A Jock and a Showoff (Private: TwiDashPie)

[HighSpeedChase]

There is stood with all it's glory. The Colosseum, the place that holds all the important Pegasus races. The Best Young Fliers Competition is held there, as well as some Wonderbolt races. Gail stood there, or more like flew there, her mouth opened wider than ever at how beautiful it looked. Just the way it was built made it look like one of the most important and amazing placed in Equestria. And Gail was not let down from how amazing it looked. It was her first time being there after all, and she was so excited to fly there for the first time. When the young griffon heard the janitors were unlocking the front doors for anypony to go and practice inside, Gail knew she had to go.

Once the doors were unlocked, the griffon flew as fast as she could inside the beautiful arena, seeing tons of things to practice with. Not a lot of ponies were there too, which made Gail even more happy. Cloud hurdles were set up on the sides, some cloud barrows laid there for some cool weaving tricks, there was even a large area for some ponies to workout and fly laps.

Gail didn't even know what to do first, so just for a warm up, she started at where the cloud track was. She got herself ready, cracking any bones necessary, then she opened up her blue griffon wings, buzzed them as fast as she could, and took off into the sky. She's heard before that she sounded like a jet when she flew at her full speed, which made her dazzed up when she figured that out. And thinking about it, it made her fly even faster. She could hear the wind fly past her as she did a few twirls in the sky. She looked behind her to see a streak of blue and yellow behind her.

Suddenly she stopped, but pretty violently to, as she almost threw herself into a wall. The griffon seemed to remember a story about a rainbow mane'd Pegasus doing the impossible by performing a Sonic Rainboom. Gail thought it was a fake story of course, but once she saw it close up in Cantorlot for the royal wedding, all her beliefs got thrown out of the window in her brain. So, the griffon stood there in awe, imagining how amazing it would've been to be sitting there in the audience and see the Rainboom happen close up.

After fangirling for a couple seconds, she shook her head and zoomed off into the air again. Once she did a few more laps, she landed on the track and got a plastic cup from a table. She then filled it up with some cool water and took a break for a second. "Ah, that's the stuff."

[TwiDashPie]

It was a beautiful day in Cloudsdale, the sun was shining and the town was buzzing with life. Many pegasi were seen socializing or just taking a morning fly. Except, there was one pegasus who wasn't doing either. That pegasus was standing outside the famous Colosseum admiring it. It was a pegasus named Thunder Strike. She was looking at it, visualizing herself performing in front of millions of ponies screaming her name. She smirked and continued to daydream about it. She was snapped out of her daydream by hearing the janitors unlock the front doors. She almost immediately flew in, but stopped after a few seconds. There she spotted a griffon coming from another entrance. Thunder slowly flew into the arena, watching the griffon from afar. She seemed pretty good, though not as good as Thunder herself, or, well, that's what Thunder thought. She continued to observe as the griffon did twirls in the sky and almost threw herself into a wall when realizing she had a streak of blue and yellow behind her, to this Thunder snickered, though not loud enough to be heard by the griffon. She continued to watch as the griffon did a few more laps and land, getting a plastic cup and drinking water from it.

Thunder almost immediately took off after the griffon landed. She wanted to show this griffon how it's done. She zoomed around the track, doing many laps. She was pushing herself harder as she finished each lap. She didn't look to see if the griffon was watching, but she hoped she was. She wanted that griffon to see who the true flier was. After a while, she flew closer to the ground, purposely knocking the griffon's plastic cup full of water out of her claws. Then flew higher, continuing to do laps, feeling the wind rush against her. She loved the rush of speed, after all. She smirked and went even faster. 

[HighSpeedChase]

'Well, well, well, that's one show off today,' Gail thought, taking another sip of water. Not gonna lie, the Pegasus seemed to be a really good flier. Of course Gail has seen good fliers before. She races against them all the time. Not to mention she's beat a whole lot of good ones. She wouldn't flat out say that she was the best flier ever, far from it, but she's was better than a lot of others. Whether is was her strong wings or her smooth, fit body, she was fast.

