Little Tsu: Ok, this'll be the first time I've tried out this sort of series so hopefully it'll come out ok. I might leave this as a one shot, but if it gets any positives towards it, I might actually make this a multi chap.
On with the show...I hope...x.x
A Need For Snow
A day off. Finally a day off from my training, warm ups, shows, everything really. Ultimately, a day to relax!
Sighing to myself in content, I fell backwards and allowed myself to sink right into a nice fluffy white cloud with my front legs spread out at my sides. My gold eyes were gently closed and my wings stretched out just like my legs were in relaxation. Even my short blue-silver streaked tail was practically wagging at the enjoyment of having this day to myself and away from the Wonderbolts. Now don't get me wrong. I totally love my crew and my new job as a Wonderbolt. Heck, it's practically almost everypony's dream to become one if they're a pegasus and I got to make mine of being one come true. Just sometimes it can get a little bit stressful and tiring to the point where you just wanna toss up your hooves and yell out that you need a break!...Which...is kinda what I actually did during practice with Spitfire and Soarin, heh...
As I laid there in the pillowy softness of the cloud, almost actually drifting off into a light nap, something cold landed on my muzzle causing my nose to scrunch up slightly and snort to get it off. When I felt a few more land on my dark grey coat in other places, I finally opened up my eyes and rolled myself to lay on my side and stomach with my legs folded underneath me mostly. Lifting my head up, I glanced around curiously, only to realize that what had been landing on me was actually light flakes of snow. Blinking slightly in confusion, I glanced above me towards a few more clouds where my confusion only seemed to increase as a few more snowflakes landed in my blue-silver striped mohawk styled mane; the same colors as my short tail. "The hay? Where's this snow comin' from? There's no snow clouds around me...Well, this is weird; huh?"
Just as I spoke to myself, I caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. It was only an instant, but I saw what seemed like a flash of colors whisp on by and through one of the clouds. Getting curious now about what it was and thinking that perhaps it was the cause of this light snowfall, I rose up onto my hooves and stretched out my wings before leaping off the cloud. Flying through the skies as I looked around carefully for whatever that was I saw earlier, I caught sight of something on a distant cloud and quickly dove into the one nearest to me. Peeking carefully out of it so that I wouldn't get spotted, my eyes soon widened at the sight before me in the distance.
Standing there on a cloud was a slender pegasus with an ice blue coat that held what looked like three silver snowflakes on their rump as their cutie mark. Their slightly long, wild mane and tail seemed to be a mixure of white, light blue, and mint with what looked like a single streak of lavender at the top of their mane and tail. Strands of their mane fell into their face a bit, falling over their left eye, which their eyes looked to be maybe teal? I couldn't really tell from this distance, but there was something I could definately see very clearly. Hay, anypony, even ones with all brawns and no brains, could tell this was definately a female.
As I was thinking about this, I suddenly realized that the little mare was gone and I perked my head up out of the cloud completely now as I glanced around a bit panickedly in search for her again. That is...until she suddenly popped up outta knowhere!
"Hey!"
"Woah!"
Jolting at being taken by surprise, I lost my balance on the cloud I had been hiding in and fell out of it. Quickly catching myself in the air, I flew back up and rested a hoof over my chest. "Jeez, way to give somepony a heart attack. Is that how you greet everypony you meet?"
The mystery mare arched a delicate brow at this through her bangs and crossed her front legs in front of her chest. "Is spyin' the way ya meet everypony?"
Oookayyy...So I had that one coming; I admit it.
Chuckling sheepishly at being found out, I lifted a hoof and rubbed the back of my head guiltily. "Eheheh...Not exactly. This is actually a first time I've spied on anypony." Ok, so maybe that was a bit of a lie. I miiight have done a little bit of spying when I was still a little colt and then admittedly a few times when Soarin claimed to be going out to get himself some pie. True enough that everypony believed him, but I figured there was more to it than that so I actually followed. Turns out, my spying led me to actually finding out that Soarin had slipped off to meet a certain little rainbow maned mare. Heh...Who woulda thought that the pie lover himself actually had a secret marefriend?...Course, that secret was out NOW. Actually, it was out a few weeks ago, but that's beside the point.
However, the sound of a throat clearing got me out of my thoughts as I blinked slightly out of my daze and brought my gaze to lock with the mare's before me. Huh...So her eyes really were teal. A really bright, pretty teal at that. Gah, no. Stop thinking how pretty she is Thunderlane! Shaking my head a bit roughly, I snap out of it completely and gave the mystery mare an apologetic smile. "S-Sorry. I didn't really mean to spy. It's just that the snow caught me off guard while I was napping a bit in one of the clouds and then when I caught a faint glimpse of you, I got curious and followed. I uh...take it you're the one that made the light snowfall?" The curious look in my gold eyes had returned at this point and the irritated look in the pegasus before me's seemed to gradually vanish with my apology and then my question.
