Shining Time

And Spike stretched his spine cracking slightly as he moved into his bones and muscles in union "well done this makes one week of training with me and so far your muscles have grown enough for sustained flight, so today I think we should have ourselves a race just to see if your muscles, are up to it" said Rainbow dash

Spike smiled and looked at his back he had gained at least a centimetre of extra muscle on his wings and his front legs were also slightly stockier he had no problem walking now "of course Rainbow dash just don't get too full of yourself now for you know you might lose" said Spike

“yeah you wish follow me to these clouds I want to test something first" she said and then leapt into the sky and gracefully flew up to the fluffy white floating to cloud and landed smoothly. Spike sighed and jumped and unfolding his wings and letting them catch the air he and began working his muscles to lift himself up less than a minute later he was floating a foot above the same cloud types Rainbow dash was currently sitting on.

"Now I want to see if Dragons have the same ability of us Pegasus we can walk on clouds lay on them without falling through we can't control it is an inherent ability, we can also mould them to any shape we desire" said rainbow dash Spike nodded and down at the white floating object below him.

He swallowed slightly in fear knowing that if he didn't possess the same ability then crashing down to the ground and hopefully his wings stop the fall but he had never practised diving or any true flying moves for that matter.

After a second more of looking he snapped his wings to the side of his body and it seemed as if time slowed down the air around him he could feel it brushing slightly against his scales as he began to fall down towards the closed his eyes, then suddenly he felt his claws touched down on the soft material of the cloud then they started to sink through it suddenly panicked not knowing what to do

all of a sudden his mind went calm and memory she never knew he had blossomed in  side his mind. Rainbowdash who was watching from the other side of the cloud saw him close his wings and then sink as gravity pushed him down then he touched down the surface of the cloud and his claws started to sink she could then see him thrashing around a panic and was just about to jump into action when she saw him stiffen up and stop moving.

Spike could feel the wild flow of energy that he had never noticed before but still seemed familiar he instinctively directed it to his claws and he felt a slight tingling then he opened his eyes and found that he had a grip on cloud and began lifting his feet out of it and sending normally.

Rainbow dash gasped after Spike had stiffened up he slowly lifted his claws out of the clouds and began to stand on it that he opened his eyes as far as she could tell there was nothing arising what she was seeing was the truth Spike's eyes were glowing emerald green light almost as bright as the Sun it was just like the time when Twilight was using elements of harmony her eyes glowed to but this was much brighter.

Spike knew the cloud with his claws getting a feel for it he then looked at Rainbow dash her jaw almost touching the surface of the cloud, "what something strange happen" he asked quizzically he looked himself over everything seemed normal he was standing on the cloud just as she was, "Spike your eyes were just glowing it seems to stop now but she looked almost exactly like Twilight when she was using elements of harmony" said rainbow dash in amazement. Spike looked puzzled then proceeded to check the rest of his body nothing seemed amiss, "well I did feel something strange something has never felt before but at the same time it seemed familiar, like I knew it but I didn't the same time" said Spike

Rainbow dash who had finally gathered up her senses Sat up straight "well there's no point talking about it now as well Twilight when you get home, but now want to tell you a few things had to be certain that you could manipulate cloud like us Pegasus, now I can teach you what you can do you see we use our ability to walk on clouds we also mould the shape into whatever we may need for example I made a super awesome house for me to live in check this out" said rainbow dash

she reached down with one of her hoofs and scooped up a hoof follow full of cloud and began working on it until it had roughly the same shape as a  star "see now you try and see what you can make" said rainbow dash with a smile

Spike grabbed another chunk of the cloud and began changing it shape and size, he turned so that Rainbow dash could not see him he also extended his wings around him to ensure no peeking slowly he grabbed a few more small swirls of cloud and added thought he was creating Rainbow dash sighed and also grabbed a piece of cloud but this time she fashioned into a small ball then Spike turned around and she saw what he had made.

On top of his head lay an almost perfectly sculpted Stetson cowpony hat, the details was unlike anything she had ever seen "wow I've never seen details like that before you even managed to get a lip around the edges of the hat " said rainbow dash she admires the hat.

He had managed to flatten out the cloud so that it works as a hat but still get swirling white patterns "well that's what happens when you got claws to work with instead of just hooves " said Spike smugly " well don't get too full of yourself you still don't know any of the properties of clouds" said rainbow dash

she then proceeded to throw a small ball of clouds she held at Spike, Spike saw it coming and dodged but didn’t ‘it's a cloud it can't hurt me’ he thought but as soon as the ball hit him in the chest it was like an electric current when thru his body not enough to hurt him but just enough to make him jump.

