with you.", says a very sorry Spitfire.

She then turns to Daring, "I also hope you can lead for the pegasi again."

Spitfire is still kneeling down and keeping her head down. Daring is considering her offer, and the fact that Blossomforth still needs help, so she gets an idea.

"Okay, I'll go back to leading the group, but on one condition.", says Daring.

Spitfire is listening to her offer.

"I'll only lead on the final day when we need to record the final wing powers. My main focus is to help my friend Blossomforth improve her wing power, with help from my friends" Daring finishes her offer and waits for Spitfire's response.

"Ok, I'll agree to that offer. You need to help your friend.", says Spitfire.

Daring smiles and shakes her hoof in agreement.

Spitfire turns around about to leave, but before she does, she tells Daring with a smile, "I'll hold you to that offer Daring. I need to head back over to the rest of my team. Soarin is going to give me 400 laps if he makes anypony sick!"

Spitfire then takes off into the air in the direction of Central Park.

Daring then talks to Blossomforth, "Ok, Blossomforth, all 5 of us will help you train in different exercises to help you bring your wing power up to speed. Will you be okay with that?"

The whole group stands in front of Blossomforth with a smile. Blossomforth then nods in agreement, "Yes please, help me train."

-Orange Hotel-

For the rest of the week, the whole group decided to individually train Blossomforth on her wing power. So for the next 5 days, each friend will train her in a different way to help prepare her for the water raising. Blossomforth didn't know what each friend will help her, but she's being prepared for anything to happen. For today, Blossomforth is going to see Auntie Sherbet at her penthouse suite. It's going to be just her and Auntie Orange for today, since Mosely and Tangerine stepped out to give them space to train. She and Auntie have the entire  day to themselves, as to be no interruptions.

"So what are you going to help me with today?", asks Blossomforth.

Auntie goes into the kitchen for a minute or two, and comes back out with a platter of foods. She takes the foods from the plate in her mouth and back, and places them on the table. The assortment of foods are from wheat lily sandwiches, to cuccumber salads. The other thing she noticed is that all of the foods are in small sizes.

Blossomforth is wondering why they're going to eat, but not doing any physical workout.

"Why're we going to eat? I thought we're supposed to work-out?", questions Blossomforth.

"I'm not going to eat this, you are.", replies Sherbet.

Blossomforth looks at the parabola of foods, and gives Auntie a questioned look on her face.

"I'm no athlete sweetie, so the best I can do is make a healthy meal to help energize you, and improve your diet.", says Sherbet.

Blossomforth didn't eat as healthy as pony might think she does. She has a thing for a sweet tooth time to time, but she wanted to improve her diet. The only problem is if the food Sherbet made tastes good. After the Apple Family Reunion, Sherbet actually tried to make food for herself again. Although she made a few good dishes, the problem is that she would not get the right combination of tastes still.

Blossomforth hesitates at first, but then looks to Sherbet to see a smile on her face. She doesn't want to make Sherbet unhappy, so she goes for the sandwich first. She takes a bite out of it and chews. The taste is very odd to her, but eating healthy foods after eating sweets will do that. She swallows and then goes to the next dish.

"Now it looks like you're enjoying my dishes, dearie. Hold on, I'll get you a drink.", says Sherbet.

Blossomforth sees her go into the kitchen to get her the drink. Sherbet comes back out with a glass on her head, then goes over to the table to set the glass down. Blossomforth sees the drink is brown and looks very chunky.

"Drink up sweetie, this protein shake will be very healthy for you.", says Sherbet with a smile on her face.

Blossomforth thinks this is going to be a very long day.

-Octavia's Apartment-

After getting up the next morning with an upset stomach, she heads over to Octavia's apartment for her next day of training. The last time she was here is when her friends, herself included, tried to help Sherbet act like an Apply Family member again. Although the Reunion was a while ago, it felt like ages since she was last in Octavia's studio. Blossomforth goes into the apartment complex and heads over to an elevator to go to the top floor. As she rides to the elevator to the top floor, the elevator doors open up into the penthouse level and to reveal Octavia's studio.

