Chapter 7: new girl

Six days later: September ninth, Wednesday

Sunset walked over to the lunch table where her friends were sitting, tray in hands.

Pinkie Pie turned around and saw her. She waved and said, with a big grin on her face, "Sunset! Over here! I saved you a seat!"

Sunset smiled, and walked a little faster. When she got to where her friends were sitting, Pinkie gestured the seat in between her and Fluttershy.

Sunset took her tray in one hand and, careful not to drop her lunch, pulled out a seat. She set her lunch tray on the table, sat in her seat and started eating her lunch.

Almost immediately after Sunset started eating, Rarity spoke up. "Well, now that everybody here, we can now start the conversations. So, how are classes everyone?"

Twilight was the first to respond. "They're going well. No homework, thought I suspect it won't be that way forever."

Rainbow Dash nodded. "Yeah. Until then I'm gonna try and see if I can try out for the teams early."

Applejack arched an eyebrow. "What makes you think they're gonna let ya do that?"

Rainbow smirked. "Because they know as well as everybody that I'm gonna dominate. What's the point in waiting if we all know the end result?" she replied.

Applejack frowned. "Just because you're good at sports doesn't mean you should get special treatment. You're gonna have to wait just like everyone else rainbow."

Rainbow Dash frowned and sighed. "I guess so." she grumbled.

Applejack smiled. "Good." she said. Applejack turned over to Pinkie. "What are you're plans for the week Pinkie?"

Pinkie grinned. "I'm ask principal Celestia if I can host a welcome party for the new students. They're coming today ya'know." she answered.

Applejack furrowed her brow. "Today? Ah thought they had already come on Monday." she said.

Sunset shook her head. "They were supposed to come on Monday, but they were delayed."

"Why?" Applejack asked.

Sunset broke into a smile and stifled a giggle. "Because Mister Discord spilled his drink on vice principal Luna. Destroyed all the papers that were supposed to get the students in."

"What? Are you serious?" Rarity asked in disbelief.

Sunset stifled another laugh. "Don't ask me. Fluttershy's the one who told me what happened." she said, gesturing the shy girl, who squeaked in surprise.

Rarity turned to Fluttershy, along with everyone else.

Fluttershy squeaked again. "Um...well..." she began. She took a breath to calm herself and continued. "Yes, it happened. I was there when mister Discord bumped into VP Luna."

Rarity's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh wow. How did Luna react?" she asked.

"Luna yelled." Fluttershy answered. "Loudly."

"I was a few classes down when it happened and heard the yelling. I swear the whole building shook when VP Luna yelled." Sunset added.

Fluttershy continued. "Luna then started hitting mister Discord on the head." Fluttershy started to giggle. "She l-looked like a grandma, the way she was ranting and chasing him down the h-hall." then she stopped giggling and looked to AJ "umm...no offence Applejack."

Applejack shook her head. "None taken. Granny Smith can get like that sometimes."

"That must have been some spectacle." Twilight commented.

"Yeah. I'd hate to be mister Discord right now." Rainbow Dash said, shuddering as she imagined being Discord in that situation.

Applejack nodded her head and decided to move on with the conversation. "So, uh, to change the subject, Sunset, how have things been going for you so far? Any problems?"

Sunset smiled brightly. "Nope! Nothing at all!" she said happily.

Applejack smiled. "That's great Sunset! No outbursts? Nothin'?"

Sunset shook her head, still smiling broadly. "Uh-uh. Not one."

Applejack nodded her head. "That's great. Are ya holdin' back on the video games?"

Sunset nodded back. "Uhuh. Just one hour a day. Like you said."

Applejack nodded her head approvingly. "Ah'm glad the strategy's workin' out for ya."

"So am I." Sunset said with small breath of relief.

A few seconds later, the bell rang and students began packing up their lunches and heading to their next classes.

As the rainbooms were putting their garbage together to be thrown out, Pinkie Pie spoke up. "Guys, I almost forgot. The new students are being introduced during the class right after lunch."

