Turquoise Blitz was born with wings, but like all other flying ponies it was hard for him to start flying. One day when he tries to fly; his sister, Claire, sees him and decides to offer her help the only way she knows how to. Things only improve for the young kirin once his father decides to help him through his learning process.
It had been a quiet morning in the town of Ponyville. The park was bustling with happy faces and friends talking and hanging out. However, breaking the happy tempo, was a young kirin leaping from atop a park bench. Each time the young dragon-pony hybrid leapt from atop the bench he would furiously flaps his wings, trying to desperately keep himself airborne.
"I know I can do this." the young colt spoke, trying to keep his hopes up.
Every time he tried it was met with the same results: hovering for a bit before landing hard on the dirt path below. Small bruises could be seen on his stomach, along with a few minor cuts, but he just brushed those off to try again.
The young colt's name was Turquoise Blitz, but others just call him T. He was the son of Rarity Belle and Spike Sparkle, and was the brother of Crystal Clarity. His sister was born with horns that gave off magic that she could use to create the fire she breathes, but she had no wings. Since he's known his sister, she's gotten better at using her magic to help make amazing jewelry with their mother. Determined to make his parents proud, the young colt was trying to desperately learn how to fly since he was born with wings and not horns. He had already learned how to breathe fire, but he never wanted to show it in fear of hurting others. At the same time, he believed that if he could fly then Nopony would be able to make fun of him.
He knew that his father hadn't developed any wings til he was much older, but when he had grew them, he knew that his dad was old enough to start flying from the beginning.
After numerous attempts of trying he hit the ground except this time he hit face-first, hard. He recoiled at the sudden pain coursing through his face and started to cry quietly to himself. He didn't know which hurt more; his face, or his pride. In his state of depression, he didn't hear the sounds of hooves moving towards him.
"T! There you are, I've been looking all over for you."
Turquoise turned around to be met with the sight of his older sibling, Claire. She had a look of utter annoyance painted across her face that made him slightly tremble at this, knowing how bad his sister could be when she was annoyed.
"I told you that I would take you to the park later, but what do you do? You go off on your own, and mom is worried sick." she continued. "I mean what was so important th-" she stopped suddenly when she noticed that he had been crying. At first she thought that she had caused him to cry until she saw the scraps and cuts that were on his chest.
Her expression suddenly turned from one of annoyance to one of concern and anger. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? ARE YOU ALRIGHT? DID SOMEPONY HURT YOU? WHERE ARE THEY?"
Turquoise barely had enough time to say anything to Claire with her asking questions to him frantically. Eventually he summoned the strength to say "CLAIRE!!!!"
Claire stopped her ranting and questions, taken aback by the sudden outburst from her younger sibling.
T looked at her with what little seriousness he could muster once he saw that she was paying attention. "Nopony did this to me. I did it to myself." he explained, dragging off into a near whisper near the end of his statement.
Needless to say, Claire was shocked to hear this. "But.....why? How?"
"Ok don't go back to the frequent questions again, please." T said, annoyed about the thought of Claire starting that up again.
Claire continued to look at him, obviously waiting for some sort of explanation as to why he did this to himself.
"I was.... trying to..... learn how to fly" he said, sounding a lot like Fluttershy at the end of his sentence.
"Huh, come on speak up." Claire said, not hearing the end of what he had said. She looked at him and noticed whatever was on his mind was obviously something he cared about a lot. "T, you know you can tell me anything. No matter what it is I'll be there for you, just like I promised you." she said smiling at him, to tell him that her statement was genuine.
T saw this and smiled back. "Ok, I was trying to learn how to fly." he said, coming of his fears.
Claire looked at him with a bit of confusion in her expression. "Why would you go through this much trouble to learn how to fly? I mean look at you, all scrapped up and hurt. Mom's not going to be happy about this you know."
The young colt looked down when she said this. "That's the issue, mom's never happy with me."
Claire was taken aback by this. "What in the wide world of Equestria would make you think of something so horrible? Mom loves you, you know that."
"Mom and you always spend so much time together because of your magic and how you can help her with it. I never get to be with her as much so I thought if I learned how to fly then I thought maybe I could make her happy for once." T declared, tears starting to form in his eyes.
Claire was shocked at her brothers statement then realized that her learning about her magic was in fact taking time away from him to be with their mother, and with dad constantly going out on royal business he basically had no one to spend time with at home. Just when the guilt started to sink in, she suddenly had an idea that could help solve both problems.
