"Come on Princess, keep up!" Rainbow Dash called back to the alicorn, soaring way ahead of her at an unbelievable speed, Twilight just barely able to hear her as the Princess sighed heavily.

"I'm...trying..." Twilight breathed out between heavy pants as she was practically miles away from the rainbow pegasus now, coming to a stop as she slowly flapped both of her wings and kept herself high above the ground and wheezed out, coughing slightly while she caught her breath and looked to where Dash had flew off to, she was no longer in sight.

"Geez she sure is fast," the Princess whispered to herself as she wondered about the rambunctions pegasus that was supposed to be her guide for this, while hovering there in the sky, looking back to Ponyvile in the near distance, before sighing again slightly and hanging her head low, 'Maybe Spike was right, I don't know this pony well enough yet to have her guiding me, after all for I know she could just be leading me out of town, or maybe she's trying to get me lost so I can never find my way back. It was true that she didn't seem all that bad back when I first met her a few minutes ago, but now I'm starting to understand why Rarity and Applejack started to act so different when she showed up,'

"Hey!"

"GAAHH!" Twilight let out a loud scream of surprise as said pegasus suddenly startled her and was now flying right in front of her, giving the Princess quite the scare. Twilight jumped back, losing her balance as she let herself drop down out of the sky and soon landed down onto the hard ground below her.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow," Twilight repeated over and over again, clenching her teeth together tightly as she could feel tears welling up in her eyes, while she hurt all over.

"Whoops, sorry did I scare you?" Rainbow flew down to the Princess, smiling to her nervously as she looked down to her and crouched down in front of her, "Hey you alright? That was quite the fall huh?"

"It's fine Rainbow Dash...just a few broken bones as all," the Princess stated with a small smile as she stood back up and shook the dust off of herself, whincing at the slight ache that was now in both her wings and all four legs. She stretched slightly as she bit her bottom lip and tried to get herself up in the air again.

"Oh no, can you still fly?" Rainbow asked, obviously worried that she would be the one blamed for 'breaking' the Princess.

"Yeah, just give me a minute," Twilight nodded as she slowly spread out her wings and took a deep breath, narrowing her eyes as she took off into the sky a second later, twirling around in a few circles before stopping to hover in one spot again, looking back down to Rainbow Dash and waiting for her to come and join her.

"Phew, close one" Rainbow smiled as she flew back up to Twilight and checked her body for any injuries she might have gotten from the fall, but luckily she seemed to have come out of it unscathed.

"Sorry, I'm not all that good at flying just yet," Twilight nervously apologized as she smiled shyly.

"It's alright we can just go slow for now I guess," Rainbow shrugged as Twilight happily nodded to her, watching the pegasus fly off in front of her while she followed suit, being sure to try and stay close behind this time.

'She sure is a weird one,' Twilight thought to herself as she kept her eyes on the rainbow pegasus flying in front of her, while she flew in and out of small clouds, whizzed past tall trees and flew high above the houses of Ponyvile below, raising her eyebrow a little when she noticed that the pegasus pony in front of her was getting a little too far ahead again.

The Princess, not expecting the flying pony to stop, was a little surprised when she saw that Rainbow Dash actaully did stop and wait for her, once she had turned and noticed that Twilight was falling behind again. Twilight smiled as she picked up speed to catch up to the fast flyer, Rainbow happily flying off again once Twilight was close enough to her so she wouldn't get lost.

'It's like one minute she's showing off, that big ego of her's making itself known, and the next she is being considerate and kind enough to wait for me while I catch up to her. I honestly have no idea what to expect of her,' Twilight thought with a slight sigh as she now was able to catch up to Rainbow and fly alongside her.

"So how far is Cloudsdale now?" Twilight asked, trying to make conversation with the pegasus.

"Not far now, just a few more miles and we'll be there," Rainbow answered as she glanced to the Princess with a smile, getting a kind smile back in return.

