An egotistical pegasus runs into an old classmate that he bullied
Avian was always a cocky, egotistical, and overachieving pegasus. When he was a student in flight school he would bully a blind filly named Blurry Stylist. 8 years later him and his friend/roommate Wacky Tabacky finds an unconscious mare in the Everfree Forest, when he took her to his home he learns the impossible.
It was the first day of flight school and Avian was anxious to show what he had to the officials. He even looked like he was a winner, he had pure white mane, sky blue fur, and had a cutie mark of a bird, odd, but it symbolized his talent for flying and what he was born to do. Like what a bird is born to fly, he was born to fly. Later that day he was going to the bathroom and came across another pegasus smoking a small joint.
"Hey, you can't do that! Only adults can do that!" Said Avian sternly.
"Oh, it's my uh, dammit. It's my medicine!" Said the young pegasus trying to hide what he was smoking. "Look you ain't no snitch are you?" Asked the pegasus throwing the joint into a corner. This colt looked like a mischievous one, he had a dirty blond color to his mane, and beige fur with a marijuana leaf for a cutie mark, Avian didn't want to ask why the colt had that cutie mark in fear he was a drug dealer or something.
"No I'm not a snitch, but I still think that's bad." Said Avian with a serious sharp tone.
"Bro, you really don't understand, I need this because it helps with my... Problems." Said the colt with a sorry tone.
"What? What problems?" Asked Avian with a face of curiosity.
"Well, when I don't get high every once and a while, I..." The colt makes a shaking gesture with his hoof.
"Oh... Gross" Said Avian cringing at the thought.
"Anyways, names Wacky, Wacky Tabacky" Said Wacky gesturing a hoof shake.
"Names Avian, and I don't think I should shake that hoof. No offense." Said Avian.
"Ah don't sweat it, I kinda get that a lot." Replied Avian with an uncomfortable grin. Afterwards Wacky and Avian became great friends, but one day a new student arrived. The very first thing Avian and Wacky noticed was she had an amazing and imaginative hairstyle. But then they noticed she was blind, they could tell by the way she walked and how she bumped into things real periodically.
"That's odd, why would they let a blind pegasus into a flight school?" Asked Avian while looking at the filly.
"I dunno, but I do know I will high as the heavens tomorrow!" Said Wacky while standing next to Avian.
"Why's that?" Asked Avian curiously.
"Dude didn't you get the memo, tomorrow is the beginning of the flight tests, when crap really goes down." Said Wacky looking at Avian wide eyed.
"Wow, already? Cool that means I can show what I got!" Said Avian with a confident grin.
"Yeah that's cool bro, but tomorrow I might as well be in hell. I'm running out of weed, I didn't bring any extra or my bong so I'm screwed, I'm trying to save my weed for tomorrow and you know about my problem! So it's going to be hard today. What time is it!?" Asked Wacky while shaking Avian violently.
"It's 10:05... AM." Said Avian
"Dammit, I'm screwed I'm screwed." Said Wacky while shivering.
"Dude it will be fine, I'm sure enough ponies will screw up as well." Said Avian reassuringly.
"You're right, you're right, I'll be fine." Said Wacky trying to calm himself down. That night Avian woke up to the sound of wet tapping. Avian looked up to the top bunk and saw Wacky pleasuring himself.
"Aw dude, gross! And you're on the top bunk!" After that Avian made Wacky sleep in the tub in the bathroom of their cabin. Which was a mistake because Avian went to the bathroom the next morning and gagged to the smell of sweat and to Wacky's pleasure juice that stuck to the rim of the tub. Shaking away that smell Avian was still excited about the flight tests, not as excited as Wacky was he got to get high finally so he could be in the right state of mind for the tests. When everypony lined up for the tests Avian and Wacky saw a lot of ponies they never even saw throughout their stay, and one was a cyan colored pegasus with rainbow colored mane. Wacky noticing this said to Avian.
"Hey, check out the walking gay pride flag over there." That comment got a good laugh out of Avian. Finally Avian was next, watching Wacky fly which was surprisingly amazing he did everything right and on time, maybe because he was high enough to actually pay attention to the things a normal pony who was high would ignore. That made Avian even more excited to go up to fly, when he flew it was a show to remember. In fact the judges even stated that it was as perfect as Rainbow Dash's. Avian didn't know who that was but he was still honored. After Avian was the blind filly from the day before. Avian figured she would fly horribly but the judges would make her feel better by giving her a score of like 5/10 or something in that manner.
