Chapter 1:
Flight Practice
I woke up to a pounding on my cottage door. "Coming." I said groggily. Who would be wanting me this early? I thought. As I began to open the door, it flew open knocking me down.
"Fluttershy what are you doing on the floor?" A blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane asked.
It couldn't be that you just knocked me over, was what I was going to say, but I decided to approach this the right way. "I uh... just woke up and you scared me."
she just stared at me like I was crazy. "Afraid of me? You should be, after all I am the greatest flyer in Equestria." She replied. "Anyway I am going to teach a special Pegasus how to fly today and I want you to come with me, for you know."
I slowly stood up, "For what?" I asked.
"I want you to cheer for this Pegasus, like you did for me at the competition." she answered.
I knew what she was talking about but I didn't really cheer for her. I was just so excited to see her fulfill one of her dreams of repeating a Sonic Rainboom. "I have things I have to do." I lied.
"Don't you wanna help Scootaloo fly don't you?" Rainbow Dash asked. "What do you have to do that is more important?"
She got me there, she knew I wanted to help. Me and her have talked about it. "I uh..." I began but another voice broke in.
"Rainbow Dash." an orange filly with a purple mane and tail spoke.
Dash turned around and acknowledged the filly. "Hey Scootaloo." she said. She looked back at me. "You coming or not?" she asked.
I looked between her and Scootaloo, I didn't want to let my friends down, and I didn't want to fly around this early. "Umm I..." I began, "I'll go."
"I knew I could trust you!" Dash said happily.
"Alright lets go already." anxious filly said.
I looked behind Scootaloo to see who was talking, both Sweetiebelle and Apple Bloom had come along. 'Of course they would come, I just hope they don't get in the way of Scootaloo's learning process.' I thought. Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo, and I headed out of my cottage. I unfolded my wings and took off, my wings barely moving. When Rainbow Dash took off she scattered dust. 'Scootaloo will never learn to fly if Dash was teaching her. She doesn't understand that flying was a delicate thing that had to be learned slowly.'
"Where exactly are we going?" I asked.
"To twilight's house." Rainbow replied quickly.
"Scootaloo's going to read books on how to fly?"
"No! did me or you read books on flying?" Rainbow asked.
Before answering, I thought of something. "No, but we did go to flight school." I said proudly.
"Pfft," Dash said. "She hasn't got the bits and only eggheads read books."
I rolled my eyes, 'Only eggheads read books?' I thought. I looked down at the others to check on them, the all had smiles on their faces. Man they were happy, but for what reason. Before looking up to see where I was flying, I bumped into something. It was Dash.
"Sorry" I said quickly. She was looking at me with a worried expression. "What?" I asked.
"You really think that she should read?" she questioned.
"Yes I do." I answered. "twilight says that you can learn anything when you read about it."
"Okay, Scootaloo you're going to read and study before we start practice!" Rainbow shouted.
Scootaloo replied with a sigh, "Do I really have to?"
I felt accomplished, this is the first time that she had actually listened to one of my ideas.
Dash laughed "No you're not, I'm just pulling your tail."
Great, she couldn't be serious about something like this.
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Shortly after that little conversation we arrived at Twilight's house.
"Hey girls." she said waving.
"Hey Twilight." we all replied.
"Can we practice flying here?" Scootaloo asked.
"Sure, but first let me go get you some books on flying." Twilight answered.
Rainbow Dash flew in front of Twilight's door. "We're not going to read books, after all she has me to teach her."
"Great you're going to teach her." she mouthed.
"What did you say?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Oh nothing." Twilight said with a smile.
Rainbow walked past Twilight and up to Scootaloo, "You ready to learn?" she asked.
"Yes." she said.
"I can't hear you!" Rainbow said.
"Yes!" Scoots said.
"Louder!" Dash said.
"YES!!!!!" Scoots yelled.
Rainbow Dash looked over at me. "That is how loud I want you to cheer."