Scarlet High

“That was actually pretty awesome, though that trixie chick is going to get on my nerves.” Vinyl said as they walked to the Gym building.

“You get used to egocentric ass holes after a while. Hey there Dash! Spitfire!” Twilight called out to the two girls that were currently doing something to their wings. They looked up and waved them over.

“What’re you doing?” Vinyl asked.

“Making a few adjustments, sometimes they get a bit loose. The ‘feathers’ I mean.” Spitfire said.

“You know, I’ve always wondered what it’d be like to fly.” Vinyl said.

“Me too. you think we could get some of those?” Twilight asked.

“Well these don’t really come off.” Spitfire said, pulling a few latches on the other wing than the one she was fixing and pulled it off. Twilight had thought there was a harness under their clothes, but there was a sort of port there.

“They’re surgically attached to your shoulder blades and spine. Not anyone can even go through with the operation safely even with all the safeguards and magic and everything. Though there are practice ones that do it with some sort of fancy magic temporarily with a harness and stuff. Talk to Mister Armor about that.” Dash explained as she put away the strange tool for making adjustments and fanned the metallic wings out, observing her handiwork.

“Wait Mister Armor?!” Twilight exclaimed and looked over to where the Physical Education instructor was, pointed out by Spitfire. Indeed, Shining armor was standing there spotting a student.

“Do you know him?” Dash asked.

“He’s my big brother.” Twilight said with a grin, running over to him.

“Hey, I thought I saw your name on the roster!” Shining laughed when Twilight glomped him, luckily the student he was spotting had just stopped.

“You never told me you were teaching here!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Well since I retired from the guard after getting engaged to Cadence I’ve been getting offers like this all the time, I thought you might need a little looking after is all.” Shining said.

“So that’s the Captain’s little sister.” The student who he was spotting said. “The name’s Steel Guard, my dad worked with him in the guard.” He continued, holding his hand out.

“Nice to meet you. Well now that We’ve made a spectacle I wanted to see if me and Vinyl could get some of those temporary wings, Spitfire told us to ask you about them.” Twilight said, shaking his hand and turning to Shining.

“As the Gym teacher I’m responsible for you and the wings, but I know I can trust you and your roommate. If you break them you get to pay for them though, that comes right outta my paycheck. I don’t know how to use them so have your friends teach you how to use them.” Shining said, walking over to a large patch of lockers. He unlocked the padlocks and deactivated a magic ward and threw the locker door open.

“Pick out a pair that fits, call your roommate over and have her pick too. I need to grab some paperwork for you to fill out. If anyone else wants to sign out a pair come to me!” Shining said, using a magically enhanced voice for the last part before entering an office. Vinyl came over and they found pairs that that fit perfectly. a small line of other students did the same. Shining rolled out a stand with flight suits and had a table set up with a stack of papers on it.

“By the way, thanks Twilight, I had forgotten all about these.” He said. “You need to sign your name, where you’re staying and I fill out the rest. You know your sizes better than I do for the suits. They’re not mandatory but they’re recommended. And by the way Twilight, if it turns out you really like flying, if you want that surgery that’s your decision but I won’t like it.” He continued, finishing lowly.

“Whoa slow down brother, I haven’t even tried the things out. But thanks.” Twilight said with a smile, handing him the filled out form quickly. After they had everything on, the flight suit a bit tricky due to the oddly placed zippers and buckles, Twilight and Vinyl were standing in front of Spitfire and Dash.

“So they don’t look like they’re alive yet...” Dash observed.

“That paper said we just open them to our magic flow as if they were arms.” Twilight said to Vinyl.

“Got it...” Vinyl said. Dash and Spitfire watched as the two concentrated and slowly the wings began to move, coursing with Lavender and Teal magic. The two girls twitched as the artificial connections were made and the wings splayed out awkwardly. Spitfire and Dash cracked up at the spectacle.

“Alright. Here’s what you do. It should come naturally to you, as if you’re moving an arm. You just gotta figure out how it works right.” Dash said, getting serious.

“You have to master control of it on the ground before you even think of flying. If you’re still figuring out how to flap while you’re in the air you’re going to faceplant.” Spitfire continued.

“Each feather has a purpose, you won’t be airborne long if you don’t figure out every single one of them.” Dash finished. The two earthbound girls concentrated and tried working their wings.

“Wow, it took us like three days to get that down...” Dash said when Twilight and Vinyl had managed to steadily flap, albeit while standing on the ground, in two hours.

“Well I make a living off of doing a million different things at once, so I got a head start.” Vinyl said.

“I tend to break down and find every little detail in a lot of things I do, plus I’m great with magic so I guess I have a head start too.” Twilight said.

“I wish we could have helped some of those other kids.” Spitfire said. One kid had tried to fly and had literally faceplanted. He was currently getting stitches on four different places of his face.

“Hey we offered and he was full of himself. But yeah, I agree. Why is this class so damn long? We have another hour! I’m hungry!” Dash said, her stomach growling.

“It’s so long so we’re all hungry and exhausted for lunch and probably to make sure everyone gets exercise.” Vinyl reasoned.

“Or they couldn’t think of another class to put between Gym and Lunch...” Dash mumbled.

“Alright guys! For the last hour everyone needs to do some form of exercise! be it weights or jogging!” Shining’s amplified voice called.

“We’ve been standing all class...I don’t wanna jog...” Twilight said.

“Weights it it then.” Vinyl said.