"Hey, mom always wants to be with you, you should see how sad she gets when you go to your room every time you come home or when you barely talk to her." Claire said drawing in her brother for a small embrace.
"Really?" T asked, unsure of what his sister had told him.
"Really. She loves you the same way now as she did since the first day you were born, and don't ever doubt that. You just have to try to be with her rather than wait for her to ask for your time."
T smiled at this, happy to hear that their mom still wanted to spend time with him and embraced Claire back. "Thanks Claire."
"Don't mention it bro. Now how bout you give one more try at flying, and this time ill catch you if you fall."
"Okay!" T rushed up onto the bench he had been leaping off of all day and prepared to give it his all in this one last jump. Meanwhile, his sister focused hard on her brother, ready to put her idea into effect.
She waited until she saw her brother leap from the bench and begin to flap his wings frantically, but before he hit the ground she quickly used her magic and formed an aura around T and lifted him up slowly.
Turquoise opened one of his eyes; he didn't even realize he had closed them; he was shocked to see that he didn't hit the ground. What was more surprising was that he didn't hit the ground and Claire WASN'T HOLDING HIM. It wasn't until he opened both eyes, that he saw that Claire was using her magic to levitate off the ground.
"Claire, what are you doing?" T asked slightly scared by this situation he found himself in.
"Nothing," lied the young filly, "just thought I'd give my little bro a lift." she said with a smirk.
The young kirin took in the whole situation and smiled widely. "YAY! IM FLYING!" he cried out.
"Then how bout we head on home flying boy?" Claire said with a giggle. She then took off running towards their home, keeping T afloat with her levitation spell, which made him start to fly through the air in front of her.
Turquoise adjusted himself in her magic to where he was holding both his forelegs out in front of him; just like how he had seen mom's friend Rainbow Dash doing. He couldn't help but giggle all the way home, while still being excited about his sister helping him fly.
Claire stopped him form moving long enough for her to open the door and allow the young colt to float on in. "Mom, we're home." she called out once she had shut the door behind her, all while holding T in her magic still.
"Oh thank goodness you found him I was so worried ab-" she stopped once she saw the young colt afloat in her daughters magic.
"Mommy look I can fly." Turquoise said once he saw her. Claire then let her magic fly him towards the white unicorn and dispelled the spell once he got close to the ground in front of Rarity.
Rarity was taken aback by this but couldn't help but smile as her son came up to give her a hug.
"Did you see me mommy?" the young hybrid asked, looking up at her.
"Yes I did darling and you looked amazing. I'm so proud of you." Rarity replied hugging the young kirin close.
Later that day
Rarity had just finished up cleaning the last of the dishes from dinner, while Spike helped put them away when she broke the silence between them. "So your daughter helped your son fly home today." she said with a giggle.
"Oh really" Spike said with a chuckle, "that must have been fun for him."
"He looked the happiest I've seen him as lately. Claire told me he wanted to learn how to fly to make you and me happy apparently." Rarity said, a hint of despair in her voice.
The young drake noticed this and tried to cheer her up by embracing her. "Well I guess I don't blame him, ever since Claire started using her magic we really haven't been paying that much attention lately. We need to find some time to spend together, all four of us. Maybe while we're at it, me and Claire can help T learn to fly all on his own."
"I couldn't agree more." she replied with a smile. She then leaned in to give her husband a kiss when she heard her name being called by their son.
"Well I better let you two talk. Think I'll go see what Claire's doing." Spike said leaving the room, but not before giving his youngest a small hug.
"Yes darling?" Rarity said turning her attention to her youngest child.
"Can I help you and Claire with the orders tomorrow." T asked shyly.
"Of course darling." she said and hugged the younger colt close. "I always could use the help, especially if it means spending time with two of the most important individuals of my life."
T smiled and hugged her back; finally feeling closer to her than before. He looked up at her then and asked "Do you think dad will be able to teach me how to fly without Claire's help?"
Rarity simply smiled at this. "Oh, I'm sure he'll be able to help you out with that soon darling." In truth, Rarity was terrified of the day that T would fly. She was afraid of him flying to high and hurting himself. She knew that he would be alright as long as Spike was careful about teaching him, but it was Spike she was talking about. Still she knew that him learning to fly would be something that would make him happy, and so she put aside her fears in hopes that he learned soon.
