Comforting slouched in a library chair looking around at the customers who were busily searching for books. There was a rare calm where everypony seemed to be reading, browsing or actually interested in studying, none of them paying much attention to Comforting besides Rain hovering nearby. "Today's been busy."

Rain drifted in closer. "You look beat." She twirled to be upside down, flying all the same. "Do you need a break?"

Comforting perked at the notion. "A break. There's an idea." She tapped at her chin. "I've been so busy helping around here after my last bit of idling, I forgot it's good to give yourself a break once in a while."

Rain zipped past Comforting and did another loop. "I want to do something fun!" She caught herself upside down again in front of Comforting's eyes with a big smile on her face.

Comforting laughed even as she pushed Rain away a few inches. "You just started your adventure, you." She smooched the pegasus right on the tip of her nose. "Not that you don't deserve to have fun, but I'm being selfish right now. This is about my fun. Now, lucky for me, I already have someone to have fun with."

She clapped her hands, summoning an image of her husband Toots at his job. "Why not?" She took Rain's hoof in hers and winked at her playfully. "Do you mind?" She disappeared without waiting for an answer, leaving a few musical notes hovering in the air to play their soft sounds before vanishing.

Rain huffed at where Comforting used to be. "Well, guess I better take care of my own things." She flew from the room, darting around the library towards the teaching rooms. "Zipp?"

Zipp poked her head out from a room in the back. "Here!" She waved Rain towards her. "Good thing you showed up." She stepped back inside of the room and stretched her wings to point at the students within it, who were looking quite anxious at having Zipp's attention. "I swear, more pegasi show up by the day. As much as I'd like to take credit, pretty sure the rumors of weather magic are spreading around."

Rain plopped onto her hooves in front of them and fluttered her wings eagerly at them all being there and wanting to learn. "Hi, students!" She hopped up with a delighted giggle at all of them and zoomed towards them to hop onto the desk and wave them closer. "You're all eager to learn about weather magic? Well! First thing, you already know it. To be a pegasus is to have that magic." She flapped, lifting a few inches. "It's why we can fly in the first place. It's our magic!"

Zipp smiled at seeing Rain get into it so easily. "Wow. That's a neat perspective on it."

Rain touched down in front of them again and fanned her wings out fully behind herself. "That magic lets you do more than fly around, as fun as that is. The clouds are yours. You can reach out and touch them. You can sit on them. You can gather them up like a snowball and throw them! This isn't something you have to learn how to do, just have to actually try doing it."

One student raised their hoof with an excited expression on their face. "We're really gonna make it rain?"

Rain gave him a nod. "Just like your very own personal cloud! We'll go up high in the sky and see what we can do with them." She zoomed towards the exit. "Lesson one, gathering clouds. I want you all to fly up, grab some cloud, and come back down to me with your own little baby clouds."

The pegasi all lifted off with determination and excitement in their eyes to gather some cloud for themselves up high in the sky until they returned with floating blobs of fluffy white cloud that wobbled from side to side with each beat of their wings. Rain was applauding them for even getting that far. "What great looking clouds." She nodded at each, white and fluffy. Except one.

One stallion was looking nervously at his little storm cloud, booming softly with thunder.

Rain gazed at it, in awe. "Wow, and such variety too! I have to say, I really like yours!" She fluttered around it curiously. "This is a good lesson. If you grab part of an angry cloud, then you end up with a smaller, but still angry, cloud." She poked the stormcloud gently. "But that leads into making rain. This cloud is eager to make it rain."

Zipp rubbed at the back of her head nervously at the sight of that angry little cloud the stallion was holding with difficulty, keeping it from drifting off in any particular direction he wasn't wanting it to go.

Rain landed on the angry cloud, just to get zapped from below with a yelp. "Oof, right. Be careful around storm clouds. They will zot you if you don't pay attention. Now, to make it rain is easy." She started bouncing atop it. "Let it know you want it to rain! Don't hold back! I know you can do it! I believe in you! Just call out from the depths of your heart for it to rain and it will!"

Seeing how easy she made it look, the rest of the class hopped on their clouds, bouncing with laughs and giggles as rain fell in sheets beneath them, quickly using up their clouds.

Rain held up her hooves dramatically at their success. "Bravo! You made rain!" She shot through the falling water to be above them all with her hooves wide open, only for it to stop suddenly and every drop of water there vanishing to reveal blue skies once more. "But clouds only have so much in them, as you can see. Still, you've just mastered a key bit of weather mastery. If somepony needs some water, or their farm or whatever, you can bring some over!"

