"Weeeeee!!! Faster Daddy, faster!"
A small light blue coated filly was screaming in delight, her golden mane blowing the in the wind behind, her tiny wings buzzed frantically trying to gain enough lift so she would be able to fly herself. She was on the back of a pegasus stallion with a similar appearance except his coat was a darker blue topped with a grey mane. Currently they were soaring through the clouds of their home town; the pegasi cloud city of Windy Peaks.

"You ok back there, Dusty?"
Lightning Storm looked back to make sure that she was alright which meant that he had to slow down to get a good look at his daughter. Lightning Dust appeared to be having the time of her life, until she realised that she was going slower than she had been promised.

"Daddy! You said that we won't stop 'til I got tired!" huffed Lightning Dust.

"And we haven't stopped, I'm just checking that you're alright back there."
Lightning Dust pouted in annoyance, true Storm hadn't stopped, only gone slower. But going slower was almost like stopping and to Dust that was a no-go, she loved speed and going as fast as possible.

"Daddy!!! Please, you promised!!!"
Lightning Dust even went as far as jumping up and down on his back to emphasise her point.

"Humh, fine then. As fast as possible, but no ice cream after this!" Lightning Storm said and after making sure that his daughter wasn't still bouncing on top of him, started to pick up his lost speed.

"YAY!!!!!"
Lightning Dust didn't care; ice cream couldn't compare to this! Suddenly, a massive rainbow soared across the sky above them, Lightning Dust could feel the magic across her cyan coat. Weird, Dust remembered the Rainboom happening on the day she lost-

"Daddy~" singsonged Dust

"Yes...." answered Lightning Storm warily, even though he knew what she was about to say.

"I can see the Frosty Snow's store for here~"

"Ohh, that's nice..." He had to feign interest and not look into her pleading eyes, if he did that Storm would be lost in the depths of cute filly sadness. For that there was no known cure.

"I can see that her ice cream parlour has a sale on~"

"Ohh, that's nice as well..."
Keep her talking and get back to the house quick! Storm was frantically thinking to himself.

"You know how you love me!~"
Damn, she was using the big guns for this fight.

"Daddy! Look, I got my cutie mark!" Lightning Dust suddenly squealed with glee, causing Storm to suddenly to whip his head excitedly around to get a good look at... his daughter's pleading eyes.
Arhh, It's a trap! Their sadness is too strong, guilt factors rising. Dusty, you cruel filly fiend; this revenge from earlier I know it. Must. hold.. out... a.... little..... longer......

"...f-fine, we'll get ice cream." Storm admitted in utter defeat, hanging his head in shame at being beaten by his own daughter.

"YAY!!!!!"
Lightning Dust didn't care that had completely guilt tripped her father, ice cream would be worth it!

"Mmmm...chocolate chip...." Lightning Dust was savouring her 'hard won' ice cream while Lightning Storm had to make due with normal vanilla. Seeing as the parlour had a sale on literally all of the ice creams, most of them had run out already. After several minutes of eating Storm turned to look at Lightning Dust obviously with something on his mind.

"Lightning Dust, is this how you remember your fillyhood? Stop lying to yourself."
Dust paused from her vanilla treat to stare perplexed at her father, confused on why he had called by her full name and he had never called her Miss before either. He always used her nickname he had given her, even when she was in trouble.

"D-daddy? W-what do you mean?"

"Dusty, I said; How do you like your ice cream?"

"Umm..."
Lightning Dust stared at her perfect chocolate chip ice cream and took another bite, suddenly it didn't taste as sweet as she remembered. Something was wrong but she couldn't think what it was. Lightning Storm suddenly pointed to the school playground opposite them.

"Hey look Dusty, it's your school friends. Why don't you go play with them?"

"Y-yeah..."

"Hear, I'll hold your ice-cream while you go play." Storm reassured her.
Something was definitely wrong, as far as she remembered Windy Peak's school and its playground had never been across the road from the Frosty Snow's Ice-Cream shop. But somepony was shouting her name, it was Cloud Kicker standing on top of the swings waving at her. Funny, Lightning hadn't seen Cloud Kicker for years......or was it yesterday?

"Lightning!!!!! Oh My Gosh, come play with me!"

Lightning was starting get a headache from her drinking......wait, wasn't it ice cream? Lightning Dust found herself sitting on the swings with Cloud Kicker listening to her talk endlessly.

"-and then I said 'I'm Cloud Kicker not Cloud Kickys!' and then he was like 'Fine, I'll call you both Cloudy then!'"
Cloud Kicker burst into laughter at her own joke but Cloud stopped as soon as she realised that Lightning Dust wasn't paying attention, slightly confused at her friend's actions, Lightning was her best friend since like forever and she always paid attention and laughed at Cloud's jokes.

"Hey, Lightning. Are you ok?"

"Huh, what?"
Lightning Dust was snapped out of her thinking to glance across to Cloud Kicker.

"Sorry, Cloud. I wasn't listening what did you say?"

"Lightning, stop deluding yourself. You'll never be fast enough." Cloud Kicker's comment had splintered though Lightning Dust. But it wasn't just what Cloud had said, it was the way she had said it; her voice was detached, cold and unfeeling.

"W-w-what?"

