How I Became Rainbow Dash

by Lt Rainbow Slash

Chapter 1: The start of it all

My human name is Cooper Bogart, I'm 14 in Grade 9, my second year of high school.

Come on, come on!

I hate fourth block, and school in general (who doesn't). It's the last class of the school day, but it always feels longer than an hour and a half

Well, at least block four is guitar class today. I think to myself while staring off into space. Much more fun than Science or Spanish at least.

"Hey, Cooper? You there buddy?" I quickly turn to see Elysa Beilka, (funny name, I know) my best friend, in this class at least, looking at me with a concerned look on his face. Ely is 5'8 with basically a really curly brown afro, (no he's white you people who believe stereotypes) and brown eyes. The dude's a bit of an eccentric when it comes to, well basically everything from conspiracy theories, to his favourite video games.

"Ya, whats up dude."

"You were a little zoned out there, you alright?"

"Ja, ja, ich bin gut."

"What?!"
Oops, slipping into my german again.

"Sorry, it means 'Ja I'm good'. Since my visit to Lichtenstein (no, it's a real country, my grandmother was born there) this summer I keep slipping into my german every now and then" I quickly explain.

"Ok, whats it like?" he asks me.

"Oh, think Switzerland but about 10 times smaller."

"Oh"

"Anyway, you free this weekend?"

"Well, I'm longboarding with Matt and Joel on Saturday, but I got nothin Sunday"

"Cool, my house at uhhhh...11?"

"Yea, that works."

I think for a few more seconds before deciding to play 'Time Of Your Life' by Greenday, the one song I've mastered already.

To be honest before this year I had never touched a guitar in my life.

"Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing"
There's the bell. I'm outta here!

"Bye Coop, see ya tomorrow!"

"See ya Ely!"

I quickly make my way to my Locker which is nearly on the other side of the school.

Ok, let's see. Math? No homework. Science? Nope. Intergraded Studies? (fancy way of saying Social Studies and English in one yearlong class) Nope. And never any Guitar homework. Ok where's Austin?

I grab my back pack and head towards my younger brother's locker.

I see Aussi walking towards me. Its hard to believe that I'm a year and ten months older than he is. He's 6'2, 145 lb. brown hair, brown eyes. Only difference between us being I'm 6'3, 135 lb. and our faces are shaped different.

"Hey Bro, sup" I ask.

"Eh, not much, other than Mr. Mundi being a dick in science class again"

"How so?"

Austin looks at me and launches into one of his trademark half-sarcastic half-plain-pissed-off explanations "You ever have a teacher that gets of topic, on his own, talks about whatever it is for 20 minutes, then gets pissed off and blames you for getting off topic?!"

"Ah, I see. Erwin has complained to me several times about him, sounds like a total A-hole"

"Don't I know it" he replies with an eye roll.

We exit the back entrance if the school and head through the forest on the way home chatting about video games, which girls at school are hot, you know, regular teenage boy stuff.

It takes us about 25 minutes to walk home. We stop at Safeway and buy some candy to eat while we play on our Xbox. When we get home the first thing out of Austin's mouth (of course) is "Dibs the Xbox"

"Ugh. Fine I'll just watch youtube then"

"Whatcha gonna watch?"

"Eh probably gonna catch up on Nanners and Chilled (yes the youtubers) and play some Xcom"

"K"

After watching Nanners shenanigans for a hour I started up Xcom: Enemy Unknown. For those who don't know Xcom is a tile turn based strategy game. You have 4 to 6 soldiers and you have to complete an objective which is normally kill all the aliens. They can range from small humanoid Sectoids which can't really hurt you but you can one hit, to giant Sectopods which are super tough robot walkers that can one hit your troops. Anyway getting off topic.

We play video games for the next 3 hours before Mom yells at us to turn it off. We yell back "just let me finish my level/mission". Eventually we do and go have dinner of pasta and bratwurst, man I love those things.

After dinner I go turn on my guitar amp and practice some ACDC for a bit. My favourite is 'Shoot To Thrill'. I'm planning to enter the next 'Semi's Got Talent' with my band, and play 'Shoot To Thrill' and another song I'm writing.

After I finished playing along to the music from my iPod, I went upstairs to have a quick shower. Then I brushed my teeth and got ready for bed. Now I know many of my friends and class mates get to stay up till one in the morning, but not me. My Mom is one of those who says you need lot of sleep, which is why I have to go to bed by 9:30..........Waaaa.

I hopped into bed and shut my eyes. Now normally I'm lucky if I end up lying in bed for 30 minutes before I fall asleep. Normally its 45 minutes to an hour. Not his night, I wasn't even that tired, but as soon as my head hit the pillow I was out.

And then it happened.

I woke up and saw a fluffy cloud wall, and the bed was so comfy........

Wait...fluffy cloud wall?!?!

I sit up and look around.

WTF!!