Rainbow Lit Twilight
“Twilight... Twilight!”
Rainbow Dash was trying to snap the purple unicorn out of her thought-induced daze.
Twilight’s attention was brought back to Rainbow Dash, her thoughts quickly being organized.
“Yes? Sorry I was… thinking deeply.”
“You were just sort of staring into nothing there for a while. You ok?” Dash chuckled.
Twilight quickly tried to respond, “Yeah, I’m good. Just thinking, is all.”
Rainbow Dash gave her a questioning look but decided to leave it alone.
“Well, what do you want to do today? I was thinking maybe we can go over some flight techniques, or…”
Twilight interrupted Rainbow to suggest a different idea. “How about we grab lunch instead? Then maybe we can spend some time around your house for the day.”
Rainbow Dash put a hoof to her chin to resemble a thinking position. “Yeah, let’s do that! I can show you around my place. You still know that cloud-walking spell, right?”
Twilight cocked an eyebrow, a smirk setting on her face. “I’m not the type of pony that’d forget a spell, Dash.”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and threw a hoof towards the ceiling. “Sorry, I forgot how much of an egghead you are.”
The cyan Pegasus brushed her hoof through her mane, smoothing it out, completely missing the roll of Twilight Sparkle’s violet orbs.
“Okay Dash, Sugar Cube Corner, then your place after?”
Twilight made for the library stairs to grab her saddlebag.
“Sure Twi! I’ll be there in ten seconds flat!”
Twilight smiled as she recalled the first time Rainbow Dash used that phrase, the day she met her. “I better hurry. Rainbow Dash is probably almost already there.”
- - -
Rainbow Dash arrived at Sugar Cube Corner as Pinkie Pie was bouncing excitedly with a tray of cupcakes. Each one was topped with a mound of neatly-sculpted frosting.
Rainbow Dash popped one into her mouth and almost passed out from the amount of sheer sweetness introduced to her taste buds.
“Pinkie, your cupcakes are awesome, as always! Do you have any real food though? Y’know, hay fries or wheat dogs?”
Pinkie’s jaw nearly dropped to the floor. For a normal pony this would have been physically impossible… but this was Pinkie Pie. “Dashie, you silly filly, I only use real sugar in my food, none of that fake stuff!”
Rainbow Dash shook her head and smiled. Good times from the past rushed through her mind, specifically all the pranks they’ve pulled. “Pinkie Pie, you truly are the most random pony I know!”
Then Pinkie disappeared from Rainbow Dash’s view leaving behind only a pink trail leading to the entrance.
Dash watched as the pink earth pony bounced next to Twilight informing her of how she and Gummy had defended an attack on the bakery by an evil cake she had accidentally baked earlier that day.
Twilight made her way to Rainbow Dash after Pinkie had decided she would throw a party for her victory against the cake and taken off to prepare the decorations and festivities.
Twilight laughed meekly. “You know Dash, there are around five-hundred and eighty calories in a cupcake… being Pinkie Pie-made I’d raise that number by a few hundred.”
The studious bookworm pressed further, drowning the last part of her sentence in sarcasm. “Not the diet I’d imagine for the best flier in Equestria.”
Rainbow popped another super sweet cupcake into her mouth and carried on talking through a mouthful of deliciousness. “Don’t… worry… so much... about it. I’ll burn all this off in just one flight to my house.”
Twilight ate one of the cupcakes herself. Her eyes opened wide as she was overcome by sugary sweetness.
“Oh yeah, speaking of your house, I forgot to get the balloon ready.”
“Pssshh! Balloon? Who needs that when you got these?” Rainbow Dash proudly flared her wings and gave a nod for Twilight to hop on.
Twilight hopped onto her back and wrapped her forelegs around Rainbow.
They exited Sugar Cube Corner and headed for Rainbow Dash’s cloud home.
- - -
Rainbow and Twilight arrived at the cloud home after a short flight.
Twilight, even having seen it before, had always admired the Pegasus’ home. It was really well built and truly something to behold.
Before jumping off Dash onto the cloud below she performed the cloud walking spell. She landed on the white fluffiness below her; it was much different than any other surface she had stepped on before. It was fluffier and softer than anything she could think of. It almost looked bouncy but when she poked it with her hoof hesitantly she found it very similar to cotton yet somehow even softer.
“Dash, your home is amazing.”
Showing no sign of modesty Rainbow Dash wagged her head in agreement. “Yeah, it is pretty radical.” Then with a mischievous grin Dash formed a ball of fluffiness, taking aim at Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight was intently admiring the architecture of Rainbow Dash’s home when a sudden ball of soft cloud hit her between the eyes and evaporated.
Rainbow Dash fell to the cloud below in a hysterical mess.
“What the…” Dash doubled over as a hail of cloud puffs made contact before she could finish her sentence. Dash recovered and looked towards the direction of her assailant. The previously stunned Twilight Sparkle was standing there with fifty cloud puffs floating in her telekinetic grip. A big smirk devoured her face.
