Swim Lessons

Rainbow Dash was at the center waiting for Twilight so she can teach the next lesson in swimming to her, she was so proud of Twilight's improvement and Twilight was enthusiastic about how well she was doing. She hoped that she would pass Rainbow Dash's lessons soon.

Soon Twilight arrived and got dressed into her swimwear, She then exited the locker room and then she headed to the pool, she got to the pool and approached Rainbow Dash who was sitting on the bench by the pool she slide over so that she could give room for Twilight to sit. Twilight sat down by her as she didn't know what else to do.

"You have made so much progress Twilight, it truly is remarkable, since you've been learning so much I'm starting to run out of stuff to teach you but if you want to practice all of the stuff we have done you can join the Ponyville swimming team. I talked to to them and they said that they would love to have you as a member as long as you train more first." Rainbow Dash announced. Twilight was thrilled to hear that announcement.

"Really?! That's wonderful I heard that they were great in local championships!" Twilight exclaimed, Rainbow Dash winced as she forgot to prevent Twilight from getting ahead of herself.

"Not so fast Twilight, you have to earn your way up to represent them in local races, you have to improve your speed when your in the water, but I don't think that will be an issue but you must do this in order to help them out! It's imperative at you do that. Once you do that they will test you and they will declare that you can represent them but before you can do that you'll have to practice a lot and then only then can you join the Ponyville Swim team." Rainbow Dash stated. Twilight nodded

"I can do that! I'm sure I can! I really want to join them! They are the third best team in Equestria Twilight declared, Rainbow Dash shrugged as she wondered if Twilight could even manage being a member.

"Well you best get busy, but enough of that now today I want to teach you swim underwater and that's fairly easy, you need to work yourself up to that in order to do something like that, so we are going to practice holding our breaths under water and practicing our swimming in order to swim when we are submerged." Rainbow Dash said.

Twilight and Rainbow Dash got into the water and Rainbow Dash instructed Twilight on holding her breath under water, Twilight was afraid at first but Rainbow Dash promised that she would stay there if anything happened to Twilight, Twilight took out her new prescribed goggles and submerged herself underwater.

She tried to count in her head as she held her breath, she couldn't stand being under though so she came up to the surface and let go of her breath, before Rainbow Dash could speak to her she took another breath and went under, Rainbow Dash was surprised Twilight would try again even after failing.

Twilight tried to count for as long as she could, she wished she had the tolerance and the perseverance to stay under longer, she tried to stay under as Rainbow Dash waited for her to surface again, she was surprised Twilight was able to stay under longer. She timed Twilight for her as she was curious at how long she could do this for.

Twilight came back up and looked at Rainbow Dash, she took deep breaths of air as she wiped the water from her face with her hands.

"That was better than the first time, you were under the water for a minute which is better than thirty seconds, congratulations Twilight." Rainbow Dash stated, Twilight shook her hair as water came off of her head as she shook it.

"Thank you Rainbow Dash. Can I try swimming under water? How can I be able to do that? Is it harder than swimming above the water?" Twilight shook her head.

"For me it isn't but I'm not sure if you can do it, but in theory you can do it-wait Twilight!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as Twilight tried to swim under water, Rainbow Dash was completely surprised that Twilight was swimming on her own as she went back and forth under the water the problem was was that she kept messing up which frustrated her.

"Twilight....maybe we should slow down and learn bit by bit?" Rainbow Dash suggested but Twilight didn't listen as she tried to swim on her own under water several times. Rainbow Dash had to admit that she was doing an average job at underwater swimming even if it was only half way through the pool. Twilight stopped and spoke abruptly.

"I want to join the Ponyville swim team! I should be able to take the test on my own! Please let me do it!" Twilight begged, Rainbow Dash wondered how to tell Twilight that she needed more practice for that as they don't just let somebody sign up immediately.

"Twilight you can't just walk into their office and sign up, it doesn't work like that! You have to have lots of experience and training for them, just because you know how to swim doesn't mean they can accept you, they only accept the best swimmers." Rainbow Dash told her.

But Twilight left before Rainbow Dash finished her sentence, Rainbow knew that Twilight was going to the headquarters of the Ponyville swim team to make a fool of herself, she decided not to follows as she didn't want to watch Twilight get made fun of.

Twilight walked right in and walked to the front desk, she could hear other members in the back swimming. She saw the coach who scrutinized her.

"Your....the librarian and princess from Ponyville I presume? I'm Mrs. Haskell. She asked as she introduced herself. Twilight nodded with a big smile.

"Yes, I would like to join the swim team." She said, the coach tried not to cringe as she looked Twilight over as she knew that the girl probably was only an average swimmer.

"How much experience do you have? Do you work out? Can I trust you to make it on time in meetings?" She asked, Twilight hesitated.

"I have a two weeks knowledge of swimming but I know I can be good swimmer! I learned under the best!" Twilight insisted.

"I'm sorry kiddo but you can't sign up yet. Two weeks knowledge isn't enough, most people on the Ponyville swim team have years worth of knowledge, you can't join if you only have limited amount of experience and you can't join if you aren't fast and by the look of those muscles I can tell that your a snail. I'm sorry but you can't sign up and join." The coach said.

"But I can swim! I'm fast to! I can beat people in races. Just please give me a chance! I'm ready for this! I'm fast! I'm just as fast as any athlete out there I'm probably stinger than Spitfire from the Wonderbolts!" Twilight protested. The coach sighed as she rubbed her eyes in frustration she didn't want to crush the poor girls dreams or make the girl go through a tough time just to join but she couldn't let her join either as she was inexperienced. She looked Twilight over and thought. Twilight prayed she can join.

"Alright.....I've thought it over and since I'm the coach of the swim team I have decided that you can sign up but here's the deal! What I'm doing now is pretty much against every protocol in accepting members, we don't just let random people join because they are swimmers as we need the best swimmers but I feel...moved by you...I notice that you have lots of passion for swimming when i was talking to you....your also well known in Equestria so I just couldn't say no...but since you have joined your going to have to train more often than what you were doing with Rainbow Dash. It's not going to be a walk in a park. We are nice and everything but we aren't laid back around her. We take this stuff very seriously so I hope you can keep up with our schedule and....please gain some muscle but aside from that...welcome to the Ponyville Swim Team. You can join once you finish your lessons." She told Twilight.

"I'll be here! Thanks I won't let you down!" Twilight said, the coach gave her a form and she signed up for the swim team and she left in a hurry, she went back to the center and saw that Rainbow Dash had gone home so she went home, on the way home she ran into Rainbow Dash and told her everything that had happened.

"They let you sign up huh? That's....unheard of....they don't just let anybody sign up like that and I don't think your ready but...it's your decision....I hope you know what your doing Twilight. I'll be ending your lessons soon so you can start practicing with them immediately. So we will finish up your training in a few days." Rainbow Dash said.

"Thanks Rainbow Dash." Twilight said, they then took a break and planned more lessons for later on that day as Twilight was determined to finish Rainbow Dash's lessons so that she can go off and join the swim team, Twilight officially got signed up for the swim team against all protocol, the members weren't going to be happy that they had to wait years before they became members but yet Twilight could join in mere minutes. They were going to show Twilight that it was no walk in the park.

Rainbow Dash hoped that Twilight knew what she was doing as she wanted Twilight to succeed in being a good member in the team even if she just joined, she hoped that Twilight had the stamina to deal with being a member on the team, she would have to wait to see if Twilight could succeed and she hoped that Twilight will succeed.