Chapter 2! Rainbow Dash's flying training is considered the toughest challenge ever. Only 2/10 Pegasus pass it, and that's with expert flyers! Let's see if Blaze is up to the task.

I was riding down the mountain going faster than I had ever gone before when suddenly a dragon swooped out of the sky and knocked me off my bike. I was stunned at what I was seeing. The massive beast lifted its head and roared. Its head then came down ready to eat me. I closed my eyes in fear and awaited my demise. I opened my eyes and sat up in a cold sweat. I looked around and realized that it was only a dream. I heaved a sigh of relief and looked at the clock. Then I nearly died from seeing what time it was. 6:50. I had to meet Rainbow Dash at the Everfree forest at 7 o clock sharp. I rushed myself out of the house running through the town as fast as I could. I had reached the edge of the forest to see Rainbow Dash waiting for me there.

"Good you're here. I was worried you wouldn't show up." She said.

"Me, miss this?" I said out of breath. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

"Good! Now listen up kid!" She went to a commanding Drill Sargent voice. "For the next 3 days you will refer to me only as Dash! In these 3 days you will learn the true meaning of pain and suffering. You will also learn how to fly better than the Wonderbolts themselves. Now to start your training, you will need to build up endurance. I want you to go through the Everfree forest overcoming any and all obstacles in your path. Do you understand me maggot!"

"Yes Dash!" I said slightly intimidated.

"Get ready! 3... 2... 1... GO!"

I dashed off into the woods going as fast as I could. This was nothing excruciating to me as I have biked up mountains before, not even breaking a sweat. I jumped over fallen logs and ditches along with sliding under low branches. I eventually made it to the top of a tall peak. Rainbow Dash was already waiting for me there wearing a saddlebag.

"Well well someone's been training. How did you build up your endurance so well?" She asked, a suspicious look on her face.

"I used to run for a delivery service when I was younger." I lied.

"Hmm... Well OK but now this part of your training will surely be hard." She opened the bag and pulled out two 30 pound weights and set them on my wings. "I want you to do 50 lifts with your wings weighed down."

I lifted my wings with some effort but it wasn't too difficult. 20 flaps later I was getting sore. I only had 10 left. I started going faster, every muscle in my body screaming to stop.

"50!" I said dropping the weights.

"Good. Now that your warm-up is done we can begin with today's lesson." She said.

"That was only the warm-up?" I said in shock.

"Yes now quiet down! Up here the wind is blowing very strong. Its a perfect place for takeoffs and wing control. The latter is what we will be learning today. Now stretch out your wings and feel them catch the wind."

I lifted my sore wings and instantly felt the wind moving around it. It was so strong it nearly knocked me off the mountain. Rainbow Dash then went to teaching me on how to control my direction in the wind. After about 2 hours or so she stopped and led me to the mountains edge.

"Your final task of the day is to use what you learned today and apply it by gliding to the edge of the forest. All you need to think about is your wing control. Good luck!" She said as she pushed me off the cliff.

I did as she taught me and spread my wings out. I could instantly feel control over my speeding body as I moved away from the mountain and flew over the forest. It was even better than I had ever dreamed. Rainbow Dash sped past me to meet me at the forest entrance. I was doing my best to slow down for a landing but failed in doing so. I overshot my impact point and ended up taking a load of dirt to my face. Rainbow Dash looked over me. She had a smile plastered on her face. She then laughed.

"I guess that was good for a first attempt. You still fell a little short of greatness. Tomorrow you will learn taking off, flying, and landing. Get your rest kid. You're gonna need it."

I got up and shook the dirt off of me and started walking home. I was about a block to my house when I heard a small sound behind me. I turned but whatever was following me made itself scarce. I continued heading home and walked in. I simply went to my bed and easily fell asleep. The next morning I woke up earlier than I had yesterday. I took a shower and got some breakfast before doing a quick warm-up. After that I headed back to the forest entrance. I saw that Rainbow Dash was already waiting for me there. She greeted me and instructed to run the warm-up again. Five miles and 50 pounds later I was ready to learn today's lesson. She took me over to the edge.

