Scootaloo was happily soaring through the clouds, she didn't know why but the feeling of the sun on her coat mixed with the feeling of the wind in her mane felt, exciting. She didn't know how to explain it, but she didn't care most pegassi probably knew this feeling.
Looking down Scootaloo saw ponyville beneath her, she felt bad thinking like this, but it belonged there. The colourful rooftops making a colage of some sort, and it made her feel special, she knew that only pegassi, or ponies with the means too, could see this. She felt weird that she wasn't getting tired, normally she could only hover for a minute, if she really pushed herself. But now that she though about it, she couldn't even remember taking off.
"Oh, well" she thought. "At least this means I get a pinky pie party later" she added.
But now, looking around, she couldn't see anypony the entire of ponyville was, deserted, in the middle of the afternoon.
"wait, what?" she asked herself "Where is everypony?"
That's when she heard it, was the sky growling at her?
And yet, when she looked around there was no sign of a storm, not even a cloud. Realisation struck her.
"its a dream" she noted "no wonder I cant remember taking off, because I never did"
"Then where in the hay is this growling coming..."
Scootaloo awoke with a start only to see a timberwolf advancing on her.
"so"she sighed " you made yourself at home I see" she stated dryly, knowing the only answer she would receive.
The beast lunged towards her, but she was quicker. Flipping off her make-shift bed she landed and rolled to the side. The timberwolf swung at her, only to miss her left ear by a hairs with. She didn't even flinch, she just continued to stand her ground and glare at the beast, studying it, hoping it would would be as predictable as the rest of it's kind.
It was.
The beast pounced, attempting to pin her, she rolled under it. Sprinting for her chest, to find something to injure the beast with. A small flint knife, she realised early on that she would need things like this living in the everfree after all, wasn't the safest, but it sure beat the orphanage.
Diving to the side, knife in hoof, she waited for the beasts next move. Yet again, predictable as always, it lunged. Rolling to the side she drive the knife into where its bottom jaw connected to the rest of it lodging it free. She knew well enough by know, that without its jaw at full strength, she could take it.
Running towards the beast she decided its eyes would be the best idea, if it couldn't see it was a goner. She hated doing this, but it was it or her, it had invaded her territory, she had no choice, sure she could run, but then the beast would claim her home for itself, and she took ages to find this place.
After taking care of its eyes, she knew she should make this quick for the poor beast, sliding under it she thrust her knife through its body into it magical core, disrupting the flow of magic holding it together, with no magic to hold it up, it fell and dismantled.
She then decided it would be wise to gather all its 'parts' and toss them in the nearest river. That way the current would carry it far away from here. She also decided that she would have to find a way to block the entrance to her home so this would not happen again.
Checking herself over, she noticed a few bruises but not any scratches.
"hmm, at least that's an improvement" she shuddered " I'm getting too good at fighting these things."
"well, I guess I should start looking for Dash" she noted that it was only about 11am, its hard to know the time down to the second without a clock. She went back inside after clearing the rest of the timberwolf and put her gear away. Grabbing her helmet and walking towards her scooter, she headed off for town.
It didn't take long for her to find Rainbow,she was sleeping on a cloud as usual. Scootaloo was a little jealous every time she saw Rainbow Dash doing this, she was able to do this at will, while Scootaloo was stuck on the ground.
"HEY! RAINBOW DASH! WAKE UP!" Scootaloo yelled, hoping Dash would hear her.
"hu? what, what's going on." she heard dash mumble, directly after she saw the face of her idol appear at over the edge of the cloud. "OH! HEY SQUIRT! WHATS UP!" dash yelled, then immediately soared down to meat her 'little sister'.
"hey, dash? Could I ask you something?" Scootaloo asked, feeling slightly nervous. 'what if she turns me down, or laughs' she thought.
"uh, your not gonna ask me where foals come from are ya kid" dash asked asked with a awkward cough.
"WHAT!?" Scootaloo asked, shocked. "no, Dash I'm not, I already know all that junk."
"oh, good." dash sighed, relived 'dodged a bullet there dash' she tough to herself. "so what did ya want to ask me kid?" Dash asked.
"oh, um," Scootaloo stalled 'c'mon scoots get this over with' "I was wondering if, YOUWOULDTEACHMETOFLY?" she half shouted.
Dash just stood there looking at Scootaloo with a blank expression on her face.
Scootaloo coughed. "um, hello?" she asked.
"you want me to teach you, to fly?" Dash asked.
"uh, yeah" Scootaloo replied.
"THIS. IS. AWSOME!" Dash yelled. "I've always wanted to teach someone how to fly! And I promise scoots, I wont let ya down!" she seemed overjoyed at the opportunity.
The two 'sisters' made there way to the field under dashes house, it was large and the weather seemed perfect for flying.
"y'know scoots? I've been waiting for you to ask me for a while" Dash stated.
"R-really?" Scoots asked.
"Yup!" Dash answered "Took your sweet time about it though."
"Oh," scoots replied "well, y'see, I thought you would think I was cooler, if I taught myself."
"Scoots, there's nothing you could do to make my think your any cooler" Dash stated. "And you should never feel ashamed to ask for help, ya remember when Applejack tried to do applebuck season all by herself when big mac got hurt?" she asked.
"yeah, she went a little crazy" Scoots recalled.
"I don't ever want to see you get like that" Dash added, laughing at the memory. "all right! Enough talk lets see whatch'a got!"