Blossomforth sees that either Octavia is not home yet, or is busy, so she feels that she could take the time to look at her place. The furniture in the living room is very basic and well kept clean. In fact, the entire room is clean and organized, but not quite like Twilight's place. There's a table in the center with two couches facing it. She sees the entrance to the kitchen/dining room on the other side of the room, at least she remembers what it looks like. One corner of the room is decorated with musical equipment, especially Cellos. Pictures on the wall decorated the room as well. They have pictures of herself and her friends, as well as Octavia. Octavia is also shown in the pictures with other musicians, nobles, and even with Princess Celestia where it appears to be the Gala. Overall, Blossomforth is impressed with Octavia's decoration and her taste in style.

She then hears somepony coming from the kitchen with a wine glass in her mouth. It's Octavia, and she goes over to the table in the middle of the room and puts the glass down.

"Good to see you've come this fine morning.", says Octavia.

"Thanks for inviting me, Octavia", says Blossomforth as she takes a sip of the glass, which tastes of orange juice.

Octavia goes over to her musical corner to prepare her cello in place.

Octavia grabs her bow and instrument and is ready to play, when she says, "When you are finished, come forth and play some beautiful music."

Blossomforth continues to drink her OJ and then hears Octavia starting to play her cello. Blossomforth knows her friend has the talent to play her cello with such grace and beauty, she even calmed panicking citizens in the museum during Nightmare Moon's attack.

Blossomforth finishes her drink and goes over to Octavia very quietly as to not disturb her friend's concentration. She sits down next to her friend as Octavia finishes her piece.

Octavia then turns to her friend and says, "You ready for our practice?"

Blossomforth nods, and Octavia points to a spot near her and motions Blossomforth towards it. She does so and stands right next to Octavia. "We'll practice your rhythm, by dancing.", says Octavia.

Blossomforth is confused by this and asks her a question, "How does that help me with my flying?"

Octavia responds back, "Flying and dancing have one thing in common, and that is rhythm. If you dance, you can get the feel for some rhythm then."

Blossomforth is embarrassed by this and also responds back, "That's fine and all, but I've got two left hooves, I can't dance."

Octavia gets her instrument ready to play again and says, "Every living thing has rhythm to it. So I know you can dance with time."

Blossomforth gets ready to dance as Octavia then starts to play.

Octavia starts playing as Blossomforth tries to dance, but all she's doing is stomping her hooves. She also crosses her hooves and gets them tangled up. Afterward she trips over herself and lands face first onto the floor.

Octavia stops playing and goes over to her, "You need to listen to the music and follow the rhythm of it. Dancing is also more than stomping your hooves, there needs to be some grace to it.", she says gracefully.

Blossomforth groans with her face still on the floor.

"We'll try again, and soon you'll fly high higher than any graceful swan.", says Octavia.

Getting a hit of one of her friends metaphors is the last thing she needed today.

-Outskirts of Manehattan-

The next day, Blossomforth is heading to Trixie's cart that she leaves on the outskirts of the city. Since Trixie originally traveled from town to town, she never really settled in one town to live in. Since nopony wants Trixie to take up space in the city and cause a disturbance, other than the times she performs in town, she decided to live outside of town. Blossomforth doesn't know how Trixie will help her training, since Trixie only performs with her magic.

After taking a taxi past the Brookmare Bridge, she finally makes it to the city border. The city outskirts are very bare compared to the stone and steel of the big city. Past the bridge is grassland and a sandy pathway going for what seemed miles. Other than the various trees scattered about in small patches, nothing is remarkable to Blossomforth.

She looks around and sees Trixies wagon hidden in some trees. She goes over to the patch of trees and tries to get to her cart, since the branches make it very hard to get in. After Blossomforth gets in, she sees that the wagon is very well shaded in the trees with a little open  area to have a campsite to eat and leave other variables around like clothes(even though she only wears her cloak and hat), and kitchenware.

Since she can't see Trixie out here, Blossomforth figures that she is in her wagon. So she goes over to the side of the cart's entrance and knocks on the door.

She gets a response back, "Oh Blossomforth dear, The Great and Powerful Trixie allows entrance to you!"

Blossomforth rolls her eyes at Trixie's boastful response, but goes in either way.

Blossomforth goes into the cart and gets a very unexpected surprise. When she goes in, she didn't expect the place to be very organized and well kept. Twilight mentioned to her friends how the place looked, from her bedroom furniture, to the wall full of Hairy Hoofdini memorabilia. She sees Trixie sitting next to her dining table and sipping on her coffee. Trixie sees her at the doorway and motions her over to sit down.

