Vacation and Love

Chapter 3: Day One

Soarin finds himself flying through a sea of clouds.  While at the same time, feeling the wind through his mane,  his tail and his feathers.  He then lands on a cloud and lays down on what it feels like a giant pillow.  Until he hears something and when he looks up, he sees a beutiful cyan-coated mare.

He then regonizes Rainbow Dash, and then flies up to her but before he could get to her, she then flies off but not fast.  So he then follows her and when he catches up to her, she then flies circles around her and Soarin plays along.

After what appears to be hours of what some could say that they were dancing in the sky, Soarin lands on a cloud on his back and Rainbow lands on top of him and then they wrap there hooves around each other and she says

"I love you Soarin."

"I love you too."

And just before they kissed he fell through the clouds screaming then all of a sudden

"THUNCK!"

After that, Soarin then looks around and realizes that he was dreaming and that he fell off of the couch.  It took him a while to find his bearings and that he is in Rainbow Dash's house.  He then looks outside and sees that it is early in the morning and thinks when he rubs the back of his head with a hoof

"Maybe I should do something Dash.  But would that be rushing it, what would she think.  This is harder then I thought it would be."

He then finally decides to make Dash breakfest.  So he then went and found the kitchen and sees that she seems to have some dirty dishes laying around and when he was about to decide on what to do, he hears a grunt behind him and when he turns around, he sees Rainbow Dash.

And from the look of her, she gotten out of the shower "She looks good with that wet mane of hers."

"I see you are up already."

"Yes I am.  And I was wondering what is for breakfest?"

"Well, I was going to make some toast and eggs."

"That sounds fine."

So then he went to sit at the table while Rainbow cook up the breakfest.  And while she was doing that, Soarin thinks to himself "So then, what to do today?  I guess I could hang out with her for a few days then I'll ask her to go on a date with me and go from there."

After about an hour, Rainbow comes into the dining hall with two plates, on each hoof and she put one in front of Soarin and after that, she sat down and both of them started eating in silence.

After some time, Soarin says "So, what is the plans for today?"

"Well, Since today is going to be sunny, how about a race?"

"This could be a good chance to impress her." "That sounds fun."

"Alright, since we are done with the food, let us go race."

So then, both of them left Dash's home, they went off and landed on a cloud and Dash says "Alright, we will race the entire length of Ponyville and we will do three laps around.  And this cloud is the starting place."

"Sounds good Dash."

"Alright, On your mark"

Both of them crouch down "Should I go easy on her?"

"Get set."

They then unfurl there wings "No, she may not want me to go easy on her."

"Go!"

And there off, at first Rainbow is in the lead but then Soarin gets right beside her and they are neck in neck.  But as soon as they are on there second lap, Soarin pulls ahead "Come on Dash, if you want to be in the Wonderbolts, you have to give it your all."

And with that, Dash pulls beside him and says "Hey, I'll give it my all and 20% more."

She then pulls up ahead and Soarin thinks "She is good, awesome, cool and cute all at the same time."

And for the remainder of the lap, Dash was ahead.  Then on the third lap, Soarin pulls up along side her and tries to pull on ahead until Rainbow says "Not so fast."

All of a sudden, a cone forms up around her and then Soarin realizes what she is about to do.

"BOOM"

A Sonic Rainboom was formed and Soarin just stopped in mid air and sees a long streak of rainbow right behind Dash.  "She is not just awesome or cute, she is amazingly wonderful."

And after that, Dash came up to him and says "So then Soarin, how was that?"

"That was amazing and awesome."

Then a blush appears on Dash's cheeks, but before Soarin sees it she turns her head to the side and says

"Thanks, I'm just awesome that way."

"And cute." Soarin says to himself

Rainbow then quicly turns her head to him and says "What was that?"

Soarin then realizes that he said that out loud he tries to mumble an excuse, but before he could says anything, she puts a hoof on his lips and when she did that, Soarin's heart seem to have skip a beat and she says

"No need to apologize for that."  she then gets close to him and says "Besides, I think you are handsome yourself."

"Am I dreaming?"

Before he could respond, se then says with a nervous look "So then...how about we go to Surger Cube Corner."

"Sure thing."

