Filly Dreams

by RogueShadowAngel

Rating: everyone
Tags: Scootaloo, Random, Slice of Life, Sad, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1237

She can't fly, but that doesn't stop her from dreaming of what it's like.

Other fillies and colts that are flying all around her that are her age. Some are even younger. She wishes to fly and wants to feel the wind in her mane. The time isn’t right for her to fly. No one takes her seriously or tells her to be careful. How does she feel with everything going on or is told? No one really bothers to ask the filly but she still runs the thoughts through her head in a mental diary.

Published 2012-06-19 17:04:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-06-19 17:04:02 UTC

Filly Dreams

I wonder what it’s like to fly. The wind through your wings, your mane getting swooped back by the forces of nature, and everything just disappearing as if it was only you and the skies. Other pegasi have already experienced this, almost every pony has! All other ponies but me; I sit on the ground watching them soar. Rainbow Dash being the best flyer is enough to make any Pegasus jealous with her speeds and tricks. I just wish I was half that good, but I can’t even get off the ground.

I’m not scared of flying, quite the opposite of it I love it! I love feeling the weightless feeling the few times I have performed tricks on my scooter and gotten enough air to soar, even if it’s only a few meters. It’s just enough to make me crave more. The other Cutie Mark Crusaders understand my frustration I guess, but they don’t know how longing that I have for flight. I was born in Ponyville, both of my parents too busy to really learn what my needs are. I’m sick and tired of being on the ground, I mean it’s great I can run and beat any earth pony or unicorn at a race. Galloping isn’t just enough for me, I need more.

I need to feel the wind ticking my wings, it flowing through my mane and tail, and I want to soar in Celestia’s skies. This I my right to have as a Pegasus, every one before me and currently knows what I’m talking about. Applebloom has her sister to hang out and help around with, Sweetie Belle has Rarity, and I have no pony to share in my loneliness that I feel. Wind I just know it would help cure it, I guess. It just seems like it would at least I mean every pony has had their day, why can’t I have mine!?

No one seems to notice the orange Pegasus always doing tricks or running around on her scooter. They always tell me “watch out” or “you’re going to fast Scootaloo slow down.” Oh and my favorite one “Give it time filly, your wings will grow in eventually. Each pony has a different way of growing”. I knew Twilight meant well when she said that but she doesn’t understand the love of flight like a Pegasus has. I want to fly, even Feather Weight has flown and he has smaller wings than me!

Is it so much to ask? I just want to get off this dirty ground for once. I want to visit Cloudsdale, feel clouds on my hooves. I’ve never even done that! I mean Rainbow Dash has offered to take me and hang out with me, which was really nice of her. I will take her up on that offer; I mean she understands how I feel I think. No other pony sees to take my feelings seriously. I don’t know if they even care.

My parents are too busy to pay attention to me. My idol has her own life so she can’t always hang around me. I have my friends but they also have sisters. So I’m usually alone staring at the sky right outside of Ponyville when no one is at home. I practice tricks and try my best to try to fly, and I know I’m getting better I can flutter a little bit! I just wish I could fly already. I know I’m repeating myself over and over but it just seems like no one is willing to listen and give me a chance.

I’m glad that I have the quiet times though, when my parents are too busy with their own lives. I sometimes hate it too, always alone or off on my own when my friends are busy. I have time to practice tricks so I can wow people (especially try to impress Rainbow Dash), and most of all I have time to think. Not many ponies know this but I do like to make believe I’m racing and I’m working on something awesome for the Wonderbolts for a new trick like I can actually fly. I guess I can thank Rainbow Dash again for actually making me a huge fan of the Wonderbolts, which makes me even sadder sometimes.

I wouldn’t mind flying alongside of them more importantly. I would love to just feel the G forces as I try to preform tricks in the skies unlike the ground where you just end up with a muzzle full of dirt if you make a mistake. You have times to at least catch yourself before you fall to the earth below if you mess up. I’ve watched many flying teams do that, it’s just simply amazing. I’ve also secretly watched Rainbow Dash in between her shifts or when she was goofing around when she was working. I don’t think she knows but if she does… she really puts on a good show!

No one really knows how I feel. I’m the tom filly in the group of friends I have and I guess I’m a bit tougher than Applebloom especially Sweetie Belle. I know we have a lot in common, besides just not trying to find our cutie marks. Though I can tell you that I’m sure they’ll get them soon since they are becoming more aware of what they are good at. I’m not so sure though, I haven’t even had a chance to fully explore my potential. I don’t want to be the only one in my class without a cutie mark, just because I can’t fly. I guess I just feel sad, alone and I’ll be frankly honest hopeless.

Every pony puts me down about not being able to fly, even my own parents say comments in passing when they around. Both of them have a flightless Pegasus daughter, thanks mom for your fear of heights. Yeah they are both pegasi surprisingly enough, but none of them have the time to show me what it takes to be a flyer or showing me even how to hover. I guess that’s why I feel so down about it… no pony will take the time or has the time. Oh well one day I will soar above the clouds, feeling the wind my mane. I will touch a cloud and then crash through it just because I can. I will be happy and soar alongside Rainbow Dash and the Wonderbolts. Maybe not today, but someday soon I’ll learn to fly and show every pony how awesome I can be! I won’t just be awesome on the scooter I have either but in the skies! Maybe I can even do a duo flight stunt with Rainbow Dash! It would be awesome and prove everyone that even a flightless “chicken” can become a swan!

Ha! Eat that Diamond Tiara! At least my special talent isn’t to be stuck up and fake like you are! I’ll prove to my parents that I’m not stupid or useless! I am going to soar above everything. I can just feel it now, sigh… if only it were right now. Until then I guess I can only look up at the skies and dream for the day I take flight and see the heavens for myself instead of on the ground like I do now… every night what it’s like to fly.