I spent 4 days in that school's hospital. Two were spent recovering from magical exhaustion, and the other two were spent doing a series of tests to measure how much control I had over my magic, how much I had, and a physical. I scored a 7 on magical potential and broke the scale for control. To put it in reference, Celestia's magical potential can't be measured, but the average unicorn scores a 5-6. While magic control usually ranges between 5-7, with it being 1-4 for foals and those with damage to their horns. Honestly, it is a decent way to measure it. But it could be vastly improved by moving it into a 1000-point system.

The physical was quite interesting, apparently having a unicorn when any of your parents have thestral blood is extremely rare, even more so when one is a full thestral. I was quite the oddity for the medical staff. And frankly, I learned quite a bit about what I inherited from my mother. Like the fact that I obtained the ability to digest small quantities of meat, which when the doctors asked my parents if I have ever eaten any meat before, responded by saying that they didn't want to risk an allergic reaction to the meat like most ponies get. Honestly, I don't blame them, imagine dying on a piece of bacon. I also found out my hearing and vision were the same as a thestral's. That would explain my good night vision, and the fact I could hear the neighbors next door when they were in the middle of passionate lovemaking.

After being cleared for classes, my parents and I were escorted to the finance office to pay the tuition before I could get my scheduled. I thought the office we were heading to would have nice desk, view of the court yard, and book shelves containing academic records. I did not expect it to have papers stacked high on tables, and office supplies placed in various corners of the room. If the office did have a window, it was blocked by towers of papers, and smelled of smoke. The finance officer was a unicorn who had grey fur, blue eyes, no mane to speak of, and massive bags under his eyes, and wore a dress shirt, and a tie that was undone like he had just gotten off of work. He looked like he hadn't had a good night sleep in weeks and was only awake due the caffeine and sugar in his system. My theory was confirmed when he pulled out what could only be described as one of those Team Gulp cups from 7-11, the massive 128-ounce cups. And he opened a can of Red Minotaur and poured it into the cup, following it up with what has to be the blackest coffee I have ever seen. As we sat down, I watched him drink half of it before even asking us what we wanted.

"Okay, what do you need." He said in a tone of someone who wanted to be put out of their misery.

"We need to pay for my son here, he just got accepted." My father said

"Name?"

"Moonshadow Flash."

The finance officer's horn glowed grey as papers started flying past his face from a pile to his right. As they flew by, the papers he needed were pulled from the torrent of papers, and the ones he didn't need were put back in the pile at the bottom. After about a minute the whole stack of papers had been gone though, and he moved onto another pile on his left, and the process repeated for each stack closest to the desk.

"Alright, let see exactly how much the school is going to pay for your education, and how much you need to hoof over." He said as he held the papers up with his magic and downed the rest of his drink. "Okay, travel grant, housing grant, equestrian citizen grant, and royal financing. Wow, royal financing, don't see that very often, going to have to find the letter detailing how much the crown is going to fund your education." He said as a pile of sealed letters started flying past his face. "Moonshadow, Moonshadow, ah ha, here it is." He said as he snatched a letter from his magic. "Would you like to do the honors, or should I?"

"I think my little Flash should open it." my mother said

Of all the... at least she doesn't call me her little shadow. Taking the letter from the finance officer, I notice the wax seal holding it shut. It had Celesta's royal seal which consisted of her cutie mark with a background consisting of the skyline of Canterlot. Breaking the seal, I open the letter, and begin to read it. It was a short letter, consisting of a formal decree style greeting, stating that the crown has taken an interest in my education, and has decided to award pay for my entire education, along with a monthly stipend of 10,000 bits, and a yearly research stipend of 20 million bits. My eyes do wide, and I just stare at the paper when I read that amount. Surely that has to be a typo, there is no way that I am getting that amount of money to attend school. Without saying a word, I hand the letter to the finance officer, who also reads it. And his eyes go wide as well, and his magic cuts out. Causing the papers that were held by his magic to drop to the ground. We look at each other and without a word we both nod our heads. He then grabs a stamp on the side of his deck, and stamps my application with a green approved stamp, and hands it to me, while he shows the letter to my parents. Who both proceed to faint. And with a little bit of slapping, and smelling salts, were woken up within 5 minutes.

