This isn't a dream?

Following Pinkie's yelling to Rainbow Dash, I saw her hopping around in a circle.

"Um... Pinkie, what are you doing?" I asked trotting over to her, in front of the imaginary circle she was bouncing around.

"Hi Kate! I'm just hopping around in a circle below the cloud that Dashie is hiding in." she replied happily, still bouncing in the circle.

"Well, that's great, Pinkie!" I said looking up at the cloud above us.

"It sure is! When she comes out, we're going to go pranking, eat cupcakes, plan a party, and do soooo many more super duper things!" she said really quickly.

"Are you sure she's up there?" I asked, as I saw no sign of Rainbow Dash at all in that cloud.

"Super-duper sure! I saw her zoom really really really fast into it!" she said smiling a huge smile.

"Hmm..." I muttered. What if I can fly without needing help? I haven't really even tried it before. So I started to flap my wings as fast as I could, and lifted probably an inch from the ground. "Darn it!" I stomped angrily. Then, I heard laughing coming from the cloud above me, and a bouncing Pinkie Pie. I looked up to see Rainbow on the cloud laughing like she'd seen the funniest thing ever.

"Why are you laughing, Dash?" I asked still staring at the cloud she was on.

"I'm laughing at you! Hahahaha!" she replied falling onto her back.

"What? Why are you laughing at me?!" I replied, angrily.

"You tried to fly... and you barely lifted... an inch off of the... ground!" she said between her laughs.

"Well, Rainbow Dash, I actually came looking for you to teach me how to fly!" I spat back.

"You did?" She stopped her laughing and stood up.

"Yeah, well maybe I should just go ask Fluttershy instead, if you think it's really that funny that I can't fly!" I said turning away. How could she just laugh at me like that? She knows I'm not from here!

"WAIT! No! I'll teach you how to fly!" She said landing right in front of me. Well, that was fast.

I froze. "Really? That'd be great, Dash! Thank you so much!" I said hopping around in a circle just like Pinkie did, but she had stopped.

"Ok, ok. No need to go on bouncing around like Pinkie." she replied to my reaction.

"Oh, got it. Heh." I said, immediately stopping.

"Great! Practice starts tomorrow at 5!" she said before flying off in another direction.

"OKAY! SEE YOU THEN!" I yelled at her while she was flying.

"WAIT, RAINBOW DASH! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GO PRANKING?!" Pinkie screamed and ran off towards Rainbow Dash.

Chapter 7

After having Rainbow Dash approve to giving me some flying lessons, I decided to go back to the library. It was getting dark.

I walked into the library and saw Twilight organizing some books.

"Hey, Twilight!" I greeted.

"Oh, hey Kate!" She said focusing on organizing.

"What's up?" I asked walking over to her.

"I'm just organizing the books." she said using her magic to put 4 books onto the top shelf.

"Sounds like fun!" I joked.

"Ha, ha." she said sarcastically. "So did you get Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy to help you with flying?" she asked.

"Yep! I got Rainbow Dash to help me. The flying lessons start tomorrow at 5!" I said excitedly.

"That's great!" she replied, finishing up her last few books. "I'm starving! Want to go get some dinner?" she asked, heading towards the door.

"Oh, that'd be great. I'm starved too!" I replied walking next to Twilight.

"SPIIIKE! We're going to get dinner, come with us!" Twilight called waking up Spike from a nap.

"Dinner? Alright!" he said excitedly waking from his nap and running the stairs.

"Wow, I've never seen him wake up from a nap that fast in a while!" she whispered to me.

"Not surprising." I giggled.

"Hey! I heard that!" he said popping up next to me.

Twilight and I laughed, and we all started to walk towards a restaurant and we got seated right outside.

The waiter walked up and handed us 3 menus.

I looked at the menu, and it had dishes like salad, and veggie, flower filled sandwiches. Where's the meat? Oh, that's right. I'm a vegetarian now.

"Um.. I'll take a Daffodil Sandwich." Twilight said setting down her menu.

"I'll have the hayfries." Spike told the waiter.

