I started to open my eyes, it felt like I had been sleeping forever. I looked around, I was in a tent added with medical equiptment. I sat up and felt a small pain in my cheek I decided to touch it, "ow". I heard someone chuckle, "Well good morning sleeping beauty", I turned to see Red Cross. He had wrap around his middle section but he was doing fine.

"Exactly how are you recorvering so fast" I asked, he looked at me then looked away. "Red"? "Well" he said, "not sure how to tell you this but you've been out cold for two weeks". "How-" he cut me off, "by the way that Tasha has been coming here since that day". I thought for a moment to think about what happened, but I stoped I didn't want to think about others getting hurt. A white pony walked in that I knew, "hey Vaccine". She was pushing in a cart and heading toward Red, "hey your finally up I'll go get Docter Hooves."

A pony with a stethascope walked in followed by a pony with a tray of muffins. The Docter started to talk as the other pony reluctantly began eating the muffins. "Hello my name is Docter Hooves", he offered out his hoof and I shook it. "Just to inform you, you've been in a coma for two weeks, your a very lucky pony Mr. Cloud. I studied him blankly, he knew I was going to need more than your lucky, so he continued. When we found you, you were only bruised and scratched, we don't know how but you should have had many broken bones, possibly any worse dead. He pulled out a paper and studied it, while the last pony was about to finish the last muffin. She looked at me and hesitated, but then offered me the muffin. Not hungry at the moment, I politely decline. Not really caring, she scarffed down the muffin and trotted off. "Ok" the docter said, "here are some discharge forms, I don't think you should be fighting any time soon, now Vaccine will help you with the IV". He hand me a paper and left, I ripped that paper to shreds and threw it away. Vaccine walked in shortly after and handed me a towel to bite down on. "You know the drill" she said, as I bit down she pulled out the IV. She went close to my ear and whispered " you know this isn't the last time you and him have been attacked by Griffons". I quickly turned towards her "were not like that any more us three have better live now, away from that". She pointed at the flaps of the tent "any time you can leave". As I aproached the tent flaps something came through and hit me in the face and landed on the ground. It was an envelope that said to Lightning Cloud, I picked it up and put it in my satchel for later.

I walked out of the tent and then seen them. Shadow Moon, Rainbow Dash, and Tasha were sitting there, Tasha looked depressed, her head hanging down. "Well...", I didn't know how to start this conversation or what ever it was going to be. Tasha looked at me with tears forming in her eyes, Shadow Moon and Rainbow Dash smiled at me, then I can't explain what happened. Tasha ran up to me and hugged me, my face turned beat red. I could see over Tasha's shoulder, I seen Dash making a mocking kissing face and Shadow was obviously trying to hold back a laugh. I just smiled and I hugged back. Tasha let me go and looked me in the eyes, smiled and turned away, she was blushing.

The others started walking and talking and I followed, but I zoned out. I couldn't tell why but the envelope felt like it was burning inside my satchle, a temptaion was demanding me to open it. Shadow started to walk beside me, "are you okay" he whispered. I looked for the words to say, but all that came out was " yeah, just got this wierd feeling that's all". Shadow nodded then smiled "hey I think you have a chance with Tasha". I grinned under my grief, "you really think so"? He gave me a puzzled look "did you just not get super hugged back there"? I laughed a little "yeah, you and Rainbow Dash weren't making fun of me either". We both laughed, Rainbow Dash and Tasha looked back and smiled at us. "But seriously ask her out or something, Me and Dash are going to this place tonight that opened a while back, it could be like a double date". It sounded like fun but I didn't know. "So"? I could tell Shadow wanted me to badly. "I would but-, how would I start this question off, besides she's way to good for me and-"

"Hey, Lightning Cloud".

