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// Perish Song... 
// Story: The Sweet Sounding Belle 
// by Lewis a Cute Pegasus 
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The moment has arrived, mares and stallions already on the seats, waiting for the first "talented" pony. Cheerilee talking at the stand before it started, the food and drinks ready, and Featherweight practicing behind the stage. It was a very tall stage. Sweetie Belle had to wait last, so she could prepare.

Snips and Snails was up first, and surprise surprise they screwed up and they walked backwards off stage, and at that moment, they knew, that their *squee*ed up. Anyway, next, came Rumble, he had another flying trick, he barely didn't manage to do it.  Then was Twist, she was cooking a nice pudding, the judges were impressed. Then came the other foals. None of them did well.

Then, it was Featherweight, he placed the hoops in a very complicated and very tough places. He had practiced 100 times and managed to do it on the last 3 attempts. Now he just has to do it for real, in front of ponies, and no brother in sight. Featherweight flew to a platform that was suspended high... 50 ft high... very, very high indeed. Featherweight wiped his eyes and slammed his hoof on the wood underneath his hooves. 

He had a flashback, of his brother, Bulk, of his mother, of his father... they were all dead at this moment, but he had flashbacks of when they were alive. Tears welled up in his eyes, he missed them all so much, and crying before his stunt was not going to help. He slammed his hoof on the wooden platform again and looked up at the sky, he then pointed at it, the crowd looking where he was pointing. Featherweight took a deep breath and shouted "This is for my family! This is too make them proud beyond the grave! They will not have died in vain. I can do this stunt! And no hoops are going to random combust on me! For I, have faith in the princesses! TIME TO DO THIS!" 

He stomped his hooves on the platform more, the crowd cheering, Sweetie Belle smiling. Featherweight runs off the platform, his wings spread and aims towards the ground to gain speed so he can get height when he uses that speed to get higher. When he was 2 foot from the ground he quickly aimed up and got a lot of height, flapping his wings for more momentum. He got higher than his starting point, right where the hoops are, the crowd following his movement. 

He flies straight through the first hoop, and then does an aileron roll  straight through the second. He then drops and has his eyes set on hoop 3, which is hovering above the ground, it was risky but he had to do it, no backing out now. He folds his wings for more speed, and then gets his legs into a landing position, he lands on the ground after quickly opening his wings, running through hoop 3 and flying up after to hit hoop 4, only 3 more left. 

He starts losing momentum and has to use his wings to get higher, he slowly passes hoop 5, and then randomly climbs back onto his platform, he jumps off it again and drops once more, but his wings didn't open, he just plows through the ground, a camera showing his destruction through dirt, gaining hoop 6, leaving hoop 7, which was right in water. 

Featherweight flies up, Rainbow Dash  rage quitting the crowd, Fluttershy chasing after her, Twilight rolled her eyes and Rarity fidgeting. Spike wide mouthed and Pinkie clinging onto Cheese, who was a special guest. But all of them left randomly, besides Rarity, the crowd and Twilight. Featherweight flies up, does a barrel roll and drops into the water, but lands wrong, most likely breaking a few bones in his legs on ribs or maybe only chipping it. 

Featherweight in pain, grabs hoop 7 and throws all the collected rings outside the water, his legs unable to swim him up, the pool of water wasnt see through either, and it was very deep so and the crowd was so far away nopony could reach him. Featherweight gasping for air but he could not swim up for it, and drowned. But no body went up to the surface, so no one knew if he was still alive or breathing. 

It was only after 2 minutes, when the foals had to leave with their parents, Twilight, Rarity and Sweetie Belle running to the pool to see where he was, Twilight used her magic to lift Featherweight out of the pool and onto the floor. 
"Oh no, this is not good..." Twilight said in a sad voice, her magic putting Featherweight onto his back, looking aruond and running as quick as she can to the hospital, Rarity and a distraught Sweetie Belle following.