//------------------------------// // Flight Lessons // Story: Twilight the Dragon // by MetalBrony823 //------------------------------// In an open field, somewhere in the grasslands which were far from Ponyville, Spike was on Twilight as she and Ember were preparing for their training in flying with dragon wings. Twilight was completely nervous about this, but Ember told her everything will be just fine. Still a little unsure, Twilight nonetheless, was ready to try out her different type of flying now she is a dragon. Princess Ember readied herself, then Twilight followed suit, stretching her wings. A few drops of sweat fell from her scales, but then she saw her best friends cheering her on, believing she can do this. Maybe Twilight doesn't have anything to worry about at all. She flew when she was an alicorn pony, and now she can fly just as good with practice as a dragon now. Her doubts started to slowly fade away, and then looked at Spike. "Don't doubt yourself, Twilight." he said "You'll be just fine." She smiled "Thanks Spike. Okay Ember, let's fly." "Awesome!" then the blue dragon went off at the speed of light, like a blue lightning bolt. Not as fast as Rainbow Dash of course, but still quite fast. Twilight gulped and suddenly rushed off as well, following her. At first, she was struggling so hard to straighten her wings to soar in the sky, like a peregrine falcon or a red-tailed hawk would do. At first, she was getting the hang of it, but then she unexpectedly fell off balance, and then fell down to a pile of leaves like a meteor from outer space. After a little while, she immediately moved her head up, merging from the large pile of leaves. Twilight's eyes were moving around like crazy, as if she was going Insane, and a foolish smile to go with it. Ember got back on the ground, on her two feet. Spike was still on her back, and on worriment, he asked "Twilight? Are you okay?" "What? Yes Princess Celestia, I got the papers you wanted." The purple dragon replied, still feeling quite dizzy. "Uhhhh, what?" "Ooh, did I make it in time for tea?" Then Twilight made a foolish, yet cute giggle and then fainted. Princess Ember sighed in slight irritation, and face-palmed herself. "This is gonna take longer than I thought." She muttered to herself. Just then, the others soon arrived, feeling worried sick about ok a little while, but her best friends noticed her laying on the ground. "Is Twilight alright, Ember?" Rarity asked "She's fine, she's fine. Just a little conk on the head is all." Ember flatly reassured. "She just needs a little more practice. I mean, she suffered worse pain, right?" The other five elements all said, one at a time, that Twilight Sparkle did indeed, suffer worse pain than just crashing down like a comet. "When Twilight became an alicorn, this happened countless times before when she first learned to fly." Rainbow concluded. "Ah. Yeah, I thought so. I never forgot about those wings when she was a pony." Ember remembered. "Well, enough lallygagging, back to training, Twilight." It took a little while, it Twilight was ready for more flying lessons with Ember to teach her a thing or two. Over the coarses, Twilight still faultered a little. For instance, she would lose her balance and crash herself back to the ground like the first slip-up Not only that, but she accidentally had a bird, like a pigeon or a sparrow in her mouth, immediately spitting it out. The birds would angrily chirp at her as reprimanding, and picked at her scales with their beaks. She was lucky that dragon scales were impenetrable to bird beaks. Then she saw Ember, zooming close to her to check on the progress "Just keep trying, Twilight!" Spike noted "I'm trying, Spike!" She called back to him. Over the courses of the lessons, Twilight was slowly starting to know how to fly properly. The process was slow, but she was still learning everything she needed to know about soaring like an eagle. Twilight even did a few tricks in the air like a Rainbow Dash would try to do, but she would do it more gracefully than the cyan Pegasus would do, possibly because Rainbow would try to be as fast as possible, and didn't really care about looking elegant like Rarity would be. "Careful, Twilight!" Ember instructed. "You'll lose concentration if you are not careful with the tricks!" "Don't worry, I'm doing just fi-woah! Whoah! Woah!" Just then, she was about to mess up and fall, but she got her balance back just in tune before she could ruin it completely. "Right to warn ya!" Ember sang. "Sorry." As she was getting better and better, Ember was getting more and more impressed by how fast Twilight was getting the hang of this. She thought of Teilight was god at firebreathing, then she would learn to be just as good as a flyer. "See, what did I tell ya, Ember?" Said Spike proudly. "Twilight is special." Ember smiled at him "you're right, Spike. I know she's special. But now. Thank it's time for her to put it to the test." "How?" "But following me through Ghastly Gorge." Spike gasped at what princess Ember just said. "What?! That's suicide!" He exclaimed. "If Twilight is good at breathing fire, then she is a fast learner at flying as a dragon now." Ember pointed. Spike still looked worried about this little idea of a test. Ember reassured her by gently rubbing his head, and saying "don't worry, Spike. I would never let Twilight get killed by giant eels. Besides, if she needs it, I'll help her." "Okay." A test through ghastly gorge? Is it truly suicide like Spike said to Ember? Sure, Gwilight saved Equestria from a certain destruction countless times with her friends, but doing a little obstacle course by dodging dangerous obstacles in a dangerous place like Ghastly gorge? Honestly, Spike didn't know what to think of this. Then he thought "ah, who am I kidding. Twilight can make the best out of any dangerous situation. She's a smart po- I mean, dragon after all."