“She looks so miserable.”

“Well Dad is making her rebuild the entire thing on her own”

“It’s a good thing she’s such a good flier”

“Yeah...”

YOU HAVE TO FLY, NOW!

It was a gorgeous day besides some stray clouds but their resident cloud controller was still in lock down after the shed incident. Two unicorns were sitting in the field watching the Pegasus suffer slightly rebuilding the shed both giggling every so often at their friend. After awhile Silver got up and rearranged her mane before walking over to her garden to tend to her plants Comet had been mesmerized by the flying pony but suddenly noticed the absence of his fellow unicorn. Comet stood up and followed Silver over to the garden since Nova was grounded he’d noticed he hadn’t had much to do outside of teaching his own classes and helping Silver with the plants. He normally helped as much as he could around the farm but rather missed Nova’s random appearances and the distractions she brought. Silver on the other hand tended to her sunflowers and was sorta glad Nova was contained for awhile, as much as she loved her sister sometimes she got too much to bare. Comet sat behind Silver and watched her thinking about Nova, She really was a truly great flier.

“Could you pass me that water can please Comet?” moving her white and pink mane out of her face Silver had faced her garden ready for business.

“Oh yeah sure” breaking out of his day dream he lifted the watering can with his magic and passed it over to Silver.

“Thank you.” Silver replied while watering her flowers “These guys are so thirsty even though I watered them earlier..I should get Nova to bring me over a rain cloud maybe I’m just not giving them enough.”

“Talking about Nova, she must have gotten a damn good flying teacher at flight school in cloudsdale I’ve seen older Pegasus that cant fly quite that well” Comet had gone back to watching the Pegasus fly gracefully in the air attempting to fix the roof.

“Nova’s never been to cloudsdale. Mum and Dad couldn’t get her into the flight school after all we are unicorns, only pegasi know where cloudsdale is due to its constant moving.” Silver managed to reply without even looking at Comet her concentration was completely with her plants.

“Then how did Nova learn to fly so well? Did they get a private teacher or something?” a puzzled look appeared on Comets face as he turned his head slightly from confusion.

“No. She flew because she had too. If she didn’t learn to fly when she did I probably wouldn’t be here right now” Silver finally looking up from her plants stared Comet in the eyes “She saved my life.”

“Saved your life?!? What happened? Silver please explain this to me!” Comet didn’t mean to yell the last bit but the concern in his voice was real. The thought of having almost lost one of his best friends shocked him.

“Well..” Silver started “It happened about 5 years ago we weren’t quite full grown yet and the camp was only in its first year, Nova and I were playing around the yard like usual and I had a stupid idea....”

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“Heeey Nova! Come on!” Silver ran ahead of her younger sister happily jumping along the fences and rocks as Nova tried her hardest to keep up.

“Urg, If only my wings worked! All they are good for is keep my balanced!” Nova grunted as she almost fell of the fence.

“Least they are good for something!”  Silver laughed as she danced around the willow trees.

“Hey Nova, I have a good idea!” Silver suddenly shot off towards the old storage house where they kept old and broken things that were used around the farm. Inside the storage shed also held a hot air balloon that could be powered by magic. Silver had recently learned how to operate it and had the bright idea to set it up and prove to her parents how well she

could pilot it on her own, even though she knew she wasn’t allowed to use it without her parent’s permission.

“Silver I don’t think that’s a good idea! You shouldn’t go in there!” Nova knew must of her ideas were stupid but when her sister suddenly got her mind set on something she thought was a good idea Nova normally had to try save the day. “Our roles feel reversed today” Nova thought to herself as she galloped faster.

Silver had managed to get the door to the storage house open and was already inside looking for the hot air balloon.

“This will really impress my parents!” she thought as she got to the task of setting it all up.

It took awhile to get the basic outside, Silver had attempted to magick it out the door but it was too big for her to carry. After awhile she gave up on that idea and succeeded in lifting on to the nearest cart and wheeling it out the door and while receiving pleas from her sister not to go through with this. Once the hot air balloon was set outside Silver jumped into the basket and trying to remember the spell her parents had taught her and soon the hot air balloon started filling up rapidly and slowly started to lift into the air. Silver leaded over the edge so she could speak to her sister more clearly.

“Hey Nova! Get in before it’s to..whoooa!” falling backwards into the basket the balloon shot off into the air “How do I turn off this thing?!?!” in complete panic Silver had forgotten two things, One; to tie down the balloon and Two; How to stop and land it.

Nova had shot off immediately to get help from their parents while Silver rose towards the sky in alarming rate screaming for help. Suddenly Silver could see her parents running as fast as they could try shooting their magic to try and control the balloon but it was quickly getting out of range for them.

“I told you girls not to go near that balloon! We told you this morning that the ropes were old and cracking, it isn’t safe!” Big Red yelled at the small Pegasus and Willow watched as her daughter flew away starting to whimper.