"Oh." Sunset said, a little bit surprised. "This will be interesting then."

Sunset went over to the garbage bin, and threw out everyone's garbage, earning a thanks from the rest of the rainbooms. She turned to the table and picked up her purse.

"Well, I'm off. Don't wanna be late for class and set a bad example for the new students." Sunset said.

Rarity nodded as she too grabbed her things. "Yes. You do that. It would be good to give the new students a good first impression. Will we see you at Sugarcube Corner after school?" Rarity asked.

Sunset made a finger gun and pointed to Rarity. "Definitely." she said.

With that, Sunset turned and made her way to her locker. While she was walking Sunset began to get a little nervous. The last time the school got new students, they turned out to be creatures from Equestria that tried to take over the school. Questions raced through Sunset's mind. What if they're too much for her and her friends to handle? Will she be ale to stop them? She shook her head, knocking those thoughts away. "why are you so worried? Not everything that come to this school is gonna try to kill you." she thought to herself sternly. Sunset walked a little faster, deciding that it would be best to just wait and see what happens.

About thirty seconds later, Sunset arrived at her locker. She unlocked her locker and opened it before taking out her schedule to figure out where her next class was.

After a moment, Sunset figured out her next class. "Chemistry with mister Discord. Room 26? Okay." she said to herself as she put the schedule back in her locker. Sunset placed her purse on the top shelf of her locker and proceeded to take out the required books and utensils.

Sunset turned to begin her short journey to mister Discord's class, but stopped when something caught her eye. She looked around for a moment and saw nothing. Before Sunset could brush it off as nothing she saw something at the end of the corridor. A white silhouette.

Sunset cocked her head to the side. "Hey!" she called out as she tried to get closer.

As Sunset got closer, the silhouette suddenly disappeared behind the edge of the hallway. Startled, Sunset walked a little bit faster to the edge of the hall.

Sunset turned the corner to find...

"Nothing?" Sunset said, confused as she scratched her head. "Huh. I thought for sure I saw something here."

Sunset just shrugged her shoulders and continued on to class.

Sunset was glad to find she had arrived a few minutes before class started. She walked through the doors of the chemistry class and found some students already sitting at their respective desks. Sunset walked over to her desk, placed her books and utensils on it, pulled out the chair, sat down and waited for mister Discord to arrive.

The class was the same as Sunset expected every class to be. Some of the students that were already there were sitting at their desks chatting away about whatever was on their minds, while others were just content to get their books out and wait quietly for class to start.

The walls of the classroom were littered with cheesy and cliche science and chemistry quotes from famous people. Sunset had at one point taken it upon herself to read them. She found some of them a little bit funny, but not a lot.

The white board at the front of the class was completely clear, with some markers on the teacher's desk to the left of the board. The teacher's desk was facing the classroom's entrance, straight across.

Sunset looked up to see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy walk into the class and go to their respective seats. Rainbow sat at the seat to the left of Sunset and Fluttershy sat behind Rainbow. Sunset smiled and they smiled back.

Once rainbow and Fluttershy had sat down and taken out their things, Rainbow looked over to Sunset and said, "I wonder what the new student for this class will be like."

"Sunset shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know." she replied.

Fluttershy piped up. "I hope he is nice." she squeaked.

"Or she." Sunset added. She rearranged her books on the desk out of slight boredom. "Whatever the case, we won't know for sure until they arrive. Let's just wait and see."

After receiving a nod of agreement from Flutters and Rainbow, Sunset went back to waiting for mister Discord to arrive and the class to start.

After about five minutes of waiting Sunset heard a voice call out. "Hello class!"

She smiled as, not a second later, Discord bounced into the classroom happily, just as he always does.

"Hello class!" Discord said again.

"Hello mister Discord!" the class said back.

"Did we all have a good lunch?" Discord ask the students.

Discord smiled at the resounding "yes" and nods coming from the students.

"Excellent." he said. "Now. Before we get to today's lesson on chaos theory, I have an anouncment."

