One week, one whole week of Summer left. Flash had finally realized this was the last week of August and then it was back to school for him. Just it wont be the same school, it will be some different school that he would have to go to for four years, unless another move happens.

Flash however was going to school, Canterlot High to be exact. His father had arranged for him to go to the school for a tour, where he'd be introduced to the school and look at all the key places of the school. He put on a white t-shirt with a graphic of a blue shield and lightning bolt and he topped it off with a leather jacket with a white and red stripe going around it.

Flash's room had been filled up pretty quickly, his bed was now made with a basic blue blanket on top of it and a blue pillow. His guitar was leaned on a wall, right beside his bed. He now had a desk in his room with a bunch of writing utensils and some paper scattered on it and probably one of his most prized possessions, an MSI gt70 laptop, he'd gotten lucky and won it at a raffle contest almost 7 years ago, with that being said it was a bit old and really bulky, but it did get the job done and really well.

He ran to his dresser, checking his hair, patting the sides of it and making sure it was ready to go. Once he thought it looked good, he shot himself smug look and pointed his fingers at his reflection.

Walking out of his room, he started for the living room, where his Dad was waiting for him. Then he stopped, he heard what sound like someone speaking from a radio and what he could make out to be the sound of cheering.

"Malone, double team and scores over Kareem none the less!"

Flash arched an eyebrow but continued to walk into the living room, going past the hallway, he saw that the television was opened and then it hit Flash, his father was watching a basketball game, and it seemed to be very old, as it could be told by the vintage looking quality.

"Uh Dad?" Flash asked, "What exactly are you watching?!"

Stormbringer's attention to the game was cutoff for a moment as he blinked and turned his head to Flash, "Oh Hey! Me? Oh, I'm just watching an old Ball game."

Flash glanced back at the TV, "Okay... against who?"

"Oh well it's the Lakers vs Rockets and let me tell you, Moses Malone is probably the greatest Center I've ever seen! This guy averaged 25 and 18 once! Then he won the MVP" He shook his head, "Man, if he played today I'm not sure Lebron or Curry could stop him. Hell I'm not sure even sur Joel Embiid would be able to stop him, and I like Joel."

Flash curled his lip in confusion, he knew his Dad liked basketball but honestly, he never understood the buzz around the sport, no less his father's obsession with it. But what he did understand was he was gonna be late if his Dad didn't hurry up.

"Yeah, uh Dad that's great and all but, we gotta go." He pointed his thumb at the door, "Or else I'm gonna be late for the whole tour thing or whatever, remember, the thing you're kinda making me do."

"Yeah, yeah!" His dad nodded his head momentarily, getting up off the couch, he paused for a moment. Watching as Kareem Abdul Jabaar gets the ball from a feed from Lucius Allen and go up for a skyhook, making it right over Malone, "Ooo! Damn!" He turned his head at Flash. "Flash you gotta admit that was probably the most nicest skyhook ever done!"

Flash's shoulders dropped, letting an annoyed sigh out his nose he facepalmed himself. "Yeah sure--Dad let's go!" Flash responded quickly, just letting his dad hear what he wanted to hear.

Stormbringer came back in focus, "Oh right!" He shuffled his feet towards the remote and paused the game. Grabbing his keys he and Flash headed for the door.

The 2001 Chevy Suburban pulled up into the driveway of Canterlot High, which at that point Flash had been jokingly calling it the generic named school. Looking at the building through the passenger window however, he realized that the building was a lot different to what he imagined.

What Flash imagined was a three story building made of brown bricks with it's name written in Arial-like font right on the front. He was partially right, about the part of it being a three-story building.

The building itself had pink exterior walls with a brick roof and windows being visible everywhere. There a lot of eye catching aspects for Flash. One such aspect was the use of horses.

As Flash and Stormbringer were driving to the new school, one thing Flash had noticed was a gold horse shoe statue with the words Canterlot High Wondercolts just in front of it. Than it was the roof, on each corner of the roof there was a gold horse head which really, really weirded out Flash a little but he knew Schools were serious about their mascots.

Something else that was aesthetically pleasing about the school was the huge dome glass at the top, another eye catching aspect about the big school.

Flash and Srormbringer got out of the car. "Okay so this place doesn't look as cliche as I thought it did!" He and his father started for the enterance to the school.

"So, what do yo think?" Asked Stormbringer asked, "This place cool or what?"

Flash shrugged, "I'm not gonna be quite sure until I get the tour." Flash pushed the entrance to the school opened.

The foyer was big to say the least. There were some banners hanging on some railings, 2 flights of stairs on the far right and far left and the pathway leading to the lockers and main hallway. "Okay so, where do we go?" asked Flash.

Stormbringer looked around, stroking his chin, "Well there should be an office around here somewhere."

It was then they were approached by a very tall lady, the same height as Stormbringer. "I think I may be of help." Stormbringer turned around and saw a woman with pale pink skin and long multi-coloured hair. She wore a yellow blazer with a sun pin on one of the colours and a purple dress shirt underneath along with purple slacks and tan shoes.

