The night at The Dish happened to be the best night for the six friends and the wonderbolts.They both spent so much time dancing and chatting, that they didn’t want their time at that restaurant to end. But, the time to have fun always has to end.

Celestia’s sun rose to a new morning, Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends were still asleep. While the wonderbolts, as always, woke up with the rising of Celestia’s sun. All of the members in their cabins, rose from their beds waking up from a peaceful sleep. They stretched their hooves to wake up their bodies, then their backs until they felt fully awake to start their morning.

Every morning was always going for a good cup of hot coffee or tea, but not as good as giving your face a good splash of water to really wake you up. Soarin, who was staying in a cabin with Spitfire and Fleetfoot, was the first to wake up. The pale blue stallion got up from his bed, and headed to the bathroom. When he got there, he opened the bathroom the door and turned on the faucet to start the water. To wake himself up, Soarin put two of his hooves in the running water and begins splashing his face. The water felt refreshing.

“Ah, now I feel more awake”, Soarin said, with a goofy grin on his face.

He grabbed a navy blue colored toothbrush from a cup holder that was provided by the ship’s room staff. Soarin grabbed a tube of toothpaste that was lying next to the cup holder, which was also his two roommate’s toothbrush, and squeezed a little bit of toothpaste onto the bristles of his toothbrush. He brushed his teeth in circular motions for two minutes, then rinses his mouth. Lastly, after brushing after his teeth, he grabs a towel that is hanging on the rack next to him. Sewed on the towel was his name embroidered with dark navy blue thread. His cutie mark was also sewn onto the towel. Soarin turns on the faucet again, wetting the towel with warm water. He washed his face quickly, rewashed his towel, and hung it back on the rack next to him.

Soarin gets out of the bathroom, and sits down on his bed looking bored. He groans loudly, waking up Spitfire and Fleetfoot.

“Man Soarin, can you groan with a muffler? You woke up Fleetfoot and I”, Spitfire said tiredly.

“Yeah, we also need sleep ya know”, Fleetfoot grumbled from under her pillow.

“Sorry.”

Spit and Fleet just ignored the stallion and went back to sleep.

‘There has to be something I can do before my teammates and the others wake up’, Soarin thought to himself. ‘Maybe I should just go outside for a little fresh air. I won’t be too far, I’ll just be outside the cabin.’

Soarin went outside to get some fresh air. He closed his eyes, took a couple of deep breaths. After that, he opened his eyes to admire the beautiful sunrise. “The sunrise sure is beautiful”, he said to himself. He turned his gaze from the sun, and decides to sit down and look at the blue sky. His enjoyment of looking at the clear blue morning sky was interrupted when a gust of wind blew into Soarin’s face.

Soarin shivered. “Why didn’t I bring a jacket? Aa-cho!” The stallion sneezed so loudly, that it woke up his teammates. Even RD and her friends.

From Soarin’s cabin.

“Soarin! Couldn’t you at least turn away when you sneeze!?” Spitfire shouted from their cabin.

He called back from outside the cabin. “Alright, sorry!”

The cabin Rainbow Dash shared with her friends was next doors to Misty Fly’s cabin. Not only did her friends hear Soarin’s loud sneezing, but it also woke up his other teammates as well. Rainbow Dash’s cabin door opens. Her five friends peered through the door to see what the racket was.

“Who in Celestia was sneezing so loudly?” Fluttershy asked tiredly.

“I believe it was Soarin Fluttershy”, Twilight Sparkle told her friend, as she was yawning.

Fluttershy giggles. “Twilight, that was actually a funny sneeze. I usually never hear a pony sneeze that loud. I’ve only heard dragons sneeze loudly though”.

“Well, you got that right Flutters”.

The alicorn and her friends walk out of their cabin to stretch their four hooves. After a minute of stretching, they felt more awake.

“Ah I feel better already. Wowee!” Applejack exclaimed happily.

“I can agree with you on that one Applejack”, Rainbow Dash said happily, as she looked at her orange friend.

Misty Fly, Surprise, and Wave Chill come out of their cabins yawning. The three were so tired from all the dancing at last night’s party.

“What’s going on?” Surprise asked tiredly.

Soarin gave a cheeky smile. “Sorry I woke you guys, I guess my sneezing was too loud”.

Surprise just smiled at her friend. “It’s alright, I know you didn’t mean it”.

Another gust of the wind blew in their faces, causing all of them to shiver. Unexpectedly, a mysterious envelope blows right into Soarin’s face since he was standing close to the railings.
The envelope had a fancy seal, enveloped in the scent of lavender. The seal had a zig zagged yellow lightning bolt on a cloud. Soarin holded the envelope in his hoof and looked at the seal, he looked at the seal closely, it was somepony’s cutie mark. But, whose?

