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Chapter 5 – Home for the time

There's a prominent nip in the air of Canterlot’s streets, no snow maybe pushed off to the sides of the gray stone walk ways and there is no snow caked roof tops like Ponyville. Instead the snow of this big city is more of a fine powder that just lightly has been allowed to settle on the main street and a few houses. Which serves more as a fashion statement for the city, rather than a tribute to the winter season like it is in Ponyville.

However the ponies that continue to trot past or next to Violet and Sparky as the two young ponies travel down the cities streets are all layered in heavy winter clothing. A few ponies have turned a questioning eye to the two lightly dressed ponies.

For the most part Violet's attention has been to the directions her mother gave her although, the on looking ponies looks are met with the same kinda look from the light purple mare who barely feels the city's sorry excuse for winter.

Sparky slowly starts to turn his head to Violet as he speaks up, "So how much further is this place? We've already passed the castle."

The comment flick's the young mare's ear as she turns her attention from the piece of paper in her magical hold. Her pace slows to almost a crawl as she quickly raises her hoof to speak out the rest of her comment.

"Well are you sure you're not supposed to stop by the school or castle first?"

The fact that Sparky asked another question slightly annoys the young mare, but she pauses her trot as she brings her hooves up in a more detailed answer.

Of course the pause in the flow of the streets is quickly noticed by one of the ponies that now has to walk around the stopped mare, the well dressed and slightly uppity stallion's voice rings out as he scoffs, "I see some ponies still do not follow proper etiquette when in the city."

The stallion's annoying comment turn's the mare's head, but she doesn't turn it to the voice instead she just starts her trot up a little faster, no longer wanting to talk.

Sparky picks his pace up as he follows after the mare, he slowly moves his head a little closer towards her as he speaks up in a low voice, "Welcome back to the city."

A faint smile comes to the mare as she continues to look over the piece of paper in front of her.

However as the two ponies turn off onto a side road the paper that shields most of the mare's face now floats towards the side pocket in the satchel that's draped over her left side.

Just down the road there sits a tall white stone dome building, the white stone cover of the building extends far out into the street. Around each curve in the road that leads towards the few steps that lay in front of the two crystal clear glass door windows there lays elegant marble statues of unicorns in various positions.

The building is not as large as the Canterlot castle, but the brighter white stone and the sleek dome like look gives the building a new modern feel to it that the castle doesn't really bring.

Sparky continues to turn his head around the area as they near the doors, a slight laugh comes up as he turns his head to Violet, "Ha...This place puts my school's dorms to shame."

A slight smirk comes to Violet as her horn sparks up in a light blue to open one of the doors she now rapidly approaches. Sparky's trot slows down a little as he waits for the light purple mare to trot in.

Violet turns her attention to the large goldish orb like chandelier that lofts almost magically above the polished white marble floor. The gold light that shines from the orb gives the whole building a gold like gloss to it, which brings a slight smile to the mare's face as she looks around the large open lobby.

However, her in take of where she'll be staying for the next four months is cut short as a strange sounding voice comes up.

"Hello Madam, may I help?"

Violet quickly snaps her eyes to a light blueish gray coated unicorn stallion, the upper part of his chest and down his back is covered in a sleek fitted tan tuxedo. However Violet's eyes fix to the older stallion's bouncing mustache, "Madam?"

To the words Violet gives a simple smile as her horn sparks up to open one of the patches of her bag. The stallion blinks to the motion as Sparky speaks up, "Uh, this is where the unicorns stay for Celestia's school right?"

The stallion straightens his head up as he speaks up, "Yes, but I will need to see-..."

His voice is brought to an end as Violet casually floats her letter in front of his gaze of Sparky. The stallion's horn sparks up with a deep royal blue color as he takes the paper for a better look, "Violet Sparkle."

"...Sparkle." The stallion's face is blank for a moment as he looks over the light purple mare in front of him, however he only holds the paper for a moment as he floats it back to her with a low smile, "Yes, I remember your name."

Violet takes the paper from his magical hold as the stallion turns towards Sparky, "Who are you monsieur?"

Sparky quickly gives a friendly smile as he shifts a little from the stallion's stare, "Oh, i'm a friend."

For a moment the stallion doesn't say anything, but with a slight nod he sparks up a smile, "Of course. Now, if you two would follow me I would be happy to show you to your room." The stallion's trot starts up towards the staircase on the right of the room as he continues to speak up, "My name is Sérieux, and I shall be here to make sure you have a wonderful stay at fantaisie gras."

His trot holds as he starts to move up the stairs, "This is our first time hosting the Unicorn school's students..." His trot pauses for a moment as Violet and Sparky reach the top of the stairs, "...As the Princess has asked you are all guest here, so you are all welcome to the dining, spa and events that occur."

Violet nods to the comment as Sérieux starts his trot back up, "Students will be on the second floor, stallions in the west wing and mares on the east."

