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Time Bubbles

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  Ding-ding-ding-ding! - the bicycle ring sounded cheerfully, and a flap of a newspaper against the doorstep followed. There were few letters, so Derpy only had to deliver these rolled up info sources. What? She liked doing this. At least she couldn't break anything here despite her over-clumsiness, and that meant less troubles. Also while riding her bike she had a feeling as if she could ever properly fly. Not hover, but fly with wings perfectly spread...
  Having got too deep in daydreaming, Derpy rode off the road and nearly crashed into a new mailbox signed "Turner". What's that? She fell off things quite frequently, but, despite the opinion of several cynical subjects, she had a fine memory. First, there was a pack in her bag featuring this surname. Second, they must've been new in town. Derpy knew it well where everyone lived, and there had been no Turners until now.
  Really, they had just come - there were piles of boxes in the yard, and there were three people fussing around them. As required, all three of them had different "featured": the first one was ordinary, black-headed, wearing a panama hat, sleeveless jacket with question marks pattern and checkered trousers, the second one was fair-haired and winged like Derpy, and the third one was the tallest, dressed in fancy fashion, with a cloud of ash-colored hair which was somehow similar to candy floss and a tail of the same style (though he was obviously not older than twenty) and doubtlessly a mage. Who else it was if not him attempting to put the box version of the leaning tower of Pisa around, not using hands?
  "Why don't you call for Tricky or Victorian?" the fair-haired one asked, timidly watching the box surrounded with silvery blue shine, soaring over their heads. "Their magic is not weaker than yours, Dandy".
  "Tenderheart, you've forgotten that if you want to do something, do it by yourself", Dandy replied (it was truly a coincidence of name and character), not breaking the process. "Besides, they're so different that their wisdom bumps can be distracted by each other. You could've called for Glimmer as well!"
  "By the way, Glimmer does it brilliantly!"
  This sounded from the house's upper window, and the owner of the voice showed himself soon, sticking out till his waist. He was skinny, dark-haired, with fringe sticking up, dark blue eyes shining with enthusiasm (though they looked brown to Derpy at first - maybe due to her own "disadvantage"?) and smile which took half of his face - as for the girl, it didn't suit to his official style: white shirt, mint green tie and classical trousers of chocolate color.
  "Ah-ha!" the new one went on. "I've been training Glimmer and Quote. You know, they both are quite fine..."
  Hardly had he finished when two boys of about seven or eight, armed with crayons, rushed out of the front door: one of them was all rosy cheeks and large dark fringe combed to the side (which didn't cover his bump in the middle of his forehead - the sign of magical abilities), and the other, on the contrary, was pale and with huge light blue eyes which made him look surprised. Better such than like mine, Derpy thought.
  "Don't you dare disturb Dandy", the black-haired one in the question mark jacket warned. "You know his attitude to this".
  "No worries, Riddler, we know... Oh, hi". The pale one (most probably, Quote - wasn't Glimmer one of mages?) was the first to notice Derpy who was daydreaming again (thank goodness that pack sent to the Turners was the last one for today).
  "Whoa, we've got a visitor", the spiky-fringed one from the window caught up and then did a thing which made everyone, including Dandy who was still busy with the tidying up, stare at him: he simply bounced down from the windowsill, but he didn't drop down like a stone, having glided down like on an invisible hang-glider. This floating lasted unbelievably long and finished with a soft landing.
  "Wow..." Derpy exhaled. "But... how did you do that? You don't even have any wings".
  "When you have eleven brothers, all different, you gotta learn to do something!" he replied gleefully. "Name's Time. Time Turner".
  "Derpy Hooves... Actually I'm Ditzy Doo, but... I've brought a pack for you".
  Losing no time, Dandy made the pack fly to him from Derpy's hands:
  "Aha, it's right. That's ours. Hobo!.. Ho-bo... HOBO!!! Where's he?.."
  One more emerged out of nowhere - he was small, with a shock of shiny black hair and wearing clothes that knew better times, which at first hid the fact that their owner was winged.
  "Ah, my details... Thank you, Miss Hooves", Hobo smiled politely. The next sentence was addressed to Dandy and without such tact: "If I see you fiddling with them..."
  "Never mind them, Dandy and Hobo always fight like this. It's fine that History's not here now, he would've teased them even more", Time whispered, coming closer to Derpy. Wait! He had a familiar face. She had seen him somewhere, for sure.
   "Was that you at Cloudsdale when it was the competition of the young pilots?" This was said against Derpy's will, as if her tongue worked on its own. But then no one accused her in being impolite, like it used to happen.
   "That was my twin. Of course it was me! Those clip-on wings gave me the most horrible kind of rash... Sometimes you gotta keep silent about things you can do not to get into trouble".
   "I still can't fly", Derpy admitted.
   "Can't you?"
   "Uh-huh. I've tried it many times, but I just can't. I don't know what to do with my arms and legs!.."
   Time sighed:
   "Listen, it's not too complicated. If you like, I can help you with this".
   "Really?!"
   "Why would I tell lies? But not now. When will you have free time? Let's meet and set it all in a couple of days".

