Digimon Academy

Essence yawned as a furious knock on the door became apparent. it's been a few days since she went shopping and the presents were still stacked up on the table, now with labels.

"Rainy... Can you get that..." Essence whined.

She woke up with a furious head ache and a runny nose. It was the worst way to begin hearth's warming eve.

"Ok..." A tired voice called from the bottom bunk.

There was the clopping and dragging of hooves as rainy got up and answered the door.

"RAINY!!! YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS? HUH DO YA???" The voice known as Ditzy doo cried/

"... Thursday?" She said, tiredly.

"Nope! Hearth's Warming!!!" Ditzy announced, prancing in place.

"I might not be able to make it... I don't think Essence feels very well." Rainy said, more awake than she was a few minutes ago.

"Aw... Do you want me to get somepony?" Ditzy asked.

"Nah, It must have been something that happened at the late night celebration. They didn't realize that someponies were trying to sleep..."  Rainy said.

"Ugh... That kept me up all night... Well, until Lyra asked me if I wanted a charm on my room. It only lasted until sunrise." Ditzy said.

"lyra?" Rainy asked.

"She's a friend from Ponyville. She went missing a few days ago. I guess this is where she went. She's also my roomate. She has a digmon called an.. an..dro... It's was hard to say." Ditzy explained.

"Ah... Andromon?" Rainy yawned.

"No.. I think... I'll ask her again..." Ditzy said, trailing off.

"Since it's a holiday, I saw many ponies eating breakfast up in their dorms. You want me to bring you some?" Ditzy added

"Sure. Whatever they have is fine with me." Rainy said.

"I'll be back!" Ditzy said and zoomed down the hallway.

Seconds later there came a thud and a "I'm ok!"

Rainy closed the door and sighed.

Ditzy trotted down the hallway until she got to the cafeteria. She saw Night and all the others sitting down and talking.

"Heya!" She said, walking up behind them.

"Oh hey ditzy!" Lightning said, smiling.

"Wassup?" Night said, swallowing a piece of toast.

"Not much, Essence woke up not feeling very well, so I decided to bring rainy and her some breakfast." Ditzy explained.

"Wait, Essence doesn't feel very well?" Night parroted.

"Yeah, pay attention." Ditzy said.

Night just glared at her, annoyed. Ditzy ignored it.

"See you later then?" Lightning said.

"Yep!" Ditzy said, walking off.

Some time later Ditzy returned, balancing a few trays on her wings. She walked up to the dorm room and knocked on the door, which was trick to do with trays of food on her wings.

"Oh hey Ditzy!" Rainy said as she grabbed a tray from ditzy's wing.

"I'm back!" She said smiling.

They placed the trays on the table on the table where essence was sitting and sat down next to her.

"Feeling better?" Ditzy asked.

"Yep. Rainy gave me some medicine she made and I felt better almost right away." Essence said.

"Cool, So are you well enough to eat? The colts were waiting for us in the cafeteria." Ditzy said, taking a bite of her apple.

She then frowned and said "Sweet apple acres grows better than this..."

"Huh?" Essence asked.

"It's a farm in ponyville." Ditzy explained.

The two mares nodded their heads in understandment.

"Well, I guess we should finish up and then go down." Rainy said, eating some oats.

"Wel, I dunno when-" Essence began before draco interrupted her by saying

"We finished about five minutes ago."

The group met in the student lounge after they were all done. There was a few other ponies and digimon in there giving gifts and whatnot, but most were outside in the snow.

"So Essence, you feeling better?" Crescent asked.

"yep." She replied happily.

"So who's gift is first? Mine? Or maybe mine?" Ace asked gleefully.

"Ah shaddup..." Draco said to ace.

"I think Night should open his first." Ditzy said.

The group fell quiet for a second and then all nodded in agreement.

"Why me?" Night asked.

"We must have all gotten you all good gifts." Essence said, shrugging.

"..Fine.." He said, reaching into his pile of presents.

"Oh great, a book about sword fighting. Thanks Rainy. Wait, are you trying to say something?" Night said.

"You're welcome and no. I'm not."

"Fine.. Alright Lightning your turn."

"Wait! Shouldn't we wait until the Digimon are done? I mean, they couldn't wait so..." Essence said.

"Nah, They'll be fine." Night said.

"O-ok..."

Lighting reached in and pulled out a small square wrapped box. He unwrapped it and smiled.

"Thanks Ditzy." He said, smiling.

"... And finally we got..." Lightning trailed off, unwrapping the lightning spell tome.

"Woah! You really didn't need to get this for me Rainy!" He said, putting the book aside.

"You're my friend. It's what we do." She replied, smiling.

"So... Who's next?" Essence asked.

"How about Crescent." Rainy said.

"Uh, Sure." He said.

Crescent pulled out a very thin square present. It was addressed to him from Ditzy and Rainy. He unwrapped it.

"Thanks Ditzy!" He said, smiling.

He pulled back the power ponies comic and saw... an issue of spidermane. He didn't hate it, but he didn't dislike it either...

"Gee... Thanks.. Rainy!" He said, trying to hide the annoyance in his voice.

He made a mental note to bring that to the next bonfire. he pulled out the last present which was given to him from Essence. He unwrapped it. It was a picture of all of them on the first day of when Essence got there. Well, the first official day.

"I'll have to ask somepony to get a new picture with Ditzy in too." Essence said.

"T- Thanks!" He said, blushing a bit.

"Uh... Oh by the way..." Crescent added.

'I'm going to do it. Nothing stopping me...' He thought.

"Yeah?" Essence said.

"C-can I-" He started.

"Woah! Look at that!" A pony yelled.

That caused everyone in the room to rush over to the window. Outside was a giant snowpony which looked like it was built by several unicorns, pegasi and their digimon.

"Woah!!" Essence said.

"Uh... Essence.." Crescent said.

He'd never felt this shy before.

"Oh I'm sorry Crescent! What were you going to say?" She said.

"N-nothing..." He said, sitting down on a seat.

"Ok." Essence said and walked back to the window.

(End of part one. Part two will come next Hearth's warming eve... You'll see what I'll do)