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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 1:43:36 GMT -5
"Is that a nickname ponies made up because your uniform was so alarming, it gave them whiplash?" she asked, squinting against his glinting hair. His weather pun had made Greta Blizzard grin, but she looked down so that he hopefully wouldn't see. Once she had pretended that she was the one who thought of it, she would have to start introducing herself that way. |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 1:50:56 GMT -5
Whiplash made a face at her.
"What actually happened was that I flew around everyone so fast that they could only get a fleeting look at my devastating good looks, and in a flurry to keep looking, they all turned their heads too fast and boom, Whiplash." |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 1:55:06 GMT -5
"Whiplash isn't a nickname, is it?" she asked, smirking. It wasn't so bad talking to him, now that he wasn't hitting on her. In fact, he was tolerable when he was saying real words instead of stupid ones. |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 2:00:20 GMT -5
"It is not," he said, his grin breaking a bit bigger, but not in an arrogant way like it was before. "So really, tell me. How did you learn to balance on clouds like that? Did you get shot up to the sky in a cannon as a filly?" |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 2:04:35 GMT -5
Blizzard sighed a gusty, frustrated sigh. She hated being asked this question, having been asked it her entire life, and did not relish having to explain it to Whiplash, who had, upon asking, instantly become The Worst Pony in the World in her mind.
"I told you, I'm a Pegasus. I just don't have wings, I don't know why." |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 2:13:08 GMT -5
Whiplash couldn't tell if the other pony was being serious or just pulling his hoof, but of course, how could she be serious? It was much more likely that she was just pulling one over on him than for a pegasus to be born without wings; that was, after all, the very definition of a pegasus, practically.
He squinted his eyes at her, unsurely. "I don't think-- I mean, I've never... heard of that happening, so..."
He didn't want her to think he was gullible if she was playing a trick on him, but if she wasn't, then he didn't want to come off as the most insensitive jerk ever, so he just settled for a semi-safe finish.
".. are you sure?" |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 2:17:45 GMT -5
She stared at him. "Of course I'm sure. Do you see wings?" She gestured to her waist. "And, like I said, my cutie mark is weather-related, just like the other Pegasi." She shifted so that her flank was facing him and he could see the cloud with lightning.
"And anyway," she continued after she felt he had had enough time to check her flank out, scooting back to how she'd been sitting. "How could I even do this if I were an earth pony? I mean, maybe if I were a unicorn, but I'm obviously not, since I don't have a horn."
That, of course, was not the best argument to make it sound like it was plausible that she was a pegasus, but Blizzard was not the most logical of arguers. |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 2:22:29 GMT -5
"My cutie mark isn't weather-related," he said, crossing his hooves. "Meteors aren't weather. And how do I know you're not just a unicorn born without a horn? Hmmmmm?"
He was messing with her now, but mostly because he still didn't know whether or not she was telling the truth, and it was easier to make fun of her than to try and ascertain the truth and risk hurting her feelings or something. |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 2:34:02 GMT -5
Blizzard huffed. She didn't want to have to resort to her final method of persuasion, because she wasn't a fan of using her weather magic. She wasn't very good at controlling it, since she had never really been trained to do so, and its volatility and force were hinged on her emotions, which always ran in extremes. Nonetheless, she doubted he would believe her otherwise unless she could produce her parents and a family tree.
Scowling, she stood up and walked to the center of the cloud. Taking a deep breath and hoping there was nopony underneath the cloud, she jumped. As she'd expected, the whole cloud turned grey and erupted in a thunderous roar. A few bolts of lightning shot down to the ground and the cloud lit up with electricity for about half a second. Blizzard was prepared for this part and leapt up so she wouldn't get caught in the aftershock. When she landed, the storm was over and she sat back down, saying nothing. |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 2:39:34 GMT -5
While Blizzard may have been prepared for the aftershock, Whiplash had not been prepared for, well, any of what had just happened. Shortly after the shock of the other pony actually doing some pretty legit weather magic, as well as the shock of something extremely alarming happening to the cloud on which he was currently sitting, he also had to deal with the actual shock that had come back up to course through the cloud and as a result of his being too surprised to move in time, coursed through him as well. He leapt about ten feet up, aided by his wings, and yelped loudly. By the time he cautiously floated back down, his mane and tail were a ridiculous spiky, frizzy mess of static, and he was pretty sure he had the hiccups.
"Oh," he said. "So. Pegasus, huh?" |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 2:45:49 GMT -5
Blizzard snorted with laughter at the shocked Wonderbolt. She probably should have warned him, but it was much funnier to have not done so, especially now that his mane and tail looked so attractive. She stood and trotted over to him.
"Glad you finally believe me. Let me fix that." She started patting his mane back down with her hoof. Even if some leftover electricity had shocked her upon making contact with him, it wouldn't have mattered. Blizzard was too used to messing up with her magic and electrocuting herself and had long since cared about being shocked.
"You okay?" |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 2:49:58 GMT -5
Whiplash pouted, but stood up straight as she fixed his mane and tail, trying to look less like electricity had just made him its bitch.
"Pssh, fine. I fly through lightning storms all the time, obviously," he said, but he wasn't trying to be convincing this time. "...Thanks. That was pretty cool, by the way." |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 2:54:02 GMT -5
She was not about to start fixing his tail, so when she finished smoothing his mane, she stepped back. He looked really silly, especially in his Wonderbolt uniform, but she tried not to laugh at him again.
"It was not cool," she said, scowling. She plopped back down. "I didn't do all of that on purpose." In hindsight, she would regret telling him that rather than pretending she had meant to do something as badass as cause a spontaneous lightning storm, but for now, she was ready to chat away. |
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Post by »»whiplash on Mar 9, 2012 3:07:18 GMT -5
"You didn't?" He asked. "Well, for the record, I think you fit in just fine with the rest of us up here."
He saw a group of clouds drifting over near their cloud, and he looked back at her.
"But how fast can you jump, is my real question?" He asked her with a grin, bouncing swiftly off of their cloud and onto the new one, and then from that one to one just above it. |
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Post by blizzard storm☂ on Mar 9, 2012 3:16:33 GMT -5
She almost grinned, but stopped herself because she didn't want Whiplash thinking that he was making her happy or anything--because he obviously wasn't, just by virtue of being a stupid Pegasus stallion Wonderbolt. Even if he was nice and she had electrocuted him.
"What?" she asked, drawing her brows together. She looked up at the clouds and then down at the earth below. They weren't as close together as she usually liked them to be when she was cloud hopping, but she thought she could make it.
"Pfft. Bring it on, bitch," she said, running forward and leaping from cloud to cloud until she had leaped to the one just past his. |
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