Live&Learn

"Do not force your wings..." Rainbow Dash almost yelled to outmatch the sound of the wind. "...Stretch them, but do not force! Find a way to make the wind help you!"
She was flying rather slow compared to her usual speed... The sky was almost clean, only a few clouds here and there to make some shadows, and protect those who were on the ground from the summer sun. The wind was blowing on my face as I was flying... or rather, trying to fly... It was way harder than it looked... It wasn't all about force, but about technique, I had to control my whole body to make it aerodynamic, catch a good rhythm to beat my wings and at the same time, know when it was time to stop and let the wind carry me.

A week had passed since I left the hospital… During the morning I had flight classes with Rainbow Dash and during the afternoon and part of the night I had classes with Twilight Sparkle and Spike... Both were suppose to teach me about fire control and other things that anyone needed to know at my age... such as grammar and a little of history... or at least was the initial intention. And at night, I always returned to my home... the tree house that I shared with Steel Head... He didn't like to be left alone there.

Rainbow Dash flew under me really fast, making my flight unstable and I struggle a bit to recover the control. My heart was beating extremely fast by the scary she just gave me.
"Rainbow! What the hell?" I shout at her after I recover my flight stability. "Are you trying to kill me by heart attack? Or by falling?"
"You have to be focus while flying!" She said with a grin "Change of winds and other pegasi flying around you are real threats if you get too distracted. You need to learn how to fast respond to unexpected situations! Now, follow me!" She said and then closed her wings just enough to make a tight curve while going down.

I did the same and felt my speed increasing while diving to the ground. I felt a chill in my guts... That would be far more terrifying if I didn't had wings or if Rainbow Dash wasn't by my side.

"Stretch your wings and tilt them up at my sign!"Rainbow said as she closed her wings a little more to increase her speed... I did the same and followed her. The wind on my face got stronger and the ground was starting to get closer and closer... My heart was beating so fast and hard that I feared that it would simply explode!

"NOW!" I heard Rainbow shouting and I stretched my wings fully, tilting them up just a little. It made me brutally change the trajectory. I felt my internal organs being pulled down by gravity as the rest of my body started to go up, to the sky. A rush of adrenaline bathed my whole body and it was one of the best feelings in the world.
"Nice job! Let's stop for now!" Dash yelled again and stared to go towards the ground to land... We where relative close to Sweet Apple Acres, in a big open field.

I tilted my body to the side and started to descend too... A strong flap of my wings to hold my body in the air before I finally made contact to the ground, landing on all fours.

"You are getting better by the day" Rainbow said coming closer to me and I stood up in two legs.
"Thanks... Well, I have the best flier in all Equestria as my teacher, is not surprise I'm getting good at it so fast." I chuckled.

"And you are totally right!" She said, stuffing her chest with pride. "The only thing is that you should do it a little more naturally, you know? When you fly I can see that you are trying to control every part of your body and that makes harder to pay attention to your surroundings."

"So what do you recommend me to do?" I crossed my arms.
"Let it go! You need to be part of the sky when you fly... And not control every single muscle and forgetting to pay attention to your surroundings..." She explained to me.
"Ok... I guess I can try that tomorrow..." I sighed and sat on the grass.

She came closer to me and then kissed me softly...

"You could come sleep at my place tonight... what you think?" She said smiling with her face really close to mine.
"Well..." I said grinning at her. "I don't know if we would have much 'sleep' you know?"
She simply chuckled and I kissed her lips softly... My hand caressing her mane... Every time I was like this with her, it was like the rest of the world disappeared.
"EEEWWW!" I heard a childish voice close to us and broke the kiss to see who was the annoying pony that interrupted that moment. I saw an orange pegasus foal half hidden in a nearby bush with a unicorn foal and a earth pony foal.
"Aw c'mon! Why did you do that Scoot?" Sweetie Belle said with a frown, looking at the orange pegasus "You ruined the moment!"

"An' right when it was getting good too!" Apple Bloom Said frowning at her friend too.

"What the hay?" Rainbow Dash frowned. "Why are you girls spying on me and Eravel?" The cyan pegasus said a bit angry... her cheeks lightly red from embarrassment from being caught. It was funny how she still wanted to keep her fame as a 'thought' girl.