Blossomforth goes over to the dining table and stands opposite of Trixie.

"So you ready to take some training from 'The Great and Powerful Trixie'?", asks Trixie.

Blossomforth nodded as Trixie gets off from her chair and gets ready to go out. Trixie pauses at the doorway as she realizes something, "Oh that reminds me, put these on."

Trixie then uses her magic to levitate some clothes and puts them on Blossomforth. Blossomforth notices that the clothes look like Trixie's robe and hat, but is only gray and worn out.

"What are these Trixie? I look like Ganhoof the Gray from 'Lord of the Hooves.", says a confused Blossomforth.

Trixie raises her brow as she never hears something like this from her.

"Twilight got me to read the books.", says Blossomforth.

Trixie shakes her head and goes outside with Blossomforth following her out. As they get outside, Trixie goes to the other side of the wagon and pulls a lever to  have her stage come down out. Blossomforth is still confused on what she is still being trained from Trixie.

"So what are you training me on exactly again?", questions Blossomforth.

Trixie smiles as she gets the fireworks ready, then responds back, "We're going to train you in some showmanship."

Fireworks then go off as Trixie poses at the end.

Blossomforth has her jaw out as she is dumbfounded by this.

"Performing helps with you looking good and to help with stage fright. When you have others look at you, you may get stressed out, so we might as well work on that." , says Trixie.

Blossomforth kind of gets that, since she got fearful when she feels she has all eyes on her. Trixie then uses her magic to pick off some sticks and pick some stones. As she moves them around and twist them, she made some makeshift manikins that are supposed to look like ponies.

After Trixie finished making these so called 'manikins', she gets Blossomforth get on stage and positions her in the middle of the stage, then Trixie gets off the stage.

"Now, I want you to fly around and do some tricks for the audience. This will help you get rid of your stage fright and not to get distracted while flying.", says Trixie.

Blossomforth thinks this won't help, but she'll give it a go. Trixie gets a whistle ready, and Blossomforth gets ready to takeoff.

Trixie then blows the whistle as Blossomforth takes flight, slow, but off the ground. As she does some tricks in the air, she feels more confident that she can do this. As she gets ready to do another trick, Trixie boos and hisses from the crowd of manikins. As she looks down, she then gets an image of the other pegasi laughing at her from the ground. She then gets nervous and she gets out of sync with her flapping and starts to dive. She descends too fast and crashes into the ground.

Trixie sighs and says, "We'll practice more on your stage fright. Ok from the top now."

Blossomforth groans and knows she wasn't going to like more of this particular practice.

-Manehattan Library-

Finally, Blossomforth is going to see Twilight before she gets training from Daring Do. After her embarrassing training exercise from Trixie yesterday, she hopes someone more understanding like Twilight can help her. After walking for a couple of minutes, she makes it to the entrance of the Manehattan Library. She then goes into the library with the bell going off upon entry. When she gets in, she sees somepony approach her. She then realizes it's Spike, carrying a pile of books in front of him. Spike is appearing to be having some trouble lifting the books, but then puts them down and goes over to Blossomforth.

"Hey Blossomforth, here to see Twilight?", asks Spike.

Blossomforth nods, then Spike says, "She's on the second floor at her desk."

Blossomforth then says, "Thank you."

Spike goes back to the pile of books and brings them to a table in the reading area, clearly still showing strain from lifting a huge pile of books.

Blossomforth then goes to the stairs that goes up to the second floor. When she gets up to the second floor, she sees Twilight at her desk writing. Twilight sees her approach and puts down the quill pen with her magic.

"Oh, hi Blossomforth.", says Twilight.

Twilight then looks to the clock on the wall, "Is it that time already?"

Twilight goes over to Blossomforth and motions her to follow. They both go down to the first floor as Twilight goes over to the reading area. Blossomforth sees some books on one table, in fact, it's the same pile of books Spike was caring earlier. Also, Spike is on the floor breathing heavily and tired.

Twilight smiles and tells Blossomforth, "Okay, now you can start studying on the history of flight."

Blossomforth then says, "What do you mean?"

