The New Flyer

by RedRioteer

Part 2

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"Pyromancy?" Rainbow Dash asked, "Like, fire magic? How do you use that to fly?"

The mare giggled to herself, "Pyromancy isn't all about just spitting fire like a dragon. Each pyromantic unicorn usually specializes at a doing a certain magical thing to fire. Oh, let me just show you," The mare's horn glowed as she spawned an orb of orange fire and levitated it between the three ponies. "Most of the time," the mare started to explain, "fire will spit out light, heat, and a bit of wind in every direction, but..."

The mare's horn began to glow brighter as she exerted more magic on the fiery orb. At first, the orb seemed to grow petals on all sides. For a moment, the orbed turned onto a beautiful flower made from fire, but the peddles folded in. The glowing flower seemed to bloom in reverse; the peddles folded till the met near to top, and the flower itself began to dim as well. The mare continued, "If I compress all that energy so it all flies out of just one small point," The mare tilted the tip of the folded flower so as to point it at Rainbow Dash. Warm wind could be seen spitting out of the flower at great speeds; it blew Rainbow Dash's mane into a frenzy until the mare pointed the flower's top at Twilight and gave her the same demonstration. "I can pull a lot of thrust out of the fire," The mare concluded. The fire was then extinguished, ending the demonstration.

Rainbow Dash's mane turned to normal instantly, but Twilight's mane fared far worse. The sudden surge of warm air made her mane curl in random directions. Twilight was either unfaltered or entirely careless to her mane. Instead, her ears turned forward in genuine interest towards the mare, "Wow," she wondered, "I didn't know pyromancers could do something like that."

"What, you thought all I could do was burn things?"

"No, no, I didn't mean it like that!" Twilight seemed a little embarrassed by her honest response, "I just-"

The mare waved a careless hoof, "Don't worry 'bout it," she said, "There's all kinds of weird stuff somepony can do with fire. I know this one stallion, Ryot, he likes to drink the stuff. I mean, he literally can somehow... put fire...in a bottle - and drinks it! Don't ask me how; I don't really get his explanations."

"That's great n' all, but who're you what're you doin' makin' creators in my yard?" Another pony had jumped into the conversation. Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and the mare all turned to view the new arrival. It was Applejack, the farmer. The dark patches on her orange coat and dirt in her blonde mane indicated she was near the end of a long day's work. She seemed irritated and unwilling to put up with shenanigans this evening.

"Oh, Applejack," Twilight started, "This is, umm..." Twilight turned to the mare, "I'm sorry, what was your name?"

"I'm Cimber!" the mare gleefully responded.

"Cimber?" The other ponies collectively asked.

"Yeah, you know, like 'Cinder' and 'Ember'." Cimber smiled, taking a little pride in her name.

"Ok then, " continued Twilight. "Everypony, this is Cimber. Cimber, this is Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and I'm-"

"Princess Twilight Sparkle!" Cimber interrupted, "I know who you guys are, everypony does. I mean, you guys only helped save all of Equestria multiple times." She was smiling at first, but it dropped after a short moment as Cimber realized something. She turned to Applejack, and her ears lowered again, "Sorry 'bout messing up your yard."

Applejack wasn't angry in the slightest, "It's alright. I'd be a hypocrite to really complain'. I tear up this dirt 'bout every day. Just gotta' knock some of this dirt back into place an' it be good as new. Applejack began to kick the displaced dirt back into the small crater.

"Oh, let me help," called out Cimber. She quickly trotted over and helped Applejack kick the dirt. Rainbow Dash and Twilight joined; the crater was filled in within seconds.


Author's Note

I think I'm going to try and do short, frequent updates this time. If anypony has a problem with that, let me know.

Hope you enjoyed.

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