Spike realized that he wouldn't need to focus on Firebreaking for awhile, so he decided to do something else. While he wanted to learn how to fly, his mother's had him learn how to first adjust to his wings.
"You can't just open your wings and expect to fly right away. That is not possible." Sure, because he figured your are born with the wings on your back and you learn how to fly after your first molt.
Eliyinsa was the one instructing this time. She was actually lighter and smaller than her mate, plus her wings matched Spike's almost down to the talons. It was a weird coincidence but nonetheless, she felt that this would make training him faster. She wasn't going to start off right away.
Rather, she was going to teach him first his anatomy of his wings.
"Your wings are more than just another part of you, they are an extension of your mind and body."
"You should have opened them slowly, son." Eliyinsa snorted with merit. Both saw Spike sighed with annoyance, closing his wings to his sides before sitting up on his haunches.
"Should've figured that out." Indeed, the winds were strong right now, powerful enough to get a dragon as large as his mothers airborne but also a little too strong to send him flying backwards and on his tail.
"We all learn in our own ways, Spike." Zynthia mused. She used her giant paw to uproot Spike to standing once more. The young drake begrudgingly did so though he kept his wings clamped shut on his back. The strong winds should have told him to wait but seeing how this was his first time using them, he was excited. "I was the same way after I molted."
"What you first must learn is that pony wings and dragon wings are different." That, he knew of. "Feathers and soft bone are nothing compared to skin and muscles that keep you airborne. While its true that those pesky pegasi have speed, maneuverability, and agility, dragons on the other claw have stamina, strength and stability. Our wings may not look it, but a dragon could stay airborne a lot longer than any pony. Due to the sizes we grew into, many assume they could out race or outperform a dragon. While speed has been a bit of a defect for some of us, there are other ways to compensate." A purplish glow with a light touch of pink, cascaded over her scales, like a light passing over before her body ignited into a gentle violet flames, with a rosey pink at the tips of the flames leaving her body. This was the first time he had ever seen his mother's fire and the way it danced around her body, made her look all the more stunning.
As she allowed her body to be consumed, she focused them on her wings and her palms, making her wing membranes catch on fire and her palms as well, with the ground itself heating up around her.. He suddenly found himself being pulled back from her by Zynthia, giving her room as they watched as his mother crouch herself, low to the ground. He knew she was about to take off, but he didn't expect what would happen next.
Eliyinsa focused all her fire downward, then like a rocket, launched herself with such force and power, that ground below her cracked. The sheer explosion would have sent Spike flying had Zynthia not been there to hold him. She had dug her claws to the ground just in case. As soon as she took off the ground, she shot up at extreme velocity in the sky. He watched in almost disbelief that right before Spike and Zynthia, they saw and heard the crack of thunder.
Spike's jaw hit the floor, as his mother had just broken the sound barrier. A light violet and pink trail left her body as she flew, taking a sharp turn east, where he saw her flying at breakneck speeds across the lands. He wasn't the only one seeing this, as many dragons around heard his mother break the sound barrier along with her flying and circling the skies in sonic speeds. The trail that left her made her look like a black comet with a violet streak tail. He was still reeling, his mind in utter shock and joy at seeing a creature, let alone a dragon, flying at speeds near Rainbow Dash's level.
