//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 Mares and stallions // Story: Darkness in our hearts // by Flat spin //------------------------------// MLP: FiM Darkness in our hearts By: flat spin ”Should we go and see if they have already settled in?” Rarity asked and looked at the stairs. “Yeah!” Pinkie said in excitement and walked up to the second floor of the castle. Rainbow Dash and Rarity followed her close behind. The walked up to a large door and opened it. There was a large lobby like room that had two couches and a table in the middle of it. The room also had five doors that lead in to the quest bed rooms. The girls entered the room and saw Thunderlane and Flash sitting on a couch cheering and yelling. “COME ON SPIN! DON’T BE A QUITTER.” Flash sentry yelled. “TAP HIM OUT SOARIN.” Thunderlane cheered on. The girls walked closer and saw that Spin and Soarin were on the floor wrestling and trying to apply a submission moves to each other. Spin was on his back and Soarin was on top of him trying to get a double wrist lock applied. The girls just looked at the two grow up stallions wrestling like little foals on the ground. Both of them were smiling as Soarin finally took over the fight and applied a guillotine choke to Spin. “TIME TO SLEEP SPINNY!” Thunderlane yelled. “DON’T YOU DARE TO TAP OR BLACK OUT SPIN!” Flash yelled but after ten seconds Spin fainted and Soarin released the choke hold. He put Spin’s head down and woke him up. “Fuck you Soarin.” Spin said and smiled. “I believe that means I won.” Soarin said and gave him a hoof bump. “You know I thought that you would have got him with that arm bar.” Flash said from the couch. “Yeah I thought too but I guess Soarin has become more like me over the years.” Spin said and smiled as he walked over to the couch and sat down. He also spotted the mares who were looking at them in silence. They didn’t know what they had just witnessed. Soarin too spotted them and looked at Dash. “What’s up?” Soarin asked and walked over to Rainbow Dash. “What the heck was that?” She asked as she and her friends sat down on the other couch that was facing the couch that the stallions had occupied. “It’s called combat training.” Spin said from the other couch and stood up. “Do you girls know where the shower is. I could use a quick one after that… lose.” He said and whipped off the sweat that was on his forehead. “Sure thing Spinny whinny.” Pinkie said cheerfully and grapped Spin’s arm and bounced off the room with him. “How do they know each other?” Flash asked nopony in particular but Rarity decided to answer. “I don’t think they know each other. Pinkie is just… well Pinkie.” She said and smiled. “Whatever going to go and take a nap.” Flash said and walked off to one of the quest rooms and slammed the door closed. After that it was just Soarin and Thunderlane with the girls in the room. There was a awkward silence but luckily Thunderlane broke it by saying. “So… Rarity. Doing anything tonight.” He said and bounced his eyebrows. “Nothing that involves you.” She said and gave him a could look. Soarin and Rainbow Dash just stayed silent and let the events unfold. “Come on Rarity. I know that you would like to go on a date with me.” Thunderlane said confidently. “And what makes you think that.” Rarity said again couldly. “Because I’m almost a complete stud. I got the S,T and the D only thing I need is yoU.” Thunderlane said and all the others just gasped at his bluntness. Soarin facehoofed and shook his head. Rarity got up and smacked Thunderlane across his jaw and then walked off the room. “That was smooth.” Rainbow Dash said. “Yeah… What were you thinking.” Soarin asked. “Well.. Something.” Thunderlane said. “I hope that’s not your best pick up line.” Soarin said and looked at him. “Oh I got tones of them.” Thunderlane said and smiled. “I think I should go and apologize to her.” He said and stood up and walked after her leaving Rainbow Dash and Soarin alone to the room. “So… an element of heroism. Never decided to tell me about that. even thou I told you about being an element of harmony.” Rainbow Dash said and looked at Soarin. “Yeah… I probably should have told you about that. but you know it was a secret at the time.” Soarin said and scratched the back of his head. “So what element are you?” Dash asked. “Soarin the element of honour at your service.” Soarin said and smiled. “Honour? really? I thought you would have been the element of pies or maybe clipping your wing.” Dash said and laughed. “What about the rest of them?” “Well Night Comet is of course the element of wisdom and Spin is clearly the element of valor. Flash is the element of bravery and Thunderlane is the element of strength. and the he was the element of fairness.” Soarin finished and looked at Dash. “Who is he?” Dash asked. “I’ll tell you when it’s relevant to you to know his name.” Soarin said and looked at her. “So how did you meet each other then?” Rainbow Dash asked again. She thought that she knew all about Soarin after all he was her best friend at the wonderbolt HQ but they never really talked about family and personal stuff like this. “Well me and Spin are real brothers and we have looked out for each other ever since we were throng away to the manehattan orphanage when we were foals. There we met the others and ever since then the six… five of us have been like family.” Soarin said and smiled. “I never knew that you had a brother.” Rainbow Dash said. “You never asked… talking about asking I was about to ask you something the other day before you flew off.” Soarin said and looked in to her magenta eyes. “What were you about to ask?” Rainbow Dash asked and looked into his emerald eyes and blushed a bit. She always thought that Soarin was really handsome but she knew that she wound never be able to get him to be with her. After all the wonderbolts were know all across Equestria and Soarin was quite popular with the mare audience. Dash knew that Soarin had a couple of encounter with fanfillies that went further than just a hug or a kiss… “Well I was wondering if you would like to go on a da…” Soarin tried to say but then Spin ran to the room. He was wearing a towel around his body and was completely wet from the shower. “Soarin you gotta help me!” Spin said and ran up to him. “What’s wrong?” Soarin asked. “She doesn’t leave me alone.” Spin said and looked back at the door. “Oh god here she comes.” Spin quickly ran to his room and closed the door. Soon after that Pinkie walked in and asked. “Where’s Spin? He forgot to wash his mane.” Pinkie said cheerfully and looked at Soarin and Dash. “Pinkie… is there something between you and him?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Nope! or at least not yet. Give it a couple of chapters.” Pinkie said and chuckled and then bounced away happily. “You were about to ask me something.” Dash said to Soarin once Pinkie was out of the room. “Well do you wanna go out tonight and you know see a movie or something?” Soarin said and tried to hide his blush. The question took while to process through Rainbows brain. Her crush, idol, teammate, trainer and a friend just asked her out… like she was gonna say no. “I’d love that Soarin.” Rainbow Dash said softly. “Great you wanna go now?” Soarin asked. “Yeah sure thing I got nothing else planned.” Dash said cheerfully and they soon left the castle to go for a flight trough ponyville.