I awoke the next morning and again checked to make sure I was still a pony.

Hooves.

White Fur.

Snout.

Sure enough, my hopes were confirmed.

I slowly got up off the couch and stretched. I looked around. Rainbow Dash wasn't out yet, so she must have still been asleep. I walked into the kitchen to make some breakfast. I rummaged through the fluffy cloud cabinet until I cam upon the sweet delicious apple pie I sought for. I took it out of the small box and put a couple pieces on a plate. I took a bite of the pie and was once again greeted with the explosive flavor of the Apple family's famous treat.

So I'm going to meet Blaze today at around three. I thought as I ate, I hope Rainbow Dash and I get done with my flying lessons by then. I looked at the clock hanging in the kitchen. It was already noon and Dash wasn't even up yet. That is, if she ever gets up.

I continued to happily chow down on the apple pie until I heard the creaking of a door down the hallway. I looked back to see a groggy Rainbow Dash with her mane still looking like it usually did, walking out of her room. Unless she straightened it before she got out here, ponies must have special mane shape keeping powers or something.

"You're up already?" She yawned. "It's, like, noon o'clock."

I chuckled. "Well when do you usually get up?"

"Around this time. I just felt like complaining." She stretched and blinked the sleepiness away from her eyes. "So, you ready for me to teach you everything I know about flying?"

"Uh, sure." I said, taking the last bite out of my pie. "Aren't you hungry?"

"Nah," She said. "I had a lot of late night snacks." I watched as she trotted to the front door and opened it. "Shall we?"

I watched as she jumped off the front step and into the air. I hurried to the door and looked down, only to see the ground with no sign of Rainbow Dash.

"Up here."

I looked up to see Rainbow Dash smirking as she hovered upside down above me.

"How did you-?" I started.

"Get up here so fast? Easy. Pure skill." Dash said with a brash look. She suddenly flew down and in front of me faster than I could even process. "So, you ready to learn how to be awesome?"

"Absolutely." I said in awe. I was about to get flying lessons from the one and only Rainbow Dash. Equestria just won't stop being awesome!

"Well, you're not going to learn by standing at the door, so get up here!" She bolted above her house to a farther up cloud. I looked at the ground. It sure was a long way down. I gulped and hesitantly flapped my wings, being cautious to keep a steady wing beat. I slowly lifted off of the front step and started ascending into the air. I ever so slowly made my way up to the cloud, where I saw Rainbow Dash pretending to sleep in a mocking manner. She opened one eye and looked up at me.

"C'mon man, you took forever! Surely you can fly faster than that!" She said, getting to her feet.

"I guess I can try." I said, and spread out my wings. I started flapping them as hard and fast as possible, closing my eyes as I felt the sudden wind rushing through my mane as I became a weightless balloon in the sky, continuing to go even higher. Eventually, I felt nausea start to overtake me, and I stopped my ascent and opened my eyes. I was surprised to see that I hovered several hundred feet above the cloud. I saw Rainbow Dash fly next to me with a look of concern.

"Whoa, calm down, dude. Not like that. You'll tire yourself out way too quickly that way." She said. She definitely wasn't wrong. I was feeling extremely tired suddenly and my wings started to ache. "Here, go sit on that cloud and rest your wings and watch me do it." Dash said. I did as I was told with pleasure. As I landed on the cloud, I watched Rainbow Dash fly out into the open and turn to me.

"Now, the trick is to pace yourself. Don't use all your energy at once unless you know how to at the right time. If you want to go higher, flap your wings harder depending on how fast you want to go up, and if you want to go lower, flap your wings slower. Like this." Dash demonstrated how to do a basic ascent and descent. "Now you try."

I stood up and flapped my wings to get off the cloud. Now that I knew how to do it properly, ascending and descending was much easier than before.

"How was that?" I asked Dash.

"Good. Much better than last time. Now, I'm going to teach you how to fly forward and how to stay in control. Stay right there and watch me."

