Getting fired
I was flying. Flying as hard as I could, through the storm, with Him hard on my hooves. I looked back and immediately wished I hadn't. A scream tried to wrestle it's way out of my throat. He was almost caught up to me. No! I had to escape. Whipping my head back around I desperately tried to outrace the shadowy figure who had haunted my dreams for years, as I had hopelessly done in every previous nightmare. Sometimes he would be chasing me through a maze or through the Everfree forest, but it was a recurring theme.
I was tiring. I had to escape Him somehow. Suddenly I heard an evil laugh as a griffin claw knocked me out of the sky. And a huge paw snatched me out of midair around my midsection. "YOU THINK YOU CAN OUTRUN ME?" He laughed again, sneering "THINK AGAIN MY DEAR. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ME. I. AM. CHAOS."
I gasped and fell out of bed, my sheets tangled around my midsection. One of my wings was trapped in the sheets while the other stuck out awkwardly.
The Dream had come again! It had been happening for years, sometimes every night for weeks straight, sometimes not at all for a short time. I didn't know who He was. Only that he was terrifying and I didn't know why he was in my dreams.
I sighed as I untangled myself and looked at the clock. 9 AM?! I was supposed to be at work in the weather factory at 9:20! Oh no! My boss said one more tardy and he would fire me! I quickly brushed and braided my coral colored mane, and smoothed my ruffled sea foam colored coat and wings as I hastily grabbed my keys, put on my saddlebag, threw a daisy sandwich for lunch inside and hurried to work.
I arrived at the factory and went to work at the cloud making machine after putting on the workers coat that had my cutie mark on it, (a heart with two rainbow wings) that was required of this occupation. My friend Stormy Sky noticed me and edged her way over to me
"Hey Soaring Heart. The boss was asking about you. I told him you were gone to look at the cloud quota charts."
Stormy had been one of my only friends since moving to Cloudsdale. I would have gotten fired long ago if not for her.
"Thanks Stormy. I owe you. Again."
She just smiled and went back to work. I did the same.
Soon my thoughts drifted back to the being from my dreams. Why did I dream about him? Who was he? Was he just a crazy figment of my imagination? And why wasn't the newly reinstated Princess of the Night doing anything about the nightmares?
As my mind was engulfed by these thoughts, I somehow ended up making the cloud machine create clouds that were too small or heavy with rain or, somehow, pink.
I had no awareness of my odd mistakes until my boss: Gloomy Day stormed up and bellowed "SOARING HEART! MY OFFICE. NOW!" right in my ear. I jumped five feet, and ended up hovering in the air trying to restart my heart, before I reluctantly landed and followed Gloomy Day to his office.
"I HAVE GIVEN YOU SECOND AND THIRD CHANCES! I WARNED YOU TO KEEP YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUDS. PUN NOT INTENDED!"
These words he all but roared at me as he paced back and forth. Abruptly, he stopped in front of me and fixed his dark grey irises on my light grey, silver speckled ones.. Gloomy Day sighed
"Look Soaring Heart, you're a good kid. You just aren't meant for this job. I'm sorry, but... You're fired."
I wasn't surprised. I had screwed up again. I let out a sigh of my own,
"I understand sir. Thank you for giving me the chance that you did." His gaze softened "Don't give up. You can probably find a job elsewhere. Maybe Manehattan...or Fillydelphia...Maybe Ponyville, where those Elements of Harmony mares live."
I gave a faint smile, and replied
"Thanks. I'll take your advice on that."
I trotted out of his office, trying to keep my chin up. I could see Stormy Sky and some other pegasi cleaning up my mess. Stormy looked up and saw me hanging up my workers coat. She quickly trotted over and asked
"So he gave you the boot?"
I simply nodded. She gave me a hug
"I'm sorry Heart."
"It's fine, I just want to say goodbye. I'm going to try to find work somewhere other than Cloudsdale..."
She nodded but looked crestfallen.
"Hey, if that doesn't workout for you, you're welcome to bunk with me till you get back on your hooves..."
There were tears in my eyes as I gave her one last hug and made my way out of the weather factory.
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AU: If you've read this far and think it's good ( or even just adequate, ) please review. If you have constructive criticism, I welcome it Just so everyone knows, this is an OC/Discord fanfic because in my opinion, Discord is awesome!
This is Soaring Heart,
Soaring Out!
