The Rise of A New Age In Equestria

It had been a week since Midnight had arrived at the Order, he was welcomed with open hoofs by a few of the other stallions and mares, most however didn't like the company of this outsider that was brought here, however none would go out of there way to say it, they would only glare, or simply ignore the little pegasus. That all changes today however as training begins for all the young fillies and colts to become part of the Assassins Order. The training was said to be the toughest there was, and that most don't even pass, those that don't are sent to become blacksmiths or carpenters, or just regular guards, whatever they can do to help the small Village. Those that do make it through the training though become Assassins, and are sent all over Equestria. As Midnight awakes on this day, he hopes that he will become an Assassin and make it through the training, in hopes that when he does, everypony will stop giving him the cold shoulder. As he got up from his bed, he went to the sink, as he washed his face, he looked up to see his own reflection staring back at him, red eyes staring into him. Midnight shook his head and proceeded to brush his teeth, and finish his morning routine. After which he walked to the door of his own small hut, the Assassins believed in Independence, learning to live on your own, Most of the time the foals would live in a small hut near their parents and would only use it to sleep. Midnight however did not have parents, anymore that is and lived in a small run down hut near the edge of the village. As Midnight left his house, he walked around, breathing in the fresh air of a new day, and the dirt beneath his hooves. Midnight trotted down to the training grounds, ready to start, not knowing what would be in store for him.

As Midnight approached the training grounds he could see a large stone temple along with stone pillars high in the air with padding and hay at the bottom of them, some even had water. As Midnight climbed the stairs slowly up to the training grounds many other fillies and colts ran by him, ready to start their own training. When Midnight finally had reached the top of the stairs he walked to one of the pillars and sat down, leaning up against it, away from the growing crowd of fillies and colts. Once all the children had settled down, two stallions and a mare approached. The Mare was an Earth Pony and had a dark blue coat with sky blue mane. The two stallions looked similar, both with red coats, and and orange manes, the only difference was that one was a pegasus and the other was a Unicorn. The Earth Pony stepped up and slammed her hoof down hard onto the stone floor and looked around at all the fillies and colts in front of her and smirked slightly before she spoke, "My Name is Willow of the Wisp," as she spoke, her voice sounded calm, but rough, "and I will be training you, along with the help of these two," the two stallions behind her nodded as she began to speak again, "We will start training by dividing you into teams of three, each team must enlist an earth pony, a unicorn, and a pegasus, you all have the next ten minutes to find your team, get to know each other, and be ready to begin  your training, however I already know that most wont make it through the first day." Willow then went back to the other two stallions while all the fillies and colts ran around, arranging there teams.

Midnight sat in the back, looking up every so often as he saw other already in teams, already talking and introducing themselves, most of which were already friends. Midnight let out a sigh again, however he could feel himself moving, in fact he was being dragged. When Midnight opened his eyes he could see an Earth Pony with with light brownish fur and a darker brown mane. The Earth Pony had taken a hold of him by his wing, lightly biting into it as he was dragged to a pure white Unicorn with a black mane. The Earth Pony finally dropped me near him and as I looked up I could see a broad grin on his face as he looked down at me.  "Glad to have you aboard the best Assassin team ever, my name is Bolt," Bolt then took my hand and shook it vigorously, before motioning to the Unicorn "and mister depressing over here is called Flutter, he doesn't talk a lot but when he does its usually to point out flaws or how something is a bad idea," Bolt sounding energetic, with a voice that will never be put down. Midnight then looked over to Flutter who only continued to look down at the ground, Flutter's eyes seemed half open as he slowly looked up at Midnight, only to go back to looking at the ground again. Midnight sighed as he sat with his new group, most of the other fillies and colts were already done with introductions and as he was about to speak, a whistle broke his words as he looked up to see Willow was blowing it.

Willow spat out a whistle and began to speak again "I see that everypony is into there own team, now know that if one of your teammates does not complete one of there tasks, you will all be punished, now then, the first job is to remember those faces, because for today you will be split up, unicorns will meet with my partner to work on the basic magic you will need to be an Assassin, while the pegasi will learn to fly like an Assassin, and finally the earth ponies will come with me to work on sprints around the temple. NOW MOVE IT!!!!" Willow yelled the last part as each and every pony began to leave to there own area, the earth ponies with Willow and the Unicorns and pegasi with her other partner. He didn't talk on the way to where we were heading, but Midnight could see them climbing the temple and heading to a somewhat large balcony. The stallion stopped there and turned around to face us. "My name is Light Foot, and I will be your Flight Instructor, I will help you fly in the way of the order, first off I will teach you how to fly, and we will be doing it the same way that birds teach there young." Light Foot only smirked as her walked up to a little Filly Pegasus, he then bent down and picked her up with his teeth and with one swift action tossed the filly off the edge of the Balcony. You could hear her scream as she plummeted to the ground below her, however before she hit she flapped her wings as  best she could, and instead of crashing was able to fly back up to the balcony, still visibly shaking from what had happened. Light Foot then turned around and looked at all the now petrified pegasi with a grin before speaking again "Who's next."

As the flight test came to an end, many fillies and colts didn't make it, hitting the ground hard and than limping away to the Medical Hut, however those that did were all shaking hoofs with smiles on there faces, as Midnight looked around, he could see that he was the last one there. The last pegasi to learn to fly yet. Light Foot  trotted over to Midnight and picked him up, and with one toss, he was falling. Midnight looked around as the ground began to move closer and closer, he opened his wings and began to flap as hard as he could, trying desperately not to hit the ground. Midnight flapped his wings harder an faster, trying to prevent himself, however everything seemed to stop now as Midnight looked abound, he was a mere inch from the ground, his wings flapping hard, keeping him from meeting it. With all his strength Midnight began to fly up to the Balcony and as he settled down, he didn't feel much for his accomplishment, he could finally fly, but that didn't matter much to him now.