Red Hawk

Red Hawk & Scootaloo have been sitting in the field for about a few minutes now, and have been talking to each other. well mostly it was it was Red Hawk answering any questions that Scootaloo had, which were ones that he have initially answered during his welcoming party, and Red Hawk couldn’t help but answer this little pegasus questions. And as for Scootaloo herself, she was simply in awe, after all, she was talking to a flying creature from another world, who proved to be a great flyer, especially that dive straight down from the sky and then flying over a foot from the ground.

“So what were you doing all the way out here Scootaloo?” Red Hawk asked as he used his left wing’s knuckle to scratch the top of his head, all the while Scootaloo kept her eyes trained on the large red feathered limbs.

“I was out here practicing.” She said as her tiny wings gave a small buzz.

“Practicing what?” Red Hawk asked.

“…my…flying.” Scootaloo said, sounding a little bit of ashamed.

“Oh is that all!” Red Hawk said joyfully while developing a small smile. “Hey if you want, I can help you.”

“Really!” Scootaloo asked Red Hawk in disbelief. No pony has ever offered her any help in practicing flying, but now.

“Why not, I’ll be sticking around for some time, so what’s the harm in helping a pegasus learning to fly.” Scootaloo whipped her face before responding.

“I didn’t think…any pony would actually wanna help me” Scootaloo started to tear up slightly and began sniffling. Red Hawk scooted closer to the filly, and wrapped her in his right wing, while giving her a comforting pat on the back.

“What do you mean Scootaloo?” Red Hawk said in a calming voice.

“…It’s just, no matter how much I keep trying, no matter how much I practice…” Scootaloo started to tear up as she leaned into the wing, feeling the soft feathers brush against her. “I can barely get off the ground…and only hover a few inches for maybe a minute, before falling on my face.” Red Hawk continues to try and comfort the filly as she speaks.

“Has your mom, dad, or both tried to help you?” Scootaloo just shook her head.

“I can’t ask my mom because she, and my dad are rarely home. And my aunt who is a pegasus isn’t around most of the time to teach me properly.” Red Hawk then petted Scootaloo on the head.

“Well then I guess my offer to be your teacher is valid then.” Red Hawk said half-jokeingly.

“But…what if I screw up so much, that you’ll stop trying to help me.” Scootaloo asked worriedly, but Red Hawk just chuckled a little.

“Scootaloo, I promise you, that I won’t stop helping you until I see you fly high in the sky with me. Got it!”

“R-really!?” Scootaloo asked in shock as she looked up to the young man, who just nodded back.

“You’re not the first person I’ve meet whose had difficulty flying I’ve helped.” Red Hawk said before standing up, dusting his pants off, before looking down at Scootaloo. “So what do you say filly, do you want my help to teach you how to fly, or not?” Scootaloo quickly whipped her eyes clear before hopping onto her hooves, a look of determination etched onto her face.

“YES SIR! Please, teach me how to fly!”

“Love the enthusiasm Scootaloo, now first off, tell me how you’ve been going about practicing. Then I’ll figure out where to start, kay?”

