New Beginning

  It was now a cool winter in the small town of Ponyville. Mostly all white and bright as the sun reflects off the snow and ice. All ponies wore vests, scarf and hats on, to keep a little warm from the occasional, random windy days.

  Near Fluttershy's cottage, though, two peculiar looking kids were playing and laughing merrily. They stood on their hind legs, both had fluttering, little wings on their backs, also had two fingers and a thumb on each hand and three toes on their feet. They stood tip toe like the ponies, but had a hard time trying to go on all fours, because their arms were a little shorter than their hind legs. They both had mane and tail like the ponies and had a head and face of one, and had their little ears at the top as well, but their mane seemed to spread out across their scalp instead of a traditional Mohawk like mane all ponies have.

  The female's coat was icy blue; her mane and tail were white and aqua blue in color. The male's coat was pure white like clean snow, with an icy blue mane and tale. The female's eyes were baby blue in color and the male had a darker shade of color then she had.

  What could make such strange little pony, adorable hybrids?

  The girl caught up to the other and jumped at him, "Gotcha!" she yelled in her squeaky tone with her arms out forward, as she flew towards him. He looks back and was forced on the snowy ground with her on top of him with a small puff of snow and a light ‘Thump!’.

  When he recovered and opened his eyes, she pocked his nose, "Tag! You're it!" she quickly got off and started scurrying away, giggling.

  "No far! You jumped on me!" he yelled back and went after her with a stumble to presume the chase.

  A light yellow Pegasus mare opened the cottage door and smiled at the playing duo, "Snowflake! Spirit! Lunch time!" she yelled the best she could in her quiet, motherly voice. The two stopped on their tracks and looked back at her with smiles.

  "Okay!" the girl known as Snowflake yelled back. "Race, ya!" she told the other and went past him with a giggle.

  They both got in and took off their vests and hung them up on the coat hanger beside the door, as Fluttershy nuzzled both their noses, earning a nuzzle back from the siblings.

  The three then moved in the kitchen and there, stood near the counter, was another strange creature known as a human.

  He was tall, his hair was dark brown, near black but the light reflecting off him from the window showed a light tint of brown. He wore a light grey t-shirt, a small, burnt hole on his left shoulder showing a permanent scar. His pants were navy blue and hung freely like a wavy flag, with two white stripes going down the sides to his ankles.

  "Daddy!" the two yelled and ran up to him, and hugged both his legs tightly.

  "He-heh. How was outside?" he asked, and carried two plates to the table, dragging along the two bundles easily.

  He lifted one of his legs and grabbed onto Snowflake, "So much Fun!" she answered. He smiled and set her down on a chair with a pat on the head. He lifted his other leg and set Spirit down on another chair, as he nodded his little head in agreement.

  The family started eating, and after lunch, the father started cleaning the dishes. Fluttershy gently put the two down on the floor, "Are you two excited to go the school?" she asked them both in her motherly tone.

  "I'm I!" Snowflake answered giddily.

  "Um…" Spirit seemed thoughtful, "A… little…" he answered nervously as he seemed to shrink a curl a little while standing.

  Fluttershy smiled and hugged him against her warm barrel, "Don't worry, you'll be with your sister, Spirit". She looked at both of them, "Just listen to your teacher and behave. You’ll have a lot of fun with other’s your age. Maybe you make new friends?" she reached out and fixed Snowflakes mane a little. "Winter, ready to go?" she asked her husband as she looked back.

  He dried his hands with a towel cloth as he walked out the kitchen. "Yup." he answered and rested the towel on a counter.

  Then there was a knock on the door, earning everyone’s attention. Fluttershy went over and opened the door, "Oh, hello, Sapphire." she greeted her assistant.

  The mare was white and had a cobalt blue mane and tail.

  "Good day, Fluttershy" she greeted back. Fluttershy let her in as she helped Snowflake and Spirit put on their vests and little nit hats.

  "I and Winter will be taking our kids to their first day of school. We won't be long." she said to the mare.

  "Okay." Sapphire answered and hung up her vest and scarf.

  "Oh, and Angel's sick today. Can you take care of him while we're gone?" she took on her own vest.

  "Will do, ma'am." Sapphire answered and went to go find the sick bunny.

  Winter grabbed his brown, leather Stetson hat, sunglasses and vest, "Not to point out the obvious or anything, but I think he's just a little jealous of the kids getting the attention." he said and took on his shoes while crouching down.

