Tales From Cloudsdale - A Bucket Of Lava And A Daydream

by BronyLava

Rating: everyone
Tags: Spitfire, Random, Derpy Hooves, Slice of Life, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Flitter and Cloudchaser, Rainbow Dash, Comedy
Length: 4144

The story about two young pegasi's lives through the Flight Academy of Cloudsdale.

This is the tale of two pegasi, Daydream and Brony Lava. Two pegasi with mostly opposite personalities, and probably the most inconvenient friendship. However, what can go wrong? When you blend a charismatic grey pegasus with a shy and intelligent yellow pegasus?

Nothing... Only chaos, as we venture their lives at the Flight Academy. We will see, a friendship formed by difference, iron will, and lot of fun.

Published 2012-07-14 16:44:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-07-14 16:44:01 UTC

06/04 - 2004 The first Daydream

Sixth of April - 2004

The yellow pegasus once again read his huge and old book ‘’ Easy Recipes For Young Chemists ‘’ which he held as his deepest treasure from his Unicorn mother. ‘’To activate a significance amount of endorphins in the drinker’s body, the alchemist must add these specific ingredients: 2ml frozen tears, 5 drops of honey nectar and 10mg of sugar canes. Blend every ingredient together in a bowl and insert 2dl water. When the mixtures have changed to green, heat it up for about 12 minutes and keep it in a sturdy bottle for perseverance. ‘’ Lava understood the information and began gathering his ingredients, preparing the potion as the door opened with a high noise.

‘’This will be your home during your time at the academy.’’ An armored pegasus told a grey pony with a red mane in the same age as Lava, who faced the new met pegasus. His alchemy set had fallen down and the preparation had been ruined. The liquid were all spilled on the ground.

The yellow pegasus watched the two visitors with a frustrated expression. ‘’What are you two doing here? Who is this Grey pegasus, Stormcloud?’’ Lava asked the elder pegasus with a bit of confusion and half closed eyes.

The grey pegasus walked up, smiled and closed the distance to Lava. ‘’Oh Hiya! The name is Daydream, and I’m your new roommate. Sorry for the… trouble, hehe,’’ Daydream told Lava and gestured as he expected a hoofshake from Lava. Lava accepted his request with a careful hoof as Daydream made a genuine smile.

‘’Isn’t this perfect, Lava? You two are practically already friends. Well that was it! I’m off, have stuff to do!’’ Stormcloud said, as he stressed, galloped away from out of the door.

‘’This is going to be awesome, all those mares everywhere! Oh, and new roommates of course,” Daydream told Lava and started to glee as his cheeks rose up. “What’s your name roomie?’’ Daydream asked suddenly.
Lava made a petty smirk as he watched Daydream’s awaiting expression. ‘’My name is Brony Lava roomie, and could you try… not to interrupt me when I’m making potions please’’ The yellow pegasus replied with his hooves held together in a begging gesture.

‘’So… you’re an Alchemist? That’s pretty cool!’’ Daydream cheered, noticing his potion cutiemark and his different bottles on the shelf.

Lava looked embarrassed, checked his corner and faced back to Daydream. ‘’ It’s only an interest of mine. I’m not really good at it… at least not at my mother’s level.’’ he answered, as he received a flashback from his past. He remembered his first visit to her research lab at Canterlot, about the enthusiasm and happiness he felt during that time.

Daydream poked the slightly daydreaming Lava, waking him up and facing him with a curious smile. ‘’So who else lives here, all the stuff doesn’t belong to you right?’’ Daydream told Lava, pointing at the rest of the room, especially the random photographs of mares on the floor, 1 or 2 Wonderbolt posters and four beds, all spread around in each corner of the room.
‘’Well, the pony with the camera is Money Shot. Those pictures on the floor is his personal collection, the rest of them is used for the academy’s newspaper, ‘’ Lava replied, and Daydream took a look at the pictures, as a Daydream added a smirk ‘’Those mares are really cute, do you know their names, Lava?’’ Daydream smiled, as he showed a picture of a yellow mare with orange mane and cool goggles, flying thorough the sky.

