Z42, or How It Continued?

The rest of the day was spent *khm* quite nicely, I always adored Tavi’s intuition about the things I want to do, or I wish to do.

The next day arrived like a freight train: I was tired, dizzy, and too lazy to get out of the bed.

My bed was comfy. Too comfy...

“Sweetie...” I hear Tavi’s voice from my right. “you will be late...” She tells me, her voice is as tired as I feel myself.

“Yeah... okay, I get up now..” Then I force myself out of the bed. “no, come back!” I say in a higher pitched voice. “You hear Tavi, the bed calls me back!” I tell her.

“Yes it does... don’t you dare to lay back here!” Her voice is frightening, she knows how to end my foalish plays!

“Uh, sheesh, okay-okay..”

/20 minutes later.../

With the morning routine done, I finish the preparing and head out to the Weather HQ. When I take my first step, a roll of newspaper hits my face so precisely, I’m sent back stumbling, sitting on my rump. “Sonova! Who threw this?!?” I shout, jumping up and looking around for the pony who did this crime against me!

And I see a pegasus colt, with an evil smile on his face, he threw the paper at me, other rolls of newspaper are still laying in his backpack.

“Oh you little, you won’t get away with this!” I shout after him and start a chase.... only to lose his trail after 5 seconds. “How in Equestria...”I ask from no one, rub my head, then head to the HQ again.

Upon arriving I notice that the front door of the HQ is wide open. “Huh, Firefly must be there then..” I whisper under my breath and step inside. “Hello?”

No answer.

I decide to investigate, so with a deep breath I enter the building. It’s... messy. I mean, dust everywhere, except a trail which is in daily use, I guess. But otherwise the place seems abandoned. Going deeper in the building, following the path, I arrive to a door.

“Well, she must be here then.” I say to myself and open the door: I’m welcomed by a simple office, a desk, a single rose in a vase, towers of paper on the desk, and nopony else than Firefly, sleeping on a smaller stack of paper at the moment.

“Uhm.. hello? Firefly?” I say a bit louder than usual, maybe I can wake her up.

“Hmmmnn... just five more minutes...” Yep, she is definitely like Rainbow Dash, there is no doubt.

“Firefly wake up, it’s working time!” I say and poke her side. She finally wakes, leaning back.

“Huh? *yawn* You are... you are Zephyr, aren’t you? You came for the job, huh?” She asks, rubbing her eyes in the process.

“Yepp, you definitely need my help.” I state, looking around at the mess.

“Heheh, yeeeaaaah... I hate cleaning up. I really hate it.” She says and rubs the back of her head. “Aaaanyway, you just gotta sign this paper and you are in!” A paper got in my face, I push it away only to see Firefly grinning. She lost her mind or something.

“Yeah-yeah, thanks....” I grab a pen and sign the paper, then unfold my wings. “Well, I’m ready!”

“Good! I guess you have more than enough experience in cleaning the sky, so this is what you’ll do today: I want the sky to be cloudless till noon!” She says and grins again.

“I figured out that you are my... boss now...” I take a deep breath, trying to force back my negative feelings. “...but if you go bossy and order me around, I will kick your flank. Seriously.”

And of course, the desired effect cannot be achieved.

“Oh really? We will see about that flyer boy!” She taunted me,  then leaned back in her chair.

A window is right behind her, slightly open... and evil plan forms in my mind.

“I want to see that!” I exclaim, grinning evilly, then push her, sending her falling out of the window while screaming. “HAAAAA!! Priceless!!” I shout after her, then laugh my flank off, I even have to sit down on the floor. About half a minute later he climbs back through the window.

“You just signed your death sentence!” She says, her voice is dripping with anger.

“I thought that was my apply to this job, but oh well!” I respond and start laughing again.

This time she only makes a very angry face/ but leaves it be.

‘She mad!’ I think, then shake my head. ‘Better clear the skies, I don’t wanna insult her AND be a jack-flank.’ With these thoughts I flap my wings and head outside.

“Now where are you going?” Firefly asks me, still angry. She sat back on her chair while I was thinking.

