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// Lessons Part 1: Time for Flying Class! 
// Story: My Little NinjaGo 
// by yolky206 
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	The next day, Twilight woke up to the same book hitting her head. She groaned in frustration, then levitated the book back where it belonged. She quickly woke up Spike and told him to go get Lloyd to start the lessons.
"What are you girls going to be teaching them?" Spike asked her.
"Well, for today Rainbow and Fluttershy are going to teach most of them how to fly." Twilight told him. "Tomorrow most of them will learn how to control their higher strenghs."
"Huh." Spike replied to her. "Well, while you're getting Lloyd ready I can help you by searching for the others. I can bring them here or something."
"That's a great idea!" Twilight happily said. "However, bring them to Applejack's place. They'll be taking the lessons in a field on her farm."
"Yes ma'am!" Spike saluted and grabbed a gem or two from under his pillow before running off to get her friends.
Twilight chuckled after he left, then proceeded to wake up Lloyd. Only this time, she levitated his back legs up in the air and shook him. She saw Lloyd open his eyes and heard him scream from the surprise. Twilight began laughing and let go of her magic. Lloyd landed on the ground with a painful slamming noise and a moan of pain. She just laughed harder until she was tackled by Lloyd. She went flying to the ground with Lloyd next to her. He had a smile on his face, and was starting to laugh. She laughed as well, and slowly got up to get him downstairs. "Lloyd, remember. Today you have to learn how to fly. That'll just give me more ways to wake you up unless you can get up yourself."
"Okay, okay." Lloyd said. "I'll find a way to get up. But when do we have to leave for the lessons?"
"Well Spike's getting the rest of us, and we have to get breakfast, so that means we have to leave in seven minutes to get there on time." Twilight explained.
Lloyd began to panic after hearing that. He didn't want to miss out on flying, but he needed his breakfast. "What do we do?" He asked Twilight with a slight rush in his voice.
"Relax, I'm just going to bring some toast along while we head to Sweet Apple Acres." Twilight told him. "We should get going now, we need to be fully prepared in four minutes."
Lloyd just got more nervous and began to run downstairs. He tripped at the top though, and started falling down the wooden steps. Just before he hit the floor, he felt Twilight's magic surround him in a Levitation spell. Lloyd was lifted up and flipped around so he was back on his hooves. He thanked Twilight, then continued running out the door. Behind him Twilight was running after him with a few slices of toast levitating beside her. Lloyd just ran on to Swet Apple Acres, and decided not to stop until he got there.

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Twilight eventually caught up to Lloyd, who was impatiently waiting for her at the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres. 'How can he run that fast and far without getting tired?' She wearily asked herself. After taking a deep breath she ran over to Lloyd and levtated a slice of toast to him. He picked it up with his teeth as she let go of the toast. Twilight took a slice herself and began walking to the field Applejack told them about.
The journey to the field was short, but Twilight was very exhausted. Batlling the forest fire drained most of her energy from her, and all the spells she recently acomplished made it harder to perform any more spells. 'That's why Magic Lessons will be last, that way I will have enough energy to teach the others.' She thought. 'Then tomorrow Applejack and Pinkie will teach them about Earth pony strenghs. I don't think that Cole will be alone in that class. If my studies are correct, then Lloyd, Sensei, and Garmadon will also learn about using their higher durability.' Twilight happily thought of all the rest she should be able to get, and in the process she was able to recover most of her lost energy from running. She followed Lloyd into the field where she could see most of her friends waiting for both of them. She didn't see Kai though. 'He's probably exhausted after that Magic Spurt, setting the Everfree Forest on fire and all.' She thought to herself. 'He might also feel a bit guilty for causing panic and chaos.' Twilight made it down to where most of her friends were sitting and said hello. All of her friends greeted her, except Garmadon. He just turned the other way and ignored everypony.
"........" Twilight knew that he tried saying something, but nothing came out.
"What is it brother?" Sensei asked Garmadon.
"........ Nothing." Garmadon said.
Twilight was surprised. Garmadon's voice was deeper than she imagined, and it was filled with evil and sadness. She felt a bit of pity for him, but not a whole lot. Garmadon WAS the reason they were in Equestria in the first place. She went to the center of the clearing and motioned for Rainbow and Fluttershy to come to her. "Okay everypony!" Twilight began. "Today most of you ponies will be learning how to fly. Flying is an important part of the life of Pegasi, and it can make you faster than most ponies. Rainbow here is one of the fastest ponies I've ever seen. But that's mostly because of her flight speed. She's also the Weather Manager here, and being a Pegasus like her allows you to move clouds and control the weather. Fluttershy's a bit different. She isn't as fast, but for her flight is still useful. She can reach higher places to help her animals and use the wings to carry things for them. Those are just some basic uses of flight, but today you'll be learning how to fly. Rainbow and Fluttershy will be your teachers, and if there are any questions please ask them."
Twilight finished her long speech and walked away from the center of the field. She saw Rainbow motion for all of them with wings to get over to the center for their lessons. Zane, Jay, Lloyd, Sensei, and Garmadon got up and she watched them as they prepared themselves fo flight.