When she started flying, you would think she wasn't blind. She flew with both grace and speed which is something that can be very hard to do, especially when you're blind. When she was done she left the judges and the audience in shock and awe. In fact it was so good the judges gave her a perfect score, something only Rainbow Dash achieved. Avian only came close to that by 9.9 but she got a perfect 10.0 score. When she walked back to the crowd everyone cheered her on and asked her how she did that. Avian was still shocked at the fact he was shown up by a blind filly. This made Avian angry, not just angry though but pissed, but was doused by his determination. His determination to beat the filly's score. But as the year went by he was never able to do that until the flight finals.
"Okay, no turning back now, I have to get this so I can show everypony here I'm the best flyer, not that walking gay pride flag or that blind spot!" Avian said to himself, he arched his wings and got into position, he zoomed out of the starting line and dashed through the obstacles, cleared every cloud, and threw in a couple tricks. With all that finished the result for the finishing time was 30 seconds sharp and with a score of 10.5 breaking the record the blind filly made but not beating Rainbow's which was a strong 11.4 were the highest you can go is 11.5. Finally the blind filly was up and Avian watched with seriousness and anger. When the filly was in the landing faze she flapped her wing wrong and twisted it making a crunch sound shoot throughout the crowd. She landed with a thud, not a fatal fall but you could still get hurt by the fall. She was heard crying and moaning. Avian made the mistake of actually cheering because he knew that she failed the flight finals and he had the highest score next to Rainbow Dash's. Avian ran up to the filly struggling to get up and laughed right in her face and said.
"Ha take that you blind spot! Looks like I'm the better flyer and you're nothing but a mistake that the world made!" The crowd gasped at what the young pegasus said to the wounded filly.
"*sniff* *sniff* Y-you're right, I'm n-nothing but a m-mistake!" Said the filly while crying, she then got up and ran off. Leaving Avian in front of the crowd with everypony staring at him.
"What?" Asked Avian acting as if nothing happened.
"That was real mean kid!"
"Yeah she's blind we were cheering her on because she was doing so good!"
"You should feel ashamed!" Yelled a judge behind the judge table, everypony yelled at him except Wacky who was still very high and had no idea what was going on.
"Yeah I like turtles too!" Yelled Wacky "Wait, hey Avian did you win!?" Said Wacky trying to keep balance.
"Can somepony get the drugged up kid out of here!" Yelled one of the judges. Avian looked at the crowd now just realizing what he did wrong. He was shunned by the whole school and had no other friends except Wacky. Throughout he wanted to apologize but he knew the filly wouldn't want to talk to him. When the year ended he and Wacky went their separate ways. But met back up six years later when Wacky was kicked out of his mother's house and Avian lets Wacky live in the spare room. And two more years of this went by until a stroll in the everfree would surprise Avian and make him revisit his memories of flight school.
It's been eight years since the flight school incident and Avian has felt guilty ever since then. At times he only wishes that he never did what he did to that poor blind filly. In fact he's felt so bad he is even a victim to bipolar depression, he would feel happy and normal, but then he would be quiet and depressed. Wacky being his friend/roommate always suggested smoke some weed but Avian knew that weed would make things better but he didn't like the idea of being addicted to it like Wacky. So he went to his other friend who lived near the everfree forest in a cabin with his wife. Avian actually never knew or could remember that pony's name he was told once it was like Techie something. And this pony wasn't really a friend more like a source for advice, even though he was only five years older than Avian he still had more life experience. So Avian's "guide" suggested he should go on walks and get out more, it would clear his mind. Avian thought about it and he figured it would be a lot easier to go on a walk instead on getting stoned with Wacky. So the next day he decided to go on the walk.
Early in the morning he got ready for his walk but Wacky stopped him as he was walking out the door and asked him a favor.
"Hey Avian, you going to do that walk thing that the Techie pony suggested?" He asked obviously sounding high.
"Yeah, I just figured it would be easier than getting high, no offense." He said while packing his saddle with water bottles and flower sandwiches.
"Hey while you're out could you get me some weed?" Asked Wacky
"What? what no! You get it your self!" He said with an stern face.
"C'mon bro, I need it. Believe me if I could I would get it my self but..." He stopped sounding like he wants to say something but doesn't want to.
"What did you do?" Asked Avian.
"I was kinda sorta caught while selling some weed outside the mayor's building." He said with a nervous grin.
