Ponified in Ponyville

After a few moments I finally took the danged bucket off my head and looked at Dash.

"Hi. Allow me to finally introduce myself. My name is Sunny Rays."

"Oh. Hello Sunny Rays. I've never seen you around here before."

Oh no. I knew what that meant.

Approximately 5 seconds later, Pinkie Pie practically exploded into the town square.

"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! I've never seen you around before! You must be new! So that must mean you haven't made any friends yet you know a similar thing happened with my friend Twilight and yadda yadda yadda blah blah blah blah..."

I slammed the bucket on her head to shut her up.

"So Rainbow Dash, do you think you could give me a little lesson"--I motioned to my wings--"with these babies here?"

Dash giggled a little. "Sure. With my help, you may as well be as fast as me!"

She shoved a pointing hoof in my face and glared at me. "As fast. Not faster. As fast."

I rolled my eyes. She flew upwards and landed on a cloud that was about my level.

Now, you probably know that I wasn't at all used to my body. I didn't know how to use my wings at all.

I pushed both wings downward, then up. Down and up. Down and up. I pushed faster with more effort (ok, a lot of effort) and soon I was a few inches off the ground. I wanted to fly up to the cloud so I downed and upped faster. I was already wheezing. Down and up. Down and...

DOWN!

Crash!

Rainbow was laughing her head off, like it was oh-so funny that a Pegasus had landed face-first on the pavement. I picked my head up and spat out some asphalt and an earthworm.

Rainbow Dash coughed. "I mean, uh, that was good. Really good."

But right after that I heard some muffled giggles.

I jumped up. "You know what? I CAN fly faster than you!" (I don't know if I was trying to convince her that or myself.)

Dash immediately stopped laughing. "What did you just say?"

I didn't repeat myself. I flapped my wings as hard as I could. It was really tough, but I managed through the pain.

Soon my hooves(?) were at Dash's head level. My wings were screaming to stop, but I fought back the tears and flapped even harder.

Now I was just a few feet above Dash. I could feel the blood pounding in my ears, the tensing muscles in my wings, my heart racing...

Then I just... Relaxed.

My wings were relaxed now. I could fly smoothly now. I guess tensing up my wings made it hurt to fly. But now, after relaxing, I could fly great. Not fast yet, but you know. Sort of like floating in a quiet pool, letting the current slowly take you wherever it wants.