A life stolen for a war unclaimed

Damocles was breathing normally as his eyes started to flutter open before sitting up groaning and yawning the sun glared into his eyes

"Good morning my son... Did you enjoy your time with Sheila?" Luna asked sweetly. Damocles smacked his lips before looking at his mother.

"Morning Nightingale..." He got off the Bed and stretched before taking in surroundings. He was in his room sleeping with his mother. "How long have I been out?"

"24 hours... You need to get ready for school. You missed your first day And I will not have you miss a second one." She said power up her horn before striking Damocles with a spell encasing him in light. When the light faded Damocles was a normal looking Thestral that was white with his mane and wings completely normal His fur was even a Royal Blue and he didn't have a Cutiemark anymore. "To save time I will just implant the Equestrian Written Language into you're head." Luna said as she approached her child. "Look at how adorable you are!" she said pinching his cheek before touching her horn to his head.

"Moooom!" Damocles complained in a high pitched voice.

"Good now that, that's done its time for school Damocles." She said teleporting a saddle bag and few quills, pencils a small jar of ink, and paper. "Here is your breakfast." She gave him a something wrapped in paper towels as she put him on her back. "And I'll carry your lunch for you until we get you to class." She said happily as they passed the troops in the main yard along with the main 7 and Spike. Spike began laughing so hard he fell on his back. Twilight was snickering as Tender, was making baby faces at him. Causing him to blush. casting a quick illusion spell on herself she donned the look of a Sapphire Blue Unicorn, with Dark satin like mane with streaks of white in it. Her cutie mark was a telescope and the moon. "Now let us be off my child." Luna happily trotted out the door. Towards the school. Damocles grumbling in his higher pitched Diminutive nature opened the paper towels to see a warm biscuit with egg and bell pepper and onions and some purple jam like thing with cheese. He immediately began to scarf it down as Luna giggled.

"So do I call you Mom like this or whats up? And is my name still the same?" He asked.

"No. As to risk little to the school itself you will be called Damos, and yes you call me mom." Luna said as she seemed to jump with every step.

"Thank you for the biscuit."

"Did you enjoy the Blueberries? Discord thought it would be a good idea." Luna's voice was nothing but compassion as they approach the school house. Damocles Quickly nodded his head as Luna Set him down. "Good now listen to Ms. Cheerilee, don't bully the other kids, and for the love of the Night, Do not sleep through your classes like you used to."

"No promises on that last one, mother."Damocles said mockingly waving to Luna as he walked in to meet his teacher again. "So Teach, which desk am I getting?"

"You are going to wait outside in the hallway until I call you in to introduce you." Cheerilee Said sternly with a smile. "Also, when is your birthday?"

"The new one or the first one?"

"ummm the new one I guess?" Her voice and face held total confusion at the question.

"Don't know I think about a week ago? I was kinda knocked the hay out."

"Language... but okay so that means it was July 12th... Excellent. Oh for your knowledge to day is July 19th 1432." Cheerilee said smiling before going into the classroom as the bell rang. Everyone else was already inside apparently. "Attention Class. I know yesterday we were all excited to meet your new classmate but due to family issues he had to stay home. Everything being settled now though he is here." This caused a cheer in the class. "Everyone please welcome Damos." She called to the door, When no one came in everyone began to get confused. "Damos... Dearie... you can come in now." Cheerilee said in sing song voice. Still no movement that's when a voice was heard from the back by cubby holes.

"Ms. Cheerilee? Who are you all looking for?" Damocles' high pitched voice spoke from the back of the room yawning.

"Damos!" Cheerilee said shocked before narrowing her eyes for the briefest moments. "I thought I told you to wait outside until I called you."

"You did Ms. Cheerilee, and I did. I just didn't want to make a big fuss." Damos said sweetly smiling wide to show off his fangs. Cheerilee just sighed before pointing to a desk.

"Please set your papers and pencils down on your desk at the front of the class and come and introduce yourself Damos." Cheerilee said exasperated.

"Yes Miss Cheerilee~" Damocles sung in his kids voice as he walked up and using his wings to help hold things and put them away. Before going to the Chalkboard and writing out Both in English and Equish his name.

"Hello Everyone I am Damos. Its a Pleasure to meet you all," He looked at miss Cheerilee with a smile. "Instead of Introducing myself can I have the class ask me questions about me instead?" Cheerilee Nodded. And Almost instantly everyone began blurting out questions.