And with that, we left the overworked bean counter, and went to the admissions office to get my schedule set up for my first classes. In stark contrast to the financial office, the room was organized, and what I thought the accountant's office might have been. Sitting at the desk was a green unicorn with yellow hair, and pink eyes, dressed in a loose blouse, and black skirt, and had a pair of glasses resting on her muzzle.

"Ah, please come in, sit." She said with one of those slutty teacher voices. "I am Miss High Marks, I am in charge of assigning classes to all new students that come to the school. Can I have your name please young colt?"

MILF alert. "My name is Moonshadow Flash Miss Marks."

"Oh, so you are the student that left quite the impression on my ex-husband. It takes quite a lot to leave him slack jawed these days. Trust me, I would know." she said with a grin, "Now, can you give me your financial document while I get your test results."

As I go to by bag to grab the document I got from the Financial Officer, I look back up to see Miss Marks bent over looking into a filing cabinet, leaving nothing to the imagination. Yup, total MILF. I could even see my mother giving my dad the death stare as he averted his gaze.

"Ah, here it is." She said as she reached and grabbed toe folder before returning to the desk. "Let's see here." She said as she went through the test results, "Well, you must be quite the genius, your math scores easily put you into 18th year Math, Reading and Writing into the 13th year, History into the 5th year, Practical Applications of Magic into the 8th year, and Magical Theory into the 2nd. Quite impressive, now onto your financial approval to see what kind of housing we can set up for you." She says as she grabs the paper I placed on the desk. When she read it, they looked quite impressed at what she was seeing, "Well, even got the attention of the Princess, according to this, you are approved for a single room with an attached laboratory, and access to all school facilities. I must say congratulations to both your parents, you must be very proud of your son."

"Indeed, we are Miss Marks, we wanted the best for our little Flash, and it looks like he is going to get exactly that." my mother said, after averting her death gaze.

"I will send a message to the moving staff on campus to take you to your new room for your years here at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns." She said as her horn glowed pink and she help her hand to her ear. A few moments later, 5 Stallions came into the room and asked for me to follow them while Miss Marks finished up with my parents. I was following the Stallions for a good 45 minutes, which made me realize how massive this school actually is, as we reached out destination on the second floor, a door marked 23430. One of them pulled out a key and unlocked the door, inside was a large lab that was easily 3000 sq. ft, which was currently bare except for lab benches, cabinets, and a cleaning sink. Going back outside of the lab, we went to a door marked 23431 that was next to the lab. And on the other side was easily a 600 sq. ft apartment. Complete with a living area, bed room, full kitchen, walk in closet, and a full bath, with another door that led out into the hallway at the end. I just stood there in silence for a good 3 minutes, as I try to comprehend I have a what is essentially an apartment in the school.

"Sir, what do you need for your room. We are here to help get your room furnished by the day's end. Just tell us what you want." The stallion in charge said as he handed me my room keys.

"Oh. Right, well what I need is..." And I went into detail of how I wanted the room to be furnished, with a small 2-person table in the dining/living room, a recliner in the corner of the living room, bookshelves along the northern wall, a couch on the southern wall, two end tables, and a magic lamp to go on one of the tables. And in the bed room, I requested a king-sized bed against the southern wall, two-night stands, and a dresser to go on the northern wall of the room.

As for the lab, I requested for 200 pounds of iron, copper, coal, lead and nickel. Followed by 100 pounds of silver, gold, and tungsten. and for the benches in the lab walls, floor, and ceiling to be magically reinforced to withstand explosions, and a several tons of weight. I specifically told them to leave the windows that face out into the court yard to be left along. If there is going to be any large explosions I want the force to blow out the windows, so it doesn't blow me up with it. As well as a drafting bench, and a full set of glass ware.