‘’That’s… spitfire I think, she is quite the talented flyer around here. Very cocky, no one can really compete against her though. Oh, she just moved to the flight academy About 1 week ago, ’’ Lava told Daydream, cracking up a small smirk and started to clean up the liquid.

“Talented and good looking? I have to greet her whenever I get the chance,’’ Daydream said with a happy smile on his face. ‘’ Who’s the Wonderbolt fan by the way?’’ The grey pegasus asked, as he pointed at the bed below the Wonderbolt posters.
‘’Thunderlane sleeps over there, he’s fast I guess, nothing else to say, really,’’ The yellow pegasus told Daydream with a tiredly smile.

‘’He sounds like a cool pony! I bet I can fly faster than him though,’’ Daydream replied while cracking up an awkward laughter, making Lava quite insecure.

The yellow pegasus neither replied nor cared to continue the conversation, as he packed his saddleback with some books and a blue bottle from the self. Meanwhile Daydream packed out his grey and red travel-bag, similar colored as the pony himself. He threw some night goggles, 3 packs of Rainboom Gums, and an empty cask at the northeastern bed, belonging to Daydream. After the bag was empty, Daydream snatched a couple more of Money Shot’s pictures, hid them behind the pillow and noticed Lava, prepared to leave the room. ‘’Hay, where are you going Lava?’’

Lava faced the new roommate ‘’what do you think? The history class starts in fifteen minutes, Daydream,’’ Lava replied, sighing at his silly question.

‘’Oh, right!’’ Daydream yelled. ‘’Just let me get my gum, can’t be without them ya know,’’ The grey pegasus told Lava, who answered in confusion. ‘’Ok…’’ The two ponies left the room and began flying towards the grand academy building in the sky. However, Daydream flew more elegant and faster than the yellow pegasus, and teased Lava with barrel rolls and other simple tricks. Daydream gathered some unintentional attention from nearby pegasi on their way, some mares at the same age or just below fluttered at Daydream, and the stallions just said ‘’wow,’’ impressed by his tricks. Lava did not really care about his roommate showing off, he had seen countless of them before, and this grey pegasus was just like the rest.

Daydream arrived at the entrance with a big lead before the slow moving Brony Lava. ‘’Hey! Hurry up slowpoke!’’ Daydream yelled at Lava, who eventually would arrive at the entrance, seeing the grey pegasus talking with a random pegasus directly. They seemly shook their hooves when Lava approached them closer, and cheered. ‘’ See you at lunch Starbubble!’’
Daydream cheered, and received ‘’ You too, Daydream!’’. Lava watched the grey pegasus confused and mischievous. ‘’Who was… that pony?’’ Lava asked Daydream, ‘’ I don’t know, he seemed like a cool guy, nothing else. ‘’ Daydream replied with a silly smirk towards the yellow pegasus.

The roommates trotted in a fast pace, till what seemed to be a group of mares passed by. Daydream checked them out, following their paths with his eyes. ‘’Hey, Daydream?’’ Lava’s roommate ignored him, and thought about the mares. ‘’Cute, wonderful, sweet, and strong…’’ were the only thoughts in his head, and resulted in a pleasant daydream. There Daydream, and a couple of mares stayed together, as they all loved the grey pegasus.

‘’Let’s go... roomie.’’ Lava dragged the unconscious Daydream, who daydreamed about some all the cute mares around the area. ‘’Cyan, orange or blue, all so beautiful and sweet’’ Daydream thought, as he opened his eyes in the dull and narrow corridor, which opened his tired eyes. The grey pegasus heard some giggling noises from bypassing ponies beside him. Every time a friendly and cute mare passed him by, Daydream rose up, smiled and received a nod, smile or even a cheer if he was lucky enough. ‘’Hay Daydream, you just passed the classroom,’’ Lava said, ‘’Wake up!’’ Lava told him and redirected him to a classroom named ‘’History 2-B’’ a classroom filled with old history books. Lava took his ordinary spot on the first row, between a cyan mare with a fairly unique rainbow mane, and a white colt with blue mane. Daydream choose a spot in the last row of the classroom, there was only one lilac pony with a blue and white mane, Daydream seemed to recognize her somewhere.

