Colts and fillies ran and played some taking flight and trying easy tricks and rolls across the playground. A young Storm-sky stood atop the cloud dome nervously as he flicked his wings testingly in the light breeze. He was small for his age and lanky not to mention a blank flank; most of the colts made fun of him for his oversized wings and his emotional sensativity. One of his largest fears was falling from the sky which he did often because of his larger than average wings. The wings made it hard to stay aloft because he did not have all of the strength required to propel himself for long distances. Storm-sky stood there peering over the dome. His friends said it was easy to fly from up there with the breeze always blowing. He opened his wings to take off when he heard a snickering from behind.
"Are you going to try to fly from here "Sob"-sky?" The bullied tormented.
The bullies had been taking a likeness to calling him Sob-sky for the few occasions he broke down and cried from his insecurities about flight. Storm-sky snapped his wings shut with a rustle of feathers a blush crossing his face.
"Ummmm..." Storm-sky could say nothing in regards to the bullys question.
"How about I give you a little help!" The bully sneered stalking towards Storm-sky trying to get Storm-sky to slip and fall.
The fall would not have hurt Storm-sky due to the fact that below was made out of soft cushiony cloud but the fear of falling was still there; it had been months of torment and Storm-sky had just about enough. With a stomp of Storm-skys hoof more for effect and a snort he flared his wings out.
"NO! I will work on my flying by myself and I dont need help from someone like you! Your just a no good featherless bully." Storm-sky shouted back.
Calling a fellow pegasi featherless was an offense most pegasi got sent to the head principals office. Storm-sky always had stuck up for others in the past because he felt right helping others.
"What did you just call me?" The bully said darkly and lowly lowering his head slightly
"Featherless!" Storm-sky shouted again. At this point a gaggle of fellow students who had gathered all gasped wide eyed in shock. Some murmered back and forth with each other in awe of their fellow student and the words he chose to use.
"Im going to squash you!" The bullied charged at him wings raised and ready to fight. Storm-sky using his oversized wings launched himself like a rocket off the cloud dome racing high into the cloud layer. The bully followed closely behind; as the air got thinner and the clouds got darker streaks of lightning arced across the clouds. A storm was brewing; no colts or fillies had been up this high that he knew of. Storm-skys larger wings helped propel him through the constantly thining air. The bully latched on Storm-skys hoof and hung on until Storm-sky buffeted the bully with his wings a resound crack to the air shaking the bully off. Once again they flew until a blinding light made it feel like Storm-sky was frozen in mid air; the sizzling of his fur and mane and the feeling of something hot and slick being etched into his front left hoof and shoulder. His eyes fluttered shut and he began to fall back to the cloud below.
Storm-sky shot awake a cold sweat had broken out across his brow and he had been weeping in his sleep. He rubbed his Lichtenberg figure on his left shoulder tracing it down his hoof. The mere nightmare of how he recieved his storm cloud and lightning cutie mark haunted him; it was rare for him to dream about that, he mostly dreamed about mares. However he was commited to his work and did not indudlge in those fantasies. His thoughts doubted him however; the inner mind working itself to a conclusion about Blueblood.
A couple weeks later Blueprint was sunning himself lazily in the gardens. Laying there without a care in the world a flutter of wings alerting him to a precense of at least a pegasi and possibly an alicorn. Blueprint looked up at the face of none other than Captain Storm-sky. Blueprint fluttered his wings in order to put some distance between them expecting a fight. The Captain dove forward catching Blueprint unaware and too quickly for Blueprint to act. The captain barreled over Blueprint pinning him down on Blueprint's back wings splayed out underneath him a soft whimper left Blueprint's muzzle.
"Shhhh. Kid. I dont want to hurt you; I'm not here to hurt you." Captain Storm-sky spoke softly into Blueprint's ear trying not to make a scene or draw attention.
"Do you understand?" Captain asked slowly.
Blueprint nodded slowly trying to comply the best he could. The captain smiled; he was treating Blueprint just as he would his own colt. Internally priding himself The captain sat and released Blueprint before flopping down tiredly on his side.
"Why are you here?" Blueprint asked with a small amount of acidity to his voice.
"Im here, because who I work for reminds me of someone who bullied me along time ago" Storm-sky spoke in a soft tone trying to sound as gentle as possible.
"I came to apologize to you, Blueprint." The captain spoke slowly letting Blueprint process the information.
Before Blueprint could say anything Storm-sky took off looking only back to say.
"I'm sorry."