“Math is boring. Really really boring… Why can’t the clock move faster? Tick tock tick tock. I wonder what Rainbow is doing… Did she find her class? Eh… It’s not me to care… Oh! There goes the bell! FINALLY… Lunch!”
Blitz didn’t even pay attention to the teacher as she assigned their homework. Skidding out the door the second she finished rambling and ran for the cafeteria before people started crowding the hallways.
Entering the cafeteria, Blitz saw Rainbow with four other girls sitting around one of the tables. He walked up to them, sat down next to her and picked up an apple from her tray.
“Hey Blitz,”
“Hey Dash,”
“Stop that,”
“How about… No,”
“Put the apple back,”
“... Nope,”
“Idiot,”
“Thanks,”
“It wasn’t a compliment, genius!” Said Rainbow, punching Blitz in the arm, then noticing her friend’s reactions to seeing Blitz. Twilight blushed and pushed a strand of loose hair back into place, Fluttershy squeaked and tried to hide behind Applejack who's jaw was hanging open and Pinkie was… Rainbow didn’t even know what Pinkie was doing… Squirting strawberry sauce into milk? What.
Blitz, still oblivious of the girls behavior, took a bite of Rainbow’s apple as Rarity sat down. Suddenly noticing Blitz, Rarity narrowed her luscious eyes into a glare.
“Hey Rarity,” Blitz greeted nonchalantly.
“Why are you here?” She growled. Blitz shrugged and gestured towards Rainbow.
Her eyes then flickered towards Rainbow, who was still mindlessly punching Blitz’s arm and stared confusingly at the fashionista.
“Ehh... Care to tell me whats going on?” questioned Rainbow.
“Mmmm… Not really, anyway, Principal Celestia wants to borrow you for a second…” Blitz said, swallowing a last bite of apple and got up to leave, “Coming?”
Rainbow hesitated and stood up, “See you girls later, I guess,” The group chorused goodbye.
“So… Where exactly is Principal Celestia’s office?” Rainbow asked.
“I’ll take you there now,”
“Ok…”
Soon, they arrived at a door, Blitz knocked on it, “Come in,” Said a voice inside, “Oh, hello Blitz, and Rainbow,”
Rainbow waved politely while Blitz knelt down to retie his shoelace.
“So… Rainbow, how is Canterlot High so far?” Principal Celestia asked.
“It’s great, thanks Principal Celestia,”
“Just call me Celestia,”
Rainbow nodded. While they continued talking, Blitz was getting bored, “Well! Look at the time! Lets get going!” He laughed, dragging Rainbow out by her ponytail, Blitz shouted a “Bye!” and closed the door.
“Stop! Noo! Oww! STOP IT, OR I SWEAR, I WILL HURT YOU!” Rainbow threatened.
“Mmmm… Ok, fine,” Blitz said playfully, then reaching for her hair tie, pulled it out. Rainbow stumbled backwards as her colourful hair fell around her shoulders, looking up she glared at a smirking Blitz and pushed some strands of hair out of her face, “GIVE. NOW.”
Blitz poked out his tongue and handed the hair tie back “You’re no fun,”
Rainbow gave a “Pfft” and pulled her hair back into it’s usual ponytail. “When does interval end anyway?”
“Ehh… probably in a couple of minutes,”
“So… What do you do for sport?”
“Well, we have a Mini Olympics every 2 years, And we have one this year, we’re just been training for it the past few weeks, not that I need any practise, I’m just too good,”
Rainbow grinned, “I can beat you anywhere, anytime!”
“We’ll see about that, Dashie,”
“...”
“It’s better than 'Rainbow'!”
“... Just stick to Dash,”
“But where’s the fun in that?” Blitz teased.
Rainbow pouted, “I know where the field is so I’m gonna go now,”
“Come on then, TO THE FIELD!”
-- After School --
“So what you are saying is that you still live in Cloudsdale yet you school here at Canterlot?”
“Yeah, we’re gonna be moving here in a couple months, I’m staying at a hotel while they work out the last details, since the train takes three hours to get to Canterlot,”
“My goodness, Cloudsdale is a ways from Canterlot…” Rarity sighed. “You can always stay with me if you would like,”
“Really? That would be awesome! Hotels don’t encourage pets so I didn’t know what to do with Tank…” Rainbow mused, tapping her chin.
“… Tank?”
“Yea, Tank is my pet turtle,” Rainbow replied taking off her backpack and pulled out a tiny green dome, “Here he is...”
