002 - Second Flower | Action/Visual

[holyfight]

[Greetings, fair Equestrians! Today, for your viewing pleasure, there is a white mare with an orange mane and a rainbow thunderbolt on her butt, looking for all the world like a drowned rat. And there is more water pouring down on her from above, as in nearly a monsoon's worth]

Umm... This is really embarrassing, but... Does anyone know how to make this cloud stop raining on me? I've tried and tried to get it to listen, but nothing I do will make it stop!

[And then it shocks her in the butt with a lightning bolt]

OUCH!

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[mostloyalpony]

Orihime! 'Sup?

(In enters Rainbow Dash, landing nearby with a set of blue flowers for a cutie mark but as her skin tone's already blue her cutie mark's a little brighter so it'll stand out more. She's also eating a strawberry cake with sprinkles.)

...Everything okay?

[holyfight]

[By this point, Orihime is hiding under her hooves]

Oh! Hi, Rainbow Dash-san! Y-Yeah, I just...

[Now there's hail!]

Oww! Not... really... I don't think I'm very good at this weather mare stuff...

[mostloyalpony]

Whoa! C'mon, now...it's your destiny to handle this, right?

(She takes a moment to bite out of the cake before placing a comforting hoof on her back. Also, she thinks the hail is pretty cool but isn't certain that it's part of the normal weather for the week.)

[holyfight]

Yeah, but...

Has there ever been a pony who was just really, really bad at their destiny?

[That cake Rainbow Dash has looks pretty good, though]

[mostloyalpony]

Hmm? Uh, not that I know of. But you can't be bad at this; if there's anypony who's bad at their destiny...!

(Rainbow isn't too sure sprinkles should be added to a cake -or at least not a cake like this one.)

[holyfight]

Do you know someone else who is? Maybe they know how to get better!

[It's raining frogs now]

Or at least how to fix the weather.

[mostloyalpony]

I wish I could get better! Tsubaki says I've got promise.

(And she takes to the sky next to the closest cloud, pretty annoyed by the sudden appearance of frogs.)

This should be easy for a weather pony! Sure you can't fly, but you can still do this with your horn-!

(And she effortlessly bats the cloud away with ease, and thankfully the frogs go away! Or at least hop away.)

[holyfight]

Haaaaaaaah-! You're really good at this! Are you sure you wouldn't rather do this than me?

...I'm kind of a hazard.

[She's just gonna... go lay down where she's standing now]

[mostloyalpony]

Heh...maybe to the weather, but you've gotta be great at something Orihime! You're not a hazard for everything here in Ponyville.

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[crapfully]

[Huh. Orihime looks...different today. And that cloud's not leaving her alone. Ordinarily the image would be hilarious...but it seems to bother him that she's miserable.]

Have you tried moving?

[holyfight]

It just follows me wherever I go when I do...

[Which is why she's outside and not in anyone's house. Sadly]

[crapfully]

Don't the winged ones usually just...break it up?

[To satisfy his own curiosity, he swings up a rock and twists around, bucking it as hard as he can toward that cloud. It takes a lot of strength to get it to fly up with any speed, but much to his surprise...it does. Whether he nails it is another matter.]

[holyfight]

Uhn! But that doesn't mean I can't fix the weather!

I just...

...can't fix the weather.

[It nails the cloud! And knocks a small hole in it for a second... which then covers back over and continues raining. It even fires a lightning bolt for its trouble]

[crapfully]

Holy crabapple!

[He yelps and jumps back a few feet, staring wide-eyed at it.]

Okay, think. Do you know any kind of spell that poofs things away?

[holyfight]

Well...

Um...

I can almost make myself disappear and reappear?

[crapfully]

How do you almost do that?

[He huffs, then upturns the nearest large wooden lid and holds it over her head.]

Come on, don't let it dump all over you.

[holyfight]

I sorta flicker for a second, but don't actually go anywhere.

Sorry, sorry! I forgot about it!

[nekomikoreimu]

[Reimu Trots over and looks at the cloud for a moment, before throwing a sealing card at it to see what it does.]

[holyfight]

[It absorbs the card into the cloud, crackles for a second...

...and then starts snowing. Thunder-snowing]

Wow. That's... pretty neat!

[nekomikoreimu]

It didn't do what I wanted it to do though.

[Reimu forms a light barrier above her head and steps next to Orihime, hopefully blocking at least some of the weather.]

[holyfight]

[That's the most relief she's had from the weather all day - even inside of any houses]

Oh! That's much better, though! Thank you!

[nekomikoreimu]

I assume this is due to the recent cutie mark incident going on. Did you find you yours went to?

[holyfight]

Mine?

[Orihime looks at her butt. It doesn't look any different?]

But this is mine!

...

Right?

[nekomikoreimu]

The one on you I believe is the one for that pony with the rainbow mane.

[holyfight]

Wait... really?

How would you even switch a Cutie Mark?

...

Maybe that's why she's better at this than me!