I had finished the painting. It looked as beautiful as Rainbow Dash herself.
"Ok, I'm done, you can stop posing now." I said to Rainbow Dash
"Cool, let me see it" She said as she got down from the pedestal and walked toward me.
I leaned back as I store at my masterpiece, it had been better than any other Rainbow Dash picture I had painted. Maybe she was right, she made it 20% cooler. I chuckled as I thought about that. Rainbow Dash had reached where I was sitting during my daydreaming.
She looked at it in amazement, she turned towards me and said "Are you sure you painted this, because this is AWESOME!!!"
"I'm glad you like it, Dashie" I said as I smiled.
"Like it? I LOVE it!" She looked back at me "You called me Dashie there..."
"Is that alright with you? I can call you by-" I said before she cut me off
"That's alright, James. Y'know I've been trying to make your name sound cooler...."
I thought to myself "20% cooler, I bet"
"What have you come up with?" I asked her
"Lightning..." She told me
"Lightning? It has a good ring to it...." I suprisingly said
"Glad you think so, Lightning" She said
"Hey since it's still sunny outside, wanna play some horseshoes? I asked as I looked out my window
"Awesome idea, let me warn you though, I'm pretty good at it" She said to me
I felt her competitive side take over, same with me. I don't mind a bit of competition....
"I was about to say the same thing to you!" I said competitively
"You're on!" She spat in her hoof and held it aloft, I did the same and shook her hoof....
"Race you outside?" I challenged her
"Heh heh heh, I'll be outside by the time you get up!" She said mockingly
"We'll see about that" I responded
Rainbow Dash was fast, but I had a few tricks up my sleeve too, something to even the odds against her incredible speed when she was flying. We both shot off down the hallway, her speed picked up, we reached the living room. All she had to do was fly out the door, there was a table in my way. At the same speed, Rainbow Dash shot over the table and out the door, I vaulted over the table and sprinted out the door, grabbing a cyan hoodie as I came out. She was mockingly showing off when I was outside, still the hoodie in my hand.
"You're quick Thunder, that's for sure. But not quick enough to beat me..." She said, basking in victory
I looked up at her, floating stationary in the air, her cyan wings flapping to keep her afloat.
"Thanks, you're not bad yourself, Dashie" I said, breathing heavily "I guess Best Young Flier actually means something"
"Yeah, I could fly circles around the fastest thing alive" She said boastfully
I tossed her a horseshoe "You gonna stop bragging or we gonna settle this two for two" I said, twirling a horseshoe around my finger
"You go first, Lightning" she said
I tossed the horseshoe at the metal stake, it hits it dead-centre and spins around, stopping hanging around the stake.
I couldn't help showing off "And the crowd goes wild!" I yelled, and imitated a cheering crowd
"Alright, cool your jets" She said as she threw the horseshoe
Her horseshoe landed on top of mine, hooked onto the stake.
"Good shot, Dashie" I said enthusiastically
She responded immediatly "You're not bad yourself"
I sat down on a lawn-chair, Rainbow Dash followed suit and also did the same thing. I store up at the sky "Man, I wish I could fly like you, Dashie...." I left out a sigh....
"Why can't you, Thunder?" She asked me, wondering at why I couldn't fly....
"Humans don't have wings, artificial or not. But we do have jets that at least do half the speed of you, Dashie" I answered her question
"Jets?" Rainbow Dash asked me
"They're like large metal dragons that allow us to travel at high speeds" I tried to explain as simply as I could
I put on my cyan hoodie and sat up
"What's your goal, Dashie?" I asked "Joining the Wonderbolts?"
"Yeah, they're my idols, What about you? Rainbow Dash said
"Being the quickest being alive." I said
"Well, you're on your way there, only you need to beat me to do it" She said
"I know" I said
I thought to myself "I may not be able to beat you on foot, but on my bike, you're in the dust Rainbow Dash. I'll show her my bike tommorow and challenge her to a race down the old circuit, no-one goes there anymore, it'll be perfect for a friendly race" I sat up and looked at her
She sat up aswell and saw me in the cyan hoodie with a rainbow streak running down the back of the head.
"Lightning? You look like me..." she giggled as she saw me.
"I do, don't I?" I jeered
"You look cooler though" she added.
"We should head inside soon" I said
"Cool" she said
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4:30pm
"Other than painting, what else do you do? Rainbow Dash asked
"Well I'm a musician...."
"Like Vinyl Scratch?" She asked enthusiastically, her eyes lit up
Vinyl Scratch.... I searched my memory to remember who that was... I remembered, Vinyl Scratch was the DJ-Pony who lived with Octavia, a chellsit player.
"Yeah I spin decks too, I also play the chello like Octavia" I responded "Want me to play some music?"
"Sure, that'd be awesome" She said calmy, trying not to squeal
"Follow me, it's in my room" I said
I slowly walked toward my room, I opened the door and unzipped my hoodie. I took my hoodie off and walked to my Turntables, I sat down and saw Rainbow Dash sit on my bed. I picked up a few dubstep tracks I had tranferred to records. I put a CD labeled "RainbowStep" into my CD player. I hit play and turned on the turntable. Music blared out behind me in my speakers as I played to the tune of "RainbowStep" I noticed Rainbow Dash was dancing to my beats. A few minutes later I stopped playing and sat down in my bed where Rainbow Dash was.
"What do you think of my DJing skills?" I asked her
"So awesome!" She smiled at me
"Not too bad after a couple of months" I added
We were in my bedroom talking for, what? An hour now.... I broke the silence
"It's getting late, and I'm guessing you need a place to sleep?" I asked Rainbow Dash, staring at her beautiful rose eyes
"Yeah, I guess so, we were having so much fun we lost track of time" Rainbow Dash said.
"Hey, if I were like you. I think I know what my cutie-mark would be" I said
"What's that?" she said, briefly looking at her cutie-mark: a cloud with a rainbow coloured lightning bolt
"Probably a record or a paint brush or a flamed wheel" I continued
"Seems possible, but.... wait. You said flamed wheel? She said, her eyes flared up
"Yeah, I'm not only an artist and DJ, I'm a motorcycle racer too!"
"Motorcycle racer?" She inquired
"Think Scootaloo's motorscooter, but bigger and quicker"
"Oh" She said
"I'll introduce you to her tommorow" I said
"You can bunk with me tonight" I said as I laid down on the bed and put my head on my pillow.
"That'd be cool" she said, I got her a pillow and put it next to mine.
She laid down next to me on her pillow and closed her eyes.
"Goodnight, Dashie" I said as I pulled a doona over both of us
"Goodnight, Lightning" she said quietly
I spent a mintue staring at Rainbow Dash. I shut my eyes and drifted off to sleep........
End of Part 3