The tension in the classroom was quite notorious, as someponies were chatting out loud, some were writing papers, and some just waited silence till Magister Roosevelt’s arrival. In just a minute or two, a young grey colt with a light blue mane rushed through the classroom, occupying the empty seat besides Daydream. Following him up was a quite chubby white stallion with grey hair and a monocle. ‘’Hold your mouths students! I’m late, you are loud and we need to start the lesson.’’ Roosevelt told the class and ended the majority of the noise. The grey stallion brought up a list, and began the roll call. ‘’Brony Lava?’’ ‘’Yes,’’. ‘’Cloudchaser’’ ‘’Yeah,’’ the mare beside Daydream replied. ‘’Daydream… is Daydream here?’’ No one replied, till Lava said. ‘’ He is in the last row,’’ Roosevelt faced the sleeping Daydream with disapproval. ‘’All right… Rainbow Dash?’’ ‘’Yes sir!’’. The rainbow maned pegasus beside Lava replied. ‘’Thunderlane?’’ ‘’Yup,’’ the pegasus who rushed through the classroom replied, with a smirk on his face.

When the roll call finally ended, Magister Roosevelt brought up an old history book ‘’Equestrian History 101’’, and wrote ‘’ the pegasian rebellion’’. So you know students, in the year 200 B.C the free pegasi of General Firestorm, finally defeated Government of the fortress of Canterlot, there they ruled for over one hundred years. Until the famed royal guard, Ser Ardun the Treacherous, gathered an army of earthponies and unicorns to return the city to their former owner.

The lesson lasted for about one hour, Rainbow Dash and some fellow ponies wrote their flanks off, Lava just listened, Cloudchaser, Flitter and some mares sent notes to each other. However, Daydream easily held a daydream state, even though he slept throughout the whole lesson. Roosevelt closed his book. ‘’ And this is everything for today, now go and get some grub my students.’’ Roosevelt told the class, and fifteen of hooves sounded through the packed classroom.

Brony Lava didn’t felt any need to hurry to the massive food queue, because he would probably not be able to compete with all those pegasi faster than him. So he, took his time, trotted up through the stairs to area for the older students, and waited outside the classroom ‘’Mathematic-C’’. It didn’t take a long time till a herd of pegasi ran out from the classroom, and a lavender pegasus with rainbow cutiemark, winked at Lava. ‘’Hi Lava! It’s time isn’t it?’’ ‘’Of course it is Spectrum, let’s go before the good hay is gone.’’. The two pegasi walked down the stairs, till they reached a large room with fifty of tables, and a petty long queue. However, it dissolved pretty quickly, an sooner or later, Lava got his mediocre hay pudding with water, as the company of Spectrum and Lava settled down at an empty table in the dining hall.

‘’So how is life my wannabe Unicorn friend?’’ Spectrum asked Lava, with a small smirk on his face. ‘’ It’s good I guess, I got another roommate today, his name is Daydream.’’ Lava replied. ‘’Well isn’t that nice? How is this Daydream guy?’’ ‘’Well he is very outspoken, and seemed to have made quite the scene right off the bat.’’ Lava sighed, talking about his roomie. ‘’What Scene?’’ Spectrum asked, however a voice interrupted them from a table nearby. ‘’Hay Lava! Come here instead, and bring your friend as well.’’ Daydream cheered for Lava, and pointed towards his pegasi filled table. ‘’Oh, sure, why not.’’ Spectrum spoke to Lava, as they trotted towards Daydream’s table; and took a seat between his companies.
‘’Hi Lava!’’ Daydream said ‘’So, this is Cloudchaser, her sister Flitter, and Light Bulb, and who may you be?’’ Daydream represented his company, and asked the lavender pony frankly. ‘’You can call me Spectrum, and I presume you are Lava’s roommate… Daydream?’’ Spectrum replied with a wondrous smile. ‘’Eyupp, that’s me, and I am totally awesome. At least, according to Cloudchaser over here’’ He told Spectrum with a stream of self-esteem. ‘’He totally is, and he told me that he has lived alone since he was five. Isn’t it amazing!?’’ Cloudchaser followed up the statement with an endorsed smile. Lava was kind of confused, with the direction the conversation suddenly had begun with. All thought, Spectrum enjoyed this company, especially the cute sisters Daydream brought with him.

