Will of Fire

Chapter 36 - The next morning...

By: TheXIIILightning

"Good morning, beautiful. Did you sleep well?" I asked the sleeping mare besides me.

"You know Trixie did..." Trixie said as she nuzzled me lovingly.

We came back to the palace in the middle of the night, thankfully most of the guards know me by now and let us inside to spend the night. I think one of the guards said something about my spar with Shining earlier that day, but I was so tired from my date that I didn't pay any attention.

When Trixie and I came back to our room we did what any other young, happy, couple would do at night...

We took a quick shower and went to bed.

Yes, we shared the same shower and bed, but it didn't go any further than that. Trixie and I only started dating and we aren't prepared to take the next step... yet...

"Well... Twixie..." I felt her smile on my coat. "You have an early shift today, so you have to get ready soon. You don't want to keep your fans waiting, do you?" She looked up at me with a saucy smile.

"You're the only fan Trixie needs." I smiled and gave her a kiss. "Lighty..." I pushed my forehead against hers and brushed her mane.

"I see we're using our pet names from now on, Twixie." She made a mock frown and got off the bed.

"Perhaps we are, but only in the privacy of our room that is. Trixie still has an image to keep."

I stayed in bed and watched her getting dressed. She fixed her mane and coat with a quick glow of her horn and put on her robe and wizard hat. She turned towards me and did two quick turns.

"So? How does Trixie look?" I got up and went towards her, I gave her a quick peck on the cheek.

"All Great and Powerful." She gave me an amused grin.

"Thank you, Trixie always aims to impress." She went past me towards a mirror on the wall, her tail gently passing trough my face. Oh Celestia, Trixie knows how to work a stallion...

"Are you going to watch Trixie perform today?" She asked me, but when I was about to answer I heard somepony banging at the door.

*THUMP*

*THUMP*

*THUMP*

"Yeah! Who is it?" I yelled at whoever was knocking so loudly, so early in the morning.

"It's Rainbow Dash! Can you open up, please? It's an emergency!" She sounded urgent.

I shot an odd look at Trixie, she just shrugged and motioned me to open the door.

"Just a sec." I fumbled with the lock and opened the door. Indeed it was Rainbow and she looked a bit stressed.

"Oh, thank Celestia you're here!" She went past me inside the room. 'Hi Rainbow, nice to see you. Would you like to come in?'

"Morning Rainbow, what's wrong?" She looked at me, and then at Trixie. She did that a few more times before saying anything.

"I'll tell you, but you have to promise that you'll help me. No matter what it is!" She put her hooves on my shoulders, begging me with her eyes.

"Rainbow, I can't promise you th-" She interrupted me.

"But you already did! When we were at that cloud you Pinkie Promised that you would help me, no matter what. And NOPONY breaks a Pinkie Promise!" She practically yelled, I even heard her voice crack a bit.

I shot Trixie a worried glance and I could tell that she had the same concern I did. Of course I want to help Rainbow! But I won't agree to anything if she doesn't tell me what it is first.

"Rainbow, I know I promised that I'd help you, and I will. But you have to tell me what you need first, I already got in trouble before for making deals like this." Accepting to take that package without knowing what it was, ruined my life.

Rainbow Dash looked at me and Trixie once again, and she looked even more stressed out now.

"No no no! If I tell you, then you won't help me! And I can't ask this of anypony else, PLEASE! She was holding her hooves together now.

"I- I don't kno-" She yelled at me.

"You said that my friends would always be there for me! I said that I would only ask you if I had no other choice!" She had a very angry glare on her face. "Or were you lying to me!? Because friends don't lie to each other!"

Her angry tantrum was more of a few random voice cracks and some lose tears. It's true, I said all those things and I never back down on my word... Oh, buck it...

"Okay Rainbow Dash." She perked up at this, her ears standing tall. "I'll help you out, what do you need me to do?"

She got up and gave me a very happy grin, and shot an awkward, apologetic look at Trixie.

"I need you to pretend you're my stallionfriend." She said.

"What?" Was all I could say.

End of Chapter 36

I bet you weren't expecting this one, right?
Rainbow's "Ark" starts now and I eagerly await your angry comments!

Now for the Hype. *Ahem*

Now that was an odd request by Rainbow, why did she ask that of Lightning?
We will have to go back to Ponyville, maybe the answer lies there.

Find out in the next chapter of...
Will of Fire!