Seeing her slowly start to relax, the young mare nodded her head lightly. "Yeah, actually. I'm a weather pony like my cousin, but my special talent deals with snow. I can even make or lighten up blizzards of different sizes." As she told me this, I actually got a bit amazed. After all, you hardly ever saw snow fall in neither Ponyville nor Cloudsdale so this actually excited me a tiny bit. It also gave us something in common. After all, my own cutie mark was a storm cloud with a lightning bolt striking out of it. The more I continued to think about this, the more curious I got about the slightly smaller mare before me, which was strange since in all honesty, it was the mares that loved me. None had ever really got me curious before.
Dragging myself outta my thoughts again, I blinked slightly, only to have my eyes widen when I noticed that the unknown mare wasn't in front of me anymore. Quickly glancing around, I saw her casually flying off towards Ponyville and immediately flew off after her. "H-Hey! Wait up, will you?!" As she halted and turned her head to face me, she seemed almost annoyed now with me. Maybe she was needing to be somewhere? "Uhhh...I mean,...I've never seen you around Ponyville or Cloudsdale before. Are you um...new by any chance?"
The pegasus gave me a strange look as I asked this and I could honestly almost facehoof at how I seemed to just trip over my own words a bit. However, she surprisingly still replied to me, though thankfully, her tone wasn't all that annoyed. "I guess ya could say that...I visited a time or two back when I was still just a li'l filly with my parents before I ever got my cutie mark, but that was a long time ago. I'm visitin' my cousin again since it's been a while since I last seen her, given I live in Los Pegasus and all..."
"I see. So it's been a while since your last visit. In that case, would you like me to show you around? After all, I am a gentlepony." Well,...maybe not entirely, but I was pretty smooth and a gentlepony sometimes. It was her answer though, that caused me to force myself to restrain not to show any excitement.
"Sure, why not. Just no more spyin' on me, got it?"
Her eyes were narrowed in a glare towards me when she said that last part, but the sight of the faint smirk told me that she was actually joking a little with me. Laughing a bit at this, I shake my head and lift one hoof as I used my other to make a cross fashion over my heart. "I promise. No more spying on you. Next time, I'll just sneak up and scare you like you did to me earlier." Smirking back in response as I said this, we both headed off as we flew towards Ponyville together. "I'm Thunderlane by the way; what's your's?"
My attention was almost fully on her as we flew since we were still high enough in the air to not cause me to crash into anything while I looked at her. Whether or not she noticed this though, I had no clue at all. "Name's Blizzard Rush, but my friends back in Los Pegasus and then my cousin call me Rush. Oh yeah, ya might know my cousin. Her name's Rainbow Dash."
That...actually sent me into shock as my eyes widened and I suddenly jerked to a halt in the air causing her to halt as well as she held a sudden confused look towards me. Then again, I probably don't blame her since the look on my face was like that of a fish out of water or something cause my jaw was dropped. "You're...Woah woah. You're Dash's cousin?! Seriously?! Man, I really never would've guessed." Slowly coming down from my shock, I gave her a closer look before I started to notice a few things. Her mane and tail were styled a bit similarly towards Dash's, though a slightly longer mane and tail and her tail had a bit more of a wave to it and her eyes were the same shape as Dash's too and the way she spoke was also similar. However, no matter how you look at it though, the mare before me was definately cuter than my friend, Dash. Wait, did I seriously just think that?!
Seeing that she was still confused, I blushed faintly and ran a hoof through my mohawk styled mane. "Uhh...Sorry about that. It's just that I know Rainbow Dash and she and I are kinda friends, but I never woulda guessed you were her cousin. I mean,...yeah, now that I get a better look at you, you have slight similarities to her, but at first glance, no pony woulda been able to see it." Shaking my head as I said this, I smile again and point towards the town in the slight distance that was Ponyville. "Well anyways, lets get going, kay? I did promise to show you around after all, heh." Blizzard Rush seemed to relax again as she actually smiled lightly and nodded her head once towards me before we flew off.
Upon arriving in Ponyville, we landed in the streets and I immediately began to show her around. As we walked around and chatted, Blizzard Rush seemed to become more and more grateful that I offered to show her around cause a number of the shops that were here now, weren't when she last visited. Of course we ended up talking about a number of different subjects as we wandered, only to finally end up at Sugarcube Corner. "You'll really like it here. My little brother, Rumble and I used to come here often. They have the best sweets."
