//------------------------------// // The Dream // Story: When dreams come true // by Nightyy //------------------------------// When dreams come true Chapter 4 – The Dream It’s six o’clock in the morning, Monday. Rainbow Dash’s wish to become a Wonderbolt already became truth. But nothing is as it seems. Dash thought that everything will be perfect, but things turned into wrong way. You can find an idiot in every place and every community. The name of the idiot in here is Dark Flame. Maybe he can be smart, but almost nopony likes him. Rainbow Dash doesn’t know why is Spitfire holding him in the Wonderbolt’s Headquarters. Is it because he is her brother or is it something else? But the worst thing was that he is one of Dash’s trainers. He was supposed to be her trainer for Monday. Rainbow Dash just woke up. Spitfire told her what to do today. She looked at the clock and... “WHAT? It’s already six? Oh, no, no, no, no! I’ve overslept! This can’t be happening. My first training day and I’m late. I need to get to the great doors as soon as possible!” Dash was running in her room and preparing herself. “I need to broom my mane and... well I should eat something, but quickly and I also... oh no. Where is my dress? Where did I put... I must be in...” Dash tried hard, but she couldn’t find her dress. She decided to go without it. She ate her snack and quickly ran through the corridor to the great doors. Dark Flame was already waiting there. “Rainbow Dash. Not even that you didn’t put your dress on, but you are also late. I tried to be here in time and I was here as Spitfire said to us, but as I see always at least one must come late. Well as your punishment you can forget about your breakfast.” Dash slightly moved her head back and she was very surprised. “What? Yes I came late, but you can’t just forbid me my breakfast.” Dark Flame had sinister smile on his face. “You are wrong, Dash. I am your trainer so I decide what you will do. You had your time to go on breakfast, but you were sleeping. Now let’s go out and practise. Follow me Dash.” Dash wasn’t only hungry, but now she was also angry. But she had no choice. If she wants to become a real Wonderbolt she has to listen to the orders. Dark Flame led her to flat round place not far from the Headquarters. Dash could even see into Spitfire’s office. “This is the training area. Most of your practise will be here. Now I have to improve your acumen, but you came late, so you will get your punishment. You came after about ten minutes. That’s one hundred rounds. Well, enjoy it.” Dash wanted to protect herself. “I didn’t come after ten minutes. It was like three minutes. And why one hundred rounds? It’s too much.” Dark Flame had very sinister look. “You want to resist my order, Dash? I am the trainer in here and I say what you will do. If you don’t agree with it, then leave the Wonderbolts.” Rainbow was now even angrier. She looked at Dark Flame and then flew out. Dash started very fast. Maybe too fast. Dark Flame was counting Dash’s rounds. She was done after about minute and half. “I’m done Dark Flame. What now?” Dark Flame tried to look surprised. “Done? How can you be done, when you finished only ninety-nine rounds? One round is missing. Did you try to cheat and deceive me?” Rainbow Dash was now confused. “What? Cheat? I don’t cheat. I really finished all hundred rounds. You have to trust me!” Flame again smiled. “Well, I don’t have to. I think you tried to cheat. As your punishment you will have to do another hundred rounds. And of course you will have to repeat these first hundred rounds, so you will have two hundred rounds. Enjoy them Dash!” Dash looked with hope in Spitfire’s office. She saw Spitfire talking with Lightning Streak. But then she again heard her trainer. “Stop wasting our time. Start now or you will have to do more!” Dash decided to listen to his orders. She flew out, but this time much slower. She was tired and hungry. It took her about ten minutes to complete her task. “I’ve finished all the rounds Dark Flame.” Flame again tried to look surprised. “All? Oh I wasn’t looking. I’m sorry, but you know, you were so slow and boring. OK, I will believe that you’ve finished one hundred rounds, so you only have to do one last hundred. And please, don’t be so boring.” Dash was now totally mad and it was hard for her to hold herself. “You are total idiot! How can you be one of the Wonderbolts?” Dark Flame was waiting right for this moment. “Another two hundred rounds.” Dash was about to yell again when somepony’s voice stopped her. “You don’t have to do them Dash.” It was Lightning Streak. Flame turned at him and shouted. “What do you think of yourself? I am the trainer. You can be the eldest in here, but it’s me who’s giving the orders now!” Streak just quietly answered. “I have a message for you, Dark Flame. Spitfire wants to talk with you. You’d better go there now.” Dark Flame suddenly stopped. “What? Spitfire? Ehm... It’s not good, right? Never mind. But I still have to finish something in here before I go to her. Rainbow Dash! What are you waiting for?” She looked at Dark Flame with hatred in her eyes, turned on the other side and prepared herself for her flight. But first, she wanted to hear conversation between Lightning Streak and Dark Flame. “I think that Spitfire won’t wait. If Dash would be slow, and I think that she will be, it