Dawn's new day.

"Ouch," Both I and the blue filly pinning me groaned. Aside from the initial hit I felt fine though the clouds on my back felt somewhat different.

"Rainbow Dash are... are you ok" The quite voice asked.

"What did I hit?" The disheveled Rainbow Dash replied.

The voice gasped, "you. You hit a colt. Oh dash how could you do something like that?" I felt Rainbow being lightly pulled off me. "You need to apologize right now." my mom who could now clearly see I was fine, smirked as she watched the situation unfold. she always was one to try and let me handle my own problems first.

"He He, sorry about that," Rainbow rubbed the back of her neck after she stood up then held her foreleg out to help me. "Lost control while doing a stunt. I'm Rainbow dash and this is my bestie Fluttershy," Fluttershy was pulled into a wing hug and squeaked.

"um, Hello" She lived up to her name while hiding behind her mane. "Ni-Nice to meet you."

"Oh come on shy," Rainbow rolled her eyes, "Its just a colt you dont have to... Wait a sec you're a Unicorn how are you up here?" both their eyes went wide a bit.

"I'm using a cloud walking spell so I can walk up here." I smiled, matching her energy.

"That's. Awesome." Rainbow flew up and did a quick flip. "Can all unicorn's do that or just you or?"

I laughed, "No its thanks to my," My hoof reached my neck but the pendent was gone, in fact it was on the ground near where she first crashed into me. It was my turn for my eyes to go wide. How the heck am I still standing on clouds?

The two looked confused but my mom was quick to act. She grabbed my neckless from the ground and put it back around my neck. "Woah close one sport. It's a good thing the spell doesn't wear off right away. Hi there you two, I'm his mom by the way."

"Woah hold up, your mom is a Pegasus AND you have a cool neckless that lets you walk on clouds you just got like 20% cooler." Rainbow dash complimented but then ruined it with, "Still not as cool as me but, ya know I AM the fastest flyer."

My mom laughed while I rolled my eyes. "Dawn, I'm going to warn your teacher I'll be bringing you back to school a bit later then come right back. Why don't you head back inside to wait." She said then flew off towards Gale.

"Thanks mom," I called after her and we all moved inside the café, "So what kind of trick then?"

"Wha," Dash watched slack jawed as my mom expertly flew off without a sound then shook her head and hopped up into a seat, "Awesome. Well it was a combination of a few but it was the last one I was practicing when I ~~crash~~-Bumped into you called the 'Sonic-Rain-boom'. I'm the only one to pull it off in like, forever,"

"yay" I had almost forgotten the shy filly was still with us as she sat next to dash.

"Thanks Shy, but yeah so what is a unicorn doing up here anyway?" Dash had somehow ordered a lemonade and sandwich before I noticed and was happily eating away.

"Field trip to the weather factory, my mom is a Weather Captain so she met me up here, you just missed the rest of my group."

"Weather Captain? She isn't something cool like a guard or a Wonderbolt, Lame." She finished her drink, "come on shy lets get back to practice." She was out the door before I could even respond while Fluttershy just gave an apologetic smile before slowly following her out the door. "Sorry, it was nice meeting you."

"Your Bill," A waiter said leaving me a bit confused until I noticed what it was for. I grumbled, pulled out the bit pouch in my mane, and paid for her meal, That filly owes me ten bits.

When my mom eventually returned and I finished grumbling about the rude filly she put me on her back and we flew back towards school. Along the way I asked her, "mom, how could I walk on the clouds?"

I felt her tense and lose a bit of altitude, "What are you..?"

"Mom," I cut her off, "you know they test our magic at school right?"

"Clever colt. Honestly Dawn I'm not sure, even with Pegasus ley lines the Specialist we had to take you to said you shouldn't be able to cloud walk. In fact your dam and I were told your unicorn magic might end up crippled as well but here we are. Cases like yours are rare and we almost didn't even find out." I was intrigued there were others like me but that it didn't work out. That reminds me of someone.

As we touched down at the school mom continued, "Do you remember last time I brought you up to visit your grandparents with your dam?"

"Hardly, it was years ago and before we moved from Canterlot."