Meanwhile
Spike found Claire using her magic to levitate a necklace that she had made for one of her mom's orders. Judging by the fact that the gem had been cut into the shape of a dolphin, he could only assume the order was for Sapphire Shores. "Hey honey, what are you doing?"
Claire looked back at her father and smiled. "Just making sure this necklace is how mommy wanted it. You know how she likes attention to detail."
Spike rolled his eyes and chuckled "Yeah I know." He walked up to the young filly and hugged her gently. "I proud of you for cheering up your brother today by helping him fly with your magic."
Claire looked up at her dad "Thanks dad, but I wish I could've helped him fly for real though." Her voice sounded sincere about this, and she noticed her father look around the room once she said this, leaving her slightly confused.
Once he was sure that T and Rarity couldn't hear them, he spoke up. "Well how would you like to help me teach him?"
Claire's face lit up at this. "Really dad, can I? When can we help him? Soon?" Claire was hopping up and down at this point, obviously happy about helping her brother fly.
"Well, I think if we could go on a family picnic this weekend it would be a perfect time for us to teach him." He then stopped Claire from her hopping and pulled her close. "You can't tell T about this yet, or your mom for that matter; Celestia knows she would have a fit if I told her that we teaching him how to fly while he's so young."
"I promise daddy, but what about tomorrow? Won't mommy be there when we try to teach him."
"Yes she will be, but I know that she doesn't want to disappoint Turquoise. So when we ask him if he wants us to help him learn, she wont say anything cause she wouldn't want to rain on his parade."
"It's gonna rain tomorrow?" Claire asked.
Spike face-palmed "No honey, its an expression." he explained, trying to stifle back a hint of laughter.
It was yet another peaceful sunny day in the town of Ponyville, and a family of four could be seen walking in the park, fully geared for a family picnic together. Ignoring the stares given from others, the family eventually settled on a nice open field for them to set up the picnic.
Claire was still holding her brother in her magic, letting the young kirin enjoy the thrill of flying that he sought so hard to learn to do on his own. When they heard their parents call them over Claire trotted quickly to the blanket and, after sitting down herself, place Turquoise down gently. T huffed at this, he wanted more time to fly around, he was brought out of his annoyance when his father spoke up.
"Don't worry son there will be plenty of time to fly around once you finish you lunch." Spike stated with a gentle tone. He then winked at his daughter, making sure that neither T nor Rarity saw it. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't careful enough.
"Spike darling, why did you just wink at your daughter?" Rarity asked, a hint of suspicion in her voice.
Spike reared back at this. "Nothing dear, I think a fly just got caught in my eye is all, you know how that's always happening." He then rubbed his eye to make the tale more believable.
"I still don't get why those insects get so close to you. After all, you'd think they would've realized what they're flying towards." she stated with a hint a laughter in her voice.
"Yea well you know, dumb insects. So lets eat up already." Spike responded, desperate to finish so that he and Claire could get right to work on what they had planned for today.
Minutes Later
*BELCH* "Oops, excuse me." Turquoise stated.
"Guess that means he liked what you brought him." Spike said, glancing over to his wife.
Rarity put on a smile, still a little disgusted by her sons previous outburst.
"Come on Claire, I want to fly around some more, please."
"Hold on a second there kiddo." Spike said, stopping the young colt in his tracks, "I got a better idea. Instead of Claire flying you around with her magic, how bout me and her help you fly for real, on your own?"
Rarity was taken aback by her husband speaking this, mouth wide open. "WHAT?"
"Really dad, can you and Claire really teach me how to fly?"
"Absolutely kiddo."
"YAY!!!!" T yelled out before leaping forward and hugging one of his father's legs.
Spike smiled at this, his smile faded once he caught a glimpse of his wife glare daggers at him in his peripheral vision. "You and your sister go on ahead, I'll clean up a bit and be there soon."
"Ok daddy, c'mon Claire!" Both him and Claire ran up to the top of a hill that was near the place they had eaten at. Once they were far enough away, Rarity picked up one of the plates in her magic and smack it upside the side of Spike's head.
"OWWW!!!!!!!! You know, I'm not as hard-headed as I lead you to believe." he said, rubbing the spot where the unicorn had struck him. He recoiled once he saw Rarity practically giving him Fluttershy's stare. "Look lets just try to talk this out as civilized individuals, OK?" He saw Rarity calm down a bit at this.
