"Okay kid, try doing it this way." I put on her goggles and made myself are aerodynamic as possible. I was up pretty high but not as high as, the incident. I had almost made it but some force flung me back. "Hang on squirt, I got you." This was impossible! I would never be able to make the Sonic Flameboom at this rate. Dash said that it wold take some time as she couldn't do the Sonic Rainboom again until she was well into adulthood. I got frustrated and kicked some clouds. "Hey kid," Rainbow said, picking up on my annoyance. She hooked her foreleg around my shoulder. "How about we take a break for today and head on over to Sugar Cube Corner?"
"Hey Lightning and Dashie! Is it the usual?" Pinkie pie was one of mine and Rainbow's best friends. Dash thought she got way too hyper but I find it, energetic. Rainbow's closest friends mostly welcomed me when they found out I was living with her. We got a table as pinkie brought our food over. "One super strawberry and one champion chocolate!" Pinkie pie had always made the best milkshakes. Even when Mr or Mrs cake made them, it was never as good as Pinkie's. While I was sipping my milkshake, Pinkie asked me if I'd made any new friends yet.
"I um have to go." I flew out as fast as I could. My eyes were watering and I couldn't let Dash or Pinkie see me cry. I usually lied or changed the subject when anypony asked me but this time, I don't know what happened. I don't know why but if I cry, I just can't stop.
I cried for around an hour before heading home. I made sure that I hadn't looked like I was crying and tried to make it more like I was flying. "Hey Dash, I'm ho-" I was met by a brown creature. It didn't look pony but it didn't look like a monster either. "R-Rainbow?" I didn't know what to do. Was it going to rob us?
"Oh hey Lightning, where did you go kid?" She saw that I was terrified at this thing and introduced me to her. "Oh wait I forgot. This is my friend Gilda. We were super tight at junior speedsters flight academy. Gilda this is Lightning Rider. She's been living with me for a month now."
I asked Gilda what she was. "I'm a griffion. It's too bad you aren't one. We're two awesome animals for the price of one."
"Okay. So your part lion and eagle? How does that make sense with you name? Shouldn't you be called a ligle or a eaon?"
"Hah! This kid is funny. I like her"
I shook Gilda's paw? No, claw but then she started asking questions about me. Apparently, Rainbow hadn't metioned me to her. "So, did Dash adopt you or something?"
This made me and Dash feel kinda weird but then we started laughing on the floor. "Adopt? Aha oh Gilda seriously? Okay I did adopt her but not in the way you think."
"Okay then how?"
"Shes kinda my little sister."
"Wait, why did you adopt her?"
" She may have attempted suicide. But I saved her."
"Okay but why did you adopt her? Didn't she have a family or something?"
"Nope, she was homeless, had amnesia and didn't have a name. Plus she has a lot of potential. She also has a huge temper which isn't the best." This made my face go red. Why did she need to say I had a temper? I don't! I just get frustrated. Or angry. A lot.
Gilda said that I had guts and wanted to test my skills. "Dash knows what I'm talking about. She did it so that people would take her seriously." Dash asked me to go to my room while she talked to Gilda. It was strange, she said it like, like she was afraid. But that was impossible. Rainbow could never be afraid. But what was Gilda talking about? It didn't really matter. I thought she was really awesome and might teach me some real cool tricks. Maybe I could get her to tell me an embarrassing story about Rainbow. That would awesome!
"Gilda, are you crazy? I did that trick when I was 17, she just turned 12! She'd never be able to it! She might hurt herself or worse! No way in tatarus is she going to do that trick!" Rainbow Dash had yelled at her old friend. Gilda looked a little taken aback but went back to her chilled out face and told Dash that if she didn't want me do it, she wouldn't even think about it.
"Seriously though Dash, what happened to the cool mellowed out mare that I used to know? Your so uptight now. Anyway forget it, why don't you, me and the kid go out flying? Come on I wanna see what you've taught her"Rainbow agreed but was kind of insulted. Was she uptight? Sure she had taken up a lot of responsibility since she found me but she thought she hadn't changed in the slightest other than that. They came and got me and we set off.
"Wow Gilda! Your awesome! Where did you learn all those amazing tricks?" She told me it was years of training. I got kind of sulky after that since I wanted to try them out but I knew that I'd fail.
"Okay kid, you've seen me and now I wanna see you. Show me what you've got." I shot her a determined look and put on my goggles. They were old and tatty but it was the thing I treasured most in the world. It was the only thing I had left from my other life. I started by making some rings out of the clouds and doing some loops through them. She didn't look very impressed so I went onto the next part of my routine. Then I made some tornados and came out of the them unscathed. Now that I'd gotten her attention, I went onto the trick I've been practising since I got here. I flew in a circle to pick up speed. Then when I started to see smoke, I wrote my name in the sky with flames. My tail was a bit singed and I had some minor burns, but other than that, I was fine. Then I remembered I have to land. I was too fast and was already heading for the for the ground. I was greeted by dirt and some bruises and scrapes. "I've gotta work on that landing."
Gilda and Dash congratulated me. "I'm glad you were able to do it but, don't so often, you could really hurt yourself. I mean look! You burnt yourself this time! And what was up with that landing? I taught you how to do it safely." I don't know why she was always so overprotective. The Wonderbolts make lightning trails but then again, they have fireproof suits.
"Sorry Dash, I guess I was caught in the moment."
"Kid that was pretty cool, I don't think I could ever be able to that. But from what I remember in school, which is very little is that ponies have weird thing that griffions don't. I think it's like a trail they get if they pick up enough speed. Anyway that deserves some kind of reward, why don't we go chow down?"
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