Princess Luna's School of Magic

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Princess Luna's School Of Magic

Chapter two

Catch, school, and chaos.

The night princess's eyes fluttered open to light of the sun shining through her window. She stretched out her wings and yawned. She then looked around the room and spied a sleeping Silent Night, curled up on the foot of her bed. The small filly's chest quietly, and gently, rose and fell with each breath. The moon princess smiled softly, and stroked her beautiful mane gently. Her tiny eyes slowly opened, and she looked up at the alicorn.

"Bad dream?" Luna asked gently. She already knew that it was one; this must have been the tenth time she has awoken to find the filly asleep beside her because of a bad dream. But asking showed she cared.

The young filly nodded her head.

Silent's room was right next to Luna's so she could stay near the princess. But that didn't stop her from wanting to sleep with the alicorn every time she had a bad dream. Not only that, Silent's room was incomplete, so it wasn't that comfortable to sleep in. The night princess's private quarters were very comfortable, and could easily house the two. On the floor, a big crescent moon was depicted, and on the ceiling, a starry night sky. The bed itself was circular and midnight blue colored.

Luna looked at the moon shaped clock on the wall. It was six pm. Classes started at seven. She had to raise the moon at six-thirty so she had about thirty minutes to spare.

So what should I do with my spare time? She pondered.

The midnight blue filly stared up at her teacher's thoughtful look, with curiosity. Lost in thought, Luna didn't notice.

"Umm...Princess, what are you thinking about?" The alicorn snapped out of her thoughts and looked back at the small filly, with a gentle smile.

"Well I am wondering what I should do with my spare time." She saw no reason to lie to her.

"Well, umm... You could play with me... I mean if you wouldn't mind." Her nervousness was highly evident in her voice. It's not every day somepony asks one of the princesses to play with them. A look of surprise appeared on the night princess's face. It faded as it was replaced with a warm smile.

Well she is a filly after all... Not only that, I do have the time.

"Okay Silent Night, I will play with you." The filly's eyes lit up with a combination of joy and excitement.

Luna loved that look. She nickered before following the excited filly out the door.

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"So how do you play 'catch'?" The alicorn stared at the ball with a confused look on her face. She had never actually "played" with anypony before, because she always had her sister.

They had chosen the Royal statue garden to play catch in. It was a beautiful day; even with the sun beginning it's decent. The cool breeze felt nice on the Princess's body.

"Ready to learn?" Luna looked up at the unusually energetic filly.

"Yes I am Silent Night." That drew another smile from the midnight blue filly. The princess began lifting the ball up with her magic when Silent interrupted her saying, "No! You aren't supposed to use magic. You are supposed to use your hooves."

A confused look appeared on Luna's face. She had a strange feeling of déjà vu as she thought of her first nightmare night in Ponyville, where she learned how to play the various games played at the festival. She wondered if Tia had to go through this same thing with Twilight. She'd have to ask her later.

She picked up the ball with a hoof. "Okay, now what?"

"Now toss it at me, and I have to catch it."

"Okay......" She tossed the ball towards Silent, and the filly tried her best to catch it on her head. However, the ball bounced off her face landing on the grass next to her with a small thud.

This made a screwed up look appear on her face that caused Luna to chuckle. After shaking off the look, Silent Night picked up the ball and tossed it at her teacher, taking her completely by surprise. The ball bounced off her long horn, as she moved to catch it. It rebounded into the air, hitting her in the face on its way back down.

The student started giggling at the resulting look on her mentor's face.

She gave her a smile. "Do you think this is funny?" The filly nodded her head, having no idea what she was getting herself into.

"Well," The princess began as her horn lit up and she picked up more balls from the basket with her magic," let's see how funny this is." her smile turned into a grin.

"Uh-oh" At that moment the mentor began her assault, Silent dodged as many as she could. When the student reached the basket of balls, she picked up a couple of them with her magic.

"Your mine now Princess!!" The filly giggled as she flung some balls at Luna, who raised a wing to defend herself from the onslaught of bouncy projectiles, chortling as she did so.

As the two fired balls at each other, laughing and having fun while they did so, the stone statue known as Discord frowned inside.

