Voyage Of The Unforgotten!
Chapter 34- The Aurora Borealis of Courage!

Rainbow Dash's P.O.V

The next morning, it was pretty hot and moist. I opened my eyes and saw Jaja sleeping over Soarin's face and I heard Soarin's snores. I giggled and then tapped Sunset's shoulder. She was writing to Princess Twilight about our experience on the island.

“Good morning Rainbow Dash. Did you sleep good?”

I stretched my arms and accidentally hit Soarin's face and then Jaja jumped off of him and then started to stretch.

“Yeah I slept pretty good. I just need to spend some time to myself.” I started walking down the ladder of the hut.

“You need some company Master?” Crystal popped up.

“No, I'm fine on my own. No need!” I walked to the leaves and then found a small little pond and sat in front of it.

I breathed the cool fresh air of the atmosphere and a red macaw flew on my shoulder. It squawked in my face and then flew away while other smaller red macaws following behind. I smiled but looked at my reflection in the water and then sighed. I heard leaves crunching and saw Soarin sat next to me while Jaja purring against him.

“What are you doing here? I don't think you got the concept of spending some time to myself…”

“Look, you can say what you want. I'm here to help you anyway I can. So, what's up with you? You've been so quiet lately. Is everything alright?”

“I'm fine Soarin.”

“You say that ALL the time when you're not. Come on Dashie tell me what's wrong. I wanna help you.”

“Ugh! And being here isn't helping me!! I just wanna be alone is that so hard to ask for!?!” I got up and then walked away.

“....I just want what's best for you….”

“Well stop trying!!! You're not doing anything!!”

That's when I burst into tears and then collapsed on the ground and then Soarin hugged me.

“Woah, you're worse than I thought.”

“Fine, I'll tell you. Ever since we've came on this island, I realized we're not getting any closer to Gemporia. Instead we're just fooling around. And all those Grimm creatures? I'm only defeating them with the help of you guys and so I'm not enough to defeat Tirek. It's a lost cause..as soon as we bring Jaja back to her owner, I'm going back to India…”

“W-Why?”

“Look around you Soarin?! How much days left we have until Lord Tirek destroys Gemporia and India? We've only got 12! We're not even close to finding Gemporia at this rate. What makes a difference in hunting him down?”

“Either way Dashie both countries will be destroyed if you don't find Gemporia. So it's a lose-lose situation.” Soarin shrugged his shoulders. He smiled at me and then nudged my face cheek.

“Maybe after we find Jaja’s owner, we will find Gemporia quicker. I believe it's not far from here. Maybe another clue from the book perhaps can help us a bit more?”

“Soarin you're a genius! Come on, let's go read some more!”

Transition to next scene….

“So you think a page in this book can help us find Gemporia quicker? Seems risky but I'm up for a good challenge.” Twilight spoke up while watching me and Soarin flicking through the pages.

“There's just gotta be something here! There's just gotta be!”

“To be honest, I missed Tiran…”

We all forward our heads to Pinkie who was stroking down Jaja’s fur. Pinkie was resting by a tree trunk and then looked away. I sighed and looked at my feet.

“You're right. I do too…” I confessed while I stopped flicking pages. “I just hope he's okay.”

“I'm sure he's fine. It was pretty fun when he was pretending to be Ramõn.” Sunset snickered. We all doubled with laughter and I grunted.

“Oh please! Don't get me started!”

“Oh come on Dashie! I'm sure you liked some of his teasing!”

“I don't! And that's a fact! Anyway, this isn't going to help find a clue to find Gemporia!!”

“Well, it's helping lighting up our mood. Take a break darling. I'm sure all this voyaging stuff is making you become stressful. Relax and cool down. I'm sure what you need is some relaxation!!” Rarity made me lay on the grass and then started to check my arms and feet.

“Rarity I'm fine.”

“Ah ah ah! Not another word! Soarin sweetie would you mind massaging Dashie's shoulders for me while I find something to really cool her down?”

“Yes ma'am.” Soarin chuckled and then placed his soft soothing hands over my shoulders. His gentle fingers stroked my shoulders softly and I could feel his hot breath blowing against my back causing me to shiver. I could feel the blood in my cheeks rising to its climax as it reached my nose. Soarin then passed through my neck and down on my back and caused me to react. This reaction was a soft squeak making my cheeks boil from heat.

“Are you enjoying yourself Rainbow?” Rarity smirked at me while picking up some leaves and making something out of them. I moaned softly in reply and then Soarin looked down on me.

“If you want me to stop, I can. I will totally understand if you get highly uncomfortable.”

“No no! I want you to keep going!” I squealed and then pulled my shirt and gasped for air. This compared to ponying up was far more desirable! Usually when I pony up it would feel awesome and so cool just growing ears and a tail, but Soarin's massaging was just exhilarating!! I didn't want to make him feel weird by my panting and little soft squeals here and there so I tapped his hand and then told him to stop.

“So after that little moment, do you feel rejuvenated?” Rarity patted my head.

“Yes I really do. Thanks Soarin. I feel more relaxed than ever. I guess a break won't hurt.”

