Friendship gets Schooled?

As the three ponies entered the ancient school of friendship, trotting into the grand entrance hall, with it's tall columns, and vaulted ceilings. Faded banners, with messages like 'welcome new students' hung from the walls, and a dusty, decaying carpet lie on the creaky floors. Gazing into the classrooms, the trio saw old wooden desks and chairs lined up in rows, with pencils and quills neatly placed on each desk. Smudged final messages, obviously written by the last class of students at the school, decorated the chalkboards in each classroom. Although it looked like it had been a pleasant little school before it's closing, Alphabittle was unimpressed.

"Okay, this is nice and all, but it's nowhere near what I was expecting." Alphabittle sighed, looking around at the classrooms. "I mean, when someplace is called 'princess Twilight Sparkle's school of Friendship", you expect it to be something big and fancy. Something... a little more than the average school."

"Awww, it looks like an okay school to me!" Minty giggled, galloping up and down the hallways, and giggling. "I wouldn't have minded going to classes here, like, at all! It was probably a whole lot of fun!"

"Yeah," Alphabittle sighed, shaking her head sadly. "I guess so..."

"Do I detect a hint of sadness in your voice, Alphabittle-sensei?" kimono chuckled, trotting up to her friend. "Look, I know you were hoping to learn about old equestrian educational techniques here. But you must be patient, we've only begun to look around."

"Yeah, I guess you're right." The teacher muttered, as the trio continued to look around the school. After looking through a few empty classrooms, the three ponies decided to split up, and each explore a different part of the school. Trotting up another hallway, the mare found a few teachers' offices. Trotting inside, she began to look through the lesson plans and records in the filing cabinets, and was surprised by shat she found.

"Rainbow Dash? Pinkie Pie? FLUTTERSHY!?" The teacher sputtered in disbelief, as she saw the teacher's names on the files she found. "No way these are the ponies I know of by those names. I don't think Rarity is old enough to teach anybody anything." Gathering up a dozen or so of the files from each teacher's filing cabinet, she loaded them into her saddlebag to read later, and trotted back towards where the others were exploring the school.

....

Meanwhile, Minty was exploring several of the passageways towards the back of the school, where the shadowy corridors were lit only by the tiniest amount of sunlight coming through the ancient draped windows. Needless to say, the slightly creepy atmosphere was starting to get to the clumsy little green mare.

"Whoah, this place is sure all kinds of Spooky!" Minty giggled nervously, as she trotted through the darkened hallways. "Now I kinda wish I would've brought one of the Breezies with me, to light up these dark hallways."

But as the mint-green mare with the pink mane passed several of the empty classrooms, Minty swore she could hear phantom-like voices coming out of several of the classrooms;

"Okay, class, settle down! Now in today's lesson on the history of friendship, we will start with Starswirl the bearded...."

"All right, everypony. I want you to make good friends with these cute squirrels! It's no different than making friends with other ponies."

"Okay, Y'all! Today we're gonna cover how these apple slices cain teach ya about honesty!"

"Um, hello? Who's talking?" Minty called out nervously, now starting to get really scared. "Is anybody here? Kimono, is that you?"

The green mare decided to look into one of the classrooms, and what she saw made her mane stand on end. Inside, she was the phantom forms of a class- comprised of a griffin, a changeling, a yak, a hippogriff, and a dragon- all seated at the desks, paying attention. And teaching the class, was a very familiar pink mare, with a balloons cutie mark!

"Okie dokie, class!" The phatom mare giggled and snorted. "Today we're going to learn about laughter through... PARTY CANONS!"

"P-pinkie Pie? Is that you?" A now-shaking Minty asked. "Why does your mane look all crazy? And why do you look like a ghost?"

The ghostly mare ignored Minty's words, and shot off a loud party canon in response. Now terrified out of her wits, Minty went galloping back down the hallway, screaming at the top of her lungs.

"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The green mare cried out in terror, running for her life. "Somebody help me! This school is haunted!"

Kimono was just trotting out of the gymnasium, when she saw the green fireball barreling towards her at top speed.

"Minty? What in the world-?" The lilac mare with a purple mane barely got the words out of her mouth, before the terrified green mare tackled straight into her, knocking the 'wisest pony in the the land' clean off of her hooves. The two ponies ended up in a jumble of hooves and manes on the far side of the hallway. "ARGH! MINTY! GET OFF ME, THIS INSTANT!"

"Oh, Kimono! It's so terrible!" The green mare exclaimed, as the two ponies untangled themselves, and stood up again. "I kept seeing and hearing all of these ghosts, and then I saw pinkie pie as a ghost, too!"

"Well, I can believe you saw ghosts in an old abandoned school like this, Minty-chan. that makes sense." Kimono's face changed to a look of skepticism. "But Pinkie Pie as a ghost? I find that a little hard to believe, Minty. Are you sure you didn't just see a ghost that looked like Pinkie Pie?"

"No, it was Pinkie all right, I'm sure of it!" Minty thoguht for a moment. "Hey, wait a sec... Kimono, how come you're reacting so calmly to something as weird as me seeing ghosts?"

"Minty, this is Ponyville, weird is normal around here." Kimono sighed in reply. "Compared to some of the things I've seen around here, ghosts are perfectly normal."

It was at that moment that Alphabittle came trotting up, carrying a saddlebag full of files and folders.

"Well, I don't know why the two of oyu are talkign about ghosts, but this place is starting to give me the creeps now." The teacher shivered. "I got what I came for, so let's get outta here!"

The other two ponies adenoid their heads in agreement, and the three mares trotted their way back out of the friendship school. But as they departed, Kimono got the eerie feeling that something was watching them from an upper window...