Fashion Final
Wings, Hooves and Horns
Tuesday had arrived Quicker than Quinnston had thought, Celestia's sun was rising above the horizon, and he had much to prepare. He yawned heavily, climbed out of his bed and quickly showered; soon after this he had returned to his room to put on the showy outfit he had designed for this occasion. As he took the extravagant piece of clothing from the mannequin, something caught his eye, it was a pair of well-worn scarlet flight-goggles and a dilapidated jacket. This was the uniform that had earned him his cutie mark; he thought back as he saw these, to his surprise the memory seemed fresh in his mind...
~Flashback~
"Good morning Mum! Good morning Dad!" shouted the over-enthusiastic colt as he burst into the small dining room of his Cloudsdale home.
"Good morning dear," said his parents together, before bringing him a breakfast that consisted of a slice of seeded-bread and an apple.
"I'm going to get my cutie mark today! I'm sure of it!" he said with pure excitement in his voice.
"Good for you sweetie!" replied his mother happily, quickly nudging her husband so that he would show some interest.
"Uhm, yes! What your mother said..." his father muttered as he was reading the 'Celestial Post' at the time.
"I wanna get a cutie mark for flying!" said Quinnston, as he did every morning. He was jumping about excitedly and whooping so he didn't hear his father mention something about the family business of teaching. The clock chimed 9:30, and before anything more could be said the little foal had left the house and was on his way to the 'Junior Speedster's Flight Camp'. He had arrived early because only Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Dumb-Bell, Firefly and Hoops had arrived. They all had to wait another ten minutes until the last pony turned up; as usual it was Glide who, throughout her time at the camp, had never been on time, some ponies like Hoops and Quarterback called her Flight Flop behind her back as she could never seem to fly in a straight line and she was always using the thermals to keep in the air.
The one thing Quinnston was annoyed with was how the 'bullies' laughed at him when his tricks never went to plan, and he became more and more frustrated. He could never pull off any tricks because his family did not have the bits to get him some flight goggles as they were very expensive.This dilemma had irritated 'Quinny' (as he liked to be called) since he had first tried to pull off a trick, he tried and tried but he couldn't push himself to fly fast enough.
It was that night when he arrived at home, that he realised what he could do. He noticed that his favourite member of the Wonderbolts 'Aerial Ace' had some ruby lensed flight goggles, and he realised what he could do...
Quinny had missed two days of Flight Camp and his parents were getting worried about him, they had attempted to talk him into going but he simply would not even think about it until he had finished his current project, in the previous Nightmare Night, he had gotten a ruby from Pinkie Pie's 'Apple' Bobbing game. Pinkie was right that it was full of surprises! What Quinny had been doing was making his own pair of flight goggles, that were as close to identical as he could make to Aerial Ace's; he had even made the outer rim the same pattern as her mane, Frosty blue and Ice. After another day, he had woken up and gone to the Flight Camp before his parents had managed to say anything to him about his solitary confinement in his room for the past two days.
As usual when he reached the camp Glide was last to arrive and there was the usual annoying remarks coming from the bullies, only Rainbow Dash asked him what was in the bag, and he had replied, "just something I have been making".
By the end of the day Orange Blossom (The Camp Counsellor) had yet again let the foals perform their best tricks, at this Hoop smirked and looked at Quinny mockingly, Quinny just looked back with a confident air about him. Before his performance Quinny put on his ruby flight goggles, Rainbow Dash stared at them; captivated by their reflection of the light from the falling sun.
"Quinnston!" said Orange Blossom, "your turn!" A sudden nervousness passed over Quinny as he realised what he was about to do, this was going to be the defining moment in his life, he knew that this would give him his cutie mark. He readied himself and on the "GO!" of Orange Blossom, he had taken off and disappeared from view. As he reached the height he needed to, he took a look around and realised the magnitude of this event, he took a second to brace himself for any outcome, folded his wings and within seconds, he was free falling at a momentous speed. The cloud that he was aiming for came into view, this was usually the point where his body failed him, but the goggles had worked! He hit the cloud with full-force coming down on it like a brick dropped from a skyscraper, and then, when he could feel the cold air beyond the cloud, he pulled up and as he had planned, pushed away the deformed white shape. Rainbow Dash, Glide, Firefly and Orange Blossom were all cheering for him, even Fluttershy managed a muted 'Yay!' as he landed. It was at that moment when Quinny felt an absence in himself being filled, he looked behind him and saw his ruby lensed flight goggles fade into existence on his flank...
~ Flash Forward ~
Quinnston, realised he had been day-dreaming for the best part of an hour, and he was now far behind on what he needed to prepare; he cursed to himself but could not help shedding tear of happiness at the memory.
Rarity had awoken late today, because she realised that she would not need to open her boutique today, as there was a grand opening, which probably would be followed by a Pinkie Pie party, and some relaxation at the Spa with Fluttershy. Rarity went through her usual morning routine, she groomed her mane, had a small bite to eat, and she then set off for Twilight's library across town to pick up Sweetie Belle and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders.