Author's notes: Here is another chapter, now I can work on 'A Shadow Horse's Promise', cuz I am going to take turns with my stories.
Toshiro: Yeah and will you get working now.
FireWing Pegasus: I am trying to concentrate on the stories my little dragon, though trying to concentrate on posting a chapter during lunch at school is giving me a headache.
Toshiro: You should relax Hashira, -massages the author- Hashira doesn't own anything but her OC and ideas, so please enjoy.
After explaining everything, Hashira's friends were shocked and were quickly taking closer looks at themselves.
"What are these markings on our asses, Hashira?" Bakura asked and Hashira face hoofed.
"First of all, those aren't called asses, they are called flanks here, though in our world, they are called hindquarters. Second of all, I think the ponies who saved us would have a better explanation." Hashira said with a sigh, though she already knew that they were cutie marks.
The ponies reenter the room and Twilight says, "We would be happy to explain those."
They walk to us and Twilight says, "Those are called 'Cutie Marks," A majority of Hashira's friends minus, Yugi, Atemu, Ryou, Seto, and herself, were snickering until Hashira gave them death glares, which back at home even worked when she was in horse form so it would be no surprise that they work here and that they were cowering, "Anyway, they are special symbols that appear the moment you realize your special talent or your destiny, and they stay with you for the rest of your life as a reminder of what you are good at and your destiny."
They all start looking at their cutie marks: Yugi smiled at his gaming cutie mark, Atemu looking at his cutie mark with interest, for back 5,000 years ago, he was pharaoh and the Millennium Puzzle was only given to the pharaoh, and he had gotten sealed in it.
Seto looked at his cutie mark, being reminded of his three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, and what he was able to do with a girl, with long white hair, pale white skin, and sapphire blue eyes named Kisara, 5,000 years ago, Joey looked at his cutie mark with pride until Seto commented on how it was a game based off of luck and Joey was very lucky to even be able to win a duel, which formed an argument quickly stopped by Hashira as she did not want them making out in front of Princess Celestia.
Bakura looked at his cutie mark with interest and laughter as he was one of the most violent ones of the group along with Marik, Ryou looked at his cutie mark with displeasure until Bakura said that he thought it was special as he did keep their apartment clean all the time and it just meant that Ryou liked things very clean.
Marik looked at his cutie mark with an insane grin and was laughing more insanely than Bakura and was commenting that he was a better prankster than him, which resulted in a little argument that Hashira let Ryou and Malik take care of, Malik looked at his cutie mark with a smile as at least his was just harmless pranks that he likes to do for fun and not insanity pranks like his lover.
Duke like his cutie mark as he did invent the game Dungeon Dice Monsters and he had been wearing dice earrings and for punishments, he just flicked dice at the guy who needed punishment.
Finally Hashira looked at her cutie mark with no surprise, after all, it was the Eye of Horus, accounting for her shadow magic she got from her father, surrounded by flames, another thing she got from her father, though it was most obvious since her mane, tail, and wing tips were on fire, which didn't burn at all.
The girls show off their cutie marks: Twilight Sparkle has a star surrounded by sparkles which means magic, Fluttershy had butterflies for she is good with animals, Applejack had three apples for her cutie mark for she is good at apple bucking, their blue pegasus friend, Rainbow Dash had a lightning bolt rainbow coming out of a cloud for her cutie mark for she had accomplished the sonic rainboom, their white unicorn friend, Rarity had three diamonds for her cutie mark for she liked to design outfits and had a thing for jewels, and their pink earth pony friend, Pinkie Pie had three balloons for her cutie mark for she loved parties.
"Anyway guys, as you all have taken new forms, this isn't all that new to me, I might as well teach you guys how to control your magic and wings." Hashira says with a very authoritative voice.
"We can teach them." Twilight says with some hope.
"Actually, I want to teach them, as I have had to learn how to control my own horn and wings 5,000 years ago, and since back in our world, I could change forms easily, I can teach them how to control their wings and horns a little easier. I kinda was born like an earth pony, but through the magic I inherited from my father and the land, I was able to turn into an alicorn at will, so I know what they are going through." Hashira insists.
"Okay, you all can use the courtyard, while we watch." Princess Celestia says, and right before she goes to lead them to the courtyard, a letter appears by magic in front of her.
She levitates the letter by magic while reading it, and then a smile appears on her face.
"What's wrong, sister?" Princess Luna asks with a hint of an underlying accent from ancient times, which Princess Celestia had finally finished teaching her younger sister how to talk like normal ponies.
"An old friend is coming, he will be here in a few days." Celestia assured Luna, before leading everyone to the courtyard.
When they finally get to the courtyard, Hashira decides to Ryou and Malik how to fly before she teaches the others, because she has a little more patience for Ryou and wants to teach all Pegasi to fly before going onto the others, and she wanted to teach them how to fly before Bakura and Marik learn how to control their magic with a horn, that way if Marik and Bakura try to jump Ryou and Malik, the two can just take to the air and escape their clutches..
