Chapter Two
"Rarity" a voice echoed as she was still asleep. Well now, she was half-asleep. She closed her eyes tightly, mumbling to herself unintelligibly and hoped that she was imagining voices in her head. As she tried to think back to that dream of Rainbow Dash that had started to fade and blur from her mind, the high-pitched voice didn't stop calling out her name, and they seemed concerned about her too. So once the unicorn forced herself to wake up and waited for her surroundings to stop looking fuzzy, she noticed that it was Sweetie Belle, looking confused and anxious.
"Oh, it's just you, my sweet little sister." Rarity smiled tiredly at them after rubbing her drowsy eyes. She noticed Sweetie looking around the room before looking right back at her again as the older unicorn stretched and yawned in bed.
"Is.. Is Rainbow Dash here?" Sweetie Belle questioned them with an uncomfortable and quiet tone in her voice. Rarity was alarmed and her eyes widened once she had heard what her sister had asked. She hopped off of her bed and looked around her bedroom too, confused like her little sister.
"What do you mean, darling?" Rarity asked nervously and was baffled by the question.
“I was walking back from Scootaloo’s after sleeping over at her house, and once I was close to home, I heard you screaming .. Nevermind.” The younger unicorn was hesitant to tell her sister. But Rarity was agitated and demanded her little Sweetie Belle to tell her what she was saying in their sleep.
“Well, I heard you saying ‘Oh, Rainbow Dash!’ while I was outside." Sweetie Belle tried to mimic Rarity's voice. "Lots of ponies heard you actually, and they asked me if something happened between you and Dash.” The older unicorn blushed and was redder than ever. She was shocked to hear what her little sister had told her.
“What was I dreaming about Rainbow Dash!?” she thought to herself as she paced up and down the bedroom. She was startled and tried to think as hard as she could to find out what dream she had about that Pegasus. Sweetie Belle gave out an uncomfortable chuckle as she stared at Rarity before leaving her sister’s room. Rarity was shocked and stood frozen next to her bed. How could she explain to her innocent little sibling what she was dreaming of? She sighed and tried to forget about it as she got ready for work. It was a normal day in the Carousel Boutique and random thoughts of the daring Rainbow Dash swooping in to take Rarity out into the sunset kept popping up in her mind. She sighed sadly and knew that would never happen. Since barely anypony was going to the store today, she decided to go to Twilight's and tell her about the crush she had on the tomcolt pony.
“No, no. It’s not a crush. I’m just fond of her. Besides, unlike her, I’m like a princess. She’s like.. a.. umm.. a commoner.” She thought hesitantly as she walked over to Twilight’s. Once she was outside the house, she saw the other unicorn writing a letter to Princess Celestia as usual before handing it to Spike, who had noticed Rarity out the window and grew a wide smile on his face.
"Twiiilight, it's me, Rarity!" She said with a joyful sing-song tone. She hoped that Twilight and her friends would understand about her fondness of Rainbow. Before knocking on the door, Spike quickly opened it with a huge grin on his face. The poor little dragon had a crush on her, and she knew that his crush on her would be unrequited. As she walked in, Twilight was now reading a book about spells and took notes on it.
"Oh hi, Rarity! What brings you here?" The book-smart unicorn asked them happily as she was focused on writing the notes.
"I think I've fallen in love with somepony.. And it's not who you'd expect." Rarity whined to her friend. Twilight tried to think of every kind of pony that Rarity would like, but gave up.
"Who could that be?" Twilight asked in a curious voice. The pony she'd least expect Rarity to like was, well Rainbow Dash. Those two were complete opposites, and a relationship like that would not go well. She shrugged the thought off of her head, thinking that somepony such as Rarity would never fall for a tomcolt like Rainbow.
"It is Rainbow.. Dash.." The elegant pony had cried out and started to whine in Twilight's arms. The other unicorn rolled her eyes, but was surprised that Rarity liked Rainbow.
