Life of a Zebrakin

by Moonlit Path

Rating: everyone
Tags: Comedy, Random, Adventure
Length: 1873

A little Zecora learns about spells and potions. It isn't as easy as she first thinks.

Zecora has kept a journal since she started school at 4 years old. Everyday a new challenge she happily welcomed, with a explosion here and there. As she goes through school, she makes a lot of mistakes, but eventually uses that to her advantage.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-12-07 21:09:57 UTC

Age 4 Month 1

Week 1

Dear journal,

Today I learned about potion making! I am so excited to work with my teacher, and I am actually really good at making potions! He told me that one day, I could be a master myself. I also discovered I am good at making rhymes! My parents joke that one day I am going to just spend all my time talking is rhymes and riddles. Me exact words back "You think I rhyme all the time, this might be true, but at least when I speak, your not in a brew" I got grounded for the rest of the day. I suppose telling your parents that you can cook them up in a potion by rhyming isn't the best line of defense. This rhyming stuff is actually pretty fun. Before I bid you a adieu, I must speak the words that are true. I might be a outcast and geek, but my heart will be with every creak and mountain peek. Across this world, I will see, my love will be, across every land and every sea. So I'm off for now, but I know I will roam, until I find a place I can call home.

Zecora

Week 2

Dear Journal,

My first week of school has gone well, but I accidently turned myself to stone. My teacher quickly undid it though. Being turned to stone really sucks, you can see and hear everything around you, but you can't move. Then our teacher brought me a ingredient from a new land! It is from a place called Equestria, and it is called Poison Joke. Do NOT make it into tea. It is called poison JOKE for a reason. I do have to admit that was a good prank and lesson by my teacher. He said it was for scaring him with the stone potion. I don't know why he needs to get me back. I mean those both were on me! I got him back though, by putting the poison joke in his soup.

Zecora

Dear Journal (Again)

Note to self, Teacher is smarter then he looks. Also stay away from something called pomegranates. They hurt.

Zecora

Week 3

Dear Journal,

Got my first homework assignment. He said he finally trusted me to make a potion at home! I won't let him down! I have to make a thick substance with a few different ingredients. Although now that I really look at it, something weird is going on. Why do I need to cook it? Also why does it have peanut butter in it? I guess we will find.

Zecora

Dear Journal, (Again)

That was no potion, that made peanut butter cookies. Well jokes on him, I ate them all. Hehehehe. I should make a new batch though. Then we can share them.

Zecora

Week 4

My teacher said I am ready for more advanced potions, instead of just basic potions to teach me what not to do. It won't be until two weeks from now though, because I don't know all the math that is needed. So we are going to take a break to learn fractions and dividing.

Zecora

Month 2

Week 1

Dear Journal,

Math is really fun! I don't know why some of the other students complain about it so much. You can use it to figure out anything you want! Correction, almost everything. It is still really cool. I also learned that different places use different styles of math. It is weird, but I will get the hang of it. I hope. I got the zebrakin version down, so I'm not in a huge rush to learn the others. I will someday though. Next week we are going to work on potions again. My teacher told me that I will be doing more classes now, instead of just the one that was a introduction. I am going to be in spells and potions, math, history, and science. I still don't get the difference between spells and potions and science though. Aren't they the same thing? I also got permission to live at the school with a few of the older students. My teacher found out that I don't have a home, and built a shack in the mountains. He didn't like that, so he is going to watch over me. I don't know why though, I have been living there by myself for a year now. He said I was too young. So now my schedule is wake up, eat, get ready, history, science,  then I have lunch, my nap (he said I have to take one so I stop falling asleep in the middle of class), finally I have math then spells and potions class. He said it is the longest and hardest so he made sure we can have extra time. This is going to be fun.

Zecora

Week 2

Dear Journal,

Its been a long week. My teacher gave us a lot of materials to read and study. I don't mind, I get to stay up past my bedtime if I am working on school work. I love living at the school, it is a lot less scary then when I was by myself. My teacher also told me that if I get all of my work done, and I did good on it, instead of just rushing through it, then we can take a trip next week to gather ingredients for my spells and potions class! One last thing. History is dumb, but I was told I need to know it.