Ew, gag for the love of chaos play elsewhere. This is too.. Happy.Discord thought to himself.

Twenty-five minutes later the two lay giggling and laughing side-by-side. This was the most fun they both had had in a long time, and they both knew it. Also by the end of it, the entrapped spirit if chaos had mentally thrown up at least twenty times.

"Thanks princess.. I had a lot of fun." The student gave her teacher a happy grin, which was completely out of character for her. The teacher gave her student a warm smile.

Then somewhere a clock's bell resounded, announcing that somepony was running late. Luna's eyes went wide as the realization hit her.

"I'M LATE!!" a certain alicorn's voice cried through the royal palace, causing all the guards to glance up in curiosity.

The princess of the night entered, with her student, the great hall as calmly as she could, where the princess of the day waited patiently with hers. It was decided that it was a good time for the two students to meet. The reason they hadn't meet before, was because Twilight was so busy with the organization of the creation of the school, she didn't get the chance.

"Sorry I am late sister, I had gotten distracted by my student for while. I guess I had lost track of time." Luna's voice sounded apologetic. However as usual, her sister was understanding.

"Catch?" Celestia asked with a knowing smile.

Luna laughed, so did her sister, for the alabaster alicorn could easily tell by the joyful look on Silent's face.

I guess that answers that question. The midnight blue princess thought to herself.

"Twilight Sparkle, this is Silent Night." The white alicorn said in her usual happy, complacent tone.

"Hello, Nice to meet you." Twilight added as she extended a hoof out to the filly. However, Silent's usual behavior was back in full swing, and she hid behind Luna. The purple unicorn, got a confused look.

Luna gave her a small smile. " Do not worry, she is pretty timid Twilight."

Now that the librarian thought about it, she kinda did act like Fluttershy. However judging from the beautiful night sky on her flank (it almost seemed real!), a baby dragon wasn't going to bring her out of her shell. Twilight had to actually work for this one. After a mix of pondering, memories of past experiences with Fluttershy, and calculations, she finally had a plan.

"You don't have to be shy around me Silent." She told the filly with a confident smile," I am Shining Armor's sister, after all." This piqued Silent's curiosity once again.

She peeked out from her hiding spot, at the purple unicorn. Twilight was about to say something, when the midnight blue alicorn cut her off. "Just humor her, I guarantee you will like this." She even added a warm smile.

At that moment, if purple mare had her way, she would have had a paper and pencil to take notes on this interesting behavior.

First, Silent slowly made her way towards the bookish mare, with much curiosity about the librarian sparkling in her eyes. She then continued to examine her, much in the same way she did Shining Armor. However, this inspection passed quicker due to her smaller stature, and lack of armor.

The one thing the purple unicorn had to admit was that she was being unbelievably cute in her way of doing so.

After some more poking and analyzation, the two finally ended up staring at each other.

"So.....Umm... Hi." This had to be one of the awkwardest introductions Twilight had ever experienced. But at least the little filly was trying.

The two princesses just watched on in amusement, as the two students inexpertly tried their best to start a conversation.

"So I noticed your cutie mark, are you interested in astronomy?" The purple mare asked as gently as she could.

"Well..... I have always felt a... Um... Connection between me at the stars...... So I guess you could say that."

Well at least she is starting to warm up to me. Thought Twilight.

"If you like the stars so much, you should come by my house in Ponyville. I have all kinds of astronomical equipment there. You would be able to stargaze all night long with no trouble." That caused Silent Night's face to light up at the thought of being able to spend an entire night in a nice home staring up into the night's sky, taking in all its wonder.

"Wow, really?!?"She turned to her mentor," Can I go over to Twilight's house tonight?" Her mentor chuckled and responded saying.

"While that would be fun, you have a lesson in basic illusion spells later tonight. Maybe another time." That drew a disappointed look from the little filly, but there was nothing that could change the princess's mind and she knew it.

Then the sun princess turned to her counterpart and said, "I believe it is time to raise the moon sister." The moon princess nodded in agreement, and they gave each other a smile. The two turned to their students.