"Okay, Ryou, Malik, first, I want to see if you can move your wings, like this." Hashira says as she spreads out her wings revealing a huge wingspan.
Ryou nods timidly, while Malik just nods with impatience as they try to move their wings. Ryou's wings slowly unfold but do manage to unfold revealing a good sized wingspan for the small and shy pony, while causing Bakura to look at him with a smirk creeping up his face. Malik's wings also unfold, though a little too fast at first, nearly hurting himself until Hashira moved by the wings and stopped them, before slowly moving away so the wings could stretch out, revealing his wingspan to be slightly bigger than Ryou's but not nearly as great as Hashira's wings.
"Okay, now I want to see if you can move them up and down, you will need to strengthen your wings with these exercises if you ever hope to fly." Hashira says as she moves her wings up and down, before flapping them with enough strength that she is lifted into the air and with more flapping she is able to hover in the air.
Ryou and Malik nod again, and begin to move their wings up and down, after a little practice of course. After a little while, with the flapping getting a little stronger, Malik feel confident that he can lift off, so he flaps with a little more strength and is about to take off, but Hashira stops him, saying that it's just exercising his wings at the moment, flying is the next step. Luckily for Hashira, even though his wings start to gain strength, Ryou is too shy and scared to try flying.
"Okay, now you can learn how to fly, now the way I learned and makes me feel most comfortable, is flying with a running start. All you have to do is run as fast as you can, spread your wings while flying, start flapping while running, and most likely, you will instinctively take off, and before you know it, you are in the the air." Hashira explained as she used her magic to create a running space for them to run in a straight line, "I'll run with you two, okay?"
They both nod and get into running position, "One way to make sure you are running at full speed, is to pretend something is either waiting for you, or chasing you, as such, imagine your worst nightmare is chasing you and you will take off, or for me, pretend that you haven't seen your lover in what feels like forever and you finally see them, waiting for you, you will run at full speed to see them again. Imagine one of the two, though since your lovers are right there, I think you would run faster if you imagine your worst nightmares."
All three of them close their eyes and imagine something, Malik imagines his father with a whip ready to attack him for being disobedient, Ryou imagines a whole pack of bullies lead by a shadow magic wielding Akefia while seeing Bakura far away in front of him looking ready to fight, and Hashira imagines Toshiro, right in front of her, arms wide and a smile across his face.
Immediately, they run as fast as they can, Hashira quickly overtaking them, wings spread out and flapping with hurry, she immediately takes to the air, while opening her eyes, remembering that Toshiro was just an image in her head and he wasn't really there, she looks and sees the great distance being her are Ryou and Malik, so she hovers before flying to them.
She goes Malik first and seeing the frightened look in his eyes with tears and so she says, "Malik, whoever is chasing you, can not fly, you must spread out your wings and let the air glide across your feathers, and you will escape."
He sees her, nods and spreads out his wings, the air glides along his feathers and he immediately starts flapping. The rapid amount of air, the strong flapping and the instinct to survive kicking in, cause Malik to start to lift off the ground. He wing beats get stronger as his eyes start to close and he fully takes off, legs instinctively still moving thinking that he is still on the ground.
Hashira flies by him and whispers, "Malik, open your eyes, but don't stop flapping those wings."
He nods and sees that he is off the ground, but instead of surprise causing him to stop flapping, he keeps as calm as he can and keeps on hovering. Hashira nods and then flies next to Ryou, whose eyes are filled with terror yet hope.
Hashira can tell what the hope is for so she says, "Ryou, spread your wings, if you can learn how to fly, you will get to Bakura faster than you are running, and you will get away from whatever is chasing you."
Ryou nods and spreads his wings out, the air also gliding along his feathers, and he starts flapping to get to the image of Bakura in head faster. The same thing happens with Ryou as Malik and he starts to lift off. He closes his eyes and takes off, though not as high as Malik, and he still thinks he is on the ground.
"Ryou, open your eyes, but do not stop flapping or you will fall." Hashira assures him as she hovers near him.
Ryou nods and sees he is off the ground, but unlike Malik, he gets scared a little and his wings nearly stop flapping, until Hashira comes to his safety.
"Now, we will practice your flying and then we will be done for now." Hashira says as they nod and begin the exercise.
Author's notes: I am an evil author.
Akefia and Discord: -in unison- Come to the dark side!
Toshiro and Rainbow Dash: -in unison- STOP RIGHT THERE YOU TWO! -Toshiro draws sword and shoots ice at Akefia and Rainbow Dash shoots beams of light from the Element of Loyalty at Discord-
FireWing Pegasus: I am not joining the dark side. Akefia is on that side, I am not joining him. Besides, it is time to end the story.
Toshiro and Rainbow Dash: -in the distance- Please review! -screams can be heard as Akefia is covered in ice and Discord is turned to stone-