A Skip and a Dash

For a few moments, everything was quiet and still in Ponyville’s blue skies…until a flash of brilliant colours whooshed out of nowhere, echoing into the distance. When silence fell again, the source of the flash perched glumly on a singular white cloud. The little turquoise Pegasus, Rainbow Dash, swished her multi-coloured tail underneath her. She let out a careless yawn and propped her head on the cloud, shutting her tired eyes.

A flapping of Pegasus wings rose up from below. The little creamy pony Fluttershy edged up to Rainbow Dash, and prodded her shoulder.

“Um…Dash?”

“Huh?”

The blue pony gave a little grunt and glimpsed Fluttershy’s twinkling eyes staring at her.

“Yeah Fluttershy?” she mumbled.

“Well, um…” Fluttershy’s voice was its usual shy tone, “Rarity is desperate to try out her new dress…and she wants you to be the model for the day.”

“Argh…” Rainbow Dash moaned, drooping her head down, “Not again…I’m gonna be bored to tears…”

“Is that a no?”

Rainbow Dash sighed. She couldn’t just say no to her friends. “I’ll be down in a minute.”

“Oh…okay.”

As Fluttershy flew off, it took a while for Rainbow Dash just to stand up. Her hooves ached and her eyes stung from sleeping. Her dozy wings flapped and carried her off the cloud. Unfortunately, her vision was still blurry from her sleep, and she was not paying full attention to where she was going. It was then she felt a sharp bump on her forehead.

“Ouch!”

She rubbed her face with her hoof and then she heard another ‘Ouch!’ coming from next to her. She looked up, her sight now clearing up. Another Pegasus was in front of her. She hadn’t seen this one before. He had a grey body, with a spiral shaped Cutie Mark, and bright orange mane and tail, glowing like fire.

He looked at the cyan pony in front of him. His eyes were awkward.

“Um…sorry.”

And he sped off.

Rainbow Dash glared after him in annoyance. “Maybe you should watch where you’re going next time!” she called after him, not knowing whether he would hear or not, neither caring.

She rolled her eyes, and fluttered down to the Earth below her.