"Are you ready Twilight and Silent?" Celestia inquired. The two unicorns nodded their heads.

"Watch closely." Luna instructed, and they both obeyed.

Years of practice allowed for no words to be needed, for both sisters knew their part. The sun began it's decent, and the moon it's ascent. Silent watched in wonder, as the two celestial objects moved across the sky. Then at one point, the two were right across from each other, their beams of light mixing together and swirling around. The air was rife with beauty and shades of colors. The sight was near indescribable.

Amazement filled the onlookers' eyes. Twilight's mind was frantically searching for words, and Silent just watched in total awe. The midnight blue filly's cutie mark seemed to shimmer in the mixed light.

Then two celestial bodies continued on, the colors retreating, almost as if they had simply just said hello to an old friend. The moon rose into the sky and the sun set into the horizon. When they finished the moon was high in the sky, and a beautiful night sky was displayed.

"Wow... That was amazing." The unicorn mare uttered. The little midnight blue filly just nodded her head in agreement.

The princesses gave them both a smile. "Thank you." Both replied.

"Now I believe it is time for you and Luna to go to the school, am I correct?" The day princess's voice was warm and gentle as ever.

Silent turned her gaze down in disappointment, as she nodded her head slowly.

"Do not worry Silent Night, I'm sure Twilight will be able to let you stay over at some other time." The night princess reassured her student, as the purple unicorn nodded her head in agreement.

It didn't do too much to lighten her mood, but it was enough to make a visible difference on the midnight blue filly's face. After saying their goodbyes, the pair left Celestia, and her pupil, then headed for the school.

The two trotted through the school's courtyard, where many colts and fillies could be seen talking while walking to their classes.

The courtyard looked kind of like something Luna had seen from P.K Rolling's, Harry Trotter. A big stone yard, with trees along the sides, and benches and pillars at different intervals. It was colored according to the schools theme, except with a little green to match it up with the vegetation.

"Um, excuse me Princess, but why are we in the courtyard?" The little filly asked, with an inquisitive look on her face.

"I just thought that we would enjoy a walk through the courtyard, on our way to our spot. Might as well satisfy your curiosity." Silent thought about it, and realized she was right. She WAS curious about the courtyard. In fact she was intrigued by the grey colt with a red messy mane, messing with one of the benches.

She got her chance to go find out, when some staff members decided that something had gone wrong and they needed the night princess's help.

She approached the colt timidly from behind and asked, "Excuse me, but what are you doing?"

The colt waved a hoof back dismissively.

"One second, this is gonna be a good one." His voice was a scratchy. It reminded Silent a bit of Rainbow's, when she helped her design the physical exercises. However most of the time was spent talking about how awesome she was and how she was going to be in the Wonderbolts someday.

"What's gonna be good?" She noticed the colt's cutie mark of a hammer and screwdriver crossed.

"The prank!" He replied. Puzzlement spread across the midnight blue filly's face.

"A.... prank? What is that?" The colt froze then turned to her with red eyes filled with surprise.

"You seriously don't know what a prank is?" She nodded her head.

"That's insane!" He said, throwing his two fore-hooves into the air. "How could you not know what a prank is?!?" His voice was full of disbelief. Silent shrugged. A slightly frusterated look came over his face, as he directed her attention to the device and began working on it.

"Okay I'll show you a prank. Here come help me with this."

"Umm... Okay." She bashfully looked over his shoulder, to spy a weird contraption strapped under the bench.

"What is that?" Silent inquired, once again curiosity overriding her shyness.

He gave her a devious smile, before replying. "This," He pointed a hoof at the spring-loaded device, "is one of my greatest pranks: The launching bench." She gave him a look of confusion, which made him face hoof.

"When somepony sits on it, the bench will spring up and throw the victim off the bench and onto the ground." He gave her a devilish look.

"That doesn't sound very nice." She felt unsure about this. She took another look at the item. "Or safe." she added.

He laughed, which confused her. "Don't worry it is perfectly" He waved a hoof for effect which accidentally set off the device which was clearly not correctly calibrated."Safe?" The bench was sent flying across the air straight into a pillar, knocking it over. That caused a domino effect, as the pillars started falling one after the other.