Gail stared at the Pegasus for a couple seconds, seeing the mare proceed to get faster and faster by each lap. The griffon was shocked or anything, she knew she was going to see some amazing fliers today. She just sat back and relaxed, seeing the Pegasus get closer and closer to her. Wait, closer..? Gail started to notice how close the mare was getting. Like, so close it was literally a feather away from her. Finally, the Pegasus knocked Gail's water cup out of her claws, causing it to spill all over her fur. "What the actual.." she began to say, feeling rage over come her. She knew her fur was going to dry soon enough though, since she was going to fly again, but it still made her upset. Why would somepony do that? The Pegasus could run into somepony or something.

The griffon flew into the air, brushing off the loose water on her knee. She watched the Pegasus get even faster, making Gail sigh. "Hey, you!" she yelled out, but by the time she did, the Pegasus was already at the other side of the Colosseum. Gail decided to fly after the pony, right when she passed her. When she did, Gail flew as fast as she could at that moment to keep up with the quick Pegasus. "Watch where you're goin', lunatic! I was takin' my-" she took a breath, inhaling tons of air. Once she caught her breath back, she noticed the Pegasus was way ahead of her. The griffon waited for her to pass again, and when she did, Gail took off again. "I was takin' my break, but you knocked over my water! You could've knocked me off my paws if you weren't payin' attention!" she yelled, keeping enough distance to be heard.

She suddenly stopped chasing the Pegasus, thinking this whole thing was stupid.

[TwiDashPie]

Thunder Strike flew faster and faster, barely getting out of breath. This was a great day so far, she was showing off a griffon and she was practicing at the same time. Yep, definitely a good day. She snapped out of her thoughts upon hearing the griffon yell at her. She watched as the griffon tried to keep up with her. She snickered slightly, knowing that the griffon had no chance of keeping up with her. After a while, the griffon gave up, which then she decided to go boast in front of the griffon. She dove down, screeching to a halt right in front of her. "Yea? So what? You were just getting in my way." She said while looking at the griffon. She had never actually seen a griffon before, but she had heard some things about them. Most of them were bad things though. She had heard of the story of when a griffon came to town, she was friends with a famous blue pegasus and things didn't turn out so well. So, this griffon is probably the same way. 

Thunder snapped out of her thoughts and started to observe the griffon, wondering if she had noticed her flying. Well, of course she had, but, before or after the water incident? She shrugged, not really caring either way. She once again snapped out of her thoughts and looked this griffon over. She seemed athletic at the least and was a pretty good flier, well, good enough to get a streak behind them, and almost any pony can do that. Thunder thought to herself. 

[HighSpeedChase]

When the Pegasus halted right in front of Gail, she knew she was in for some trouble. She tried to look cool, leaning against the wall like she was some bad girl in high school. She huffed, hearing what the Pegasus had to say. Gail knew that this new pony was going to be cocky, and obviously she was from what she said. Gail could've said something cocky right back to her, but she decided to take the smart-aleck root. She first cleared her throat, then looked the Pegasus dead in the eyes. "Oh, right. I was in your way. Obviously the break station is the place to strut your stuff," Gail said confidently, her sarcasm levels all the way high. "'Didn't know you were a genius. It's totally safe to fly where others are takin' a break. That so makes sense," she muttered, adding a eye roll.

The griffon then flew back into the sky, grabbing her empty cup on the way up. "I think you might need a break yourself. Your throat seems to be a little dry," Gail blurted out, flying over to the water station and filling up her wrinkled cup. "Alright," she started to say, flying back to the Pegasus without spilling any water. "Here you go, Miss. Perfect." Then, a burst of energy filled throughout Gail's body, making her know for sure what she wanted to do. Gail threw the water right in the Pegasus's face, drenching her face in freezing cold water. "Ah, much better," the griffon said between her teeth, then she flew back to the water station.

She sat there for a few seconds, realizing what she just did. She felt her bully self start to rise up. But the Pegasus totally deserved it, right? Of course! She could've hurt somepony. But she didn't, which was the problem. Maybe she went a little too far with her actions. She could've done something more level headed. If she thought before she did that, then there wouldn't be a problem. All these thoughts were rushing in and out of Gail's brain, which started to make her feel bad and guilty. She always did something stupid. All that mattered was the Pegasus's reaction, because as of right now, Gail can't change what she's already done.