"That was part of a thunder cloud" said rainbow dash as she walked up to him as soon as she was close enough, she flicked the top of his hat suddenly started raining on Spike making his scales and tail soggy strangely it only seemed to be on Spike and Nowhere else "and that was part of a rain cloud if hit it right it would cause a downpour on whatever is underneath it " said rainbow dash falling over laughing.

It took  a few minutes to wrench off the raining hat which proceeded tossed like a Frisbee away from him slightly annoyed he grabbed  a large amount of cloud and threw it at Rainbow dash hitting her in the face stopping her laughter .

"Well now seems that this cloud is almost gone" said rainbow she looked at their feet the cloud they had land on which was now considerably smaller than when they started, "I suggest that we moved to another cloud then you can help me make a start line and finish line for the race" said rainbow dash giggling  slightly and they both took off from the cloud and flew towards a group of large clouds it took only a few seconds to get there and they'll soon once landing on the semisolid surface of the cloud "all right I will do this poll  and you do the other one, then we'll make a bandanna to stretch across from both clouds to meet in the middle to make the start line" said rainbow dash nodding at Spike she began her task she flew off to grab some more clouds.

Spike also took slowly floated over to another group of clouds, checking first if they were rainclouds by punching them then went he had collected enough he returned back to the original cloud then slowly began construction on the poll he looked over shoulder and saw Rainbow dash on the other side of the cloud her poll was all ready finished said Spike had to work faster then suddenly there was a crashing sound.

Spike looked around and saw that the poll that Rainbow dash had been constructing was knocked to pieces then he saw a large hole in the cloud, she had standing but now there was a grey Pegasus standing there with her head stuck through the hole "you ok Rainbow dash" she said then a few seconds later Rainbow dash pulled her head back up and out of the hole then stood on the surface of the cloud and closed the hole

"seriously be careful Derpy I just finished that poll" said rainbow dash looking at the sad remains of the poll as the cloud sagged “sorry rainbow I was just flying around minding my own business when a bird flew right in me and I just happened to crash in to you” she said

"Well you’d better hurry up or I’ll be finished before you" said spike with a smug grin " ha year right you wish I’ll have it done is a dash" sais rainbow upon hearing spike talk Derpy turned and looked at him with her crossed amber eyes and smiled spike looked back at her, ‘it’s been awhile since I’ve seen Derpy I wonder if she’ll be surprised by my wings’ spike thought to himself.

Derpy frowned at spike and spent the next few minutes with a con fused look on her face as she tried to find the difference in his appearance then spoke up excitedly " hay spike your standing on a cloud" she said with confidence spike sighed and rainbow started laughing spike smiled "yes it because of my new wings that I can stand up here and I must say that I do love having wings" spike said " really I thought you all ways had wing you just didn’t stand on clouds much" said Derpy

"what no way only just got these wings a few days ago how could you not notice the difference" said Spike in strained voice "okay then I'll just have a closer look" said Derpy as she ran toward Spike then tried to slow down but the surface of the cloud shifted with her hoofs and she ended up knocking into Spike and both of them falling through the cloud, then she held onto Spike closely "I'm sorry Spike I just don't know what went wrong" she said

"never mind that come on lets fly back up their before we hit the ground" and Spike grabbed hold of Derpy's neck and flank extended with his wings and slow there fall like a parachute mainstream his wing muscles and flew back slowly up the cloud along with the added weight of Derpy it took him a minute to get back up there.

Meanwhile rarity was walking along the streets of Ponyville looking around the various shops and stores of the town when she heard a loud thumping noise and looked up to see Spike flying up to cloud holding Derpy and for a moment the cold step of jealousy entered her heart, ‘that should be me he's holding up there in the sky not her’ Rarity thought to herself then she remembered Derpy was just slightly clumsy and prone to self caused disasters ‘guess he's just saving her from falling to the ground and hurting herself, she's just the best little hero’ Rarity thought sighing to herself as she continues to walk around the shops of Ponyville.

"Now be careful Derpy you don't break anything else especially not Spike" said rainbow dash Spike landed placing Derpy I hooves on the cloud, she then turned around "thanks for the save Spike by the way when did you get wings" said Derpy with a happy smile on her face Spike  face palmed to Rainbow dash just burst into a fit of laughter.