"Hey Rainbow,"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think they'll like me up there?" Twilight asked nervously as she wasn't so sure how the pegasi up in Cloudsdale would take to meeting their new Princess, she knew that Dash seemed to be comfortable enough around her, but that's just one pegasus from Cloudsdale, she had no idea what the other ones were like.

"Are you kidding me? Come on Princess they're going to love you," Rainbow happily exclaimed, before she took off into the sky, flying much faster that Twilight and disappearing through a fairly big white cloud.

"Hey what happened to 'I guess we can go slow for now'?" Twilight quoted Dash's words from before as she desperately tried to catch up with her, flying up through the same cloud Rainbow had gone through, hoping to find the pegasus on the other side, and luckily she did,

"And for future reference could you by any chance not call me 'Prin.." Twilight paused as she gasped a little, while Rainbow had cupped her chin and brought her head to look to what was in front of her instead of her looking to the pegasus beside her.

Twilight's eyes widened as she stared in awe of what was in front of her right now. The word 'Beautiful' was an understandment, heck even words like, 'Wonderous' and 'Breathtaking' were clear understatements, as what the Princess saw in front of her right now was something that she just simply couldn't describe, she shook her head everytime she came up with a word, knowing that each and every word she thought of just didn't match up to what her eyes were seeing.

"I know, pretty awesome right?" Rainbow Dash smiled as she looked to Twilight's speechless expression, while the Princess tried to take it all in, turing to the pegasus beside her.

"Awesome', simply doesn't begin to cover it," Twilight stated as she looked back to what lay in front of her, while Dash just chuckled at the starstuck look the Princess had on her face right now.

Millons and millons of big, fluffly white clouds all bunched up together to make a floating city, with thouands of different pegasi flying in and out of the clouds, tall buildings made out of clouds, and huge waterfalls made out of rainbows. While it was true that places like Canterlot and Manehatten could be augured as more ravishing, this really was someplace to behold, whether you were a pegasus or not.

"This is Cloudsdale?" Twilight asked, slowly coming back to her senses now as she looked back to Rainbow Dash.

"Yep, home sweet home," Rainbow nodded with a smile, "Want me to show you around?"

Twilight just nodded excitedly in reply, Rainbow chuckling again, before she nodded back to her and the two set off on their tour around the heavenly place know as 'Cloudsdale'.

'Heavenly that's it, that's what this place is,' Twilight thought with a bright smile, glad that she had thought of a word that described the town perfectly, looking over at all she could see from where she was still hovering, still amazed by all its beauty.

"Come on Princess, I gotta show you around quickly before it starts going dark, the poines in Ponyvile will probably be expecting you back by then," Rainbow reminded Twilight as she pulled the Princess out of her thoughts.

"Right, coming!" Twilight replied as she followed Dash.

... ...

It was now late in the evening as Rainbow Dash and Twilight were ending there little journey around Cloudsdale, having visited the hustle, and bustle of 'The Weather Factory' first, meeting a few of the workers there, then moving onto much smallers sites like shops, nearby streets and 'Flight Camp' for all the young flyers that lived up in the floating city. And although Cloudsdale might look like some big city that's always busy from the outside, Twilight soon realized that the town was very different from the big cities in Equestria, such as 'Canterlot' and 'Manehattan', and it mostly resembles Ponyvile with how peaceful it was, and the fact that although the pegsai did seem a little on edge when meeting their new Princess at first, they soon were found to be just as welcoming and humble as the ponies who lived down in Ponyvile were.

After a long afternoon of seeing only some parts of the town did Dash deicide to cut the tour short, with lots of sites left unseen (although she was sure that Twilight would get round to seeing everything that there was to see soon enough), showing Twilight to where the entrance to the town was to end it for now.

"So then all you need to do is, go through that big cloud that we came through to get up here, and as long as you keeping flying straight you should find your way back to Ponyvile in no time," Rainbow explianed as she pointed down to the cloud that Twilight and her had flew up through in order to get to Cloudsdale.

