The Wonderbolt and the Music Mares

Chapter 5: Training

It has been a couple days and news about the duel spread all over Equestria.  At first ponies thought it was between two random ponies until they heard it's going to be Prince Blueblood vs. Soarin the Wonderbolt.  Even the princesses are surprised by this, the last time they saw something like this happened was over a thousand years ago.  So Luna volunteered to judge since Blueblood is Celestias nephew.

As for Soarin, his teamates are a bit shocked and surprised at this.  When he tried to find Octavia he can't find her, even Vinyl can't find her.  When he lands on a cloud, he is still thinking about the look Octavia had that night.  "She didn't look pleased about it, hope she understands that this is the only way to win her hoof."

While he was thinking, Spitfire lands next to him and says "Hey Soarin, whats eating you?"

"Hey Spits, I don't know if I'm doing the right thing."

"What is this I'm hearing?  Soarin to me you made the right decision and I'm sure this Octavia will thank you for it if you win."

Soarin then looks at Spitfire and says "How did you know the mare we are fighting for?"

"Well, Blueblood let it out whom he is going to win and well it spread from then on."

Soarin then puts his head into his hooves and says "What am I going to do?  He is probably bigger and better at fighting then me."

"Soarin!" yelled Spaitfire "Have you forgotten your training?  Every Wonderbolt went through training even those seesions with no wings.  And if you need a refreasher course, I'll gladly teach you all of it."

She then grabs Soarin and both of them flew towards Sweet Apple Acres.

"Spitfire, this is a farm.  Shouldn't we find a gym or something."

"What, Afraid to get dirty?  And another thing, we have soem friends here that would gladly help us."

Both of them then landed at the front door and Spitfire knocks on the door and a orange mare answer and says "Hello Spitfire, how may I help you?"

"We were wondering if we could borrow your brother's plow for some time?" said Spitfire

"Sure go ahead, he is done with it for now and him and Dash went out to Appleloosa and won't be back for some time."

"Thank you." she then turned to Soarin and says "Well now Soarin, your training begins, NOW!"

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Midday

Soarin is getting sweat on his forhead while pulling the plow for hours and says "Sptitfire, how much longer?"

"An hour more." she said while laying on a cloud that is low to the ground

Soarin then sighs and keeps on moving.  His wings are even tied down so that he won't fly.

An hour later he then gets only a ten minute break to rest up and is then taking into the barn and sees what appears to be a punching bag and Spitfire says "Now this part you have to be on your hind legs and punch this bag as hard as you can."

So Soarin then gets onto his hind legs and tries to balance himself and puts his hooves up and starts to swing his hooves with Spitfire yelling him orders like "Come on Saorin!  My grandmother can punch harder then that!  Pretend that is that jerk Blueblood's face!"

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It has been many hours of training and Soarin went onto the house whom Apllejack gladly let them sleep there.  As Soarin layed in the bed he realizes his whole body is sore form the pulling, pushing and running that they did all day. he then thinks "And we are going to do this every day!  I'm so not going to live through this."

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Two days later

Soarin is doing push ups with only his hooves and is up onto his fifties when a pony comes up to him and says "Hey Soarin, how is the training?"

He then says "Fine Vinyl, Spitfire is working me like an earth pony."

Vinyl then laughs and says "Well glad you're doing fine."

There was silence except for Soarins grunts at doing the push ups unti lhe says "So, do you know where Octavia is?"

"Nope, still can't find her." she then looks at Soarin and says "I hope you win, she deserves a pony like you Soarin."

"What about you?"

"Well, I was hoping you forgave me about that one time at camp."

"Vinyl, I already forgave you even if I didn't say it to you."

"Really?" said Vinyl with a look of confusion

"Yes Vinyl, really."

There was some more silence and Vinyl has a smile on her face and Soarin says "So just out of curiosity, do you have a colt?"

"Actually, I do his name is Blue Noteworthy.  He is a cool stallion, met him a few days ago and he is into music also."

"Isn't he that blue earth pony with a cutie mark that looks like yours?"

"Yep, he is a sweet thing and speaking of which, I better go now keep up the good work Soarin."

After she left Soarin then continues to work out by doing pull ups, curl ups, lifting wieghts, pulling the plow and punching the bag.  Afterwards, he decided to go for a jog around Ponyville.  So he puts on some wonderbolt sweatbands on his hooves and a headband on his forhead and ties up his wings.  He does some warm ups and starts to run into Ponyville and he waves to any ponies he comes across and they wave back.  Even some of the young colts and fillies start running along side him.  He even notices that many of the Ponies that he runs by are stomping there hooves into the ground and cheering him on.  He even thinks "This feels like that one movie about that one earth pony boxer that is called *Roxer*."

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And thanks to there cheering, he runs even faster then ever before he even starts to run on his hind legs and does some mid air punches while he is running.

After about two hours of running, he arrived back at the apple orchard and whom at the front gate surprises him: Octavia is standing there with a sad look on her face.  As soon as he gets close to her she says "I'm sorry Soarin when I left you on that bridge with you thinking that I don't want to see you again but I can't stop thinking about you so, will you forgive me and let me back into your life?"

Soarin did not need to say anything, instead he ran up to her and sraped his hooves around her neck and Octavia does the same thing.  And both of them then looks onto each other eyes and leaned in and kissed each other on the lips but with more passion then the last time.

As soon as they stopped kissing, Soarin says "Are you good with sores?  I'm seem to have sores all over the place."

Octavia blushes for a bit and says "I think I can handle it."

So both of them went onto the barn and Octavia and Soarin did more then talked and gave each other messages.

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Soarin then wakes up after a good rest and the first thing he sees is Octavia's face with her eyes closed and he smiled and kissed her on the forhead and she then stirs in her sleep and opnes her eyes with a smile and says "Good morning sunshine."

"Good morning Octy, how was your rest?"

"Fine and speaking of which you should get to training."

"Now!" said Soarin with a depressed look "But can't we lay here for a few minutes?"

"Sorry Soar, as much as I want to you have a match later this month."

Soarin then sighs and gets up and gives Octavia a kiss on the lips and went outside to continue his training.