After a few minutes she subsided and turned to Derpy "hay you want to help us you should help us on the finish line make it some distance away so it's a fair race just wait then tell us which one wins" said rainbow dash to Derpy the nodded in approval and flew off in the opposite direction towards some clouds to get started.

" Is she always like that?" Said Spike with a confused look on his face "yeah pretty much but she's all right when you get to know her accidents aside that is she's a good friend" said rainbow dash continued working on the finish line pulling more and more nearby clouds together elongating the structuring making them into identical polls then joined them together with a cloudy bandanna.

Spike's mind slowly began to drift as he worked he thought of Rarity and their problem he had been slowly picking apart the library without Twilight realising on his days off he had a much better knowledge of the books and how they were systematically stacked, so he knew which books held the potential to help him but sadly none of the books had yielded any secrets to a desperately needed the answer.

One book hinted at a possible way to find out the answers, all it said was those who had answers were often closer to your heart, and as far as Spike could tell that meant that he may need to find other Dragons perhaps linked to his family and species to find out what he wanted.

He was brought out of his trance by Rainbow dash tapping him firmly on the shoulder "I just got the signal from Derpy the finish line is ready what do you say we get this restarting you ready to lose because is no way I'm going to" Spike looked at her smiling" yeah you wish we both know that you hate losing so I think I'll apologise now for leaving you in the dust" said Spike as he got into position

they lined up perfectly so that they were parallel to each other and at Derpy's whistle would be tearing through the skies proving once and for all who was the fastest of Equestria Derpy started the count and as soon as she had hit one she let loose a piercing whistle and post Spike and Rainbow dash jumped from the cloud Spike extended his wings and began to beat them furiously against the air.

Little did Rainbow dash know that Spike had been practising extra lessons at night and had been looking at books about wind currents so he'd know how to accelerate and decelerate in speed without using too much extra effort, Rainbow dash could call this a race but it also consisted of an assault course at the same time dodging passed through clouds was a difficult task.

But Spike slowly got hold of the movements and grew more experience of moving his wings at the proper time slowly getting used to his muscles and using naturally soon he didn't have to even think about dodging the clouds he would just do it reflexively Rainbow dash was only a few feet in front of him but the race was still young like telling who could win yet Rainbow dash still hadn't noticed Spike was so close to her so he decided the round the side of another cloud and stealthily gain on her but the cloud was larger than he anticipated instead of coming out even with her he ended up a lot further ahead than he expected Rainbow dash also noticing this she looked ahead and saw that Derpy had made the finish line quite low to the ground.

And one of the distinguished flagpoles of the race track that she had also set up was insanely high up allowing a dive to the finish Rainbow dash slightly shook her head although Spike was in front of her the way Derpy had set up the track allowed her the advantage. Spike continued beatings wings even harder when you realise that Rainbow dash was behind and saw the final few flags of the racetrack.

‘Come on if I fly a bit faster I may actually be able to win this seems the fact my muscles grow faster also given me slightly more speed than Rainbow dash but she likely has more endurance to split the race is almost over to my flight muscles is starting to hurt from the effort ‘Spike aimed himself upwards and fought harder against gravity to get to the final marker for rainbow dash

if he could get to the marker then the game was in the bag as his diet would cause in to go faster than Rainbow dash then his body was not nearly as streamlined as her so he may have to make up for it by getting their first few will see the painstaking lifting on his wing muscles and he could almost touch flag as he passed it.

Then he locked his muscles and pulled his wings closer into his body so that he fell straight down like an arrow cutting through the even faster rates the wing on his face became more fierce and the ringing in his ears: he was going as an exceptional pace.

Rainbow dash saw Spike was pulling over and her chances of winning were dropping rapidly soon she also climed  as fast as she could to final race marker but when she started into her dive she placed her hoof in front of her and leaned into it a lot harder than she would in any other dive.

Slowly they film began to gather around the tip of her hoof and stretch out making giving the appearance of an arrow she continued growing faster and faster it stretched out continuously then she pushed even further causing static electricity to build around the tip of the arrow shape.

Then everything seemed to move a lot slower in her perspective there was an explosion behind her and one moment Spike was nearly at the finish line when using the power of her sonic rainbow room she soon there faster than sound and passed it perfect for Spike even touched leaving a rainbows streak down the sky she then slowed herself down to normal speed circled round landed back on the cloud.