"What! Why would you sell drugs outside the mayor's office, there are many other places here in Ponyville to do your thing but why the mayor's office?" Asked Avian with his hoof on his head looking like he has a migraine.
"Well I figured a lot of other-" He was interrupted by Avian.
"Don't even go into explaining, and tell me why can't you go out." Said Avian
"I'm under house arrest for the next two months." He said with the same nervous smile.
"*sigh* Fine I'll get you your weed but, you can't sell anymore!" Said Avian sounding more like a parent.
"You have my word!" Said Wacky saluting to his friend. Finally Avian was able to start his walk. He decided to walk in the everfree forest because he figured he wouldn't be talked to and less ponies would talk to him, in fact nopony would talk to him as far as he knew. As he walked through the everfree he saw many amazing things, he never really knew why ponies were scared of it, in reality it was a very beautiful place to be in. He did eventually find a small patch of marijuana leaves on a hill slope. He picked some even though a sign near it said not to pick them but who listens to signs now? As he kept walking he found a small ravine with little water going through it by the result of a beaver dam up ahead . As he passed this however he heard slight moaning and groaning. He was very curious of the moaning that interrupted his peaceful walk. He ventured down to the ravine and what he saw made him remember his school years that he was so close to forgetting about. What he saw was a passed out pegasus with a bent wing and a twisted hoof. He knew exactly who this pony was, it was the blind filly he badmouthed eight years ago. He panicked he had no idea what to do. But the first thing that went through his mind was to carry her back to his home. Being in the middle of the everfree forest and not having anypony to go to he decided to carry her back to his home to hopefully heal her and in his mind get some closure.
He was always a strong flyer so he was easily able to fly the unconscious mare back to his home. When he got home he quickly shot through the door and slowly and carefully placed the mare on his bed then Wacky walked in.
"Hey Avian, ya get my weed? Whoa Avian whats with the passed out mare, oh I see where this is going I'll just leave you to this. I won't tell no pony, only if I can get in on it Ha!" Said Wacky getting next to Avian.
"Dude that's gross. Don't you know who this is!?" Asked Avian.
"Hmmm a passed out cheerleader!?" He answered.
"No you retarded druggie! This is the blind filly from flight school!" Said Avian in a quiet whisper.
"No way!... Are we still going to nail her?" Wacky asked with a blank face.
"Are you really that retarded?" He asked
"No, I'm just high." Said Wacky digging through Avian's bag grabbing his weed and a sandwich. "Well, I'm going to my room, so I can get higher than the heavens." He took a bite out of the sandwich and said, "I'll be seeing ya." He then walked off into the spare room and stayed there for the rest of the day. Leaving Avian with the young mare.
"*sigh* Why did I find you, why are you here? I hope you can forgive me." Said Avian sounding depressed. He then heard breathing coming from the mare. He quickly looked down at her face seeing her open her eyes. Avian forgetting she was blind shielded his face so she didn't know who he was. But remembered she couldn't see. Once she opened her eyes Avian couldn't help but ask. "A-are you okay?"
"I-I think so, where am I?" Asked the young mare. Hearing her voice was like silk to Avian.
"Uh you're at my house, I found you in the everfree forest. You were passed out in the creek, I flew you back here." Said Avian worried she would recognize his voice.
"Oh thank you, but why?" She asked
"I don't really know miss, I felt like it would be the right thing to do I guess." Said Avian with a calm polite voice.
"Well you're very nice, my name is Blurry Stylist. What's your name?" She asked looking at nothing in particular. This was the question that Avian was dreaded to answer.
"Well aren't you going to tell me?" Asked the mare blankly staring at the air.
"Uh, um, lets no worry about names now, uh why don't you tell me how you ended up in the everfree." Said Avian sweating to the guilt.
"I was in the everfree!?" Exclaimed Blurry jerking upwards "Ah, my wing! What happened to me?" Asked Blurry actually looking in the right direction this time.
"Oh I when I found you, you had a broken wing and a twisted hoof but I patched you up while you were still out." Said with a caring voice.
"Oh, you're so sweet. Sweeter than the other stallions in my life." Said Blurry starting to tear up.
"Y-you're crying?" Asked Avian.
"Of course, what else would I be doing?" Asked Blurry wiping the tears away with her hoof.
"It's just that, I didn't know blind ponies can cry." Said Avian with the same caring tone.
"Of course we can silly, we might not have sight but we still have emotions." Said Blurry with a small grin, still with little tears in her eyes.
"By the way, what do you mean by other stallions in your life?" Asked Avian.
