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// Flight or Fail 
// Story: Continuing the Dream 
// by Blue Breeze 
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Well, as if my life wasn't crazy enough or filled with enough ponies as is, I asked Sunny if she'd like me to teach her how to fly. Gives me memories of when I taught Ice how to fight and control his powers a few months back. Good times... good times...

I may not be a flying expert like Dash or Zephyr, but flying comes naturally to a pegasus like myself. Just about any pegasus could teach flying if they really wanted to. There's no much to it in all honesty. I think I'll just go about it how my parents did for Haily and me. The good thing is we're much closer to the ground, so falling won't be that big of an issue at the start.

But there is one big problem: Sunny wants her not being able to fly to remain a secret, so we'll need to come up with a good excuse to skip out on work. With Dash always being as suspicious as she is, I really hope the lie we came up with works. I hate to lie to her, but it's to help a friend. I'm sure she'd do the same thing.

Anyway, right now I'm making my way over to the office. I decided to let Zeph and Drax go ahead of me today so I could think over what I'm supposed to do. Not for the lie, that's simple. Just trying to think over the lessons. Meh, guess I'll just wing it.

Yes, that pun was intended.

I shortly reach the office and find Sunny waiting for me at her desk. "Hey, Blue." she says. "Ready to go?"

"Sure am." I say.

"Go? Where do you two have to go?" Dash asks, Zephyr and Drax standing with her.

"Oh, guess I forgot to mention, Dash." Sunny says.

"Mention what?"

"Im having family visiting from out of town and I need help setting up."

"So, I offered to help her." I finish.

Dash quints as she eyes us suspiciously. "And why did you offer to help her?"

"Because I'm such a nice guy."

She thinks it over for a minute. "Alright, fine. But this better just be a one time thing."

Not likely. 

"We promise." we both say. With that, we both leave the other three pegasi.

Dash looks at the desk full of paerwork, which is usually Sunny's job. "We're gonna need somepony to take care of that."

"Yep." Zeph and Drax both say.

"Not it!"

Quickly realizing what is happening, Zeph joins her. "Not it!"

"But.. I... Paperwork... Buck me." Drax says. He sighs before taking a seat at the desk and grabbing the only pencil there. The pencil breaks in half under his grip. "Oh, that's just lovely."

After getting a decent bit away from the office, Sunny and I laugh and highhoof in celebration.

"I can't believe she bought it." Sunny says.

"Me neither. Guess it was my great acting and handsome face. Not to mention my awesome charm." I say.

She gives me a soft punch in the leg. "Just shut up and let's get a move on."

I chuckle at her. "Sure thing. And I've got just the secluded place where nopony will be see us."

"Heh, this makes it sound like we're doing something illegal."

"Or sexy."

She hits me again, this time with a hard smack to the back of my head. "Shut up."

I rub the back of my head. "Okay, I'll admit I deserved that."

"Let's go already!"

"Okay, just follow me."

We start walking to the outskirts of town, making sure nopony is around us. I take her out to the same open field I trained Ice in all those months ago. I knew this place would be useful.

"Okay, here we are."

"Great, when do we get started?" she asks eagerly.

"Woah, settle down there. We can't jump into it."

She blushes slightly."Right, sorry."

"It's cool. I was the same when my parents first started teaching me to fly. Now, first thing we need to do is stretch. So just open your wings and we can get started."

She starts blushing harder as she rubs her neck. "Well, the thing is..."

"You don't know how to open your wings, do you?"

She shakes her head. "No."

"Not to worry. I know how to get them open." I walk over to her and start rubbing on her wings.

She starts blushing even more from my tender rubbing. "Blue, what are you-"

"Just trust me." in just a second, her wings pop open on their own. "There we go. Getting a wingboner is the easiest way to get wings open."

She gives a hard slap across the face. "You big jerk!"

I rub at the red mark on my face. "I'll admit I dserved that oo, but hey, I got them open, didn't I?"

She gasps slightly at the realization. She looks back and smiles at her wings. "They're open!"

"See my point?" I say, smiling.

She tries moving her wings a bit, moving them in an irregular pattern. "Feels a bit weird to use them after so long."

"You'll get used to it. Now, first thing, like I said, is to stretch a bit."

"Okay."

She takes her wings and starts stretching them similar to how a pony stretchs their forelegs. Well, she seems to be catching on fast.

"Okay, that's good for now."

"Cool. So, what next?"

"Next we try flapping."

"Okay, I'll try." she starts trying to flap, but she moves each of her wings one by one, not really doing anything for her.

"Wait, let me help." I walk over. "Mind if I grab them for a second?"

She smiles. "Yeah, and thanks for asking first this time."

"Just trying to keep from getting slapped again." I joke. I grab her wings gently and start slowly moving them up and down together. "You want to think of them as an extension of your back. To properly flap you want to find your wings in the right rhythym. Moving them in seperate directions doesn't do anything." I let go of them. "Now you try."

"Sure." she does as instructed and starts moving them together in tune with each other. "Like this?"

"Perfect. Now we can move on to the real lesson one."

"What's that?"

"Getting off the ground."

She starts getting nervous. "Are you sure? I'm only just starting?"

I give her a reassuring smile. "I'm sure you can handle it. Besides, it's only a few inches at the most."

"Well..."

"If it makes you feel better, I'll be right beside you the whole time, ready to catch you."

She smiles at me. "Okay, I'm willing to try it."

"Great. So, all you need to do is flap like you were doing, only a bit harder than before."

"Okay, I think I can do that."

She closes her eyes and breaths out in preparation. She starts flapping her wings again, this time with a bit more force. Being that her wings are fully grown in, dust starts coming off the ground as she flaps. She bites down on her lip as she gets increasingly nervous. After a few moments, she opens her eyes and looks down to see her hooves have left the ground.

She looks over at me with a huge smile, which I return. She comes over to me and wraps me in a hug. "I did it!"

I hug her back. "You sure did. That was great for your first time."

"Thanks, Blue. I couldn't have done it without your help."

I chuckle a bit. "No problem, Sunny." we break the hug after a moment. "Well, I think that's good for one day."

"Sure, it was great. I can't wait for more."

"You bet. Well, see ya later."

"See ya, Blue."

I walk off, smiling to myself as I think. 'Job well done, sir. Job well done.'