“Clearin’ the sky as it was ordered. I will be back in about half an hour.” I tell her and leave the room. I can hear her grunt of disbelief, but for me it’s only the sign of my victory.

/Above Trottingham, 2 minutes later.../

“Alright... I think I will use the Shepherd Technique.” Which’s name is speaking for itself. The current state of clouds let me do it, so I start it right away: a second later only a brown-blue streak is visible from me, or at least I think that.

/30 minutes later.../

Done. The sky is clear. It wasn’t that difficult, but tiring because of the number of the clouds.

I decide to return to the HQ to see Firefly’s face, but looks like the faith have other plans with me.

I see her flying up to me, it takes her a few seconds to reach me.

“Sup boss?” I ask her, wiping the sweat away from my forehead.

“You. you really did this! In half an hour! These clouds were giving me work for a week now and you just collected them and evaporated them like if it was nothing!” She says, making an expression of true surprise.

“Well, it was actually water, but whatever. Yes I did.” I raised an eyebrow. “Did you think that I will fail, I will not be able to fulfil my word?” I ask her, she is in my hoof!

“I-uh-no-I...” She says stuttering, looking away and rubbing the back of her head.

“Just as I thought, Firefly.” I reply simply.

For a few moments, she just stares me, then shakes her head and descends.

“Work is over, you are free to go home or wherever, just go.” She says and glides down.

“Sure, boss!” i half-shout after her and head home. It’s still the morning and my day is off, Tavi will be surprised!

/At home.../

“You are here this early? You didn’t get the job?” Tavi asks me, surprised and worried in the same time.

“The opposite!” I exclaim, grinning. “I not just got the job, but finished it so fast i got my day off!” I tell her with pride.

“You are not joking, right?” Tavi asks back.

“Of course not!” I shake my head. “Why would I lie to my love?” I ask her lovingly and kiss her the moment after, but only to hug her a few seconds later.

“O-okay... *sigh* Zeph, you have to do something with Archie.” She tells me, leaning back a bit to look in my eyes.

“Why, did he got out of his terrarium?” I ask back, that terrarium isn’t that big and sometimes I forget to lock its small door when I feed Archie.

“No. He made those nasty webs again, doesn’t he supposed to jump on his pray? making webs are other spider’s job!” Tavi tells me, closing her eyes and shaking her head slightly. Ever since we ‘found’ Archibald, she hated him, but at least she learned to accept his presence and actually did a little research on arachnids.

“Oh great, I have to clean his terrarium then.” I say, rolling my eyes.

“Why is he doing that by the way?” Tavi asks me, arching an eyebrow.

“Archie is smarter than you think. He /forces me/ to clean his home, it’s probably filled with the bug husks he left after ‘dinner’, heh.” I tell her and indeed, what can  small jumping spider do with those chitinous husks?

“Then do it, I’m not going to touch it with a single hoof!” Oh Tavi..

I’m not going into details about how I cleaned the terrarium, but let’s say it, it took me more than an hour, so you can guess.

/That hour later.../.

I tiredly enter the living room and plop myself on my sofa. Tavi notices it and approaches me.

“Is it clean, everything is fine?” She asks caressing my cheek the way she always does.

“Yeah... I hate cleaning anythiiiiing...” I tell her in a whiny tone, then draw her in a hug.

“Naah, it’s not that bad. anyway, while you were cleaning, the teacher of the local school was here, he left you a letter.” She hands me a letter with the sign of Victory on it.

“Huh a letter...” I take it and open it. “Hmmm. I might be needed in the school later today.” I tell Tavi after I’m done reading.

“Hmm, why?” She asks back simply.

“It’s... classified!” I tell her with a mischievous smile spreading on my face.

“You will tell me anyway, why tire myself?” She asks... and actually have a point.

“Later!” I say and kiss her on the cheek, making her do a surprised expression. “Heheh, Tavi, you are so adorable!” In response she pokes me. “Hey, what was that for?” I ask, rubbign the point she poked me.

“Because!” She responds.

Well... yeah, things are happening. Wanna know what was in the letter? Too bad, ya gotta wait for that!