(I honestly have no idea why this took me 1 week extra to write, guess it's just me being lazy.)
The try-outs were being held at an area on the outskirts of Ponyville where there was a lot of open space, there were targets set out in the distance around 60 meters away 'well I knew something like that would be done, it is to get the best after all'.
I landed and told the ponies that would add up the totals to see which of us got the best score, there were 4 other ponies all colts which wasn't surprising, I looked them all over and thought I had a good chance, but that didn't stop me from being nervous, I'm usually good at handling pressure but this time it got the better of me.
We all lined up before the targets and took are turns shooting and 3 of the 4 other ponies did poor missing or just hitting 2's, but the pony just before me called Shadow Breeze hit an 8, he was black all over and had a grey streak through his mane and tail and his black mane was only just lighter than his body, his Cutie mark was an eye with a crosshair over it which obviously meant he was accurate, clearly made for the job.
I focused as my turn came up but I began to start shaking under the pressure and thoughts like whether I'd miss or not hit the target at all rushed through my head.
I pulled back on the string and aimed, taking into account the wind I fired and the arrow hit the target but only a 5.
"Not bad Cobalt, looks like this try-out will actually have competition, the others aren't cut out for this job so I think it's really only between me and you."
"Good luck." I said yet felt that saying that to an opponent wasn't too good.
"And may the best colt win." He said as he watched as the others took their 2nd shots which were just as bad as the first.
His 2nd turn came and he looked extremely confident that he would score high points and he fired his 2nd shot which hit a 7.
'I can still win but I have to start scoring 9's and 10's.' I loaded my 2nd arrow took aim and fired and scored a 7. 'With only 5 shots in total I might not win.'
The next 2 shots he hit another 2 8's and I hit a 7 and an 8.
'4 points down which means for me even to draw I have to hit a 10 and he has to hit a 6.'
"The last shot will be taken in the air." One of the ponies that were scoring said and then they got 30 meter high logs out and placed them in the ground then put the targets on top of them.
'Great now I have to hit the target whilst in the air…'
The ponies before us fired and all missed, they all clearly hadn't practised flying whilst using the bow.
Shadow's turn came up and he flew up, I have to say he did look still very confident even when he was flying up there.
He took 1 of his arrows out and focused and fired his arrow and it hit a 6 and he came down as casually as he had been the entire time.
"Your up, I thought I might give you the chance to get an even score but you need to hit a perfect score, good luck." He said this which made me think 'was he trying to let me break even the whole time.'
'I flew up to the mark and began feeling nervous again, I put the thoughts of missing to the back of my mind and loaded an arrow' I looked around and saw that Rainbow Dash was watching the whole time and this only made me feel more nervous because if I missed I'd have been wasting her time.
I took aim and focused, I felt a bead of sweat start forming on my head and ignored it as I fired, I daren't look where the arrow landed…
"Awesome! I knew you'd hit a 10." Rainbow shouted up
I looked over to where the arrow had landed and it was directly in the centre of the target. 'Well damn, that's some luck right there he he.'
I proceeded to fly down to Shadow breeze.
"Well done Cobalt."
"Thanks Shadow Breeze."
The ponies that were scoring walked over to the two of us.
"Good job to the both of you; we always needed more ponies on the team." I looked at them with a quizzical face.
"I thought only one of us would get the job?"
"That was going to be the case but you both did extremely well and we always needed more members so we are going to let you both on the team."
"Awesome, when do we start?" Me and Shadow said in unison
"You will both start on Monday (2 days time) at 7:30am sharp, just head to the building and we'll tell you what to do from there."
"Alright then." They then flew off in the direction of the warden team building.
"Why did you allow me to draw with you Shadow Breeze?" turning so I faced him
"I allowed you to draw with me because I saw you practising earlier and could see you were fit for the job, so I thought that if I were to be ahead in scoring I'd give you the opportunity to equalise."
"Well thanks, I owe you one I guess then, next time I see you, I will head to sugarcube corner with you and I'll buy you anything there." I said generously
"I'll hold you to that, see you around Cobalt." Shadow then flew off in the direction of Ponyville.
"I hear you got the job with Shadow Breeze." Rainbow Dash said as she trotted over.
"Yeah, he's a nice guy."
"I heard he let you draw with him, that doesn't take it away from the fact that you still managed to hit the 10."
"It was only a lucky shot that hit the target perfectly."
"Pff, modest much."
"Eeyup." I said in the Big Mac voice as we began walking back to town.
"Cobalt I think you should see this…"
"See what?"
"Why don't you see for yourself." She pointed at my flank
I looked back and saw I had gained my Cutie mark of a bow and arrow, 'not going to get overly excited… not going to get overly excited.'
"BUCK YESS!" I shouted as I flew into the air and doing 5 spins before landing again. "Eh, just kind of excited because I finally got my cutie mark."
"I guess your special talent is using the bow and arrow… not as good as mine but still pretty cool."
"Yeah, yeah, think what you like I still prefer mine."
'I guess I could really start loving it here… what do I mean start, I always loved it here.'
"Hey Cobalt have you been practising for the Best Young fliers competition?" she asked getting me out of a trance.
"Uh no, I had no idea It was even on."
"Well you might as well enter since it's not until 2 weeks from now."
