The Royal Package

by Honsolo26

Rating: teen
Tags: Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rainbow Dash, Romance, Adventure
Length: 2824

You get a delivery order from the princess, and she pairs you with the best flyer in equestria.

I was a senior delivery stallion for the Equestrian Postal Service with a special delivery from the princess herself to the historical island of Soma, but this one was different. The princess issued me a Royal Canterlot chariot and a companion. It was a Pegasus, like me, from a small town named Ponyville. She claims to be the fastest flyer in all of Equestria.

Published 2012-02-09 23:54:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-02-19 00:56:46 UTC

The Meeting

I strain my neck to make sure the package I was carrying was safely tied up and ready for the long three day trip to some island of the coast of Equestria. I was a senior delivery stallion for the Equestrian Postal Service with a special delivery from the princess herself to the historical island of Soma, but this one was different. The princess issued me a Royal Canterlot chariot and a companion. It was a Pegasus, like me, from a small town named Ponyville. She claims to be the fastest flyer in all of Equestria. I think her name was... Rainbow Dash? I'll have to find out later.

(In Ponyville)

"Dash are ya sure ya can make it to Soma Island?" asked the yellow earth pony.
"Ready? I was born ready!" exclaimed the eager Rainbow Dash.
“But why did the princess decide to choose you to assist the senior delivery stallion?”
Twilight said, walking up to the two ponies.
“Probably because I’m the best flyer in all of Equestria” she said as she lifted off in the air to show off advanced tricks only a well trained Pegasus can pull off.
“But this ain’t no sprint, ya need to slow down and try to save as much strength as ya can, cause it’s a three day trip from the coast.” Rainbow Dash scoffs “Three days? I could fly for a whole week!”
Twilight speaks up “There is no way anypony can fly for a whole week straight! It’s just physically impossible.
Dash flies around twilight causing her to fall down. “Nothing is impossible for the best Twi.”

(At post office outside of Manehatten)

I buckle the chariot straps to my back and stretch out my wings. It’s a long trip from Manehatten to Ponyville, but even a longer one to the Island of Soma. I hope who ever is pared up with me is a good conversationalist. The packers load the two boxes onto the cart and I strain to hold the wait with out a partner until I get to Ponyville. Once the teamsters give me an ok sign I extend my wings and start running. The farther I go the faster my wings get. When I finally get fast enough I start getting higher and higher.
I know I have flown for the majority of my life, but one does not simply forget the first time they fly for the first time, and to this day it’s still breath taking as I fly through the air, feeling the wind in my blue mane, the clouds moistening my yellow fur. Every time I fly, it’s amazing every, single time.
I fly higher to avoid the common air traffic so that there would be no interruptions.
Most delivery ponies use the standard 50 yards airspace for the normal mail routes but seeing as this is a royal package, I help myself to the rarely used 75 yard airspace.
I look below me, gazing at the wide open countryside below me, seeing the occasional farm or frontier town. You never think about how big Equestria is until you fly the width of it. I pull out my watch I got for my 18th birthday from all the employs of the post office (I have worked there since I was 7 years old) at it read 6 o’clock. I left around, I’d say around 1 o’clock, so I should be arriving in ponyville any moment. I slowly begin my decent to land. Every foot I lower I get more curious to whom I will be traveling with for this delivery.

