The Dragons of Metal, Sun, and Thunder
Chapter 16: A sky high competition (updated)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterIt has been a week since the Tournament of Griffonstone.
And since the monsters Ash, Flare and Tora have been cared for by our heroes.
Speaking of our heroes, let's see what they are doing right now.

Pov: Justice
Time skip: August, 5, 10:47 am.
It's been a week since the Tournament of Griffonstone. And since King Black Beak was put in Canterlot Prison for interrogation for info on the black shards and how he got Ash, Flare, and Tora.
Speaking of Ash, Flare, and Tora. Keshaun, Caleb and I have been teaching them allot of new things; like how to hunt, how to talk, how to fight, and much more.
Right now Twilight, Spike, Gilda, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Keshaun, Caleb, Flare, Ash, Tora, and I were cleaning up the library for it's annual cleaning.
"[sigh] That's the last one. Thank you so much for helping me clean up all these books, guys. It was a crazy week of studying." Twilight said putting the last book in the shelf.
"I'm just glad it's done. You really need to put stuff up when you're done with it Twi." Keshaun said wiping his brow.
"I didn't think it was that bad Keshaun." Gilda said sweat doing down her forehead.
"Yeah papa. I thought it was fun." Ash said smiling.
"Oh course it would be for you three. But you three aren't doing it in SD form." Keshaun said petting Ash.
All of a sudden a scream sound before a blur crashed through the library.
Short intermission brought by chibi Keshaun, Caleb, Justice, Flare, Ash, Tora, Spike, Gilda, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Twilight cleaning
Switch of Pov: Keshaun
As soon as that scream sounded a blue blur crashed, knocking all of the books off of the shelves.
I saw that it was Rainbow that crashed into Justice.
"God Dangit. We just finished." Caleb said dejected and digging out of the mess of books and also trying not to swear in front of Ash, Flare, and Tora.
"Shouldn't you be more concerned for Rainbow? I know that Justice should be fine." Gilda said digging out of books.
"They both should be fine." I said getting out of the book pile.
As I said that Rainbow started to get up. Then Fluttershy came from the window Rainbow crashed into.
"Rainbow Dash, you rock! Woohoo." Fluttershy said before looking around "[gasp] Did my cheering do that?" Fluttershy asked surprised of the mess.
"No Fluttershy your cheering didn't do this. Rainbow did." Justice said getting up from the books.
"Hehe. Sorry about that everyone. That was a truly feeble performance." Rainbow said getting up and shaking her head trying to get rid of headache she got.
"Actually, it wasn't all bad. I particularly liked it when you made the clouds spin." Fluttershy said unknowing what Rainbow meant.
"Ugh. I'm not talking about my performance, I'm talking about yours. That feeble cheering!" Rainbow said upset over something.
"What are you two arguing about?" Twilight asked confused about it.
"I wish you guys could come to Cloudsdale to see me compete in the Best Young Flyer Competition." Rainbow said malcontented.
"Oh so that's what this is about." Gilda said piecing it together.
"What is?" Twilight, Flare, Tora, and Ash asked at the same time.
"It's where all the greatest Pegasus flyers get together and show off their different flying styles! Some are fast! [makes car sounds] And some are graceful. Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Pinkie said explaining the best young fliers competition and trying to be elegant.
"Golly. I'd love to see you strut yer stuff in that competition." Applejack said getting excited about the competition.
"It's a great show that shows the abilities of Pegasi. I saw a bit of it when visiting Cloudsdale." Gilda said with excitement.
"Yeah. I wish you guys could be there. Fluttershy's a great support, but her cheering isn't exactly inspirational. I know Gilda is going to be there but after the whole tournament thing Ponies might start to hate Griffons." Rainbow said concerned about Gilda.
"Don't worry about it Rainbow. I'm tough." Gilda said placing her fist on her chest.
"You cried when Rainbow broke your friendship." Justice said before I punched him in the head.
"Ooh! I'd love to see you make a sonic rainboom! It's like, the most coolest thing ever! Even though I've never actually seen it, but I mean come on! It's a sonic rainboom! How not cool could it possibly not be?!" Pinkie said ignoring what Justice said.
"What's a sonic rainboom?" Twilight asked confused.
"You really need to get out more. The sonic rainboom is legendary! When a Pegasus like Rainbow Dash gets going sooo fast... Boom! A sonic boom and a rainbow can happen all at once!" Pinkie said explaining the Sonic rainboom.
"And Rainbow Dash here's the only pony to ever pull it off!" Applejack said wrapping her arm around Rainbow's shoulder.
"It was a long time ago... When I was just a filly." Rainbow said embarrassed.
