A little filly discovers her destiny, with help of course!
Sorry every pony, I'm putting this story on hiatus until people ask if they want more, or until I finish More Than One. :C
Sunset Streak was your regular ol' filly, learning how to fly. But she comes together with some friends, and she enters a magical contest, which shapes her destiny....
This is my first fanfiction, so it may be a bit sloppy, or a bit awkward, but I have faith in this :) Cover art by Winry, backround and effects by me
A classroom is empty, shining the morning sun through the windows. A teacher lay in the classroom, standing on the fluffy cloud floor. "It's almost time..." she muttered. The wind blew into the room, ruffling her mane. She uses her feathery wings to straighten it out. Then, a loud bell rings throughout the school. With in a few seconds, a string of fillies gallop into the once quiet room. The teacher's mane is ruffled yet more by the fillies running into her room. All of the ponies are carrying bags on their back and throwing them on the desks laid out.
A few minutes pass by, and the bell rings once more. The teacher straightens her mane and tail, and says; "Okay class, lets get started. My name is Vanilla Skies, and you can call me Miss Vanilla, and you are now in 2nd or 5th grade homeroom," she coughed, and muttered something unheard. "Anypony have a question?" she asked the young crowd. A young filly then called out "Why is your mane so dang puffy?!" Miss. Vanilla gasped, "What's your name young lady?" the white filly tapped her hoofs together, "Ti...Ti-Tiger Lily...." she muttered. Miss. Vanilla stared at Tiger Lily with a pink gaze, and wrote her name down in a notepad with her hoof.
"Well, any more-" she was interrupted with the door being opened. A pale pink filly padded into the room. She looked around shyly, and prepared to walk to an empty desk and Miss. Vanilla shouted "Wait! Little filly, what's your name?"
The pink filly brought her head up, with her orange and bright pink mane shining in the sun. "My name is Sunset Streak."
Miss Vanilla smiled "That's a nice name! What are your hobbies?" Sunset stared at her hoofs, What is my hobby, what is my hobby?!?! she thought quickly. "Uh... uh... I think I like orange." she muttered.Well, I'm definitely screwed. The class stared at her in silence. Then the classroom broke in laughter.
"Orange?! That's not a hobby!"
"Tell us a true hobby!"
"You stupid idiot!"
Miss Vanilla took a whistle out of her pocket and blew on it very loudly. "Shame on you! I never had to use this whistle on the FIRST DAY! This is your first warning!" she shouted. Then she walked over to the teary Sunset and whispered "I'm sorry.." and slipped her a lollipop. Sunset walked to her desk and sat down. She covered her eyes with her hoofs and closed her eyes, holding in tears. Why did I humiliate myself like that?! Why did Mrs. Vanilla pressure me like that? She then listened to what Miss Vanilla was saying "... learning math and reading especially, and we will do art and science occasionally." she was explaining to the kids. Sunset got up when the word "art" was said. I love art! I should have said that instead of orange! She continued listening to her teacher. "Well, class, we are going to be doing an art project! 2rd and 5th graders, go the different sides of the room!" She watched each grade of filly go to each side of the room. I should stop crying, what will that do? At least I have something else to think about. She walked over to the 5th grade side of the room and felt some fur brush her.
She spun around and saw a grey mare with yellow crossed eyes. "Oh hey there, I feel sorry about what happened to you!" she said worried. "My name is Derpy Hooves, how are you?" Her eyes are throwing me off. Is she talking to me? Sunset thought. "Oh me? I'm still kinda mad about it, but it's no worry. I'll be fine..." she muttered. Derpy then stared doubtfully at her, "Well, if anything is wrong, you can-" Derpy then tripped on a chair, and rubbed her nose. Oh, with her eyes, I'm not surprised. But what was Derpy going to say?
"Class!" Miss Vanilla called, "Lets start off this school year with a drawing of whatever you want! I'll pass out the paper. If you can, use teamwork!" she called. She passed out the paper, and Sunset sat down at a chair. She imagined many bright colors together, like orange, pink, black, and yellow. She scribbled many types of orange, and pink onto a paper, and drew black around it. She galloped up to her teacher and said cheerfully "Here, this is my paper!"
Miss Vanilla took a close look at the paper, and looked up to the happy Sunset., with a confused tone she said, "What is this, sweetie?"
Sunset blinked, "It's the sky!"
"I'm pretty sure the sky is blue."
"Why can't the sky be orange?"
Miss Vanilla thought for a moment, "I don't know."
"Well, the sky can be orange if I want then!"
Sunset ran off, and Miss Vanilla smiled. What a kid. She's creative, isn't she?
Sunset Streak walked to the bus, feeling down. Why did Miss.Vanilla hate my sky? It should be orange and pink. I hope Pearly will like it. When she reached the bus, she spread her fluffy pink wings and tried to fly. She hovered for a few seconds, and crashed onto the clouds. Why can't I fly like the rest of my classmates? I should have learned in 1st grade! she thought miserably. She went to find a good clump of cloud to lay on, and found a fluffy small one. She jumped on top of it and sat down.
She lay there crying, and saw a pale blue pony with a beautiful rainbow mane approach her. Sunset knew instantly that it was the most popular 8th grader at Cloudsdale High School, Rainbow Dash. Why talk to a stupid 5th grader like me? Doesn't she have her own friends to talk to? "Hey filly! Sunset Streak right?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. Holy Canterlot, she knows my name?! Sunset blushed in astonishment, and Rainbow Dash brushed her flank. "I know, I'm pretty awesome. But I feel sorry for what those stupid fillies did to you." Oh, she knows my name because of that. Sunset thought miserably. "I know, I'm stupid. I say that on the first day of school. Why am I so dumb?" she said out loud.
