One day I went to the farm with something different in mind to train Applebloom, something to help her be creative.
I took her to the town and told her to look carefully at the whole area, and the places where we were walking around.
"Why are we doin' dis?" she asked after a while.
"I'll tell you once we get where we're heading." I simply replied.
She then kept looking carefully around.
We arrived at an alley, a few dumpsters around.
"Where are we?" Applebloom asked.
"Nowhere special, just some old alley, but I brought you here to train something else."
I looked up, to the edges of the two houses that were at our sides.
"What would you do to reach the top of those houses?" I asked.
The filly looked confused.
"Well, ah'd try tah find a ladder to get up there, but why?"
"If you can't find a ladder, nor anything similar, how would you get up there?" I pointed up.
"Nopony can reach a roof without something to help themselves." she said.
"Exactly." I replied.
Then I jumped on top of one of the dumpsters, then jumped again to a wall and grasped a wood board that kept the ceiling of the house in it's place; then I moved slowly to a side to get to the lower part of the roof, and climbed up.
The filly was now confused and surprised.
"How did ya' do it?"
"It's like you said, nopony can reach a roof without something to help themselves; so I helped myself with the environment, not with ladders." I told her from above.
"That's really cool! But ah can't get up there, ah'm not that fast."
"Maybe not how I did it, so you have to find another way; try looking the front of the house, maybe there's a platform so you can jump up here." I suggested.
She nodded, and got out of the alley to search the front. In a few minutes she was in the roof with me.
"What kind o' training is this anyway?" she said a little tired.
"Remember I told you to be creative? Well, this will help you do that. To be creative you need to be resourceful with the environtment and with your moves. Today I'll teach you how to be creative by freerunning."
I jumped to the roof of the other house, crossing the gap of the alley, making a roll while landing.
"I can't jump that gap it's too large!" she said from the other roof.
"You can, try to be resourceful."
"How? There's nothing up here to be resourceful about!"
"Why don't you look at your side?"
She did, and noticed that the two roofs were becoming nearer towards the other edge, making the gap smaller.
"Jump through there, you can't make the gap of here, but you can make that one over there." I pointed out.
She walked towards the smaller gap, and jumped over to the roof I was standing.
"I told you to be resourceful, look around and you will find another easier way, there's almost always another way out." I explained. "Let's jump some more roofs and then we'll move on to something else."
After some time, I took Applebloom to the park.
"We're going to do something easier now okay? I want you to look around, remember what I taught you when jumping roofs."
She nodded and looked her surroundings, carefully checking the area.
"Done, what now?" she asked.
"Do you know about a little name called 'the floor is lava'?"
"Are ya' kiddin'? I love that game!"
"Well good! Try to apply freerunning with that game, using what you can find here in the park."
"But everything here is too afar from the others ta' make a simple jump!"
"Let's pretend you have a little resistance to lava, what do you think?"
"Awesome!"
She then ran towards an empty bench and jumped to it, then jumped towards another; she kept doing it for a while.
While Applebloom was trying to climb up a tree, Fluttershy appeared and came to say hi.
"How's it going?" I greeted
"I'm fine, how about you, how's the training?" the pegasus asked.
"Pretty good actually, she's quite a quick learner, but she still has some difficulties."
"Give her time, she's just a little filly."
"Oh I know that, I don't teach her expecting to learn everything the first time. Though I gotta say she learns about freerunning at a slightly faster pace."
"Well, she is kind of a fretful pony, she can't keep in the same place too much time."
"Tell me about it! Look at her jumping the benches!" I pointed with my hoof where Applebloom was running and jumping.
"Say, do you want to go out again someday?" I asked Fluttershy.
It's been a while since we have gone out for the last time; besides, we were still trying to get used to the idea fo being coltfriends too. It sounds silly, I know, but I haven't kissed her for a few months; we just hang around, but then again, sometimes we are too shy to behave like actual coltfriends.
As expected, Flutteshy's response started with a blush.
"Well, I'd love to." she smiled looking away "When do you want to meet?"
"Are you free tomorrow?"
She nodded.
"Let's meet tomorrow at Sugarcube Corner then, around 2 PM sounds good for you?"
She nodded again quickly.
"Awesome then, I'll see you tomorrow, well, unless you want to stay here a little longer." I said nudging her.
"Well, I can't say no to that." she said nudging back.
I told Applebloom to take a rest; freerunning costs a big bunch of stamina, and despite that earth ponies are popular for their breath capacity, even one can run out of breath.
Applebloom went to talk to Fluttershy a little, while I looked around the park for other places that Applebloom could use.
When Fluttershy left, Applebloom came back to me.
"What do ah have ta' do now?"
"Let's review quickly what I taught you just now, then we'll call it a day."
When I left Applebloom it was becoming darker, so I headed right home.
"Hey." I greeted my brother.
"Hey." he greeted back.
"How's everything, anything new?"
"Actually no. How about you? Your apprentice?"
"Oh, great! I taught her to do parkour."
He looked at me with a blank face.
"You are teaching a FILLY TO JUMP ON ROOFS?! DA FLANK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
"Hey chill, it's not a big deal."
"Not a big deal?! She's just a filly! A FILLY!"
"You have to teach them from youth."
"But you have to consider the risks! What if she fell from a roof?"
"I supervised her every step, and helped her when needed, it was under control."
"How do you know it was under control?"
"Because THESE prove it." I pointed the scars filling my body "Because of these, I know what's right and what's wrong in freerunning. So that's how I know it was under control."
"Ohhh so some scars do TELL you when she's doing something wrong?"
"Hey I didn't say that."
"Oh yeah? Then what did you say? You know, I actually don't care, I'm sure someday she'll fall down and all the blame will be on you. Don't say I didn't warn you."
"All responsibility of her safety during our classes is upon me, I promised her sister that she'll be fine, and I keep my promises intact."
"Not ALL of them at least."
"This one will be."
Plaid left out a long sigh.
"I'll repeat it, don't say I didn't warn you dude."