"A filly that performed a Sonic boom and Rainbow at the same time. Wait wasn't there a rainbow when Justice, Caleb, and I came here?" I said thinking to myself.
"Yeah, but you're gonna do it again, right?" Pinkie asked getting close to Rainbow.
"Are... you kidding? I'm the greatest flyer to ever come out of Cloudsdale! I could do sonic rainbooms in my sleep." Rainbow said with a small hint of fear.
"Wow. If you pull that off, you'll win the crown for sure!" Twilight said not knowing the fear in her voice.
"The grand prize is an entire day with the Wonderbolts. A whole day of flying with my lifelong heroes... It'll be a dream come true!" Rainbow said going into fangirl mode.
"I'm gonna go rest up. Don't wanna over prepare myself, y'know. Hehe. You, on the other hand, better keep practicing. I need a cheering section to match my spectacular performance." Rainbow said pointing at Fluttershy before heading home.
"She's practiced that move a hundred times, and she's never even come close to doing it. I don't know if I can cheer loud enough to help her." Fluttershy said concerned about Rainbow.
"Well, guess we better get this cleaned up... again." Twilight said dejected and started to put books back before Rarity stopped her.
"Go on, go on." Rarity said
"Go on what?" Twilight asked confused.
"Find a spell that will get us wingless ponies into Cloudsdale. Didn't you see how nervous she was?" Rarity said waving her hand in the washing machine position.
"Nervous? Have you spit yer bit or somethin'? She was tootin' her own horn louder than the brass section of a marching band!" Applejack said.
"Oh, puh-lease. I have put on enough fashion shows to recognize stage fright when I see it. We've got to find a way to be there for her. Now go on!" Rarity said knowing what Rainbow was going through.
"How the heck are we supposed to find a flight spell book in this mess?" I asked.
"A flight spell? One sec. Page twenty-seven." Pinkie said grabbing a book and throwing it to Twi.
"How did you do that?" Spike asked.
"It landed on my face when Rainbow Dash knocked me into the bookcase." Pinkie said.
"Here it is! A spell that will allow wingless being to fly for three days. Ooh, it looks really difficult... I'm not sure I can do it." Twilight said on the page Pinkie said to look.
"Well who's gonna be the test subject?" I asked looking at everyone.
"I will! For Rainbow Dash, I will go first." Rarity said volunteering.
"Okay nice. Everyone else grab a pair of sunglasses just in case." I said handing out pairs of sunglasses and putting a pair on Ash, Flare, and Tora.
"Okay here goes." Twilight said concentrating magic as a tornado covered Rarity as also a ball of flashing lights appeared infront of both of them.
All of a sudden a white flash happened. We all got up from the flash and saw that the spell.
"Well I can say that. The spell worked incredibly well." Spike said looking at the wings.

It's been three hours since Twilight used the make wings spell. Right now we're just flying towards Cloudsdale. I was carrying Flare because he can't fly. Meanwhile Ash and Tora were flying with Caleb and Justice.
When we got to Cloudsdale I saw Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were talking to three Pegasi stallions.
I heard one of them say. "See you then, Rainbow Crash!" The dark brown stallion said before they fly away.
"Grr. Not those morons again." Gilda said to herself.
"You know them?" I asked getting a bit closer to Gilda.
"They're just a bunch of bullies that messed with me, Rainbow and Fluttershy when we were in junior flight academy." Gilda said with a tear in her eye.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to bring up bad memories." I said wiping her eye.
"It's fine. Besides we should probably land now." Gilda said with a small smile.
"Hey! Rainbow! Fluttershy!" I yelled stopping next to Twilight's hot air balloon.
"This is so cool! You guys made it!" Rainbow said happy.
"Yep." I said letting go of Flare.
"Wait!" Rainbow yelled before Flare landed on the clouds without falling through. Pinkie and the others followed. Justice, Caleb, Ash, Gilda, and Tora landed also.
"How'd you do that? Only Pegasus ponies can walk on clouds." Rainbow said asking Twilight.
"I found a spell that makes temporary wings, but it was too difficult to do more than once. So I found an easier spell that lets the rest of us walk on clouds." Twilight explained.
"Twilight made it so that we can stay on the clouds until a few days." Spike said.
"So we came to cheer you to victory!" Applejack and Caleb said at the same time.
"To be honest, I was starting to get just the teeniest, tiniest bit nervous. But I feel a lot better now that you guys are here. Hey, we've got some time before the competition. Why don't Fluttershy and I show you around Cloudsdale?" Rainbow said giving us a tour of the city.
"Yes!" Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, Ash, Flare, and Tora said.
"Yeah. That sounds awesome." Justice said getting excited.
"It would be nice to learn more about Cloudsdale." Caleb said.