"Thanks for this Rainbow Dash," Twilight smiled to the pegasus as she nodded to her, and was now reallly glad she had choosen to take the rainbow pegsaus up on her offer, and didn't regret it one bit.

"It's no problem really, happy to be of help to you Princess," Dash smiled back as she bowed to Twilight a little, before she flew to go and land on the big cloud that would lead them out of Cloudsdale once they went through it, "So you ready to make your way back now? I'll take you back if you want,"

"No wait!" Twilight called to Rainbow Dash as she flew over to her.

"But don't you want to want to go back down there? You were meant to be staying with them after all," Rainbow looked a little confused as she was puzzled as to why Twilight wanted to stay up in Cloudsdale longer.

"No...I mean yes, yes of course...it's just..." Twilight paused as she nervously looked away from Dash.

"Just what?"

"Well it's just you've shown me a lot of Cloudsdale, but there's one place that you have yet to show me," Twilight explained as she wanted to stay up in Cloudsdale for a little longer, not only that but she also did want to ask Dash something that had been bugging her.

"And that place is...?"

"Where you live of course,"

"Oh right, why didn't you just say so," Rainbow sighed as she now finally seemed to understand where it was that Twilight wanted to go, "Come on then Princess, it's not too far from here," she stated as she flew to the direction to where she lived, and looked back to Twilight, waiting for her to follow her.

'And just maybe while we're on our way there, I can get her to stop calling me 'Princess',' Twilight thought wth a smile, before she caught up to Dash and they started to fly towards the pegasus's home together.

"So how do you like the place so far, is it everything you ever dreamed off?" Rainbow smirked as she had loved seeing all of Twilight's starstuck looks while she had been showing her around the floating city of Cloudsdale.

"Well to be honest I never imagined it would be anything like this, plus everypony was very different to how I first thought they would be," Twilight wasn't really taking anytime to think before she said that, immediately regretting what she had said and covered her mouth with a hoof.

"And just what is that supposed to mean?" Dash asked with a raised eyebrow to Twilight.

"Oh no I didn't mean that I thought the pegasi up here were going to be mean or anything, I just figured after seeing how you were with Applejack and Rarity eariler, and hearing from Princess Celesetia that you all weren't as welcoming as the the ponies down in Ponyvile , I just assumed that you all may not like me as your new Princess, of course I don't mean to sound rude or anything but-

"Wow, wow Twilight calm down a minute, I was only kidding," Rainbow stopped Twilight's worried rambling as she covered her mouth with a hoof and chuckled slightly at her panicking expression.

'Sh-she just said my name...that's the first time she hasn't just called me 'Princess',' Twilight thought as she looked to Rainbow Dash and could feel her face heating up a little, while her heart skipped as beat once Dash rested a hoof over her lips.

"Listen I know us pegasi from Cloudsdale haven't really got the best rep with other ponies, but you don't think we're that bad right?" Rainbow asked as she looked to Twilight, an expression of anxiety covering her face as she was hoping for her say 'No, you're not that bad at all'.

Twilight's eyes widened a little as she hadn't yet seen this anxious side to the big-headed pegasus, before she slowly smiled and and uncovered her mouth, moving Dash's hoof away from her lips, "That's not it at all Dash, in fact I believe you pegasi are all a lot like the ponies who live down in Ponyvile,"

"Really?"

Twilight just nodded in reply, "I'll admit some of the working pegasi seemed a little cautions of me at first, but really you are all just as welcoming as the ponies in Ponyvile are, plus none of you crowed around me, wanting to ask me questions like the ponies from Ponyvile did."

"Well I don't know, the ponies that we met at 'Flight Camp' asked quite a few questions," Rainbow pointed out, her expression back to a smile now.

"Dash, they were all just children so of course they would like to ask me lots of questions. After all I am going to be their new Princess, and I'm probably the only alicorn they've ever met before," Twilight smiled back to Dash, happy to see that anxious expression disappear from her face.

