Chapter 1: Race against the Sun

It was still early morning when I woke up in the nearly pitch black living room. Seeing the sky turn light-gray as the sun was preparing to rise I sat up wondering what time it was when I heard a soft noise to my left and looking over I saw the rosy pink form that belonged to Princess Flurry snuggled up next to me using her wing to keep us warm. I looked at her with a gentle smile remembering the sleepover last night.

It wasn't anything big just the three of us, me, Flurry, and Fluttershy oh and Angel, her best friend rabbit. We were gathered around the fireplace playing monopoly while roasting smores and while neither of us said anything we were sorta letting her win. Somewhere in the night it had started raining a little and we were starting to get sleepy so we finished our game and just sat on the couch listening to the rain fall and watching the fire die. I didn't see Fluttershy or Angel anywhere but I could hear light snoring from the room upstairs so I figured she took herself to bed after we fell asleep.

After carefully extricating myself from under Flurry's wing and putting a blanket over her I took my running jacket from its hook on the wall and left a note on the table for Flurry when she woke up and quietly opened the front door and stepped into the now clear but damp morning and smiled taking in a deep breath of the clean fresh air and started cantering toward a grassy hill not too far off where my running partner would be waiting.

Rainbow Dash was in the middle of stretching when I got there and seeing as she hadn't noticed me just yet I decided to surprise her. I snuck around behind her as best I could and as I got close I charged up my horn with just a little shock of electricity and nudged her rump sending a static shock through her entire body making her stiffen suddenly and her fur sticking up all over briefly. I started laugh at her appearance and wasn't looking when her hoof came around and knocked my feet out from under me making me fall in the damp grass face first. We both got up and look at each other in fury for a moment before we both start laughing at the situation. "Morning Dash!" I said brightly. "Morning Siris!" she said shaking herself so that her fur fell back into place "Ready to try and beat the record today". I smirked and said "you bet!". Since we were both just as fast we had taken to racing around Ponyville as many times as we could before Celestia's sun rose, so far our record was 10 times and that was at top speed. Now I say running partner but really I'm the one who runs RD fly's cause she can't keep up on foot. We took our places as the sun was about to begin its accent and as soon as we could see the first glimpse of the sun we took off at top speed.

While we do our race against the sun I may as well say a few things about myself. My name is Siris and I am the fastest pony on foot. I am 16 and a little shy around large groups. I'm also an alicorn. Not many pony's know that I'm an alicorn and I kinda like it that way because I like the way my life is going right now, I mean I get to live a quiet life for the most part and I don't get a bunch of attention from the surrounding pony's. Normally an alicorn of any kind would be in some big fancy school and learn about and how to use their magic, but things area little different with me. For one thing I'm the only male alicorn ever known, another reason I'm glad there aren't many who know what I am, and like Flurry I was born an alicorn but kept secret until my folks died of old age (which wasn't long as they were already very old) and another thing, my wing never really grew out so they're still really small. Which is ok with me I've always felt better with my hooves on the ground. Oh and one last important thing you should know, my magic is a total joke.

You would normally just assume that alicorns were good at magic but with me its a little different. Everything I try to hold or move just gets blown up or worse so I just stick to simple things like barriers and magic blasts. I'm actually really good at making barriers, but like everything I do with magic it doesn't always work like you can see it it's there but it won't stop anything from walking through. Though I can work this cool spell thing makes you untouchable by any other magic, other than that its nothing special.

I live with Fluttershy most of the time but I've woken up a couple in Twilight's library cause I spent all night reading which has happened often enough that she doesn't mind anymore besides I work there anyway so its not a huge deal. In fact she has even offered me to live there in the spare room downstairs but I respectfully declined her offer because I like living with Fluttershy its quiet and peaceful there and she's just so nice too me it would be rude after all she's done for me over the past 6 years to just up and leave her. Besides Flurry usually stays there while she study's magic with Twilight. I mean the girl already think of me like an older brother so it wouldn't be that weird if we were to share the room, but like I already said I like living with Shy.

We completed our 8th lap and were getting tired and the sun was already almost up but we weren't going to give up just yet and Dash squealed with joy at the speed we were going as we gave it one last burst of speed. Dash and I have known each ever since I first arrived in Ponyville. We first met when I was out one morning running and tried to catch up and see what in the name of Celestia was going so fast cause, as I've been told, I look something like a bolt of lightning when I'm running as fast as I can.

I saw her coming and tried to speed up and get away and of course she also sped up so we keep speeding until were both at max speed and we both kept running until we were to exhausted to keep going. Afterward, when we had enough breath to talk comfortably, we introduced ourselves and talked for about an hour until she said she had someplace to be and I said the same but before she took off she said that she had fun and asked if I was going to be out again the next day. I said I was and so that's how we started our morning running's.