The class waited in silence for mister Discord to deliver the message.

After a moment, Discord spoke. "We will be receiving a new student today." he paused, then spoke again. "Now they would have been here two days ago, but there was a...uhhh...mishap."

Some students giggled at the mention of the word "mishap". Even Fluttershy couldn't stop herself from snickering a little bit.

Discord continued, despite the snickering. "The students' arrival was moved to today. This period in fact. Though I'm not sure when the student for this class will be arriving."

A knock on the door signaled someone's presence.

Discord jumped a little bit at the noise, as it had startled him slightly. "Oh! That could be them now." he said.

Sunset watched as mister Discord made his way to the door. She giggled along with a few more students when she saw Discord jump and say "vice principal Luna!"

Sunset tried to listen to what they were saying but eventually gave up as they were talking very quietly.

After a solid minute VP Luna and mister Discord finally stopped talking. Sunset looked up to see mister Discord, who looked a little bit nervous, walk to the front of the class.

"Okay students." he began. "I would be happy," he looked at Luna, who was standing at the entrance of the class, and nervously gulped. "To introduce our new student. Ms Velvet Breeze."

Luna stepped away from the entrance of the class and gestured inside. A second later, a girl walked in. Sunset examined the girl, and saw that she wore a white hoodie, with the hood down, and blue jeans. She wore red sneakers, slightly worn. Her skin was a kind of blue, and her hair was teal and gray, while her eyes were orange. There was a small bag on her shoulder.

The girl, apparently named Velvet Breeze stepped to the front of the class. "Hello everyone. I'm glad I have been the chance to learn with you. I hope I can make lots of friends at this school." she said with a smile.

Sunset looked Velvet in the eyes they made eye contact for a split second. At that moment Sunset felt a shiver go down her spine. 'What was that?' she asked herself. Velvet's eyes left Sunset's and the shiver went away. Velvet's eye continued to pan over the class.

After a moment, mister Discord cleared his throat. "Well, Ms Breeze we're glad to have you. Now if you would please find an empty seat and sit down. It doesn't matter where."

Velvet looked to the teacher and nodded. "Yes sir." she said. Velvet immediately went to the seat one row in front of Sunset, but at the other side of the class, two desks behind the teacher's desk. She took out a textbook, notepad and pencil from her bag and waited for the teacher to start.

The rest of the class went on as usual. Velvet was taking notes like everyone else as the teacher spoke and didn't disturb anyone. Though for Sunset, class was a bit of a blur. She couldn't stop thinking about how she felt when she and velvet made eye contact. It felt like velvet was staring into her soul or something. Halfway through class, sunset made a mental note to tell her friends about after school.

The ringing of the bell signaled the end of the current class and onto the next one. Velvet slide her pencil into the spine of her notepad, closed it and her textbook, then placed them in her bag. She got up and slung her bag on her shoulder, then pushed in her chair and made her way up to the front of the class. She bid the teacher farewell and walked out of the class.

Velvet went to the locker she was assigned before she started class. She unlocked it, placed her books into the locker, and took out the textbook for next class. She put it in her bag.

By now some of the students had filtered out of the halls. Velvet looked around to see if anybody was watching her. After seeing that there were no eyes on her, she reached into her pocket and pulled out the P.O.E device. Before she started school, Velvet had taken it upon herself to make the device look more like a game console, as to not garner too much unwanted attention.

Velvet flipped the device on and watched the screen light up. The screen was a green color, with a line sweeping across the screen in a circle. On the bottom right corner of the screen there was a box the with words "Piece of Eden not found" inside.

After a second of examining the screen, Velvet pursed her lips. "Nothing yet." a quick check of time told velvet she was almost late for class. "Oh well. I'll have to search the area after school. For now, I need to get to class."

With that, Velvet turned off the device and set about getting to her next class.

Sunset was slurping on a strawberry smoothie. She was sitting on a stool with her friends at Surgarcube Corner, discussing what she had felt in chemistry class.

