A Long Way Home

Chapter 2

You’ve only been waiting at least a few minutes until Spike belched a scroll. It’s not what I expected from mail, especially from a princess. Twilight reads over the scroll as the others talk to you about what you were doing before you came to ponyville.

“Well I was in this place called, The Everfree Forest, and I learned that I don’t have a cutie mark. But after that the three fillies led me to the exit” You explained the best you can, but Rarity intrudes as she asks, “Was one of them a small white unicorn, like I, except with two streaks of light pink and purple.” You reply with a nod. “As long as nothing terrible happens to my sister then everything is okay.” D’awwww, you think to yourself, isn’t that cute.

Twilight finished reading the letter the princess sent to her and started to trot towards you.

“The princess would like to meet with you in Canterlot in this coming Wednesday.” Rarity replies with a gasp “Canterlot? That’s not fair; a complete stranger gets to go to Canterlot with you Twilight?”  Twlight raises a hoof and tries to change the subject. “Hey, what’s your name anyway?”

You look at her with a confused look which gives her a sign that you obviously don’t know. “Well you are a Pegasus, so maybe you’re something weather related.” Said Twilight. After countless names from Pinkie Pie, you come to the conclusion of a name. “ How about Gray Skies?” You feel proud to have thought of a great name.

The other ponies around also agreed to the name. “Yeah that’s a great name, now I know what to put on the cake.” As Pinkie exclaims, a knock was heard from the door. You hear a tomboyish voice on the other side as twilight trots towards the door. “Hey Twilight, did you get the new issue of Daring Doo?” as Twilight opens the door a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane comes through the door with a book under its wing. “Yes Rainbow Dash, I have the new book.”

As Twilight finishes her sentence, Rainbow looks at you and asks who I was. The other ponies explained the best they could about my origin and how I got here. “Well he’s a Pegasus, does that mean he can fly?” She said. As she says this, you had the thought of flying whenever you wanted but first, you gotta learn how to. “No, you answer sadly.”

“A Pegasus that can’t fly? Tell you what. I’ll teach ya how to fly.” You look at her with excited eyes. “Really? You can help me fly?” you asked excited. “Of course you gotta know how to fly or else you’ll just drag others down when they need the help.” Rainbow says. “So when do we start?” Asked the excited gray stallion.

“Why not now, I mean it’s only gonna be the dusk in a few hours.” You look out the window, the sun seems to be nearing sun set, she’s right it’s like 2 pm right now according to the clock on the wall. “So where should we go to practice?” you asked her as you try extending your wings. “Hmm, we could go to Fluttershy’s cottage, she’s got a huge backyard.”

Since you’re going to Canterlot in two days you might as well learn how to fly and learn a few things about this world.

You head towards Fluttershy’s cottage in the outskirts of town. You see a cottage with a small bridge over a river. You heard wild life behind the door and what you could only imagine is that Fluttershy is a vet. Rainbow Dash knocks on the door. “Hey Fluttershy could I talk to you a bit?”

The door opens and you find a bright yellow Pegasus with a pink mane. How do they open doors with these hooves? At first when she caught sight of you, she hides behind her hair, and asks, “Who’s y-your friend R-Rainbow?” Rainbow Dash explains who I was, and Fluttershy lightens up and calm down.

“We were wondering if we could use your backyard to teach him how to fly.” Rainbow said. Fluttershy gladly let you and Rainbow use her backyard. Rainbow was right, Fluttershy’s backyard it was huge. There were small coops for hens and fences surrounding more wild life around the cottage. You’ve never seen so many animals at once. You and Rainbow get down to business, she teaches you how to use your wings, and when to use them.

“What you want to do is outstretch your wings.”  Rainbow explains, outstretching he own wings.

You imitated what she does, it feels weird having wings. It’s like another arm, on your back. It takes you a few tries but eventually you did it, you kept your wings open the entire time Rainbow timed it. You thought to yourself, it felt like moving your shoulder when your arm is sore.

“Great, now let’s try flapping your wings.” Rainbow shows you what to do with your wings, how to move it and how fast it should move.

You just try flapping them slowly, and eventually pick up speed as you go. This is harder than it looks. It’s like trying to rub your stomach and tap your head, and then changing except constantly.

It’s been a couple of hours of practice, but you got the hang of hovering over the ground for a few feet. You decide that you should practice tomorrow, since you’ll have more time to practice.

You and Rainbow start to head towards Twilights home.

“Where you gonna stay anyway?” Rainbow asks.

You haven’t really thought of it but you have no idea. “I’ll ask Twilight about that.”

Rainbow knocks on the door and is greeted by a sleepy dragon. He lets you in and you see Twilight reading columns of books about pony amnesia.

“Hey Twilight, where is Gray gonna sleep?” Rainbow asks.

Twilight thinks a bit about where I should stay.

“I guess he can’t stay here with me, since I have to learn more about how he got here. Maybe you can take him Rainbow, since you have such a large house.”

Rainbows house? Large? How big could it be?

Rainbow agrees and takes the new book that she left before practice, and started to head out the door, making gestures to you to follow her.

You thank Twilight for the help and leave.

It’s getting dark now; you probably think its 5 or 6 PM here. You follow Rainbow to a hill with a mailbox.

“We’re here.” Rainbow says, “Home Sweet Home.”

You look at her in confusion as you look up. You are staring at a cloud castle in the sky, rainbows falling from the top floor like a waterfall. You’re staring at the castle in awe, as Rainbow Dash fly’s towards it.

“You gonna stay down there or are you gonna come up here.”

You start to flap your wing and try to come close to the castle. You start to fall, but you are caught by Rainbow, and you are taken to the castle.

“Thanks Dash.”

As you are taken to the gate of Rainbow’s home it is much larger than all the other houses he’s seen.

“Hey Rainbow, why do you have such a large house?” You ask.

“It’s not really mine; it’s my dad’s house. I like taking naps on clouds but I rarely go here.”

Rainbow lets you down but you become hesitant about landing on clouds, but Rainbow shows that Pegasi can stand on clouds.

As Dash opens the doors you look inside to be surrounded by cloud puffy walls and doors that seem out of place as they are more solid. Everything looks fluffy and puffed like a cloud would. This is your first time being in a cloud mansion.

“You can sleep in the Second guest room.” Rainbow says.

“Second guest room? What about the first one?” You asked, curious.

“That’s where my pet’s at.” She says.

A pet, that lives in the clouds, on a mansion? Rainbow Dash leads you to the room that you will be sleeping in, it’s pretty nice in the room especially the fact the bed will be comfortable. Theres a window with a view of Ponyville and what looks like a large mountain just beyond with train tracks leading to a cave. It’s starting to get late and Rainbow Dash leaves to get some sleep herself, so she leaves you to be comfortable in your room.

“Better get some rest, I feel like tomorrows gonna be a big day.”

End of Chapter 2