‘’So, where are you living, Clouds sisters? Or what should I call you?’’ Spectrum asked Flitter and Cloudchaser, revealing a big smile. The mare with a typical 70-hair style known as Cloudchaser easily replied. ‘’ Just call us by our full names, and we live near the Stormtwist district. It’s just a family apartment, nothing else. ‘’ The lilac pony opened up a smirk, and faced Lava and Spectrum. ‘’So tell me guys, where are you from?’’ Flitter asked them with a crisp smile. ‘’Oh me? I’m just residing in a house pretty close to yours. I have lived in Cloudsdale my whole life, and it’s so great living here. ‘’ Spectrum told her, smiling quite nervously. Light Bulb entered the conversation. ‘’You are totally right, and there are so many fine mares. Just take a look at spitfire! ’’ Light Bulb pointed at the handsome orange mare, who talked with some older pegasi by another table. Light Bulb started to drool. ‘’Stop that!’’ Cloudchaser interrupted, as her cheeks turned red of embarrassment. ‘’Oh, I’m sorry, you two are also beautiful, handsome and cute.’’ He smiled at the sisters who answered with a tiredly look. ‘’We know we know, you are not the first one to tell us.’’ The two sisters replied nearly synchronized, they were even quite surprised themselves.

‘’Hey, calm down, we know you are all awesome and stuff. But I want to know more about my roomie. ‘’ Daydream pointed out, smiling at his new roommate. ‘’Well… I’m living with you, Thunderlane and Money Shot at the student apartment just by hurricane corner… My home is at Hoofington, there I lived with my unicorn mother Layne Hydroxidia and my father Mick Magma… Want to know anything more?’’ Lava told the company, with a quite low tone, proudly with a heavy pronunciation at unicorn. ‘’ So you are a half-blood with a unicorn? Haven’t met someone like that before!’’ Daydream said in a cheerful manner. Light Bulb once again interrupted, with a satisfied smile. ‘’It’s not that rare, Daydream, I would love to date those unicorns my colleagues finds. They are all so beautiful and graceful.’’ Bulb, told them, he eventually started to drool again, making the company more uncomfortable.

Flitter raised her voice, and started to drag Cloudchaser, who seemed to have taken a like for Daydream already. ‘’I think the aerial lesson starts soon. And I don’t want to be a douche or anything. But we have to leave you guys,’’ ‘’Oh yeah, you don’t want to miss the most awesome lesson of the week! See ya at the flying area guys!’’ Cloudchaser cheered, and winked at Daydream with a seducing smile. When the lilac sisters left them, the colts faced Daydream with a surprised look on their faces. ‘’Well looks like you already have a marefriend in your hooves, give me a brohoof pal!’’ Light Bulb told the grey pegasus, who accepted the request, resulting in proudly looks afterwards. ‘’Can’t blame her for liking the most awesome pegasus ever, at least who will be,’’ Daydream replied, and noticed Spectrum and Lava leaving the company. ‘’Eum, where are you going guys? ‘’

