Night Flight

by ShadowblazeCR

Dance at Midnight

Rainbow Dash filtered out of the locker room for the Wonderbolts, trailing behind the other mares of the Wonderbolts. She was particularly excited to get the rest of the day going, a certain somepony was going to be taking her somewhere, or so they had said. She skipped along the clouds, looking forward to the time together with her special somepony.

“You’re lookin’ pretty excited Rainbowcrash, what’s got you all hyped up?”

Rainbow jumped, surprised from the comment. She turned to face the commenter, grinning when she saw that it was Spitfire, “I get to spend the rest of the day with a certain somepony, it’s gonna be awesome!” She puffed out her chest, “About as awesome as me, of course.”

“Sure Dash, just don’t let that stuff get in the way of your job, both your relationship and that ego.”

Dash saluted in seriousness, and a bit for the laugh, “Will do.”

Rainbow Dash continued her way to the spot that she’d been told to meet at. Celestia’s Sun seemed to be almost dancing with Luna’s Moon as one set and the other rose. Dash admired the view while she flew, poking through clouds every once in a while, twisting here and there too. Anything that would pass the time, her patience to getting to the spot had already worn thin. Sure, with her speed she should have already gotten there, but Dash was already worn out from the training and didn’t want to waste energy for once.

A few minutes later and she arrived, just as her special somepony landed on the cloud next to her. Rainbow Dash smiled, “How’s it goin’ Soarin?”

Soarin smiled, the now risen moon shining behind him illuminated his features, “Hey Dashie, you ready for our little excursion?”

Dash grinned, “Am I ever?”

“Well, be ready for some competition, because this date is all about that and one on one time.” Soarin backed up till he was on the edge of the cloud, “Shall we begin?”

Rainbow Dash watched as he backflipped, falling out of her line of sight. She jumped off after him, throwing her limbs outward, spread eagle, “Let’s.”

The duo intertwined their paths, both of them smiling as they faced each other. Dash gave Soarin a peck on the cheek, making him falter in surprise. She laughed and sped toward nowhere, having the time of her life. She slowed down over a particularly large cloud, skipping over it and kicking pieces of fluff here and there.

Next thing Rainbow Dash knew the fluff was in her face, her sense of direction had been altered, but she knew that she was in the cloud. A weight on her back told her that a certain somepony had tackled her from behind, and this said somepony was now nibbling on her ear.

Dash giggled, “S-Soarin!”

Soarin stopped, rolling over next to her, “What? I can’t just let you get away and not have repercussions.”

Rainbow Dash cupped some of the cloud fluff in her hoof, throwing it at Soarin in response. “I’m sure we can save some of those tougher ones for the weekend, yeah?”

Soarin blushed, but nodded eagerly, “For sure. Now, shall we get back to this race? Or so you have something in mind? This really is just a free date, nothing too specific.”

Rainbow Dash shuffled around, a bit nervous to suggest something, “Well...uh, could we maybe dance?”

Soarin cocked an eyebrow, “Really? You always say that’s too cutesy for a pony like you. Do we need to go back?” He placed a foreleg on her forehead, “Do you have a fever or somethin’?”

Dash waved him off, “No, no, I’m fine. It’s alright, let’s get back to whatever we were gonna do.”

Rainbow Dash got up, kicking herself a bit for not having the guts to continue with her request. Her frustration was evident to Soarin, who walked beside her, “Come on Dashie, you can talk to me, what’s the problem?”

Rainbow sighed as he put a foreleg over her, bringing her closer to him, “I just wanted to try something a little bit girly for once. I’m always such a tom-stallion, so I figured that you would want a marefriend that actually did something a mare would do. Not all this racing stuff, plus everything else I rope you into.” She took a breath, “I’m sorry, Soarin.”

Soarin kissed her on the head, then on the cheek, he then turned her to face him, “I assure you Dash that I think you’re plenty cute, the sounds you make are adorable, you look amazing, you have the cutest actions, and so many other things. I like you for other reasons, but I have to say that your cuteness is a large factor in this whole thing.” He pressed his lips against hers. After he pulled away he knelt down, tilting his head toward the cloud and extending a hoof, “Now, may I have this dance?”

