The Legend of Lightning Ace: Childhood

by LightningAce7

Dreaming Big part 2

Meanwhile Derpy and Mrs. Sky arrived at the nurses office, Derpy still in a limp. Though it could of been ALOT worse if Lightning wern't there to protect her. They had met when they were even younger, way back in kindergarden. It was a similar instance to what just happened, some bullies had cornered Derpy at the edge of the cloud the school sat on and were harassing her for her eyes. Just like today, Lightning came to her defense. After the event had passed they had fast became best friends. She could always count on him to accept her for who she was.

"Don't worry Derpy your going to be fine." The nurse assured Derpy. "Your leg is only bruised. Just be careful and you'll be fine.""Thanks for helping me!" Derpy chirped happily."Your welcome Derpy. Now get to class. I'm sure your friend is worried about you." The nurse said. With that Derpy hovered awkwardly out of the room.

The rest of the day went relativally uneventful. Though Lightning couldn't help but think about his impending fight after school. He knew Cloud was smart enough not to start it on school clouds. So it was likely going to be an ambush. His thoughts also trailed of with epic imaginings of Summer Flight Camp. Potentially even maybe getting his cutie mark! Todays lesson had been a boring one. More or less the history of some far off country that somepony this age could really care less about. The day seemed to stretch on forever as Mrs. Sky droned on about the something in the thing back in the day of the stuff.

The bell finally rang as every pony flooded the doors to leave to go home and such. Derpy had left to go to the bathroom, but nopony had seen her since. Lightning didn't worry too much, Derpy would often disappear or wander off. So he set off for home. He only got halfway before getting plowed into a nearby biulding.

"I hope you didn't forget our 'meeting'!" Cloud Breaker sneered, as he dug Lightng's face into the cloud. "Me and my friends want a word with you!"

With that, Lightning felt a heavy blow to the back of his head followed by nothing. He awoke to find himself at ground level, Cloudsdale in the sky above them. Cloud was standing 20 feet or so infront of Lightning. At his flanks were a few more colts that he couldn't recognize. One of which had a familiar looking filly tied up near him.

" What is this?!" Lightning demanded."Isn't obvious?" Cloud said sinisterly. "We've decided to make this more interesting blank flank. If you don't fight US, we're going to hurt wall eyes here!"

"Leave Derpy out of this!" Lightning yelled. "And what do you mean 'us'?!"

"We all have a beef with you blank flank!" Cloud said.

"Let Derpy go!" Lightning yelled, stomping his hooves.

"There's only one way!"Cloud Breaker exclaimed. "Have at em boys!"

The two thugs jumped Lightning immediately. Lightning, like in the last fight jumped above them. Allowing them to slam into each other. The dark brown thug got up first and unleashed a flurry of hoof-punches upon Lightning while the light green thug recoiled from a head injury. Lightning managed to block most of the thug's blows and gave a strong buck to his side. After what felt like a wing breaking, the thug tried to take off to do an airial strike, but his now broken wing sent him into the ground instead. The light green thug, now recovered from his head injury from the start of the fight, renews his attack on Lightning. Lightning waited for the right moment to strike. The thug rose up into the air to rush Lightning. At the last second he jumped in the direction of the thug,, using his wings to position himself he extended his left hind leg. The connection of hoof and target rang in the valley as his opponent landed on the ground unconcious next to the first thug.

By the end of the fight Cloud Breaker had already left back to Cloudsdale. Lightning trotted over to the scared filly and untied her.

"Are you OK?" Lightning asked Derpy, helping her up.

"I'm OK!" Derpy assured, hugging him.

"Let's go home." Lightning said as the two made their way back to Cloudsdale. Back on the ground a few hours later the thugs woke up to the sound of a thunderstorm. "You've got to be kidding me!" One of the thugs yelled out as they both comically got drenched. Back at home Cloud Breaker got to deal with a VERY pissed mother who had just finished reading a teacher report that arrived earier in the mail.

"Mom I can explain!" Cloud Breaker pleaded.

"Explain this!" His mother yelled, dropping a wet rope with blonde hairs and grey feathers stuck to it.

"I ah umm... you see I..." he studdered.

"Well?!" She impatiently said.

"It's it's Lightning's fault! He always has to be there to save that freak! And he's no better! Being a blank flank and-"

"ENOUGH!!" His mom cut him off. "Go to your room immediatly! and you can forget about Summer Flight Camp!" She yelled, sternly pointing a hoof in his rooms' direction.

Lightning and Derpy had returned to his house after a long and tiring day. It was getting late, with the sun nearly fully set, with the moon starting it's rise. The moon sporting it's all too infamous mare-shaped surface. Lightning looked at the moon on occasion, often with a sense of ominous and ergence. Like he could feel a storm coming. He couldn't help but recall the old legend of The Mare in the Moon. As he stared at it, Derpy started prodding Lightning's side.

"Are you OK Lightning? You've been staring at the moon for an hour!" Derpy exclaimed.

"Im fine...just fine." Lightning replied.

"What's on your mind?" Derpy asked, eyes moving in opposite directions.

"It's the strange thing on the moon. It always has this...stare or something. Like the Mare in the Moon is watching us or something."

"Arn't you two gonna come in and eat dinner?" Lightning's mom said. "Come in, both of you! it's cold out here."

"OK!" They both said, entering the house.

Lightning and Derpy entered the dinning room as various sweet fruit and bread smells filled their nostrils.

"What's for dinner?" Lightning asked, entranced by the apple scent.

"Apple pie!"His mom smiled warmly. "I picked up the ingrediants from Sweet Apple Acres in Ponyville earlier today! There's just this cute little filly that lives there that I know you'd get along with." she said, continuing to finish making the pie. " You'd get along with her brother too! They're real friendly! Too bad they're too far to visit often. Anyway, Eat up!"

Without hesitation they dove into the pie, delightning in the apple goodness. Though it didn't take long for Lightning's mom to notice the scuff marks on his and Derpy's fur. "What happened to you two?" His mother said worriedly.

"Some bullies at school kidnapped Derpy and used her to force me to fight." Lightning said.

"Lightning saved me!" Derpy exclaimed, followed by a squee.

"Anything else?" His mother asked.

"It was Cloud Breaker and some of his friends." Lightning replied. "They kidnapped Derpy and forced me to fight them! If I had done nothing...I..." tears started to biuld in his eyes. "They threatend to...to hurt her..."he couldn't hold in the tears any further, as he sank in his seat and sobbed. Derpy put her foreleg around Lightning with a look of both worry and comfort. She onew all too well that had he done nothing, they would have likely hurt her bad. Though she wished that the fighting wouldn't have happened in the first place. Lightning soon succombed to Derpy's hug and sobbed into her wing. Soon his mom joined in the hug to comfort him."Just, please be careful son." Lightning's mom said as she nuzzled him with her snout.

To be continued...

Comments

[ihaveofficiallyretired]

Same thing as before, a few grammatical errors interspersed throughout, but overall not bad. I think that the little bit with Cloud Breaker seemed a bit out of place though.