She landed on the roof of the building to look over her class standing proudly in front of her with smiles on their faces. "Remember, never take a cloud for granted. You're responsible for keeping it in place where you want it." She paused a moment. "That includes making sure clouds go away. You grabbed them. You already know you can shove them around. If there are a bunch of bad storms coming that ponies don't want, push them away. If it's really big, you'll need teamwork, but you can do it! You can save tons of headache by deciding when it rains, and when you'd rather skip on it."

Zipp stood next to Rain with a big smile on her face. "Was wondering if you could add that little thing." She grinned at the pegasi standing there listening intently to Rain. "So, in summary, do what you've always done but push clouds around where you want them, or away from where you don't."

Rain gave Zipp a pat on the back with a little laugh. "Maybe I was a teacher before. I'm having so much fun! I really like this!" She nodded at the class. "Practice your cloud handling. I think that's enough to do for one day. Tomorrow we'll try another part of weather control."

Zipp nodded along to Rain's words and clapped her hooves together with an excited look on her face. "Good stuff!" She flew up next to Rain. "So, we done for the day? Good. Mom's gonna be coming into town like today or tomorrow at the latest. She's gonna wanna talk to you, for sure."

Rain groaned loudly. "Why? Am I in trouble? Does she not like me? Did I offend her somehow? What did I do wrong?"

Zipp slipped from her spot on the roof to sit next to Rain on the ground to place a hoof on her shoulder with a reassuring smile on her face. "Neigh way. You did nothing wrong, and I'm pretty sure she's not mad. She just wants to be in on the weather pony fun"

Rain deflated against Zipp with relief. "Oh good. It was just business, then." She chuckled nervously. "I thought I had done something wrong."

Zipp lifted off and away from Rain to return to the classroom. "Let's clean up and see—" She trailed off as she spotted her mom, Queen Haven, descending with proper pomp towards the city. "Never mind, there she is."

Pipp shouted over the din of Queen Haven's entourage touching down. "Mom's here! Woohoo!" She took rapid pictures as she flew in to half-pounce her mother, the two enjoying a warm embrace.

"Dear." Haven stepped back as the hug ended. "Always a delight to see you. Now where is this wondrous pegasi I've been hearing about?"

Zipp arrived, Rain at her side. "Mom!" She landed and closed for a little hug. "Hey, so. I was hoping you could actually meet her before you pin her down and demand her secrets?"

Haven huffed at that. "I'm not that rude, really." She turned to Rain Shower. "A pleasure to meet you. I am Queen Haven, of Zephyr Heights, land of the pegasi. And you are?"

Rain flinched a little at the hoof offered her way. "Rain Shower! Yes! Um! Here! In Maretime Bay! But I'm a pegasus like you! Hello!"

The two met, hoof to hoof. Queen Haven chuckled gently. "Don't be so nervous. I'm not here to yell at you. Quite the opposite, really! I'd like to become one of your students, if it isn't too much of a problem."

Rain pulled away slowly with uncertainty in her eyes. "Of course! But you're royalty. Are you sure you want to be in my class?"

Zipp nudged Rain with her hoof reassuringly.

Haven snorted gently. "This is the one class offering what I want to know. I don't care if their are commoners or not. Besides, they're all my wonderful subjects. I will learn alongside them and try not to make a foal of myself in the process."

Rain rubbed at her hoof shyly. "Well, we can start with you following me to a nice quiet spot, far away from everypony, because we're going to make some weather and there's going to be all sorts of dangers and messes along the way."

Haven's expression brightened rapidly. "I get a private lesson? Oh, this is exciting." She gladly followed after Rain, a few guards trailing behind her. "Lead the way."

Pipp looked between Zipp and their mother departing with a smile on her face and confusion in her eyes. "Okay! Since when was this happening? Did you plan this? Was this always a thing?"

Zipp shook her head. "Mom and Rain are kinda doing their own thing. Neither looks upset to me, I say we let them have fun."

Pipp grunted in response to that remark from her sister. "That was one thing, but mom having fun? That's just weird."

Zipp chuckled softly at Pipp's opinion of their mother. "Come on, she's a pony too." She nudged against Pipp. "Let her enjoy herself once in a while."

Pipp fiddled with her phone absently with a glance towards where their mother had departed with Rain Shower some time ago. "I dunno if I'm happy mom is going all the way out there, but if she's having fun, that's not my problem." She leaned in and took a selfie with Zipp. Why? She didn't say, as if she needed a reason to snap a picture. "Are you keeping an eye on her?"

Zipp blushed softly at the photo snapping and shrugged at the question. "Sure, guess somepony aughta do it." She lifted into the air. "And her guards have no idea what they're in store for." With a laugh, she zipped after Haven and Rain.

Author's Note

Some rain must fall. These pegasi are becoming more skilled at making this happen, to the benefit of all ponykind!

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