Tasha didn't know why she was nervous, "so Lightning Cloud". "Rainbow Dash, Shadow, and I are going to this place tonight wanna go with us"? Lightning Cloud's eyes opened widley, he looked very shocked. She thought to herself, *he's not going to say yes, I shouldn't have asked*. "Sure", he said with a grin, she returned him with a smile. Rainbow Dash cut in "yeah so meet at Tasha's at 8pm got it".

I wanted to contest about the time, but they had already zoomed off. “Do you know her address by any chance”? Shadow Moon looked at me and laughed “not a clue”. Tasha came back and gave me a slip of paper an address number, blushed, then zoomed back the way she came.

We got back to my house and sat around waiting for time to go by. “So how long have you and Dash been together?” I asked. “Remember that year you guys needed those two sets of armor for a stallion and mare for whatever reason” as Shadow tried to recall. “Dude, it’s been three years?” I responded, “Good for you guys, it sounded like you really hit it off”. “Hey what did you guys do with those two sets of armor”? I quickly responded to Shadow’s question “I don’t remember”, I cleverly lied; I knew exactly what we did. A chariot pulled up outside, “well let’s go Lightning, don’t want to be late”. We got in the chariot and headed for Tasha’s house.

Tasha had finished getting ready and observed herself in the mirror. She was ready for this night. “You never told me how you and Shadow Moon met” she yelled to Rainbow Dash. Dash looked at the clock, “well we have awhile so I guess I’ll tell you the story”.

3 years ago

Rainbow Dash decided today she would take a walk. As she made her way, she started to come towards a decent sized arena where royal guards were trained. She seen 3 ponies in front of the door way, she knew all three of them in certain ways, one in particular from flight academy. The grey one was Lightning Cloud, he’d been here since he was a colt and had almost no friends, no pony knew why. But eventually Red Cross became good friends as colts and showed him around and met new ponies. Red Cross was born a doctor, if you ever needed some medical help; he was the pony to go to. They had a crate with something inside of it, but she lost interest as they walked away and Shadow Moon turned around. She hadn’t seen him since flight academy, she wondered why. “Hey Dash, what brings you around?” Shadow asked. “Just walking around” she answered. They both smiled, “well” Shadow said, “Guess I’ll… see you later”. “Oh, ok then see you later”, Dash finished talking and started to walk away. “Wait”, Shadow called, Dash stopped and turned around, “yes”? “Uhh, do you want to go and… get something to eat sometime”? Rainbow Dash was stunned, “did you just ask me out on a date”? “Yeah…” he said nervously, Rainbow Dash smiled “tomorrow, come get me at 7:00pm, ok”? “Sure” Shadow excitedly responded, Dash started to walk down the road and a smile came to her face.

I was in the front with Shadow, “yeah but me and her just hit it off” Shadow said. We sat there for a while then Tasha’s house came into view. We landed as Tasha and Rainbow Dash walked out the door. I got out of the chariot and opened the back for Tasha and watched her climb in, I followed in after her, and Rainbow Dash took my seat up front next to Shadow Moon. Everyone started talking and such, and then a bird decided to play chicken with our chariot. To dodge it, the drivers swerved left causing everyone in the back to hit the side of the chariot. Tasha had landed against me and blushed, but she stayed next to me. As we landed next to the building in Canterlot, I read the sign. It said Lunar Playground and I could hear loud music playing through the walls. “So it’s like a night club?” I asked Shadow. “Yeah it’s awesome, and it has the best music around”. We walked in and all you could hear is dubstep mixed with the sound of partygoers. We sat at a booth and ordered some apple ciders. We downed the drinks and started talking.
Tasha poked me, “come on let’s go dance”, she pulled me out of the booth. She started walking towards the then turned her head smiled and nodded her head to come to her. I followed her; something just urged me to want more. As we started dancing a serious song (which I’m guessing was new for a night club) came on and we got closer to each other. “I know more about you then I should, Cloud” she said. “How” I asked, she looked away to think if she should tell me or not. “Well when you were out cold, I went to check out files of the battalion I’m in and I seen yours”. “It’s fine let’s just dance”, I said as we carried on.