"Alright there, lets get started!" Shouted Rainbow with enthusiasm. "First things first, move your wings! Just try flapping them, like this." Rainbow flapped her wings up and down and motioned for the others to do the same. She watched each of them move their wings up and down, Jay moving them the fastest and Zane the slowest. Sensei, Garmadon, and Lloyd each flapped their wings at the same speed. "Okay, now that you guys can move your wings, start running! Flapp your wings while doing it, then jump!"
Rainbow gave a quick demostration of running while flapping her wings. Once she reached maximum speed she jumped and took off, flying in circles around them. She landed and motioned one of them to go first. Jay was the first one to volunteer, so she told him to go for it. "Just do as I showed you and you'll be up in the air in no time!"
No sooner than Rainbow said that, Jay was running with his wings flapping wildly.
"Umm... Try to flap your wings at the same time.... If that's okay with you..." Fluttershy called out to Jay.
"I'm trying!" Jay shouted out to them.
Rainbow just watched Jay try to straighten out his flapping patterns, while surpresssing a laugh. If he was trying that hard, then that made Derpy a better flier than the Wonderbolts combined. She noticed that he was preparing to jump, and that made her a bit nervous. If he crashed, well, she didn't want to think about that. But it was too late to stop Jay. He jumped once he ran as fast as he could go, with his wings flapping incredibly fast. Rainbow saw that how fast his wings were going could turn into a problem, so she lept into the air and flew after him. She managed to get to Jay before his wings could send him flying upwards and began to yell to him. "Calm down! Don't flap so hard! If you do then you'll fly to fast going upwards!"
"I'll try!" Jay yelled before slowing his wing speed. Eventually he found the right speed to hover in the air so he could control himself.
"Good job there!" Rainbow said. "All you need to do now is just flap your wings a little bit, but tilt them so they push you forward."
Jay nodded as he postioned his wings. He flapped them slowly at first, then once he got more confident, he flapped them as hard as possible. He felt himself going faster and faster, and he realized that he learned how to fly. 'This is just like my old Storm Fighter!'. "THIS IS AWESOME!" Jay shouted. Then something hit him. How to land. "UHH.. GUYS?! HOW DO I LAND WITHOUT GETTING HURT?!"
"Oh yeah...." Rainbow said once she realized that he couldn't stop. "I forgot to tell you about that, just hover slowly to the ground. Flap your wings slower than the hover speed and you should start going down."
Rainbow watched Jay hover, then slow down. She was prepared for what came next, seeing as how he was almost never flapping his wings. A loud crashing sound came from one of the trees along with a groan of pain. She laughed a bit at what just happened before she flew off to help Jay out of the tree. "You took a fall there, you alright?" She asked him once she got over there.
"Yeah, I guess I'm okay." Jay responded.
"Great!" Rainbow shouted. "You can keep practicing, Fluttershy can help you. NOW LETS DO THIS!" She flew quickly down to where the others were waiting to learn and stopped in mid-air in front of them. "Okay, I'm gonna take all four of you up there to learn at the same time." She instructed. "You all saw Jay flying, and that means you can too. Once you can hover, speed up, slow down, and land, you go with Fluttershy to keep practicing. Got it?" After Rainbow said that she got a round of nods from her 'students'. "Good, now lets go! I want you to run while flapping your wings, just like Jay did earlier." She landed on the ground and pointed to where they should run. All four of them nodded and took off. Rainbow just watched how each of them tried to acomplish their task. Zane was balanced with his wings moving at the same time. Sensei was a bit slower, but his timing was just as good as Zane's. Lloyd was almost as bad as Jay, he was flapping his wings at random times. Garmadon was an interesting one to see. His dragon wings flapped slowly, and he wasn't running very fast at all. Yet he seemed to be the one most likely to fly first and succeed. Rainbow flew after them in order to encourage them to jump. "Okay! Now! Jump now in order to fly! But don't stop flapping your wings!"
All of them jumped with their wings flapping. Rainbow could only watch in awe as Garmadon and Sensei were able to understand flying in seconds. Both of them were flying very well. They were slow, but powerful. Zane was a bit more balanced, and he didn't have much trouble with flying. Lloyd was the only issue. He flapped his wings at different times and was upside down for a few minutes. Rainbow flew over to him and told him to flap his wings at the same time. He eventually balanced himself out with her help. She instructed him to tilt his wings and flap in order to move forward. Once Lloyd could do it without her help Rainbow flew over to the others in order to give the same instructions.

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Eventually all five of them mastered basic flying from Rainbow and practiced with Fluttershy. Twilight enjoyed watching the whole thing, even when Jay fell into the apple tree. Although she didn't see Kai the whole time, she knew that he would probably be fit enough for the Magic Class. She was watching all of the ponies who could fly when she noticed that the sun was starting to set. She called out to Rainbow about the time, and eventually everypony was on the ground and prepared to go home. Twilight told Lloyd and Spike to stay close to her as they went home. 'This is going to be a very interesting week.' She thought.