After 10 minutes of gliding downwards I touch the ground and slow to a trot as I reach the outer limits of ponyville. As I reach the main road, I am greeted by a pink and hyper pony. “Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie! I’m the official town greeter! How are you, is there anything I can get you? *Gasps* you’re the Delivery pony that Dashie was talking about!” I slightly blush from the sudden recognition.
“Wow, I didn’t know I was known around here. Can you take me to Rainbow Dash? I have a few things I need to discuss with her.”
“Okie dokie! Follow me and I’ll take you there.” I unhook my luggage from my slightly bruised back from carrying heavy luggage meant for two ponies. She leads me to a tree-house thing and opens the door. I walk in and notice 5 ponies, probably awaiting the new stranger that is taking their rainbow colored friend to a distant island.
“So you’re…” Dash pauses, waiting for my name.
I brush back my mane, for added effect, “I’m Light, Light Flight, and I am the Senior Deliv-“ I was suddenly stopped by a cyan colored hoof to the chest.
I look up to see a rainbow colored mane and Magenta colored eyes. She was the most beautiful pony I have ever layed eyes on. I wasn’t planning on trying dating soon but…
“We don’t need a formal intro, just tell us your name and relax, it’s going to be a long trip, you should rest and take a load off.” She nodded to my mail sack.
“I didn’t realize I still had it, I swear I left it back in Manehattan.”
Rarity speaks up, “You can just set it by the door, darling.” I do as she says and walk back to the table they were sitting at.

I look at the ponies around me and notice one with pink hair, covering her left eye. I whisper to Rainbow, “Why hasn’t she said anything?” She scoots closer and whispers back,
“She is extremely shy, especially around new people.

Pinkie Pie notices the silence, loudly shouts “Well, Let’s starts Rainbow Dash’s
Goodbye party!” And almost instantly streamers and balloons start falling from the ceiling, and a plethora of ponies start streaming from the door. Where the hell did all these ponies come from? Before I had a chance to finish my thought I was grabbed by the hoof and taken to the bar area. I looked and saw it was Applejack and she was moving behind the bar. I didn’t know this place even had a b- “Since you’re the new comer I though you would be the first to have a drink. What would ya like?”
I thought for a moment “I would like some apple cider, spiked” I winked when I finished my sentence, and she got my drift. She got the cider and vodka and poured it together in a shot glass for me. I grabbed it from the table and right before I gulped it down; I looked to my left and saw Rainbow Dash looking at me. She blushed and quickly looked away.
I slightly smiled as I finished my shot. I tell A.J. to hand me some beer. She handed it to me and I walked towards Dash, dancing and sliding around all the partying ponies trying to get to my target. She looks up at me and awkwardly smiles
“Oh, hey Light, how’s the party for ya?” I nod and say,
“It’s nice, but I wanna know how Pinkie Pie set all this up so fast?” She giggles “Heck, I don’t even know, it’s a mystery, even for twilight.” There was an awkward silence. I break the silence, “So, do you uhh, wanna go out on the balcony and talk? It’s going to be a long trip so we might as well get acquainted with each other. She blushes again,
“Sure why not?” We stand up and walk towards the stairs. I grab her hoof as a gesture of politeness. I know this is driving her nuts, for her cheeks match the color of her beautiful eyes. I open the door and we sit on the chairs conveniently places and sit in silence for a few minutes. She is the first one to speak up,
“So, is there anypony waiting for you at home?” I’m shocked at the suddenness of the question, even though I know the answer quickly.
“No, but what about you, I’m sure somepony goes for you faster than a Wonderbolt.
“Nah, I’m usually not into the dating scene like the rest of my friends. I thought to myself, this is the perfect time. “Well, I know we haven’t known each other for that long, but would you be int-“She grabs me and shoves her warm lips on mine. I don’t do anything for the first few seconds, but her perfect lips finally take me away, and I kiss back.

We sit there for a few minutes just kissing, but she tries to lean forward on me, slowly trying to stick her tongue on mine, but I return with my own attempt, and we keep on for what seems like forever.

But now she is fully on top of me, taking breaths every so often. I fell her warm breath on my ear “Yes, I will be yours” I shift over on top of her and whisper to her,
“Too late.” She smiles, and starts nibbling on my ear. I can feel her getting wetter as we go on.
She speaks up, “Shall we take it to your place or mine.” I laughed
“I don’t have a place actually”
She starts rubbing my, uhh, yea…
“I suppose you can share mine, babe”
I’ll spare the rest of the details, but I’ll tell you this, we made the most passionate love ever experienced in the history of ponykind.

The Trip

A/N: This was supposed to be posted Friday, but do to site problems and some complications its going to be posted late. Thanks and enjoy part II !

(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.