Zecora

Week 3

Dear journal,

I messed up one of my potions and have been sick all week. I'm sad that we have to skip our trip, but my teacher says that my health must come first.

Zecora

Week 4

Dear journal,

We got to go on our trip! He said that he felt bad that I was sick last week. We spent the day restocking the herb jars. That means I have to do two days of work tomorrow, but I don't care. I had a lot of fun, and I hope we can do this again soon. I have been in school for two months now, and I have learned so much. I know there is a lot more out there. Also next week we will work on rhymes some more. He said I will have to be able to speak in rhymes so that I don't mess up the spells. I won't argue with that, I think some practice would have really helped me last week. Who knew messing up one word would cause a spell to go from growing plants to making me sick for a entire week!

Zecora

Month 4

Week 1

Dear Journal,

Started my new classes today. I don't like them. We barely learn anything, and the little we do learn, we have to keep going over again, and again, and again, because the others can't understand it. It's so easy too!

Zecora

Week 2

Dear Journal,

I am starting to get really annoyed at this school. Why did my teacher have to leave? I was told i'm not allowed in the advanced class because of my age. I already know everything they teach in the advanced class! I'm starting to wonder why I am still in school.

Zecora

Week 3

Dear Journal,

Found out why my teacher had to leave. Aparently he was something called a changeling. I was told to stay far away from them. I don't know why though, he seemed so nice. I loved him. Not like a romantic way, but a good friends way

Zecora

Week 4

Dear Journal,

That's it, i'm done. I quite this school. I can learn more then alone, I'm not a fool. As I leave, I give them my wishes, that one day, they will find all the riches that come from a education. Like me, I hope that with some determination they will see, what they are meant to be.

Zecora

Month 5

Week 1

Dear Journal,

I started my studies. My parents weren't happy I dropped out of the school. I don't care though, this is for the best. I hope that one day, I might even get out of this place. I was looking at Equestria.

Zecora

Week 2

Dear Journal,

My work is going swell, although I acadently blew up a well. Remind me not to try that again, and just take a step back and count to ten. My potions are becomming more advanced magic, and I even saved a pony from a death that was tragic.

Zecora

Week 3

I have been sick again. I think it was those blue flowers, but when? I am not allowed near poison joke. Besides, i can't afford them I'm broke.

Zecora

Week 4

Still sick, but I think I have a cure. It requires a special ingredient from a place called Ponyville. I am out of it, so I need to be careful, other wise the results could be a baffle

Zecora

Month 3

Week 1

Dear Journal,

I was talking with my teacher and he thinks I should take privet lessons with him, instead of with the class. I loved the idea! Think of how much more I will learn, and how it will help lead me to a life I yearn. I hope one day I can take my what I know, and follow the wind, where ever it might blow. I am still young, but I can't fret, one day I will be a zebra they won't forget.

Zecora

Week 2

Dear Journal,

My teacher arranged it with the school, so I am going to be taking privet classes with hime! I am so excited, It won't be constant like the past month, but I will have history in the early morning, spells and potions in the afternoon, and then math and science later at night around dinner time. We are going to start learning the floura and fauna soon of the ocean. He called it marine biology if I remember right. Maybe we will even get to go to the ocean! I've never seen it before, I have only heard about it in books.

Zecora

Week 3

Dear Journal,

I am really bored. My teacher has been in meetings all week, we have barely had time to have class. I hope nothing is wrong.

Zecora

Week 4

Dear Journal,

My teacher just came in looking really sad. He told me that he has to go, and that I will have to be in class with the others. I'll never see him again. I don't want him to go though. He disappears for almost a entire week, and now he will be gone forever? The police said he was a bad person. But he was so nice, I loved having him as a teacher. What could he have possibly done that was so bad! I don't even know if I want to be in school anymore.

Zecora