[TwiDashPie]

Thunder Strike glared at the griffon while listening to her sarcastic reply. This griffon is so stupid, she was using sarcasm and every pony knows sarcasm is not cool. Which is why Thunder herself never used it. She should have listened to herself, all griffons are the same, no matter what color or what they look like in general. They're all selfish, reckless, stupid, and always looking for a fight or to bully some pony, or, well, that's what Thunder thought to herself. Now, ponies on the other hand weren't perfect either, some ponies could be mean and act like jerks, and fillies and colts were the worst, they're even stupider than griffons and that's saying something. However, Thunder wasn't like those kinds of ponies. She was perfect in every way. She was unique and special and she knew it too, or, that's what she thought and believed. She was way better than this jerk of a griffon who tried to act cool, but was obviously not. I mean, seriously, who leans against a wall acting like some bad mare who's in high school!? That was probably the stupidest thing she had seen this griffon do. 

Thunder snapped out of her thoughts at the feeling of something cold and wet hitting her face. She almost immediately felt it....water. She couldn't believe it, that lousy griffon threw water at her, specifically her face. She gave the griffon a death glare, the griffon seemed to have flown back to that stupid water station. Without thinking, Thunder felt herself start to take off in the air and start charging at the griffon, flying as fast as she could, not holding back. 

[HighSpeedChase]

Gail sat at the water station, thinking about how of an imbecile she was. Why the heck would she do that? She didn't know why. Something just came above her, she at least guessed. It kind of made Gail hate herself a little more than normal. She always had problems with liking herself, because of stupid things she does like this. Once time she actually punched a pony, broke their nose and everything. She was a lot younger, but she still felt guilty right afterwards. She didn't even remember why she did, and obviously it wasn't that important if she forgot about it.

Anyway, while she was having an argument in her head, she heard something from a distance. She snapped out of her thoughts, blinking a few times to gain back her vision. The griffon turned her head, seeing a dark thing heading right towards her, and coming up fast too. She barely had time to think, and was surprised that her lion guts kicked in, because she literally had like, two seconds. Gail launched herself into the air, just in time to get away from the angry Pegasus. "Woah!" she managed to say as she was in the air, but not too long when she felt something tug at her tail. When the Pegasus came towards her, Gail's tail was still in the way to be completely safe. Gail felt herself get thrown to the ground, getting the wind knocked out of her.

She opened her eyes, forgetting where she was at. Panic arose inside the half lion, making her sit up immediately. She had only been out for a few seconds, making her memory knock back into her head. She froze, trying to find the Pegasus. She couldn't see a anything, so she just yelled. "What the flying feather WERE YOU THINKING?!" she screamed, standing back up to her feet. "You could HAVE KILLED ME. And anypony else who could've gotten in the WAY. You're literally the dumbest living thing-" she stopped yelling, realizing what she was saying. "UUGGGHHHH," she groaned, completely upset of the situation.

[TwiDashPie]

Thunder Strike was determined, she didn't know why though. As she flew toward the griffon at full speed, she could feel the adrenaline in her. Her heart was racing, this is the fastest she's ever flown in her entire life. She was going too fast to even think about stopping or even slowing down. This griffon had a lot of nerve to treat her like that. She didn't even think about her reputation, she wouldn't have cared if others were watching. She wanted to teach this griffon a lesson she'd never forget. That lousy griffon would think twice about messing with Thunder Strike by the time she was done with her. She suddenly felt something else in her besides determination, regret. She was confused, why was she regretting this? This griffon deserved this, right? Though, truthfully Thunder didn't really know what she was doing or gonna do to the griffon. She didn't care though, all that mattered was getting to the griffon and, well, doing something. She started to think about things she could do to her, most of them involved violence. 

Thunder suddenly snapped out of her thoughts at the sound of the griffon yelling. She saw herself crash into her tail and smash the griffon into the ground. Ha, that'll show that griffon, now, time to slow down and gloat, she thought to herself. She immediately realized this was a mistake, she couldn't stop herself. She tried to think of ideas, but before she knew it, she heard a loud crash and everything went black. 

[HighSpeedChase]

Rage was blazing through every inch of her body. Her blood was pumping through her body, her head throbbing from frustration. Or she just had a really bad headache. Either way, she was raging mad. She didn't care much about her tail that much, but risking other pegasi's life took everything way too far. There really had to be something wrong with her head to do that.