"RUN!!!!" the colt yelled, as the bench came back down with the contraption still attached to it. Silent didn't know what else to do, so she followed the colt's lead. The bench landed where they just were with an explosion. Probably caused by the destruction of the device. Soon the whole courtyard was falling apart, debris landing in random points of the space.

"I HATE PRANKS!" Silent yelled as the two ran through the carnage to escape.

"Why?!? They are harm-" The colt cried as another piece of stone landed nearby causing them to flinch"-less!!"

"Obviously not!! Besides what if we get caught?!? My-" she wore a fearful look, as more pillars toppled and crumbled in the background, interrupting her.

They reached the door, as more pillars and debris fell behind them with loud thuds, cracks.

"We are not gonna get caught!! Even-" He was interrupted by Silent frantically shaking him, fear in her eyes.

"Y-you don't understand my personal teacher is going to k-kill me!" Panic filled the midnight blue filly, and it showed.

He rolled his eyes. "Look who ever your teacher is, I'm sure she won't kill you. It's not like she is a princess or something. Also besides, like I said, we aren't going to get," He opened the door and his eyes went wide, before them stood Princess Luna and the dean."caught?"

They all shared looks of shock. Except Silent Night, who just wore a guilty look on her face.

"I-I'm sorry Teacher." Her voice was audible, but soft and shaky. The colt looked at her in even more shock.

"Y-your teacher is P-Princess Luna!?!" Silent nodded, as the last pillar landed horizontally behind them with a loud thud.

Silent felt angry. Angry that she got tricked. Angry that he got her to do something wrong.

Being stuck in a room with him that was magically enchanted to not let them out until they completed their standards didn't help anything. The room was empty save for a couple of blackboards that the two were writing on.

He kept turning his gaze over to her, then looking away when she noticed. It didn't matter to her though, she didn't want to talk to him. She just focused on writing "I will not cause total destruction of the school courtyard." over and over again.

"Umm... Sorry I got you in trouble." Silent remained silent, as she was still mad at him.

"It was just a friendly joke, ya know? I really didn't mean any harm."

The midnight blue filly sighed. She couldn't ignore him forever. She gave him a serious look.

"How could a bench, launching ponies be 'friendly'?" His eyes grew a bit wide as he gave her a nervous look.

"Well, umm.." She jumped at the chance.

"Exactly! It was very mean, and I'm not happy."

"But pranks aren't meant to be mean. Just for laughs." He hoped it would work, but the midnight blue filly wasn't buying it.

One thing that made it hard, was that unlike everypony else, he wanted her approval. He had no idea why, but something about her seemed.... different from all the others. All he knew was, he felt the need to make her forgive him and that was all he needed. Problem was, he had never apologized before.

She continued to give him a cold angry stare, with her mane covering one side of her face like it normally did.

"If they aren't meant to be bad, then why are we here?!?"

He didn't know what to say to that. He never saw it that way. He always thought others thought they were fun. Well maybe that's why everypony hated him. He let out big sigh. Here goes nothing.

"Okay. You're right. I'm sorry. It's just... pranks are all I know. Do you forgive me?" Surprise appeared on Silent's face.  He looked so sincere. And sad. He was truly sorry.

She gave him a big hug. He started flailing wildly.

"Ew!!! Cooties!!" He cried causing her to laugh and release him.

"Oh no!! I've been infected!! What do I do!!" He had a panicked look on his face. The unicorn began laughing and giggling her flank off.

After brushing off what cooties he could, he sighed then smiled weakly.

"So does that mean you forgive me?"

She gave him a warm smile, which actually made him feel warm inside. "Yes it does. What is your name?"

"My name is Practical Joke. Yours?"

Silent didn't know why, but this colt gave her confidence. Which is pretty strange considering she just met him ten minutes ago.

"Silent Night. Nice to meet you."

(Author's note: Sorry for the wait! I had a lot going on. That's a lie. I actually had a bad case of "not being able to decide which fic you want to work on." I hope you enjoyed it. That includes you Mifloxie and any other people who disliked this fic.)