Crash Landing(open)

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A strong breeze, that's all several people would see, or more likely, feel as he spun by, rolling through the air as he flew through the streets. His wings pulled in tight as they could while still giving him some lift. His eye's watered as he squinted, trying to keep everything in focus. He would have to invest in goggles or something. Heck if he wasn't careful he could even crash into somepony. That would just be so, ugh, complicated. Saying sorry, replacing what ever he broke(given his luck there would be something broken on at least one of them, bones, items, something) At the thought his wings opened a bit more slowing him just enough to see a bit more than blurs of color as he sped by.

"Goggles, gotta reme-wait isn't that the place that sells them? Why did I just fly b-Woah!!!" he yelled out the last word after some intense thinking, a bit to intense. He had forgotten to keep his eyes on the street, a large cart rolled into the street as he sped down towards it. He quickly took "evasive maneuvers" going under the cart with a barrel roll before trying to straighten out. "That was close, almost crashed" he said looking back at the cart before looking ahead and promptly running into a stack of barrels. At least they were empty, not full of heavy apples or something.

He got up slowly. Pushing barrels off himself. Then flexed his wings to make sure they were fine. Before noticing that a few eye's were on him. "Uh, show's over. Sorry for the commotion everypony. Won't happen again." he said, his ears flattened and eyes on the ground. This sure was embarrassing. He then quickly flew around the barrels, making a vortex that lifted them just enough to right them, before beginning to stack them again. He couldn't just leave them there after all. He wondered if they belonged to anyone.

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After the stallion had gotten himself to his feet, he'd realize that a little filly was standing nearby him, an eyebrow raised.

"...You're weird." She told him. "But oh well."

The filly was, of course, Sunrise Delight, or, as her parents called her, Sunny. The yellow filly was on her way to school, but after seeing all this excitement going on, how could she not come over and check it out? Even if that meant being late to school...

...Or maybe not going to school at all... After all the foals there were pretty mean to her, she thought. She'd much rather stay here with this guy and talk the day away with him, or something like that. Or eating.

"Do you need help, though?"

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Cloud twister was surprised to see a filly watching him. Well that was more than a bit embarrassing. He smiled sheepishly and looked over the filly, she sure was young. Didn't even have a cutie mark. He briefly wondered if she could fly. He knew that pegasi varied greatly in when they learned to fly, some learned at birth, others took until adulthood.

Wait, shouldn't she be in school? Of course, he had lived in Cloudsdale, quite a different place. Maybe school was at a different time down here? Didn't make much sense but, gah, who cared. School was boring anyways. He spread his wings and gave them a few flaps, lifting a bit off the ground before folding them, they didn't look bad. Not worse than usual at least, just a bit roughed up. a few feathers out of place.

"Umm, I think I'm fine, err, who are you?" he said, grabbing another barrel and flying up to the second row to set it there. Then quickly doing the same with another and another. "There we go, see no problem." he added on, turning with a smile to the filly. "Aren't you a bit young to walk around town on your own?" he had to make sure he wouldn't get yelled at by somepony's parent because he hadn't turned her back home or something.

[sunrisedelight]

"I'm Sunrise Delight." She told him simply.

Sunrise couldn't fly. It wasn't that she hadn't learned yet, that wasn't it at all. It was just that she was far too heavy to fly, at least not yet. So she usually ended up just going around in her cute little cloak and doing stuff on the ground like an earth pony. One might say 'Well what's the use having wings if you can't use them?' but she didn't care. They were useful for other things- keeping her warm, for example. Wings could be used for things other than flying, right?

They should, at least...

That last comment she took slight offense to. Furrowing her snout, she replied, "I've been doing things on my own for a while now!"

She calmed down a bit then, watching him.

"What's your name?"

It hadn't quite occurred to her yet, not fully at least, about school...

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Wow, her name sure was neat. Better than his at least. Sunrise Delight was just plain poetic. He continued to hover, making a slow circle around her before landing again, though unlike most pegasi he kept his wings rather lax instead of tightly folded. The tips of his wings were nearly on the ground actually. Yeah, probably not the best way to carry your wings, but the streets weren't crowded or anything. So as long as no pony pulled on them he would be fine.

