I’m so sick of this discrimination already. Who do they think they are? Ordering us around like this. I’m a free spirit! Nopony can tame me! I don’t care if being fifteen makes me eligible for the army. I don’t want to do it, therefore I won’t!
Cloudsdale is already divided in half. I’m on the side against the racism. Duh! SO is my mum Feather, the top weatherpony, and she has made all the clouds come right up to Ponyville in protest. She is the BEST weatherpony since Rainbow Dash! Well I think so anyway.
I fly away from Canterlot quickly. I need some alone time. I spot the Everfree forest and glide down. Even though it’s dangerous and evil, I love the Everfree. It’s beautiful, the creatures are nice, even the bigger and scarier ones, and the trees are really strong. They can easily hold a pegasus.
I land in my favourite, a huge, old, twisted oak and settle down. I re-tie my hair, loosely at the end of my mane - like Applejack’s, her style is great - and plump up my orange tail.
I’m halfway through sorting out my beautiful violet wings when I hear a roar and two screams.
“What-”
Two ponies galloped past, followed closely by Lauren the manticore. She is very mad at those ponies. I can tell.
“Hey!” I yell. “Lauren!”
Lauren stops. Turns. She recognizes me.
“Grraah?” She says.
“What did they do?”
She makes a noise between a protest and a growl.
“That doesn’t mean you have to scare them out of their wits! Be nice.”
She makes an apology purr and pads away.
The two unicorns are hiding. I can see the tips of their horns. I fly behind them. I lean in real close and yell really loudly.
“GRAAAH! I’M COMING TO GET YOU!”
The white one jumps like a metre into the air screeching it’s head off. The other one flinches, then realizes what happened and smiles. I grin back.
“Hi,” she says while the white one is hyperventilating. “I’m Lightning”
She’s a metallic blue with an Octavia-Style manecut and a half-leg tail. Her mane is shiny black, her eyes a pinky red. Her cutie mark is a lollipop with a smiley face on it.
“I’m Plumage” I say.
She points to the white one. “That’s Dewdrop. She teleported us here. Apparently her sister’s really mean to her, so she didn’t want to go back to Canterlot with her”
Dewdrop is snowy white with a turquoise mane and greeny-yellowy eyes. Her mane looks like a colt cut; She’s cut it short up her neck, but it flips over her eyes. Her cutie mark is a camera. She doesn’t seem to have recovered from the fright I gave her.
“Looks like she’s easily scared” I say
“Am not!” Dewdrop protests.
“Please lets not fight.” Lightning says.
It begins to rain. Hard.
“Mum!” I yell at the sky. “Not now!”
A hole opens up in the sky. Mum’s head pops out. Violet eyes, blue feathers, red and orange mane.
“Yes hon?”
“Making new friends here?”
She looks at Dewdrop and Lightning. “Sorry. Try not to scare them again”
I laugh. “Sure”
She leaves the hole in the clouds.
Lightning smiles. “Cool mom,” she says.
“Mom?” I ask.
“I’m from Las Pegasus”
“Nice!”
Dewdrop gets up.
“Tell us about you, Lightning. I never let you talk, did I?”
She smiles. “Not really, but it doesn’t matter”
“Get on with it” I say
“Well.... I was living in Las Pegasus until Mom got a new job as a.... You know, those ponies that record everything in the libraries? The Canterlot ones? Yeah. I was twelve and a half.
“Two months ago we moved here after Dad broke up with Mom and now......Now I guess I’ll have to live with Mom. She’s a unicorn you see.
“Wait... Who’s your dad? I ask.
“Fragment.... Fragment Broken.
“The Fragment?”
“I guess.... I never knew he was anypony special. If there was a ‘Most up himself dad’ award, he could win that, though!”
“My mum talks about him sometimes. She used to have a major crush on him. Until she met Chord, of course.”
“Chord?” asks Dewdrop.
“My dad. Best dad ever!” I say. “So since we’re having a confession session, I have to go next, right? Cause I talked first. That’s how it works in Cloudsdale, anyway.”
“Wait - Lightning - any crush?” Asks Dewdrop.
“One” she says.
“You gonna tell?”
“No”
“Okay. Plumage?”
“I... I was born in Ponyville because Chord is a unicorn. But Feather showed him as much of the pegasus magic as she could. Basing things on that, he managed to cast a permanent cloud walking spell on himself. Feather brought him to Cloudsdale along with me. Chord helps with music and making rainbows. But, because of these stupid new laws I don’t know what will happen to Dad, or whether I’ll ever even see him again”
My eyes tear up. Dammit! Tears are for sissies!
I thought of Dad. The only unicorn in Cloudsdale. Now probably surrounded by racist pegasi. That breaks me and I begin to sob.
Dewdrop looks like she’s just been slapped. “And what will the pegasi do?”
“If Dad’s smart he’ll stay with Mum, b-but he said he was going to be at the rainbow factory late tonight,” I sobbed. “The-they might kick him out.”
“They can’t!” Said Lightning.
“They would. They’re pegasi.”
The b-”
A loud shout drowns Dewdrop as three ponies burst through the undergrowth: One blue, one pink and one orange.
“AHA!”
-End chapter 4-