The Third Student of Celestia

After Classes were over Steelheart walked over to the gym with a smile. Today the fencing club was getting the gym for practice instead of the school basement. As he walked in he greeted the other members of the team and soon they were all fitted in their gear. The captain, or as some call her the current freshman legend Rainbow Dash paired Steelheart with the vice captain Honeyrose. Honeyrose and Rainbow Dash were the top fencers in the school and had high hopes that they would take the gold at Nationals this year. “Ok guys right now run basic thrust and counter drills alright” Rainbow Dash said and they all fitted their helmets on and took positions on the spread out mats.

Steel heart and honey rose shook hands respectfully and went to the opposite sides of the mat they were on. They held up their foils and began. Steel heart made the first move and lunged forward and was parried by honey rose as she waited for his blade to pass her's before moving it three inches or so to the left causing his blade to miss her and she then straightened her blade and lunged at him scoring on his chest. She simply smiled at him.

“You’ve been getting better with your accuracy but you can’t make your attacks so obvious.”

“Yes ma'am" he said respectfully. Practice went like this and at the end steel heart was chugging yet another bottle of water as he made his way home. On the way he passed the canterlot high stallion statue. He sighed and looked at one of the four mirrors on the base of the statue and then began to clean his glasses before he took a look at himself. “Why is it that the only time people actually talk to me is during fencing?” he said putting his glasses back on and gulping down more water.

“Because that is the only time you can get your energy out” Steelheart jumped as he spat out the sip of water he was taking and gasped as he saw it was honey rose standing a few feet from him

“Oh uh hey honey rose how ya doing”

“I’m doing ok just wondering why you where here staring at the statue”

" Oh I’m just uh you know……..admiring the detail.” He said rubbing the back of his head.

Honey rose giggled “You really are weird you know.”

“Tell me something I don’t know” they both chuckled and then honey rose sighed

“Well I gotta get going my family is gonna worry if I’m not back soon”

“Ok well see you later…..i guess” he said as she walked off. It wasn’t until he started to walk home that hefelt warmth on his cheeks and realized he had been blushing the whole time. You couldn’t blame him though. He had been a social outcast since freshman year and had hardly struck up a conversation with anyone let alone the vice captain of the fencing team. Unfortunately for him she already had a boyfriend. As far as Steelheart could tell, he wasn’t the stereotypical jarhead jock who only goes out with a girl for her body but a genuinely nice guy who cares about honey rose. That knowledge was rather disappointing to steel heart but he figured he shouldn’t be mad that the girl he had a slight crush on is with a guy who treats her right. In his moments of thought he was distracted and ran into a lamp post before falling to the ground. He hit the ground with a thud and just lay on the sidewalk for awhile t take in what just happened “Glad no one saw that” he said to himself standing up with a slight wobble he shrugged off his previous thoughts and continued to make his way home.