"Oh, well when I was young I never fit in to any of the schools that I went to. Ponies would make fun of me, for being blind, and when I went to my parents they would always know what to say to make me feel better about myself. Even though the shower of complements my parents gave me made me feel better, they would never stay long enough when I would be bullied. The others would call me clumsy, a mistake, and the worst one of all, blind spot." Blurry stopped to sob for a few seconds, but Avian comforted her the best he could without making it awkward. He felt bad because the last name she mentioned and said was the worst one was the name Avian called her all those years ago. She continued "Well I wanted to prove all those ponies wrong! So I trained with my father who was a physical trainer for the flight school, anyway he helped me both physically and mentally. He helped me become aware to me surroundings but not with sight, but with hearing, smelling, and feeling. A miracle flyer, that's what my father called me.
He was so impressed he decided to enroll me into the flight school he worked in. I was the happiest filly in Equestria that day, but that night everything went downhill, my mother became very ill, so we took her to the hospital. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis. And a few days would pass but for me, felt like centuries. The last day I saw her she was barely able to speak, she told me to always hang on because one day everything will go better for me, she promised that. Her death hit me like a knife to the chest, but I made a promise to her on the day of her funeral, I promised that I would make the comment she stated about everything being better for me a reality. So when I entered the flight school I was very excited to show that I am the miracle flyer, but like the ponies back in the old school they bullied me, they would lock me in the bathroom and make me sleep in the tub because they said I didn't deserve the nice warm feeling of a bed. But I just shrugged it off, for I knew I would prove them wrong. And when I flew for the first time I did what I wanted to to I surprised the crowd.
After that day I was respected much more. Until the final flight test. When I had my accident. When I fell to the ground a very mean sounding colt yelled at me calling me useless and a blind spot, but worst of all he called me a mistake. And for a moment I felt like I was one, a mistake that shouldn't have been created. That night I was ready to end it all. I was going to slit my throat with a razor, but something told me not to, the voice sounded a lot like my mom. That's why I didn't go through with it. I didn't want to disappoint my mother As Blurry ended her story she had tears dripping down her face coming from her closed eyes. Avian feeling very bad at this point comforted Blurry with a warm soft hug and wiped away the tears with his hoof. At this point he didn't care how awkward it got he sat on the bed with her and let her lean on his shoulder. And they stayed like that until Blurry fell asleep.
Since it was only around 9:30 and Avian and Wacky usually stayed up till mid-night talking, drinking, and listening to music. So that night Avian told Wacky everything Blurry told him. He then told asked him what he should do. It may sound odd but if Wacky was high enough he actually gave very great advice, and at times he can even tell the future, but that's very rare.
"Wacky, I feel real bad about Blurry, I want to tell her who I am but I don't want her to think of me as the mean kid who made her nearly commit suicide, I want her to think of me as the nice young stallion who saved her from the everfree. What should I do?" Avian asked while grabbing another cider from the fridge.
"Well, here's what I think bro, maybe you should let her get to know you better so that way when you tell her the truth she will totally forget the fact you nearly made her end her own life." Said Wacky while taking another long huff of his bong.
"That's it! I'll just take real good care of her and when I'll tell her she'll completely forget what I did! Wacky you're a damn genius!" Yelled Avian while patting Wacky a pat on the back. So hard in fact he made Wacky drop his bong.
"Dammit Avian! You're buying me another bong!" Yelled Wacky while storming off to his room.
A few days pass and Avian catered to Blurry's every request maker grow even more fond to Avian, and as time passed even Avian grew fond to Blurry, even having a slight crush on her but that was already there. When the fifth day came something very "romantic" happened. When Avian came into his room where Blurry stayed to do his normal duty, Blurry looked asleep so Avian was being as quiet as possible while doing his chores as he was getting an empty glass from the desk next to his bed he felt a small kiss on his cheek, he looked at Blurry who was blushing and smiling at Avian. Now when that happened his wings shot up and he blushed majorly, Blurry giggled at this knowing why his wings shot up that way. Avian shot out of the room and just tried to act natural for the rest of the day but he had so many questions for Blurry so after dinner he went to the room Blurry stayed in to ask her his questions.
"So how did you get your cutie mark in the first place? I mean if you have a major flying skill why does it have nothing to with your flying talent?" Asked Avian studying her cutie mark.