“Hold on! While that was going on, I read a couple of pages and somehow, one of them had the word Gemporia in it and also something about finding it!” Twilight cleaned her glasses and then pointed to a page in the book and it was a picture that contained some magical swirly thing that was in the sky.

“Ooohhh what is that?!” Pinkie jumped up.

“It's called ‘Aurora Borealis’. It's strange beautiful lights that light up the sky dramatically. Only to be found at night. It says here you can only spot them at this very island. Towards the end of the line of the northern lights, it will direct you to Gemporia.” Sunset read what was written on the page. “They look really beautiful. The book says there's one tonight. Let's hope we all stay alert!”

“Is this only on the island? I know you see this on other colder climates. But why the island? The temperature here is hot and humid.” Fluttershy replied softly.

“Fluttershy's right! Hmmm, seems to me like this requires some scientific research. According to my knowledge of Science..”

“Oh boy here we go…” Applejack sighed and tilted her hat over her face.

“The sun's many magnetic fields distort and twist as our parent star rotates on its axis. When these fields become knotted together, they burst and create so called sunspots. Usually, these sunspots occur in pairs. The largest can be several times the size of Earth's diameter.”

“Basically meaning that the sun's magnetic fields break apart at first then then get collided together and burst into what we call northern lights.” Sunset rephrased Twilight's statement.

“Thanks Twilight and Sunset. So now we know what can help us, we can only see it at night. We got a few hours ahead of us. What can we do in the meantime? Any suggestions?” Crystal smiled and then snuggled on my cheek.

“I have an idea!!” Pinkie perked up!

Transition to next scene….

“I'm regretting this!”

“Oh come on Dashie! I'm sure it won't be too bad!”

We all hid behind a bush and saw Pinkie tippy toeing to a tiger. The whole family of tigers were just sleeping peacefully. All Pinkie wanted to do was scare them for fun!

“Pinkie, this isn't such a good idea…”

“Relax Flutters! I got this!”

She inched closer and closer to the tigers and then positioned herself in a pouncing position.

“This is how we hunt back home in Africa.” She whispered in Twilight's ear.

“Wait! You're an-”

“Shush!” Pinkie scolded her and then climbed on a rock and then launched herself at the sleeping tigers.

“Cannonball!!!” She exclaimed with all her lungs and then a tiger’s jaw roared at her and Twilight used her magic and levitated her to the other side of the den. Pinkie giggled and then the tigers started chasing at us.

“Well there goes our-”

“RUN!!!!!”

We all ran as fast as we can as the tigers were chasing us.

“We can make it!! We're fast enough!” I yelled as loud as I can while finding my geode but the sapphire was in the way.

“Actually, tigers can run up to 30 through 40 miles per hour. So they can easily outrun all of us.” Fluttershy spoke up while running too. After a while, we all hid in between some rocks and then all the tigers left. We all doubled with laughter and then we kept laughing historically.

“What a blast!” Soarin laughed so hard and then Pinkie kept snorting.

“Hehehe, now that's what I call hunting in style!” She snorted even more. Even if we were all panting away, we kept laughing away.

“So how we gonna get outta this mess?” Applejack grunted while we were all stuck together and burst into laughter again. Applejack was struggling to get out but then we all were struggling to break free and while we were, something strange happened.

I closed my eyes and felt my lips slightly touched someone else's. Their lips were very soft and tender. I opened my eyes and saw Soarin's face turning a bright shade of red and so were mine. We both looked away and then looked back into each other's eyes.

“Oh, uh, s-sorry. M-My fault!” I kept stuttering and began to pull away from the rock.

“No it's fine. I mean we partially touched-” Soarin froze in place and then his cheeks turned to a darker shade of red and then coughed a bit. “I-It was an accident either way!” He blurted out.

“My accident...I’m so sorry! I was trying to get out and also everyone was pushing one another and-”

“Dash relax. It was just an accident. I mean, it wasn't hehehe bad.” He smiled sheepishly and took my hand. “Let's just continue okay? It was just a tiny peck on the lips. It's not gonna change anything.”

“It will in the future!!” Rarity hummed and gave us both a wink. My face burned and then I gave her a glare. She continued to giggle and then me and Soarin just doubled with laughter and then we walked back to our hut and then held hands the whole way.

That night….

“Hahahaha yeah it's pretty fun when you do that. I mean my sister thought I was crazy but it was pretty fun.”

“So, you just started singing in Italian but she didn't know what you were saying so she thought you were crazy?”

“Yup pretty much. Even if she's a pain, I love her with all my heart. Halo is like a part of me.”

It was night and me and Soarin were down on the grass and we were just having a chat. Until he broke my concentration.

“Psst, hey! I need to show you something amazing!” Soarin smiled at me and then grabbed my hand.

“Where are we going? I hope it's not anyplace dumb!”

“Hehehe, no it's someplace special! Come!”

Soarin gave me a smirk that made my cheeks a light pink and then he started climbing up a tree near the hut. He went pretty far and I couldn't see him. I leaned against the trunk and saw his figure far up in the tree and he told me to come up. I started climbing the tree and then finally reached the top.

“So, why are we here?”

“Turn around!”