Gail turned around, hovering over the ridiculous Pegasus. She was about to start yelling and screaming again, but she looked down to see her out cold. "Hey.. Dude.. You okay..?" she asked aloud, landing on the ground and looking at the mare with a close eye. She was breathing, but wasn't responding to anything Gail was saying. "Ma'am?" Gail started to shake her, hoping that her antics would wake her up. Nothing seemed to be working, and it was freaking Gail out. Was this all her fault? Yes, yes it was. And it was killing Gail. She felt so worthless and frustrated with herself. She caused all this commotion, of course she was gonna get some payback. She just felt so bad so causing all of the problems. She should've never thrown water onto the other's face like that. She needed to learn how to control her anger.

The griffon looked around, seeing if anypony was around, watching everything go down. She didn't see anypony. Not one. "Where the hay is everypony at a serious time like this? Did they all take a lunch break?!" Gail turned back down to the Pegasus, trying to think of something to do to help her. "Oh my Celestia, I got it!" Using her idea from before to get the Pegasus back, the griffon swiftly flew over to the water dispenser, getting a cup of cold water, and she made sure it was freezing. Gail then hovered over the Pegasus again, dropping all the water onto her head. If that didn't work, she wouldn't know what would..

[TwiDashPie]

Thunder Strike looked around, where was she? Everything was black and she seemed to just be floating around. What happened? Oh right, I smashed into the wall trying to charge at that griffon. Ugh, if that lousy griffon hadn't moved I wouldn't have potentially injured myself. However, did that griffon realize deserve that? Well, of course she did, she poured water on me. Awh, who am I kidding, I really screwed that up. I should've just let it go, I was being a bit of a hothead in the first place, so I guess I deserved it. I guess I'm unconscious, hmm, I wonder if that griffon even saw me crash into the wall and if she did does she even care? Well, I guess I'll find out when I wake up. Wow, it's taking a while for me to wake up. I guess I hit that wall harder than I thought. Yea, I probably need to apologize to that griffon once I wake up, but, ugh, I hate apologizing. After all, she's the one who threw water on-, wait water....ugh I just felt it. Wait did she throw water on me? Oh..I guess I'm waking up, well this should be interesting. 

Thunder jolted awake and jumped up, coughing and sputtering at the fact that she was correct, the griffon did throw water on her. She then turned to the griffon, seeing her holding an empty cup. She thought of possible things to say, most of them were bad though, so, she was just gonna wing it with the apology. "Um....thanks. Look I'm um....sorry for being such a hothead. I was...just.....jealous, I was jealous of you. I've never seen or met a griffon before, but, the things I've heard about them aren't great. However, you don't seem like any of those things I've heard. You actually seem pretty nice, yea, I understand why you threw water on me, I was being a jerk, I deserved it." She said, not sure what else to say.

[HighSpeedChase]

Gail was having a small panic attack, until the dark Pegasus jolted up, scaring the hay out of Gail. She grabbed her heart, breathing heavily. She took a second to breath, trying to calm her heart down from the sudden movement. "Oh wow. That was somethin'," she said, breathing slowly. "That's one way to wake up." The griffon looked back at the Pegasus, seeing her thinking. Was she gonna attack her again? Was she gonna spit out venom at could potentially kill the hybrid? Gail didn't know, but it was freaking her out.

Then the Pegasus apologized. "All right.. that's one way to start things," Gail said in response, not thinking before she said that. "I mean, you're jealous? Of me? I mean, I'm awesome and all, but.." she paused, shaking her head from egotistical thoughts. "I mean, I try and not be as mean as the others.. I still can be, obviously. I've literally dumped water on you.. twice." Gail felt like this was an awkward situation. She made a weird face, scratching the back of her head with her talon. "Um, I guess I'm sorry too. I didn't think before I did that, which was really dumb of me. I usually catch onto my stupidity before hoof, but lately I've been a mess.." Gail sighed, thinking back to all her mistakes.

The griffon hovered in the air for a second, then landed softly. "I should probably ask this since you blacked out and stuff.. Does you head hurt at all? Like, do you need ice? Are your wings in pain? Hooves? Do I need to get you a bandage..?" Gail offered, folding in her wings and looking at the Pegasus with worried eyes. "I could ask somepony to get you to the hospital or something.."  