As we stepped inside, causing the little bell above the door to chime lightly, an older mare stepped out of the back and smiled sweetly towards us. "Hello there Thunderlane. I've just finished making some fresh cupcakes. Would you like some?" It was then that she seemed to notice that I didn't have my little brother with me this time, but instead, a mare. "Oh dear...And who's your little friend? Hm?" As she asked this, Miss Cake seemed to halt all words the more she stared at the smaller mare beside me. It was then that her eyes widened and she stepped out from behind the counter; walking towards us. "My word...Is that you little Blizzard Rush? Oh my dear, you've grown so much." In an instant, the earth pony had her hooves around the younger mare as she hugged her closely.
Seeing Blizzard Rush hug Miss Cake back before pulling away, she smiled sweetly at the much older mare before speaking. "Yeah, it's me Miss Cake. It feels great to be back visitin' Ponyville again after so long. I might actually stay a while with my visit, ya know? Think Dashy would tie me up if I didn', hehe. Jus'...don' let her know yet. She hasn' a clue that I decided to come visit yet. I kinda wanted it to be a suprise, ya know?" Miss Cake seemed to nod her head in understanding of this and also promised to make Pinkie Pie swear later on when she returned that she would keep quiet and not...throw any parties for once, which I was actually a bit thankful for. Don't get me wrong, I love parties as much as the next pony, but Pinkie tended to be a bit too much with her...bubbly personality.
With things settled, Blizzard Rush and I walked over to a booth and ordered up some of the fresh cupcakes that she had mentioned earlier as well as two apple smoothies. Needless to say, what started off as a relaxing day to take a nap turned into an enjoyable day with a new mare that I became fast friends with despite my first impression having not been exactly the best...I like to think that it was my overall charm that got me on her good side...Yeah, it was totally not my absolute awkwardness at all. Unfortunately, all good things had to come to an end and that included this day as much as I was silently wishing for an extention on it.
Walking out of Sugarcube Corner and onto the streets, I began to notice that the sky was beginning to take on shades of purples, darker blues, reds and then the clouds took on a pink hue. I hadn't even realized how fast the time went by and here it was, already sunset. As I glanced over at my new friend, I was almost stunned as my light gold eyes widened faintly at the sight before me. The shade's of the sunset's light seemed to dance along her ice blue coat and make her bright teal eyes practically sparkle. At this point in time, I don't care if I never noticed details like this before with other mares, but the mare right before me at this very moment was the most breathtaking sight I had ever seen. Unfortunately, that realization didn't really help me out much as I was currently rocking the friend zone.
...Now I know how everypony else that was ever friendzoned by somepony felt. Only difference, Blizzard Rush had no clue that I just might be starting to form a little crush on her...
"Well, I best get goin'. I'm stayin' in a hotel in Cloudsdale for the night till I surprise my cousin. I had a great time Thunder." Her words snapped me out of my train of thought again as I glanced towards her and saw her smiling gently at me. Smiling back in return, I nod my head lightly before she actually took me by surprise and gave me a hug. Quickly snapping out of my surprise, I return the hug before we both pulled back at the same time. "We should do this again sometime. It'd be great to see ya again since we're friends now."
"I had a great time too and getting to hang out definately sounds like a blast Blizzy. You oughta come visit Pegasus Stadium sometime since I work there with the other Wonderbolts." As I said this, she seemed surprised, but I couldn't really tell what she was surprised about. At first, I actually thought it was towards me being a Wonderbolt, but then I remembered that that had been one of the topics we spoke about while I was showing her around along with my training as a recruit. It was when I spotted a faint blush on her muzzle that I realized what the cause of it was. It was subconsciously, but I had actually called her 'Blizzy'. "Uh...sorry...D-Do you not want me to call you that?"
She seemed to snap out of it quickly when I asked that and she quickly shook her head. "N-No! You can call me Blizzy if ya want. Ya jus' caught me by surprise I guess. I haven' been called that since I was a li'l filly still. Anyways, I best get goin' before it gets too late. Bye Thunder." With that she smiled a bit shyly and gave me a little wave before flying off.
Watching her leave, I couldn't help but smile a bit myself. This mare was definately different from any other mare I ever met thus far, save for her cousin of course. For one, she didn't adore me in that manner like other Wonderbolt fanmares did and despite having just shown a bit of a shy side to her, she had a playful side and was also spunky. As I headed back home myself, I chuckle lightly. One thing was definately for sure.
...I was gonna enjoy getting to know and be around Blizzy even more during her visit and maybe even win over her heart. After all,...I am a Wonderbolt. How hard could it be since we'd already hit it off great as friends?
End?
Little Tsu: Ok, so that was that. This is gonna remain a one-shot unless I got any positives on it. If I do, then I might actually continue it as a multi-chap cause I actually think that Blizzard Rush & Thunderlane are pretty good together, though admittedly, they will have a decent number of comical moments too like when Thunderlane spied on the poor mare. lol
Side note: Blizzard Rush is an OC that I created & though she & Thunderlane are gonna be the main coupling, my OTP, Rainbow Dash & Soarin will definately be in this plenty as well.^^