Blazing Comet

by Free Sky

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Princess Luna, Original Character
Length: 1045

Sometimes you push yourself too far, especially when you feel invincible.

There are times when you feel like you can take on anything, times when you want to push the limits and do the impossible. There are also times when this backfires horribly and you pay a hefty price.

Day 14 of One Shot-tober.

Published 2022-10-14 21:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2022-10-14 21:40:01 UTC

Streak of Fire

The grass sways with the gentle breeze as a white pegasus with a blue mane flies along the slopes of the plains. His wings beat every so often as he rides the air currents more than flies. Drifting along the countryside without a care in the world, as the sun sits high in the sky above him, warming him on the cool spring day. Slowly, as the breeze comes to a stop, he beats his wings and flies higher. Drifting into the sky and floating along like the clouds around him, the pegasus looks down on the world. The ocean of green below him almost seems to sway without the breeze. The trees in the distance shimmer as the last of the morning’s dew evaporates off of the lower sections of leaves.

Eventually he lands on a soft and fluffy cloud, settling down to watch the deep blue sky. The endless blue that appears to stretch on for eternity gives him a sense of comfort as he smiles up at it. With eternity before him and reality behind him he launches up from the cloud, flying straight up into the endless blue abyss above. The higher he goes, the colder things become and the harder it is to fly, but he keeps pushing onward into the blue. Slowly the blue grows darker and darker but he keeps going.

His wings generate a bubble of air around him as he flies higher and higher as his wings push him into the near blackness of the void. Despite his efforts he slowly loses the ability to push further, coming to stop in a spot where he can just barely hoover with his pegasus magic working at full power. Looking down on the world makes him gasp at a truly beautiful sight, the world below him looks like a massive marble a hundred thousand times his size. Feeling this small and yet able to see it all makes him smile as he starts back down towards the ground.

As he flies faster and faster down towards the ground an unusual pain sets in on the tips of his wings. Sparing them a glance draws a scream of alarm, the tips of his feathers are burning as he rockets towards the ground. The fire quickly spreads up both of his wings leaving a scorching streak in the sky as he continues to plummet towards the ground at speeds that defy sanity. The fire laces up onto his back as he screams in agony. As much as he tries to, he’s unable to adjust his angle as the ground gets closer and closer.

The fire spreads further and further across his body, engulfing his torso and the upper parts of his legs as well as his neck. His screaming continues as the fire creeps up his neck, down his legs and into his tail. Still he flies towards the ground, unable to pull up as fire consumes his world. His voice is gone, all that remains is the roar of the fire as the ground rushes up to meet him.

His eyes snap open, his body still wreathed in fire as he flaps his wings hard, pulling up at the last second. Fire scorches the land in a massive red-orange-blue ring that ignites the trees and plains. All the while he pulls back up into the air, still burning bright like a star as he screams, his voice now the roar of a powerful fire. As he hits the top of his path he looks down again on the world, the land bruning and ashen as his fire slowly burns out. Looking down on the destruction he weeps, his tears falling down and collecting in a small ball of water that slowly stretches and grows into a large door.

The door swings open and out steps Princess Luna. her eyes looking down on the burning land before looking to the weeping pegasus. Slowly she flies over to him, pulling along a large fluffy cloud. She pulls him from the air and lays him down on the cloud before joining him and wrapping a wing around the pegasus. Slowly the pegasus shrinks from the size of an adult pony to that of a foal, he continues to weep as he buries his muzzle in her coat.

Luna says nothing as she comforts the small colt, her wing stroking his back as he cries into her coat. Slowly the stroking helps calm him down, but even when he stops crying Luna continues to stroke his back, behind a friendly and gentle mother figure for a bit. Eventually the pegasus colt looks up at her, getting a gentle smile from her.

“Hello Comet, I’m sorry you and I had to meet like this.” Luna says as she ruffles his blue mane a little. “I am glad to see you’re calming down.”

“P-princess Luna? How’d you get here?” Comet asks as he looks around and then looks down. The ground is green again with no sign of the scorching it had received just minutes earlier.

“I am the Princess of Dreams, Comet, it is my job to help the ponies of the land who are having nightmares.” Luna says as she strokes his back again with the tip of her wing. “I am sorry I was not here sooner.”

“It’s okay.” He says before blurting out. “You’re pretty!”

“Thank you, Comet. We try our best.” She says with a blush and a smile. “As much as I would love to spend the evening here, I have other nightmares to handle. Take care of yourself, Comet, but if you need me again I will be there.”

Luna stands as she summons up a door from the cloud. Looking down at Comet, she leans down and gives him a kiss on the forehead. “The rest of your dreams will be peaceful, you have my word.”

With that Luna steps through the door leaving Comet to watch her with a blush on his cheeks and a smile on his face. “Thank you, Princess!”

“You’re welcome!” Luna calls back as the door closes and vanishes, leaving him to sit there on the cloud, looking out at the sky with a blush and a smile.