"That's not ture they've met Princess Celestia once or twice before, although many of them were scared to go and talk to her,"

"I can't say I'm surprised the Princess is known to be quite the beast sometimes," Twilight joked with a slight chuckle.

"What really?"

"Only when she's mad though," Twilight replied with a nod as the two chuckled together happily. Twilight smiled as she sighed and looked to Rainbow, glad that she had already seemed to have found a friend (or at least a pony she got on really well with) among the pegasi of Cloudsdale.

The two then slowly fell into a slience, as they carried on their way to Rainbow's home. However Twilight soon broke that slience as she wanted to ask Dash about something that had been bothering her since she first met the pegasus.

"Hey Dash, can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what's up Princess?" Dash asked, keeping her eye on the setting sun, and making sure they would have enough time in order to get Twilight back to Ponyvile before the night set in.

'I see she's back to calling me, 'Princess',' Twilight sighed a little disappointed that the pegasus didn't call her by her name, "Why don't the pegasi from Cloudsdale and the ponies from Ponyvile get along?"

Rainbow Dash looked to Twilight a little taken back by her question, taking a short pause as she wondered why the alicorn would ask something like that right now,

"What do you mean?" Rainbow asked, obviously seeming to be on-edge now as she turned away from Twilight.

"Well I mean you all seem to act a lot alike and are very accepting as I see it, but you both seem to change once you're together. Rarity and Applejack seemed to hold sort of grudge against you, and seemed completely different from when I first met them this morning, and you I know are nothing like the pegasus I saw eariler who just seemed like she wanted to cause trouble," Twilight explained as she thought about how different Rainbow Dash was to how she had acted towards Applejack and Rarity eariler in the afternoon.

Rainbow Dash had now gone slient as she obviously didn't want to answer this question, not even glancing to Twilight now as she had an unreadable expression on her face.

"Did something happen between the two towns that caused you to be so separated?" Twilight got the feeling that Rainbow wasn't going to answer no matter what she tried, it was clear to see that she didn't exactly like this question, avoiding the Princess as much as she could it would seem.

"Dash-

"We just don't get along alright?" Rainbow Dash answered surprisingly, before she flew a little bit faster and dropped down a little, landing on a cloud and sighed slightly.

"Hey, wait up!" Twilight called to Rainbow Dash as she picked up speed and followed Dash, droping down and joining the pegasus on the cloud she had landed on, "Sorry, I guess it's not really my place to ask something like that right now," she nervously apologized and looked to Rainbow, hoping she would be forgiving.

Dash just turned away from Twilight as she sighed again, and seemed to now have quite the annoyed look on her face, while Twilight nervously looked to her, trying to think of something to say in order to hopefully ease the tension that was now in the atmosphere, looking all around to try and find something to lighten the mood a little, when something caught her eye.

"Hey, who's house is that?" Twilight asked as she spotted a cloud-house that looked very much like the other ones she had seen around Cloudsdale eariler, while she pointed down to with a hoof.

Dash looked to where Twilight was pointed and looked back to her again, "It's mine," she stated. Upon looking back to Twilight she saw that the princess looked excited again, "You want to come in for a bit?" she asked already easily guessing the answer as she smiled to Twilight.

"Oh I wouldn't want to intrude on you or anything," Twilight stated nervously.

"Nah it's fine, I don't mind, and nopony else lives there but me,"

"Okay then, I guess I could come in for a couple of minutes," Twilight replied nervously, as Dash just nodded to her before taking off and flying over to her cloud-home. Twilight followed suit with a smile on her face, glad that the previous conversation had now seemed to have been forgotten about.

... ...

After spending a good few minutes at Rainbow Dash's home, given the grand tour of the cloud-house, with Dash chuckling more of the excited and amazed expressions Twilight would have on her face, and then sitting down at the kitchen table to have a small chat over some warm apple cider (non-alcoholic of course ;) ), Dash soon looked to the window of her home and jumped a little when noticing just how dark it had gotten outside, clearly it was well past the evening.