"Ah, well when I was young around eight or nine my friend came over for a sleep over and we decided to do each other's mane, she was very reluctant to let me style her mane since I've been blind since I was born, but when I made her mane I had no idea what I was doing I was just tying mane in one spot and curling mane on another side. Then I heard a gasp, I was worried I made her bald or something but when she yelled she loved it I was majorly surprised. When she showed her mane to the adults in the room they were surprised as well, in fact so surprised they thought an adult professional did it but when I revealed that I did it nopony believed me until I had to prove it to them when I did my mother's mane. Then after I was finished I heard everypony gasp once more, but not at the manestyle but at my cutie mark, I had no idea I got my cutie mark so somepony had to tell me then I asked them to describe it to me. They told me it was a hairdryer, nothing to flashy but for somepony who couldn't see it I though it was amazing." As Blurry finished her story Avian asked,
"So would it be alright if you did my mane?"
"Are you serious? Of course it would be alright!" Said Blurry excitedly.
"Terrific!" After a few minutes of sniping, combing, and drying it was finally done. The result was a small pure white Mohawk. Avian was very impressed by the results. His mane was already white but it just hung down and was more of an ivory white but she made it like a snowy white which is much more whit than ivory white. Finally Avian decided to tell Blurry the truth. As her told the truth and his name he saw her smile suddenly disappear and turn into a sad scowl.
"You were the colt who caused me all that heartache!?" Yelled Blurry with a trembling voice.
"Yes Blurry but I-I've changed, I'm a better pony I promise." Said Avian.
"No, no no no! Y-you're a liar and a bad pony! And to think that I actually loved you!" Yelled Blurry as she started to storm out of the room with Avian following her.
"What, y-you loved me? I-" He was interrupted by Blurry.
"No just stop right there Avian! There is nothing you can say that will make me change my out look on you Avian!" She yelled as she galloped away with tears dripping from her eyes.
"Blurry I-I'm sorry." Avian said to himself. After all that happened Avian sunk into depression once again. He completely isolated himself once more, even to Wacky who tried to talk to him. This went on for two days, and for those days it was very quiet and depressing.
Finally Wacky's home arrest was over and he could leave the house. And one day Wacky decided to go out to the shopping area in Ponyville to pick up more food. When he was leaving he saw something on top of a cliff near the everfree, he saw Blurry standing at the edge of the cliff, his first reaction was "Oh it's just blurry on a cliff." Then t was "Holy crap Blurry is on a cliff!" When he saw this he dropped everything he had and flew to the top of the cliff to hopefully talk her out of it.
"Blurry! Don't do this!" Yelled Wacky
"Why shouldn't I my life is all a fraud, I have liars in my life and now a freaking stoner is talking me out of my own choice!" Yelled Blurry with tears dropping off of her face.
"You don't want to do this Blurry. What about your mother. What do you think she'll say?" Said Wacky grabbing Blurry's shoulder.
"Wait, how do you know about my mother?" Asked Blurry with a curious face looking towards Wacky. As this was happening Avian got a knock on his door, when he opened it he saw his "guide" pointing and making gestures towards the cliff, and when Avian saw Blurry and Wacky on the cliff his heart stopped.
"Oh no!" Said Avian wide eyed. "But what do I say? She won't listen to me I'm sure." Said Avian then his guide answered
"Well, what I would do is I would tell her how much she meant to me and do something the would prove how I feel for her." After he said that Avian got a confidant smile and said,
"You're right, I'm going to go up there! Thanks you, uh um." Avian stopped then his guide said,
"Just call me Techie."
"Thanks Techie!" After that he quickly flew to the top of the cliff. When he got there he saw Blurry scowl at him. "How is she?"
"She's fine, It's good you got here though I was running out of ways to convince her to not jump." Said Wacky
"Look Blurry I'm very sorry, I knew I should have told you in the first place, but I didn't want you to remember me of the colt who made you suicidal, I wanted you to remember me as the colt who saved you from the everfree, I'm very sorry Blurry. I had no idea what you were going through when you were young I should have been more open minded. I- I love Blurry I love you with every thing I got! There is not a day in my life where I don't remember what I said to you back in flight school. I'm sorry Blurry, but you don't have to forgive me just don't do this Blurry... Please" Avian finished with a trembling voice and tears coming out of his eyes. A long silence drifted over the three that were on the cliff then suddenly Blurry turned around and fell into Avian's arms they both sobbed and embraced in the hug, then Avian made the brave move to kiss Blurry which she let happen, in fact she leaned into it ass well. Then Blurry stopped and said three simple words.