Lava faced his roomie. ‘’As flitter said, the lesson starts in about five minutes. So I’m not going to be late.’’ The yellow pegasus replied, leaving a small trace of envy in his eyes. ‘’Yeah, you don’t want Craft Crate at your plot. He’s not the most forgiving flying coach as you will see,’’ Spectrum added, while walking away with Lava to the training area. Daydream trotted away, companied by Light Bulb, as they watched the mares, rolling into a daydreaming state. However, the two pegasi arrived just in time at the training ground; there Daydream had flowed around a petty number of times in the night.
Daydream noticed a plenty group of young pegasi, from different classes. There were only about 70% from his current class, some who he recognized from the diner hall and a couple of ponies Money Shot had caught on picture. Flitter and Cloudchaser had some chit-chat, as they giggled time to time in the practice area. Cloudchaser’s cheek turned red when she noticed the grey pegasus she admired joining the pegasi on the field. The crowd of ponies waited just a moment till a bulky older pegasus in a sport suit joined the field. Everyone felt the threatening aura of Craft Crate, as he watched them with a scary, but enjoying smile.

‘’All right young pegasi, welcome to another year of the flight academy and your first flying lesson. However, today’s lesson is dedicated to place you into a fair practice group for the remainder of the next year. A certain few will can be demoted or promoted during the course of time if you’ve earned it! Since everyone here have a different skill level we will start with seeing where you’re all at… So let’s go!’’ Craft Crate told the group while raising his hoof with an enthusiastic smile.
‘’The first pony to go is… Flitter. Just fly through this following course.’’ Craft Crate pointed at the course in the sky, which was pretty advanced for young pegasi standards. Flitter made a gulp, feeling nervous ‘’All right…’’ the lilac pegasus flow through the course, in just about forty seconds, missing one checkpoint, but the teacher carried a look of approval in his eyes. ‘’Well done Flitter, you missed one cloud, but it’s ok.’’ Flitter nodded, and felt happy inside.
‘’Next pony… Daydream, come forth’’ Daydream trotted to the starting line, setup up a racing position and began his lap. The velocity of the grey pegasus was way higher than Flitter’s, and the control was still pretty good. The coach stopped timekeeper at 25.4 seconds, smirking delighted at Daydream. ‘’That was excellent, I rarely see newcomers like you. Keep up the good work son,’’ Daydream felt great, and noticed the admiring young ponies and some fluttering mares. ‘Thanks teach, but that was pretty easy,’’ The grey pegasus boasted.

It took some time, and many pegasi have tried out the course, receiving various results. The most noticeable times were between 24 to 32 seconds, those ponies were: Endless Clouds (28.1), Fleetfoot (31.4), Great Scott, Silverspeed (26.9), Star Hunter (32.3) and ThunderLane (24.7). Their proud expressions showed that they would reach to the top flyer group at least. Craft Crate checked his list ‘’Rainbow Dash, please take the course,’’ He pointed at the rainbow maned pony. “Roger that teach, I’ll show these boasting guys how it’s really done!’’ Rainbow Dash yelled, feeling pretty stressed and tense at the same time. The young mare accelerated at an amazing rate, breaking all speed records of young pegasi, and crossed every checkpoint. At least till she met a U-turn, Rainbow Dash suddenly lost control, flying 100 meters off track into a cloud platform in the sky. Several weather control ponies fell into the air, quickly flying them back on track and watched the dizzy young mare.

‘’Is she… conscious?’’ a yellow pegasus asked. ‘’I don’t think so… I’m taking her back to the academy. I’m sure she is just a poor student,’’ A brown stallion replied and flew back to the practice area with Rainbow dash in his hooves. The rest of the students became shocked over the situation; however giggles and laughter replaced the sad moment. ‘’Hay shut it young students, this is serious! The next pony who laughs at poor Rainbow Dash receives 1 hour of detention! So behave young pegasi! ‘’ Craft Crate shouted at the immature group of students, who stayed silent afterwards.

‘’Ok! So let’s continue. Miss Derpy Hooves,’’ A light gray pegasus came forth, with her weird and derpish eyes. ‘’Are you all right? Your pupils are, misplaced,’’ Coach told the young gray mare. ‘’That’s nothing, I’m ok!’’ She answered with an innocent smile. The pegasus flew through the checkpoints, missing the third and fifth, but turned around and finished at a record time of 20.5 seconds. Craft Crate dropped his chin, and the students cheered, amazed by her performance. ‘’Well that was different… Well done miss hooves.’’ He complemented her. ‘’ Thanks mister! ‘’ She smiled walking up to her fellow ponies.