"How sweet.." Twilight said in an unsure voice. Rarity looked up at her and stopped hugging Twilight.
"I don't know how this could have happened! She's so egotistical and crude most of the time. I'm nothing like her, and I'm so confused to why I would like somepony like them!"
"Maybe you two are meant for each other?" Twilight suggested, hoping what she told Rarity would calm them down.
"Maybe..." Rarity thought about as she looked out the window. She could see the cyan pegasus flying around Ponyville and was probably on weather patrol. As the two talked, Rarity was glad that her friend was so understanding about the feelings she had for Dash.
"Can you be a darling and gather our other friends here and I'll tell them about this?" she asked with a hint of doubt in her voice. She imagined how Pinkie Pie would react to hearing about her crush since they were Dash's closest friend, and thought that Pinkie would just blurt it out to the rest of the world. Twilight gleefully nodded and said she'd get right to it and left to go look for her friends. Spike, on the other hand was not so pleased about hearing Rarity's crush on Rainbow.
"I can be like Rainbow Dash!" the little dragon told her, trying to sound fierce. He had always tried to impress the beautiful unicorn, but it never worked. He now thought of the cyan tomboyish Pegasus as his rival for Rarity's affections.
"Ooh sure you can, Spikey-wikey" Rarity said while pinching his chubby cheeks. He seemed annoyed and knew that truthfully, he couldn't really compete with somepony such as Rainbow. As minutes passed of awkward silence, with Spike just reading a book while Rarity had a bored look on her face and was impatiently waiting for the other unicorn to come back, Twilight finally came and brought over Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. Spike didn't want to hear what the girls would talk about and stomped angrily out of the room, not even bothering to want to eavesdrop on the conversation the girls would have.
"What is it that you wanted to talk about Dash, sugarcube?" Applejack happily asked the unicorn as she walked over to Rarity.
"OOH, ARE WE THROWING A SURPRISE PARTY FOR DASHIE?" Pinkie exclaimed as she bounced up and down. Once Rarity told her friends about her liking Rainbow Dash, she expected them to laugh and think that it was all just a joke. Instead, a gesture of smiles and awwing echoed through the library.
"You know, I never expected that YOU, out of all the ponies here in Equestria would have feelings for somepony like Rainbow Dash." Twilight told the other unicorn. "I mean, you two are like total-"
"Opposites. I know." Rarity cut her friend off and then sighed with a frown on her face. The others just looked at each other and tried to think of something to say to cheer up their friend.
"It's not a bad thing that you like Rainbow. I just mean that I expected Flutters or even Pinkie to like her." The yellow Pegasus hid behind Applejack bashfully and the pink earth pony crossed her arms with a look of disbelief once they heard that. The two were both Rainbow Dash's closest friends, and there has never been a hint of any of them liking the cyan Pegasus.
"Do you all promise not to tell Rainbow Dash about this?" Rarity asked all of her friends. They all agreed and nodded in sync. She didn't want any other pony to know about her crush on Rainbow.
"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." They all said together. Twilight suddenly giggled and the other four had confused looks on their faces.
"What's so funny, dear?" Rarity asked her and raised an eyebrow, and the others were wondering too.
"This just reminds me of a story!" Twilight exclaimed with a grin on her face as she took a book about fairy tales out of a book shelf. As she flipped the pages to the story she was talking about, Pinkie got distracted and started to make a book fort. The others just rolled their eyes at the other pony and went by Twilight's side to see what story she was talking about.
"'The Beauty and the Minotaur'." Twilight read the story aloud as her friends listened attentively.
"How does that remind you about me and Dashie!" Rarity scoffed. The others who were listening to the story smirked at how the unicorn had called her crush 'Dashie'. It was a nickname Pinkie had made up for Rainbow and nopony else but Pinkie used that affectionate name on the Pegasus.
"Well, you know how Rainbow Dash is like; compared to somepony like you." Fluttershy spoke up with a timid tone in her voice. The others laughed at the answer and the yellow Pegasus laughed with them too. They didn't expect somepony like Flutters to say something like that.
