*the next day*

I was in the workshops, I was going to use our stay in Ponyville as an opportunity to test the Enfield on the route of ‘the Running of the Leaves’. I walked into my area and stopped, admiring my work. All of the bare metal had been polished, where the single cylinder 500 cc engine used to be there was now a vertically mounted turbine that drew magic from its surrounding. Don’t ask me how it actually works, I still don’t know (it’s just another of those “magic *shrug*” things). The original fuel tank was still there, but I had converted the inside into a storage area. The whole bike was now painted a metallic-red, and on the fuel tank was a D shaped area of cream with the words ‘Royal Enfield’ panted in the same shade of read as the rest of the bike. And lining, can’t forget the lining. On a small triangular toolbox on each side was the Royal Enfield ‘wing’ emblem. All in all, it looked awesome. I pressed a button on a control panel and the wall slid away to reveal Ponyville in the distance, a ramp slid out allowing me to ride straight onto the path. I sat on the bike and waited a few moments before pushing the bike forward, causing the stand to swing up and out of the way. I turned a switch, swung out the kick-start (which I had reworked to release the brake holding the turbine-rotor) and stomped down on it, the Turbine burst into life with a whine. The only thing I liked about the original engine was the sound it made, I wheeled the bike around so it was in line with the ramp and engaged the gearbox. I pulled back on the throttle and the bike started to roll down the ramp under its own power.

“Let’s take things steady to begin with” I said to myself, once I was on the path I opened up the throttle slowly and the bike began to accelerate like a literal bullet “SHIT!” I glanced down at the speedometer I had fitted to see that I was already doing 50mph, and I wasn’t even out of first gear. I let the throttle down until I was cruising along at about 30mph. the turbine was letting out a quiet whine as it settled down, and I could feel the unevenness of the dirt path as it cruised along. I soon reached the path that made up the course used for the running of the leaves and gently opened up the throttle, I felt the acceleration trying to rip me off the bike.

“Looks like that rust bucket really lives up to the name of ‘bullet’” I heard Vapaa say, I looked over to see him on his dirt bike, keeping pace, I deadpanned.

“It’s the same age as me” I said, I then looked down the course “last one to reach the finish line is buying the drinks”

“You’re on” he said, I didn’t give him the chance to get in front and really opened up the throttle.

“BLOODY HELL!” I shouted as the bike accelerated to 70, I slowed down as I came to a corner and Vapaa shot past, spraying dirt on me and the bike “watch the paint!” I charged after him, I drew up behind him and kept pace just behind and to one side. We came to another corner and I applied the front brake causing the back end to swing out to the outside of the corner, I put my foot down to stabilise the bike. I then throttled the engine and a great spray of mud was kicked up as I performed a power-slide past Vapaa, covering him and his bike in dirt and muck. I flipped the finger at him as I straightened up and accelerated away.

I was stood, leaning on the seat of my bike, waiting for Vapaa to turn up, I had pulled away from him and he hadn’t been able to catch up for the rest of the ‘race’. Rainbow Dash was also stood next to me.

“Ah” I said, noticing a very mucky Vapaa riding towards us “Speak of the devil” Rainbow burst out laughing when she saw his armour covered in mud.

“It’s not funny” Vapaa said, crossing his arms and glaring at me

“I thought you said ‘if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing’, besides, you started it” I said, gesturing to the odd specks of mud on the tank “it’s just by chance that you ended up swamped in mud, and by the way, you’re buying the drinks” Vapaa changed into a wolf and shook the mud off of himself and onto me and Rainbow.

“Hey!” Rainbow exclaimed “watch it you jerk” Vapaa changed back to a human, who was now totally free of mud, and started laughing.

“Not so funny when it’s you who is covered in mud, is it?” he said, I changed into a Manticore and growled, he looked very nervous and started backing up “okay, I take that back” I changed back into a human.

“Thought so” I said, I then smirked “god I love having a bunch of masks at my disposal, although Mata Nui would be pissed if he knew I was using them like this”

“Where is tall and golden anyway?” Rainbow asked “I haven’t seen him at all”

“He’s in his quarters either meditating or reading most days” I said “he does appear every once in a while, I personally think he’s trying to deal with the fact that we might not find anything of his kind in the southern lands, I’m hoping against hope that we find something, but truthfully, I’m doubting will find anything besides a few individuals clinging onto life, at most. Several million years is a long time for things to go to shit, plus there’s the mysterious apocalypse-thingy that happened”

“Is that what it’s called?” Vapaa asked, smirking.