Rarity smiled when a small head poked out of the shell, “Well, you will always be welcome at my place, darling,”
“Thanks Rarity,” Rainbow mumbled as she poked Tank affectionately and put him back into her bag, pulling out her phone, “I’ll just call my parents see if its cool with them,”
“Of course,”
“I’m going to the soccer team tryouts now, wanna come with?” Rainbow asked, finishing her call.
“Come on then,” Rarity remarked, adjusting her heel strap.
Rainbow slid her phone back into the pocket of her shorts and picked up her pace, heading towards the school gym with Rarity following behind.
“Hey Dash! Glad you could make it!” Blitz welcomed with a smile as the two entered the gym, “You too, Rarity,”
Rarity scoffed and crossed her arms. Rainbow, although confused by the tension between her two friends, smiled and gave a friendly wave.
“M’kay people!” Blitz turned to address the few other athletes who had shown up at the tryouts, “You will start at one end of the of soccer field and make a goal at the other end! Remember we are looking for your strategy and technique,”
“You do not need to make a goal as I will be goalkeeper, also, if the ball is to be kicked out of bounds, it is an automatic rejection!” The group turned to see a fiery eyed girl with a short stylish haircut, she held herself with unwavering confidence.
“She’s Spitfire,” Rarity whispered to Rainbow, “She makes a good leader but can be over-confident,”
“Well, now that is clear, c’mon! Lets get this started!” Blitz finished, pushing open the gym doors, only to be greeted with a sky of gray, “Well, we will be doing the tryouts in drizzle, I guess,”
“RAIN!?” Rarity screamed dramatically, “Of all the things that could happen, this is the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!” Suddenly noticing that everyone, including Rainbow, was staring awkwardly at her, Rarity gave a dainty cough and pulled a tiny white umbrella out of her backpack. “I’m good now,”
Blitz, along with all the other athletes shrugged it off and stepped out onto the wet grass. Spitfire ran up to the goal in form of the goalkeeper and waited patiently for the first athlete to take their place at the other end of the court.
Blitz looked on as each of the participants took their turn in scoring a goal, paying attention to their techniques and strategies. The first three athletes are fast and talented, yes, but none of their shots made it past Spitfire.
The second to last, a girl with short golden-yellow hair and eyes of similar colour, caught Blitz’s attention, her shot only just made it into the goal, slipping past the goalkeeper’s fingers.
Her name’s Lightning… Hmmm
Blitz looked over to where ‘Dash’ was standing and saw her looking over to Rarity, who winked in encouragement, and also somehow found the time to change into rain boots without getting wet. He could tell that Rainbow works best in a team, but he was interested to see how she did on her own.
Jogging up to the beginning point, Rainbow took a deep breath and dropped her watchful magenta gaze to examine the ball. Silence shrouded the damp field, then without warning, She drew back her foot back in a powerful kick, the ball flew through the air, all the way across to the other side of the court. Spitfire, obviously startled by the unexpected field goal, was hit in the stomach by the ball, the impact caused her to stumble backwards and crash onto the ground.
“Ohmigosh ohmigosh ohmigosh ohmigosh! Are you ok?” Rainbow hurriedly asked, rushing to Spitfire’s side.
“Hehe, that was… Nothing,” Spitfire winced, “You are a pretty powerful kicker…”
Rainbow looked up as Blitz approached as he finished up dismissing the others, promising results soon. Rarity was also daintily making her way across the muddy field. “How are you doing Spitfire?” He asked
“Okay… I guess. It hurts. Jeez.”
“Oh my! Rainbow! That was simply brilliant!” Rarity marvelled, adjusting her umbrella, “But we should be heading inside now… The weather seems to be getting worse,” As if her observation was a command, the skies opened up and the refreshing drizzle turned into a sheet of pouring rain.
“Spitfire, can you stand up?”
“Oh yes, I just got hit in the most vulnerable part of the body by a speeding soccer ball going at 150km/h, of course I can still stand up,” She deadpanned, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
Blitz and Rainbow stared blankly at her, Spitfire facepalmed. “It’s COLD in the RAIN, get me to the GYM already!”
“Oh, yep, sorry.” Rainbow appologised, picking up Spitfire and draping her on Blitz’s back, who stood up and jogged towards the gym. Dash felt the raindrops on her head stop and looked up to see a white umbrella over her, looking over to the umbrella’s owner, she saw Rarity smiling. She smiled back, the two friends walked side-by-side towards shelter.