"Darn, I didn't know it had gotten so late," the pegasus said as she quickly got out of her seat.

"You're right," Twilight looked worried as she realized how late it had gotten and seemed to look awfully anxious all of a sudden.

Twilight looked down to the cloud floor of Rainbow's home, sighing a little. She knew she needed to go back to Ponyvile right now, but she also kinda wanted to stay with Dash for longer, she liked spending time with her, talking and laughing with her, and she felt like she had made a great friend, she didn't want to just leave her just yet.

"Hey you know, you could stay over if you wanted to, I don't know if there is any cloud-homes open for you right now, but you could stay round here with me, I wouldn't mind crashing on couch and lending you my bed for the night," Rainbow suggested, hoping to cheer the Princess up a little, since she now looked awfully downhearted.

Twilight's eyes lit up for a moment at that idea, but then that light disappeared as she remembered about who she had left in Ponyvile all on his own when they were supposed to stay together, "No I need to get back to Spike, he'll probably be wondering where I am,"

"Shall we start making our way back then Princess?" Rainbow asked gesturing to the door.

"Yeah I guess," Twilight sighed with a nod, not even caring that Dash called her 'Princess' again, as she and Dash walked to the door of Rainbow's cloud-house.

"Hey you do know that this isn't the last time we'll see each other, you are going to be our Princess now don't forget," Rainbow smiled.

"Yeah, I guess you're right Rainbow," Twilight smiled in return as the two left the pegasus's home and set off back to the library in Ponyvile.

... ...

It didn't take that long for the two to make it back to Twilight's new home in Ponyvile, the Princess sighing heavily once they had made it there, while Rainbow just looked to her with a smile.

"I guess this where I leave you then,"

"Thanks for today Dash, I had a lot of fun," Twilight smiled as Rainbow just smiled back to her with a nod, before she turned to leave.

"See you around Princess,"

"See you around Rainbow," Twilight replied as she watched Rainbow Dash fly off into the distance in a flash, waving to her with a smile until she was out of sight. The Princess sighed deeply as she turned back to the library and quickly flew around the back to where the balcony was located.

Sneaking in through the open window, hoping that Spike had already gone to bed, and she wouldn't be found out. She quietly landed on the wodden floor, going as slowly as possible in order to not make a single sound. All the lights were off right now so Twilight guessed Spike had gone to bed and she had nothing to worry about, as she made her way to the bedroom thinking about how she would probably need to have more of a look around this place tomorrow.

Thankfully she had found where the bedroom was without much trouble, and smiled to herself as she walked into the room and closed the door behind her. She thought she was save and wouldn't have to deal with Spike until the morning, however she was clearly very wrong as a light switched on and there was said dragon looking up at her as he was standing in the middle of the room.

"And just what time do you call this?" the dragon asked, his arms folded, while he tapped his foot on the woodden floor.

"Oh Spike I thought you would have been in bed by now," Twilight stated nervously as she smiled shyly to Spike.

Spike just raised an eyebrow to Twilight as he obviously wanted her to explain why she had been out so late, when he had specifically told her not to. Twilight smiled nervously, her eyes shifting from left to right.

"Looks like you got everything moved in alright,"

"Yeah, no help from you,"

"I'm sorry Spike, I guess time got away from me," the Princess confessed as she apologized to her assistant.

Spike stood with that same suspicious looking expression on his face for a couple of minutes more, before he just smiled to Twilight, "It's alright, so how was it?" he asked happily.

Twilight sighed with relief as she smiled to Spike, before she walked over to her bed and slumped down on to it, "It was amazing," she simply stated as she closed her eyes for a minute and nuzzled the warm and cozy bedsheets, "Rainbow Dash showed me all around Cloudsdale, I met a whole bunch of different ponies, and she even invited me into her home for a drink of cider afterwards,"

"Wow, wow, wow, you stayed round at her house for a drink?" Spike questioned, confused as he wondered if this was indeed the same pegasus that the two had met this afternoon.