And for personal use, I requested pencils, ink, 100 journals, 50 pounds of drafting paper, 500 blank books, and a mechanical calculator. Let's just say they were less than pleased with my list, and when asked who was paying for this, I made sure to show them the letter from the Princess that gave me a large research grant. Once they had their list of what they needed, they left out the door of my new home, just as my Parents arrived along with Miss Marks, and two more stallions that carried my things into the room. I directed the stallions to unpack my cloths into the closets and leave anything else on the kitchen counters.

"Look at this Moon, our son is going to have fantastic 18 years here." my father said. Hold up, 18 years here, damn. That is a lot even for a 7-year-old. I'm not even considered an adult until 16 here, let alone fully grown.

"He sure will Mr. Ice, and of course, you are free to come visit any time you want, provided you give a 3-day notice before arrival. Your son will receive the best education in the country, and if he is as smart as his test show, he should complete standard 18-year program at 8 years, and most likely his master program at 12 years, and his doctorate at 18 if my predictions are right." Miss Marks said.

I would say that is inaccurate, but considering I have 8 lifetimes worth of experience in my head, I can honestly say I agree with her.

"Oh, my baby is growing up so fast!" My mother said as she embraced me in a large hug. "I'm going to miss you so much!"

"I'm going to miss you both of you too. But I promise to make you proud." I said honestly.

The next hour consisted of the usual sending your child off fanfare and directing the moving stallions where to set everything up as the furniture arrived piece by piece. Before Miss Marks left, she handed me my schedule, a purple cloth bag, a blue cloth bag, and a platinum coin engraved with the symbol of the sun.

"This will be your classes for the first semester, consisting of Magical Theory 2, History 5, Reading and Writing 13, Math 18, and Practical Applications of Magic 8." She said as she handed me a folder containing the times and locations of the classes, along with a map of the entire school. "The purple cloth bag is connected a bank account with access to your research funding, and the blue bag is connected to your monthly stipend. If you need to make an inquiry into either, both are at the 1st Bank of Celestia across from the main entrance of the campus. Finally, that platinum coin will allow you access to any area of the school except for the dorms of any other student unless they invite you in, and areas restricted by Celestia herself. I look forward to seeing what you can do." She said as she left with my parents

At the end of the day, with the sun just starting to set, I finish my shower, and lay down on my bed. This is going to be the start of something wonderful, with the funding from the crown, access to the school’s resources I should be able to create anything from back home and more.

During that first 8 year of what schooling, most of the classes were boring, and I barely had to put any work into them to pass with flying colors. Which pissed off all the other students in the advanced classes, as a child was the top of the class consistently while looking bored out of his mind the entire time. But the ones that I paid the most attention in were any time they related to magic. As that was the one unknown force that could change the structure of a material on the atomic level. Any chance I got to learn a new spell, I took it and ran with it. From a basic shield spell, I tore it apart to learn how it worked, and how the force stopped objects while protecting the pony inside. And then tried to apply what I already knew to try and enhance it. Filling at least two journals a month with research notes, related only to magic. And filling another 2 with experiment notes. For as soon as I found a pet store that was willing to sell me 11 rabbits, and I replaced the outer structure of their bones with carbon nano tubes. With each rabbit getting a different percentage of their bones replaced. Ranging from 0-100% at 10% intervals. As I had plans to replace my bones with the same material, but I first needed to know how much could safely be replaced.

While I started the experiment in the first year, I maintained it until their deaths during my 8th year. I took daily observations of each rabbit and took blood samples weekly. And when I learned a scanning spell, I examined their entire bodies weekly. And when they finally died, I did an autopsy on they to see exactly the condition of the bones. And I concluded that it would be safe to replace my bones with carbon nano tubes. Making my bones stronger than steel.

At the end of my eight year, I finished what is equivalent to a bachelor’s program at the age of 15 and proceeded to start the master's program. I started wearing a light blue shirt, brown pants, and a white lab coat on a daily basis at this point. And I could easily be mistaken for a professor at the school if the other pony didn't know who I was. By the time my rabbit experiment was done, my lab had to be the most advanced one in all of Equestria. By this point I held several patents to new technologies and chemicals, including the combustion engine, all plastics, synthetic rubber, petroleum-based fuel, and several different amphetamines. Along with having written over 50 books containing theories, new magical spells, mathematical formulas, and methods for refining products. All of which I had written in either German or Latin making it so only I could read them. I also had a steady income of several thousand bits a week as I get royalties for my inventions.

