Neocros 2: Light and Dark

by Samuel-Neocros

5: Training & Headpats

Training & Headpats

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It was only a morning after being saved by Neocros Light Mode, and Rainbow was feeling refreshed today. The day before, they had informed the others about what happened, and they went to investigate. For some reason, they hadn’t found anything in that forest, yet Rainbow still couldn’t help but feel tension, unsure if those monsters are still there or not. She decided to not focus on that, and focus on the present.

It had been awhile since Rainbow had helped teach somepony how to fly. Sure, she and Twilight Sparkle were ponies, and showing her how to fly was not a huge problem. But Neocros was a dragon, and his anatomy worked differently than the traditional Pegasus. Of course, Since both had wings, this shouldn’t be such a huge issue, right?

She and Neocros were out in the fields. The grass was moving with the breeze, and it was perfect weather today. Neocros stood opposite Rainbow, as she hovered above. He was in his Light Mode form, and had his bat-like wings spread. The cyan ring on his chest glowed with each beat his heart made. Rainbow and Neo’s eyes met.

“Alright, our first lesson would be trying to get you off the ground.” she announced. Neo nodded. “Since you have much bigger wings than I do, getting off the ground should be no prob.”

“Then again, you’re smaller, so..” He shrugged. Rainbow Dash chuckled, before she continued.

“What you’d need to do, is outstretch your wings.” Rainbow stated. Neocros outstretched his arms, giving Rainbow a full view of his wings. “Alright, seems like we’re ready to do our first try!”

Rainbow Dash took off, dancing in the air as she looked over Neocros, examining what it was she was working with. When she landed, she adjusted her posture, straightening to appear authoritative and in control.

“First thing’s first, you’ll wanna spread your wings, and try flapping while the wind catches speed,” she instructed. Neocros turned, and looked north of where they were. He spread his wings, and felt some wind on his wing’s skin. He shivered as he wasn’t used to having his skin being this exposed. Though then again, the skin of his wings were sensitive on the front, but seemed to be very durable on the back. Maybe he could use the back as a shield for future foes?

He tilted his head, listening to Dash.

“Now, you’ll need to have to get a running start, seeing as you’re much heavier than any pegasi.” Rainbow said, before she landed. She positioned herself to get ready to run. Neocros followed her instructions, and kept his wings out, while also positioning himself to prepare to sprint. Rainbow looked up to him, and he glanced down at her. “Ready?”

He nodded, before he looked ahead of them. They were on a small hill, which probably would help Neo gain lift. Rainbow started by first running, before she took to the air. Neocros tried to keep up, sprinting as fast as he could. When he was heading down the hill, he jumped. Suddenly, he felt lift going up his wings, he wasn’t sure how to describe it, but it felt like a hand of god blowing air below him.

Neocros gasped hard, as he moved his wings in a downward motion. It somehow gave him a little bit more lift, resulting in him hovering a little higher. When he looked below of him, he was nearly twelve feet off the ground. As he kept going forward, Rainbow Dash turned around, and watched him.

“You’re doing good! Just try and maybe flap your wings a bit harder!”

He nodded, and tried so. He was moving his wings quickly, resulting in him being able to keep up with Rainbow. As he motioned his wings, he felt his shoulders starting to get slightly tired, as if he was putting too much work into his shoulders.

As he grew tired, so did his movements. When his movements began to wane, he began to lose momentum in the sky. Neocros realized that, at this rate, he might fall. It’s then, that he started to slowly fall, as his arms were slowing down. It’s here, Neocros realized that he might be able to use this chance to perhaps pull up. Though for some reason, he started to receive some anxious feeling, that he knew all to often.

“Neocros! Pull up!” Dash calls. Neocros blinked out of his anxiety trance, and moved his arms back, preparing to dive. As he was diving down, he couldn’t help but feel scared of what will happen next. However, he had to be brave for this. He leaned his head up, and spreads his wings once more. He was now gaining new momentum, allowing him to fly up, and towards the sky!

