A Skip and a Dash

For a few moments, everything was quiet and still in Ponyville’s blue skies…until a flash of brilliant colours whooshed out of nowhere, echoing into the distance. When silence fell again, the source of the flash perched glumly on a singular white cloud. The aqua Pegasus, Rainbow Dash, swished her multi-coloured tail underneath her. She let out a careless yawn and propped her head on the cloud, shutting her tired eyes.

A flapping of Pegasus wings rose up from below. The little yellow pony Fluttershy edged up to Rainbow Dash, and gently prodded her shoulder.

“Um…Rainbow Dash?”

“Huh?” The blue pony mumbled and lifted her head up sleepiply, glimpsing Fluttershy’s twinkling eyes staring at her. “Yeah, Fluttershy?” she grumbled, not best pleased at being woken up.

“Well, um…” Fluttershy’s voice was its usual nervous tone. “Rarity is desperate to try out her new dress…and she wants you to be the model for the day.”

“Ugh...” Rainbow Dash moaned, drooping her head down, “Not again. I'm gonna be so bored!”

“Is that a no?”

Rainbow Dash sighed. She couldn’t just say no to her friends, and it was very difficult to reject Fluttershy staring at her with those pleading blue eyes. “I’ll be down in a minute.”

“Oh…okay.”

As Fluttershy flew off, it took a while for Rainbow Dash just to stand up. Her hooves ached and her eyes stung from sleeping. But eventually, after some effort, she lifted herself into the air with her aching wings and began to glide off the cloud. Unfortunately, her vision was still blurry from her sleep, and she was not paying full attention to where she was going. It was then that she felt a sharp bump on her forehead.

“Ouch!”

She rubbed her face with her hoof and heard another ‘Ouch!’ coming from next to her. She looked up, her sight clearing up. Another pegasus was in front of her. She hadn’t seen this one before: he had a dark, slate grey body, with a spiral shaped Cutie Mark, and bright orange mane and tail, almost the colour of fire.

He looked at the cyan pony in front of him, an awkward expression flooding his face.

“Um…sorry.”

Sparing no time for further conversation, the pegasus flew off. Rainbow Dash glared after him in annoyance. “Maybe you should watch where you’re going next time!” she called after him, not knowing whether he would hear or not, neither caring. She rolled her eyes, and fluttered down to the earth below her.