"DID YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT RAINBOW DASH BEING LIKE THE MINOTAUR IN 'THE BEAUTY AND THE MINOTAUR'!" The hyper earth pony asked cheerfully as she popped out of her book fort.
"No, we were talking about Rarity, Pinkie." Twilight said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes at her marefriend. The earth pony stopped bouncing and had a worried look on her face.
"Well Rarity is PRETTY SCARY.." Pinkie admitted with a frightened voice as she looked down on the floor.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT ME!" Rarity yelled at her and was prepared to tackle the earth pony before being held back by Applejack and Twilight. Once the unicorn was calm, the other three couldn't control their laughter at what Pinkie had just said. Rarity was annoyed and scoffed at her friends and mocked their laughter.
"Anyways, when did you start to like Dash?" Twilight asked with curiosity after she finished reading the story. The others joined in on the conversation and wanted to hear how it all started.
"Well, it all started when yesterday when I made her a Wonderbolt outfit- Actually, maybe it started after Dash saved my life. But I was so disgusted by the thought of me liking them, that I forgot all about it. Until yesterday.." Rarity said with an unsure tone in her voice.
"What happened when you gave it to her?" Fluttershy asked happily.
"She was delighted and wanted the outfit. And to my surprise, she gave me a hug." The other girls thought it was adorable that Rainbow hugged Rarity. It's rare for a tomcolt like her to ever want to give another pony a hug.
"What happened after that?" Applejack said curiously, and the other three leaned in closer to Rarity to hear what went on between her and Dash.
"Well, I went to bed and I couldn't stop thinking about Dashie... The darling looked so cute while she wore what I made for her. And it came to my senses that I've started liked Rainbow Dash.." She had a disappointed look on her face. She thought it was unlike her to like an uncouth pony such as Rainbow.
"Awww, that's SO SO CUTE!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed and hugged her friend tightly, bouncing up and down after Rarity told all of them.
"But wouldn't it be a disaster if I was actually with them?" Rarity questioned her friends with a frown on her face. They all looked at each other with worried faces.
"Nahh, I think you two would be the perfect couple in all of Equestria." Applejack smiled solemnly at Rarity and patted them on the back. It made the unicorn happy that her friends were supportive of her.
"So you say that you want to take nightly flights with Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy questioned Rarity.
"Yes, dear. But I just don't know how that could be possible since I have.. no wings- Oh, I'm so pathetic due to how much I want to be with Dash!" She frowned again and suddenly summoned a fainting couch out of nowhere. She reminisced about when she did have wings, but knew that what happened was a failure. She also remembered how the heroic Rainbow Dash used her sonic rainboom to save her and smiled at the thought.
"We can try that spell again." Twilight suggested as she looked at the dramatic unicorn. "I've improved that spell and have tried it on Pinkie.. several times." She giggled once she remembered of when the spell failed at some points; like having Pinkie fall into a stack of hay, or falling on top of some random pony most of the time. But after numerous tries, it seemed as if the spell was perfected and it lasted for as long as anypony wanted it to.
"What if I fall to my death, almost like last time?!" Rarity angrily exclaimed. Twilight shook her head no and wanted to reassure the unicorn that nothing that bad will happen like the last time.
Rarity paused for a moment and decided to think about it. If she used the spell again, she could gain wings and fly with Rainbow Dash, and together alone, they could have romantic flights to places.
"I'll try the spell." Rarity said seriously. "Anything to let me be with Dashie." She said happily and was excited. She could just imagine all the romantic things she and Rainbow could together whilst flying off into the beautiful nocturnal atmosphere of Equestria and was determined for it to happen. In her mind, she thought of love like a fairy tale; like a knight who would come and save her from an evil dragon or maybe Discord. As Twilight cast the spell on her, the others stared in awe. Instead of butterfly wings, they were pegasi.