"And, for you, Madame?" the waiter asked me, waiting for me to put down my menu.

"Uh... I'll take a Daffodil Sandwich too." I replied, setting down my menu. I honestly didn't know what to get, but it's good to try new things... even if it didn't sound too appetizing.

The waiter walked away and later came back with our food.

"Thank you!" I said, looking at the sandwich. It looked kind of good, even if I were just about to eat flowers.

Twilight started eating her sandwich, and Spike was stuffing himself with the hayfries. I picked up my sandwich in my two hooves, and smelled it. It smelled like, well, daffodils and bread. Pretty straight forward. I slowly took a bite. WOW. The taste was pretty straight forward too! BREAD AND FLOWERS. Not sensational, but I could keep eating it, besides, I would have to start liking all this food if I'm going to be here for a while. I noticed Twilight and Spike staring at me chewing the sandwich, as if they wanted to see my reaction to this new food.

"Heh, it's delicious!" I faked a smile, while chewing. They both smiled and went back to eating their food.

I quickly finished up, hoping to get this taste out of my mouth by taking a huge gulp of water.

"Well, I think were finished here!" Twilight said getting up from her seat.

"Yep. Now I can finally go back to sleep!" Spike replied getting on Twilight's back.

We walked back to the library and each went to our rooms after saying goodnight.

I crawled into my bed and fell asleep almost instantly.

I woke up to tapping on my window. It was so early, it only just started getting bright outside.

I got up, and started wobbly walking to the window. It was Rainbow Dash! I opened the window.

"R-Rainbow Dash?" I said confused, rubbing my eyes.

"Hey, Kate! Ready for practice?!" she yelled into my ears.

"Practice? Right now?! You must be crazy! It's like, five in the morni-...oh." I replied, whispering trying not to wake up Twilight and Spike.

Rainbow Dash laughed, "Get outside, soldier! It's time for your flying lessons!"

"Rainbow Dash! I thought you meant 5 as in, in the evening, NOT morning!" I said, as if she were crazy, because at the moment, she definitely did seem like it.

'No way! If you're going to be taught by me, you're going to have to wake up EVERY morning at 5, whether you like it or not!" she replied, still yelling.

"Rainbow Dash! Could you at least try and be quiet? You're going to wake up Twilight and Spike!" I replied to her yelling.

"Fine... I guess you don't want to learn to fly..." she said walking away slowly.

"No, no! Wait! Fine, I'll be out in a minute." I replied tiredly and closed my window. I stumbled out of my room and outside, to find Rainbow Dash right in front of the door.

"Ready?" She asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be." I replied slowly, my vision still blurry.

"Great. Now come over here!" she demanded and walked over to a spot in a field, sort of like the one I woke up in, but definitely not near Sweet Apple Acres.

I walked over there and stood up straight.

"Now, this is the first lesson. This lesson is all about stretching your wings, and starting to flap them." she said walking back and forth in front of me.

"YES, SIR." I replied jokingly and gave a salute.

"Now, stretch out your wings as far as they can go!" she said, demonstrating.

I stretched out my wings.

"Good, now start flapping them up and down at the same exact time, not in a mixed order." she said, giving me an example, and started to lift off of the ground.

I starting flapping them and I started to lift off the ground, but fell miserably right onto my face.

She once again, laughed at my flying skills.

"Ok ok, you can stop laughing now!" I said, embarrassed.

She didn't stop. Errgh. "Seriously Rainbow, I get it's funny, but I really need to learn how to fly! It's embarrassing. There are little fillies out there who know how to fly, and I still don't." I said spreading out my wings. I started flapping them once again but fell onto my rump. Of course, she laughed even harder.

"Rainbow Dash! Come on! I'm going back." I stomped angrily and walked back to the library.

I heard the door open behind me and she came in still giggling.

"Ok, ok. I won't laugh if you fall the next time! Maybe... now get back out here, soldier!" she said, still yelling, but not loud enough for Twilight and Spike to hear.

"Gee, Dash. Thanks." I said sarcastically and walked back outside.