//------------------------------// // Chapter 19 // Story: These Dreams // by lorettafox //------------------------------// Spitfire and Soarin lead Rainbow and Twilight to their dressing room after having to explain that Spitfire had witnessed them save a young baby (they found his parents before heading on over) and that they needed to hang out to the security guards. They all arrived in the dressing room and closed the door behind them. "So, this is where we get prepared for Cloudsdale shows. The room will always be ours." smiled Spitfire. "OMG!" Rainbow Dash spoke excitedly as she went to almost very object, big and small, in the room and squeed how the Wonderbolts had actually touched these things. "She sure is an energetic one." Spitfire laughed to herself. Twilight was admiring the room as well when she spotted a single Wonderbolts costume lying on the clothing rack. She walked over and glanced at the outfit, admiring how well the seams were on the outfit and were perfect for the stunts the Wonderbolts did. She did learn about sewing seams from a book she read before, of course. While Twilight was admiring the single suit, she didn't hear Soarin walk up behind her in an interest to see what she was doing. "Like that outfit?" he asked, catching her attention. "Oh, Soarin!" Twilight spoke in surprise. "I do. These seams are quite amazing. They look like they can handle hundreds of the shows you must do every year." "Yep." Soarin smiled. "I've had this suit for the last two years and it has only ripped once." "Amazing. They must be really comfortable too, I bet." "They indeed are. I could stay all day in this, but our manager won't let us. Too bad really." "You don't want to be wearing them all day after sweating in those things without cleaning them. It's disgusting. But still, I can't help but wonder what it would be to wear one..." "You would look totally great in it, I bet." Soarin smiled. The comment was enough to cause both Twilight and Soarin to blush lightly. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to come out like that." Soarin apologized. "It's ok." Twilight smiled when she felt a certain presence becoming tense, indicating jealousy was arising in him. "So, I must ask, how did you get those amazing wings of yours? I amuse you've never had wings before recently?" asked Soarin. "Well, I've had my wings for a couple weeks now. I know a friend who is very powerful with magic and he created them for me after I did him a huge favor." "Wow, he must have had to read quite a few spellbooks to create pegasus wings. Most ponies don't know, but I like to read spellbooks. I may not be able to perform it, but a good spellbook can be great after a long day performing." Soarin smiled. Twilight's mouth opened in shock. "You read? I wouldn't have ever pegged you as the reading type." "It's shocking, I know, but a good book after a long day is quite relaxing. Do you read?" "Do I! I read literally all the time." "Really? What kind of books do you like to read?" "All sorts of books, but I've been reading spellbooks and flying manuals lately. I would like to learn how to fly not enough to be a showoff, but enough to at least amaze myself." "With all those books, your days must be filled." "They usually are. Until before I left for Canterlot a week ago and then came here, I would read so late that it would be early morning before I knew!" Twilight laughed. "How many books a night is that then?" "Maybe 2 or 3 as I am quite a fast reader." "You must be pretty lonely then. With all those books, it must keep your loneliness at bay." Soarin said with an embarrassed blush. Twilight blushed at the comment. "I'm not that lonely." she smiled. She suddenly felt Discord's presence tense up really tightly and quickly left her shoulders. She could feel him move towards a coatrack holding a few of the Wonderbolts jackets that Soarin was standing near. The coatrack began to shake, telling her to protect Soarin. "Look out, Soarin!" Twilight screamed as she flew at him, knocking him out of the way as the coatrack tumbled over to where Soarin was originally standing. Soarin looked at her in surprise as she now laid next to him on the ground. He quickly saw the coatrack on the ground and realized that Twilight had saved him from a possible concession. "You saved me from that falling coatrack!" Soarin said in shock. "I guess you owe Twilight now." spoke Rainbow Dash as she had witnessed the whole thing. "I don't know what to say to you, Twilight but thanks for saving me though!" Soarin smiled. "First you save a baby then you save Soarin. You are on a roll today with saving ponies, aren't you, Twilight?" asked Spitfire. "Perhaps we could hang out tonight. We have no show until tomorrow afternoon." "That sounds awesome!" Soarin exclaimed. "It's the least I could do after you saved me from that evil coatrack!" "I'd love to join you tonight. Rainbow would be so mad if I said no." Twilight laughed. "OMG! We're hanging with the Wonderbolts tonight!" Rainbow said excitedly, almost ready to take off at the speed of light she was so happy. "How about we head over to C-Hall?" Spitfire suggested. "It has the best dancing