"Now you are going to learn how to fly." She said. "Its kinda hard to explain but really easy to do. Its like something you do on instinct."

"OK. Instinct. Got it." I said as I neared the edge. I spread my wings feeling the wind catch them and then fell off the edge. I began taking control of my direction and started flapping my wings. I had no clue as to how I was doing it but I was flying. I got pretty confident and started doing tricks in the air. Rainbow Dash flew up to me and we hovered in place.

"Wow you're good for someone who couldn't fly two days ago." She said impressed.

"Well I guess I pick things up easily."" I replied.

"Well then if you think you're that good, how about a race. If you win then that can be considered your graduation." She said.

"OK sounds fair." I said.

We flew back to the mountain where we started and we got in place. The race was a winding flight around the mountain peaks and then a screaming dive down to the forest entrance. We stood at the cliff ready to begin the race.

"Ready? 3... 2... 1... GO!" And with that we dashed off into the sky.

I was going faster than I had ever gone. I curved through the mountains with ease and was still keeping up with Dash. we made the climb up to the highest cloud around. I reached the top and then dove down. The wind was tearing at my face. I was starting to see red around my vision, my adrenaline coursing through my body. I had entered my state of fire, a trail of smoke behind me as I flew. I looked at Rainbow Dash who was shocked that I was still keeping up. I saw her fly away from me making a gap between us. Then I saw it. The mach cone was starting to form around her. She was preparing to do a sonic rainboom. I decided to try something brash. I bought my wings in, diving at speeds not even a jet would be able to keep up at. I soon felt my body compress as the mach cone started to tighten around me. I heard the sound of the sonic rainboom and saw Dash speed ahead of me. Then I heard my blast. A massive wave of heat followed me. I looked behind me and saw the aftermath of what looked like a moab going off and a fire trail behind me. I was going even faster than Rainbow Dash and sped past her. The ground was coming up fast and I spread my wings out and somehou made a 90-degree turn before hitting the ground. I had won. I felt my hooves touch the ground and I had made a fire trail where the skid marks were. Rainbow Dash flew to me with a face like she had just seen death.

"How the buck did you do that!" She asked, a shocked look on her face.

"I learn from the best." I said while walking away.

It was still midday and everypony was talking about what just happened. They were looking at me and talking amongst themselves. Twilight then walked up to me.

"Hey Blaze can I talk with you for a moment?" She said.

"Sure Twi. Whats up?" I said.

"Um can we go back to the library to talk about this?"

"Uh sure I guess."

We made our way to Twilight's library and walked in. She shut the door behind us and was making sure that no one was around.

"Blaze I have a question. Are you an Alicorn?" She asked.

"What! An Alicorn? As far as I know I'm just a Pegasus." I said stretching my wings.

"That makes no sense though! You conjured fire and broke the heat spectrum. You created a mini super-nova when you broke the sound barrier!" She said.

"Hold on. I don't even think a Unicorn could even do that!"

"But an Alicorn can! How are you able to do those things!"

"Well it happens whenever I have adrenaline in my body. My vision becomes red and I catch on fire. I don't know exactly how that works but I will just have to look into it. Maybe even ask the princess. I just can't remember anything Ive read in here abo-!" The stopped herself realizing something.

"What is it?" I asked.

"That's it!" She exclaimed galloping to the bookcase. She got an old book using her magic and set it on the table opening it to a picture of a sort of yin-yang picture. One side was a Pegasus that was on fire. The other was a Unicorn surrounded with ice. It looked however eerily familiar.

"There's a legend about two siblings who were polar opposites but equaled each other in balance. The older was a Stallion Pegasus who wielded destructive fire powers. His sister was a Unicorn with healing powers of ice. It is said that when they return to the land a great evil will fall over the land and they alone will stop the threat. Don't you see Blaze? You are the fire Pegasus! But where's your sister?

I knew where my sister was. She was back at home. Probably crying with everyone else about where I was.

"I don't know but we know one thing. Something bad will happen soon."

YES finally I got a new chapter in. Thanks to everyone who was so patient. I must say though that a lot of procrastination came into play when making this. I won't keep you waiting though. I will try to at least get a new chapter every week. See ya!