A ponies goal

Twilight walked into the temple and looked around seeing lots of unicorns and a few earth ponies walking around in robes of different colors. An older blue unicorn stallion walked up to her. “Hello you must be Ms.Sparkle, I am Quick Ward,”

Twilight smiled at him. “Hi you can call me Twilight if you want.” She looked around taking in all the artwork. “So what do you do here?”

Quick Ward thought for a second before looking to the ponies walking around. “Well we here at the temple study magic for advancement. I lead the temple staff in their research and sometimes lead a class or two. So would you like a tour I am sure there are some things that will interest you.”

Twilight nodded. “That sounds great. I have seen a few things that seem interesting.” She turned and started to follow Quick Ward as he led her down a hallway. Looking around at the sculptures and paintings. “Wow you have a lot of art here.”

Quick Ward nodded. “Of course. This fort is the first fort our order had after the diffusion. It was a fort for the equestrian military before that.” He led her to a library. “I figured that since there was no class today I would show you around the library. We have text on the older magic of equestria, history books from before the rise of nightmare moon, and books on alchemy and potion making.”

Twilight thought. “I was wondering about dark magic. Dark Moon said that most unicorns of your order can use it to some degree.”

Quick Ward nodded. “That is true we teach most of the unicorn foals how to at least control it so we don’t have another sombra, he was once one of our order in the northern fort until he fell.” Quick Ward lit his horn with a pale blue light and levitated a few books over to the table next to them. “Here are some of the basic texts on it. I would ask that you don’t try it without telling me.”

Twilight nodded and used her magic to open the first book. “Okay I will.” She starts to read then looks at Quick Ward. “I have seen a few references to the 5 nightmare swordsman I know Dark Moon is one but what are they?”

Quick Ward smiles. “They are the five best sword fighters in the order. We have a few different groups like them.” He sits on a pillow. “But as for the 5 nightmare swordsman. One is Dark Moon, he has the black blade of monochrome. Three of the others are at the different forts and the fifth is out on a mission.”

Twilight nods. “Oh okay. Well is there anything that I should know about the orders magic?”

Quick Ward smiles. “Well we use dark magic as you know. We also have a great knowledge of magic circles and elemental magic. We have a lot of unicorns who get their cutie mark for fighting combat magic.”

Twilight nods. “Oh okay then.” She levitates a book over to her and starts to read it.

Rainbow Dash hovered in the field that Dark Moon had left her in and looked around when suddenly she saw a small red pegasus stallion with a green mane he had on what she recognized as wing blades. He looked at her. “I take it that you are Rainbow Dash?”

Rainbow nodded. “Yeah I am! I am the best flyer in Equestria!” She smiled and struck a pose in mid air. “I am going to be the best wonder bolt there is!”

The pegasus chuckled then started to all out laugh. “The wonder bolts! Those flight camp washouts wouldn’t know a good flyer it I bucked them in the face.” He smirked. “But if you really think that you are the best flyer in Equestria why don’t you prove it right now?”

Rainbow gritted her teeth. “Okay you are on! But if I win you have to take back what you said about the wonder bolts.” She moved next to him. “So where are we going to fly too?”

The pegasus pointed at a cloud just outside of the fort. “The first one there and back wins.” Before she could even agree he was up in the air and halfway to the cloud.

Rainbow grunted and coughed at all the dust he had kicked up before flying after him almost getting to him as he reached the cloud and turned back. She touched the cloud and flew after him again but before she could get up with him he started to go faster and hit the ground leaving four craters where is hooves where. She landed next to him. “You cheated! You never said that we were starting!”

The pegasus chuckled. “I figured that if you really were the best you would be able to catch up with me. I even had on my weighted wing blades.” He unhooked one and it fell leaving a good inch deep hole in the ground where it landed and then he unhooked the other one letting it fall on the other side.

Rainbow looked at him and her eye twitched. “Just who do you think you are anyway!? You just show up insulte my heros and then cheat in a race with me!”

The pegasus smirked. “I am captain Sharp Wing leader of the pegasus forces in this fort. I am also one of the top flyers in the order. Now before you make more of a fool out of yourself why don’t you do 20 laps flying around the fort at your top speed and if you slow down even a little you have to start over.

Rainbow huffed and took flight starting to fly as fast as she could around the fort a rainbow trail following behind her as she went. “Bucking ass hole thinks he can just go around telling me what to do because he is a little faster then me in one stupid race.” She looked down and saw that he was talking to Dark Moon. “Oh look he is friends with that ass hole.” She finished her first lap and then started on her second not slowing down at all.