Rainbow Dash's bright pink eyes widened in surprise. Oh, now she hates me. Then her eyes brightened with happiness. "Sunset... no matter what you do, don't listen to those fools. They won't break you down. Kill them with kindness. I used to have people tease and bully me all the time." Rainbow Dash gently whispered. Sunset gasped in surprise, she suddenly thought of the rumors she heard about Rainbow Dash, her bravery and how everyone loved her. "I can't even fly..." Sunset muttered sadly. Rainbow Dash then looked at Sunset's bright pink wings.
"Sunset Streak... I could teach you how to fly. I think you have potential!"
Sunset's heart started racing. Being taught how to fly by the best flyer in Cloudsdale Junior High! This is my chance! "Um.... YES! I want to! Please teach me!" Sunset then looked at her wings, they were not like normal wings. They were big for a filly, and they actually shaded bright pink, all the way to the pale pink like the rest of her pelt. Usually, wings have just a solid color, the color of her pelt, but hers was a gradient. Sunset could tell that Rainbow has noticed that. "My wings are big and unusually colored. Do you know why?" Sunset asked Rainbow. "I have no idea, but I think it's that your destiny is going to be great."
Sunset's ears flew up as she heard a squeal, and looked ahead to the cloud bus stop. There was a large yellow bus that drove down the cloud highway, made specifically for fillies who couldn't fly yet. She frowned, and padded towards the bus, but was stopped by a rainbow tail. She spun and saw Rainbow Dash behind her. "You know what Sunny?" she exclaimed, "I'll go with you."
Sunset Streak and Rainbow Dash sat in the back of the loud bus. Sunset's wings were crushed against the back of the seat, and her wings were always hurting when she got home. But next to the young mare, Rainbow Dash's wings were straight up, almost touching the ceiling. "Well, this is what I learned when I was your age!" Rainbow exclaimed. "You try." Sunset's gradient wings reluctantly, but surely. She literally felt her wings get better, and relaxed. "It works!" she squealed happily.
Rainbow smiled happily, and some filly with a wrapped wing and really long bangs ahead of Sunset and Rainbow looks back towards them, and sneers "Hey Rainbow CRASH, crash into a cloud again?" Rainbow Dash muttered "Hoops..." Rainbow then snarled "Look at yourself? You probably don't know where you were flying!" Sunset was surprised to see this side of Rainbow Dash. The Rainbow Dash in the rumors were cool, kind, and the best flyer in all of Equestria. But..... this Rainbow she was hearing was scaring her, listening Hoops and Rainbow Dash shouting at each other loudly. She hid her head down, and heard the argument quiet down, and felt the feathery wings of Rainbow Dash as they wrapped around her shoulder. and she quietly sqwealed in excitement on the way home.
Rainbow talks to sunset to cheer her up.
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Sunset Streak and her unicorn friend named Pearly Marine sat under an oak tree in the suburbs of Ponyville. Sunset and Pearly have lived together for many years, and have gone through a lot together. Sunset decided to tell Pearly what has happened at Cloudsdale High today.
"Oh my Celestia, is Rainbow Dash really teaching you how to fly?!" Pearly exclaimed. "Yeah Pearly! She thinks I have potential!" Sunset happily cheered. "Well, a toothpaste colored unicorn taught me how to use a bit of magic!" Pearly squealed happily, as she flicked her tail up in happiness.
"Who?" Sunset gasped
"I dunno, I think her name was Liar or something."
"That name is kinda mean!"
"Like I said, I dunno." Pearly sighed.
"Well Sunset," Pearly started, "I think I discovered what I want to do! I want to make swimsuits and swim across the ocean!" she squeaked. "Swimming is my passion after all!" Sunset gently hit Pearly in the ear with her bright orange and pink tail. "I don't think that's it! You don't even have your cutie mark yet!" Sunset scoffed. Pearly shuffled the ground with her hooves, and sighed. "Well.... I actually got it 2 nights ago! I wanted it to be a surprise..." She flung the small pink skirt off her flank, and there sat a cutie mark, of a fishbowl, and an excellent goldfish inside said fishbowl.
Sunset gasped at the sight of Pearly Marine's cutie mark. Sunset herself had only a blank flank, and everyone in her class got their marks YEARS before hers. Sunset's inner rage started peaking, but she held it in. "Oh that's nice!" she forcefully smiled.
Pearly had a huge grin on her face, and she bumped Sunset's shoulder with her front knee, "Well, what would your cutie mark look like?" she teased jokingly.
Sunset couldn't take it. "I have been a blank flank for too long, all of my friends have their cutie marks, and everyone teases me for what I imagine! Why? Today, Miss Vanilla didn't like the picture of the beautiful sky I drew!" Sunset said as she stomped her foot on the soft grass. Sunset put a wall-eyed look on her face, and sneered in a mocking voice "I bet Miss Vanilla was thinking 'Oh Sunset, the sky can't be orange, and your imagination of the sky does NOT matter to me, or ANYONE ELSE IN EQUESTRIA.' "
Pearly's ears perked up, she stumbled back, in fear that Sunset was going to do something, and her neck fur rose. "Sunset.... an orange sky? That's all you're mad about?"
Sunset gasped, and sat down and sighed "Yes. I can color the sky however I feel like. I feel that a blue sky is too bland, and we need to add a little bit more color to the world, she said as she stared up at the clear blue sky, and specifically at the sun. The sun shone orange, and yellow. That sure looks like my drawing I gave to Miss Vanilla.. She then realized, that the Sun may have something to do with her destiny.