  Fluttershy slightly lowered her head, "I hope not." she answered little sadly.

  They all got out and Winter closed the door behind them. Snowflake bounced around happily around the snow, while humming a tune to herself. But Spirit looked more hesitant and followed his mother closely on her side while fiddling with his fingers nervously.

  As they reached the little gate of the school, Snowflake hopped up, grabbed the top and lifted herself up with little grunts of struggle to get a good look at the school grounds with peeking eyes.

  There were young fillies and colts going around happily, laughing and playing with one another in the snow, but more than half were shivering in little huddled groups.

  "Wow!" she said silently to herself with a smile. She dropped back down and looked back at her parents and brother.

  Fluttershy opened the gate, "Let's go see your teacher, shall we?" she said to the two.

  Snowflake nodded happily and bolted towards the door. But Spirit was still close to his mother, nervously looking around and his himself when the fillies and colts get too close.

  Winter opened the door and all went in. They all saw a cherry red earth pony known as Cheerilee, working on some papers on her desk. "Oh, hello." she got off her seat and went up to them with a small smile.

  "Good day, Cherrilee." Fluttershy greeted back.

  Cheerilee looked down at the kids, as they hid behind their mother’s and father’s legs from the stranger. "Oh, who might you two be?" she leaned down to eye level.

  "I'm Snowflake!" she introduced herself as she came out from her father’s legs and stood up tall, bringing out her hand.

  Cheerilee smiled and shook her little hand, "Nice to meet you Snowflake. I'm Miss Cheerilee." she introduced herself.

  She looked at the other one. Spirit was hiding behind his mother's fore hooves. Fluttershy looked down, "Come on out." she said gently and lightly nudged him with her nose.

  He took a few steps out. Cheerilee smiled, "Hello. My name is Cheerilee. Who might you be?" she slowly brought out a hoof.

  Spirit slowly brought out his hand, "H-hi Miss Cheeril-lee. I-I'm Spirit." he introduced himself next.

  "Nice to meet you, Spirit. Don't worry, I'm a nice pony." she assured him.

  "O-okay" he answered timidly, but was yanked into a hug by his sister.

  Cheerilee looked at the clock, "Time for class." she said and looked back at Fluttershy and Winter.

  Fluttershy looked at the kids, "We'll come and get you two after school, okay?" she said to them both and they nodded, Snowflake little more fast then Spirit.

  The adults got out; "Hey, Spirit." Snowflake looked down at her brother.

  Spirit sat down, "Hm?" he looked up.

  "We'll be okay. Mommy said, we just have to listen and behave to Cheerilee." she said to him. She then sat down beside him and wrapped an arm around her brother, "Will always be together, no matter what." she said to him happily. He smiled and nodded at her.

  Then the doors opened and a horde of colts and fillies went in, all wearing vests, scarf and hats.

  The siblings separated and looked around nervously as they stood back up, Spirit taking cover behind his sister like a little puppy. "Good morning, my little ponies!" Cheerilee greeted.

  "Good morning, Miss Cheerilee." they all greeted back in unison.

  "Now, we have two new students joining us today." she went behind the two siblings, "Their names are Snowflake and Spirit. I suspect open hooves from all of you." she said to them.

  She then nudges both of them lightly and leaned down, "Go on. Introduce yourselves.” She whispered to them with a small smile.

  Snowflake stepped forward first, “Hi… my name is Snowflake…” she held her hands at her back and looked down at her feet with a little brush.

  “Hi, Snowflake.” They all chimed in greetings.

  Snowflake looked back at her brother, a fix of fear and anxiety fixed onto his face and body language. She took a few steps back and covered his body behind hers and whispered, “It’s okay, Spirit, I’m right here. Say ‘hi’.”

  After a short moment, Spirit took a few deep breaths taught by his mother and calmed downed enough to speak. He looked at the class from behind his sister.

  “Um… h-hi… I’m Spirit.” He quietly greeted with a little wave of his hand from behind his sister.

  “Hi, Spirit.” They all greeted once more.

  “Take your seats." Cheerilee said to them both with a smile.

  They nodded and started looking around. Spirit found a desk on the second row to the left side of the room and Snowflake sat down right beside him.

  "Okay everypony, take out your papers and pencils. We are now starting on the studies of the sun and moon cycles." she said. Snowflake and Spirit smiled brightly and took out a couple of papers and pencil from their desks.