“Yes” I said “it is now called the ‘Apocalypse-thingy’ event”

*meanwhile*

Twilight was on the tablet, she was trying to think of something to search up. She got an idea in her head and smiled, she then went to search up ‘Nuclear energy’ but when she pressed enter a small cartoony depiction of Vuur Koning popped up.

“Naughty, naughty, Twilight” the cartoon said, shaking his head disapprovingly “I know you too well it seems” the cartoon disappeared and the screen was back on the Google browser, she just sat there with her mouth open and her eyes twitching.

“Uh…” Twilight said intelligently.

I wheeled he bike back onto the ship, I had used a quick water spell to wash it off and now the paint was gleaming.

“That’s better” I said, I looked over to see Vapaa working furiously to wash his dirt bike whilst glaring at me, I smirked and waived to him before walking out of the Workshops. Whilst I was walking through the corridors Garnet shot past me, I had to jump out of the way “whoa! Watch it buddy”

“Sorry, Dad” he said, a few seconds later Aurora, John, a couple of diamond dog pups and the Crusaders charged around the corner after him.

“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS: KIRIN HUNTERS YAY!” they all shouted and Garnet’s eyes widened.

“Shit! Gotta go” he said and ran off.

“Watch your language, Garnet!” I shouted after him

“Sorry, Dad!” he shouted back before running around the corner, I had to jump out of the way once again to avoid being trampled by the crusaders.

“Hi, Uncle” Aurora said as she flew past, once they were out of sight I saw the door to a storage room open and Ruby poked her head out.

“Are they gone?” she whispered, I nodded and she slunk off in the opposite direction that the crusaders were traveling in, I chuckled.

“Kids” I muttered, shaking my head whilst smiling, it was good to see the two Kirins starting to lighten up and act their age rather than a couple of years older than they really were. I eventually reached the exit for the ship and walked outside, heading for Ponyville, whilst I was walking I got an idea “I wonder what it would be like to fly” I went to change to the Mahiki but no sooner had I spoke than my armour began to change. A pair of metal, bird-like wings sprouted from my back and my armour and body as a whole became lighter and more streamlined. I gave the wings a few test flaps before taking to the air. Oh wow, why hadn’t I thought of this sooner? No wonder Pegasi and griffins are so proud about being able to fly, I felt…freedom, total, unlimited freedom, I went to see if I could land on a cloud and found to my surprise that I could.

“Now that’s something you don’t see every day” I heard autumn say, I turned to find her hovering.

“The wonders of adaptive armour” I said “why didn’t I think of this sooner?”

“Can you see why all flying people are so proud to have wings?” Autumn asked, landing on the cloud, I nodded, she took my hand and began leading me to the edge of the cloud “come on, it’s a pegasi tradition for couples to go flying together” she then took off and I followed after her. She led me high up into the clouds, the H.U.D. on my mask displayed that we were at a height of 30’000 feet and climbing. I looked around and the clouds were like giant caves with several chambers. Autumn led me above this level of the clouds before levelling off, we reached a brake in the clouds and I looked down. The towns below were dotted around like cherries on a cake, with the fields looking like chequer squares

“Holy hell, we’re high up!” I exclaimed, Autumn chuckled before flying under me and gliding upside down, she looked me in the eyes as she kissed me.

“I have been wanting to do this for ages” she said, her eyes shimmering slightly. She then flew out from underneath me and moved to fly beside me, after flying for a couple hours she led me to a small cloud and we both sat down, enjoying each-others company. A lump started to form in my throat, I sighed and Autumn lifted her head off of my shoulder.

“Are you okay, Vuur?” she asked.

“Moments like this always remind me of the times with my dad” I said, I felt a tear go down my cheek and wiped it away. I rested my head on Autumns shoulder and broke down crying “god, I miss him”

“He would have been proud of you” Autumn said, putting her arms around me, after some time I wiped the tears away.

“Okay, I’m done…” I was cut off by my phone going off, there was a text from Minion saying ‘where are you’, I replied saying ‘on a cloud with Autumn, adaptive armour’ before putting the phone away. We ended up spending the night on the cloud. I learnt one thing that night; clouds are really comfortable, I also didn’t feel the cold, I woke up th4e next morning and walked to the edge of the cloud, watching the sunrise.