So then both of them flew off towards the gingerbread like house and landed at the front door.  When they went in Pinkie Pie ran up and says "Gooooood morning you two.  Did you like my party last night, did ya did ya?"

"Yes Pinkie, I did." says Soarin

"All right.  So what can I get you two?"

"Some apple pie will be nice."

"Okie dokie lokie." she says and hops behind the counter and grabs a pie and says "One apple pie, coming right up."

After she gave them there pie, Soarin and Dash sat down at a table and talked about what they been doing since the wedding.  After they were done talking Soarin says "Well, that was great, how about I tell you a bit about myself."

"Really Soarin!  I would like that."

"All right, where should I begin,  Well I grew up in Cloudsdale and went to flight school where I made a few freinds who are Spitfire, Fire Streak and Fleetfoot whom you know are all in the Wonderbolts with me.  My father was in the Wonderbolts himself.  Both he and my mother met at a show of his and from what they told me, when he did his grand finale, she thought she felt some sort of connection with him.  So both he and her went out on a date the next day and before they realize it, they fell in love and gotten married in just three months.  And then I was born a year later."

"So enough about me, how about you."

He then sees that Dash is a little bit nervous and when he sees this, he says "If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to."

"No, I should tell somepony this."

She then breaths in deeply and says

"Well, As for where I came from, I think it was in Cloudsdale also.  But to be honest, I never knew my parents, I was an orphan."

Soarin was surprised to hear this and was feeling sorry for her.  After a few minutes, she continues

"But I was raised by an uncle of mine who took me in and cared for me.  And he tought me everything I knew and sends me to Fight camp where I met Gilda and Fluttershy.  And there is where I learned about the Wonderbolts and my dream began and after that I moved here to Ponyville.  From that moment on, I trained to be the best flyer ever."

And when Soarin heard all this, he then realizes that Rainbow Dash is the type of mare that could do anything if she puts her mind to it.

"Wow, that is some life you had."

"Yea, it was fun and cool."

And after that, they left the place and payed for the pie and flew around while Dash does her weather job.  And then after a while, it is getting near past noon.  And Dash says

"Hey, why don't you come with me to the park.  Me and my friends are having a picnic there."

"I would love to." says Soarin happily

"Alright."

So then both of them walked towards the park and after arriving, they see Dash's friends and the same two colts that he met at the party.

When Twilight sees them, she says "Finally Dash, you made it."

They then sat down and talked about many things.  Then out of the corner of Soarins eye, he sees the cutie mark crusaders playing near them and probably thinking of ways to earn there cutie marks.

He then turns to Big Mac and Caramel and says "So, what are you two up too?"

Big Mac says "Well, I'm just here with Fluttershy and Caramel is here with Applejack."

"So not much." says Caramel

Soarin was surprised that this big red stallion could fall for shuch a shy little mare and Caramel seems to like AJ a lot from what he could tell.

But what surprised him more is what Caramel says next "You like Rainbow Dash do ya?"

He then was speechless for a few minutes and his face turned red as Big Macs coat.

"Yes!  I knew it, you not just like her, you love her." says Caramel

"Well...I...I do like her." says Soarin with a nervous voice

"Well then tell her you do like her."

"But how?"

"Well, I told Fluttershy by taking her to a hill to watch the sunset and I myself was nervous about it.  But when I told her I love her, she said the same thing to me and now she is my mare friend." says Big Mac

"Or, you could just out right say it.  When I fell in love with AJ, it was some time at the wedding that I was lucky enough to be at.  And I saw her at the reception in that wonderful dress, I sort of fell in love right away.  And then after about a moth after that, I told her at her apple stand.  And to my surprise, she likes me back and we been together ever since." says Caramel

"Wow, thanks you two.  I hope to learn something from this." says Soarin

And after some time, they packed up and all of them went home and Soarin went with Dash to her cloud home.  When both of them went inside, Soarin says "Hey Dash."

"Yea Soarin."

"I was wondering if by chance you want to hang out again tomorrow?"

He then hears a gasp from her and then "Of course, I would love to."

And before he realizes it, she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and she went upstairs leaving Soarin standing there with his mane standing on edge.

"She just kissed me!  I might have a chance after all."