  Thanks to aunt Lulu and Tia, this should be easy. Snowflake thought to herself with a smirk.

  In recess, all but Snowflake and Spirit were hesitant to get out the warm building, some asked Cheerilee to stay in. "If you want to stay in, you'll have to do some extra work." she said to them with a smile and they all started headed for the door, most groaning and whining about the cold.

  Once outside, Snowflake and Spirit went over to a nearby tree and sat down on the snow. They both looked around and saw some already starting to shake in the cold.

  She looked at her brother, "So what do you want to do before we go back in?" she asked him. He shrugged his little shoulders. They both started looking around and Snowflake spotted an empty swing, "How about we go on the swing?" she looked at her brother.

  "O-okay" he answered and both started going towards the empty swing, Spirit staying close behind his sister.

  They both reached it and Snowflake nudges her brother and motioned her head on the seat. He slowly nodded and got on the swing with some difficulty, but was helped by his sister.

  He sat up straight and held onto the chains, "Um, I-I'm read’EEEEEE!" he yelled as the swing suddenly started swinging up towards the sky, his little fists clenching onto chain for dear life.

  Snowflake got out of the way and saw her brother holding onto the chain with bulging eyes. "Come on! Swing higher!" she cheered with a bright smile.

  "I am high!" he yelled to her.

  "No you're not!" she replied with a little giggle and went beside the swing.

  "Get… Me… Down… Now!" he said as he passed by with every swing.

  She giggled and looked at him again, "Awe, so soon?" she smiled at him.

  "Yes!" he yelled once more.

  She thought for a moment and just decided to get behind the swing and stop him.

  As Spirit swung forward, she quickly got in positioned and stood up ready like a quarterback, "I got ya! OoF!". They both flew for a couple of feet, landed down on the snow and slid for a couple more, buried alive within the snow.

  Snowflake lifted her head out of the pile and spat out snow with a laugh, "That was fun!" she yelled and laughed again.

  "For you it was" Spirit replied, shaking a little.

  Snowflake looked at him with a little smile, “Sorry, Spirit. I promise, I wont do it again.”

  Just as his smiled, a snowball nailed him on the face and forced him to fall back into the snow, and then three fillies started laughing hysterically.

  "Hey! What was that for!?" Snowflake yelled and helped her brother up. Spirit shook his head and wiped the snow off his face.

  She then angrily stomped over to the three fillies, "Well! What do you have to say!" she yelled and stared down at the fillies angrily.

  "What do I have to say to a weirdo." the yellow filly with a blond mane and tail said and laughed again.

  "Yeah, weirdo!" the red filly with white and pink mane and tail said next.

  "Hahahaha!" a white filly with an orange mane and tail laughed.

  Snowflake squeezed her fists and growled angrily at the trio. She just wanted to make a building sized snowball and throw it at the three fillies.

  Before she could make a snowball and throw it at the filly, another one went in front of her and blocked her path.

  "No need for violence." she said and started to ushered Snowflake and Spirit away from the laughing bullies.

  They got near the steps of the building, "First day and you almost got in trouble." a light purple unicorn with yellow mane said to her. "I'm Dinky Doo." she brought out her hoof with a smile.

  Snowflake looked at the hoof for a good moment then both shook, "I-I'm Snowflake." she introduced herself.

  Dinky smiled and looked at Spirit, sitting down near the steps. "Hi." she greeted.

  "Ah… H-hi" he greeted back with a slight wave.

  "Are you okay?" she asked, examining him.

  Dinky was a couple of years older and Snowflake knew that, but she's such a good pony.

  "Hey! Snowflake!" the three looked and Snowflake and Spirit smiled. It was Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootalooo going towards them.

  "We saw what happened, are ya two okay?" Applebloom looked over both of them like a worried mother.

  "Uh-huh" Snowflake nodded.

  Sweetie Belle looked at Dinky, "Thanks for getting them out." Sweetie thanked her.

  "No problem." she answered back.

  Scootaloo looked back, "Great… three more." she hissed with a frown, looking at the three new school bullies. "It's bad enough with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon around, but three more!? Come on!" she looked back and stumped down with her hoof and huffed.

  Applebloom looked at Snowflake and Spirit, "Want ta hang with us?" she asked. Snowflake nodded happily and Spirit a little slower, but was just as eager. She then looked at Dinky, "How about ya, Dinky?" she asked.

  "Okay" she answered with a hopeful smile.