"It felt like being x-rayed or something. It's hard to describe." Sunset said as her friends slurped on their drinks.

Rarity nodded in understanding. "I see. What did you say her name was again?" she asked, before taking a sip of her banana and rasberry smoothie.

"Velvet breeze." Sunset replied.

Rarity nodded again. "Well, she certainly seems interesting." she commented.

Sunset leaned back slightly at the reaction she was receiving. "Guys, aren't you listening?" she said. "I mean, what if she-" Sunset was about to say before Applejack cut her off.

"Sunset, not every new student is some magical creature from Equestria, bent on taking over the school. Maybe you're just worried, and that's why you got that feelin' when she looked at ya." Applejack said in a firm, yet comforting manner.

Sunset arched an eyebrow. She opened her mouth to object, but thought better of it. "Told ya so." a voice in her mind said.

At that moment, the door for Sugarcube Corner opened, and a boy stepped through. He was wearing a black collared shirt and blue jeans. There was a shirt pocket on his left breast. Just below the pocket, a red pin in the shape of a cross that had gold outlines, hung on the shirt. The boy had dirty blond hair, blue eyes, and his skin was a dull green color. He had a medium build, as some muscle could be seen on his arms.

Rainbow Dash watched him walk up to the counter and sit on a stool a few seats down. She turned to Applejack. "Hey, isn't that the kid from math? Jason Wood was it?" she asked.

Applejack smiled and nodded. "Uhuh. That's Jason alright." she answered. Then she waved over to him. "Hi Jason!" she called out.

Jason looked down from the menu he was observing and over to applejack. He smiled and dipped his head slightly in greeting. "Applejack." he said before going back to looking back to the menu.

Applejack turned back to Sunset. "So ya Sunset. Maybe you just need to relax a little bit." she said.

Sunset nodded. "Maybe." she agreed, reluctantly. She still couldn't shake that feeling. Even now it felt as though someone was watching her.

Applejack smiled. "Glad to hear it." she said.

Applejack looked at the clock on the wall. "Well, Ah'd best be off. Big Mac's lookin' to do some work on the farm and asked me to come over some time after school." she said, standing up.

Sunset looked at the clock as well. "I'll go home and get some supper."

Applejack nodded. "Alright. See ya tomorrow."

With that, the rainbooms left the building, waved goodbye and went their separate ways.

Jason wood finished the simple mixed fruit shake he was drinking, stood up and reached into his pocket. He pulled out a five dollar bill and placed it on the counter before walking out of the building, the cross on his shirt shimmering in the light.

Bonbon and Lyra were talking when all of a sudden, a girl with a white hoodie got up from beside Lyra and another patron and walked out. Bonbon looked at Lyra, then at the door, then back to Lyra. Lyra shrugged and they continued their conversation.

Velvet breeze had just exited Sugarcube Corner. She was sitting on the roof of the building. She reach into her hoodie pocket and pulled out the P.O.E detector and looked at the screen.

The screen read "Peice of Eden energy recognized". Then a blip appeared on the screen. Velvet looked at the blip, then looked around. After a second she turned her head in one direction. She looked down that street and saw a girl walking down it before taking a right turn, disappearing from sight.

Velvet noted that the girl bore some resemblance the creatures in one of the pictures she saw. Similar figure, but with a reversed color scheme. She then looked in another direction and saw someone who she overheard was named Jason Wood. "That's not good. I'm gonna have to be careful." she said to herself, before looking back to where she saw the girl.

Velvet thought for a moment. "Sunset is her name? I have a feeling I'll need to keep an eye on her if I want some data on the P.O.E anytime soon." Velvet said to herself as began to make the journey to the safe house.

Author's Note

Hello everypony! That's it for chapter 7! Sorry it took a while for me to post. I had to make a little change to the plot. Nothing to serious. Don't worry, I'm not gonna stray to far from the source material. As always if you find anything wrong with the chapter, feel free to comment, or give a like if you enjoyed.

Anyway......That's all I have to say for now! See you guys next update! BYEEE!!!