"We were trying to get our cute marks as spies!" "Sweetie Belle said jumping out of the bush.
"An' we were making progress 'till sum Orange pegasus made us'all get caught!" Apple bloom shoot a glare to the orange pony.
"Come on girls! That was gross!" Scootaloo defended herself.
"What do you mean by 'gross'...?" Rainbow Dash said arching an eyebrow to the little foal that gulped.
"Erm... its... its not like... you know... I mean..." The orange pegasus looked like she was starting to panic.
"Well...?" Rainbow Dash said stepping forward.
"We gotta go!" Sctooaloo shouted and grabbed both her friends, jumping behind the bush and then running away on her scoots, dragging a small handcar with her two friends on it.

Rainbow Dash snorted angrily at them and I simply chuckled at the scene. Coming closer to the cyan pegasus I rubbed her mane softly.
"Calm down... they are just kids after all..." I said
"Easy for you to say that... The time you were at the hospital all the nurses kept making jokes about... you know..." She said still frowning.
"Well... that wasn't exactly the best place for us to do that... and we were kind of... noisy" I laughed softly and Rainbow blushed... definitely, she was really cute when blushing like that.

"S-shut up!" She said looking at me really embarrassed.
I smiled softly at her and kissed her lightly. My life was simply perfect by her side.

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After taking my lunch with Rainbow I flew over Twilight's place. As usual, she was expecting me with a frown.

"You are 5 minutes late Eravel." She said when I landed near her.
"You can't be seriously angry at me for just five minutes... can you?" I chuckled and she rolled her eyes, annoyed.

"But of course I am! You need to learn how to be assertive!" She said starting to walk inside her home.
I followed her inside where Spike was already waiting for me.
"She's angry again isn't she?" He said chuckling.

"Yeap..." I nodded.
"Twilight needs to relax more... it's not like somepony will die if you arrive few minutes later..." He said crossing his arms.
"I totally agree" I said crossing my arms too and nodding. "I mean... I do have other things to do and-"

"WILL YOU BOTH STOP TALKING AS IF I'M NOT HERE?" Twilight shouted and Spike jumped on my arms in startle. "By Celestia! I must be paying for my sins having to endure you two!" She grumbled and walked towards a pile of books.

I let Spike down and then we both walked towards Twilight. She pulled a blackboard and started to make some schematics based in a book.

"So... continuing from where we stopped yesterday, this is the basic schematics of how the pegasi arrange the clouds to make rain. As you two can see here, they use the natural behavior of the clouds to make them...-"
"Hey..." I whispered to Spike that was sitting next to me while Twilight kept her 'class'. "Wasn't she supposed to help us control better our fire breath?"

"I guess so..." He whispered back to me. Twilight was too busy concentrating on her own explanations to realize that we were talking.
"Do you understand what she is saying?" I asked...
"Not a word..." He said shrugging.
"Why does she keep insisting on explaining these things about weather and clouds?" I asked him.

"BECAUSE!" Me and spike jumped in startle as Twilight shouted. She didn't look very happy. "Because these knowledge is important when you go flying around!" She cleared her throat. "So... As I was saying... when you see a cloud that is not pure white, be careful. That means that that clout is heavier than the other and contains lightning on it. If you hit it too hard, the clout will liberate the lighting towards the ground. But be warned! If you hit this specific cloud from below you will be struck by the lighting!"

I raised my hand, interrupting her... she rolled her eyes annoyed.
"What Eravel?"
"Can we start working on my fire breath?"
"Yeah Twilight, we should be teaching him how to proper control his fire" Spike said... of course the little guy had his personal interests on it too, since he would be able to learn better use of his fire than simply send letters to the princess.

"Ok, Ok..." Twilight snorted and cleared the black board before walking towards her back door.
I and Spike followed her outside where there would be no danger to burn her house down. Once outside, in a small area behind the library, Twilight cast a protective shield around the whole area.

"This will prevent any incident." She said and looked at us. "Well... I didn't find much about dragons on the library but with what I found I developed few theories... First, you both have different kind of breaths. Spike is a magic dragon, so he can breathe green magic flames. They don't necessary act as flames... it is more like a unicorn using magic. We can use our energy for various kinds of magic just like Spike's breath..."
"So..." Spike said scratching his chin "I can actually use magic with my fire?"