He almost hit the ground, before he found himself flying out of danger. The water dragon breathed a sigh of relief, when he realized he was going straight upwards now. He felt the weight suddenly pull him backward, which made him start to freak out. He began falling back, and he hit the ground hard. Rainbow couldn’t stop him from falling, but she knew he was a fairly durable dragon.

He shook his head, as she landed. He looked at her, and rubbed the back of his neck.

“Welp, let’s keep tryin’.” He smiled, giving a thumbs up.

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After several tries with no luck, Neocros and Rainbow decided to take a small break. The water dragon rubbed his head, wondering what he was doing wrong and looked over to Dash, in which, she was wondering the same.

“I don’t understand, you were doing just fine earlier, but you seemed to..”

“Yeah, I know...” He finished her words, looking down. “Sigh... I wonder.. I feel like something’s missing in my flight.”

Unaware to the both of them, Smolder had approached them from behind. She had heard that the two were going to practice flying, in which, she was wondering why. Considering how Neocros seemed to be much older than Spike, why was it that Neo needed a flight lesson? She got her answer, when she saw his Light mode form. She was pretty baffled as to how he’s able to transform like so, but she didn’t care to question.

She approached them, and asked.

“You guys obviously need help.” She said. The two turned around, and spotted her.

“Huh?”

“What? Phhtt, Nah, we’ve got this!” Rainbow spoke. Smolder rolled her eyes.

“Look, neodude here isn’t doing well.” She said, as she came up to Neocros. He tilted his head to the side, wondering what this student was doing. “Listen, I hate seeing you flap around, and doing everything wrong.”

“What do ya mean? Neocros was doing everything right!” Rainbow replied to Smolder. Smolder looked at Rainbow, and crossed her arms.

“Dragons need to bend their elbows in order to have a study flight, here, he’s just flailing his arms around.” Smolder bluntly pointed out. She then took to the air herself, to showcase her wings. She was roughly a few feet above them, when she turned and glanced down at them.

“Well, Pegasi have joints in our wings as well, allowing us to bend.. I think.” Rainbow commented, whispering the last part to herself, as she tried to bend the joint in the center of her wing.

“I see.” Neo replied. Rainbow Dash kind of felt jealous that Smolder was teaching, however, Neocros looked at her, and whispered. “Don’t worry, you won’t be left out. If that’s how you’re feeling.”

“Well, alright. Could you teach us more?” She asked. Smolder face palmed.

“Look, I already taught Spike the same thing! Don’t wanna repeat myself!” She protested. Neocros seemed to feel as though he made her upset--and he did so some degree--causing him to recoil slightly. Rainbow took notice quickly, and found herself annoyed with Smolder, but Neocros bounces back quickly.

“If you like, you can sit on the sidelines, while we fly, and if I get something wrong, you’d let us know, right?” Neo proposed the idea. Although Smolder wasn’t wanting to repeat the same thing, she could sort of tell that Rainbow was not fond of her outbursting like that. Smolder sighed.

“Ugh.. fine, I’ll show you,” She replied. “but let’s get it over with, quickly, I have better things to do.”

~ ~ ~

The three seemed to make some significant progress, in that they manage to get some serious air, thanks to the help of Smolder.

Rainbow Dash flew side by side with Neocros, as he was able to fly much better now. Much like Spike before him, Neocros was able to quickly get the hang of flying. Though with Neocros, it was slightly different, considering his Light form was built more like a Wyvern rather than the traditional dragon.

The three landed, and Neocros thanked Smolder for the help.

“Eh, all Dragons learn it from birth. Say, how did you get wings on your arms to begin with?” Smolder asked. Neocros’ chest ring glowed, and transformed into the Dual Spark. At the same time of it floating out of his chest, he transformed back to his base form. He grabbed the now hovering Spark, and smirked.

“I’ve now got this.” He replied, almost smugly. Rainbow Dash smiled, as she looked over to see Smolder’s face. Of course, Smolder didn’t seemed at all phased by this, though her eyes did widened.

“Alright, I’m going now.” Smolder said briefly, before she flew in the opposite direction of the duo. Rainbow Dash and Neocros look at each other, and Neo shrugged.

