Whisper's Protection Spell

Apple Bloom opened the door that led to the classroom, she'd been so relieved that her friend, Scootaloo was okay. She was very excited about the announcement from Miss. Cheerilee that she hoped she hadn't come across as being rude to Scootaloo. Just as she opened the door to the classroom, a blue pegasi shot past her, as quick as a thunderbolt, a faint rainbow coming from her backside. It must've been Rainbow Dash! Apple Bloom remembered seeing Dash in the room next to the bed where Scootaloo had been lying.
Apple Bloom trotted into the classroom where all the other fillies and colts were. Diamond Tiara's desk was turned to face her best friends, Silver Spoon, and they were gossiping over pointless things. Featherweight was chatting with Pipsqueak. And all the others where either joining in with the conversations or lying on their desks, hoping that at any moment Miss. Cheerilee would burst through the door and bring order to the class. Apple Bloom thought that it was her responsibility to get the class back together before Miss. Cheerilee arrived, "A'hem, I just went to see Miss. Cheerilee and Scootaloo, luckily, Scootaloo's okay!" No pony was listening to her, they continued to talk, "And Miss. Cheerilee said that she'd be back shortly to make the big announcement!" All eyes turned to Apple Bloom, "So how about y'all get this classroom back to it's usual state before Miss. Cheerilee comes back?"
After a moment of silence some ponies nodded their heads and others grumbled in annoyance. Diamond Tiara turned to the front, "When did the mayor die and put you in charge?" Some ponies sniggered and laughed at the joke, some ponies grumbled, "We want a proper leader!" Diamond Tiara narrowed her eyes at Apple Bloom, "I think the class has made it very clear that they want a better leader than farm girl!" she said spitefully, "I think we need a better leader, a proper leader." Apple Bloom narrowed her eyes at Diamond Tiara.
Suddenly Scootaloo burst through the door followed by Miss. Cheerilee.
"Hello, everypony!" Cheerilee was in her usual, cheery state, until of course she turned around, "Diamond Tiara! Turn and face me if you please."
Diamond Tiara rolled her eyes and continued to glare at Apple Bloom. Scootaloo, noticing these glances and realising something must have happened, went to stand by her lemon-yellow coloured friend. "Now, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, please return to your seats." Scootaloo saw that Apple Bloom was still narrowing her eyes at Diamond Tiara, so she gave her a friendly shove and they both padded over to their desks. Cheerilee winked at Apple Bloom before looking over at Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, "I hope nothing fishy has happened while I've been away." Silver Spoon looked alarmed and immediately shook her head as if she was trying to swat away an annoying fly with her mane, Diamond Tiara just turned round with a smug look upon her face. "I'm serious Diamond Tiara, if any meanness has been going on between you and other fillies, I will inform your father."
Diamond Tiara's eyes went wide with alarm, and she shook her head and said, "I'm very sorry, Miss. Cheerilee, nothings happened, I promise."
The teacher seemed fine enough with this response and turned back to the rest of the class, her eyes widened when she turned to an empty desk next to Apple Bloom, she started looking frantically around the room for any sign of the missing student, eventually she turned to the class, a worried look on her face, "Has anypony seen Sweetie Belle today?"
The class looked at each other and back at their teacher, finally Scootaloo said, "I saw her yesterday..." Scootaloo's cheeks went ablaze when Silver Spoon started giggling and she realised that seeing her "yesterday" , wouldn't really help the situation at all.
Cheerilee didn't seem the least bit frazzled by this answer, she simply mumbled, "Good to know." And started looking and searching around the room, desperately hoping that the filly could be hidden underneath a desk, or book shelf. She turned to the class, "Well I didn't get a call from her parents so she can't be ill, and Sweetie Belle is too good to try and bunk off school, right?" Suddenly the young teacher who normally remained very calm under pressure began to feel herself heat up and panic.
At that moment somepony burst through the back door, "This is just getting dang DANGEROUS now!" Suddenly a blue mare with a rainbow coloured mane burst through the door that led into the class room, with a little white filly at her side, "Almost two accidents in one morning? This is getting completely out of hoof!" Everypony turned to stare at the intruder, only to realise that it was Rainbow Dash, the towns resident weather pony who spent her time practicing her flying skills or taking naps in the trees at Sweet Apple Acres.
"Rainbow Dash!" Cheerilee cried, "You found Sweetie Belle!" Cheerilee was almost so overcome with joy that the missing filly had returned that she didn't notice for a matter of seconds that one, Sweetie Belle was crying and two, that Rainbow Dash looked very, very, very angry!
"Yeah, I did. And guess where I found her? About to gallop into a massive tree trunk stretched across the road, unable to slow down because of her speed, now I don't know about you, but, that seems very dangerous don't you agree? After it's just happened to another filly and left her with severe injuries! Not to mention a pretty damn bashed scooter!"
