//------------------------------// // Epilogue: A New Begining // Story: Soarin's New Wings // by Foal Star //------------------------------// A few days had passed since the audition and the girls now found themselves staying in Glass Hooves Ponyville home, now Soarin’s own home, having been given to her by Glass. At the moment, the group was relaxing while Rarity and several mover ponies were unloading much of Soarin’s possessions into her new accommodations. In the meantime, Twilight had apparently opted to write a letter to the Princess regarding recent events. “Dear Princess Celestia, Today or I guess over the past few months we have been doing everything we could to help make Soarin feel welcome in Ponyville. And I’m happy to say she’s be able to adjust to her situation and realized that despite the changes that have occured, they don’t change her as a pony. In fact knowing yourself means to believe in yourself no matter the circumstances. And I know she’ll continue to carry this lesson into the future.” Signed your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle. Twilight looked up with a smile and asked, “So Soarin, what do you think?” Soarin sitting aside from the others, blushed a little embarrassed by the praise the letter contained. ”Um, it’s okay. Sure sounds like a good letter.” Twilight smirked, “Well, I have to say, giving up being a ballerina to stay here was quite the sacrifice. I think I heard something from Pinkie pie about a “Soarin is staying in Ponyville party.” Soarin sighed, “Yeah I heard about that too…” Twilight gave the letter to Spike who instantly burped green flame sending it straight to the Princess. Rarity was coming back downstairs with the moving ponies. “Now remember darlings, when you're moving the dresses be careful, they’re quite fragile.” The big stallions quietly rolled their eyes as they continued carrying the boxes upstairs. Fluttershy was also in the parlor sipping a cup of tea, her eyes following the stallions as they carried up one stack of boxes after the other. “Wow, that’s quite a few dresses you have there. I’m surprised.” Soarin laughed, despite also acknowledging in the back of her mind how accurate the statement was. “Oh, well it’s enough to keep me satisfied anyways Their quite comfortable and I couldn’t really resist snagging a few.” “So, Glass Hooves really just gave you this house?” Twilight asked as she took a short stroll around the room. Soarin nodded, “Yeah, or at least I’m renting it. She still owns the building itself. But since she’s not here most of the time, she said I can live here as long as I want.” Her tone combined with her growing smile made her giddiness at the prospect all the more obvious. Rarity bounced down the stairs and cooed, “Oh, well you definitely got a steal my dear, this house is positively marvelous.” Soarin turned and smiled. “Glad you like it, it also has a nice little garden in the back.” Rarity squealed, “Oh do you! Are you perhaps planning to get some pets?” Fluttershy almost immediately perked at the mention of pets and was now hovering just a few feet away from Soarin, who was sinking close to the ground to avoid unwanted contact with the mare.. “Uh maybe, I’m still debating on what I want...though maybe a dog if possible.” Fluttershy following squee nearly shattered the nearby windows. ,”Oh I have a few dogs who would love it here and I know would just love you as well. Do you have a breed in mind?” Soarin, merely chuckled at the pony’s enthusiasm. Honestly, after seeing her be so shy and restrained all the time, outspoken and happy was a really good look on the pegasus. “Well, I always wanted a golden retriever. Of course, kind of hard to have a dog as a pet when you live in Cloudsdale.” Fluttershy’s excitement only continued to build with each word Soarin spoke, her wings flapping fast enough to kick up a noticeable breeze. “Oh, I have plenty of those at my home. I know any one of them would love to be your pet, if you’d be willing to take them of course.”  .” Soarin smiled “Sure, sounds like a plan.” Twilight cooed seeing how happy her friends were. “Oh, I’m just so happy that you decided to stay Soarin things here just seem… so much better having another friend around.” Rainbow Dash, who’d chosen to pretend to take a nap in the background let out a loud groan as she cracked one eye open. “Ugh, can you all stop with the luvey duvey talk! It’s so not cool.” Soarin turned towards the daredevil pony. “Hey, you like me like this don’t deny it.” All the other ponies nodded in agreement, Rarity giving the rainbow pegasus a knowing smirk. “Yes Rainbow Dash, you must admit the new Soarin has certainly come a long way since when she arrived. So refined and graceful compared to before.”.” Fluttershy nodded.”Yes, and she’s so kind and cute. Plus, I really I love how her wings glitter in the sunlight.” Soarin just rolled her eyes as Rainbow groaned again. “Look, as much as I love the new Soarin, I really miss the old Soarin. I mean, I grew up thinking about how awesome you guys were and now, you’re just….not cool anymore. No Offense of course.” Rainbow tried her best not to sound insensitive, knowing this whole situation wasn’t Soarin’s fault and she could tell it was meant as respectfully as possible. .” “Hey, it’s fine Rainbow. Even I’m willing to admit I’m not as cool as I used to be, I’ve just learned to accept it and move on, instead of letting it drag me down.” The pony quickly grew a playful smirk as her eyes drifted to the kitchen. “Of course, one thing that hasn’t changed is my love of pies and if you want, we can still have a good old fashioned pie eating contest.” The earnest tone in which she spoke quickly brought a laugh to Rainbow’s face as she patted Soarin on the back.  “Now there’s the Soarin I remember. We need to do more stuff like that and less of the girly stuff.”!” The ponies continued to laugh until a knock at the door got their attention. “Hey Soarin, can you open up. It’s Spitfire.” The blue coated mare gasped as she got up and went to the door,slowly opening it to reveal the smiling face of her marefriend. “Hey, how’s it going Clipper?” Soarin went up and just kissed her on the lips,holding her in an embrace for some time. Eventually, Soarin broke it and nuzzled her marefriend, which Spitfire reciprocated. “I’m gonna take that as you’re doing really great right?”” Soarin chuckled and nodded. “Well, I certainly have a lot less to complain about. So  what brings you around, came to see my new place?” Spitfire looked inside seeing the decor with ballerina tutus and pictures of the cheerleading squad and the Wonderbolts. While she involuntarily flinched at little at the sight of the tutus, otherwise her expression was one of approval. “Very nice, plenty of space to fly around in that’s for sure.” Her expression quickly turned more sensual as her eyes became half lidded. “Of course, there are other things we could do with this much room to if you catch my meaning.” The tone of her voice caused Twilight as well as a few others to break out in a blush and some started to panic. “Uh, maybe we should leave you two alone.” Soarin turned seeing the rest of her friends feeling awkward and sighed, ”I guess but it was nice having you all here.” The mares got up and left quickly with Rainbow groaning about this being so uncool. Soarin closed the door and turned to Spitfire admiring the house. “So looks like your staying, huh Clipper.” Soarin gave a nod, “Yeah seems like it, you sure you want me here.” Spitfire turned and stared her cute marefriend down “It’s not about but I want, but you. Do you feel satisfied?” Soarin walked slowly to her marefriend and smoothed out her mane. “I feel great and I think it’s about time we stopped trying to hide the fact were together.” Spitfire nuzzled her and asked, “if we take this public we could be facing a lot of press, I’d rather we just take this slow and have some private time.” Soarin  giggled a little as Spitfire put her hooves around the blue coated mare and Soarin nuzzled her back as they locked in embrace Saorin whispered, “Sure let’s take this slow. Let’s forget about anything but us.” Spitfire nuzzled her and Soarin squealed as she tripped on the rug and fell down onto the ground Spitfire burst out laughing as Soarin giggled  and thought to herself, “this is who I am and I’m fine, Twilight was right it doesn't matter what happened to me...Im still me.”