"Class one at a Time. Raise hoofs to be called on and please make sure to introduce yourself to Damos as well to help learn your names." Cheerilee said. With that said almost everpony raised their hooves up. Save for 5 fillies. Damos Pointed at the Colt who was why and spotted brown.

"Hello, My name is Pipsqueak, Class President, Welcome to the class. My question is Are you a Vampony or are you Like Princess Luna's Night Guards?" PipSqueak asked after standing up.

"As much as I would love to be the Day walker, I am of the same type of pony as Princess Luna's Night Guard, Alot of my old friends used to say I was kinda Batty." Damos said as a slight joke which made most of the class laugh as Pipsqueak sat down. Damos Pointed to Filly with glasses next.

"I Peppermint Twisth. What isth that veird scribbling below your name?" She asked.

"Oh... That's my name in home language..." Damos's voice went soft as he looked at it. "It's not important I'll just erase it... Force of habit... sorry." His voice grew softer as he spoke and started to erase the old language... Turning around he pointed at a chubby blue colt.

"I'm Snips, And where did you come from? Especially to have such weird writings." Snips asked this actually made Damos Flinch as Sweetie Belle Spoke up.

"Snips.. its obvious Damos doesn't want to talk about where he came from. just leave it alone." Sweetie belle said.

"Thanks Sweetie..." Damos said which made a gray colt stand up and point.

"How do you know Sweetie Belle?" This made Damos Blanche.

"Well duh its because we met him when were in canterlot this past week." Scootaloo said. "His mom was working Princess Luna and Celestia in regards to helping Prince Damocles Settle in. She's Probably over at His new house here in Ponyville anyways." Scootaloo rolled her eyes at what seemed like an obvious thing.

"So wait why didn't you all tell us about him." Diamond Tiara asked them.

"Because his mother asked us not to. Only to help settle him in and keep you all from crowding him too much, So take it easy on him guys. Plus he's naturally suppose to be awake at night. And since he's going to be living with the new unit with Prince Damocles he's probably not gonna get a whole lot of sleep." Applebloom said with a nod.

"However I have it that Despite that He will be Awake and Attentive during my Classes." Cheerilee Turned a Hard Look at Damos. "Isn't that Right Damos?" She said with a Sweet smile.

"Yes Ms. Cheerilee." Damos Said with a smile. And a look of worry in his eyes. This earned him an approving nod.

"Ok Class we have time for one more question before we start our lesson for today." Cheerilee said. This ended with only 1 pony left holding a hoof up. It was Silver Spoons.

"I am Silver Spoon and to introduce those who talked asking about you but didn't directly ask you, The pegasus Colt is named Rumble, You already know the crusaders, and This." She said gesturing to Diamond Tiara,. "Is my best Friend in the entire world Diamond Tiara. My question is why are you down here instead of up in canterlot learning there?"

"Oh.. that's simple. Princess Luna sent my mom to help act as an advisor for The training program Prince Damocles is setting up for his new guard, as well as helping him keep to a schedule and learn new things. And well since I don't have a dad mom thought it would be best if I came with here so she can active in my life still. She had to flip her schedule to be more nocturnal, I think she is sleeping right now so one of the guards may be coming to get me today. Her breakfast will end up being my dinner... and she will at least take me to school so its OK." Damos said with a smile. "And Prince Damocles always makes sure to at say hello to me. Its funny He says he can't stands foals but Honestly I think he's just scared of influencing us negatively. The Giant Snake from two days ago was an example of that!" He said excitedly. With that the day went on normally When the Bell Rang for recess. Damos stayed in and was being tutored by Ms. Cheerilee.

"Why is he staying in the class?" Rumble asked watching the window as Cheerilee sat next to him and the two were talking but no one could hear what was going on but it was obvious that they were talking about something in the text book.

"It's because he's not smart with history." Scootaloo said as they played hide and seek both of them hiding in the trees from Peppermint Twist. Going back to the game as Twist saw where they were and kicked the tree signaling they had been found both landed on the ground got a head start on running. The game continued until the bell Rang. The last class of the day was the one everypony hated. Math. And they had just begun doing the Times Tables. Cheerilee handed them all a work sheet. And once everyone sat down with one she turned to the class.

"Ok Everypony, For the first 5 minutes work by yourself and solve as much as you can when I say so, You can ask your Neighbors around you for what they got and how they did it. When your done Go ahead and turn it in on my desk face down. There is a bo-" She stopped as Damocles Stood up and started to walk towards the table with the paper putting it face down. "Damos? what are you doing?"