"What does the winner get?"
"Only a day out with the WONDERBOLTS!" I could see she was relishing the moment the last time she won it.
"Meh, I don't really want to enter so I'll watch you win again."
"You were there last time?"
"Uh, yeah I was in one of the stands." 'Way to recover on that one' "I'll cheer for you to win though."
"Thanks." She gave me a kiss which got a blush out of me.
"Anyhow… what do you want to do now since we have most of the day left."
"I'm going to go practise for the competition so your welcome to watch." She said and I knew she was hoping I'd watch her practise so she could amaze me.
"Alright, I'd like to see you preform a sonic rainboom though."
"Well let's go then." She said that with alot of confidence as she flew up to a lot of clouds and I just flew up to one and lied down on it 'damn this is comfy'
She started by just practising spinning a load of clouds using her speed and then swerved in and out of a lot of them. 'She makes it looks so damn easy'
She flew directly up and cut threw 3 clouds directly in the centre before stopping extremely high in the sky where I could barely see her.
Rainbow dash started diving and her speed just kept on increasing, 'I'm sure I'd faint if I'd go that fast'. A cone shape started forming around her as she neared breaking the sound barrier.
In a huge explosion of colour she performed it and flew across the sky with a rainbow trail following her. 'Geez, she made that look easy.' I thought as she began flying back and landed on the cloud next to me looking tired and sweaty.
"Impressed?" Rainbow said through deep breathes
"Meh I've seen better" *Rainbow dash glares* "just kidding."
"Carry me back to my house I'm too tired to fly now."
"Since you impressed me I'll do it." She got onto my back and I took off to her house… I know what you're thinking and that's wrong.
1 short flight scene later…
I got in the house and put her on the sofa and I lied down next to her and stretched my wing around her.
"That was some pretty awesome stuff." I said before she leaned in close and whispered
"Not as awesome as this though." She then kissed me deeply, after a few seconds she unexpectedly forced her tongue into my mouth and I moaned slightly at the intrusion. We stayed like that for a minute before having to stop for air.
"I love you Cobalt." She said whilst looking deeply into my eyes.
"I love you too Rainbow." I replied before she continued kissing me.
We stayed like that for what felt like hours yet was only around 15 minutes.
"Let's continue this in my room." She said seductively as she walked too her room with me just behind.
'This will be awesome!'
…
(Cock block inserted her *une problemo*)
…
Tired from the fun I just had I left the room whilst Rainbow Dash had fallen asleep, 'That was AWESOME.' I thought as I trotted into the shower and cleaned up making sure to fix my mane, can't have a ruined mane now can I. I left the bathroom and headed to the door since I'd might aswell tell Twilight about my job.
I left the house and went down to Twilight's house.
*knock knock*
Unsurprisingly Spike answered the door and let me in.
"Hey Twilight." She was reading a book on advanced spells.
"Hi Cobalt, what brings you here?" she replied whilst laying down her book.
"I thought I'd ask you to bring the others here."
"If it's about the job we already know and were happy for you." She said yet I could tell she worried that it was a dangerous job.
"Wha-? How did you already know about my job?!"
"Word gets around fast here in Ponyville." 'I knew that, but that was only a few hours ago.' "Also Pinkie Pie told me to tell you that she's throwing you a party at her place tomorrow in celebration of your job."
"Well that's cool, what time?"
"6:00pm." I saw Twilight glance down at my Cutie mark "So you did get your Cutie mark, a bow and arrow."
"Yeah, I guess I was a born archer after all." I said proud that I got the Cutie mark I had wanted.
"I guess it's a good thing your good with your bow then since you are taking on a job that many other ponies are too scared to do."
"I chose to do the job not only because I didn't want to feel like a load that you lot had to carry, but also because I wanted to help defend Ponyville in any possible way." I said that proudly.
"Just be sure not to put yourself in danger like the last time when the timber wolves attacked you." 'She does have a point I did really get messed up by those timber wolves.'
"I was just getting used to fly- I mean, I was just tired." I quickly remembered not to say anything to give away I'm not really from Equistria.
She just looked at me as if to say she knew I was lying so before she spoke up I thought I'd distract her by changing the subject.
"Twilight you wouldn't happen to have any books on animals and monsters in the Everfree forest?" and just as planned she began searching her shelves for a book that told me just that.
"I'll get you it, I think it was filed under-"she then just started trailing off into a load of mumbles looking for a book.
'Well that was a close call'. 3 minutes later she found the book.
"Here it is Cobalt" she levitated it down to me 'Animals that live in the Everfree forest, I'm not surprised it's called that since she must have around 3000 books in here.'
"Thanks Twilight when would you like me to return it?"
"Whenever you finish reading it would be good." I grabbed the book out of her magic aura and turned to leave.
"I'll see you tomorrow Twilight."
"Bye Cobalt." I walked out of her library and noticed it was about 7:45pm so I headed back up to Rainbow dash's house.
I walked in placed the book on a table and walked over to Rainbow dash's room, I slowly opened the door and she was lying down on her bed.
"Ready for round 2?" She asked seductively.
"Definitely." I closed the door behind me.
(Aaaand Cut. That's a wrap :P)
(No lemons for you don't really want it now do you :D)
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