The old stallion and the sky

Cloud Jumper had cleaned Scootaloos wound and treaded it.

“Back in the old days, When princess Luna and Celestia ruled this land together and before Luna was banished to the moon, there were two flying elite teams. The Wonderbolts were here to protect the land for any incoming thread. When a wild dragon attacked a pony village, or when a hive of Changelings was running over a town without a huge magical barrier, the Wonderbolts will come to save the day.” He explained and put the paper towel aside he used to dry the wound after it was washed out.

“Hell yeah! The Wonderbolts are awesome!” shouted the filly out, followed by an “Ouch!” as he disinfected her wound with alcohol.

“Yeah, but they are spending most of the time with shows, the times are too peaceful, and this way they stay in training.” Said Cloud and put the bottle away “Well, back in the day's Luna had founded another elite team, the Shadbowbolts. She wanted to be prepared for the case that there was a danger too great to fight directly, she wanted an elite team that can interfere before a danger becomes too threatening. So she founded the Shadowbolts. The team was not removed after Luna was banished to the moon.” He remembered the words his mentor told him when he was young “Our task is not as shiny and glorious as the Wonderbolts. We left the land to do our job and what we did was awful… once we infiltrated a Griffin city, the mayor was planning to form an anti-pony army. We gathered the information for weeks so we were clear on our targets. While my comrades planted bombs to destroy the weapon factory, I sneaked into the house of the mayor, I was the only one In the team flying silent enough to get around the guards unseen and get into his sleeping room. I did it with a knife, clean and fast, there was no away around that.”

“Wait! You were flying!?” Scoots interrupted “and for what did you needed a knife?”

“I killed him, I killed a lot of people. My hooves are drenched in blood.” And this was just the very short version of what he had done for the Shadowbolts.

“Woah! You sneaked past several Griffon guards and inside a well-guarded evil mayor hideout... With these wings!? That’s Awesome! Tell me how!” She was totally amazed by her grandfather.

“I just told you how I killed people.”

“Yes, I know, killing is wrong and all but that’s exactly like in my favorite comics!” She looked at Cloud Jumper, he had the same wings as her, but he was able to fly! This was the reason why she had searched and found him, this was her destiny! “Please tell me how to do this! Please teach me, Grandpa!”

“No!” His answer came fast and clear “You are like I was at your age. I won’t push you into the same misery I was living through.”

“But… but you could, right? You could teach me how to fly, even with such wings, right?” she asked him with raising hope in her chest. “Please Poppy, teach me how to fly. I promise I won’t kill any pony.”

Maybe it was because of his guilty feeling for what he had done to her, or maybe he just really wanted to help his granddaughter, but he answered her: “Okay, okay, come back tomorrow… and don’t dare to wake me up!”