The music changed followed by a voice, “hey guys DJ Pon-3 here, gonna leave the music on loop and be back in five”. Tasha and I made our way back to the booth to see the DJ sitting with Shadow Moon and Rainbow Dash, talking and laughing. Tasha sat down which left me standing, and we joined in on the conversation. “Lightning, Tasha, this is Vinyl Scratch more known as DJ Pon-3”. We shook hooves and Vinyl ordered some apple ciders which sounded great. A guy who clearly didn’t work here put a platter with the drinks on them onto the table. They were fizzing which was weird, “what’s in these” I asked. Vinyl said something about soda making them 10 times better. I spun the platter to observe the drinks, “No-” the person who brought the drinks was mad that I had done that. I took the one that was fizzier than the others and drank it, the others took there’s and did the same. Immediately I knew something was wrong because I got a slight headache started to see colorful dots. “Whoa……”

I woke up and was shocked to see I was in a bed, and to notice this wasn’t my house. I looked around and found a clock; it was three in the morning. “Ok now I need to find out where I’m at”, I quietly whispered. I could see a mailbox out of a window in the distance but I couldn’t make out the address. I looked at my hooves and concentrated, a small spark shot into the air from my hoof. The window would have been a burden, so I opened it and aimed my left hoof at the mailbox. A bolt of lightning extended from the hoof and held near the mailbox so that I could see the numbers. As I read the numbers, I gritted my teeth in pain and let out small cries. The bolt left my hoof and dispersed into the night. My body felt weak, I nearly fell over when I walked away from the window. My talent never really helped me, and sometimes was a burden; my family has had all generations to do something with storms. My dad would tell me stories about it, but he told me mine was special; like I had been chosen or something, In my mind I knew he was babying me.

The address had read a familiar address and I thought I had seen it earlier. I reached into my satchel over by the wall and pulled three papers out. The first one was a training schedule, it was very old (reminding me that I should really clean my satchel), the second was the note from earlier I set it next to me and pulled out the other paper. The paper was the address that Tasha had given me before we left for our date, and sure enough it was the same address. I couldn't believe I was here, but at the same time I didn't want to be here. I really liked Tasha and I didn't want a one night stand. Especially like that one time in Las Pegasus, but like they always say 'what happens in Las Pegasus, stays in Las Pegasus'.

I grabbed my satchel and the note from it and headed towards the door. But then I got the worst feeling in my stomach that made me rush to the bathroom. I puked a good to times before getting my self off the toilet bowl. The envelope was like a magnet to my hoof, I couldn't let go. So I opened it to see what was in store.

Dear Lightning Cloud,

It pains me to say this but you are probably all grown up and have forgotten what happened the day of the attack. I knew the attack was coming out for us before anything, your mother had set us up for a deal with griffons as a sale. I just want you to know that you really are special, you have a power like none of our ancestors have ever had. I wish I could have seen you grow up, but if I didn't sacrifice myself you would have been killed. - I love you, Dad

I looked at the date it was wrote, it had been a day before the attack. My eyes turned red as I started to faintly cry and wonder why. I got straight up and looked at myself in the mirror, I had my mothers ears and eye color. I hit the mirror as hard as I could and watched as it shattered, I hope that my mom died along with that *accident*.

A sudden march came down the hall followed by a yelling voice. It was Tasha's, she started walking in, "what the hell are you-", she stopped and looked at my bloodshot eyes. "I'm sorry for what I said, I didn't-", "it's not what you said", as I cut her off. She sighed then slightly smiled, " I'll clean this up you go back to bed". I started walking to the bedroom as I heard her open the envelope. I laid down and closed my eyes, and before I fell asleep I heard a faint sobbing.

Author's Note

Ok I know for the people who were reading this before that this was way to late but, so much stuff has been coming up lately and I had to retake a segment of a class for summer school. So to people who were waiting I'm sorry for being a douche, and to the new fans reading thanks for reading.