Once she had regained her posture, she spoke up finally, making sure to be as serious and gentle as she could be with her words. "What in the name of Celestia are you thinking? You know how I feel about him flying at such a young age. What if the other colts at school tease him for flying too low to the ground and he flies too far up and falls? You know he's afraid of heights and will get dizzy if he does. I mean really darling, there's no amount of rational thinking that could've gone into your mind if you think this is a good idea." Once she finished she was huffing and puffing, probably from speaking all of that in one breath.
"You done?" Spike asked, unmoved the least bit by what Rarity had asked him.
"For now." she responded finally calming down fully from her long statement.
"Good, because I know you'll want to here what I have to say about this. Look, you and I both know that no one at school would dare tease him, not so long as they know that Claire is his sister. I don't think I need to go any further into detail about that now do I?"
Rarity simply shook her head, knowing perfectly well where Spike was getting at with his statement.
"His fear of heights should go away as long as I tell him important things that Rainbow taught me. You know I use to be like him when I started flying, I was TERRIFIED of heights. I still remember how long it took for me to unlatch my claws from that cloud that rainbow put me on."
Rarity giggled slightly at this. "It nearly took all day for you to get the courage to utter so much as a single comprehensible word as well." She was practically laughing now, remembering that whole incident.
Spike chuckled a bit at this himself before he grabbed one of Rarity's fore-hooves and held it gently in his claws. "I promise honey, I won't let him hurt himself, and neither will Claire. Just think at how much flying is making him happy. Do you really want to take away that chance from him?"
Rarity thought long about it. Deep down she knew that this day was coming whether she wanted it to or not, but she didn't expect it to happen this fast. She looked deeply into Spike's eyes and knew he was being sincere in his words. She then looked over at her kids, Claire was letting T fly around one more time in her magic while they waited. She took a closer look at Turquoise, taking in the look of utter joy that he felt whenever he was flying around. She knew that no matter what, she couldn't let her own fears of her children growing up too fast prevent them from growing up happy.
"Alright Spike, go ahead and teach him, but promise me you two will be careful." she finally said, small tears starting to form in her eyes.
Spike handed her a handkerchief that he carried around for her to help wipe up her tears. "I promise honey. You'll see, this is just what he needs to perk up his spirit."
With that final note, Spike walked over to his children without looking back at Rarity. When he finally came up to the hill where his kids were playing, he spoke up "So Turquoise, you ready?"
Claire put Turquoise down once she heard that their father had finally arrived. The younger colt jumped up and down with determination "YAY!!!! I'm ready daddy. Teach me. Teach me. Teach me."
"Alright, alright slow down there a bit you little bunny rabbit." Spike joked grabbing his son by the tail during one of his jumps. T couldn't help but giggle as his dad held him upside down by his tail. "Where you get all this energy from, I'll never know."
He looked at Claire, who simply rolled her eyes with a smirk at his statement.
"Anyways so this is what were going to do. I'll fly you up a bit and you tell me whether I'm going to high for you or not; Okay?" T nodded at this. "When we get to where you feel comfortable, I'll give you a few seconds to flap your wings while I'm still holding on to you. Then when I count to three, I'm gonna let go and let you try to fly on your own."
T became nervous at this. "But, what if I don't fly, won't I get hurt." he asked with concern.
"Don't worry that's where your sister comes in. If you can't fly back up, she'll catch you in her magic way before you hit the ground." He looked over at Claire, "If you can't catch him in your magic, then you try to get under him and catch him with you forelegs; understand?"
Claire nodded quickly at this. "Don't worry daddy, I'll do whatever it takes to keep T safe." she said with a smile.
Spike smiled at her and patted her on the head. He then looked at T with the most sincere look he could muster. "If you don't feel like your up for this you tell me right away. I won't force you into doing this."
The young kirin took in a deep breath and looked at his dad with the best smile he could summon. "Let's do this."
Spike then grabbed T with his second claw, this time on one of the spines on his back. He let go of his tail and held his first claw underneath the colt as he opened up his wings and slowly started to ascend. He looked at T and noticed how surprisingly calm the young kirin was, he knew that today was the day. "Remember to tell me when I get too high. I don't want you throwing up from being up too high again."