Besides, this kept him ready to fly and kept his wings nice and loose. As she reacted to his comment he smiled "Hey, calm down, didn't mean anything by it. Just wondering if you were lost." Didn't anypony in this town appreciate someone trying to help? First that mare, Applejack and now this filly, Sunrise Delight.

"My name is Cloud Twister. Weather pony extraordinaire!" he said, taking off for just enough time to do a backflip before posing on the ground in a reared position with his wings flared out. "You might not have heard of me, but I'm quite important to my flight team" he said proudly. He was the wing beneath his teams wings, sometimes literally.

He then went back to a relaxed position. Wings, once again, by his side. Almost on the ground. "So what are you doing out and about sunny?" he said with a smile, his wingtips fluttering happily by his sides. "And is there no school today or are you playing hooky?" he hadn't been able to get that out of his mind, he had gotten a bit of a culture shock when he first moved to ponyville so it wasn't unheard of for him to not know things about the town.

[sunrisedelight]

She gave a slight sigh at the 'calm down' comment, but listened to him.

"You have a flight team?" She asked, slightly in awe of this. As she couldn't fly yet, the idea of people flying around in teams seemed rather astonishing. It didn't help that other pegasi controlled the weather. She often wondered just why her parents were dumb enough to be simple bakers, when they could obviously do so much more- weren't all pegasi as flight-talented as some of the ones she kept hearing about?

She paused to think after he asked her a few questions, trying to wrap her mind over what, exactly, he was asking her again. Then she seemed to make everything out.

"Well... I WAS going to school, but then I saw all this and had to come over..." She said, a bit of defeat in her voice.

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He smiled at her slightly apparent surprise, he had never really had anyone surprised or amazed by him. Not even for a moment, most people viewed him as some sort of screw up or something. It was a new experience for him. Flying was all he was good at and he usually was only chastised when he did was on duty unless it was a solo job and no one was around to criticize all the tiny things he did wrong. Of course, if certain members of the team weren't around that worked too. "Every weather pony had a team, we have to make sure everyone stays safe. Of course I don't have to worry about that, nothing scares me." he said proudly, hovering.

He smirked when she said what she was doing, though he wasn't sure whether to laugh at his memories of skipping school(trying to skip thanks to certain ponies) or whether to scold her for skipping. Well, it wasn't like he'd be any good at scolding, so he laughed. "School is important you know, but if you don't wanna go I won't stop you." he said with a smile.

"and if you aren't gonna go, we could hang out if ya want." he added on, flying around the fillie in a tight circle before landing in front of her with a large breeze.
His wings once again half folded. "I know quite a bit about weather making, could show you."

[sunrisedelight]

She nodded a bit at his 'everyone stays safe' comment, sincerely... and then rolled her eyes and nodded a bit condescendingly at 'nothing scares me'. Then she stopped, pausing as he said that... she didn't HAVE to go to school.

She began to roll this thought around in her head. If she got caught, she could get in trouble... but then again, what's so bad about missing ONE day? Besides, isn't it better to get out your rebellion when you're young, instead of when you're older?

"...Sure! I wanna see!" She said finally, bouncing up and down.

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He didn't really care about the filly rolling her eyes, but he did notice. Everyone is a critic. So what if he was exaggerating. He was scared to next to nothing. It wasn't as if thunderbirds were around every corner. She seemed to really like the thought of not going to school though. Twister smiled. He was pretty good with kids.

He held in a laugh as she started bouncing up and down. She sure was excited, well he couldn't disappoint her now could he? He would have to pull something pretty cool. He thought for a moment. He then flew up into the sky and grabbed a small cloud, he brought it back down to the ground and patted it.

"Get on sunny, I'm going to show you how to...well, anything you'd really like to see?" he said with a smile. Once she got on he would pull the cloud up into the sky. He was aware many little pegasi couldn't fly. Even if she could, he doubted she would keep up with him. so this cloud was the best way to bring her along to a bit outside of town. "I've got a good bit of weather experience under my belt so I can do just about everything to do with weather." he said, just a bit proud. He really was good at weather ponying, it was his special talent after all. "But, be careful, falling while its windy can make it hard to fly. I learned that the hard way right before I got my mark."