   "Our Cross-Eyes is happy today", Octavia mentioned, hardly had Derpy entered the classroom. At first it could seem that this always tidy and strictly dressed girl was a total snob, but truly she treated everybody equally, without being haughty and everything. "Come on, tell it".
   They noticed. Damned blush didn't wish to get off Derpy's cheeks. And it was accompanied by the feeling of heartbeat, hot and powerful. It seemed that it was the reason of her cheeks reddening.
   "Seize that, Derpy, you cannot pretend", Lyra interfered. She didn't look like other girls due to her greenish turquoise hair with white locks (even her tail was of the same colors, and there was a suspicion that it wasn't the result of using the hair dye) which half-closed her mage's bump. "Don't tell if you don't want to..."
   "But don't explode!" Vinyl Scratch put in. She was Octavia's full counterpart, as well as mage like Lyra and the school's main DJ. Insane rhythms and trademark "cool" glasses, that's what she was like. It was too early now, so only the three of them and Derpy were in the classroom.
   "Girls, it seems that I'm going to learn how to fly soon..." Without realizing her actions, Derpy sidewards flopped at the desk, her wings spread more than usually.
   "With happiness", Octavia finished. "Is that because of a guy?"
   "What?!" Vinyl didn't lose time and fell off the desk onto which she had climbed.
   "If a girl drops things, falls down frequently and cannot fly while having wings, there's a huge possibility that those are her natural conts..." Octavia stated.
   "Which can be fixed, and it seems you've got progress", Lyra mentioned without delaying it.
   "...and if this becomes worse and better in turn, this is because of a guy", Octavia went on smoothly.
   "And today under bridge with trail they caught the Doctor and his tail", Vinyl informed, getting onto the desk again.
   "Whom?.." Either Derpy was still sleepy (she hadn't been sleeping half of the night) or the blasted blush covered everything it could, but she didn't understand the subject of the talk.
   "The Doctor. I mean the newbie", Vinyl continued, swinging her legs. "I knew that someone's gonna be transferred to us, and therefore decided to make it clear. Everyone used to call him the Doctor in his old school. Dunno why. I've seen him. Seems to be a smart chap..."
   "His name's not the Doctor, it's Time Turner", Derpy interrupted, memorizing nothing.
   "Ah, that's it!" Vinyl beamed. "I'll say one thing, girls: if our Derpy has bubbles in her head, then now they are heart-shaped".
   "Nonsense! He promised to teach me how to..." Finally the sensibility worked! How would've she explained if she had blabbed it all out? Flying wingless ones are at least rare, and everyone's curious about rarities.