As I started my education in the master program in the year 985, and 6 months in, word had spread that Celestia had taken on a personal student by the name of Sunset Shimmer, I saw her around campus in the library every now and then. She was a 13-year-old Orange Unicorn with Red and Yellow hair, blue eyes wearing a black skirt, and a purple shirt. I also learned that she was 13 and placed into 13th year classes as a start. I got curious with this individual, and I wanted to know what Celestia saw in this individual.

I grabbed a translated journal containing an older version of my enhanced shield spell. As I heard from professors that she was distant unless it was pertaining to magic and growing stronger in it. Almost like myself actually. On my way to the library, I overheard that Sunset Shimmer has recently mastered the teleport spell and started using it to get away from conversations she wanted no part of. Not a bad tactic actually, might need to have my anchor spell ready if she tries to leave.

I arrived outside the library, which was a 7-story building that was easily a mile long, and a half mile wide with classical architecture style, white marble columns and all. It was the largest and oldest repository of knowledge on the continent. Walking inside, I ask the librarian who sits at the front desk if she has seen Miss Sunset. To which she replied that she arrived 10 minutes ago and went to the magical section on the 6th floor. I thank her for the information, and give her a tip of 50 bits, as I walk up the grand staircase to the 6th floor. Due to the size or the Library, it took me the better part of two hours to find Miss Sunset, but I eventually found her in the magical theory section of the Library. She was sitting in a bay window with her back against the wall, reading a book on advanced magical theory by Hoofington. I remember reading that one, it helped me refine my atom restructuring spell to the point where I can pull the carbon from CO2 and restructure it into coal or diamonds.

"Ah, you must be Miss Shimmer, Princess Celestia's new personal student. I have been meaning to meet you for a while now. My name is Moonshadow Flash, a pleasure to meet you." I said as I held my hand out. Who proceeds to promptly ignore it. Rude.

"What do you want?" She asked in a disinterested tone

"I wanted to meet you and offer you the chance to learn. Information for information."

"No thanks, I already have a teacher."

"Well, read this book, and if you change your mind, you can find me in the lab in room 23430 from 8am-6pm. Stop by if you are interested. I'll make tea." I said as I left the journal next to her

"I'll be sure to do that." she said sarcastically.

"Very well then." I replied and promptly teleported back into my lab. What an egotistical ass. I have no idea what Celestia saw in her. With an ego like that, she must have scored quite highly on the magical examination. Oh well, if she doesn't show up, no loss. It was an older version of the spell anyways.

Figuring it was a lost cause, I started setting up for my experiment that involved making an explosive out of magic infused crystals at 11 am. If my initial reading is right, this should be the equivalent of 1 kilogram of TNT at a 4th of the weight.

By 5pm, I had set up everything I needed to test the explosive potential of the crystals in a blast chamber I set up. I was in the middle of double checking the blast chamber when I heard a knock at my lab door. Sighing, I went over to the door and opened it, only to be greeted by Sunset Shimmer on the other side.

"Ah, Miss Shimmer, have you reconsidered my offer?" I said smugly

"You said Moonshadow Flash, right? I read the book you left with me. That shield is the most advanced one I have seen. It is nothing like the ones in the library. I should know. After reading it, I pulled every shield spell the library had, and nothing came even close to it. Where did you find it?" She asked

Letting out a chuckle, "Find it? Miss Shimmer, that is a spell of my own invention. Aside from that copy you hold, there only exists one other written copy of the spell in the entire world. Even those are an older version of the spell."

"Please, you must teach me how you came up with that spell. It is nothing like I have ever seen before." she said practically begging

"Like I told you in the library, Information for Information. Come, follow me over to my room, I'll make some tea." I said as we went into my room next door.

Author's Note

Edited using Grammarly.
Edit 2: Fixed mistakes pointed out in the comments

This is the layout of the room with an extra door where the wall comes out separating the living/dining room from the kitchen.