I hovered and watched Dash. She flapped her wings to bring her body forward until she was at a comfortable speed, and glided and flapped her wings again as she flew around me. "Now for this, you have to have enough speed so your wings can pick up the wind and you can just glide it off. If you want to turn-" She flapped one wing harder than the other and quickly turned. "-just do that. If you want to bank, just lean your body to where yo want to bank." She flew toward me at an alarming speed, but quickly banked to the side before there was a collision. She stopped a few feet away and nodded her head, signaling for me to try.

I started to flap my wings until I was soaring through the air at a moderate speed, and I glided around using Rainbow Dash's advice with turning and banking.

"There you go! Keep this up and you'll be the second best flyer in all of Equestria!" Dash said as she hovered in one spot and watched me.

I soared through the air and around the large marshmallow clouds. I flew up and did a back flip in the air and continued to glide and fly once more over a giant cloud. I stuck my hoof down and ran it through the fluffy mass and I just couldn't help but smile. I noticed I was getting a little far away from Rainbow Dash so I turned around and headed back toward her. I continued to fly and have the time of my life. God, it felt so amazing. The feeling of the wind rushing through my mane as I flew freely in the sky was indescribable. I felt more than joy or adrenaline. I felt alive. Almost like I was born to do this.

At some point, Dash had to call me down so she could teach me the next maneuver.

"Alright, that's enough. I still have one more thing to teach you." She said as she watched me fly.

I started flying toward her, and then I realized that she never told me how to brake. "Uh, how do I stop?" I asked, a little frantic. I was about fifty feet away from Dash and I was only closing in faster each second.

"Just flap your wings backward and stop your momentum." She said. She didn't seem the least bit worried that I was about to crash into her.

I closed my eyes and flapped my wings backwards as fast as I could in an attempt to stop the flight. I continued to try to slow myself, until I finally came to a gradual halt as I felt something touching the end of my snout. I opened my eyes to see Rainbow Dash just mere inches away from me with our noses connecting. We stood there looking into each other's eyes for what felt like an eternity until Dash suddenly backed up.

"Uh, right. So, Now I'm going to teach you how to land." She said quickly. She flew quickly down toward the ground and I followed. I swear I saw her face light up bright red before she sped off. As we got near the ground, I stopped and hovered in the air so I could observe how she lands.

"Now, all you have to do to land is just slow down enough to make a soft landing." She said as she sped toward the ground but slowed down enough for the landing. She stood on the ground and looked up at me. "Now you try."

I flew down toward the ground at a fairly quick speed and about twenty feet before hitting the solid ground, I flapped my wings backward and slowed down enough to slowly let my hooves touch land next to Dash.

"You did it! I'll be honest, I never thought I'd see you do a soft landing." Rainbow Dash said with a strange smile.

"I never thought I would either." I said, looking down to my hooves to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. Yep, definitely landed. I looked to Dash. "Thanks for teaching me all this stuff. Now I can actually fly places without fear of breaking my leg."

Rainbow Dash laughed at that. "Well, just be careful. If you fly too much, your wings will cramp, and if that happens when you're in the sky, you'll fall. And it will hurt. Trust me."

"Okay, I'll be careful." I said. I looked around. "Do you know what time it is?" I asked.

"Uh, I think it's probably like almost three." Dash said.

"It took us that long to do all that?" I asked, surprised.

"Yeah. You were flying for a pretty long time." She said.

"Wow. I guess time...flies!" I said with a corny smile.

Rainbow Dash giggled. "Seriously?"

"I had to." I said, and unfolded my wings. "Well, sorry to leave so soon, but I have to meet my friend, Blaze at Sugarcube Corner soon. I'll see you when I get back."

"See ya. I'll be at my house if you need me." She said.

I flew into the air and glided above Ponyville. Time must travel faster in Equestria or something. That definitely didn't feel like three hours. I thought. Oh well, at least I know how to fly now.

I flew through the air, doing random tricks and maneuvers and enjoying myself as I headed for Sugarcube Corner. Being a pegasus is just amazing.

Author's Notes:

So I might put out the next chapter sometime soon because I'm eager to introduce a new character and basically start the fun of this whole adventure. I also might have a cover picture soon. It might be a not so good one because I'm not the best at drawing but it'll be something.