Rainbow Dash smiled, a warm feeling had blossomed in her chest, “But of ‘course.”

And so the dance started. It wasn’t anything complicated at first, as they grabbed each other’s hoofs and hopped from cloud to cloud. They would trot, spin, and jump around each cloud as they saw fit. Though there was no music, Rainbow Dash hummed along, keeping a rhythm so they wouldn’t trip over each other. When both of them had gotten the simple stuff down they transitioned into the freestyle, which wasn’t so much of a race, but a flying dance of sorts.

Rainbow Dash dove down through the clouds, smiling as Soarin touched wingtips with her. They flew along the hills, weaving through each mound that was in the way, one or the other occasionally flipping over the other when their paths intersected. Though the night had begun long ago now, they were still able to see each other and admire their respective abilities in the dance.

Time had flew by once they arrived at Dash’s house, their dance taking up most of their night. Rainbow stood at her doorstep, waving goodbye to Soarin as she made her way into her abode.

“Dash!”

Rainbow Dash turned around, peeking out the door to see Soarin rush to her. She was enveloped in an embrace, her breath was taken away from his lips along with it. He pulled away, still holding onto her, “I love you.”

Rainbow Dash smiled, “I love you too.” She paused, “Ya know, it’s pretty late, I wouldn’t want you getting lost or worse. Would you, just maybe, want to stay here for the night?”

Soarin grinned, “Would I?”

Author's Note:

Finally wrote a SoarinDash story, whew. I've always wanted to write one, especially after reading Calm Wind's story Piercing the Heavens, and I'm glad to say that I'm here to give you a short little one-shot about them. If this goes well I may even write some more SoarinDash. I hope you enjoyed reading this!

-Till the next one

Comments

[Crescent-087]

Rainbow Dash go for a flight at night, spending some quality time with each other.

Y.... Yes? Okay.

Is there anything missing here or...? No? Rightio...

[Solitare]

10/10 would ship again. Good job on the story

[XenoPony]

Great job, the more SoarenDash the better!

[ShadowblazeCR]

7835899

Ah crap, thought I had fixed that. I actually noticed that error, most of the ideas I come up with are when I'm half asleep, so errors like this are actually pretty common.

[BroBpony]

cute story, well done

[Applejack224]

Aww

[Sorril]

Goooooooood

[Chrome Masquerade]

This brings to mind

[Mira Starlight]

Hooray for SoarinDash! There totally aren't enough good SoarinDash fics on the site; those that are good aren't complete. I hope to see some good fics from you!

[ShadowblazeCR]

7841446

I may do one or two more, depends on how well my other writing goes. If I did then the next one would probably appear sometime around the 21st, though I'm not sure what I would write yet. If you have any one-shot ideas for SoarinDash I'd be glad to hear them.

[ShadowblazeCR]

8254963

It's a one-shot. One shots can be a glimpse into the life of a character, their relationships, moments, etc. So yes, it was a whole story.

[ShadowblazeCR]

8262249

Sounds like you should get something checked. Because I remember what it is and haven't read it since I wrote it.

[ShadowblazeCR]

8262987

The point was that I threw the story together in a few days and it's been over half a year since then. It shouldn't be that hard to remember what a story was like, especially if it was a few days.

[ShadowblazeCR]

8264626

It's called a short story for a reason, there's a little more than a thousand words for one scene that's specificly for being one scene (how many words did you expect?), and it being pointless it pretty a opinionated reason, it's there to give a glimpse into a relationship. Something like this is a short and sweet moment, not a whole story, or a whole thing, just something you'd imagine the two doing in a long story. It's something that's there to be a nice read for a bit without any drama, real investment, or anything else, just a good read. So, it's not my problem that you didn't enjoy it, plenty of other people did, that's why I made another SoarinDash one-shot.

[ShadowblazeCR]

8265064

I don't see the reason you're so triggered over a nice little story that's there so you can build a headcanon, or enjoy it, or whatever. The whole reason there isn't anything necessarily interesting is because there isn't a need for it, I don't have to make a reason for something to happen in a story, I can write it because it's something that could happen in their life. Hence the slice of life tag. You seem to get the reason, so what's the reason for bringing a quote that I have in my bio into your comment?