"Turning In my work... It was really simple... You can look at my answers and see if any are wrong But i can promise you, and would be willing to bet money that none are... Also making a problem a worded problem doesn't make it harder. it just gives useless context." He said as he sat down. Cheerilee Raised an eyebrow as she looked at the paper.

"Well you didn't show your work..." She commented as she looked at the answers. Sighing she put it down. "Damos... Please tell your mother I need to see her." Damos flinched at that but nodded. "Seems you like you thought the tests where simple games..."

"Life is nothing but a game and a series of math questions... specifically addition. When my father was alive he made sure I understood a few things... one of them was everything you do in life is just addition. Sometimes you add backwards sometimes you add the same thing over and over. Other times its adding the same thing backwards over and over." Damos said in response.

"Was your father a mathematician?" Damos laughed slightly.

"No no... He could make them seem really dumb... it was funny. now he was a Chemical Engineer. Science Was his life!" Damos said happily. Cheerilee nodded slowly.

"As I was saying on the bottom of the paper is a bonus word question worth at least 3 of the questions. Damos... I ask that you don't just give the answers to your neighbors. Perhaps you could show them how you did it to help them." Cheerilee said before nodding her head. "Your five minutes starts now." Five minutes later "You can now ask your neighbors for help." Silver spoon tapped his desk to get his attention.

"Yes?" Damos asked.

"Can you show me how you did number 7?" she asked passing the paper to Damos.

"Sure lets see. 32 times 12... Ok I can see why this one would be a little confusing but its really simple Break it down and do it number by number so instead of thinking of it at 32 times 12 first think of it as 2 times 2." He said. Blinking and raising an eye brow Silver spoon looked at him confused. "Trust me it will make sense in the end." He smiled at her shrugging her shoulders she nodded and wrote 4 underneath it. "Now draw a line under it. a long one." She did so. "Now in the same spot below the line where the 4 is put a 0. Now what is 3 times 2?"

"Thats easy its 6." She responded.

"Right, So put the 6 on the left of the 0 and you have what you would get when multiply 30 by 2." She blinked as her eyes went wide. "Now put a 0 in the same spot as before. and 2 times 1?" She wrote a 2 next to the 0. "And for the last line. put two 0s."

"What why?" Silver asked confused. At this Point Cheerilee actually walked over to look at what was being said.

"Because we are about to mutiply by the 10s to simplify it just drag the 0s to be next to each other. Miss Cheerilee will tell you if the answer you write is wrong or not trust me." Hesitantly she did so. "Now 3 times 1 is 3 so put that in front of the 0s. then add those numbers together. Doing the simplistic math her answer came out 384. She showed it to Cheerilee who looked at it with wide eyes and smiled nodding happily..

"That's exactly Right! Damos Can you do something like that for Division?" He nodded. " And what about dealing with Fractions and Decimals." He nodded again. "Would you mind helping the class with their math then acting as an assistant and a tutor?"

"If they want my help they only need to ask." he said. Quickly as SIlver Spoon spread what she learned the rest of the class was getting to the questions easily and using the new method. Those around him only asked Damos for clarification if they were doing the process correctly or not. When they received a nod they smiled and went about continuing until everyone turned it in the bell ringing and everypony leaving the classroom leaving Damos and Cheerilee there by themselves.

"Damos I do still want to talk to your mother... It seems you didn't take our testings seriously.... I want to know Why before I ask her though."

"Honestly? I did it on purpose... I want to learn at a proper pace the history of this world... unfortunately we seem rather limited to equestria from the text books. And somethings don't make sense to me in regards to what I know."

"I may not need to speak about taking the test again but If you can help me learn the techniques you use we can help accelerate young minds and make the next generation that much smarter."

"I have no issues but I do have one stipulation."

"And that would be?"

"As I would be up late I may need to take a nap or two during class..."

"Lunch time and Recess."

"Recess and math after I do my bit to help them understand and move things faster along."

"Deal." Cheerilee Said as Veil came in.

"Damos? Your mother has sent me to pick you up. With permission from Princess Luna and Prince Damocles." She said with a roll of the eye." Veil stated.

"Coolio.... Lets go." Damos said as got out and started walking with her out of the building. towards the home."Hows the bruises?" He asked her.

"Better, hows the family jewels?" She said venomously.

"Noted...Sorry."