“I told her it wasn’t a good idea dad! I did! She didn’t believe me! She was trying to show off and prove she could do this. I guess she didn’t remember this morning.” Nova replied sadly.

Silver now in full panic mode was running around the basket desperately trying to find a way out of this mess. Her constant moving around started causing more tension on the ropes of the basket than they could handle and soon enough the ropes slowly started tearing apart. Silver caught on a bit too late to the noise and watched with horror at the ropes slowly coming undone. Too scared to use her magic properly all she could do was watch as the final strand broke to the rope, followed shortly by another rope breaking, then a third. Next thing she knew all she could see was the basket getting small and feel the wind blowing her mane in front of her face.

“This is it. I’m going to die” Silver thought to herself as everything around her seemed to have slowed down completely tears escaping from her eyes and flying above her.

“MY BABY!” Willow screamed in complete horror as she watched the figure of her daughter fall from the basket and head straight towards the ground and she could do nothing but stand in shock tears streaming down her face.

Big Red had galloped off at full speed hoping he’d make it in time to catch his daughter, he didn’t notice the smaller shape following him at full speed. Next thing he saw was a pair of wings fly by the side of his head as he watched his youngest child fly for the first time. “Come on Nova, you can do it” he thought quietly to himself as he watched her struggle to keep flight.

Nova wasn’t even sure what sure what she was doing she hadn’t managed to fly yet. The most she could manage was to hover for a 10 minutes and fly only slightly in the air but nothing as much as the other Pegasus could do. As much as her parents would have loved to send her to flight school the truth was they had no idea where cloudsdale was, they wouldn’t even be able to get her there, none of their friends lived in cloudsdale so nobody could have taken her in for awhile. All Nova knew is that she had to fly and now, she had galloped full speed after her father and spread her wings as far as they go, flapping as hard as she could she willed herself to finally take flight.

“Come on wings don’t fail me! I have to get her. Come on, FLY NOW!” Nova had yelled inside her head. She focused everything on trying to reach Silver before it was too late. Before she knew what was happening she was up in the air trying hard to keep herself going, flying as fast as she could she tried to close the distance between her and sister listening to the terrified screams of her parents and over ponies that had appeared to see what all the commotion was. Then she saw her inches in front, Nova used the last of her energy to grab Silver in her hoofs and held on for dear life.

Silver watched Nova fly closer and closer before she was able to get hold of Nova’s hoof, she wrapped her hoofs around Nova’s neck bawling her eyes out. Nova managed to keep her wings flapping even though she didn’t have the strength to keep them both up, they started falling but slower than they should have so that was a plus. Nova grasped onto her sister hard and tried aiming them for the bushes on the ground, it’d still hurt a lot but at least they wouldn’t be killed. Nova made one final move so that she’d hit the ground first. Surely enough they both did hit the ground thankfully in the bush Nova had aimed for.

Big Red and Willow had galloped at full speed to their fillies. They were thankful to find both were alive though unconscious, they carefully loaded them into a cart and took them to the Ponyville hospital. Nova suffered from a broken wing, rib and sprained hoof with quite a bit of bruising and some cuts while Silver suffered a sprained hoof bruising and minor cuts, Nova having taking the majority of the blow. After a couple months recovering both fillies were doing perfectly fine only now Silver stayed away from the hot air balloon having decided she’s better on the ground and listened to her parents while Nova had spent every day teaching herself to fly better.

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“Wow, what an amazing story! Nova was so brave it’s a good thing neither of you were damaged too badly! I can’t believe how close I came to almost never meeting you” Comet stared at Silver in complete shock as she just stared a glance and smiled at her sister still working on the shed.

“I’d always be thankful to my sister for that. She taught herself to fly just to say my life, I’d so glad my father adopted her.” Without thinking she said the last part when she didn’t mean too.

“Adopted?” Comet asked with a puzzled look.

“Erm...” Having just realized what she’d just said Silver was trying to find a way to not talk about it, when all a sudden she heard a crash come from behind her.

“Groan..I’m sorry! I’m here to drop off a package for Miss Silver Swirl?” said the voice from behind her.

Looking around Silver saw a clumsy grey Pegasus with blonde mane trying to get herself out of the tree she’d just flown too, finally getting herself out she fell on the ground and shook herself off.

“I’m Silver Swirl”

“Here’s your package!” the grey mare said happily while holding out an empty hoof “Oh no! I must have dropped it I’m sorry!”

“Oh it’s fine! Here I’ll help you look for it, Bye Comet!” with that Silver shot off grabbing the confused mail mare with her looking for the package the grey Pegasus had dropped.

“Adopted huh? Well that certainty explains a lot. Then again, I guess it was sorta obvious” Comet got up off the ground and trotted off to meet his class for his next lesson.