and music in Cloudsdale." "It sounds wonderful." Twilight smiled. "And best of all, there's no dress code!" Spitfire smiled. "Soarin, we should get out of our suits. You know how Phil will get on our cast about it if we don't." "Alright." Soarin said. Spitfire and Soarin both used their wings to get themselves out of their uniforms. Rainbow couldn't help but watch happily as she watched her idols (especially Spitfire) turning from Wonderbolt to regular pony. They quickly finished removing their outfits and were now regular looking ponies. "Come on, let's head out. Phil already knows we were heading out tonight anyways." Spitfire smiled as she trotted out of the room. As the others began to walk out of the dressing room, Twilight turned towards the fallen coatrack and glared at it since Discord's presence was technically still there. She would make sure to give him a good lecture before they headed to sleep tonight. "Twilight! You comin' or stayin'?" Soarin called out. "Coming!" Twilight said as she trotted out of the room, Discord's presence staying close to her. ---------------------------------------------------- "Did the spell work, Tia?" Luna asked her sister as she had just finished her tracking spell. "The spell did work indeed. Neither Twilight or Discord are anyway in Manehattan." Celestia informed. "That means Shining Armor and Cadence lied directly to my face." "But, where could they be, sister? We can't go all over Equestria just to find them!" explained Luna. "But with Shining Armor and Cadence, you probably understand why they lied to you." "They were just trying to protect Twilight from my spell. I'm not going to punish either of them for lying to me since they were only trying to protect their younger sister. As for the search, I can use the tracking spell but it'll be much more powerful then the first one, so it'll take alot more magic this time." Celestia explained. "Perhaps I should help you sister. So you're not worn out afterwards." "I was just going to ask for your help anyways. I still need my magic in order-" Celestia said with a lump in her throat. "-to perform the sleeping spell when we do find them." "Tia, before we do this, I have a suggestion. Perhaps before you have to-" Luna spoke with a lump in her throat as well. "-perform that spell, that her friends and family could be there one last time to at least say goodbye." Celestia's eyes began to water. "That would be a good idea, Luna. Everypony deserves a chance to at least say goodbye. Now, please help me with this tracking spell." "Of course, sister." Luna spoke as she caused her horn to fill with magic as Celestia's horn did the same. "Just follow my lead, sister." Celestia and Luna's horns began glowing with magic as they both performed the tracking spell, more powerful then the one Celestia had used earlier. The magic quickly left their horns and quickly spreaded all throughout Equestria in an attempt to locate Discord and Twilight. As the magic reached Cloudsdale, it quickly picked up Twilight and Discord's presence walking with Rainbow and the Wonderbolts to someplace. The magic quickly retreated from Cloudsdale and rushed back to the princesses. The magic returning made Celestia's eyes open in surprise before they returned to normal, water almost ready to fall out of them. "I-I've found them." she spoke sadly. "They're in Cloudsdale. Guards." "Yes, princess?" a guard asked who was with them at the time. "I want you to get to Ponyville and tell Twilight's friend to go to Cloudsdale and see twilight before I arrive there tonight with Luna. I also wish you to inform an associate in Canterlot for Twilight's family to get to Cloudsdale tonight as well as they may say good bye one last time." "Yes, princess." replied the guard. "Also, make sure a unicorn guard performs a cloud walking spell on Twilight's family as well. I will not allow anypony in the Sparkle family to be hurt physically. I cannot prevent the emotional pain though." "Yes princess. I shall leave right away. Shall I get another guard to teleport here to take you back to Canterlot?" "No, Luna and I will fly home. We will be fine, so don't worry about us. Now go!" Celestia yelled with a hoof towards the sky. "Right away!" the guard saluted before taking off towards the sky, flying as fast as he could towards Ponyville. "Come along, Luna. We need to head back home and need you to help how to do this spell the easiest way possible." Celestia said with tears running down her face. Luna walked over to her sister and put a wing around her in an attempt to comfort her. "I know this is going to be painful, sister, and it's hurting me as well, but you must take care of your country first before your own feelings. It's painful but you're doing the right thing. I know you are." Celestia sniffled. "I hope so, Luna. At least during the time they're asleep, we can eliminate Discord's past reputation and sway the ponies into believing he's changed." "We shall and we will, sister." Luna said with a sad smile. -------------------------------------------- Twilight, Rainbow, and the two Wonderbolts arrived at C-Hall, a highly popular nightclub that was usually