"Precisely..." Twilight smiled at his assistant "but you are still too young to make complex things with it, so, I will teach you how to actually make your fire act like real fire… and help you control it better to avoid you burning down things when you sneeze." She send him a stern look and he blushed lightly.
"What about my fire?" I asked.
"Your fire is just fire, like any other common dragon. You can only burn things with it." She shrugged. It was clear that she was far more interested in Spike's breath than mine. Comprehensive thought. "Anyway... let's start out... I want both to focus and throw as much fire you can… right here." She said creating some kind of round target with her magic.

Spike stepped forward eagerly to start... he stared the target in front of him and breathed deeply, holding the air on his lungs for a few seconds before finally unleashing... a burp and a tiny green flame. From the flame a letter with the royal seal fell on the ground and Twilight unrolled the scroll, passing her eyes through the paper and arching an eyebrow.
"Something important?" I asked curious.
"Well..." She said rolling the scroll "only if I worked on the castles kitchen... this must be some message from the Princess to her cook. It seems that Spike accidentally pulled a random letter from her..."

"Aww... damn…." Spike said sighing.
"Don't worry Spike..." Twilight said. "I know it only a matter of time to you be able to pull something more than letters from your fire... Your turn Eravel."
I stepped forward and looked at the magic target. I pulled the air to my lungs, filling them t the limit... I felt a warmth in my stomach and then I simply let the air go. Instead of air a cone of fire erupted from my mouth and hit the target. Twilight stepped back because of the heat and soon the target vanished. I could only keep the fire for a few seconds until I felt my lungs empty... I rested a hand over my chest and started to pant... that wasn't as easy as it looked... it consumed a great amount of energy.

"Wow... that was amazing!" Spike said looking at the spot where the target was.

"Heh... thanks..." I said smiling at him and sitting on the ground. "But that was really exhausting!"
"I think this must be like any other ability..." Twilight said coming closer "You need to practice a lot to be good at."
"Yeah..." Spike said. "I guess I'll have to practice a lot to be like him"
"Not at all..." I said. "Don't you remember when I told you that we are from different species? My specialization is to destroy things... but you don't have limits!"
"He is right..." Twilight rubbed a hoof over Spike's head. "Don't forget that Eravel is also older than you... you just need to grow up a bit more to have more power."

"Well... I guess so..." He said still a bit insecure. "Let's keep training then!" He said cheering up a little.

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It is funny how times fly when you are with the person that you love. By my counts, almost two months had passed already since me and Dash got together. Every day my love for her grew... Of course we couldn't let our relationship go public... I don't think that these ponies are ready to be so acceptable as to not judge Rainbow Dash for date, not only a dragon, but a young teenager dragon... But even like that, I was happy…. More than anything I was happy to have friends, to be able to love and be loved back.

"Very happy aren't we…?" I heard Discord's voice in the dark.

"What… why are you here?" I asked as I looked around me and saw that I was floating in an ocean of darkness.

"Oh nothing important…" he chuckled. "Just came here to say that you don't need to worry, Rainbow Dash is ok… just a few bruises, but she will be fine."

I simply stared at him in confusion.

"Oh, how silly me." He said laughing softly. "Of course you don't know what's going on... it happened before you could have done anything…. Here, let me refresh your memory." He said coming closer to me and pressing a claw against my fore head.

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Eravel was under Rainbow Dash… both panting and enjoying that afterglow of a climax. She lay down on his chest and he hugged her thigh, kissing her forehead. No words were needed to be said there, only an exchange of looks was enough. He moved his head towards her and kissed the cyan pegasus… She kissed him back and then rested her head against his chest again.

"You should come live with me…" She said finally. "You know… like, permanently… not some overnights."
"I want to… but you know that I can't leave Steel Head alone." The dragon sighed.

"He still is worried about Octavia?" She asked
"Yeah… Is been more than a month since he last spoke to her in Canterlot… She said that she wanted time to think, but… well… he's afraid that he will be rejected in the end…"
"To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if Octavia decide that she don't want to be with him" She said and sighed. "What happen between them... is not something that you can simply forgive."