I turned around and saw all the twinkling stars connecting and the indigo dark sky and the stars were just shining in place. My jaw was wide open and Soarin covered it and chuckled.

“Hahaha, speechless huh?”

“Very! Soarin this is just majestic!”

“I knew you would've like it! So, uh wanna star gaze?”

“At this beautiful sight?! Of course I mean who wouldn't?!” I smiled and cuddles against him. We looked at all the stars and we would see what each of them connected too.

Soarin's P.O.V

“Hahaha, that one looks like a dog!” I chuckled and so did she.

“Like Monoko? Hahaha just kidding. Hmmm, that one looks like a rabbit. Hehehe, see the fluffy tail?”

“Yeah I see it! What about that one over there? It looks like a rhino?”

“No you're angling it wrong. It's a bull. See the two horns?”

That's when my brain shut down completely. I started to sniff a bit and then I got up and then Dash looked at me and then she stopped smiling.

“Soarin? What's wrong?”

I didn't look back at her and I just started crying even more. I assumed she heard my sniffs because she hugged me.

“Was it something I said? Come on Soarin you're scaring me!” Her voice cracked a bit and her bright magenta eyes filled with tears. She placed her hand over my cheek and placed my head down to her level. I don't think I mentioned that Dash is pretty short. It's cute though.

“Soarin come on respond! I'm so sorry! If it's my fault, I'm incredibly sorry. But, I don't understand how bulls can-”

“STOP!!” I hollered out while tears were streaming down my face. She stepped back a bit, baffled at my response.

“Just stop right there…” I sniffed and then started crying even more. Dash stared at me with her mouth opened. She then closed her mouth and sighed.

“Awwww Soarin….what’s wrong? You can tell me.”

“Y-Ya sure? It's a pretty long story….and I don't want us to miss the aurora-”

“Hush hush. Who cares about some dumb lights?” She smirked at me while her finger was over my lips.

“But what about Gemporia? You need the lights to navigate there.”

“Look, what matters most is that you're happy and you're okay. Gemporia can wait. Now, tell me. I'm all ears!” She smiled and then sat down again. I sighed and started telling her the story.

“Well, a long time ago, my dad was the most famous bull fighter in the world. The mayor saw how much he loved bull fighting so one day, he got my dad a spot in the bullfighting tournament. My dad was the best one in the ring, and if he won, his family would get 25,000 dollars.”

“Woah! So what happened after that?!”

“He realized he shouldn't make promises he couldn't keep. The mayor offered him the deal and so he went. My dad was defeating bulls right after the next. He was unstoppable. Until the finals. The bull was huge and was the most fiercest bull ever. He wanted to win this as much as possible for his family and for my mom.”

“Awwwww! Wait your mom was there?!”

“Yeah she was pregnant with me. She was 7 months. Anyway, my dad wouldn't give up in fighting this bull. He wanted his family to be blessed with riches. My dad loved his family SO much we would even sacrifice himself to make them happy. And that's what he did…”

Dash's smile deflated as her hands were over her mouth and a tear fell from her right eye.

“The bull’s horns destroyed him and everyone was heartbroken. My dad was a brave soldier. He was caring, sweet, a bit shy at times but a loveable heart and soul. My mom says that-”

“You're just like him.”Rainbow interrupted me. Her eyes filled with tears. She wiped her tears and then walked up to me and then hugged me tightly. I heard her crying hard.

“I know what you're going through..I am so sorry about this.”

“No need to be. I mean, I didn't even get to see my dad when I was born. My mom keeps saying that I'm a blessing.”

“Wait so-”

“Halo? Yeah she's adopted. I was going to tell you before but I didn't know how to bring it up..”

“Ooh, no wonder her hair is white. I mean, I never seen your mom before but I'm super sorry. Here I thought my life was bad. Yours is worse…”

“Well, you made it better ever since I laid my eyes on you in dance class.” I blushed deeply and looked away. Dash giggled and then smiled.

“Awwwww you're such a sweetheart.”

“Oh, I'm also named after my dad. Alexander? That's his first name.”

“Seriously?!”

“Yeah, thanks for understanding me Dashie.”

“No problem. I know what you're going through.”

We both sat down and cuddled next to each other. The sky got dark and then we saw a pink light and then Sunset pecked from the leaves of the tree.

“Psst! Guys it's starting!”

“Tell everyone to come up here! The view is better!” Dash smiled.

Sunset gave us a thumbs up and so Twilight used her geode and levitated all of them and they were all on the top of the tree.

“Sorry we were too lazy to climb!” Twilight laughed. The lights came out and they were beautiful. All the green, purple, and pink lights were majestic and so I pulled Dash in a hug. I looked at the sky and wind started to blow. I took a deep breath and started to sing.

“Raise a glass to freedom. Something they can never take away. No matter what they tell you. Raise a glass to the eight of us, tomorrow they'll be more of us. Telling the story of tonight~”

We all looked up to the sky and then settled the night sky and we all sighed.

“I shouldn't be thinking about the past. The past can hurt but I can learn from it. I should be focusing on the future. And my future is right next to me~” I thought as I looked down and Dashie was sleeping on my lap.

“She's MY future, and only mine~”

Author's Note

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