could anger her. You should go to see her now and when you return you can give another rounds to Rainbow Dash. You are the trainer, so you say what Dash will do, right?” Flame thought for a while. “You are right. Stop it Dash! You can rest now. But prepare yourself for five hundred rounds. And I hope that you will be fast. I will give you about one and half minute for each hundred rounds. But if you will be too slow, you will have to do another rounds. Let’s say... one hundred for one minute of delay.” Dash only opened her month and was totally stunned. After a while, when Dark Flame left, she yelled at Lightning Streak. “What have you done?! I just can’t make it in this time limit! I thought that you are on me side! And you do something like this!” Suddenly she stopped. Her rage turned into sadness and her eyes were full of sorrows. “Why? What have I done to you?” Lightning Streak put his hoof on Dash, but she immediately shook herself to get rid of his hoof. “Well Rainbow, you don’t need to be sad. Things will get better.” Dash looked again at Streak with rage in her eyes. “Better? How can they get better? YOU ruined my life! I don’t want to see you again! Go away!” “Sorry Dash, but I can’t leave. Trainer can’t leave his student.” Rainbow yelled at Lightning Streak with even more rage in her voice. “As you see, he already left me you idiot! And it has nothing to do with you!” Lightning Streak smiled. “Hmm... trainer can only leave when captain calls him. Yes Spitfire wanted to talk with Dark Flame and it was about training, but your captain is still here. And he won’t leave you or disappoint you, Dash.” Dash finally stopped crying and had little hope in her eyes.”You mean that you are my...” “Yes Dash. From now on, I am your trainer. And I promise that I will train you the best way I can.” Rainbow smiled after a long time and jumped into Streaks front legs. “I’m sorry for what I said. I didn’t know that you are my new trainer.” said Dash in joy while her stomach again rumbled. “But I am still hungry.” Lightning Streak was thinking for a while. “I see. But I have to train you. Well there is great restaurant nearby where I often go. I think we can call this theoretical training.” Streak led Rainbow Dash into his favourite restaurant ‘The Ninth Hoof’. It was cheap restaurant, but taste of their meals was perfect. They sat to table what was next to the window. Rainbow enjoyed that perfect scenery of Clouddon, one of many cloud cities. She was looking out of the window when waiter came to them. “Good day Lightning Streak. What do you want today?” “Hello Paul. I will eat your special salad and Rainbow Dash will eat...” Streak was awaiting response from Rainbow Dash, but she was still looking out of the window. “Ehm... Dash. What will you eat? Dash? Dash!” Rainbow got shocked and looked around her. “What? Who? Oh yeah, meal... I will eat... hmm... that salad looks good.” Dash ordered her meal and after a while Paul bring it to them. They spend all their training time in the restaurant and talked about Clouddon. Before, Dash only heard about Clouddon and this time she saw it for the very first time. When the time has come they both returned to the headquarters for lunch. Neither Dash nor Lightning Streak were hungry. But Dash was slightly tired so she went to her bed. When she fell asleep she had very weird dream. It was like the last dream. Dash saw it from same position. She saw Dark Flame’s back and in front of him Spitfire. *** “Hi sister. Lightning Streak told me that you want to talk with me.” Spitfire turned from window to Dark Flame. “Yes that’s true. He came here because he wanted to train Dash instead of you.” Dark Flame put on his evil and malefic smile. “And you send him away, right? So why you wanted me to come?” “I looked at you and Dash. What I saw was something very similar to torturing than training. So I decided that you will continue with your chemical researches and Lightning Streak will be Dash’s new trainer.” Dark Flame’s jaw fell down and opened his month. “WHAT? You made HIM a trainer. But I wanted to try it.” He then went to the window and looked through. “See? She is sad. She even cries. Under my training she would become the greatest flyer.” Spitfire coldly answered. “No my dear brother. She would die under your ‘training’. And as you can see she isn’t sad, but happy. Anyway, my word is rule in here. I said that Lightning Streak is now her trainer and so he is. Now go, I have things to do...” *** Dash woke up and looked around. Everything was right. She looked at the clock and saw that there’s still some time. She didn’t mind her dream with Dark Flame because she wanted to enjoy the rest of her day with Lightning Streak. Dash was meanwhile looking for her dress. She found it under her bed. Trying to focus her mind on what happened and why is it under the bed was useless. Dash took her dress into mouth and raised her head. Suddenly her mouth opened and her dress fell back on the floor. She remembered her old dream and with little thinking she put one and one together. Imagination that this thing happened, what could possibly do, terrified her once more. “Oh my ... This can’t be true! But I need to concentrate. I have to train. And mainly, I have to calm myself down. I think that this dream was history, so it means that dream what I had before was history too. Anyway... How