"Wow, look at that!" shouted Cloud Kicker excitedly pointing at the sky above them, a massive arcing rainbow was heading over them at extreme speeds. It was a Sonic Rainboom, Lightning had seen it before when she was a filly.....wait, no she was a filly and she had never seen something like that before.
But if that was so then how did Lightning Dust already know what a Rainboom was and called.

"Umm, Lightning why are the buildings are on fire."
Lightning looked at where Cloud Kicker was pointing. She was right; the cloud buildings were on fire, it looked around the downtown district of Windy Peaky that was where the Weather Factory was, where Lightning Storm worked. Dust looked across the street expecting to see him and Frosty Snow's Ice-cream parlour, but they were gone. Wait, no that was wrong Lightning Dust had just seen them...right?
Getting a slowly creeping feeling of dread Lightning Dust somehow knew the her father was in danger. As the cloud fire spread towards the Weather Factory, Lightning took off running towards it leaving the school playground and Cloud Kicker behind.

"Wait, Lightning!" Cloud Kicker called after her, but Dust wasn't listening.

Lightning Dust tore through the streets galloping as hard as she could, veering around and through passing bystanders as best as she could. As Lightning ran passed two ponies she heard a brief snipet of their conversation.

"....e fire is all across downtown. Ponies are saying that it has surrounded the Weather Factory."

"Is anypony in danger?"

"I don't know. There is no news coming from over there."

"Where are the Wonderbolts? They should be here to he-"
Dust's mind was full of questions such as if her daddy was ok or not, why the fire had started, how the fire had started, and why wasn't anypony running to help. But she couldn't concentrate on them now, she had to keep running. Lightning Dust was pumping her legs as fast as they could go but her breathing was getting labored, and her legs were getting tired she wasn't built to run over long distances or over any long periods of time; after all she wasn't an earth pony, she was a pegasus. A Pegasus! Lightning Dust's only chance to make it in time was her wings. But she was a filly, she had never flown before, not on her own, not without help.
She had to try!
Flapping her wings in a steady rhythm just as her father had shown her had been difficult when she was standing still but now she was galloping as hard as she could making the task infinitely more demanding. Lightning was pushing herself to beyond her limits, slowly but surely Lightning being feeling weightless, looking down she noticed that her legs were galloping in midair as she was now at least 6 hooves of the ground. Renewed at finally being able to fly Lightning Dust stopped moving her legs, tucking them in to make herself more streamlined; she poured more energy into her wings determinded to go faster. She was now blasting past ponies like a cannonball, her wings were a blur of speed as they pulled every bit of energy from Lightning to keep her going. Lightning Dust was now easily the fastest moving pegasus in the whole of Windy Peaks, she was going at speeds that would make Wonderbolts jealous. A faint trail of aether and pegasus magic was building behind her coalescing into a blue and yellow thunderbolt streaked light trail.

Just a little faster! Lightning was thinking to herself, I'm almost there, I'm here to save you daddy! Lightning Dust felt a slight burning sensation on her flank, glancing back Lightning was shocked to she a mark there consisting a yellow lightning bolt on top of three white stars. But right now Lightning Dust couldn't spend anything on the discovery of her cutie mark, she had to keep going. She was almost there.
She could see Windy Peaks Weather Factory now, it was already completely ablaze. Lightning Dust couldn't see her father anywhere however a pegasus mare was shouting at others to clear out the surrouding area, the mare looked severaly disheveled; her snow white coat and silver mane were marred with soot and ash from the surrounding flames this made the mare's silver eyes standout like polished diamonds. Lightning Dust flew up to her seeing that she was the only other pony that wasn't losing their heads.

"Hey! What's going on here?" shouted Lightning at her.
The mare did a double take Lightning Dust.

"Storm's filly? It's Dust isn't it? You need to get out of here, now!"
The mare pointed at Lightning to get back from the burning buildings. But Lightning wasn't backing down.

"Where is my daddy?" she screamed.

"We both know where he is." The mare voice was cold and monotone just as Cloud Kickers' before, she slowly turned towards the burning factory. Her movement was almost robotic, there was nothing natural about her at the moment.

"But it's too late, you're too late Lightning. You weren't fast enough." She said as the mare looked up at the building high flames, half-turning back around to face Lightning Dust, the snowy mare's eyes had turned from silver to a slited green. Lightning Dust shivered, she had seen those eyes before but she couldn't think where...

"Hmm, your loyalty.....even after all of this you still what to save him, don't you?"
Confused Lightning nodded slowly.

"Very well, I'll give you one more try. Better hurry..."

Gritting her teeth, Lightning Dust had heard enough and blasted straight past her into the blaze.

Author's Note

Quick update, I recently updated the previous chapter (You're joking, right?), the only important change is this.

But before anypony could say anything or do anything else, a jet black bolt of magic shot through the window at rapid speed straight at the group.

"Oh......"
The last thing that Lightning saw was the magic bolt flying straight at her, the shocked faces of Solar and Spitfire being covered as her vision was filled and overpowered by a pitch black light.

Yes, trust me it's important.
Also, shout at me to the next chapters out sooner, seriously my upload periods has slipped up to three weeks. I know that its important that I need time for my writing to still make sense, but I just think that for first week of writing is not used well just for playing Skyrim.