   "No-no! It's done in a slightly different way!"
   Derpy flopped onto the ground once again, having not controlled her wings - they didn't want to unfurl, and she had to wave them very quickly, like a hummingbird, at least to tear herself off the ground, when they were like this. And Time didn't like this at all.
   "Rule number one: your wings are going to consume energy and give almost no result when they are like this", he said, touching Derpy's right wing. "Whoa, that's total rubbish".
   "I told you that I don't know what to do with my arms and legs! And unfurling... I tried. And failed", Derpy sniffed. "They're as tight as an old chewing gum".
   "Did you try to relax?" Time asked. "Maybe you're not letting them unfold?"
   "I always thought you gotta use force to achieve something", Derpy replied, standing up. Thank goodness her pants and sweatshirt were grey - dirt is less seen on such background, and this was required now.
   "Okay, let's do it another way. You ride your bike pretty well. Do you remember your learning how to do it?"
   "Erm..."
   "At first there were many trials and fails, and then you controlled it! You didn't even get sweaty after delivering mail and newspapers around the town... It's like that here".
   "It's easy for you to say. You have no wings and you still can fly".
   "Hahaha, my family consists of twelve guys, and that's not a joke! You're going to fly like this anyway!.. Sorry. Let's try again. Relax, it's easy. Stop blocking your wings, let them unfold... They look as if held in corset. Fine. Inhale as deeply as you can, slowly".
   Surprised, Derpy obeyed.
   "More, more, more... Now exhale, briskly. Repeat this several times".
   After five or six inhales and exhales something unexpected took place again - Time loudly clapped his hands once, and Derpy jumped up, alerted. And she didn't just jump, as it came out.
   "There! This looks like something!" Time shot out, beaming till his ears once again - the girl was hovering, almost not using her wings (which seemed to get larger). "You know what's the trick? Don't think, do it! You've been trying to fly up and got nothing, an now..."
   He had better not said that - after having realized her soaring without madly waving her wings, Derpy collapsed. Right to there where she didn't need to.
   "I spoiled it all again..." she mumbled, getting off Time who was spread under her.
   "It's okay. You need to learn to do this without thinking. You don't think when you walk about how you do it, you just walk. It's like this here". Time didn't seem to be worried about grass and ground stuck to his clothes.
   "They told me I'm cross-eyes because I don't think..."
   "Forget it! Fools say things like that!"
   For a while Derpy and Time were gazing at each other, not knowing what they should add. Eventually Time decided to break the silence:
   "Let's try again. If you have bubbles in your head, you should fly like a bubble. Truly".
Inspired by the preview pic: sketch by :iconmoostargazer: , coloring by :iconsiacatgirl: My first trial in this direction.

Time Turner and his eleven brothers are really twelve Doctors from Doctor Who (at first I wanted to add more details and actions for each of them, but that appeared to be too tangled), so there are their names:
One - History Turner (most of his episodes are historically styled)
Two - Hobo Turner, winged ("The Cosmic Hobo")
Three - Dandy Turner, mage (remember Dandy Doctor?)
Four - Tricky Turner, mage (the most extraordinary of the gang)
Five - Tenderheart Turner, winged (the most vulnerable and peaceful of them)
Six - Blast Turner, winged ("the explosion on rainbow factory", and you never know what to expect from him)
Seven - Riddler Turner (he loves riddles, and also cuz of his question mark patterns...)
Eight - Victorian Turner, mage (the Victorian gentleman)
Nine - Shade Turner, winged (the "darkest" of the gang)
Ten - Time Turner (no comments)
Eleven - Glimmer Turner, mage (there are always "glimmering" hints about him and almost no direct ones)
Twelve - Quote Turner (he took over with two phrases, which I bet will stick to him forever)

Note: Time's phrase "Dandy and Hobo always fight like this. It's fine that History's not here now, he would've teased them even more" is a reference to the classic episode The Three Doctors (Three and Two argued all the time, while One gave them reasons to do it).

Part two: fav.me/d79wqme
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Daww the picture is adorableadorable