"Oh, my." Fluttershy said with flat joy in her voice. "She looks just like an Alicorn." The others agreed with that statement and Rarity felt rather eager to fly in that exact moment. As they went outside to test Rarity's new flight ability, Rainbow was flying nearby, still wearing the Wonderbolt outfit. She overheard the commotion from her friends and wanted to see what was happening.
"What's going on here?" She asked suspiciously as she flew over to her friends, gritting her teeth and glaring angrily at all of them. She thought that she wasn't invited to a party or something, and circled around them.
"Rarity just wanted to try flying again!" Pinkie squeaked with joy. Rainbow was worried about Rarity and didn't want her to come falling down from the sky like last time.
"I thought you would never want to try that spell again?" Rainbow exclaimed to Rarity with a concerned look on her face.
"Please, darling. Don't worry about me. I can handle this myself." Rarity said with a smile, trying to act arrogant as she started to flutter her wings. As she started to float up into the air, she thought she would be a weak flyer like Flutters, but instead she rocketed up higher into the sky almost as fast as how Rainbow could. The other four mares were amazed, except for the cyan Pegasus who was concerned for the safety of her friend. She shot up into the sky to catch up with the unicorn who was amazed of her new powers.
"I don't want you to fall like last time, so I'm going to be with you every time you fly... You know, just in case." Rainbow said with a sincere and caring voice for her friend, but had a serious look on her face. She didn't want anything bad to happen to any of her friends at all, especially if Rarity was doing something as dangerous as this.
"Would you teach me how to fly once it's night, then?" Rarity asked Dash who nodded her head in agreement. Rainbow thought it'd be cool to teach a friend how to fly almost as well as her. Almost as well. The unicorn squeaked with delight and hugged Rainbow, who just rolled her eyes at her friend but on the inside, was smiling and maybe even happier than them. Rarity could feel the softness and warmth of the pegasus' coat and could feel that they were actually blushing. Their friends from below were watching the whole time and smiled. Spike was watching too, except he was inside mumbling angrily to himself and crossed his arms.
"They're both vain, so they're perfect for each other." Spike told the others as he came out of the house.
"Spike," Twilight whined. "How could you say that? I thought you liked Rarity?" The others scowled at the jealous dragon and wanted to scold him for saying that.
"LIKED." Spike sneered at Twilight with an angry look on his face before going back inside.
"Aww, the poor wittle dragon is just jealous." Pinkie said, pretending to be Spike and acted moody like he was right now. It made the others laugh again and they decided to go back inside, leaving Rarity and Rainbow who were still floating nearby clouds.
"So it's a date then?" Rarity asked Rainbow, who was delighted in teaching the unicorn how to fly well. The Pegasus blushed because of the question but happily nodded.
"Y- yeah.. A date." Rainbow agreed and the two both smiled warmly at each other.
"And please take that suit off; I think that it's starting to smell." Rarity teased her. Rainbow smirked at her but then giggled. After talking to her, she went off to practice again, leaving Rarity all alone. As soon as the cyan pony darted off, Rarity went back to Twilight's place. Once she opened the door, she saw eager looks on all of her friend's faces who wanted to know what she and Dash were talking about.
"Oooh, a date!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed happily with joy and clapped.
"Maybe she likes you back!" Fluttershy said cheerfully. Rarity hoped that this pony did, or else she'd be heart broken. She hasn't liked anypony more than she really did with Rainbow Dash. She was hopeful that she and Dash could be together.
"It's not a date," She said bashfully due to her friends' playful teasing. "It's just a normal get together by Cloudsdale."
"At night." Applejack winked at her and playfully punched the unicorn with a forehoof. Rarity was not impressed by the teasing and wanted to excuse herself to get ready.
"Well anyways, I have to get ready. I have to look as marvelous as I usually do." She quickly said as she stepped out of Twilight's home.
"Good luck on your date!" Pinkie told her excitedly and waved at her as the unicorn walked out of the house. Once she closed the door, Rarity squeaked in delight and wondered how the night will be like with the amazing Rainbow Dash.
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