‘’Ok so the last pony is, Spitfire!’’ ‘That’s me, can I go?’’ Spitfire stated as she had already teleported to the start line somehow, coughing attention of every colt who all caught tomato red cheeks. She took off, and flew with an exceptional speed, barrel rolled through the first checkpoint, looped through the third and fourth and laid a trail of fire behind her. Spitfire finished in an amazing time of 19.2 seconds, and left everypony out of their minds. ‘’Uhh… Wow… That was… The best I have ever seen from a student. Keep that up and you’ll be part of the wonderbolts one day for sure, ‘’ Craft Crate told her, shocked and surprised by her unbelievable run. ‘’Thanks, ponies usually say that I look like a bolt of fire when I fly, that’s why I’m called Spitfire.’’ She winked towards the student crowd, and centered herself for nearby photograph happy pegasi. ‘’Oh well, can I go now? I have to meet my friends in Airlington…’’ Spitfire asked the Bulky pegasus who just nodded and smiled with delight. ‘’ You can do whatever you want, you’re a wonderfilly!’’ ‘Perfect, cya then!’’ She flew away, as some colts tried to follow, however they failed as they were not fast enough.

‘’All right, the results will show up on the scoreboard tomorrow. So please check what time and group you are separated in before lunchtime o morrow,’’ The flying coach told the young pegasi students, as the crowd slowly began to fly in each direction, towards their destinations. ‘’Cya tomorrow Spectrum!’’ Lava cheered as he began to part way with his friend. ‘’You too Lava,’’ He smiled and flew away, flying in the same direction as a couple of pegasi.

“You!” Daydream and Thunderlane yelled in unison and pointed a hoof at each other as they continued to ramble, not caring one bit what the other had to say.

“You think you’re tough shit don’t you?” “You think you’re special don’t you?”

“You’re out of your league,” “You were just lucky this time,” There was a brief pause as they slowly started to glide toward each other, catching a lot of student’s attention in the process.

“Oh yeah?!” they once again yelled in unison as they closed the distance, now staring as hard as they possibly could into each other’s eyes.

Daydream was the first one to take a quick look around, noticing all the attention they’d received. Thunderlane took the opportunity to take a look himself, curious as to why Daydream had done so in the first place. They both took notice of a few things firsthoof; a majority of the students in their crowd were mares. Daydream looked back at Thunderlane with a grin; he was met with an equal expression now that Thunderlane had noticed this as well. The grins had a hidden meaning that both of them understood. Let’s put on a show. They both flew directly into one another, starting what looked like a brawl, hooves hitting each other all over. They were however careful not to hit any vital points. It looked very realistic and lasted for about 20 seconds before Craft Crate teleported in between and separated them. “What the hay is up with everyone’s speed around here,” went through Daydreams mind as he was tossed a few ponystriders up into the air together with Thunderlane. “Knock it out you two!” Craft Crate yelled “Be glad this is after class, or I’d give you both the attention of a life time!
“Alright alright, I’m sorry Craft…” Daydream replied.
“Yeah, uh… We’re sorry,” Thunderlane followed.

Craft looked up to where they were now both hovering mid-air after his seismic toss, he gave them both the glare of doom before he flew off. Daydream and Thunderlane watched in silence as he flew away. The crowd had mostly scattered, everypony had tried to avoid being in the crossfire when Craft Crate came back.

Daydream started to slightly chuckle, before laughing more heavily. Thunderlane glanced his way and smiled faintly. “So… I’m Thunderlane,” He held out a hoof. Daydream stopped laughing and smiled back toward Thunderlane. “Daydream,” Daydream managed to say through the chuckles whilst he shook Thunderlane’s hoof.

A rivalry or just friendship… Perhaps both? No one could tell, yet.