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// Destiny 
// Story: I Promise 
// by pokeking95 
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	“I can’t believe it!  How could they?  Extra lessons?  I’ve been practicing!  Non-stop!  Why would they be so disappointed?  It’s because they didn’t like my, ahem, awesome new cutie mark, I know it!”

“Well, I guess… I guess they just hoped you were going to get a cutie mark related to music.”

“Sure, but that’s not what I’m good at!  I only play music ‘cuz Mom and Dad say so, but flying… that’s my special talent!  Proof of it right here!”

“Yeah… I mean, you can’t change your cutie mark, and we really should have seen this coming.  In fact, I remember you started flying before you even learned how to talk!”

“Then why, sis… Why can’t Mom and Dad be proud of me?”

“I’m sure they—“

“They’re not, Lyra!  Why don’t they get it?  They want me to be a musician, but I can’t.  I’m no good at it.  I’m too slow reading the notes, playing the flute feels really awkward with hooves… I mess up, Lyra.  It’s just… not my destiny or whatever they called it.”

“…Well, for what it’s worth, I like your cutie mark!”

“You do?”

“Yeah!  And the way you earned it was incredible, too!  I’ve never seen anypony fly so fast.  I didn’t even know pegasi could do stunts like that!  All those spins and loop-the-loops… and then when you finished it off by landing on that lightning cloud…  Wow, that was some lightshow!  There were sparks everywhere!  It really does look fun to be able to fly.

“It is!”

“But Lightning Dust, I want you to never do such dangerous tricks again, okay?  You could get yourself—or somepony else—seriously hurt!”

“Tch, whatever, Lyra.  But yeah, I am pretty amazing.  I showed those jerks that I’m better than all of them at one thing, and that’s flying!  Made them eat their words, right?”

“Heh heh, sure, Dusty.”

“Definitely gonna get into the Wonderbolts now, right?”

“Definitely.”

“Sweet!  …Um, Lyra?”

“Yeah?”

“Thanks.”

“For what?”

“For making me feel better.  You’re… You’re the best, sis.”

“Hmm, it’s what a good sister would do, right?”