//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 Medals and trophies // Story: Rainbows and music // by Flat spin //------------------------------// MLP: FiM Rainbows and music By: flat spin Two of them left the house and Dash asked Soarin. “What are we gonna do now?” “Just follow me.” Soarin said and they started flying away from Dash’s house. They flew over Sweet apple acres and they could see Fire streak and Applejack lying under an apple tree hugging each other and sleeping. Soarin and Dash just looked at them as they flew over the tree and continued away from the farm. “So… where are you taking me?” “I’m taking you to my favourite place in the world.” Soarin said and pointed at a huge mountain range that was in front of them. Mountains were huge they pierced the clouds and Dash could see several rainbow coloured waterfalls and a small town. “Rainbow falls?” “Yeah… this is where I live.” “I always taught that you lived in Cloudsdale with the other wonderbolts.” “I do but this is where I come when I’m not working.” Soarin as they landed near the small village. “This is a quiet village… The are no paparazzis or fanfillys here to annoy me. All the villagers know why I come here and they understand to respect my privacy. this is a perfect place to just run away from the high-life of Cloudsdale.” Soarin told Dash while looking at a house near a cliff. “Follow me Dashie.” Soarin said and walked towards the house. It wasn’t huge or grand but it looked cosy. it was next to one of the rainbowfalls and from the porch of the house you could see not only Ponyville but also to Cloudsdale and Chanterlot of course Chanterlot was located on a side of a mountain and Cloudsdale being a floating city they weren’t hard to spot in the horizon far away. Soarin and Dash got to the door of the house and Soarin opened the door. Dash took a look inside and saw that the house was decorated like an old hunting cabin. There were all kinda prices from flight competitions on the shelves and on the wall there were military medals and honour certificates from different conflicts and from different generals and captains. There were even two certificates that had the stamp of the royal sisters on them. Dash always thought that she had a lot of prices… but Soarin had like three or four times more and most of them were given to him by high ranking military leaders. Dash’s best price was the number one place in the young flyers competition but it was nothing when compared to some of these honours that Soarin had accomplished. Soarin walked to the couch and laid down and put his arms behind his head. “Well Dashie… are you gonna come in? or just stay in the door way for the rest of the night?” “I have never seen anything like this…” Dash was amazed by the trophies and other medals and honour certificates. as she walked in Soarin said. “Not all of these are mine. all those trophies and medals on that wall are mine.” Soarin said and pointed at the wall next to Dash. There were still like two time as many trophies and medals from flight competitions than Dash had. “All of those military medals and honour certificates are my big brothers. He flies because it is his duty and that’s why he has all those military honours… I fly because flying is the second best thing in the world and I enjoy it… that’s why I’ve got all those prices from competitions.” Soarin said as he walked next to Dash. “So you brother is as different kinda flyer?” Dash asked. “He doesn’t like to show his skills… But he is just as good of a flyer as me but I joined the wonderbolts and he joined the REAF (royal equestrian air force). Both of us practice flying as our job but we do it in different sections of the military and for different reasons and get our “trophies” from different people” Soarin said and opened a door next to the wall that housed all his brother’s medals and honours. Soarin walked into the room and Dash walked behind him. The room had one bed, writing table, book shelf and a closet that was full of military uniforms. There were two flags and a shield on the walls. The first flag was the Equestrian flag and the second was a flag that had a picture of a Pegasus that had a military flight gear on and there were text around this pony that red “1st naval aviation squad. carrier EQS Dawnbreaker.” and then the shield that was above the bed. it had a picture of a lightning bolt on it and on the both sides of the lightning there were swords. “This is his room… he is the capitan of the 1st naval aviation squad called wardog… he is proud of his job.” Soarin said and walked out of the room and opened the door next to the wall that housed his trophies. Dash followed him in again and saw a room that was decorated almost identically but the closet was full of wonderbolt uniforms and on the wall next to the Equestrian flag was the flag of the wondebolts and on it was the text “1st Areal demonstration squad. Cloudsdale’s best.” and above the bed was a shield that had Soarin’s cutie mark on it. “And as you know I’m second in command of the 1st Areal demonstration squad called the wonderbolts... both of us love flying he does it because he wants to protect the one thing he love and that is Equestria. I fly because I want to inspire others. We are similar in many ways but one thing that separates us is the reason why we fly for the air force.” “So why didn’t you join his squad or why didn’t he join the wonderbolts.” Dash asked. “I see that the biggest honour in life is to inspire others. He sees that the biggest honour is to protect what you love with your life… both of us know that we can’t serve in the same squad because of that reason… But since we are the only family that we got we have to respect each other choices.” Soarin said and looked Dash straight into her eyes. “Why did you want to show this to me?” Dash asked and hugged Soarin. “I want you to meet him… since I don’t have a dad… ever since that day when we discovered that we were brothers he has taken care of me in so many ways… even thou our work takes the most of the time we always find a way to spend time together. And if you are gonna be with me I want him to approve you. So that you could be a part of our little family.” “Why wouldn’t he approve me?” Dash asked and gave Soarin a kiss. “I was supposed to meet him yesterday… but I was in your bed the whole night… not the best first impression. but I think he would understand… he is really nice but sometimes he can be a bit overprotective of his little brother.” Soarin said to Dash and returned the kiss. “I’m sure it will work out.” Dash said and hugged Soarin even tighter. “So when I’m gonna meet him?” “He just got deployed to the Dawnbreaker which is stationed it he north-sea at the moment… I already pulled some string so he could have a short holiday in a couple of days... so I would say some day next week.” “Ok that’s good to know.” Dash said and walked out of the house to the porch of the house. Soarin followed her and the sat next to each other looking at the horizon as the sun begun to set. “It’s a pretty decent view… right?” Soarin asked “Yeah… it’s beautiful… Soarin you said that “Flying is the second best thing in the world” what is the best thing it the world?” Dash asked as two of them stopped looking at the sun set and turned to face each other. “You are.” Soarin said and gave Dash a long kiss. the kiss that they shared wasn’t filled with lust and passion like last night but it was tender and loving. Soarin pulled away looking at Dash’s magenta eyes that sparkled in the sunset and said. “We should probably get back to Scoots before she thinks that I kidnapped you.” Soarin said while smiling. “Yeah… let’s grab some pizza’s on the way to take home.” Dash said and gave Soarin a small kiss on the cheek. Two of them flew back towards ponyville while the sun was setting and the moon was rising colouring the horizon in different shades of purple and orange. It was one of the most beautiful sunsets either of them had ever seen and they were flying in to it while holding each others hooves.