//------------------------------// // blazing chick // Story: Ponies and Mons // by ezio dementay //------------------------------// It was a sunny day in Equestia, one of the hottest all year actually, and with this many ponies decide to go to holidays and sometimes to the beach to escape the heat and to get a decent tan while there there, but Scootaloo was planning on doing something else that day. She had planned this day all year, the day rainbow dash takes her to Cloudsdale, the city of the Pegasus or pegasi as some smarter pony’s called it, and she was so excited, that she woke up early, along with Combusken and went to her dojo early, and waited for a good hour or so, while Combusken did some tricks with her fire to keep Scootaloo awake until the rainbow manned Pegasus would arrive. After a hour of waiting, Rainbowdash turned up with a smile on her face, landing in front of Scootaloo and Combusken, both of which were excited to go to Cloudsdale, with Scootaloo and Combusken beaming with excitement at Rainbowdash. “Dashie!” Scootaloo hugged Rainbowdashes leg tightly, smiling at her face with absolute joy on her face, seeing her best friend again for the first time this month, after all that had happened this month, from finding Torchic, to Torchic changing into Combusken, it had been a weird month. “hay there squat, listen I have some news…” dash looked down on her smiling joyfully at the filly “I’ve got a audition for the Wonderbolts today, so I won’t be hanging out with you that much today, but hey, we can get some cake later” Scootaloo’s smile vanished and looked to the ground upset “yeah okay dash, that’s… that’s okay” Scootaloo sighed in sadness. “But I thought… never mind dash, at least Combusken can come along, right?” dash nodded happily, and then actually looked at Combusken and thought of something “you got a bird too? Same here!” Rainbowdashes Starly appears, landing on her back and getting nested into Rainbowdashes hair, falling asleep adorably into dash’s hair. “her names Starly, she’s so cool and cute!” looks down at Scootaloo smiling happily “now come on, let’s get to the blimp and head to Cloudsdale already, were wasting sunlight!” dash flew off to the blimp, guiding scoots, while Combusken picked up Scootaloo and followed behind Rainbowdash, actually going faster than her at some points, but Rainbowdash quickly went faster, leaving a rainbow trail for Scootaloo and Combusken. They reached the blimp, with Scootaloo looking impressed by the size of the of the thing, and seeing the engine fascinated her mind, her child like curiosity examining the machinery, until the ticket pony came along and asked for their tickets, with dash giving him three tickets. “There’s only three here miss dash, and four of you boarded, you know your maths don’t you?” he looked at Rainbowdash rather smugly and chuckled at his own remark, with dash getting out some bits and shoving them in his face rudely “you can keep the change buddy” Rainbowdash said proudly to him, making him go off with a smug look on his face. Combusken and Scootaloo were in a corner of the ship, with Scootaloo explaining everything to Combusken about Rainbowdash and Cloudsdale, which Combusken found interesting, giving Scootaloo a smile of joy to Scootaloo and a look in her eye that looks like she’s listening to every word she’s saying. Scootaloo hugged Combusken tight, feeling his warmth all over her body, and liking the feel of someone that saved your life not once, but twice in one month, and she felt that her wings were almost ready for flying, just maybe another week or so and she would be flying like Rainbowdash does, but not as good as her. They arrived in Cloudsdale in a hour of travel, with Rainbowdash and Starly heading off as soon as they landed, giving Scootaloo some money to buy food and maybe a drink in case she wanted anything. For some reason, Combusken didn’t fall through the clouds like a earth pony or a unicorn should if they don’t have the spell that grants cloud walking ability’s, but maybe it was because Combusken was part bird or maybe because Combusken could learn how to fly, but Scootaloo thought this was great for Combusken, no hassle or problems for him or herself. They walked around the town, and got some sweets from shop called the sweetie cloud, and had brought enough sweets to keep them filled for a year, with Combusken eating a few new on the market blue sweets, that strangely make Combusken seem stronger, or maybe Scootaloo was just seeing things. Along the way, Combusken burped, firing a small ball of fire through the cloud, which Scootaloo looked down and saw that it had gone through all the way to the ground, amazed at how powerful Combusken had suddenly become, but that was stumped when she looked up from the hole, and saw three thuggish Pegasus before her, looking like the three jerks that Rainbowdash sometimes talked about, the ones she described with language a young filly should not hear for her age. “look fellas, it’s rainbow crashes little sister” they all laughed at the flightless filly, making her feel upset and alone, until Combusken burned of one of their manes, before standing in front of them aggressively to them, and defensively for Scootaloo. The two bully’s got scared by Combusken, who was puffing short bursts of fire out of his mouth right now, and was ready to uppercut them all the way out of the planet’s atmosphere, making the bully spread their wings and fly off, with the gust sending Scootaloo down the hole created by Combusken earlier, making her plummet down to the ground. “Help, someone help!” Scootaloo screamed, closing her eyes and flapping her wings for dear life, feeling entirely new levels of fear and worry, more fear then when the giant spider tried to attack her, and way more fear then Steelix from a few days ago, she was about to die by falling to her death, something that should never happen to a Pegasus at all. She felt like she was going to die any second now, but she felt something grab her. She opened her eyes and saw a red warrior like creature, grabbing her body with a solid grip, looking into Scootaloo’s eye’s with the same look that Combusken gave her, then she realised something… Combusken had evolved into this tall, red and fairly awesome looking creature, which looked like Combusken if he had taken some spell to make her a thousand times more awesome looking. She held on tight to the new Combusken, who grabbed onto a cloud with his spare hand, leaping from it and then barrel rolling on to the ground, holding Scootaloo close to his chest and landing without ether one appearing to take any damage what so ever from the fall. Scootaloo looked at the new Combuskens face, seeing a proud and fairly awesome warrior that seemed to have a look that meant he would protect her always, from any danger at any time, holding her close to protect her. The new Combusken said “Blaziken” to Scootaloo, picked her up and before even Scootaloo could say anything, he started to leap with Scootaloo on his back, leaping from cloud to cloud, until they reached two clouds that were near enough to each other so that Scootaloo could easily jump on to it with great ease. “Blaziken, what are you-“Blaziken picked up Scootaloo with one hand, pointing to the cloud that Scootaloo could jump too, but indicating to glide there instead of jumping. Scootaloo jumped from Blaziken hand, and started to glide, the bond between her and Blaziken somehow had made her stronger, and had made her wings stronger, much more than Rainbowdashes training ever did for her, and glided with ease. After a few minutes of gliding, Blaziken burned the cloud that Scootaloo had been jumping on, indicating that she has to fly now, which would normally of scared Scootaloo, but instead, she leaped from Blaziken hand, and flapped her wings, closing her eyes and bracing for the impact of the hard earth against her face… but it never came. Too her amazement, her wings had finally allowed gotten as strong as they need to be, and flew through the air for the first time, almost crying at how happy she felt right now, she had done it, she was flying for the first time ever, and she couldn’t be any happier. Suddenly, a bright light flashed on her flank, revealing a flaming wing cutie mark on her once blank flank, and cheered in the air screaming in excitement, before rushing back to Blaziken, and hugging him tightly, her best friend in the whole world had helped her fly, and she couldn’t be happier. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, this was the last part of the Scootaloo arc, next time, the meeting of the mane 6, what to do with these creatures, and many more questions to be asked and answered next chapter!