had famous pegasi celebs inside and a really tight security. The four of them arrived at the front door to be greeted by the bouncer. "Hey there, Guardian. What's up?" smiled Spitfire at the bouncer. "Soarin and our two friends here would like to get inside. Care to let us in?" "Well, the sky obviously." laughed the bouncer. "Sure thing. You and your friends just head inside." "Thanks, Guardian. Try to keep the crazy fans out for me, ok?" she flirted. "Sure thing, Spitfire." the bouncer smiled at her as he let the four of them pass him before roping off the entrance after the last of them went inside. Inside the C-Hall was bouncing. They were so many different pegasi here it was like a rainbow! Most of them were on the dance floor dancing while a few of them were at some tables, drinking drinks and chatting away. "Flirting with Guardian works everytime. Too bad I'm not into the guy, so he can't have this!" Spitfire joked. "You three wanna immediately get out on the dance floor?" "Heck yeah!" Rainbow said excitedly. "Let's dance!" Soarin said as he flew onto the dance floor and began showing C-Hall his moves, causing both Spitfire and Twilight to laugh. As Twilight watched Soarin dance, Rainbow Dash quickly whispered something to her. "Hey, Twi. Isn't that the colt from the diner this morning over there?" Rainbow whispered as she pointed a hoof at a colt. Looking closely, Twilight realized that indeed it was the colt from the diner that morning! How in Equestria was Discord able to change himself back into his pegasus form and not have her to be able to sense it? Maybe he was more powerful than she thought. Twilight walked over to the pegasus and gave a smile. "Hey, aren't you that colt from the diner this morning?" Discord smiled at her. "Perhaps I am, my dear. Who wants to know?" he finished with a smirk. "I do." "You do now, huh? Perhaps we can figure this out after a dance? After all, you're wearing such a lovely dress that deserves to be shown off." he smiled. "Dress?" Twilight questioned before looking down to see she was wearing a light blue dress that was lose on her so she could dance in it. The dress itself was strapless and a low cut and covered her back hooves and tail completely. On her feet were black shoes that seemed to compliment her newly acquired dress. "But where did this dress...?" Twilight questioned. "Perhaps it was created by magic." he hinted. "Care to join me on the floor? We could make all the mares and stallions jealous." Rainbow Dash, who was not too far and could overhear the conversation, yelled out, "Dance, egghead! You never dance like ever!" Twilight blushed as several pegasi turned in response to Rainbow's shouting. "Now that Rainbow has gone and embarrassed me, I might as well dance with you." she said before whispering, "-and you and I have some discussing to do when we get back to the hotel." "Until then, let's dance." he whispered to her before using his left wing to drape over her and lead her onto the dance floor. "Ready to show these ponies what real dancing is like?" "And what in Equestria are we dancing to?" "This." he smirked as his left wing moved off of Twilight and flicked itself in the direction of the music booth, quickly ending whatever song that had been playing and causing a voice to come over the intercom. "Sorry to cut things short, everypony, but we have a special dance act here tonight! They're going to show you all to have the time of your lives! Give it up for Twilight Sparkle and Dizzy!" the voice said as a spotlight appeared on them and a soft song began to play. Discord and Twilight began to dance to the beginning of the song. "A soft song? I didn't think it was your style." "It's not. Just wait and see and follow my lead." he smirked at her. "Ok..." Twilight said in slight confusion. The music quickly turned into a slightly faster beat, but it still was the same song. Discord quickly got Twilight onto her back hooves and got her to stand upright as she and him began to lean in to each other as fast as the beat was going. After a few seconds of that, Discord twirled Twilight softly in a circle before pulling her back and danced her once more as the beat become slightly faster. "You're the one thing I can't get enough of. So I'll tell you something...this could be love because I've had the time of my life!" the song played through the nightclub. As the words 'this could be love!' played, the music turned quite energetic and at the moment, Discord twirled Twilight really quickly, causing her dress to literally become shorter as the bottom portion of the dress turned into magical energy butterflies and flew up through the ceiling of the club. Twilight also changed in the twirl as her hair was no longer in simply lying against her head, it grew somehow and flying through the air as she danced with Discord. The dress was now barely past her flank, barely covering up her cutie mark. The dress also flared out much more and was apparent as Discord spun her as it opened up in the air. The watching dance goers were stunned by the magical effect that happened with Twilight. They all cheered on the dancing couple as they danced quite energetically