Home...home is where you wished you were, instead you were some place called Cloudsdale it was a city where Pegsi could access easily without faults, but as for earth ponies,unicorns,and yourself it would be difficult as your mother had casted a magical spell that let you walk on clouds.

To be completely honest when you walked on the clouds it felt like concrete beneath your feet, but laying on the cloud it was more over a fluffy pillow, it would've been enjoyable just to lay on the clouds for moments on the end.

But you were here on some type of business that lead you into the flying academy of Cloudsdale. You were currently pacing back and forth near the entrance to the race track, you spotted so many Pegasi getting ready for a race that your mother had to over see.

"Man why do I gotta be here? I don't really have a say in the races plus I always see the Pegasus guards fly around in the castle this isn't really fun."

"Quit complaining I'm here with ya aren't I?!" Eris said with a sigh as she flew beside you

"Yeah, but at least you can teleport away from here if ya want to. I'm stuck here until our escort comes back." You sighed and sat down on a chair in the VIP area of the academy's seating area.

"Ya know what looking at a empty field with the trainers preparing the course is boring, so we're going to go and find something to do."

"How there's guards everywhere they'll just report us to Celestia if we get out of here." You informed

"You dope didn't you remember that gauntlet's shadow trick?" You then looked at your hand with the metal gauntlet and looked at a few of the corners around room one of the corners had so much shadow that the guards had to use a torch just to light it.

"You'd think that there would be light all over us." You stated

"Then you sir are a dope it's physics that I can't explain neither can Celestia lets just say it was made by something that's far beyond our mental capacity." Eris said with a matter of fact tone

"Wait what?"

"Nothing lets just go." She rolled her eyes and continued on with the half-assed stealthy plan

A few minutes later...

"That took a little longer then expected but it was all worth in the end. So what do ya wanna do now?"

"Let's talk to a few of the racers see how they train or if any of them are nervous." You nodded and entered the training area as the many Pegasi were either stretching their wings or muscles getting ready for the big race that you and your mother had to oversee.

A few of the Pegsi children looked at you with confused looks almost as if they were asking themselves if you were actually real or a figment of their nervous imagination.

"I'm guessing they've never heard of a human."

"You're the only human around you dope of course they won't know." You smiled and nodded as you continued on looking at the several colts and fillies, as you surveyed the area you spotted a fiery red tail poking out of a large red plastic tub.

"Let's go scare whoever's in that tub." Eris encouraged

"Why scare someone already nervous it's not funny to scare someone unless they're your friends."

"Hey that wasn't funny just because you heard a creepypasta doesn't mean a thing." Eris said crossing her arms

"Watch out you don't want the chimera named Craig to get you now do ya?" Eris glared at you as she shook slightly

You approached the tail and crouched down to see that the pony inside was scared as the box was shaking erratically.

"Uh hey are you okay?" You asked

"Who said that?" She asked as she started to move around in the box only for it tip over and her to fall out.

"Uh I did. Are you okay? Here let me help you up." You then brought out your hand as you helped up to her hooves she only looked down not looking directly at you.

"So what's your name?" You asked

"Spitfire um what's yours?"

"Dante I know it's a weird name I've gotten that before anyway what were you doing in a plastic tub?"

"N-none of your business." She replied as she looked up to see your face and stepped back slightly

"Yeah I know I'm not a pony trust me I've heard it all." You sighed and sat on a bench as she sat next to you almost with a look of concern

"What do you mean?" She asked

"I've heard every insult trust me." You said with a chuckle

"Oh um no I wasn't going to insult you, I was just startled that's all, you look kinda cool." You smiled and let out a small chuckle as you saw her both her features and clothing.

She seemed to have an orange coat with both a fiery orange mixed mane and tail along with orange colored irises. Her attire wasn't overly girlish she has a denim blue skirt along with a denim jacket, she looked cute someone you'd hangout too.

"What?" She asked

"Uh nothing I was just uh nothing." Spitfire sighed as the conversation died down quite a bit with no one talking it made sitting with her uncomfortable.

"So uh are you getting ready for the race?" You asked

"Y-yeah why?"

"Well you don't seem to be doing much of anything."

"W-what are you talking about? I'm getting ready I was just uh being scared, I don't wanna be here every academy in Cloudsdale are forced to be in this dumb race to see who's the fastest and what they've learned."

"Huh you shouldn't be scared of flying its just a race or are you afraid of messing up in front of every pony out there?"

"No it's not that you see they call me Timebomb because-" Just then you heard several of the kids who were training now were chanting for someone nicknamed Tic-Tac.

"Come on let's go." She said pulling your hand and walking towards the exit.

"Where are we going?" You asked

"Somewhere quiet." You nodded and continued holding Spitfire's hand towards her destination.

A few minutes later...

You and Spitfire managed to get away from the noise as you two sat in a relatively quiet park, she seemed pretty relieved to be out of the stadium though you didn't inform your mother about you leaving hopefully she'd understand that you were just helping a new friend.

"So I wanted to tell you that the reason they call me Timebomb is because time is all I got going for me. Every time I go in a race against other kids I always go fast always want to get the best time, but when others pass my speed and I think they're getting the better times I get angry and lose my cool, I try to make the other kids crash and bail. I know it seems like a jerky move but time is all I have sometimes they make fun of me because when I tried to make Tic-Tac crash I crashed myself and you know the rest." She finished her story with a frown as she played with her fingers something told you that she was fast, but needed to calm down that not everything could be solved with violence that time doesn't matter.

"Hmmm what I'm seeing is that you need to calm down take your anger into something else, like paint, sing, heck even flying at night or at dawn by yourself. Just don't get angry."

"How?"

"I dunno do things that make you happy. Trust it'll work and eventually you'll be the best." Spitfire thought about it for a few seconds before nodding and hugging you.

"Thanks Dante hopefully we 'll see each other again, I'm sure we'll be good friends in the future after this." Spitfire happily flew off as you sat on the bench with a smile.

"So you think it'll work?" Eris asked

"I have no idea." Next Chapter: 10.Call of the Cutie Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 22 Minutes