Brightwing: The Story of a Miracle

by SilvioxPony

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life, Sad
Length: 549

The struggle of being "Different"

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-06-25 02:48:25 UTC

The Tragedy

“Brightwing…” “Let’s name him Brightwing” Shine Bright whispered, as she looked into the new colt’s bright blue eyes.

“It’s perfect” Steelwing responded in an equal tone.

Here we see this new colt just barely 5 minutes old, already smiling as well as laughing. These events foreshadow a possible bright and shiny future for this colt, but we all know very well; the happiest and greatest ponies rise from the ashes of sad and terrible early years. All will be clear enough in due time.

The furthest past memories Bright could remember were when he turned about 10. Bright had been blinded to his past for very good reasons, some of which would have driven him mad as he matured, but he was shielded from the facts from his early years. The obvious root of his childhood problems was his parents; Steelwing and Shine Bright. These two ponies were oil and water, the only thing that kept the repelling together was Brightwing.

Bright’s parents had many issues between them which ended up driving a wall between them. There was another major issue that involved Bright. Bright was born a whole 2 months early! This was incredibly bad for the young colt, but he was lucky enough to almost get away free of damage… But the area affected by the phenomenon was his wings. Bright was born a pegasus, and through birth complications he was an earth pony with an added “accessory”.

While Bright was growing up he initially wasn’t bothered by his cling ons, but as soon as he noticed all his other friends who also possessed the same “accessories” moving through the sky by using them he started asking questions. Who are those other ponies? What are they doing? Why couldn’t he do that with his wings? So many questions and they all lead back to his early birth. Knowing the reason of his problem and realizing he has absolutely nothing he can do to fix his smiling face and happy being was soon replaced with a constant depressed and empty shell of who he once was. He had no solution to his problem and an inextinguishable burning sensation in his heart.

Bright was a pegasus so even with his wing issue he still went to flight school. His time at flight school was so incredibly awkward. He could barely move his wings and yet here he was, learning the techniques and the science behind flight. He always put all his heart in sole into every lesson whether it be a small lesson or a huge one.

One afternoon during his physical exercises there was a group colt messing with a filly, and Bright, knowing the pain it put him through, was committed on stopping the colts and helping the sobbing filly. When Bright confronted the colts he was on the same page as a colorful filly. The two of them together scared off the colts and helped the mystery filly whose name turned out to be Fluttershy recover from the incident. After the Flutters recovered from the recent encounter, Bright and the still colorful filly started talking and found out they shared many similar characteristics. They became easy friends and started hanging out. Bright became very fond of the newly befriended filly named Rainbow Dash.