Chapter 3: Closer
Rainbow Dash had woken up the both of them. They had fallen asleep and somehow, Taro was holding Rainbow Dash across the waist, his knee between her legs. "How do we do this?" Taro asked.
"I don't even know," she replied, getting up, trying (and failing) not to blush.
"You sure do blush a lot Rainbow Dash, at least, around ME you do."
"We need to get a separate bed or we're going to do something... suggestive... while we sleep."
"Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you, Rainbow."
She turned and blushed straight at his face. "Maybe..." She went back toward Taro, who was now a little red as well. "Wouldn't you?"
"A little..." he replied, Rainbow Dash's face getting closer and closer, still. She started to close her eyes, and Taro, his. They leaned ever closer, until their lips met in a kiss. Taro knew it would happen. Back in his mind, he knew he loved her, and she knew she loved Taro. They just couldn't admit it to themselves. Maybe that's why they kept waking up in these positions. Taro broke the kiss. "I love you, Dash," he whispered, stroking her cheek.
"I love you too, Taro." She put her hoof over his hand. Taro continued caressing her face, then moved back to her neck, and kissed her again. He stroked her neck as they continued to kiss, brushing his fingers through her beautiful mane.
There was a knock on the door and a sigh of annoyance erupted from both of them. "Hey mister Rider! I need to talk to you!"
"That would be me..." Taro reluctantly got up and answered the door.
"Hey, can I ask you a question?" the stallion asked.
"You just did, but feel free to ask another one," Taro commented back.
"Okay then, I need some help moving some clouds around, think you can help? I can pay you."
Taro looked at Rainbow Dash who had just come out of her bedroom. "Sorry, I'm a little busy right now..."
"Oh, I understand. You're probably too busy doing Dragon Rider stuff to deal with low-level ponies like me..." He turned to leave.
Great, now he's trying to guilt me into it. Well it won't... "Fine." DANG IT! Why am I so nice!
"Really! Thanks! Come with me please!" the stallion beamed.
"Taro, why didn't you shoo him away? We could've had more alone time," Rainbow Dash asked, walking up next to him.
"I-I don't... know. I guess it's my Heroic nature. I can't turn down people, or rather PONIES in need."
Rainbow Dash sighed. "Alright, I'll wait for you here..."
"Thanks Dashie." He kissed her and followed the stallion.
Taro FINALLY finished working and doing tasks for everypony who asked at 10:00 PM. "I need to stop being so nice..."
He opened the door to Rainbow Dash's cloud home and was met with darkness. He lit up the room with a simple spell. On the counter was a note: Taro, meet me at the clearing you and Thatch always stayed at. I'll be waiting for you...
Taro landed by the tree that had just started to regain it's branches. "Rainbow Dash?" he shouted.
"Over here!" she returned.
Taro followed the sound of her voice. "Where are you?"
"Right... here!" she hissed. A changeling appeared, changing form from Rainbow Dash to Taro.
Taro jumped back and drew his sword. "Kveykva!" he shouted. "I've killed your kind before, and I'll be GLAD to do it again! Where's Rainbow Dash!"
"Taro, help!" Rainbow Dash was being held by three other changelings who had recently taken the form of Taro.
The first changeling lunged at Taro. Taro blocked the over-head attack and kicked the changeling in its gut, knocking it down. Seeing its vulnerability, Taro stabbed it through the throat.
Taro quickly jumped at two of the three changelings and chopped one in half with a jumping uppercut, and on the way down, killed the second one. He grabbed the third and final one by the collar and lifted it off the ground. With one fatal swipe, he split it through its stomach.
Deactivating Kveykva and throwing the carcass down in anger, he went to comfort Rainbow Dash. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." This was Rainbow Dash. Taro knew it.
"How did those changelings survive my last visit?"
"I don't know. They weren't in range of the elements when we used them. They should be the only ones left."
"Why weren't they around?"
Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Sick day?"
"Come on, let's go home."
They started to take flight and go back home.
Taro had woken up first. He was holding Rainbow's waist with one arm and held the middle of her inside thigh with the other. This time, it wasn't an accident. "I'm starting to like the way we sleep," Rainbow Dash said, getting up.
"Me too." Taro got up as well.
A loud knock was on the door. "Rainbow Dash! There's something going on with the clouds!" Fluttershy shouted. She never shouted. It must be important.
Taro and Rainbow Dash ran outside to find pink clouds everywhere. But that wasn't the weirdest part. The weirdest part was... the chocolate milk that was coming out of them...