"Yeah... but still..." I caressed her mane. "I really hope she don't turn him down... that would brake him in ways he wouldn't be able to recover so soon."

Suddenly both heard a thundering roar echoing through the sky. Rainbow Dash felt a shiver don her spine with that and Eravel quickly lift his upper body.

"What the hay was that!?" Rainbow Dash said jumping out of the cloud bed and rushing to the window to see what was that.

Against the orange light of the sunset, a huge shadow was approaching fast and that form... it was no doubt... A full grown dragon was coming closer and closer to her house. Eravel saw that too and without a hint of doubt he jumped out of the window, spreading his wing… he stood flying in place and roared at the adult dragon, trying to send a message for him not to get any closer... Compared to the thundering voice of the adult, Eravel had nothing but a tiny and even funny roar.

The adult dragon roared again, and Eravel felt that as a threat... something at the back of his mind recognized the sound as something familiar... and at the same time something to be feared. In a desperate attempt to keep the full grown dragon from reaching Dash's house he started to focus his energy... gathering power in some point near his stomach. When he was at its limit he threw the bigger fire ball he had ever managed to pull.

The ball flew fast and hit right on the adult dragon's face... but it simply vanished with no effect at all. The adult then opened his mouth and Eravel saw a huge amount of fire coming from it. It was something that he never saw on his life! The teenager dragon flew inside the house and grabbed Rainbow Dash, crossind the room and got out from another window. He barely managed to take the cyan pegasus out and the huge ball of fire hit the house.
The entire house exploded when hit by the fire projectile, like the clouds were made of some kind of explosive material... the shock wave of the explosion send Eravel and Rainbow Dash spinning in the air. Both spread their wings to gain stability and avoid a fatal fall.
"My house!" Rainbow Dash had her eyes widened as she saw many scattered pieces of clouds floating away and disappearing. "My... oh my gosh... my stuff was in there!" A sharp pain hit the pegasus heart, knowing that she had lost every piece of mobile, every poster, card, book... everything had been consumed by that hellish fire or was now scattered around the few pieces of cloud that didn't disappeared and were still floating around..

From the scrambles of the cloud house, the adult dragon appeared. Rainbow Dash, filled with rage, flew towards the adult dragon. Eravel flew right after her... The full grown dragon opened its jaws and breathed a cone of fire towards the cyan pegasus. The teenager dragon reached her just in time as he grabbed Rainbow's tail and pulled as hard as he could to the side, sending her spinning towards a cloud that was still floating. On the cloud was what was left of her wardrobe and the pegasus body smashed against it. The next second the cone of flames hit Eravel. He felt like a thousand burning fists had hit him at the same time… the small dragon started to fall, unconscious.

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes, groaning in pain... she saw Eravel falling with many brunt marks all over. The adult dragon grabbed his body and then started to fly away... The cyan pegasus stood up and tried to fly, but soft cry of pain escaped her mouth as she found that one of her wings was damaged. She could only watch as the teenager dragon was taken away from her... and she could do nothing to prevent it.

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A groan escaped my mouth as I felt a light rush of pain through my body. It was like I had received a hell of a beating. As I rolled, trying to stand up, I felt that I was in some kind of hay bed... that was probably why my body was hurting so much and..- Wait a second... I don't have a hay bed!

I shoot my eyes open and looked around me. It was a dark cave... All the light came from the big entrance and aside that, there was nothing else illuminating the place. The memories of the talk with Discord and what had happen with Rainbow Dash hit me like a rock, and my gut was instantly filled with fear of the worst.

I felt something nuzzling my neck... Making me jump on my feet in startle... Right there, what I swore was just a rock, was the biggest creature I ever saw... A dragon with blue and green scales... It could gobble me in a single bite if it wanted... but despite that terrifying look, the dragon had a smile while looking at me... not a grin or a vicious smile... but a tender one... like it cared a lot about me.
"Welcome home... my son." The dragon said...

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A/N: So… here we have! Another piece of my deviations… next chapter is already being written. As always, I want to know what crossed your mind after reading this… Was it good? Was it bad? You want to punch me in the face or maybe give me a cake?

Anyway, hope to see the opinions of those who waste their precious time reading this ^^
thank y'all!