"Sure." Spike and I said at the same time following behind Rainbow.
"Here it is: the greatest city in the sky!" Rainbow said as we made it to the city square.
"Whoa." Ash, Flare and Tora said sparkles in their eyes.
"It sure is a beautiful city." Caleb said looking around.
"And a very soft place. Look." Justice said before jumping like he was on a trampoline.
"You can say that again." I said feeling the ground/clouds beneath us.
"Oooh! Aaah!" Rarity said looking into her reflection of herself and her butterfly wings.
"Uhh... Some of the greatest Pegasi in history came from Cloudsdale!" Rainbow said moving ahead.
"Oh, wait for me!" Rarity said catching up.
A random Pegasus stallion said looking at Rarity's wings. "Whoa, those wings are gorgeous."
"Oh thank you so much kind sir." Rarity said accepting the complement.
"Be careful with those wings, Rarity. They're made from gossamer and morning dew, and they're incredibly delicate." Twilight said getting annoyed by Rarity's attention hogging.
"Don't worry, Twilight. I'm sure they can't get worn out from too much attention." Rarity said basking in the attention she was getting.
"Since we're up here, I'd sure like to get a look at where the weather's made." Applejack said.
"Great idea! C'mon, girls. To the weather factory!" Rainbow said leading us towards the weather factory.
When we got there. They wanted us to wear a white protective coat and hard hat.
"This is where they make the snowflakes. Each one is handmade. As you can see, it's a delicate operation." Rainbow said as we saw thousands of handmade snowflakes.
"[gasp] Ooh, the snowflakes look even better from up here." Rarity said creating a breeze with her wings causing the snowflakes to fly around.
"We should get out of here before Rarity causes a drought." I said as we leave to another part of the factory.
"And here's where they make the rainbows!" Rainbow said as Pinkie and Flare take a taste from a rainbow pool.
All of a sudden Flare and Pinkie started glowing different colors of a rainbow.
"[pants] Spicyyyyyy!..." Pinkie and Flare said with a dry exhale.
"Yeah, rainbows aren't really known for their flavor." Rainbow said giving them a bottle of water.
"Thanks." Pinkie and Flare said with tears in their eyes.
"Whoa! Oh, where'd you get those amazing wings? I want a pair!" A familiar voice said as I saw was those three bullies of Fluttershy Gilda and Rainbow talking to Rarity.
"Yeah, I guess I could see that." Rarity said looking back at the wings.
"Oh, hey look, it's Rainbow Crash again! And with her two girlfriends. Gilda the chicken and Fluttershy the bitch." The dark brown stallion said as my rage began to rise.
"Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie. Cover Ash, Flare, and Tora's ears." I said heading towards the stallions as the girls did what I said.
"Excuse me sir but could you kindly repeat yourself? I'm afraid I didn't her you." I said to the dark brown stallion. Faking the kind act and was a few minutes from braking his entire body.
"Huh? You deaf or something? I said Gilda the Chicken and Fluttershy the bit-" he got out before I stopped him by transforming and grabbing him by the neck.
"I am going to say this once. So listen carefully. If you ever say that about my harem mates. I will make sure that pain is the only feeling you will have before giving you in the most gruesomely horrible deaths know throughout time and space. So if you don't want to piss off someone who can Fucking rip you into ribbons. You better not mess with them or their friends. Got you little shit?" I said as he began to shake his head saying yes.
"Good. NOW GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THEM NOW! THAT'S AN ORDER!!" I yelled letting go of him as his friends followed.
"Keshaun. You didn't have to do that." Fluttershy said hugging me.
"Trust me. I wanted to say worse." I said returning the hug.
"Anyway the competition should be starting in an hour or so. Let's go and get some good seats." Gilda said as we head to the coliseum.
"Hey! There's an idea! YOU should enter the competition!" A random Pegasus mare said to Rarity.
"God damnit." I said to myself.

It's been an hour and the competition is about to start. I saw the look of concern Gilda had on her face for Rainbow.
"Fillies and gentlecolts! Please rise and join me in welcoming our beloved Princess Celestia!" The announcer said as Celestia landed in a royal box with some guards.
"Please welcome our celebrity judges for the Best Young Flyer Competition: the Wonderbolts!" The announcer said as the Wonderbolts did their entrance before three girls landed in their view box.
As the competition was happening I noticed that there was only 13 ponies performing.
"Hey Keshaun. Is something on your mind?" Justice asked breaking me out of my thought.
"Yeah. I was just wondering why we didn't see Rainbow. I know Rarity is going to take her time to do makeup for this thing."
"And now, for our final competitor of the day, contestant number fifteen! Uhh... And apparently contestant number four..." The announcer said as many people began to cheer.