The trot through the upper levels of the hotel comes to an end as the stallion stops in front of a door just a little down the right hall, "Here will be your room..." Before his sentence can even end a flash of magic has brought a brass key into the stallion's blue magical hold as he passes it to the young mare, "Here is your key. Any problems please see the front desk..." His eyes turn to Sparky for a second, but he doesn't speak up as he brings his trot back towards the other hall.

Violet turns towards the door as she moves the key to it and opens. The room has a circular feel to it however this allows the three bright open windows to give a warm homey feel to the room.

Of course, Violet doesn't really pay attention to the room's elegant dark wood furniture or to the all around nice room. Instead Violet's horn sparks up quick as the young mare moves the bags from around her, they fall to the ground with a flop as Violet just rolls her neck just enjoying the absent weight.

The sound of the bags jolts Sparky's awestruck gaze as he turns back to the mare in front of him, "Wow, this place is better then the Wonder Bolt's academy. You got your own dresser, desk bathroom everything..." A wide smile comes to the stallion as he takes an extra step into the room, "Maybe I should try out for Celestia's school."

Violet turns back to her friend as she rolls her eyes and sparks her horn up to close the door to the room.

Another light laugh rolls from Sparky as he shrugs, "Ha, Canterlot's school probably is a lot easier then your training."

The light purple mare gets a sly smile as she brings her hooves up.

Sparky blinks to the comment as he pokes his head a little towards the mare, "Are you saying I'm bad at math?"

Violet just raises her eyebrows to the comment as she stares to him. Her stare quickly takes effect as Sparky backs off with a slight laugh, "Alright, m-maybe I can get a little better."

With a low wheezing laugh Violet's horn comes back up as she floats one of the bags up to herself and over towards the bed. Sparky bends his head towards the other as he bites down to the strap and picks it up, however his nice gesture is quickly regretted as he realizes how heavy it is.

Before the stallion can even get one hoof forward Violet's magic has already taken hold of the satchel as it floats to sit next to the other. The new absent weight brings Sparky's voice up with a little laugh as he speaks up, "Why is that so heavy?"

The comment quickly sparks the mare's hooves up as she begins to run through an answer. From her speed and the now light orange glowing mood amulet that sits around the mare's neck Sparky can easily tell she's annoyed.

Sparky tries to roll his hoof as he cuts through the mare's motions, "Oh come on Violet, you couldn't have brought that much for the spell."

Violet sets her hoof back to the ground as she shoots back an, oh really look. Before Sparky can even speak up the mare turns back to the satchel on the left as her magic quickly turns it upside down allowing all of it's contents to spill out onto the bed's surface.

Books, quills, already written papers and jars on top of jars of items fall to the bed as Violet gives it one last good shake.

"Oh..." Sparky shrugs a little as his friend's light blue eyes turn back to him, "W-well it's not that much... And just because you're not using it this week doesn't mean you won't be using it."

Violet gives a silent sigh as her magic wraps around the clutter and begins following after where the mare now trots as she directs her self towards the drawers next to the larger dresser cabinet. As she nears the drawers her magic wraps to the bottom one as it slides out and she starts to one by one float her things away.

It only takes a few seconds for her magic to put her items away, however just putting the things away isn't good enough as she bends down a little to better organize her things.

Sparky's eyes slightly drift down his friend's up right back side as he realizes the bow on her tail has been placed a little to high on her tail, most likely from rushing this morning. The pegasus quickly averts his eyes back to the other bag on the bed as he clears his throat, "S-so uh what's in this bag? Is it the rest of the library?"

The comment brings the mare's head up from the bottom drawer as she realizes the large and more jam packed bag still needs to be released and organized. The light purple mare turns her eyes to the bag as her magic wraps to it and begins to float it from the bed, while she does she hooves out her own question.

For a moment Sparky thinks over the request but the stallion waves his hoof to it as he speaks up, "Sorry Violet... I shouldn't be late to the Wonderbolt's academy this time, tomorrow we'll do the dream spell." He lowers his head as he shells out a friendly smile, "At least tomorrow we can complain about school."

Violet rolls her eyes to the joking comment as she nods her head and floats the bag towards herself.

Sparky turns his gaze to the windows as he stretches his already slightly flexed out wings, "I don't think they'll let me fly out..." He turns his head to his friend as he nods, "C-ya tomorrow Violet."

The mare doesn't turn her head to her friend as she watches her bag pour out onto the spot on the bed close to her, instead she gives just a simple nod as she begins to sort through her things.

"Bye." Sparky turns back to the door as he leaves the room.

As the door closes Violet stops her sorting for a moment as she brings her head up to look over the quiet room she now resides in. Being in the castle last time made the young mare aspire to be like her mother, however the simple but elegant hotel dorm room feels more like a vacation spot rather than a place to be studying at night or doing work.

The quiet room and more adult like feel to it does bring a new feeling to the young mare as she continues to just listen to the strange quite.

However, the silence is broken as Violet chimes her horn up to a few spell books and storybooks she's yet to read. The low chime of her magic runs parallel to the sound of her hooves as she trots over towards the desk at the other side of the room.

As she sets the books down she floats over a piece of paper, an ink well and a quil as she begins to write a letter home like you and Twilight asked.

End of chapter 5