//------------------------------// // Pony riding a lighting. // Story: I think I love you... // by FinnPony //------------------------------// Rain lashed the windows of the carousel shaped building. Wind was so strong that it made trees bend so much that it almost seemed like they were going to crack any second. Sudden cracks of lighting illuminated the otherwise dark and stormy Ponyville in clear white, but just for seconds. Then the darkness fell over the town again. Inside Carousel Boutique, sat three ponies around small round kitchen table with steaming cups of tea in front o them. Two of them were still teenagers, while the third one was mare at her twenties. She had clean light gray, almost white coat, and elegantly curvy body. Her tail and mane were soft indigo purple, and they were curled stylishly. Her cutie mark was three purple diamonds. Long beautiful eyelashes and light blue eye shadow highlighted her big azure colored eyes, that were fixated to something outside the window. She was Rarity. The local fashionista and dressmaker. She was sitting with her sister Sweetie Belle, and her newly found coltfriend Rumble. They all looked outside the window, towards the grey clouds above. Suddenly Rumble pointed his hoof towards one of the storm clouds and said: "There!" Rarity saw a shadow near the cloud Rumble was pointing, and all of a sudden a lighting struck from that cloud, making her jump a little. She saw a figure resembling a pony dash inside, or maybe on the lighting, but it was really fast, and she wasn't sure what it was. Rarity watched in total awe, and Rumble had a proud grin on his face. "W-was that your brother?" Rarity asked and looked at Rumble, blinking confusedly. Sweetie Belle turned to them, and asked: "What just happened?" "Thunderlane rode a lighting," Rumble said proudly. Both mares looked at him, mouth agape. Rarity felt her heart pound a little, she had never seen anything like that. They turned towards the window again, and could see a black figure flying around the clouds in distance. Rarity followed the black pegasus with her gaze, feeling a bit unreal. "How can he do that?" Sweetie Belle asked and leaned closer to Rumble, who answered: "I don't know. He's only one who can do it in Ponyville. Maybe in whole Equestria." "Well that is something you don't see everyday," Rarity wondered out loud, and a small smile appeared on her lips. After the trio had finished their teas, Sweetie Belle and Rumble retrieved to Sweetie Belle's room. Meanwhile Rarity placed the used cups to the kitchen sink, to be washed later. Now she didn't have time for that. Rarity quickly trotted back to the table besides the window, and sat down. She leaned her head against her hooves and stared at the black pegasus soaring the stormy skies over Ponyville. "I haven't felt like this in a while.." Rarity thought, but then she started to think what she was actually feeling. She frowned while trying to figure what it was, and it seemed like it would be a impossible task. After a while of following the pegasus with her eyes, Rarity suddenly got what the odd feeling was. "Exited! That's it! I haven't felt this exited in a while.." Rarity thought, smiling victoriously. Actually she hadn't felt that exited after she had heard about Big Macintosh's marefriend. He had been Rarity's crush for long time for some reason even she herself couldn't fully explain. She was a elegant lady, and Big Macintosh was a farmer, there was such a big difference between them two that how could it even make any kind of sense? Rarity looked at the table and smiled a little, thinking: "Maybe it was the difference between us that made me feel so exited." She then lifted her gaze up towards the pegasus again. "Could this be the same thing?" she thought to herself, and started to recap her every memory of that black pegasus with ice blue mohawk. She went back to the very beginning, where they two met. It was during Rainbow Dash's boot camp at Wonderbolt academy. Rarity smiled warmly while remembering those times. Rarity heard a loud crack and a white light illuminated the room. She looked out and saw Thunderlane circling one cloud, probably trying to see if it a lighting was going to strike from it. Rarity didn't take her eyes of him, and continued her remembering. She and her other friends decided to take a care baggage to Rainbow Dash, when her co-partner accidentally launched a uncontrolled tornado towards their hot air balloon. Rarity shivered. She still had nightmares about it how she spun around in the twist before starting to fall towards earth. Rarity shook her head to focus on the task at hoof. She was falling down, but Rainbow Dash's cloud trampoline had bounced her right back up. She remembered how that didn't feel any better than falling down. She smiled a little, when she remembered what happened next. She had suddenly stopped, and felt strong hooves around her body. She had slowly opened her eyes and she had seen pair of golden eyes, with worried look in them. Instead of saying anything, Rarity had felt a sudden urge to do something else, and she had hugged her winged savior. Afterwards they had been talking about the incident with him, but Rarity realized one thing. "I never actually thanked him," she thought, and saw Thunderlane starting to fly further away from Carousel Boutique. She also realized that they hadn't even spoken after that, and the incident at the Wonderbolt academy had happened many years aback. "I don't even know if he got in or not.." Rarity though, and pushed her head deeper into her hooves, when she saw that black pegasus disappearing over the gray clouds. Rarity sighed, and rose back to sitting upright. She started to feel rather irritated by the situation. She knew that her feelings were still a bit stirred up after she found out about Big Mac dating somepony, but still she felt funny deep inside her. She also knew that only couple of ponies had made her feel that way, ever. The first one was prince blue blood, then Big Macintosh and now.. "Thunderlane," Rarity thought, trying the name in her head. She let out a annoyed groan, and jumped down from her chair. Rarity then took a last look at the window, but saw nopony soaring on the stormy skies. "I need to get back to work," Rarity thought. "That should get my head cleared."