“We should get back soon” I heard Autumn say, standing next to me.

“Race you back to Ponyville” I said, before jumping off the cloud and diving, revelling in the feeling of the wind rushing past me as I freefell, Autumn drew up beside me and we fell side by side, I opened my wings before climbing back up and above the clouds, we began gliding back. Sometime into our flight a large shadow descended upon us, I looked up to see a large wyvern diving at us “SHIT, AUTUMN MOVE IT!” we both dived down, the wyvern roaring at us. The thing about wyverns; unlike their four legged brethren they are driven purely by instinct and you can’t reason with one, only run away or fight. I saw the Everfree forest below.

“Into the forest” Autumn said, we dived down below the trees and landed on the ground, just outside a clearing. My wings disappeared as I landed, we both hid behind trees, waiting with bated breath as the wyvern landed and began searching for us. I slowly poked my head out from behind the tree to see the wyvern walking around like a large therapod dinosaur, with its wings loosely tucked into its sides. It looked in our direction and I quickly moved back behind the tree, I switched to the mask of animal control just in case. The wyvern poked its blunt snout between the trees that me and Autumn were hiding behind, I looked over and I could see the fear in Autumns eyes. I held my breath, it stank of rotting flesh. Eventually the wyvern snorted and brought its head away from the trees and roared in rage before flying off, once we were sure it was gone we both burst into laughter, just happy to be alive. Eventually we flew back to Ponyville where we found Minion waiting for us.

“Where the hell have you been!?” Minion asked “I had to put Garnet and Ruby to bed and they have been worried sick about you, so have everyone else, and what does adaptive armour mean?” I extended my mechanical wings and he rolled his eyes

“We were on our way back” I said “unfortunately a wyvern can make it hard to get back on time” he just scoffed and shook his head disapprovingly.

“Whatever” he said “just go to Ruby and Garnet, they’re worried about you” we both ran onto the ship and into our quarters, Garnet and Ruby ran up to us and tackled us into a hug, both of them were crying.

“We were scared” Ruby said

“Oh, geez, I’m so, so sorry” I said “we won’t do it again, okay” Garnet looked up at me and nodded before burying his head in my chest armour, tears running down his cheeks. Me and Autumn just sat there, comforting them, now we felt really guilty, we both looked at each other and realised the same thing, we had fucked up as parents.

I have tried taking the advice of several people and changed the way I structure my paragraphs, tell me if it's any better

the colour scheme for the bike is going off this picture

and the winged emblem is this

don't prat about with bikes, folks, leave that to the idiots that charge around on crotch-rockets giving the good bikers a bad name

and yes, it is possible to power-slide/drift a motorcycle, but it's meant for loose dirt-tracks (like on speedways), on grippy tarmac it's risky and It could go very bad very quickly

have 4 power-sliding speedway bikes to prove my point (notice the metal plate just behind the rear wheel keeping the dust-spray down)

Wyvern (Celtic/Welsh mythology):


although they grow to a much smaller size than their dragon cousins; only growing to a maximum length of 50 feet from snout to tail. Wyverns are older as a species, more vicious and highly instinct driven; capable of understanding spoken languages, but not speaking them. They are also incredibly dangerous. Now a days, the most common method of dealing with a wyvern that enters a town is to evacuate the town until the wyvern leaves the area, as they are incredibly stubborn and difficult to reason with, even dragons have a hard time trying to reason with a wyvern.

Wyverns have also been known to kill much larger dragons single handed.

Wyverns posses a tail which is armed with a poison stinger, as well as regrowing spines that it can flick at enemies (much like a deadly nadder in the 'how to train your dragon' film franchise, but bigger)

if you encounter a wyvern: do not attack, wyverns are incredibly stubborn, fiercely territorial and have incredible endurance, they have been many sightings of wyverns walking around missing a wing or a tail with little or no hindrance to terrestrial mobility. The best tactic, no matter how big your group, is to run, hide and prey it doesn't find you.

Wyverns are found in two major varieties:
the larger variety is more draconic in appearance.

the smaller variety, growing to about 11 feet long, is more serpentine in appearance and has the ability to 'spit' venom from its fangs to blind its prey, these 'classic' wyverns also hunt in packs of about 5-10 individuals