After 10 seconds passed Turquoise started to get a little dizzy. "STOP!!!" he shouted, practically disoriented. Spike stopped dead in the air, still clutching the younger hybrid in his grasp. "That's a little too high can you go back down a bit, please."
"Sure thing kiddo." The adult drake then descended a bit until T told him to stop. When he did, Spike guessed that they had to be at least 20 feet off the ground, but he worried a bit when he realized that if T flew a bit forward, he would be tumbling down the hill if he hits the ground. 'I really hope you got this covered Claire'. He looked down at Claire who waved at him, telling him that she was ready. He didn't dare look over at Rarity, fearing that her look of dread would just make him nervous, well more nervous than what he already was.
"Ok T, start flapping your wings as hard as you can, and don't look down for any reason. Looking down will make you nervous and that can make you mess up. You already have seen what happens to Fluttershy when that happens to her." Spike at this point was trying to make Turquoise less nervous about this, so that he wouldn't make a mistake.
He was happy to see that it worked when he heard his son giggle a bit at his last statement. At this point Turquoise started flapping his wings as hard as he could, with a smile still on his face.
After about a minute or so, Spike spoke up again. "Ok Turquoise on three. Ready?" Turquoise nodded, and everything went silent to Spike, broken only by the sounds of his sons wings flapping and his heartbeat. "1...." Spike started to sweat, "2....." time seemed to slow down, ".....3!" he let go. Turquoise stayed afloat in the air for 3 seconds before he fell like a stone, making the drake's heart sink. "Claire, catch him!!!"
Without having to be told a second time, Claire's horns lit up and she tried to catch him in her magic, but she couldn't get a lock on him, he was falling too fast. Without hesitating Claire ran as fast as her legs could carry her, she was hoping she could get underneath her brother before it was too late. But it was just as Spike feared, T had flown a bit forward and was falling at an angle, she knew that she wouldn't be able to get to him in time.
"TURQUOISE!!!!!!" they both bellowed out as the ground drew closer and closer to the young kirin.
Everything then went silent. Then *POMPF*.
Rarity's Perspective
Rarity's heart was beating like a drum when she saw her husband carrying Turquoise up into the sky. "Deep breaths Rarity, just take deep breaths" the young fashionista pony said to herself, practically hyperventilating the entire time. "Celestia please watch over him." Just then her heart stopped when she saw Spike let go of him. She calmed down once she saw him start to float a little bit, but soon she froze with fear when she saw him plummet to the ground. She started panicking when she realized that Claire couldn't catch him in time. She tried to get herself to move,but her body was going into shock; she couldn't move.
When she heard her husband and Daughter call out his name, she closed her eyes and started crying. She sat there, waiting for so much as a single sound that hinted towards her precious colt hitting the ground. But the sound never came, instead she heard something else.
"YAY!!!!!!"
Rarity was shocked to hear her daughter cheering out. 'What happened? What's going on? Is he okay?' The more she mentally debated with herself, the more she wished her body would let her uncover her eyes and see what was happening. Finally, she heard what sounded like wings. She thought that Spike had flown back to her, until she realized that these wings were too small to be his. The sound awoke her body from it's shocked state and she opened her eyes, only to jump back in surprise at what she saw when she opened them. She was greeted by two little turquoise eyes and a young, smiling kirin looking back at her.
"Look mommy I'm flying on my own now." Turquoise then flew up to his dad and fly a few times around him before diving down to Claire, where he flew all around her for a bit.
Rarity still had a look of disbelief on her face. She was relieved to see that Turquoise was safe and unharmed, but she couldn't help but feel something else; something that she hadn't felt for quite a while now. It took her only a few seconds to realize what that feeling was: PRIDE. She was proud of her son, and happy for him. "My little baby is growing up so fast" she said, tears of joy starting to form in her eyes. She didn't notice when the young kirin was approaching her until he woke her form her trance.
"Mommy are you okay. I'm sorry if I scared you earlier, but I'm okay now, see?"
Rarity looked at her flying son and smiled, almost as big as she had smiled when Claire started using her magic. "I'm just fine darling, mommy's just.....so proud of you." T smiled and lunged forward to embrace his mom. They were soon joined by Claire and Spike, who joined on the hug.
Before they knew it, they had packed everything up and were heading home; Turquoise flying all the way there, flying high for now and forever more.
