My Little Fluttershy

My Little Fluttershy (Chapter 3)

My Little Fluttershy ^_^  chapter 3

          Wind whistles deafeningly in my ears as the air rushes past me. I fall tumbling through the black of night, the force causing my eyes to tear. Struggling to straighten out, I try to flap my wobbly wings as the ground looms ever closer. I close my eyes, scared of the inevitable impact.

           A sudden gust catches beneath my flailing wings and I crack open my eyes. For a second, I'm gliding smoothly through the sky. But as the gust dies down, I begin to falter, losing all lift.

            I squee as I fall back into a spin. With the ground getting bigger by the second, I'm running out of time quickly.

            "Ok, Fluttershy" I tell myself "You can do this, you can do this. First, just stop spinning"

             I spread my wings and try to hold them straight out. They shake under the pressure, but the spinning quickly comes under control. I'm still falling though, and fast.

            "Oh no, oh no... what now" my heart pounds quickly in my chest, the events of a unfamiliar life flashing before my eyes. It all passes in a blur as my mind searches it's deepest recesses  for a way out. It pauses over a memory, and the sky blue mare speeds beside me in a controlled dive.

            "And to pull out, you just do this" she thrusts her powerful downwards, immediately pulling out of the dive "but who wants to go slow anyway?" She says before she streaks off, everpresent rainbow trailing behind her.

            I beat my wings hard downwards, trying to copy what I saw. My small wings are nowhere near as powerful as those of the rainbow maned mare in my memory, but the maneuver still works. I'm brought to a descending glide, a few hundred feet above the city avenues.

            I sigh in relief, drifting downward. With my heart still pounding, I steady my wings as the wind slides evenly beneath them. It's not until I'm much lower that I realize I don't know how to land. My heartbeat rises again while I look around for a place to alight. A large building on the right seems like my best bet, so I angle off towards its flat roof. Aligning my flight path with the length of the surface, I approach the building.

             "Ok Fluttershy, you got this. Just slow down" I say inside my head. Um... But how DO I slow down.

            The building draws ever closer as I speed towards it, unable to slow. I close my eyes in panic "Slow slow SLOW" I repeat, somehow hoping that the words will help.

            I pull away from the building just in time, my knee scraping the ledge guard of the roof. I hardly feel the pain as adrenaline courses through me, but I'm sure I'll feel it tomorrow. If I make it to tomorrow... there's still the problem of landing.

            The side of another building materializes out of the darkness, and I bank left to avoid it. The turn steers me clear of the building, and I look back at the obstacle, impressed by how well I avoided it. When I face forward again, I turn to get a mouthful of leaves and branches. The collision with the tree sends me spinning and I struggle to regain control. Still spiraling, I fly into a clothes line, taking a shirt with me. Unable to see and spinning hopelessly out of control, I brace for impact... So the sudden softness takes me surprise.

            At first I just sit there shaking, too dazed to move. My vision is blocked by a white cloth draped over me. Am I dead? Is this... the afterlife? The ground beneath me feels soft and plushy, like a cloud. I pinch myself and an "Ow" escapes my lips in a soft whimper. "So I'm definitely not dreaming".