Dust on her hooves and Lightning in her eyes

chapter 2- Earth pony

Word looked around at the surrounding ponies, laughing and pointing at him and his sister. they were all chanting the same thing. "Written word and Painted Page sitting in a tree.." "Stop it!" Word yelled. " Word had just been helping his sister with her wing brace, and now everypony thought they were in love. "k-i-s-s-i-n-g." "Stop!" "I'm going into the bathroom, Word." Paint said. "First comes love, then comes marriage-" "Shut up!" a pegasus said before they could finish. It was Lightning Dust. "They are just brother and sister!" "How do you know?" came a call from a little earth pony in the crowd. Dust looked around. Since Paint was in the bathroom, she couldn't prove it through how they looked some-what alike. "Well, I can't prove that they are siblings, but-" "So, then you can't prove they don't like each other." said the Earth pony again. "Well, i can prove it!" "oh yeah!" "yeah!" Well, then how?" challenged the earth pony. Dust looked at Word. "this!" she said, and then she.. she kissed him. Word looked at her, thankful that the teasing had stopped. "-and if you tell anypony," Dust continued, looking at the crowd of fillies around them. "you'll get it." "Get what?" The Earth pony asked, smugly. Dust positioned herself correctly, prepared her wings, and took off. she spun around the entire school until everypony was dizzy. Then she aimed for the earth pony, zoomed down, and air-bucked the Earth pony right in the face! He dropped down and spat," Okay, fine-I won't tell anypony." Dust looked somewhat-satisfied. "Good, she said, and trotted off. Then word and Dust secretly swore never to tell paint that they liked eachother. And then, they kissed again.

The flashback stopped as Dust awoke from her slumber. "Come on, sleepyhead!" Paint called. She and Word were already up and moving. " hey, and uh, Paint?" Yeah, Dust?" "Your brace is rusty. Shouldn't fly with it today." Lightning Dust warned. "Great, now we all can't fly!" Paint yelled. " wait, so you're saying that that whole 'storm clouds' thing wasn't a dream?" Dust yelled. "Yeah. Don't know how, but Word lost his wings." "Yeah," Word complained. "Now I'll have to be an earth pony!" "Oh, come on. It can't be that bad.." Lightning Dust responded. "But I'm so used to flying..." Word said. " at the least, I could be a unicorn, and make it easier to write my stories!" Word kept complaining. 'Whatever, Mister Complaniac. We gotta keep moving, earth pony or not. "Oh, come on!' word yelled.

They were walking a little bit higher than expected, as they decided the journey closer to the ground was too rocky. A little mansion came into view, definitely not Canterlot Castle, but, still fancy. They were tired, as the altitude was so high, so they decided to ask whoever lived in that mansion to let them stay there. "Only a little farther." Paint said to herself. "Almost there..." "Come on, Paint." Dust said. "even flying takes more energy than walking!" "I know, but..." Paint looked back at her. "Some ponies tend to forget that not everypony is used to flying." Paint said. "Because-" "We're here!" Word interrupted. He was obviously annoyed. Also, check out the name of this mountain behind the mansion." Word pointed to a spot on the map they had. "Lightning mountian." It read.