"Well we found out that day. The cloud walking spell your dam used on you both expired before she expected. Your dam was standing on an enchanted rug so was fine at first but we were both sent into a panic when she stepped off it and almost fell through the cloud layer. We feared that if it expired for her it must have for you and yet, you were bounding around your grandparents cloud house with your cousins like nothing had changed. After the visit we took you to the hospital just to be sure you were fine and they told us of your condition." She sniffled a bit as she lifted me off her back to look at then nuzzle me.

"Dawn, What you did today they said would likely kill you, either from falling if your Pegasus magic suddenly gave out or some other issue. It's why we have your grandparents always visit us instead of the other way around, to prevent you from having to cloud walk. I thought today would be ok but..." She sniffled and hugged me tightly. The revelation that my situation wasn't the first and it was seen as a disease frightened me.

"Well it worked out mom, and I didn't fall or die." I nuzzled her chest fluff.

"Yeah we got lucky today," she wiped her eyes with her fore legs and gave me a kiss on the forehead, "anyway sport now you know so be careful, I'll let your dam know what happened when I get home." She took off and hovered a moment, "You have a good rest of your weekend." she shot off fast enough to leave a trail.

"Rainbow dash you were not very nice to that unicorn colt today," Fluttershy said to her friend and protector as they headed to her house. Rainbow didn't like her own as much for some reason.

"What are you talking about shy, aside from running into him I wasn't that bad." Dash flicked her wing in dismissal.

"You didn't pay for your lunch." Her voice squeaked a bit but she had to be strong.

"Well dang, I thought I forgot something, Oh well that horn head probably covered it." She shrugged.

"Rainbow. Dash. That's no way to talk about unicorns or treat a colt so I expect you to pay him back if you see him again." Fluttershy stared at her friend without backing down.

Dash gulped then nodded, "ok shy, I will."

Fluttershy returned to all smiles as she walked inside her house, "good, he and his mom did seem like good ponies."

"That filly can be really scary sometimes," She followed after her friend.

Celestia raised her glowing horn to slowly lower the sun and raise the moon in its place, breathing a sigh of relief once finished. The day was finally over. She had spent most of her Saturday catching up on her work from the previous week instead of teaching Twilight. A few 'minor' issues had occurred causing her work to pile up.

"Raven why must the nobles be such a headache," She asked her newest secretary, Raven Inkwell, who had just poured her a cup of tea.

"I, I don't know princess." Raven had only just started recently after taking the oaths to the crown so wasn't sure how to answer.

"It's because they are all selfish," Celestia was having a rare moment where she let her mask slip. "Hardly any of them ever come to me with Ideas for helping our little ponies instead of themselves." She rested her chin on her tea table and lazily took a sip from the fresh cup.

"Most of the 'nobles' are still asking for crown funding for repairing damage to personal property from the storm weeks ago. Most of which they could have gotten fixed already if they were not opposed to using their own bits. Yet all they do is blame the weather Pegasi for all their problems after 'being unable to contain the storm' or complaining that the farmers, who actually need help, are getting assistance first." She rubbed her cheeks with her hooves to get the blood flowing.

"Speaking of which, Raven can you get me that final report from the Apples."

"Of course princess," Raven magicked over a scroll and gently set it down.

Celestia read over it with a frown, "so he couldn't be recovered, shame," She sighed heavily, "they also need some crown assistance after loosing dozens of trees and a barn. Well that can be easily taken care of." She wrote a quick missive for her private treasury and passed it off to Raven.

"Unlike this," She read the report from her school and frowned for an entirely new reason. "I can't imagine why anyone would risk hiring a pony to try and bribe one of my staff just to deliver a letter from 'Onyx Star' to his own Grandfoal, whoever it is."

"The pony who was caught said that the family is not on good terms so his employer was just trying to reach them." Raven read off her notes.

"Still no idea who they were trying to reach? Do we even know if it is a filly or colt?" Celestia huffed, the letter in question had been magically sealed surprisingly well, even she had trouble opening it without destroying it.

"No, the currier refused to answer, as is his right, the only reason we got the name 'Onyx Star' was it was added to the letter and they probably thought the seal was enough." Raven finished.

"A problem for another day then, It's about time we both retire." She stretched and left for her bedroom. "Goodnight raven."

"Goodnight princess," Raven bowed.