“Yes sir!”

~~~~~

Soaring over Ponyville, scanning the area for any sign of trouble, Rainbow Dash was actually taking it easy during her flight. Usually she would be zipping through the air, practicing her aerial tricks, or just flying fast for the fun of it, but not today, she was just taking it nice and easy. And she was mostly flying over Ponyville thinking about a few things, but she was mostly thinking about, Red Hawk.

Ever since the pegasus meet the human yesterday, something about him has been, not necessarily bugging her. It was actually hard for the pegasus to even sum up. Every time she thinks about Red Hawk, some part of her makes her feel irritated, but another part of her feels, intrigued. The intrigued part that Rainbow felt towards Red Hawk was quite simple, and that was his wings. She was pretty curious about those wings, after all, she’s never meet any other creature that had wings other than pegasi, and one griffon friend she had during flight school, that had wings like the humans. So meeting Red Hawk was certainly an interesting experience, and when she spotted those large wings, she wondered how he even could walk around or fly with wings that were twice his size.

Now the irritation part was mostly on what Red Hawk was. Obviously, Red Hawk isn’t a creature from Equestria, or even from this world in general, and for all she knows this human could be putting on an act. An act to make everypony drop their guard, so he could eat them! he did say he does eat meat, so who’s to say he doesn’t eat ponies. Rainbow Dash has always liked to see herself as a, superhero to the town, be there in case something bad happens…but maybe this time her irritation is just her paranoia. After all, she doesn’t know a thing about Red Hawk, or even showed the desire to even be around him, so maybe she’s miss judging the guy before she even got to know who he really is.

“Maybe I should give Red Hawk a chance, instead of waiting to see if he’ll cause some kind of problem.” Rainbow Dash sighed as she was now flying out towards one of the fields. “Plus, everypony really does seem to like the guy.”

As Rainbow tried to make up her mind in how to approach Red Hawk, she actually saw the human down on the ground, and he was sitting next to what looks to be a filly. Upon closer inspection Rainbow Dash recognizes the to be Scootaloo, a filly that she and some other ponies baby sit for her parents, until her aunts come to do the baby siting themselves. Rainbow Dash looked around and found a stray cloud, and landed on it, while scooting it over to where the pair were, and just watched.

“What in the world are they doing?” she said to herself as she looked down over the edge of the cloud, watching Scootaloo do what looked to be…stretching, while Red Hawk just watched.

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“And…100!” Scootaloo panted as she flopped onto her belly. She just spent about fifteen minutes doing wing stretches, and a combination of steady wing flapping, and something akin to back curls. It was all surprisingly very strenuous.

“Good work Scootaloo, these stretches will not only help strengthen your wing muscles, but it will also help strengthen your back and torso.” Red Hawk said as he patted the fillies head. “Now, you need to do this fairly often to keep building up those muscle, kay. Slack off to much and you’ll lose a lot of progress.”

“Yes sir.” Scootaloo said as she sat up onto her haunches. “Hey Red Hawk, can I ask you a question?”

“Sure.”

“Have you ever had problems flying before?” Scootaloo asked as she looked up at the human.

“Oh yeah!” Red Hawk said in a very exaggerated way. “When I was around your age, I could barely get off the ground, without being turned upside down…or crashing into things.” Red Hawk said in a low tone.

“Wow.” Scootaloo simply stated.

“Yeah. In fact, I wasn’t able to actually fly till I was eleven.” Red Hawk said as he started to remember the days when he was a runt, and the crazy antics he got into because he couldn’t control his wings. As the memories started to play back in his mind, Red Hawk remembered the first time he finally took flight, and feeling the rush of—as he was thinking back to that moment in time a thought came to him.

“Hey Scootaloo.” The filly looked up to the human. “How would you like to go on a flight?” the fillies face slowly turned from awe, to utter joy.

“R-really!” Scootaloo asked hopefully. Red Hawk didn’t vocally respond to the question, but as he stood up he picked Scootaloo up in his hands, causing the filly to squirm a little before calming down. After being repositioned in Red Hawks arms, being held like one would hold a stuffed toy in their forelegs, Scootaloo felt Red Hawk’s body jolt up as he makes a big jump.

Then a sudden woosh swept over her as the pair continued to climb higher, and higher into the sky, the sound of wings beating overlapping with the rushing wind. Scootaloo looked down and saw that they were really high off the ground, so high that she could see Ponyville off in the distance, and it was so small now. Once the pair had climbed as high as they could go, higher than any pegasus could probably go by Scootaloo’s hunch, the pair started to soar through the air, with Scootaloo having being held tight to Red Hawk’s chest. As they soar through the air, a big smile slowly starts to grow on Scootaloo’s muzzle as her eyes actually start to develop a small twinkle.

“HIGHER!” Scootaloo cried out with so much joy that Red Hawk actually started to laugh, before climbing higher into the air.

After climbing another fifty or so feet Red Hawk spun in the air, before tossing Scootaloo up, causing the filly to chuckle before being caught, the young man now locking his hands around Scootaloo’s shoulders. Red Hawk then looked down to Scootaloo and actually made a realistic eagle screech, which Scootaloo tried to imitate back, but ended up sounding more like a small squeaky toy. In response to Scootaloo’s little squeak, Red Hawk un-curled his right index finger, and tickled Scootaloo’s right armpit, causing her to giggle.

The pair continued to fly till they were over a wide expanse of mountain and forest range, where they hovered in the air for a bit…before freefalling straight down. But instead of feeling a sinking dread feeling in her stomach, a great soaring torrent of butterflies coursed through her body. When they came to ground level, the pair started to soar over a wide river, where Scootaloo felt like she was skating on water. As they traveled across the water, Scootaloo saw they were heading into a rather large flock of cranes…and soon found herself zooming right towards them as Red Hawk lets her go.

Smacking into the flock, causing the birds to fly off and actually fly in the same direction as the filly. But Scootaloo started to lose momentum, and was about to go splash, but Red Hawk swooped in behind her and caught her, continuing Scootaloo’s little trek over the water. Now surrounded by the cranes and some other birds that joined them. Scootaloo leaned forward to increase speed and as they traveled for another twenty feet, Scootaloo was launched off the edge of a waterfall, forelegs and wings stretched wide. And before she even started to fall, Red Hawk swooped in under her, catching the filly on his back where she stood on all four legs.

Scootaloo then stood up on her hind legs before letting out the biggest & loudest ‘WHOOOOOO-HOOOOOO’ she could let out, all the while Red Hawk let out another eagles screech. The pair continued to fly for another few minutes, before the pair came to a rocky cliff that looked over the vast valley below. Upon landing, Scootaloo slid off of Red Hawk’s back, her mane sticking up because of the wind that was assaulting her during the flight.

“Wow~” Scootaloo said in a low almost mesmerized tone.

“I take it you like your little flight session?” Red Hawk chuckled before Scootaloo shook her head and responded with.

“Liked it…I LOVED IT!” she all but practically screamed. “That was THE most amazing thing I’ve ever done, and experienced!” the filly then rushed to Red Hawk, and wrapped her forelegs around the young man’s legs, and hugged them as tight as she could.

“Thank you.” Scootaloo murmured as she nuzzled the legs, as Red Hawk lowered himself before petting the filly.

“Anytime you want to go for another flight Scootaloo, just look for me around town, or at the library. And I’ll be glad to give you one.”

“Really!?” Scootaloo asked as she looked up, and Red Hawk nodded. “Thank you!” just as the pair lavished in the afterglow of the flight, both of their stomachs growled, causing both to start laughing.

“How about we head back to Ponyville, and get some lunch?”

“Alright!” Scootaloo said as she tried to climb up Red Hawk’s pants, but was lifted up, and placed on the young man’s back, before leaping off the edge of the cliff. And flying back to Ponyville. As the pair flies off into the distance, a familiar cyan pegasus lands on the cliff, and watched them go…all the while having a look of disbelief etched on her face.