The Royal Package

(At Rainbow’s Cloud Home)
I open my eyes, awakened by the bright light of the sun. What just happened? I look to my left to see a sleeping blue pony, slowly breathing the slow, breaths of sleep. Whoa, did I…. with her? I brush my hoof against her soft, rainbow colored mane. I did good, heh. I pull the covers off myself, trying desperately trying not to awaken her from her slumber. I didn’t have my watch on me, but by the sun, I would guess it would be around 6 ‘o clock. I looked for a slip of paper and a pen. Where would an athlete keep office supplies? Would you even have any?

After searching half the house I finally find a slip of paper and a chewed up pen, I scribble down a note:
Dear Dashie,
I left to go get our trip ready; I bought you your favorite cereal for convenience, Wonder-O’s. We will be leaving around 8:00ish. Pack lightly, because it is a long trip.
Forever Yours, Light
P.S. I ate all the marshmallows from the cereal, hope you don’t mind :)
I set the note on my side of the soft cloud bed, laughing at my short lived humor. I open the front cloud door and fly off, slowly dreading the long flight ahead.
I stop by a general store to pick me up an energy drink, because for some reason, I’m just not a morning person. I grab a can of Mantacorn Energy and hand the money to the clerkpony. I fly out the door, I pop the can open, and head towards ponyville.
When I land at ponyville’s famous Sugercube Corner, I notice the pink pony and the shy one talking over a cup of coffee and a box of… cupcakes. I open the door,

“Hey girls how’s it going?” And after I said that, Pinkie jumps to me and says,

“Hey Light, how was your… night?” I slightly blush, hoping she didn’t know what happened between me and Dashie- I mean Rainbow Dash.

“It was fine, and you?”

“It was dandy! Too bad you missed pin the tail on the pony, and then you missed the disco dance; everypony had a grand time!”
I brushed back my bed-mane back, hoping nopony noticed.

“Yea, wished I was there… “She cocked her head the side.

“Where were you anyway?”

“I, uhh, was preparing for the trip with dashi- I mean Rainbow Dash.”
She gets in my face and squinted her eyes, trying to figure out if I was telling the truth. Trying to break the awkwardness I look at Fluttershy, noticing that she is paying too much attention to her cup of coffee.

“Hey Fluttershy how was your-”
I am interrupted by a flash of blue crashing through the door. After the dust and sprinkles clear I ask,

“Dash?! What are you doing?!”
She stumbles over to me,

“Why didn’t you wake me up this morning?!-“
She looks to her right, to see Pinkie and Fluttershy, mouths agape.

“Oh…. right. Light come with me, please.”
Before I could protest she grabbed my hoof and takes me behind the store.

“First of all, why did you eat all the marshmallows from the cereal? And secondly, did we really just have… I hardly even know you! I, I,”
I put my hoof on her lips,

“Dashie, its fine, we both have a lot in common, what we did wasn’t a bad thing, it only increased our fondness for each other. And no matter what happens, I’ll still be yours. Now, do you have any more questions, or should we get ready for our trip?”
She shakes her head, and I remove my hoof. Before I could turn around, she kissed me on the cheek and whispered in my ear,

“And I, yours….”

(Two Hours Later)

“Rainbow Dash, do you want me to pack you favorite books?”
Twilight Sparkle said across the plaza, helping me pack for the trip.

“Nah, I won’t have time to read, but save it for me when we get back, Mkay?”
I would never take Dashie as a reader, but guess we do learn something new every day. We were almost ready for the long trip ahead, planning for bad weather or derpy ponies who can’t remember the delivery routes. I grab Dashie’s shoulder and tell her,

“It’s time, are you nervous?”
She fakes a “are you kidding me face” and smiles at me.

“I told you a million times, nothing can go wrong, I planned for stops for an island every day for resting, packed enough food and then some, and a map. Is there anything else we need?”
I brush back her mane,

“I just want to make sure we make it back unharmed. But more importantly keep you safe.”
She blushes profusely, and I kiss her on the cheek,

“Is that ok for you, Dashie?”

I hook her part of the chariot onto her back. I notice the rainbow lightning bolt on her flank. I remember an old saying this one old-timer said when I was younger, never look twice, but make the first one count. That old pony in a quaint coffee shop back in Manehattan was a bit crazy, but wise none the less. I stop staring long enough to hook the other piece of the chariot to my back and get ready to take off.

Twilight gives us a green light to go. Me and Rainbow Dash start running to our full speed, and start moving our wings. After a few minutes we start gaining altitude, slowly but surely. Soon we stop running and just using our wings. We are flying, officially starting out very long trip to the island of Soma. She and I have waited for this moment for two days. Nothing, nothing could spoil this moment in time.

(Hours Later)

She looks over to me,

“Nice weather, huh Light?”

I look at her, seeing if she was being for real. She was.

“Yea, I suppose it is Dashie. Anyway, when is this first stop of ours, it’s getting kind of late isn’t it?” She looks around to confirm her response.

“We should be coming up to it any moment now. I think you will like this one; it has a retro technology museum. I know you like those.”
God, she knows me too well.

“Thanks Dashie, I would really like that, and hey, maybe you’ll learn something too!”
She scoffs, then smiles,

“What, are you applying that I don’t know anything?”

“No, I was just saying we should try to learn something new every day”
Silence.

“You know, we have the most retarded conversations ever.”
I nod my head in agreement.

I look down and see an island slowly coming into view.

“Hey Dashie, is that it over there?”

She squints her eyes and nods,

“Yep, let’s start heading down, ok?”
After an hour of gliding slowly towards earth, we finally reach the tourist island of Cloudburn, a weird name for a place not located it the sky. We touch down near the post office, which to me, seems rundown. I take off my straps, then hers. We walk to the post office to confirm our arrival.