[TwiDashPie]

Thunder Strike looked at the griffon, who seemed to be freaking out. Why? Am I scary or something? She thought to herself, she had always feared that ponies would some day be afraid of her, and she dreaded the possibility of it. Sure, she could get a bit too worked up sometimes, but, she wasn't scary and the way this griffon looked at her made her feel even worse. She already felt bad, but now, she felt horrible. Had she actually made this griffon be afraid of her?! She hoped she hadn't and that her jumping awake was just what scared her. She really was jealous of this griffon, but, of course, her ego had gotten in the way of maybe even talking to the griffon. It wasn't her fault that other ponies or, um in this case, griffons tried to be better than her. She couldn't stand the thought of some pony being better than her, she had always wanted and always will want to be the best and nothing or no pony will ever change that.

Thunder snapped out of her thoughts upon hearing the griffon start to speak. She seemed shocked that Thunder herself was jealous of her. She continued to listen as the griffon also apologized, then asked if she was hurt. Wait, this griffon was worried about her? After the fact that Thunder had tried to harm her!? That's kinda strange, but, she had never met a griffon before so she didn't really know what to expect. "Oh, no, I'm fine. Heh, you and me both, my ego has been getting the best of me lately. Look, I wanna make this up to you. Is there anything I can do for you?" She asked, still feeling guilty. 

[HighSpeedChase]

"Well, it isn't really much of my ego, which can certainly be there sometimes, but me just being caught up with all the sports I'm doing and stuff. Sometimes I have to go to practices five times a day. It's wrecking my brain, y'know? I don't know if you play sports at all, but it's just tiresome. Like, I came her to relax and take a flying break from being on the ground for so long. But of course my brain got the best of me," Gail ranted on, hovering in the sky while using hand gestures as she spoke. She sighed, landing on the ground again, then folding in her blue wings.

Thunder said she was fine, which threw Gail in a loop. "But, dude.. You blacked out and stuff. You could have a concussion or somethin'," she responded. She then shook her head. "Whatever, if you're fine, then you're fine." The griffon scratched the back of her head, feeling awkward again. Then the Pegasus offered something for her do to, because she wanted to make up for her mistakes. "No, I don't know anything that you could do. I'm not hungry or thirsty.. And I'm not hurt, like you possibly are. It would be nice to know where in Equestria everypony went, because literally everypony has left this place after you hit your head," Gail admitted, sitting on the ground.

She thought for a second, trying to think of something else to say. "Look, man.. What's your name? If ya' feel guilty, which seems like you do 'cause you wanna make this up for me, then admit what's hurtin' you, 'cause you can't get out of that head first action without a scar or somethin'." Suddenly, Gail looked over to see a yellow Pegasus with a blue uniform come towards them. The griffon tilted her head in confusion as the pony got closer into her view. A police officer?

Gail's whole face became emotionless, her anxiety bursting like a firework in her chest. A police officer was totally walking towards the two, making Gail say nothing. Everything was starting to click though, because no pony was there anymore. Maybe they all thought they would get in trouble after the whole "cat" fight. Somepony must've called the police..

[TwiDashPie]

Thunder Strike couldn't deny she had never been in a situation like this before. I mean, seriously, who has? Look at this this way, you see just some random stranger and your awful ego gets in the way so now you have to apologize to that stranger and you hate apologizing. That's what she had gotten herself into. She listened as the griffon ranted on about sports or something like that, Thunder was actually barely listening. She then watched as the griffon landed and spoke again, this time about how there was really nothing she could do to make it up to her, which was slightly disappointing. True, Thunder is an egotistical jerk, but, no pony is heartless and doesn't feel guilty. She then started to think about why she had never made a friend, like it wasn't obvious already. It was her ego, and all that she done with it was drive ponies away. She recognized and hated, no, despised it now. 

Thunder snapped out of her thoughts upon seeing the griffon look over to see a yellow pegasus in a blue uniform, a police officer. She paled almost instantly, she remembered the police in a bad way, it was in the past though. However, she thought and hoped she would never see another police officer again and sadly, she was wrong. She watched as the officer was walking toward her and the griffon. She tried to think of something to say or do but nothing came to mind. Finally, she decided on probably the worst decision she had ever made. Quickly, she flew over to to the griffon, grabbed her by the claw, and started flying away as fast as she could with the griffon.