Chapter 2 A rude awakening

As far as dreams go this one was pretty amazing, though I admit if I had my way I wouldn't have been the one being saved, even if it was by Rainbow Dash.

I mean, I know how awesome she is but seriously?!

I can feel myself waking, stirring I guess it must be morning and I have another dreary day ahead of me, strange though I don't remember my bed being quite so comfortable.

I guess a good dream makes for a well rested mind and body.

KRACKOOM!

Of course leaping 3 feet into the air every hair on my body standing on end pretty much sand bagged my theory, the lightning bolt and singed rump and nose crinkling odour of singed hair didn't exactly help me maintain it either.

Looking up my jaw dropping to the sight of the menacing black mass that filled my vision, the roiling mass crackling with the obvious threat of future shocks.

That of course ceased to matter as my groggy brain decided to inform me of the rest of my surroundings, namely the fact that I was sitting on, an uncomfortably small cloud that defying all logic and reason was doing a sterling job of holding me up, of course that didn't stop me from screaming my lungs out and latching onto the cloud in case it realised clouds weren't meant to hold up people.

As I lay clamped to the cloud my brain after apparently being satisfied with terrifying me with my surroundings, decided now it was my body's turn to torment me.

Usually when I see myself in the mirror I see an average guy kind of pale, pasty maybe being a better description of my appearance.

As you can probably imagine the dark blue fuzzy and short limbs that were my cloud anchor gave me quite the shock, the lack of hands, my brain decided was maybe a bit too much to take in.

I settled for closing my eyes and yelling again.

It was after this therapeutic session of verbal expression I noticed the blue face hanging over the edge of my impromptu alarm clock.

The look of confusion on the pony's face probably matching the look on mine.

"Are you done yet?" she asked to which I nodded mutely, words beyond me after my minds overload since my rude awakening moments ago.

"So what kinda pegasus decides to land face first from that kind of manoeuvre, you wasn't even trying to use your wings to control your dive!" the asked jabbing a hoof in my direction.

The look of puzzlement on my face obviously didn't do much to help answer her question.

Rainbow Dash hopped down from her stormy perch, landing gracefully in front of me a look of curious determination on her face as she turned a small circle around me, my head following her curious circuit before stopping before me a grim look fixed upon her features.

"Uh how old are you because for a colt your age you should be flying, not as well as me of course but even Fluttershy flies better than you. You fly like a rock"  Rainbow Dash asked me an amused smirk on her cyan face.

Now I couldn't help but feel a little bit victimised here, I mean I didn't choose to dream about being a pegasus who couldn't fly, especially one being interrogated by my favourite pony either, so I decided I was gonna stand my, uh , cloud and set the facts straight.

"you know I never asked you to save me. Its my dream, besides I would have woken up anyway" my face was set in what I hope was self confident and not showing the cracks of uncertainty that seemed to be running though my muddled mind.

I expected a couple of reactions out of Rainbow Dash, maybe an apology or something but certainly not her falling over pointing at me as she laughed rolling side to side.

Actually who am I kidding?

That's exactly what she would do.

Needless to say I was not amused, relinquishing my death grip on my cloud I shakily tried standing realising just how tricky hooves could be though my determination quickly took over and I stood, for lack of a better word and waited for Rainbow dash to stop.

Thankfully she recovered her wits almost as fast as I got to my hooves.

"Sooo you think you're asleep and dreaming?" Rainbow dash said cocking her head and raising an eyebrow.

"Of course I'm dreaming, how else do you explain the feathers and hooves?!" I nearly yelled at her holding myself back because the last thing I needed was a kick in the face.

"You know I cant blame you for dreaming about me, after all I am the winner of the best young flyer award and am going to one day join the wonder bolts" at this point her eyes seemed to get that far away glaze, I coughed feeling somewhat awkward in what was supposed to be my dream, or at least I hoped I was dreaming.

At the sound of my cough Rainbow dash hopped back onto the storm cloud peeking back down at me "if you really think you are dreaming want another shock to wake you?" a mischevious grin upon her face.

Understandably backed away waving my hooves, in front of me as though to shield my self, of course I forgot that the cloud I was on was rather small and my rapid retreat suddenly left me with a long drop and not a lot of cloud.

Of course this time I was no longer so confident of my dream conclusion, though I was doubly sure sure that gravity hadn't forgotten its claim on me and wanted a speedy conclusion, so I did the natural thing and basicly screamed my head off all the way down.

Thankfully most of the way down was all I managed, a tree managing to cushion my terminal landing into simply lots of little painful ones, finally leaving me dangling upside down from the lowest branch, battered bruised but thankfully still alive.

I could have sworn I'm supposed to wake up before I land, right?