"Relax Spike, she's actually not as bad as you may think, she's somepony I would consider as a friend in fact," Twilight stated as she lifted her head up and looked back to Spike.

"Really? And are the other pegasi like her?" Spike asked, seeming quite surprised for a moment.

"Well some of the wokring ones were a little cautions of me at first, but I found out that they very welcoming just like all the ponies here in Ponyvile, plus they didn't ask countless questions that I didn't know the answers to," Twilight explained with a smile to Spike, her voice taking a relaxed tone to it.

"Well that's good then," Spike smiled with a nod as he was surprised, but also very glad that Twilight didn't run into any trouble while she was up there, and had gotten along with all the pegasi that lived there.

"Yeah I guess," Twilight sighed as she sat up on the bed, looking at the bedsheets for a moment.

"What's wrong Twilight?" Spike asked as he was wondering why the mare's expression and mood had suddenly changed.

"Nothing really, I'm just wondering what happened in order for these two towns to act so differently around each other, I mean really all the ponies from Ponyvile are kind and humble, and the pegasi from Cloudsdale are the same, but...well you saw how Rainbow Dash acted when she was around Applejack and Rarity eariler," Twilight explained with another sigh.

"Did you ask Rainbow Dash about it?"

"Yeah, but she got all quiet on me, and it was obvious to me that she didn't want to talk about it,"

"Well maybe you can talk to Applejack about it in the morning," Spike suggested, wanting to cheer the mare up a little.

"Yeah I guess," Twilight just nodded back to Spike with a slight smile, before she seemed to be feeling down again.

"Or you could perhaps, ask Princess Celestia about it,"

"Huh? How would that work? I can't just leave here and go to Canterlot, and it's not like she could come here," Twilight wondered as she looked to Spike with a puzzled expression.

"No, no, not like that, you can send her a letter through me," Spike stated as she pointed his thumb to himself proudly.

"You can send letters to the Princess?" Twilight asked, seeming interested now.

"Yep I or some other pony writes a letter, and I can send it straight to Princess Celestia through my amazing dragon breath, and I will soon get a reply back from Princess Celestia by belching," Spike explained proudly as that ego of his was shining through to Twilight.

Meanwhile Twilight wasn't sure if she should be impressed, or disgusted by that strange power, but decided to just shrug it off and she lay back down on the bed, feeling exhausted after the busy day she had had.

"So you wanna send one?" Spike asked.

"Not right now Spike, maybe tomorrow, all I want to do right now is sleep," Twilight stated as she rolled over in the bed and nuzzled into the warm bedsheets again, "This bed sure is comfy, was it provided by the ponies here in Ponyvile?"

"Yeah they said they could get a bigger one if you would prefer, I don't mind having a small bed since I used to only have a small room back at the castle, but you've had a huge bed all your life right?" Spike asked.

"No this is fine, I never did feel comfortable in that big bed that I had all to myself, and in truth I would have prefered a small bedroom like this one back at the castle," Twilight explained as she never did like her big room in the castle all that much, and this fairly small one most certainly seemed to fit her better than that one ever did.

"Well I'm glad that you like it, I'm right across the hall if you need me," Spike stated as he smiled to Twilight, before he headed for the bedroom door, understanding that the mare would no doubt need a good nights sleep after today.

"Goodnight Spike," Twilight smiled as she waved to him, before he left her bedroom, and went across the hall to his, leaving the Princess to get some much needed rest.

Twilight sighed with a smile as she sat up in her new bed, taking one quick look around her new room, before she switched the light off and lay back down on her bed, snuggling under the covers and smiling happily while thinking that maybe this, 'being the princess of two places at once thing' wasn't going to be that hard after all, as she was soon difting off into a peaceful sleep.

Author's Notes:

Famous last words there Twilight, better be careful.

Thank you ever so much for reading. :D

KillerChainsaw ;)