After listening to six stories of ponies achieving their Cutie Marks, Rain Lily noticed that she was only really interested in two:
Fluttershy's, because she could realte with her love of animals, and Rainbow Dash's because it was just so amazing. A sonic rainboom? She'd heard of it, and dreamed of pulling one off, but could never fly high enough to pull it off without risking life and limb with the ground. The guards would stop her and tell her that the air was too thin for a pony with her 'condition' to be flying that high.
'It's not true...I can fly up there just fine. Sure, I get winded, but anypony would. Right?'
Rain Lily snapped out of it when she heard her mother talking.
"...That sounds wonderful, Twilight! You could teach her a couple spells, and we'll see if she's like you. Then, I suppose we can move down the line! I'm afraid Shining Armor and I have some business to attend to, but I trust you fully to take good care of my daughter."
Rain Lily leaped off the couch in alarm.
"Mom, wait! Don't leave!" She squeaked.
Everypony was startled by her outburst.
"Rain Lily, what's the matter? I've left you alone before."
"But not with...Uh...Company! I don't want to mess up in front of them!"
'I also don't want them to be alone with me- I don't like strangers!'
"Oh, Rain Lily, you'll be fine. Your Aunt and her friends won't judge you! Everypony makes mistakes when they're trying to get their Cutie Mark. Now, not another word. I'll see you all this evening at dinner, and we can discuss the events of the day there."
Rain Lily hung her head in defeat.
"Okay, Mom. Love you."
Cadence smiled softly at her daughter.
"I love you to, darling. See you in a few hours."
Twilight grinned.
"Ready for a magic lesson, Rain Lily?"
The filly nodded.
"Yes, Auntie Twilight."
"Head outside with us, then. I'll teach you something little-how to pick something up, maybe?"
Rain Lily sighed.
She could already do that! She could pick things up, crack eggs, turn pages, and do many more spells. Recently, she'd found out how to make flowers open and close, but that made her head hurt too badly for her to experiment much.
'I guess flowers have more willpower than me.'
Twilight set a feather on the ground.
"Okay, Rain Lily, I'll show you how to pick this up. First, you get in a comfortable stance so that you can use magic without-"
Twilight saw Rain Lily with the feather, a small stone, and a blade of grass held up in her pale bluish purple magic.
"Oh. I see you've already figured out how to pick things up. What else can you do?"
Rain Lily looked down.
"Not much...Crack eggs, turn pages, and sometimes I can make a flower open or close for a second, but that hurts really bad."
Twilight was surprised.
"You can do aging spells? Already?"
"No...I can just make it open or close. The ones I do it on close at night and open in the day, but it hurts."
Twilight frowned.
"Oh. That's still very good! Have you showed your mother yet?"
Rain Lily shook her head.
"It hurts. Besides, she's busy."
Twilight pondered for a moment.
"Would you like to try changing one thing into something else?
Rain Lily shrugged.
"I guess..."
Twilight grinned.
"Turn that feather into a leaf."
Rain Lily nodded.
She started at the leaf intently as her horn began to glow. The young alicorn's heart raced and her pathetic wings subconsciously raised, tense from the effort. As her small horn shone brightly, Rain Lily pictured the feather as a leaf, focusing with all she could muster.
She squeaked as the feather began to shake, and the world got deadly silent. The feather wasn't changing into a leaf- rather, it was glowing red-hot and looking rather dangerous.
"Rain Lily, put it down! It's gonna blow!" Twilight shouted.
The filly couldn't hear her. Blood roared in her ears, almost drowning out the horrible high-pitch ringing that silenced the world around her.
She began to shake violently, and a soundless scream escaped her throat.
The feather exploded into a storm of tiny, green herbs, burning and coating the ground fully.
Rain Lilly's knees gave out, and she started at the blackened little leaves in horror.
She'd done it again.
"WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT?" Applejack shouted, looking horrified and baffled.
Rain Lily couldn't help the tears that streamed down her cheeks. Her eyes stung and her muscles burned. Her heart pounded in a strange pattern, too fast and too hard, then too faint and too slow. Her lungs burned as though she were breathing smoke plumes, and the feeling of mortification rolled off the filly in waves.
"I'm sorry," She whimpered, curling into a tight little ball, shivering as though she'd just climbed out of ice water, "It happened again."
Oh, look. A new plot element.
If anyone's followed my other OC stories based off of me, you probably know what her problem's going to be.
Derp.
Also, another note:
I'm not really accepting OC's right now...Rain Lily is pretty much antisocial, and I always mess up writing for OC's I'm not familiar with.
Sorry.
;-;
