Adventures of Blaze

by Lightning-Blaze

Chapter 2: The Race

Over the next few days Lightning trained on his own in
preparation for the race. It was the first time he had ever raced
the fastest Wonderbolt in Equestria. What if he lost? What
would Rainbow Dash say to him? What would happen to his
spot in the Wonderbolts? He was so lost in thought he didn’t
notice that Fluttershy had nervously entered his room and
cantered over to him.

”Erm…Lightning?” Fluttershy asked.

There was no reply because Lightning was still lost in thought
about the race. Fluttershy said his name again, but louder.
Lightning suddenly snapped out of his trance and replied, 'Yes,
Fluttershy.'

“I…I…I have just come to tell you that everypony has gathered
to watch the race and it will be starting shortly. Even Princess
Luna, her apprentice Aperture Pony, and Princess Celestia are
here to watch the race.”

“Who is Aperture Pony?” Lightning asked.

“No one knows who or where he came from. I’ve heard he is
strange but really good with magic’, Fluttershy answered.

“Okay, I’ll talk to the Princesses and this Aperture Pony before
the race. Thank you!”

“Oh, ok…”

Lightning went outside and was surprised when he noticed
that everypony in Equestria was there. He spotted Princess
Luna and Aperture Pony, who were talking to each other in the
distance. Lightning casually made his way over to them. He
bowed before Princess Luna and said, “It’s an honor to see you
here Princess Luna.”

Luna looked at the young Wonderbolt and said, “Lightning, I
have heard a lot about you. I’m surprised how quickly it took for
you to be in a show, I never thought you would be ready to do
something like this."

“Not ready?” Lightning asked.

Luna replied, “It usually takes a few weeks for a pegasus to
complete the advanced flying methods, but you completed them
in half of that time. That is truly amazing.”

“Thank you your Highness,” Lightning replied.

“Please, call me Luna.”

“Okay.” Lightning replied.

‘Before you go to start the race, I would like you to meet my
apprentice; Aperture Pony," said Luna as she motioned to the
unicorn behind her.

Lightning noticed that the unicorn behind her looked very
nervous. He had a light brown body, a red and black mane and
tail and an unusual cutie mark. The cutie mark was unusual, it was a
circular shape but the circle was made up of eight triangles.

Luna turned to her apprentice; “Aperture Pony, I would like you
to meet Lightning Whooves.”

Aperture nervously looked at Lightning and approached the
pegasus very slowly. It was quiet for a moment, before Aperture
then found the confidence to say, “Hello, Lightning, my name is
Aperture Pony. But most ponies call me Aperture. Will you be
my friend?”

Lightning smiled and answered, “Yeah, I will be your friend!”

“Thank you, Lightning,” Aperture replied, looking more delighted
than before.

“I’d better be going, the race is about to start,” Lightning replied
and braced himself to take off.

Just as Lightning was about to take flight, Aperture
shouted, “Hey, Lightning?”’

“Yeah?” Lightning replied.

“Good luck for the race!” Aperture answered with a smile on his
face.

Lightning returned the smile. “Thank you, I hope we get to hang
around with each other more in the future.”

“I hope we do to,” Aperture replied.

After that, Lightning quickly flew over to the start line where Dash
was already ready waiting.

“I was wondering when you were going to show up!”

Lightning replied, “Well sorry! I was on my way; I just had to talk
to Princess Luna.”

Before Dash had a chance to reply, she noticed a pink pony
started to bounce along to the start line. She bounced like a little
filly playing hopscotch at school. Lightning looked at the pony
Dash was fixated on and noticed that the really happy pink pony
was holding a flag in her mouth. The race was about to start.
The pink pony then raised the flag. Dash got ready. The pink
pony then lowered the flag and Dash had zoomed off within a
blink of an eye.

Lightning just stood there and closed his eyes.

Everypony was wondering what Lightning was doing when
Aperture Pony shouted out from the crowd, “Hey! Lightning!
You do realize that the race has started, right?”

“Yeah I know!” Lightning replied.

“Why haven’t you started then?” Aperture asked.

“Watch,” Lightning said under his breath.

The next 10 seconds felt like forever as everypony watched and
waited to see what would happen.

Then Aperture noticed something spark on Lightning’s wings. His
amazement turned to shock. Princess Luna noticed Aperture’s sudden change
in tone and asked, “what’s wrong Aperture?’

“Look at Lightning’s wings.”

As they both looked at Lightning’s wings, they both gasped.
What had started as a spark had turned into lightning that
encased Lightning’s wings. They were both surprised at what
was happening to Lightning, but he didn’t appear to be in pain.
Then from out of nowhere there was a sudden lightning strike
and Lightning’s eyes blazed open; but there were not his natural
green colored eyes. Now they were bright yellow.

In a split second, Lightning had taken off at a remarkable speed.
When Lightning moved, he had left a golden trail just like Dash
had left a rainbow trail at the beginning of the race.

Meanwhile, Dash was just over the halfway mark in the race.

She looked back and noticed that Lightning was nowhere to be
seen. She started to think that Lightning had not even started
the race. She smiled at how easy this race would be. Then she
heard a noise behind her. She looked back and nopony was
there. She thought she might have just heard something, but
when she turned around, she nearly had a heart attack when she
heard somepony say “Hey Rainbow Dash!”

Dash was shocked. “How…how could you catch up to me this
quickly?”

Lightning smiled and replied, “I may be the fastest runner in all of
Equestria but I am not a bad flier either!”

“Wait…what’s that around your wings?” Dash asked.

“It’s lightning.”

“L…lightning, how have you managed to get lightning around
your wings?”

“I don’t know but before I set off, my wings spark and lightning
forms!”

Dash was baffled. “That is weird… but don’t think your light show
will keep me from winning this race!” Dash zoomed off towards
the finish line leaving Lightning in her dust.

“Two can play at this game,” Lightning thought, so he sped up
to try and catch Dash, but it was all too late; by the time he had
caught up with her, she had crossed the finish line.

He carefully lowered himself to the ground. As soon as he
stopped moving, the lightning around his wings disappeared and
his eyes returned to their natural green color. But before him
having enough time to congratulate Dash, he suddenly started
to feel woozy and he passed out just after he heard the
sound of hooves coming towards him.