Pinkie ran to Soarin, pinned him down, and took the envelope from him. Curiously, she looked at the fancy seal that secured the letter for a few seconds. Then she began to read the front of the envelope. “To Soarin Skies, The Elements of Harmony, and Spitfire.”

Pinkie peeled the seal that secured the flap of the envelope. Inside the envelope, there was a large piece of papyrus paper.

“Rarity look, have you seen paper like this before?” Pinkie asked Rarity.

“No darling, I’ve never seen-hold on-this is papyrus paper”, Rarity said, as she used her magic to take the folded letter from Pinkie Pie’s hoof.

“Papyrus paper, what’s that?” Rainbow Dash asked, joining in the conversation.

Twilight Sparkle joined in the conversation. Rarity gave the folded letter for Twilight to look at. “Papyrus is very rare paper Dashie. The plant has been used to make paper even before we ponies started using tree bark.”

Rainbow’s eyes glowed. “Wow”.

“It’s been used by the Arabs for years. They used it for writing, painting, drawing, even for other types of crafts.”

“Wow”, the other wonderbolts said.

“Should we open the letter to find out, Twilight?” Spitfire asked. “It seems like the letter is important or urgent.”

“I’m afraid so”, the purple alicorn said. She opened the envelope with her magic, and was immediately shocked at what she saw. There was a large blood stain on the letter. Twilight pulled the letter close to her and smelled the blood. She could tell the blood was fresh. The wonderbolts look at the letter too, they were shocked at the large bloodstain they saw.

The purple alicorn sighed and continued. “Before we actually read the letter and find who it’s from, let’s look at the bloodstain first.”

“Can anypony tell that this bloodstain is fresh?”

Everypony shakes their head.

“Okay, let’s read the letter”.

Dear fellow elements of harmony, Spitfire, and Soarin,

This is Thundershine and Stormy writing to you.

We escaped the underground dungeon we were kept in for quite some time. But now we’re stuck in a cave that was suppose to be our escape source. Turns out the Cultan of Saddle Arabia heard about our attempts to escape his underground dungeon from some of his guards. The Cultan has set metal bars of titanium to block the cave’s exit, now we have no way out.

Our apologies, Thunder and I have been writing this letter to you while we were severely injured. That could explain why there are large blood stains on the piece of papyrus paper. We’re sorry if we caused you to be afraid, we hope to see you soon on your arrival to Saddle Arabia.

Sincerely,
Captain Lieutenant Thundershine and Officer Stormy Flare
3rd Generation Wonderbolts

Twilight begins to read the letter. “Dear fellow elements of harmony, Spitfire, and Soarin. This is Thundershine and Stormy writing to you. We escaped the underground dungeon we were kept in for quite some time. But now, we’re stuck in a cave that was suppose to be our escape source. Turns out the Cultan of Saddle Arabia heard about our attempts to escape his underground dungeon from some of his guards. The Cultan has set metal bars of titanium to block the cave’s exit, now we have no way out. Our apologies, Thunder and I have been writing you this letter while we were severely injured. That could explain why there are large blood stains on the piece of papyrus paper. We’re sorry if we caused you to be afraid, we hope to see you soon on your arrival to Saddle Arabia. Sincerely, Captain Lieutenant Thundershine and Officer Stormy Flare of the 3rd Generation Wonderbolts”.

The others gasped after Princess Twilight Sparkle read the last sentence of the letter.
Spitfire’s eyes began to tear, she smiled. “My mom’s alive? I’m relieved.”

Soarin began to grow serious. “How many weeks do we have left of this boat trip?”

“2 weeks are left for this boat trip Soarin”, Pinkie Pie said.

“2 weeks!?” Soarin shouted, as the others stared at him.

“Yup, it’s a long boat ride from where we live”, the pink mare said, as she jumped around.

Soarin gulped. “Pinkie Pie, you are so random”.

They continued chatting and laughing until they heard their stomachs rumble. “Guys, what time is it? We’re all getting hungry”, Fluttershy mentioned. Everypony agreed. “Well, where are we gonna eat?”

“It’s 8:45AM Fluttershy”, High Winds told the butterscotch mare, as she looked at the clock on the wall in front of her.

“Okay”.

“Let’s sightsee, then we can find a restaurant that serves breakfast”, Rainbow Dash suggested.

“What are waiting for? Let’s go everypony!” Surprise said. Together, they exited the passenger section of the ship and walked towards the dining area of the ship.

Author's Notes:

Here is Chapter 6, which happened to be a continuation of Chapter 5 itself. I wrote this chapter on google docs, then copy & pasted from google docs in order to publish the story.

Please note that writing this chapter was hard.

Enjoy reading!