Spike was continuing his thighs and suddenly a loud explosion came from behind him and there was a flash of rainbow colours passing him ‘dam that's one speed that I couldn't possibly hope to match its hardly fair then again that didn't stop her when she was having the iron pony competition with Applejack.

Spike slowly flew to the finish line where Derpy was waiting "sorry Spike but I think Rainbow dash wings this one" said Derpy with her usual cross eyed expression Derpy then patted spike on the back handed him a muffin and flew away leaving him with a more than confused look on his face he then ate the muffin and looked at RD.

"Well I guess I win then, after all that bragging and you almost beat me to well I guess I'm just too fast for little Dragon like you to handle maybe in a few years you'll be able to at least catch up to me" Rainbow dash was stopped halfway through her bragging speech by a ball of cloud hitting her square in the face and staggering her back a few paces.

"Well I guess you're not that fast couldn't even dodge a simple attack like that " said Spike  laughing at the angry look on her face "oh you Wanna play" said rainbow dash with a determined look on her face  she also grabbed clumps of cloud and began throwing them at Spike.

Then all of the sky suddenly turned into serious battleground between the Cyan Pegasus and purple Dragon,’ although this is a good way to get my reaction time faster it still fun to be pelting Rainbow dash with bits of cloud’ thought Spike as he dodged a ball flying towards his current position he jumped off the cloud flipped and extended his wings and flew to the next one extending his claws and grabbing a clump in the process.

She then turned and three Rainbow dash as she landed in the same spot that he had just been standing in she sidestepped and Spike focused his eyes using his keen Dragon sight to zoom in  on rainbow dashes face, when suddenly he felt the same energy and memories from earlier.

And he knew just how to focus his Irish perfectly so that time appeared to slowdown from his perspective and he saw how close the ball of clouds had come to hitting their Mark, he could see the furr of  Rainbow dashes coat ripple as the projectile flew past.

As soon as he was sure that he had missed a returned his eyesight to normal slightly confused about how this kept happening but happy from the benefits that gave him, rainbow dash jumped forward with a surprise attack holding several large clumps of cloud in her hooves she threw them all at once at Spike knowing that with the majority of them there was no way he could possibly dodge them all.

Suddenly Spike instinctively reacted once again vision from his perspective slowed down and using his muscles and wings he fluidly wove in out of the small gaps between the projectiles without allowing a single ball of cloud to so much as touch his scales.

Rainbow dash just dodged the attack Spike had thrown up to but only barely ‘time to finish this’ she thought to herself as she gathered up at least 30 balls of cloud as quickly as possible and then proceeded to throw them at Spike with as many in her hoofs as she could fit.

Then something strange happened when she looked at Spike while continuing her assault he was moving a lot faster than he was earlier she could barely keep track of them but she knew one thing is sure not a single one of the projectiles are hitting him so she decided to double time it and continue throwing the clouds within more speed.

Spike continued to dodge her attacks with ease for him he could see exactly where the gaps between the clouds and spaces where he could dodge and stand were because we are moving a lot slower from his perspective it was almost too easy for him. Just as one of the last of the clouds came flying is face he tucked underneath it then caught it and threw it back at Rainbow dash.

She was too busy catching her breath to realise what happened and once again the  soft thump of a ball of cloud hitting in the face, she used her hoof to wipe off fluffy white cloud slowly flew over to Spike "WOW Was amazing I never seen anything like it before how did you manage that" she said "I don't know it just happened, in fact that’s not the first time either I been reading the books in the library and from what I've found out the only way I can never get an explanation for any of this I'm going to need to visit my own kind to find out," said Spike

"yes I think that's a good idea actually considering everything that's happened to you and now these strange new abilities coming to light there is not much more we can help you with you need some of your own species who have experience and knowledge to teach you" said rainbow dash with a smile

"well thank you, say would you mind helping me explain this to Twilight I'll need someone else's help if I'm going to convince her to allow me to go and seek my own race just promise me that you won't follow me this time the something I need to my own" said Spike with a happy a serious expression on his face.

"Of course I won’t Spike the only reason I followed you last time was because I was concerned that she would be up to look after yourself but with all the training we've had these new abilities you discovering think you could take anyone" said Rainbow dash

Spike smiled at her and they both slowly flew back to the library after a long day to explain the proposal Twilight, Spike now had hope in his heart he may be able to find his family and the information he needs to solve the situation with Rarity