~ ~ ~

Neocros and Rainbow Dash were sitting on a cloud, hanging out. The cloud was big enough to support the both of them, since now that Neo could fly, it was much easier to sit upon a cloud. The two of them seemed to be content with their practices, especially Neocros. He was watching the clouds with Rainbow, as they talked.

“Just so you uh know.. I’m sorry for how Smolder acted today, she’s like that most of the time.” Rainbow apologized. Neocros had his gaze on her, and smiled. Instead of speaking, Neo decided to slowly lifts his left hand, and rests it on top of Dash’s head. He began to softly pat it, ruffling her mane a little. Rainbow’s eyes widened, mouth going agape, before she shuttered, while smiling.

He couldn’t help but crack a small smile, seeing Rainbow cooing under his headpats. He also found it extremely adorable, seeing her closing her eyes, and relaxing under his touch. As he watched her enjoy the headpetting, Neo couldn’t help but draw a comparison between her and this one scene in a certain anthro dog anime.

He kept being gentle, not wanting to be rough, or anything of sorts.

He reaches his other hand out, and gently, to not disturb her, pulls her towards him. She opens her eyes, surprised, before she rests her cheek on his collar bone, releasing an adorable sigh as she did so. She wrapped both hooves around his neck, as he ruffled the top of her mane, gently. Rainbow Dash glances up to him, with eyes sparkling.

“You’re awesome, Neo..” Dashie says. He nodded, and looked at something behind her. He was glancing at the sky, and seeing the some of the weather ponies preparing the clouds for rain.

“Perhaps we should head home, it might rain soon?”

Rainbow Dash turns her head, to see the possible rain, before she turns back to him.

“Yeah, great idea.” She nodded. The two of them flew home, where they’d most likely take a nap for the day...

Author's Note:

This chapter was going to be a lot longer, with 2 segments dedicated to training, as well as some much needed backstory to Slaughter. However, I decided that it’d be a lot better to just have it be about Rainbow Dash and Neocros, since I feel like Slaughter’s backstory deserves it’s own chapter... possibly it’s own story to tell.

Now that I’ve made this chapter, I’ll briefly take a break and write something else. It might be in the same universe, but it could also be something else. I won’t be sure, until I write it.

Another thing to add, I kept Smolder’s role somewhat small, because I didn’t want to butcher her character, even though from what I’ve seen of her, she seems to share a similar personality to me in real life. Kinda funny now that I think about it. Even now, writing this, I can tell I kinda winged it(no pun intended), and I apologize to any Smolder fans...

Comments

[Frasse]

992575i hope you’r WiFi get fixed soon. If you want to play a game or just have a chat in team speak or discord my door is open the only problem I see is that I’m in Sweden so I’m like 6 or 7 hours ahead of the us

[Samuel-Neocros]

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My wi-fi’s back up, though I’ll keep an eye on it for a bit. If you wish to know my Discord, let me know. btw, What games you play?
(I don’t really have any multiplayer games, save for Team Fortress 2, and even then it’s laggy due to my laptop being a potato)

(Side note; your thoughts on this chapter?)

[Frasse]

Hi um my mother board died so I can’t read any right now I’m on xbox the really annoying thing is that the browser will crash every 30 min so I’m been listening to fanfics on YouTube instead and I don’t have a smartphone I sold it because I wasn’t using it so now I have a old Nokia

[Samuel-Neocros]

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I’m sorry about your mother board. I have one for my upcoming PC Build, and I’m worried for the motherboard.

How does Xbox browser even work?

[Frasse]

You have a mouse that you control with a joystick it’s really annoying to scroll up and down and the sites takes forever to load and it crashes a lot

[Samuel-Neocros]

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I’m so sorry.. I hope you’ll be able to get a new motherboard soon...

[Starlight Nova]

What was so bad about the previous story?

[Samuel-Neocros]

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Well... I didn’t really like it, to be honest. Though it was meant to be canonical to this story, I felt that The Earth Pony was dead from the start. I also had someone review the story, which you can find here.

[Frasse]

it was ok i dont really know what to say about it

[Samuel-Neocros]

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I see.. thank you