"Go Rainbow Dash! You got this!" Gilda cheered.
"You got this RD!" I yelled.
All of a sudden they began their performances as classical music started to play. Rarity started with a dance that looks like it belonged in swan lake. Rainbow flew through some pillars of clouds at a high speed. During both of their performances. Rainbow accidentally launched a cloud at Celestia. So I fired a ki blast at it.
I heard Rarity say something to herself. "And now for my grand finale. I will fly right up to the sun and beam my beautiful wings over the whole city of Cloudsdale! [gasp and squeal] They'll be talking about it for years!"
I had to stop her from doing that because of her wings. But I also could use this as an advantage for Rainbow. I decided not to say anything or help.
Rarity started to assend until she was in front of the sun. The light reflecting off her wings. Everyone went "oohhhh" from the light show.
"Look upon me, Equestria, for I... am... Rarity!" Rarity yelled before her wings evaporated from the heat.
"Uh-oh. [screams]" Rarity said before falling at a fast speed.
The Wonderbolts tried to catch her. But because of her panicking spaz out she knocked them out cold.
"Rarity hang o-" Caleb said before I stopped him.
"Keshaun. What are you doing? Rarity might die!" Caleb said grabbing me by my collar.
"I know the risk. But this is might be the thing to help Rainbow. Rainbow was too scared to really do the Sonic rainboom. So I had a thought that never left my head. What if Rainbow acts differently on the importance of the problem?" I said explaining why I stopped him.
"Fine. You better be right on this." Caleb said sitting back down.
"Hold on, Rarity! I'm coming!" Rainbow yelled flying down to save her and the Wonderbolts.
As she was getting closer I saw a machine cone surround her. Then as it closed around her. A Sonic rainboom appeared from Rainbow.
"A sonic rainboom! She did it! She did it! Wooo!" Fluttershy yelled and jumping around like Pinkie. Everyone else were none with words. I on the other hand had a small smirk on my face.
Rainbow grabbed Rarity and the knocked out Wonderbolt members. She pulled up and landed on the cloud like floor before making a huge rainbow that seemed to sparkle a bit.
"Remember: I always win a gamble." I said heading towards Rainbow and Rarity.
"I want to apologize to all of you for getting so carried away with my... beautiful wings. I guess I just lost my head." Rarity said apologizing for her attention hogging.
"Yeah. And almost literally." I said jokingly.
"Ignoring that comment. I'm especially sorry that I was so thoughtless as to jump into the contest at the last minute after you had worked so hard to win it. Can you ever ever forgive me?" Rarity said
"Aw, it's okay. Everything turned out all right, right? I just wish I could have met the Wonderbolts when they were awake." Rainbow said before the leader of the Wonderbolts walked towards us.
"So you're the little pony who saved our lives. We really wanted to meet you, and say thanks." She said.
"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!" Rainbow said entering fangirl mode.
"Hello everyone. How are all of you doing?" Celestia asked walking towards us.
"Doing great princess. How are you?" I said.
"Great Keshaun. As for the others." Celestia said
"Princess Celestia, I am sorry I ruined the competition. Rainbow Dash here really is the best flyer in Equestria." Rarity said looking malcontented.
"I know she is, my dear. That's why, for her incredible act of bravery and her spectacular sonic rainboom, I'm presenting the grand prize for Best Young Flyer to this year's winner, Miss Rainbow Dash!" Celestia said giving Rainbow the prize.
"Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh!" Rainbow said with excitement.
"Congratulations Rainbow." I said as Gilda gave her a hug for the win.
"Hey um, Rainbow Crash." The dark brown stallion said before the lanky one said. "Dash!"
"Oh! Uhh... Sorry. Rainbow Dash. Uhh, we just wanted to congratulate you on winning the competition. And to apologise for messing with you and your friends." He said.
"Aww, that's okay. Don't worry about it." Rainbow said forgiving them.
"Hey. Do you want to hang out with us? Maybe you could show us how you did that incredible trick!" He asked.
"Sorry, boys... But I've got plans!" Rainbow said flying with her lifetime heroes.
"Speaking of plans. We got some back in Ponyvile. Sorry for not staying this time Celestia. I got shards of corruption to analyze." I said about to get Flare.
"Wait!" Celestia said as I stopped.
"Something you need to tell me?" I said turning around.
"I want you to come to Canterlot for interrogation with King Black Beak. I also want you to bring Justice, Caleb, Spike, Ash, Flare, and Tora just in case." Celestia said giving me some info.
"Okay. Thanks for the heads up Celestia." I said before getting Flare.
"King Black Beak. I will know how you got those shards. And how you got Ash, Flare, and Tora." I thought while carrying Flare.