Cheerilee looked flustered, "Now Rainbow Dash, you're in a classroom, please control your language. I am very sorry that Sweetie Belle almost had the same accident as Scootaloo, and I realise now that this is a very big problem that we are all having to deal with and I shall tell the caretaker to look into removing it immediately, I assure you."
"Good," Rainbow looked down at the filly who was only about half her size and said, "see, Sweetie? It's all going to be taken care of soon, no pony's going to get hurt again, Cheerilee says so, and what Cheerilee says goes."
The class couldn't help but smile at this, the dare devil, rainbow coloured pegasi dealt with things so well, despite of her slightly big head and trying-to-look-cool style of character, and it was obvious that despite these things, she still cared very much for the well being of other ponies. Cheerilee smiled as well, "Yes Sweetie Belle, no pony's going to get hurt." Cheerilee turned back to the rest of the class, "Now class, I don't want any running when you return home from school today, be very aware that there are dangers on the path that leads back to the town centre, as you can see we have already had some accidents that I, as teacher do not want to see happen again, do I make myself clear?" The class all nodded in unison at there now very serious teacher, "Thank you for informing me that this will be a problem, Rainbow. But maybe next time you could enter the classroom in a more orderly fashion, but you had a very important thing to say, so for that, I forgive you."
Dash nodded and smiled at Sweetie Belle and gave her a little wink, "Yeah, sure, sorry for bursting in like that, I was just agitated, thats all."
"Thats perfectly fine, and I was almost having a panic attack when I realised Sweetie Belle wasn't here! Thank you for returning her to me safely, Rainbow Dash."
Cheerilee gave one of her big cheery grins and Dash glided over to the exit and beamed, "I'll replace the door handle, by the way." And dashed out of the room.
The class all burst into laughter at the look on their teachers face, it was a mix of horror and disbelief at Dash's cheekiness. Sweetie Belle wiped her tears and galloped over to her seat quickly so as not to attract too much attention to herself. Cheerilee shook her head and started laughing, "That Rainbow Dash, she's just so unpredictable!"
"More like awesome!" Scootaloo couldn't help but correct her teacher.
Cheerilee gave a hearty grin, "Well, yes. I'll give her that!"
Scootaloo smiled but then cast a quick glance at Sweetie Belle just to make sure her friend was alright. The young filly was panting heavily. And why shouldn't she be? It must of been terrifying not being able to stop! At least I was on my scooter so I could easily steer clear! While Scootaloo was looking at her friend she heard a snooty laugh from behind her, she saw Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon sniggering at poor Sweetie Belle, "Your sure put on a good show! How embarrassing!" Diamond Tiara whispered in Sweetie Belle's ear.
"Oi! Leave her alone!" Scootaloo spat in Diamond's face. Diamond Tiara didn't respond but sneered at Scootaloo, then turned back to the front of the class where Cheerilee was standing, she was about to start her announcement!
"Well, everypony, as you very well know I have a very, very special announcement for you all today." She began, every filly and colt in the room were listening intently, "First off I'm just going to tell everypony what this is about because I can see that you can't wait any longer! We have a new student joining our school!" Scootaloo's face lit up, she was so excited, while she'd been here they'd never had a new filly or colt joining their small school, she turned round to look at Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, it seemed that Sweetie had stopped looking miserable and looked just as excited at Scootaloo felt! Apple Bloom was beaming too. "So, second off, it's a filly, not a colt, sorry boys." None of the boys showed any sign of being irritated by this fact, in fact some of the boys like Featherweight and Pipsqueak looked even more excited! Scootaloo just rolled her eyes and looked back at their smiling teacher, "Now, I want you to all show her around and be very nice to her, I'll have to pick a buddy to show her around, who'd be interested?" Everypony in the classroom raised a hoof. "Well, it may be a hard decision, so I suppose I'll let her choose! Come in dear!"
Everypony's face turned on a small mint filly with magenta eyes and purple and lilac mane and tail. She should've looked nervous, but something about the filly's face made her seem undoubtably calm. She gazed around the room at all the eyes that were staring at her. Cheerilee turned on her, "Now, everypony! This is Whisper, I want you to be kind, introduce yourselves and make her very at home here, understand?" Everypony nodded, still never taking their eyes off the filly.
Scootaloo turned and looked at Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom looked excited, just like Scoots, but Sweetie looked as if she were lost in thought, gazing at the filly with wide eyes and an open mouth. Cheerilee plastered a fake smile on her lips, noticing how awkward and quiet her normally chaotic class were being. She decided to break the silence, "So, Whisper? Who do you want to be assigned your buddy to look after you?"
Whisper looked around the class, Diamond Tiara looked desperate, she probably thought having another filly in her posse would make the class listen to her more. But Whisper's eyes skimmed past without so much as a second glance. Her gaze fell upon the CMC, first she looked at Scootaloo who was giving her a lop-sided smile, then at Apple Bloom who still looked rather excited then her gaze fell upon Sweetie Belle who was looking her up and down, lost in thought. Whisper had made her decision, she pointed at Sweetie and simply said, "The frightened one."