Dash’s Story

A sudden flash of sunlight hit through her window, making her eyes wince. Guess I better get up now.. Bluesky silently thought to herself, giving a small sigh she went ahead and got up, her hooves trailing her downstairs. She looked over towards the kitchen. It looked like no one else was up yet. Great.

"What a way to make my day better.." She muttered, making her way towards the door. She is espoused to wait for her older sister to wake up before she would go out. But this time..

She was gonna break some rules.

Putting a small hoof on the doorknob, she turned it and pushed it, the warmth of the sun trailed over the young filly's back, making her give a small smile to the warmth. She noticed a tall gray silhouette in the distance, making her fur ripple along her back. "Well..I do have to train today." She grumbled to herself, making her way towards it, her ears down. The scars she had recently the day before gotten still stung, but she had to push through it.

The gray stallion gave her a glare, grumbling underneath his breath. "Took you long enough.." He sounded not pleased, making Bluesky shrink to the ground, her ears more pinned against her head.

"Look..I h-had to-"

He immediately interrupted her, his fierce blue gaze making contact with hers. "Does it look like I care that you had to do something? No. Now let's get started or i'll make sure that is not the only pain I gave you."

Bluesky slightly flinched from his sudden sharp response, making her nod shakily. "Y..Y-yes sir.." She got up, making herself stand up straight and tall. She wasn't going to make herself look like a fool in front of him again like she did yesterday.

Storm Sky went ahead and instructed her to angle her wings a bit, so she did, tilting them toward the angles he told her to. He studied the angle of them, giving a slight scoff after. "Good..but not good enough. Now go ahead and try flapping your wings, and see if you can fly."

Bluesky grunted, but when ahead and did so, her body feeling light as she flapped her wings softly, flying up and up into the sky. She was actually doing it! A sudden burst of happiness flown through her as she soared around..not even watching where she was going. The small filly suddenly crashed facefirst into somepony she didn't even notice!

"AGH!" She yelped, her body freezing immediately when she realized she had hit an ADULT. It could of been anything else..but it just HAD to be..an adult mare. Bluesky immediately looked up at the orange pegasus mare, whose brow was raised. "Um..hey there little filly." She gaped, her aqua gaze looking away. "What are you doing up here? Aren't you espoused to be training?"

Bluesky immediately looked away, her ears flooding with embarrassment, she had forgotten all about Storm Sky! She gave the older pony a grin. "Oh yeah! I am! I just..erm..forgot about it! Do you mind if I ask for your name ma'am please?"

The mare just sighed and nodded, "It's Amber Cloud, now run along now. You don't wanna keep him waiting do you?"

Do that and I might get my wings chopped off.. Bluesky thought bitterly, before waving goodbye to Amber Cloud and immediately swooping down to an rather...angry looking stallion. Oh boy. Storm Sky gave out an exasperated sigh, before forcing out his words in a straight sentence instead of an hiss. "Why didn't you come back when I called your name?!"

What?! She didn't hear him call her name! Or at least say it! She opened her mouth to argue, but he stopped her with a fierce glare, making her shut her mouth. "I called it at least well..THREE times and YOU didn't listen!" He growled, his gray tail lashing with pure rage. The small blue filly immediately flinched, putting her head down as she listened to him letting out his aggression on her.

"I didn't want to do this, but I might as well as punish you." Bluesky immediately knew what he meant by punish..he was gonna hit her again like he did yesterday. Immediately shutting her eyes, she awaited for the time for when he was gonna strike.

But..

He didn't.

What? She opened her eyes slightly, looking over and noticing Amber Cloud immediately in front of her, growling at Storm Sky. "Leave the young filly alone, she did nothing to you."

Storm Sky just scoffed, giving the other mare a glare with his fierce yellow gaze. "Oh? Then take the unwanted brat anyways..try to train her yourself Amber Cloud. You'll see how difficult it is to train a filly as feather-brained as her."

Amber Cloud sighed as she watched the stallion walk off, looking at Bluesky with a smirk. "So, you ready to be trained the real way you need to be trained?"

Immediately, the frightened filly bolted up, giving the older mare a large, big grin. "Would I?! I would LOVE to!" When Amber Cloud started to chuckle and walk off, she followed her right behind her. Today wasn't going to be bad after all!

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It felt like hours had past, and soon Bluesky had finally learned the proper way to fly. She wasn't that great at it yet, but she was gonna get there. Looking up at her new mentor, she grinned, "Thank you Amber Cloud! If it wasn't for you getting that big lousy meanie out of there I wouldn't of known how to fly properly!"

The older mare just gave out a chuckle in response. "What can I say, he did sound like he had a tree stuck up his flank. It was probably pretty up there if he was that grumpy."

Bluesky immediately snorted, before she noticed it was already starting to turn dark. "Oh no! Sorry Amber Cloud! I could meet you tomorrow if you like!"

The mare nodded, "Sounds like a deal, night kiddo!" She waved, starting to fly off. Bluesky gave a quick wave back before starting to run.

But as she was running, she noticed the trail again along the ground. But..I didn't say it?.. She decided to step closer to the trail, it started to glow brighter as she went close to it. She looked down at the trail then back up at the clouds above her. If she was gonna follow this trail..she was gonna have to abandon her only home she had.

She sighed, putting a hoof to her chest. "I'll follow you trail, and I will see where you are taking me!" Immediately, she started to follow the trail, it disappeared quickly right behind her as she ran. She had to fly her way down to the ground to follow the rest of it.

When she landed on the ground though..it felt so much harder than a cloud did. She was not used to this! Looking forward, she noticed the trail leading her into a forest. She gave out a small gulp, she made this decision and she was not going back. Ahead of her..was a journey to make fourth.

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The sounds of birds and leaves whistling in the air filled her keen ears. It surely smelt different here than she was used to. Looking down, she had gotten pretty far on the trail and wondered if she could possibly get more far than she has already gone.

Unfortunately, it lead her to a river. The water was flowing fast and going down the stream pretty quickly. If she didn't find anything to cross the river. She would have to go on the river and swim. That made her gulp, and start to shake rather quickly to the feeling of wet water being all over her fur.

She looked around the river. A sudden smile formed on her face when she found a broken tree that was able to be used as a bridge was on the water, so she went ahead and tried to climb on top of it..until.

SPLASH! She fell straight into the water, the tree breaking apart and becoming logs. Her body was immediately starting to get infested with icy cold water, and she was trying to kick her legs.

She started to panic, her body obviously small enough to be light..BUT HOW WAS SHE GONNA GET OUT?! She looked around panicking for anything to hold onto. She tried to swim to a nearby log, and hold on tightly to it. Her fur was soaking wet..as well as her wings..she could possibly get killed out here!

She desperately was holding onto the log for dear life, her heart pounding desperately as she looked around. Only for one thing to engulf her and the log..

A gigantic wave of water coming from the river itself.