Sanguinem Sitienti

Twilight happily walked into her school, her friends following close behind as all of them smiled, seeing students walking between classes, changelings, yaks, griffon's and ponies all getting along as the talked about what they wanted to do after school, or that one teacher they all had that was extremely fun. Rainbow Dash departed her friends as she flew off, ready to go teach her class, followed by both Applejack and Fluttershy, the two walking the same direction towards their classes. Twilight and Starlight both left Pinkie and Rarity behind as the two didn't have classes until later in the day. Twilight and Starlight's offices were right next to each other, being in case of emergency the two can quickly congregate and figure something out.

Twilight smiled at her friend, before the two entered their offices, the room being dustier and feeling empty. Twilight was gone for a week, fighting several changelings that had joined Chrysalis, who had attacked Manehattan, but in that time her entire office felt run down. She would have the janitor's clean it, but she can clean the entire room with just a flash of her horn. She closed her office door and levitated a small duster, and quickly cleaned the shelves and books, and her desk's tabletop as she sat in her black office chair and laid back.

Twilight was awakened from her nap as she nearly fell out of her chair. The door to her office opened slowly, and the school's nurse came in. She waited for Twilight to stand before stating her intent.

"Miss Twilight, we have a problem in the clinic," the nurse told the slightly upset Twilight. Twilight breathed slowly as she calmed her heart from the sudden jump to awakedness.

"A problem? How so?" Twilight asked the nurse as she approached her door. The nurse turned and started walking back to the clinic.

"Well, after lunch, we had several students come into the clinic, they all came in at different times, but most are from the outdoor PE class with Miss Dash, and their fur and skin are... burnt," the nurse told Twilight as they stood outside the door to the clinic. "They said the sun felt hotter or warmer than usual, and only noticed when they said they felt on fire, and the teacher told them to go here."

"It sound's like photosensitivity, just very severe," Twilight told the nurse as she reached out to open the door to the clinic. The door opened and the hallway filled with the pain wails of young ponies, yaks, changelings, and griffons alike, as all of them seemed burnt, some worse than others. Twilight held a hoof to her mouth as the smell was that of burnt flesh. "Sweet Celestia, you poor kids."

The ponies in the clinic were among the worse in the room, as their fur was burnt off and their skin bubbled, blistered and threatened to fall off as the cried in their beds. Twilight quickly closed the blinds of the small window of the clinic. The yaks and griffons were better off, but not perfect as their fur was singed or feathers were missing in patches, but not from falling out but from nearly burning into the underlying flesh. No changelings sat inside the clinic, whether it was because of their exoskeleton protecting them or none have seen any symptoms yet, Twilight didn't know.

"I want you to put out an announcement, and to tell everyone to stay inside and close all the windows, we can't afford to have everyone begin burning," Twilight told the nurse as she nodded. "If any of their symptoms get worse, you come and tell me immediately, okay."

"Yes, Miss Twilight," the nurse smiled and quickly ran down to the school's front office, as Twilight frowned at the many creatures. She left the clinic quietly and closed the door behind her. She didn't really know what to do, she couldn't ask Celestia to just lower the sun nor could she ask her to dim it down. She calmed her breathing as she ran through her head what she should do before her thoughts were interrupted by the school's intercom system blaring on. "Attention, teachers, and students, but I have just been told that everyone must remain inside and that window blinds must be shut. We have been told that there is going to be an early Spring hail storm and we don't want anyone to be hurt, sorry for the interruption."

Twilight smiled softly as she returned to her office, seeing Starlight standing outside her office.

"Twilight, are you asleep again?"

"No, I'm right here," Twilight announced her presence as she opened her office door.

"A hail storm, what's going on Twilight, why is the nurse lying over the intercom?" Starlight followed Twilight into her office as she closed the door.

"Several of the students have all come down with horrible photosensitivity, so I told her to put an announcement out that everyone is to remain inside the school, to keep the symptoms down."

"Photosensitivity? So like sunburns?"

"No... Ponies with burnt and peeling skin, griffons with melted feathers and burnt skin, no changelings yet though, likely because of their external protection," Twilight sat in her chair as she sighed. A knock outside her door was like a soft explosion of dynamite inside her head, as she opened the office's door. Her friends slowly pushed inside as they all looked confused, except Dash.

"Come on, Twilight, a hail storm, I would have been told it there was a hail storm today," Dash told her friend as she floated above the ground. "Is this because of the sick students?"

"Yes, several students have come down with horrible photosensitivity... uh, an allergic reaction to the sun, but the effects are much worse than just a bad sunburn, some students had skin about to... fall off,"

"Oh my, should we be worried?"

"Yes, Rarity, if you see anyone with a severe reaction to the sun, get them to the office immediately, so far we have about 15 students in the clinic," Twilight told her friends as she sat and pondered on what she needed to do. "I want all of you to go back to your classrooms, and continue class as if nothing is going on, and if any students start speculating on what is happening, tell them that it's just a delayed hailstorm, we can't have students panicking."

Her friends nodded as they all left, some more worried than others as Starlight stayed seated in her chair. Twilight sighed and quickly grabbed a quill and paper from her desk and began writing a letter to Celestia, telling her of how several students have become suddenly sick, suffering from the worst case of photosensitivity she has ever seen or read about, sending it off with her own magic as she sat silently in her chair.