did my dress get under the bed?” Dash was thinking for a while when somepony knocked on her door. “Come in.” Lightning Streak came through the door. “Hello Rainbow Dash. I came here to tell you about our training. I will have to go and take care of some sort of things, so we will have to end early today.” “That’s great! I mean... I have to take care of something too. It’s very... important for me.” responded Dash while she was putting on her dress. Lightning Streak came to her and helped. “I hope Dash that you can be in the training area in ten minutes. We will meet there.” said Lightning Streak and left Dash’s room. Dash was waiting for a while and then left her room too. She had eight minutes, what was pretty much time, but she met Dark Flame. “Oh, Dash. You are in you dress. So you go for your training. But how is it possible are you going there in time? Oh, I get it. You are coming late only on my lessons. Is it because you saw how I’m coming late?” he said with arrogance in his face. “No it’s not true...” said Dash but she was suddenly cut off by Dark Flame. “So tell me, why you came late on my training and not also on Lightning’s training?” Suddenly Lightning Streak came from the dining room. “Ehm. Actually, Dash is late. I told her to come earlier. Yeah we wanted to start ten minutes before than normally. So Dash, you are late.” Dash didn’t know what’s going on and thought that Lightning Streak again turned on Flame’s side. And when Dash was sad, Dark Flame was more and more happy. “Oh, that’s it! Can I give her the punishment?” Lightning Streak responded with his typical stone face. “No. I have something worse for her. Dash, follow me!” So Dash slowly put her head down and walked behind Lightning Streak. When they got into the training area Dash immediately asked Lightning Streak what was that. He answered her smile on his face. “Well Dark Flame is jealous idiot. So I thought that if I would act like you came late, he will let us be. I think that he won’t provoke you for a while.” Dash smiled and hugged Lightning Streak. “You are just the best.” The rest of the training was normal. Dash flew as Streak told her and improved her turning in high speed. But after about two hours Lightning Streak said. “Well done Rainbow Dash. It is all for today. So it means your training is over. Good bye.” Dash also said good bye to Lightning Streak and thought about the time what she spend with him. But she almost forgot what she wanted to do. As she remembered she ran into Spitfire’s office. When she was in front of the door she took a deep breath and knocked. Voice from the other side said: “Come in”. Dash walked into the door and shut them. Spitfire raised her head from papers what were laying on her table. “Is there something with what I can help you Dash?” “Yes. Could you please tell me about what were you talking with Dark Flame this morning?” Spitfire stood up. “Well I think it’s our personal thing.” Dash suddenly felt embarrassed. “Oh yes, I forgot. Sorry for that. But it’s really important for me. Can you please tell if you were talking about my training?” Spitfire responded. “No.” Dash turned to the door and slowly opened them. “Oh, then sorry for wasting your time.” Dash was leaving, but Spitfire continued. “I wanted to say that we didn’t talk about you and your training. Or how can I say it. It wasn’t debate. I just told Dark Flame how it will be.” In that time dark blue pegasus came in. “Hi sister. Is now the right time to talk about what happened this morning?” Spitfire sat down. “Yes. It’s great time. Dash, please leave us alone.” Dash left the office. As she left, Dark Flame fiercely shut the door. Dash has never done this, but this time it was important. She put her left ear on the door and listened what they were talking about. First words were like Spitfire’s. “So, the truth is that Lightning Streak came to me this morning and wanted to be a trainer for this season. And he wanted to switch his place with you. I didn’t think that it was a bad idea so I’ve switched you. That’s the story.” Second voice was now talking and in its sound was surprise. “I can’t believe that you didn’t send him away. Anyway, when you made your decision why you wanted me to come here? It’s just waste of our time.” “Well I knew that you won’t like it, so I called you here to talk about it. I was watching you all. When I saw you and Dash she wasn’t happy. Well your training also wasn’t training. It was like tyranny. This is my argument.” said the first voice. But the second voice replied with anger in it. “Your argument is because she was sad? Or better to say she LOOKED sad? Well I saw them when they went into the training area and Dash was VERY sad. And my training is perfect. It would make her the best.” “No my dear brother. Dash is the beginner. You made that training too hard for her. And also I looked out of the window and I saw how they trained. Dash was doing exactly what Lightning Streak told her and it wasn’t like ‘do one hundred rounds’ and she was even HAPPY! Now go... I have things to do.” Dash was absolutely stunned. She didn’t even notice voice what was calling her. After a while her mind came back and she started focusing again. The voice was very similar to Blaze. “Dash! Dash! Can you tell me what are you doing?” She turned to her with horrified look. “Sorry Blaze, but I just can’t.”