//------------------------------// // 5: Ice Skating Under the Moonlight // Story: Love and Pies // by RDDash //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash and Soarin had been relaxing on the cloud, doing pretty much nothing and enjoying a beautiful winter day. Because of the cold, Rainbow Dash had been wearing a purple beanie, orange scarf, and purple hoof mittens. Soarin had been wearing just a regular old blue scarf. "I was thinking about what should we name our kid when the time would come. I don't know, I just thought that maybe we are branding them for life. Soarin, you do know what I mean right?" "Yeah, kind of, but the names do not dictate our talents!" "Talents huh! I wonder which one is mine!" "I would imagine that would be being really fast." Rainbow Dash looked dumbfounded at Soarin "I do have a picture of rainbow-colored lightning shooting out of the clouds. I get the symbolism but what I am trying to say is have you ever seen the rainbow-colored lightning shooting out of the sky." Soarin pretended to be deep in thought, "Well, I've only seen it once, when a certain pegasus dumped a bucket of the liquid rainbow into the cloud. The cloud had been firing rainbows for an entire week." Rainbow Dash smiled, "I remember that it's the best accidental prank that I pulled. It was before I still worked as the weather mare before they kicked me out for destroying the weather factory during the first week of winter." Soarin blinked, "Do you really had to do that?" Rainbow Dash blushed in embracement, "Not really my best moment in life, on a plus side, the winter came a few weeks earlier than usual. As for Tank, I guess he is sleeping under the tree right now! I kind of got used to it right now! At first, it felt kind of silly because I thought that he is not going to survive the winter, but I did kind of forgetting that my pet would outlive me someday." Rainbow Dash paused in thought, "Well, I am not really sure what else we could talk about." "Sounds fair, do you think the girls would need your help?" "Nuh, they can handle it," Rainbow dismissed Soarin's concern. "Hm let's see what else we can do today!" Rainbow Dash pushed Soarin and then dashed from the cloud "Come on let's go find something else that we could do! " Rainbow Dash started flying for about ten minutes sometimes in circles and sometimes in a straight line, eventually she found what she was looking for a small frozen lake, she flew straight to it. "Now let's see If I still have my old ice skates, aha found them", after about five minutes of looking for them she finally found a pair in Pinkie Pie's secret stash. She then undressed her mittens and started wearing ice skates instead. "Well, I guess here it goes. Soarin are you still here!" "Yap, I actually flew here where before you did, and I just been waiting for you," Soarin had been sitting on the cloud "Of course you did!"Rainbow Dash chuckled, she then realized that Soarin is pulling her leg. She decided to make a joke. "Hey, wait a minute, did you just dragged this cloud all the way over here?" "Maybe!" Soarin pretended like he actually did that, the truth was he just pulled a random cloud that was already here. "So, would you like to join me, we could just dance together, or would you prefer it to just watching me! dancing here all alone by myself!" "I um, okay fine!" Soarin flew down on the ice next to Rainbow and then almost slipped. "Here, take this," Rainbow didn't want to toss them, so she had put a second pair of skates near him. "Okay! But are you sure? I am not really good ice skater!" Rainbow nodded her head "Sure I am, we could just support each other like this!" she stood on her hind legs and put hooves on his shoulders, awkwardly he did the same thing. They both slowly started to circling on ice. They continued to do so until Princess Celestia dropped the sun and Princess Luna raised the moon, and snow started to fall from the sky. "So, is there anything else you want to do?" Soarin asked Rainbow. "Well, we could just continue to hang out, or?" "Or?" "Nuh, it's nothing! Don't worry about it." "Okay, but if you ever feel like telling me?" "Yeah, Yeah," Rainbow once again dismissed Soarin and then threw a snowball at him. "But first we will play a little game!" "Sure!" Soarin threw his own snowball in reply. They kept throwing snowballs at each other until Soarin managed to hit the tree, under which Rainbow Dash had been standing. As the result, a lot of snow from the tree had fallen on her. Soarin could see her eyes glaring at him. "You look like a snow pony, now all we need is just a carrot to finish the job. Rainbow's eyes once again glared at him, "alright, I guess you win this round, I guess I should just tell you. I thought that by some random chance we would end up meeting Twilight and her playcolt, but I guess we won't." "Do you remember the previous winter, I remember both of them just spending their free time on this frozen lake." Rainbow Dash thought about it, and giggle it, "Yep, I kind of do! What Twilight would usually do is, she is going to grab him and kinda try to swirl around in the air, while dragging him across, it was very cute to watch. I guess they are just busy. "Do you remember when Sunset came to visit Twilight used to get really annoyed because Sunny and Trixie would somehow get small plushies of Twilight and Flash, and they would play with them: Kiss me Flash, Yes I will!", Rainbow snickered at the memory. "Yeah!" Soarin did clear out the last of the snow that's was on her, and now they just been enjoying a cute winter night. "Do you think we can see the stars at night, or is it just clouds?" "I guess we can't, at least not from the ground." "Yeah, I know! We could just fly up there, but I kind of don't want to." Rainbow and Soarin scootched together and they did just keep enjoying the snow until later that evening they flew back to the city. Specifically, Rainbow decided to visit Twilight's castle, turns out it was a good idea because she found out exactly why she couldn't join them on their play date. Turns out Twilight had been foalsitting Flurry, and Flurry fired a toy arrow at Flash and infected him with lovesickness. "Soarin, Rainbow, I am so glad you managed to join us! As you can see we had been a bit occupied." Twilight gestured at Flash. "I think we managed to take care of it!" "Who is that unlucky mare who came under his attention, It was you wasn't it?" "Well yes, but!" Twilight blushed "Come on, are you going to join us, or you just going to just stand there!" "Alright Alright! I am coming.Are all the other girls here as well?" Twilight nodded, "Yep even Sunset decided to visit! What would you like to drink?" "Oh I guess, what do you have in mind?" "I could give you coffee if you want, but then you are going to be hyperactive all night, just like Pinkie on sugar rash!" "Eh, I barely get any sleep these days. You might as well give me coffee!" Twilight glanced at Rainbow "Are you sure that's healthy for you, Dash?" "Its fine Twilight, everything is going to be okay, I just know it!" Rainbow, Soarin, and Twilight crossed few corridors and entered the main room where all of the girls had been waiting. All of them smiled at them, Rainbow smiled back. Yes, everything is going to be just fine!