“just because he only said those two doesn’t mean that’s all there is Vinyl.” Twilight said.

“I know, but I wanna see what you got. Spot me.” Vinyl said, walking over to the weights area and laying down on one of the benches. Twilight sighed and walked over. Vinyl set the weight to 75 pounds and started pumping.

“Wow, you’re pretty strong.” Twilight observed.

“I try, gotta be when you’re hauling heavy equipment and speakers and all that.” Vinyl huffed as she pumped. after a full set she returned the bar to the bench and hopped off, panting slightly. “After you Milady.” She continued, ‘presenting’ the bench. Twilight rolled her eyes and reduced the weight to 60 pounds. Twilight went just as fast and steady as Vinyl.

“Damn girl! I thought you were a shrimp!” Vinyl laughed.

“When your brother is captain of the Canterlot guard you gotta be strong too.” Twilight huffed, finishing the set.

“Any cool stuff he teach you?” Vinyl asked. Twilight sat up and put a thoughtful look on her face.

“Well I can take apart and put together any standard firearm, I can fire them with pretty good accuracy too. I’m also a master with the sword, spear, bow and I’m a black belt in three different types of Martial Arts.” Twilight listed off. Vinyl’s jaw dropped.

“You’re joking...” Vinyl said after a few moments.

“Nope, I learned from the best!” She said, not noticing Shining behind her.

“If by that you mean me, then you’ve surpassed the best. She could kick my ass up and down this gym any time and can hold her own against three vets.” Shining said, putting his hands on Twilight’s shoulders.

“Ok, that I don’t believe...” Vinyl huffed.

“That’s not my problem.” Twilight said with a grin.

“This school has an MMA, Mixed Martial Arts, team. You two should join, I imagine being a DJ you’ve been in some bar fights.” Shining said.

“Ain't no party until someone throws a chair. You know it’s a good party when the DJ’s got a bloody nose.” Vinyl said with a grin, obviously reminiscing.

“That could be fun. I’m guessing it’s after school?” Dash said, appearing next to them after her jog with Spitfire.

“Most likely, sports teams and stuff like that aren’t exactly solid yet but I’ll let you guys know. I’m kind of in charge of signing people up for the physical ones like sports and the MMA and the likes.” Shining said. He looked at his watch and put a hand to his neck, amplifying his voice.

“Finish what you’re doing and cool down for the last ten minutes!” He announced.

“You gotta teach me that, some of our Flight squad have trouble hearing me...” Spitfire said.

“Sure, it’s a very easy spell, anyone can do it. Have Twilight teach it to you sometime. Right now I gotta go make sure that kid who fell is alright. See you later Twi.” Shining said.

“I love the food here...” Dash said with ecstasy in her voice as she devoured pizza. Spitfire was splitting the pizza with her. Vinyl had opted for the veggie burgers while Twilight got a sourdough bread bowl filled with chicken noodle soup.

“I love how they let you eat whatever! I wish I knew culinary magic...” Vinyl said.

“Yeah, I never thought when I asked for something like this they’d actually make it right there...This place has everything!” Twilight said.

“So what do you guys have next? We have weather magic class.” Dash asked.

“You saw our schedules, we have music.” Twilight said.

“Oh yeah, right... What do you guys play?” Dash asked.

“I play the Violin.” Twilight said.

“A DJ doesn’t really play an instrument, we play mix tables and stuff like that. But I am a badass on a keyboard.” Vinyl said.

“I would have guessed something like drums for you.” Spitfire said with a chuckle.

“Tried it, don’t like it. I may be wild, but it takes a crazy person to play those right. I’ll just stick to synthetic ones on a mix board.” Vinyl retorted. They chuckled a bit and continued eating. after a while they just sat and chatted.

“Hey you gonna finish that?” Vinyl asked Twilight, she had a bit of the bread bowl left and she wasn’t finishing it.

“Not really, you can have it if you want.” Twilight responded. Vinyl grinned and finished it quickly.

“That’s an interesting taste...I like it.” Vinyl said.

“Maybe you should share one then.” Dash said.

“That’d be a good idea, I normally can’t finish mine.” Twilight said. Dash and Spitfire started giggling, obviously she missed something.

“What’d she say?” Vinyl asked.

“Around here, sharing your food is like first base.” Dash giggled. They both glared at her.

“Hey wait, you just shared that pizza...” Twilight said.

“Oh we know that, first base was like last year.” Dash said. The two gave her a confused look.

“We’re dating, have been since last year.” Spitfire interjected.

“Oh...I knew it!” Vinyl said, a look of victory on her face.

“Kinda obvious. But now that we’re on the subject, you two would actually fit together pretty well.” Dash said.

“Don’t even start with that. We just met like three days ago.” Vinyl said.

“And in those three days I’ve seen you naked...” Twilight mumbled. Vinyl paled.

“What was that?” Dash asked, laughing at the look on her face.

“Nothing for your ears. The bell is about to ring, we should go.” Twilight said, standing up.

(A/N I'm a bit disappointed with how I handled Shining, but hopefully it wasn't too bad. I was trying to have him be kinda carefree yet protective to a point. This isn't an alicornification fic, at least in my eyes, because anyone could use the wings. Everyone has magic too if you haven't picked that up yet, I'll touch on that more in AMS class but I'm saying it now so people aren't confused. and now my author's note rant is done, hope you enjoyed this.
P.S. the Vampire and Lycanthrope aspects will come into play a bit later as well.)