as Discord spun Twilight around him, to and from him, and in all different types of ways. As the musical intermission of the song came up, he pulled away from Twilight and softly danced about ten feet away from. "Yes I swear it's true and I owe it all to you!" the song sung softly before the music turned energetic once more. Shortly after the words were sung, Twilight suddenly felt herself run towards Discord, who was already prepared for this part of the dance, quickly caught her and lifted her into the air and himself as well, twirling her using the strength of his hooves. The crowd cheered in amazement at the part during the dance. He returned Twilight back to eye level and they continued to spin and dance while floating in the air. The song came to an end and the entire club cheered in amazement. They had never seen a dance quite like the one that was just performed. It had been so magical and energetic, many of the pegasi had recorded the dance and would most likely put in on YouTube. Twilight looked at Discord in amazement. "I never knew I could dance like that!" "With me, you can dance any style with ease." he smiled. "Now, didn't you say I was that colt from the diner?" "You definitely aren't. These dance moves are just too good for any ordinary stallion." she smiled. ------------------------------------------- After hanging out with the Wonderbolts that night, Rainbow waved goodbye to them as they flew back to their hotel. "That dance was amazing, Twilight!" Rainbow exclaimed for the thousandth time that night. "I know...I know..." Twilight said as they reached their hotel room and opened it up. "Surprise!" came an excited voice from inside, causing Rainbow and Twilight to jump. It was Pinkie Pie and the others in the room. They had come from Ponyville after one of Celestia's guards to go to Cloudsdale to spend time with Twilight by order of the princess. They were more then happy to head to Cloudsdale, though it did confuse them to a degree to why Celestia wanted them to spend time with Twilight anyways. "Pinkie Pie? Girls? What are you all doing here?" asked Twilight in confusion. "We came to see you silly! A guard told us to come and visit you by order of Celestia, which is really weird since she's never told us to actually be with you before..." Pinkie said before going on about something completely different. "Interesting. Well since you're all here...I guess we can have some fun..." smiled Twilight. --------------------------------------- After an hour and a half of basically partying with her friends, they all decided that they had to go to sleep as Pinkie said she was gonna throw a huge party for Cloudsdale tomorrow just for the heck of it and invite all the pegasi to it. The hotel room that Rainbow and Twilight were staying in (since the Wonderbolts just gave them the room to use) was rather large, so there was plenty of room for the four unexpected guests. After everypony had settled in and closed their eyes to head to the land of slumber, Twilight peeked her head from her room to make sure that indeed everypony was asleep before she lectured Discord at what had happened in the Wonderbolts dressing room. She took notice that the living room was dark and could hear two ponies snoring, signaling that they were fast asleep. Twilight smiled and closed the door. She turned around to face an empty bed with Discord's presence around her as he had turned back right after his dance with her. "Discord..." she began. "We need to talk. NOW." He quickly reappeared on the bed with his head resting on his lion paw, a smirk (like always) visible on his face. "What's with you? It's like you just received horrible news or something." "No, but what you almost did to Soarin was inexcusable! You need to learn to control your jealously when I'm talking to other stallions! It's not like I'm going to cheat on you or anything of the sort!" "I know but I need to tell the other stallions that you're mine." "Or make them think I'm cursed somehow! If I want to talk to other ponies, I will!" Discord let out a sigh of slight annoyance. "It seems your acceptance spell is starting to fade abit..." "Spell? What spell?" Twilight asked in confusion. "Exactly." he smiled as he walked over to her and met his eyes with hers. "Perhaps my jealously is a good thing, my dear. It might protect from any stallions that try to hurt you." he smiled as his eyes began to produce hypnotic swirls as Twilight's eyes did the same. After a few seconds of hypnotic swirls in her eyes, Twilight shook her head, the red in her eyes now glowing more brightly than ever. "I guess you're right. Your jealously is protecting me, but still, let me talk to a stallion abit before becoming jealous, ok?" "As you wish, my dear." he said with a simple smile. "How about we head to sleep? After all that dancing, you must be tried." Twilight let out a yawn. "I should head to sleep." Twilight climbed onto the bed and laid herself comfortably as Discord surrounded her body with his own. The lights were turned off magically as the two lovebirds fell asleep. But just two hours later, around 1am, there was a loud knock on the main hotel room door.