The first day started as I awoke to hear a flute. It sounded magnificent. I looked down to see it was a unicorn playing the instrument. The sound was so beautiful, it sounded as if it wasn’t even real. After stretching, I flew down to greet her. “Hey, I’m-“ She jumped before I could finish.

“Oh… hi, sorry, you kind of scared me. My name’s Zephyra, and what’s yours?” She said with a welcoming smile.
“My name’s Fireblast, people usually just call me ‘Blast’ for short though. I’m one of the best flyers in all of Equestria! Or… so I think,” She laughed at that last part.

“Well, Blast, want to come into town with me and grab some lunch? It’s about time.”

“Wow, I slept that long… Eh, it’s good for the wings,” She laughed at my joke again.

We lived in a town to the far north of Equestria, the snowstorms get bad here, but aside from that it’s really beautiful, especially with the snow on the ground and not getting in our faces. We started walking to the local café, when I saw a curious-looking pegasus. “Hey, you lost? Need help finding something…?” But she didn’t reply.

“Oh, where did I put it? Damnit!” She appeared to be looking for something in the clouds… She seemed like a strange filly. I flew up to one of the clouds and found a… marble? Probably what she was looking for.

“Hey! Green pony with the raindrops cutie mark, is this what you were looking for?” She quickly flew to me and took it from my hoof.

“Yes! The marble my grandmother gave me! And my name’s Rain, you jerk,” She replied.

“Well want to come to the café down the road with us? It’ll be on me,” I said with a smile.

“Sure, I’m pretty hungry,” and with that she bolted off. She was definitely different… Very odd.

When we arrived at the Hungry Pony café, Rain sat down and ordered about five different things. “Rain, calm down, I’m not made of money,” I said with a fake grin.

“Ok, sorryyyy…” Instead, she ordered three things, which is better for me at least. Zephyra only ordered a sandwich and me a shake. We talked for some time and just sat there. It was a nice day to hang out with friends. The sky was beautiful, barely any clouds in sight and Celestia’s sun shined down upon us, making us feel welcome.

"Hey, Rain... Do you live around here? I don't think I've ever seen you," I asked her.

"Neither have I," said Zephyra.

"Well, I recently moved here, I used to live in Canterlot, it was great and all, but I just didn't like that lifestyle all the much. So I moved here to lead a calm, nice life as a weather pony," She said with a smile.
In about an hour after talking, we all said our goodbyes and went home to do what we needed. Zephyra had to take care of her little sister, Rain had to work and I had to practice racing for the Equestria 500. When I got home, Neon was all ready for our practice race. "Hey, Neon, looking colorful as usual," I said snickering.

"Hey! I'm gonna beat you today and I'll be the one laughing!" We both bursted into tears laughing.

"Alright, you ready?"
"Yeah, ready when you are."
And we were off. I was ahead of her by a good distance, then suddenly she shot straight forward and got ahead of me. I wasn't about to be beat by her for once... That won't do. I just gave it a little more... and with some more power I was ahead of her! Her neon colors eating my dust. By the time I got to the finish line she was only half-way there. "Hey, you alright Neon? Thought you were going to beat me." I taunted her and laughed.

"Real funny, Blast. You're way too fast for me... Y'know, I think you'll win this year! But there IS Rainbow Dash... and she's pretty fast. But I think you have it this year, I really do," Neon said smiling at me.

"Thanks, I think I have it. Last year was so close... This year I KNOW I have it," and with that we said our goodbyes and she left. "Time to sleep... it's getting late." I flew to my bed and slept... I didn't dream that night, although if I did it was definitely me winning that race.
I woke up the following morning with one thing in mind; practice. All day, all night for the next three days all I did was practice. Three days later Zephyra came by to see how I was doing. "You alright, Blast? Don't push yourself too much, you're already a great flyer," She yelled to me.
"Thanks, but I want a definite win! I need to work harder," I yelled back. And that day was also spent training. Then the following few days I just relaxed, Zephyra was right, I was fine, but I wanted to secure my chances of winning. I flew over to my favourite cloud to watch the sunset. Surprisingly, there was a brown earthpony climbing up the cliff under me... What could he be doing there? "Hey! You there! You alright?" I yelled.

"Could never be better, just rock-climbing! It's good for the legs," He yelled back to me. This pony was a lot more peculiar than Rain, I could tell when I heard those words. As soon as he climbed to the top I flew down and talked to him.
"So what's your name?" I asked him.

"Cliff, I do professional rock-climbing. It's a fun sport, but really difficult on the legs. Takes a lot out of ya," He said breathing heavily. "And what's your name?"
"My name is Fireblast, but everyone calls me Blast for short. I'm one of the fastest flyers in Equestria and I WILL win the Equestria 500 this year," I said in reply.
"Well, Blast I think you have a good chance at that, you flew down here pretty fast, before I could even blink. So good luck to you," He smiled at me.
"You too with the rock-climbing. Oh, that reminds me. If you want, you can come with me and some friends to that café at the edge of town tomorrow around twelve. We usually hang out there for a bit."
"Sure, why not? You can never have enough friends!" And with that, the first week flew by pretty quickly.

Author's Note

A quick intro as the first chapter, this is the first time I've done an MLP fanfic, so please give me tips or anything to make it better. Thanks and enjoy the story!