I race to my training spot above the trees of the Everfree, the wind whipping my mane and sending it flying about. Today was the day I could finally get to practice the ultimate move; the spectral rainboom, which happens only when I go faster than the speed of light. My hopes are to perfect it before performing with Soarin and Spitfire at the summer sun celebration in Ponyville. The original plan was for me to do a solo finale performing a sonic rainboom, but that's too lame for my home town.
I stop myself in the air as I reach my special area above a clearing in the Everfree forest. The cool breeze in the air up here makes me shiver a bit as I brace myself for the gauntlet. The gauntlet is my usual training area, complete with cloud obstacle maze, wind blowers for extreme weather training, and even self detonating thunder clouds. Yea, an awesome pony like me needs some awesome equipment to become even better than I am now, Which still isn't an easy feat.
I lower myself back onto the ground so I can get a good push off to start my course. As my hooves touch the ground, My wings relax and rest at my side. As a precaution, I put on my lightning proof Wonderbolt suit, not that I need it.
I bend my front legs, to help me get good acceleration, and open my wings to prepare for lift off. The cool breeze blows through my feathers and gives them a tingling sensation. I put as much force as possible into my wings as I lift my legs off the ground and with one powerful flap of my wings, lift off the ground. I manage my usual Sonic Rainboom as I reach the first obstacle in my Gauntlet, the wind blowers. I glide along the edge of the wind's path as I maneuver through the first group of blowers, my tail creating it's usual rainbow-like glow. I approach the second set of wind blowers, these ones more condensed and pressurized, as I pull of a double Rainboom. This creates a burst of wind that would usually leave a crater, but since Ponyville is so far away from the Everfree the worst they'll get is dropped ice cream cones and spilled drinks.
I reach the second set of blowers and go in a zig-zag fashion to avoid the wind. I make it through the second group with ease, as always.
I approach the second part of my Gauntlet, the self detonating clouds, these babies can detonate at completely random times, helping me prepare for anything, even being struck by lightning. I start to go under one cloud as it sends a bolt of lightning my way. I dodge it by simply gliding to the left and the bolt hits the lightning rod I have set up on the ground, just one way my training can help ponies. The rod has a wire that leads to Fluttershy's house and when lightning hits the rod, it gives her some electricity.
I race towards the next cloud as it strikes three bolts of lightning that I don't have enough time to avoid, and one of the bolts hit me, going through my suit and giving me a rush of energy, making me go a little bit faster than I wanted to go at this time, but I can account for it. I make it to the final cloud as it shoots lightning in almost every direction that lead below the cloud. I take a left and go around the cloud, hoping it wouldn't send a stray bolt towards me.
as I approach the obstacle maze, a stray bolt goes past my body zooming into the course and ricochets off one of the clouds, making the bolt come around to hit me square in the chest, giving me a bit of impact shock but still just going through my suit and giving me a rush of power again I give my wings another powerful flap, unexpectedly creating my spectral Rainboom, guess I'm more awesome than I thought, though it doesn't help, only hurts. Upon creating the spectral Rainboom I hit one of the clouds and it sends me flying towards the ground.
"Okay," I say to myself, "This is really bad." I'm not losing much speed. At this rate, I'll have to open my wings to stop myself to avoid major injury. I open my wings and the wind hits it like a sledge hammer. My wings flinch back as I scream in pain and keep falling. I reach one of the trees surrounding the opening in the Everfree, and it takes one of my wings clean off, leaving nothing but a searing pain and blood spewing everywhere. I hit the ground with my still attached wing and hear a few crunching sounds. The pain is nearly unbearable, and I can see black dots forming around the edges of my vision as I lay there, in a puddle of my own blood from my wing being taken off. I can't take this pain, I try to call out for help but it comes out raspy and hurts my throat. This must be what real pain feels like, not the small stuff that usually happen when me and spitfire get into fights. Deep, searing, unbearable pain that comes with the feeling of death and the fear of your own mortality.
The black dots that formed around my peripherals now almost block out my vision entirely as I close my eyes. Maybe somepony will find me and get me to the hospital, I don't think I can walk right now. My eyes close entirely and I feel myself lifting off the ground as the pain subsides, then goes away entirely. I open my eyes in excitement thinking somepony had come to save me. When I look around I notice that nopony is there, I'm just being lifted off the ground by nothingness.
I look down to see what's going on and see my body. I gulp as I realize what's going on. I'm dead, I'm dead and have become a ghost.