Chapter 1 Birds of a Feather
Soaring Spectrum paced the waiting room of the Cloudsdale hospital. To him, it seemed like hours. All the while, a million differn worries went through his head.
"What if the baby is a still born? What if Firefly dies? What if I'm a horrible father!?" But before Soaring Spectrum could think of anything else the nurse came in.
"Soaring Spectrum?" The nurse asked the sea of ponies in the waiting room.
"Here!" Soaring flew up so the nurse could she.
"Come with me please." The nurse's voice was strong, commanding but gentle. As the two flew down the hall the nurse spoke.
"I am happy two announce that your wife's labour went extremely well and... Well... You better see for yourself." Soaring opened the door to the room and saw his wife, Firefly sitting in the hospital bed with a... Or should I say two bundles in her arms. Soaring was shocked.
"Twi-twi."
"Twins." Firefly finished his sentence.
"Wanna see?" Soaring nodded. Firefly opened the blankets to reveal two filly Pegasai. One light blue with vertical rainbow stripes going up and down her mane and tail. The other, orange-brownish with gray-scale stripes going up and down her mane and tail. Soaring loved them instantly, but he had to restrain himself.
"So... What are we going to name them?" Firefly thought about this for a minutes and said gesturing to the light blue one
"Rainbow! I like Rainbow. She has a Rainbow mane so it just fits." It took a little longer for the other one. Soaring blurted out
"Firelight! Fire from you, and light because she looks bright and happy! Or would you prefer something different?"
"No I like it!" Firefly exclaimed. The fillies were both healthy and ready to be taken home the next day.
The next few years were full of different milestones for the both if them! Firelight began talking at and early age and Rainbow started flying young. Rainbow was SO fast the parents added Dash to her name. When the fillies were around two, Soaring Spectrum won a yearly draw that takes a family to a tropical jungle. Soaring Spectrum didn't want to go for he feared for his family, but Firefly said it would be fine and really wanted to go. In the end, Soaring agreed and the family went. On the third day, they decided to go on a nature walk through the jungle. Rainbow Dash was in her father's shoulder and Firelight was in a basket her mother was carrying because she couldn't walk. They saw many birds, animals and gorgeous flowers. After a while, the family got tired from flying and started to walk. They came to a river that was small but the current was very strong. There was no bridge so they started stepping on stones. All of a sudden, Firefly slipped and fell into the river and the basket with Firelight in it went down the rushing river. The parents tried to chase it but the current kept pushing them over and the basket went down the part of the river where the brush over the river is SO thick, no pony can get through it. Firelight's basket kept floating for 2 hours with Firelight asleep in it. It eventually came to a stop, a pony walked up to it. It was mare Zebra from one of the native tribes named Zanaya. She saw it was a little filly and picked her up. She had a colt at home so she knew how to take care of a baby. She brought it to her tribe leader Zylus but he looked confused.
"Zylus." Zanaya said in a pleading tone. "I found this little filly in basket that was floating in the river. She is a pony and I know ponies almost never come here except for research. But even researchers would not bring a filly this young. I wish to take care of her." Zylus was shocked but didn't refuse, for their saying was; everyone is equal, and everyone deserves love and care.
"Zanaya, you know I will not refuse." Zylus said in his stern but loving voice. "We must give her a name though."
Zanaya exhaled in relief.
"Zylus, you know that's your job to name all the young." Zylus looked her over twice and came to a conclusion.
"Daring Do"
Zanaya was shocked for it was not a name that started with a "Z" but she did not question.
Many years passed and Daring Do lived up to her name. She was adventurous and quite the daredevil. All the other children excluded her because she was not of their kind and she became quite lonely and learned to work alone. She longed for a friend but they all scoffed at the idea. The only Zebras who was nice to her were Zylus, her adoptive mother Zanaya and her adoptive brother Zacarius. Zacarius taught her how to fight and do things on the ground like a pony with no wings, but he also taught her how to fly. It was very hard because Zacarius couldn't fly either but she got the hang of it. She wasn't very strong at first but that soon changed. Soon she was flying to the top of trees to get the sweetest fruit and everyone loved her for it. She often quetioned why she looked so different from all the other kids but she didn't let it get to her. When she was about 13 she discovered her special talent which was exploring. She loved to explore and one day she received her cutie mark which was a compass rose. There was only one typewriter in the tribe and it belonged to Zanaya because she loved to write. Zanaya was the author of many published books ponies have read but she went by an alias because she loved her tribe and didn't want anypony messing it up. She taught Daring Do how to write and Daring fell in love with it. Even though Daring's talent was exploring, her mother never let her do it, she often snuck away to find new places and new things. One fateful day, Daring was horrified to discover that a creature named Ahuizotl stole the sacred Sapphire Stone that belonged to her tribe. Since Daring was the most qualified, she decided to go after it. After her adventure every pony wanted to know what happened. Daring thought that there were too many details, so she decided to write a book on it. Every pony in her tribe loved it and said she should send it to civilization so they could read it too. She thought about it for a while and decided she would, but she needed an alias so no pony would know who she was. Daring decided on A.K Yearling and sent her book to the publisher. To her uttermost surprise, ponies loved it. Many years went by and Daring often went on adventures and had mishaps with Ahuizotl. Every single time, Daring wrote a book on it. She didn't always send the story to civilization but she always wrote a story. One day she decided to move to a place that was somewhat near pony civilization but far enough away. She liked her new place and Ahuizotl followed her to cause new mayhem.