It all started one morning when our teacher, Cherilee, was late for class.
Now you may think this is not that unusual, but believe me, Cherilee is never late! She's always here at 8:30am on the dot.
But on this particular morning it was five minutes past 8:30 and still no Cherilee!
Not that anyone minded very much.
Twist chatted to Feather-weight explaining how she got her cutie-mark; she was always telling that story.
Snips was rambling on and on; he always did that too.
Snails on the other hand mindlessly looked in front of him like a zombie; now that was weird, but then again, boys are weird. So no surprises there.
So most of the class were engaged in activities, of more or less importance. Mostly less.
The only people who seemed to mind were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Diamond kept on staring at the class clock with an annoyed look on her face, she took a second to peer out the window; "Cherilee is still not here! How come she isn't?!" She snapped.
Suddenly Applebloom grabbed my arm, "Hey! There is something fishy about all of this!" I rolled my eyes; "It'll be fine. She's probably just stuck up in traffic." At that moment Diamond Tiara decided to stick her nose in our conversation; "Impossible. There is no traffic in Ponyville." She said quite simply. "Is too! There is Taxi's!" Applebloom countered, "There are taxi's. But also she walks to school!"
I rolled my eyes, "Thankyou for your lovely contribution to our conversation, DT." "Your welcome!" Said Diamond Tiara completely missing my sarcasm.
"Some pony is coming!" Yelled Silver Spoon from the window.
In a flash we all took our seats, then the school door creaked open. Rarity strode into the room along with Sweetie-belle, "I heard you needed a teacher!" She said flicking her hair; "YEAH!" We all yelled: Rarity would be the best teacher ever! "So, I found a substitute!" We all moaned in disappointment. A real teacher? Boring!
I glanced at Scoots, she seemed mighty disappointed! I swear the only thing that would upset her more would be, if it was Rainbowdash instead of Rarity.
"So I present to you: Mr. D!" From behind her popped out a Brown colt with a brown mane, he wore a vertical striped suit covering up his belly, flank and all! Why I ain't seen a more weirdly dressed pony before in my life!
Rarity cocked her head, smiled and slipped out of the room. "So," said Mr. D whilst Sweetie slipped into her seat, "what are you guys going to teach me today?!"
We all stared at him. Was he serious?! Diamond Tiara immediately objected, "That is not how it works!" Mr. D cocked his head, "How so pink little filly?" "You teach us. Duh!" "Oh really?" "Mhm! That's how it works!" "Well to be honest I like change! So let's change! So do any of you know something I don't know?"
"You don't know my super secret recipe!" Giggled Twist, "Or how to tame and train snails!" Shouted Snails, "Or to preform magic!" Said Sweetie, "Or how to create fine china cutlery!" Silver Spoon said, "Or how to read minds!" Some-one shouted, "And you can't fly!" Shouted another, "Or how to shoot lasers from your eyes!" Yelled a blue filly, "Or how to travel through time!" Now Mr. D went white on that last one, "Ok ok, see? Much I don't know! Now our first lesson! Cutie marks!"
"But miss. Cherilee taught us that last term!" Diamond Tiara groaned, "Good! That means you can tell me first hand what they are all about!" Chuckled Mr. D.
Twist's hand stuck up faster than you could say: 'Apple fritter!' "They appear when you discover your super special talent!" "Ahh I see, so let's see! What are your talents?" "Making sweets!" "Fine china and antiques!" "Snails training!" "Hair cuts!" "Being fabulous, and loving my daddy!"
Slowly all of our class took turns to speak their talent, until Mr. D reached Scoots, Sweetie and I. "Uhh we don't know our talents yet.." Said Sweetie sadly; "Ahhh! So it isn't something your born with! Interesting! Well," he said glancing at the clock, "Class dismissed."
Then the bell rung.
"Look! Here he comes!"
It was Monday afternoon and Applebloom, Scootaloo and I were following Mr. D.
"Uhh... Scootaloo? Why are we doing this anyway?" "Duh! He's hiding something!" "How do you know?" "I just do! Now, shh! He's right there!"
We peeked through the bush we were hiding in. Sure enough, Mr. D was right there in front of a strange blue box. "What in the hay is that?!" Applebloom's eyes nearly popped out of her head!
We were even more intrigued when Derpy, a mail-mare ran up to him and well... Hugged him! "Oooh! That's sooo sweet!" I chirped.
"Here's your daily muffin!" She said as she popped a muffin into Mr. D's mouth, "Why thank-you Ditsy! Come on I had quite a day!" "Really?" At that moment Mr. D started to talk about his day as they trotted towards the blue box. Suddenly a door on the side of the box swung open, and the two trotted in.
We all sat there staring. "Cool wasn't it?!" "Aghh!" We all screamed at once, a turquoise unicorn sat beside us. She was definitely much older then us by quite a bit, she was a mare! "Oh! He is soo interesting!" She continued, "Oh! My name is Lyra!" She then spoke a bit quieter; "Come back here on Saturday, I'll explain everything!"
We looked at Lyra blankly, who was she to scare us like that?! "Well, bye!" The mare then jumped up and trotted away.
"That Lyra seems weird" Said Applebloom as we walked back home, "Yeah, but she's our only chance to find out more about Mr. D!" Replied Scootaloo, "Well this is it girls! I'm home! See you later!" I said as I opened my front door; "Bye Sweetiebelle!" My friends sung as I went inside.
That night I had weird dreams about Mr. D, that he was a crazy pony or even worse: a vampony! But as Saturday draws more near, I can only find out....