Dash shot into the air with a foreleg full of cloud. Attacking from the air, Twilight was hit with a few puffs but responded with an anti-air rapid fire approach. Dash gracefully dodged the barrage of projectiles. She performed a steep dive towards the cloud floor leveling herself with Twilight.
She sped towards the lavender unicorn, Twilight’s eyes went wide as Dash approached quickly letting go of her grip on the cloud puffs which floated harmlessly into the air. A split second later Dash crashed into her sending the two tumbling across the soft cloud in a jumble of cyan and lavender limbs. After the roll had come to a stop Rainbow Dash ended up on top of Twilight, pinning her down with her powerful athlete's physique.
“Hah! Gotcha! What now?”
The two stared into each other’s eyes for what seemed like an eternity to the two but was not actually longer than three seconds. Dash saw the raw emotion in Twilight’s eyes that expressed everything, all the feelings no amount of words could show. It was as if she was gazing into the very heart--the very being--of Twilight Sparkle.
Rainbow Dash was locked in a passionate staring contest with those bright, violet eyes from which a pure,white-hot burning desire shone through. Twilight closed her eyes and brought her head forward, forcing her lips against Dash’s.
The world around the couple melted into a pudding of feelings that had been bottled up for far too long. Rainbow’s eyes went wide and her wings flared. Twilight broke the kiss almost immediately after, both immediately looking away with flushed faces.
Each mare stood up awkwardly, still avoiding the other's gaze.
Twilight’s thoughts raced of what Dash would do. Would she hate her? Would she pretend like it never happened? The latter, she thought, was probably the most likely outcome.
“Rainbow Dash, I’m sorry, I didn’t…” She decided there was nothing that she could say that would make what happened any better.
“I’ll just go, Rainbow…” Twilight reluctantly turned. She started to walk the other direction, trying in vain to hide the tears starting to slide off her face. “I messed it up! With one stupid, egghead move I messed it all up! I didn’t think about kissing her it just happened. It felt so right though...”
Twilight felt a hoof on her back. It wasn’t one of anger, but of gentleness. Of love. She stopped. “Twi, wait!”
Twilight couldn’t believe that Rainbow Dash even wanted to touch her right now, let alone speak words to her.
“Maybe she wants to slap me before I go…”
Twilight turned to face Dash expecting a hoof across her face. She was pleasantly surprised to find two wet Pegasus lips pressed against hers instead. Twilight was utterly awestruck. Had Rainbow Dash really just kissed her, after everything that happened?
Rainbow Dash smiled at the lavender pony with her mouth hanging open and chuckled. “There go my plans of waiting for the right moment to tell you how I feel... ”
Twilight regained her senses after hearing Rainbow Dash. Still a bit shaken, she looked into Dash’s eyes, her own full of hope.
“You mean… ” Twilight didn’t finish her sentence. Not that she had to. Rainbow Dash knew exactly what she was going to say.
Equestria’s top flier scratched the back of her head with a hoof. “Yeah… for a while now. Judging by that kiss I’m going to say you’ve secretly liked me too?”
Twilight nodded and smiled. “Mhm!”
Rainbow Dash grinned and looked around. “It’s getting dark. I think you’ll like this. C’mon!”
- - -
Dash guided Twilight through her home. The organization freak was drowning in bliss. She found herself admiring the cyan Pegasus in front of her more than the interior of the magnificent cloud home.
Dash led her to the stairs, beckoning with a hoof for her to follow.
The stairs led all the way up to the top of the house. Dash pushed on a spot on the ceiling and an opening appeared in the cloud. The two love birds made their way through it and onto the roof. There was a breeze that made Rainbow Dash’s mane and tail whip across the sky, much to Twilight’s further swooning.
To the love-struck unicorn, Rainbow Dash seemed to radiate a light that illuminated the darkness surrounding them. Dash flopped down onto her back, sending a small swirl of cloud floating off. She looked up at her friend. “The view up here is awesome, am I right? Look at those stars!”
Any cold present when the wind hit Twilight simply vanished with the look Rainbow gave her. She fell on her back, right next to the object of her desires. The stars really were beautiful from up there; like professionally cut diamonds, crafted by Rarity herself, they shone against the pitch black sky.
The two ponies laid there next to each other admiring the beauty of the night sky Luna had brought. Twilight wondered if she should hold Dash’s hoof or move closer. It was as if Rainbow Dash had read her mind.
She put a wing under Twilight and pulled her close. Twilight heated up both from Rainbow Dash’s warm embrace and the emotions of pure happiness surging through her.
The moment was absolutely, positively, unequivocally... perfect.
>Authors notes.
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I wanted to leave some notes for any interested. First I want to thank any readers that have been following this story (its not over yet either :p). I appreciate it more then you can imagine. I want to thank some others to. First the amazing Whatsup818 a.k.a Specialtypizza for supporting me this whole way( and is continuing to do so :p), shooting me extremely helpfull tips, putting up with my horrible quotation habit, editing parts of my stories and being awesome in general. I'd like to thank OneLonelypony for going through and editing this story. I appreciate it, you do a fantastic job of editing. Lastly I'd like to thank the pony community, every one here is awesome!
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