The Three Souls

Chapter Seven

Terra stepped to the balcony, the two young mare’s right behind him, watching him uneasily as he sighed gently, letting his thoughts to the wings. He opened the larger pair first, and they acted much like actual wings, and were about the same size as Celestia’s were, with the second pair opening out and backward, towards the back and bottom half of the first pair, tucked neatly there. The tried flapping them, discovering quickly that wasn’t going to work, as they jarred his back roughly with each flap. He held them out to a good sixty degree angle and twisted them so the tips of the wings were out from his body, discovery that it was greatly more comfortable to wear them like that.

“Um... Rocks for brains?” a voice said creeping up from behind him, making him sigh roughly. Then beside him stood Storm, seeing her smile, “I take it this is your first time correct?”

He nodded gently, only to see her shoot off into the air with blinding speed, then floating a little distance out. From where he stood he could vaguely make out that she was smiling, no, taunting him.

“I promise I’ll go easy on you!” she yelled out, hovering with her wings flapping gently. He gritted his teeth is a wicked grin, as he saw Amor fly out past him hovering extremely close the balcony to help him. Soon he began to circulate magik through the gems in his wings, giving them a faint glow around them, and he felt the wings become incredibly light, softer then a feather this time when he flapped them. They also moved more organically then before unlike the unenhanced from a few moments earlier, and he lifted himself off the ground, grunting as he started to work them quickly, trying to get use to the effort. As he did, he could feel the ground become less precedent, as and as he looked down, he could see himself slowly rising, making his lips form an uncontrollable grin. He slowly gained distance from his beloved ground and welcomed himself to a new world of the sky above.

Terra looked Amor, and she smiled with happiness, fluttering over and offered her hoof to him.

“Need a hoof?” she asked, that soft gentle smile across her face. He nodded.

“Fillies... teach me how to fly.”

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It was two hours later that he landed for the first time. And boy did his back hurt.

“You okay rock-head?” Storm asked landing next to him, grinning happily, “Love hurts don’t it?”

“Okay... yes it does. BUT it is totally worth it,” he said, feeling the magik drain out of the wings as he took them off, groaning as he stretched his back. Amor landed next to them as well, looking pale.

“DID WE HAVE TO FLY SO HIGH!!! I mean... you know I’m scared of heights, Storm,” she responded with, eyes filled with the fear she just had from the height they were at. They both chuckled at her, grinning happily, before Terra walked away to his bed and fell on it, smiling.

“Still it was amazing right?” he said with a tone of him dreamily imagining going for another flight. Oh he couldn’t wait for tomorrow now, but now he had to relax and get rested.

“Oh well. We’ll leave you be,” Amor said walking out, shaking slightly, to be greeted by Celestia, who walked off with her talking about something. Probably Discord again.

Terra closed his eyes and fell asleep, slightly snoring as he just laid on top of his soft comfortable bed, though he was on the lumpy side.

Storm strolled over to his balcony before stopping looking back at the snoring form atop the bed, then rubbed her hoof against the ground, and smiling, “Later sweet thing, and I expect to see you in the sky...” she commented, before her wings flared open and she thrusting herself into the sky.

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Terra took off again, smiling as he launched himself off the balcony into the lovely morning sky. As he took a long and very strong deep breath and enjoyed the smell of the morning sky around him, delicious as it was. He banked hard right, tucking his right wing in against him, aiming himself to the ground and did a strong spiral dive at it, grinning, pulling out a moment before impact and landing with a skid. Oh today was going to be good, very good in fact as he took off with a long gallop and took once more into the orange sky that the sun rose up into. He could see if father watching him, and waved his hoof at him, a silly grin on his face. Star-dust just waved back at him, before returning inside. He couldn’t help but enjoy this now, and began to climb higher up into the sky with a great vigour the winds higher up rushing against him.

With each flap, each stroke of his wings, beating the near none existent air around him, before he levelled off, and looked down, floating gently above the clouds. No matter what could happen today, his smile was not going to leave him, not at all. He moved to rise a few hooves only to roll over and dive, both wings tucked to his body and gaining speed.

Then he saw it, and impacted it. A pale blue form with a soft greyed mane and a-

“WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!” it cried, as the pair tumbled into the air, spiralling downward to the ground.

“Sorry! SORRY!” Terra called out.

“ROCK FOR BRAINS YOU!!”

Now he knew who it was at that instant and tried to regain his control, only to receive a kick to the face. He cringed, and looked at her, trying to figure out where he was, but couldn’t.

“Calm down. Calm down,” he could hear her say, “Grab on to my, and I’ll take control!”

And that is what he proceeded to do, wrapping his arms around her, and closing her eyes, his heart thumping in his chest. He couldn’t breathe because of how scared he was.

With that they rolled slightly, feeling the air rush past them.

“Close your wings!” She called out, which he complied with, not opening his eyes. They then gained speed, realizing she was making them dive, trying to gain speed. With that he clenched tighter to her not breathing any more.

“OPEN YOUR WINGS!” He flared them, feeling his body being wretched back from the sudden deceleration and pulling up motion, and then a tumble, letting go but bumping into her on the ground. They were on the ground. And as they came to a stop, he felt her come to rest on top of him, thanking who ever watched over them, that Storm was there for him.

He slowly opened his eyes, and blinked several times and looked downward to his chest, but stopped and blinked again. Storms rump was right in front of him, and from he it looked, her head was close to hi-

He blushed furiously as he felt her take her upper body weight off his belly, and groan. She was only raised up alittle when she looked down.

“Oh.... Oh my...” was all he could hear, before she rolled of him and sat down facing away from him. He did the same and turned away, so red in the face that he could be the same colour as Alexander. He was beyond nervous now, and he looked over his shoulder at her, quickly looking away. They sat there for a while, too embarrassed to really do anything.

“T-T-Thanks,” was the first thing he managed out, body still rigid with pain and embarrassment from what happened.

“Y-Yeah no... no problem, lug-nut,” was all she managed to respond with. Before too long they finally got up and started to walk, not looking at each other from their rather intimate accident. Terra felt he had hurt her with how they fell, and couldn’t help but look at her before back at the ground and furiously blush. He could tell form his peripheral that she was doing the same, and chuckled.

“Um... let’s just... forget what happened at the end there?” he said coming to a stop and offering his hoof to her, which she blushed, nodded and shook it with him.

“D-Deal... should we... fly somewhere, ya know... t-together?” she asked him, not looking at him. He blushed slightly and looked away, rubbing the back of his head softly, nervous.

“Sure... you lead the way,” he said. Without a moments hesitation they took off, keeping a safe distance apart from one another, but close enough to talk.

That didn’t matter since the awkward silence that enveloped through the flight was damning and ever present. But before too much time passed, and the silence finally forced someone to leave, they started to fly towards dark grey mountains.