"Well, since I can't help you with physical activity, I'd help you with my only way possible, research." , says Twilight.

Twilight then goes back to her work on the second floor. Blossomforth groans knowing this is going to be even more painful, as she would rather do physical labor over reading.

-Manehattan Museum-

After four days of what is considered to Blossomforth, a failure, she finally gets ready to train with Daring Do. She gets over to the her friend's museum and goes inside to meet her inside. She makes her way to her friend's office, and finally gets herself ready for some exciting training. After tasting terrible treats, dancing on with four left hooves, performing pretty poorly, and being given ghastly migraines. So with Daring being very nice with her, this seems like a good break for her.

Blossomforth knocks on the door, and gets a response to come in. After going in, she sees Daring dusting some statue in the corner. She looks around her friends office to see some other statues, tomes, runes, artifacts, and various vases. These things are probably from her friend's various expeditions and travels from around the world. Daring finishes dusting her statue and goes to sit down to her desk.

"Take a seat, Blossomforth.", says Daring. Blossomforth takes a seat across from her friend. "Now, I'm guessing you're ready to train with me today right?", asks Daring.

Blossomforth clopped her hooves together in glee and with a smile on her face.

"Well, let's get ready to read on the flight patterns on a twister.", says Daring with a smile.

Blossomforth goes wide eyed and with a frown as to recall some bad experience.

"Then, we'll take a break with some of Aunt Orange's homemade sandwiches. Afterwards, we can go to a party and dance like no tomorrow, and have everypony see your excellent dance moves.

Blossomforth eyes twitch and starts to laugh maniacally. As this disturbs Daring, Blossomforth then starts to cry on the ground, weeping.

"Why does this have to happen to me? All I want to do is to learn how to fly and make everypony proud.", cries Blossomforth as she still cried on the ground.

As she's still on the ground, she feels somepony hug her. She sees that it's Daring hugging her.

"We are helping you, it's just we have different ways of telling you.", says Daring in a comforting voice.

Blossomforth is starting to calm down and stop crying. Daring continued to hug her while rubbing her back.

"We can't teach you how to fly, you must learn yourself from different experiences that will help you be a better flyer.", says Daring.

Blossomforth then gets up and looks to Daring, who's still holding her. She then starts to understand her experiences on how her training will help her be a better flyer.

"I think I kind of understand now. Auntie wants me to be healthy to have the energy to fly. Octavia shows me on keeping my rhythm on how I'll read the wind patterns. Trixie shows me how to fly while under pressure. Then Twilight wanted me to study some information on flying from different books.", says Blossomforth

Daring smiles at her friend's realization on her training.

"Now you know how we want to help you without doing it directly on flight.", says Daring.

Blossomforth wipes the rest of her tears away and speaks up, "Thank you, and to all of our friends for helping me. Now I fully realize what I need to do. Let's get ready to review my progress!", cheers a now happy Blossomforth.

Daring knows that everything will be going to plan to get ready for the big day.

-Central Park-

After the full five days of training with her friends, Blossomforth gets ready to help all of the pegasi get the tornado to Cloudsdale. As she flies over Central Park she sees all of the pegasi getting ready to review their wing power before going to the water reservoir. As she lands, she sees that Spitfire is here with Daring and speaking about the plans for today. Blossomforth at this point would've gotten weak knees, but she feels confident about herself. She goes over to the track along with the rest of the others to test their wing power.

As time goes by, its Blossomforth's turn to test her wing power. This time, Spike has the whistle since Spitfire is busy at the moment. Blossomforth readies herself to take off. Spike blows the whistle and Blossomforth flies with all of her might towards the end of the track. As she passes the anemometer, Twilight then records her flight with a blank face.

Blossomforth then goes over to Twilight to get the news.

Then Twilight plainly says to her friend, "5.0, even".

Blossomforth got worried and says, "5.0, 5.0!? I thought I got better at my flight.", panics Blossomforth.

"You did. This is much better than I thought you would do. You got much better at your flight.", says Twilight Trying to comfort her.

Blossomforth tries to keep herself calm but ends up hyperventilating.

"Oh, what could be any worse than this?", says Blossomforth like she's trying to jinx something.

Spitfire then comes by with a worried look on her face with Daring showing the same look on her face, "Girls, we have a problem."