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// The Wind 
// Story: Eljunbyro 
// by Imploding Colon 
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	The next day came like a bang, and still I was staring at her.  So long as I kept my eyes closed, the train ride didn't end.  It was something I could allow myself, a tiny little morsel of a weekend that contained both the best and worst nights ever.

Even in the blistering winds, that memory remained, filling my wings with energy as I rode the currents, twirling over the yawning landscape below.  I was so lost in the moment that I barely registered the object soaring my way until it blurred past me.

My eyes opened to a flash of daylight, and an even brighter flash of pink blew over my head, throwing me off-balance.  I spun several times above Ponyville town hall, coming out of the twirl with a dizzying lurch.  My wings beat again, allowing me to hover as I looked every which way for the sign of the unidentified bogey.

Finally, I saw it: a pink cloud was surging skyward, moving on its own volition.  I was too angry to be overwhelmed by the shock of the spectacle.

"Come back here, you!"  I bolted after the fuschia cumulonimbus, my ears ringing from the wind splitting on either side of me.  In no time at all, I caught up with the errant cloud, tackling it with a victorious shout.  "Gotcha!"

As soon as I tangled with the fluffy bed, I wished that I hadn't.  Instead of grasping a tangible body of vapors, I was struggling to get unstuck from a goopy, sticky mess.

"Ewwww!" I instinctually moaned.  "What is this?!" my voice cracked, and I shook my body from mane to tail.  I was only partially successful in shaking the pink globs off of me.  I glanced at a clump of the stuff sticking to my hoof. Impulsively, I lapped my tongue against it.  I felt the taste in my mouth, and my face twitched upon the realization.  "C-cotton candy...?"

Several more pink shapes darted past my peripheral vision.  I glanced around me, gasping as more and more candied clouds swarmed over the heights of Ponyville.  My heart started beating heavily, and I didn't understand why...

"The wind," a voice said.

My eyes twitched.  I looked up towards the heavens, and the azure sky coalesced into two pearl blue spheres.  I had no breath to gasp with.

"It belongs under Austraeoh's wings, not yours."

I gawked towards the skies.  Just then, I heard a rumbling noise.  I glanced straight up to see a slightly darker cloud of pink hovering above me.  A single dark drop hit my forehead, and I growled.

"Wait a second!" I snarled.  "It's not supposed to rain until tomorrow!  You can't just—"

A torrential downpour of dark brown rain covered me from above, obsuring my vision...