A Lightning Storm

A Lightning StormWritten By: BlackMirage & TheHighlander

Mirage:

As I walked through the town square towards the castle, Where Princess Celestia would be waiting to give me my punishment, I saw a few ponies eyeing me some in disgust, some in fear. I had been trying a new trick over the city and it... kind of backfired, when I got flying fast enough I curved up, went in a loop, flipped over onto my back and started to build electricity, I let it cover my mane and tail I could see the purple glow coming from it and started to hear the pops and crackles of electricity over the constant sound of rushing wind in my ears, I was so full of pride I closed my eyes I didn't realize I hadn't flown far enough from the ground and my mane started to brush the tops of buildings setting them on fire and discharging any electronics in them.

That's why I'm on my way to be punished... a million punishments popped into my mind,

"what if Celestia throws me in the dungeon?"

"what if she "disposes" of me?"

"what if she put a spell on my wings so I can never fly again?"

I began to panic from the bombardment of thoughts in my mind, my heart started to beat faster, my breathing quickened and I started to look around, trying to find somewhere to escape from everything in my mind. I finally calmed down, Celestia would never think of doing any of those cruel punishments. especially to me, I finally ended up at the front door of the castle and knocked... no answer, I raised one eyebrow and knocked again... still no answer, the thought of her not being here annoyed me so i repeatedly banged on the door until she opened up.

"I said I'd be here in a second" Celestia said with a frown,

"How was i supposed to hear you through this big door?" I said frowning back, I always had been a smartflank, even to the princess, she had raised me since I was a colt. I lived in the castle and was very grateful to her but she had started to try to be something to me that she wasn't, a mother

Celestia glared down at me, "Maybe if you stopped knocking every two seconds you would"

I just flipped my mane to the side, rolled my eyes and said, "Sure, whatever"

"Come inside" she said, trying her hardest not to strangle me, I knew she wanted to, every time she saw me i was either in trouble or was just ignoring her as I went to my room inside the castle.

"Okay" I said

We walked inside through the castle as she lead me to my room, when we stopped at the door she opened it up and stepped inside, I followed close behind.

"Sit" she said in her normal, calm voice

I obeyed and took a seat on my bed, looked up to her and swallowed

"Now Mirage" she said, "You know your not supposed to be flying in Canterlot without my permission, true?"

"Yeah, So what?" I asked,

"Your supposed to obey me" she said frowning, "and you chose not to"

"I'm a Pegasus! I cant just stay grounded forever!" I said loudly,

"I know Mirage" she said still in her calm voice,

"Then why wont you let me fly?!" I said, almost yelling now

"Because it's too dangerous" she said,

"So... now you think I'm dangerous?" I asked,

"That's not what I said" she said looking around,

"But It's what you think" I said "Well, thanks Celestia but I think I didn't do THAT on purpose" I said pointing out the window,

"I'M JUST TRYING TO KEEP YOU SAFE YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!" She screamed

The hostility frightened me, Celestia had never yelled at me, I had aggravated her hundreds of times but she never yelled.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT I WOU-" she stopped "do you know what I would do if something happened to you?" she asked

"What? I asked in a quiet voice, regretting everything I had ever said that hurt her,

"I would be breaking my promise with your mother" she said,

She was the only pony that ever knew my mother.

"I promised her that i would keep you safe" She said,

"why didn't you just give me to an orphanage?" I asked

"Because, I knew there was something was special about you... you do represent the element of electricity after all..." she said in a quiet voice

"I'm sorry" I said, looking at the floor

"What?" she had never heard me say those two words

"I'm sorry" I repeated

"I am sorry as well" she said

"you have nothing to be sorry about, you've taken care of me for so long... and I haven't given you any kind of love back" I said with tears coming to my eyes

"I love you" she said

"I love you too" I said looking up at her with teary eyes

We both walked to each other and embraced for about a minute before she let me go,

"Mirage I'm sending you away" she said, tearing up herself

"W...what?" I said with a tear rolling down my cheek

"Your going away for awhile" she said, "I have to remain focused here, and with you always getting into trouble... I just can't have you breaking my focus"

I looked at her with those same hate filled eyes "Fine... Good"

"Don't you want to know where your going?" she asked,

"Sure" I said, looking away from her now

"A little town called... Ponyville" she said

"Wait, you mean the town where you sent Twilight Sparkle?" I asked, thinking of the Lavender pony that always had her nose in a book

"Yes that's the one" she said,

"I don't really have any friends there except for her" I said, looking down and scraping my hoof against the marble floor

"you don't have any friends here except for her, and now that she's been gone for awhile you don't really know anypony" she said, "I'd think she'd be pleasantly surprised"

"I guess your right" I said smiling

The next thing I knew  I was on a train heading to Ponyville, I had packed things up and already been set up a cloud house above the Everfree forest, the first thing to do was to meet up with a mare named Rainbow Dash for my new weather job, I was told she wouldn't be hard to find because she had a Rainbow mane.

I was told to go off on my own from then, which meant I would probably go see Twilight then try to make friends with anypony else I could.

I was snapped out of my thinking to the train stopping and calling out where we were, Ponyville.