She was accompanied by a student. A boy with dark blue hair and pale blue skin. He wore a blue track suit with yellow stripes going down the sleeves and pants. Along with that he wore pair of NMD's.

"I'm the principal of this school, Celestia." She gave her hand out to shake, "And I presume you must be....Stormbringer Sentry?" She arched an eyebrow.

He nodded, "Yes Mam!" He shook her hand. He then gestured his hand at Flash, "Oh this here is my son, Flash. Flash's eyes widened for a moment. He rose his shoulders and waived awkwardly.

"Uh...Hi?"

Celestia giggled, "It's very nice to meet you! You'll make an excellent addition to our family at Canterlot High!"

Flash arched an eyebrow for a moment, "Oh....So she's one of those principals...…..Oh dear god she's one of those principals."

She then gestured at the student that was accompanying her, "This is one of Canterlot High's star athletes, Soarin Skies."

Soarin cocked his head up, he had nodded his head with a very chill and nonchalant expression, "Sup."

"He's going to be your tour guide for today. He's also a ninth grader student so I believe you two can become pretty well acquainted." She turned to Stormbringer, "Now Mr. Sentry, I believe you and I have some paperwork to discuss about." The two left, starting for the office.

That just left Flash and Soarin standing there for a few seconds. "Uh...So let's do this thing!" Soarin tried to sound as enthusiastic as possible. But in reality, he realized that he was not qualified for this job, "Man I knew I should've let Rainbow Dash handle this!"

The two began heading towards the hallway as Soarin didn't really know where to start. As the two were walking he decided to begin some conversation with Flash, "So uh... Flash where ya from?"

Flash glanced at Soarin, "Hm? Oh I'm from San Francisco."

Soarin nodded, "That's cool, so uh what was the name of the neighbourhood you lived in?"

"We lived in Mission District."

Soarin nodded again, but then stopped letting those words sink in, "Wait, Mission District?"

Flash nodded his head, "Yeah."

Soarin continued to think, than it finally hit him on where he's heard that name, "Dude um... I may be wrong but isn't Mission District one of the most dangerous parts of San Francisco?"

Flash's eyes widened for a moment, "Well... only at night, I usually went out during the day because god forbid I leave at night. I mean my Dad worked late and he always told me of all the gang activity he would see sometimes."

"So is that why you guys came to Canterlot then?" asked Soarin.

"Well I guess." Flash shrugged, "Well other than the fact my dad got a job here."

They stopped at the English hall, where all of the English classes would take place. The hallway itself had a white wall with quotes of famous lines in books or from authors splattered all over the wall. "So this is the English hall, Where the rooms 191A to 193B are located."

Walking into the hallway, Flash looked at each class. They all were relatively the same, one smaller than the other and they also had one interesting aspect about them. The use of paper lamps.

Walking out of the English Hall, Flash and Soarin continued to talk, "So uh? What's this school like?" asked Flash.

"Well it's pretty lit here!" Soarin exclaimed, "Great teachers, awesome classes and well the sports teams aren't half bad either."

Walking out of the English hall, they walked down the hallway and to their right where they went to their next destination. The Tech Hallway.

"So this is the tech hall!" Soarin pointed with his arm, "These classes teach you everything from Computers, Robotics, Graphic Design I could practically go on!" Flash looked down the hall, he wasn't the most knowledgeable in the technology field nor was he really that much of a tech student, but the subjects sounded decent enough to possibly be in.

They walked into the tech hall, there were eight classes, one door on each side. Each class seemed to more or less have the same aspects. All of which was having multiple computers in their rooms. One room was filled with rows and rows of iMacs and a huge projector screen. Another had PC's and a bunch of robotic parts for their classes.

Walking out the tech hallway, they headed for the stairs. "So uh Flash? Have you ever done any sort of sport before?" Soarin asked.

Flash thought for a moment, "Well..... the only two sports I've ever done was Sprinting in Track and Field and then I once tried playing badminton."

"How'd badminton go for you?"

"I was alright." Flash shrugged, "Nothing Superstar like but I made the team at my old school."

"What about Track?"

"Well I only did it until 7th grade, I tore my hamstring during a tournament and I was out for the remainder of the season."

"Woah!?" Soarin was baffled, "Was it serious?!"

"I mean, It was a grade 2 tear so yeah I guess it was pretty serious."

They walked up the stairs as they continued their conversation, "So uh, have you thought about coming back to Track and Field?" Soarin asked, "You know I think you could fit in with our team."

Flash shrugged, "I did, but I didn't really wanna go through the whole injury thing again so I kinda just focused a lot more on music."

Soarin nodded, "Well... I guess I can respect that."

They walked down the hall and towards the math hallway, "So what kind of instrument do you play?"

"I play the bass guitar." Flash replied, "I got it for my birthday when I was 8 but I didn't actually start taking it seriously until like two years ago."

"Well that's cool." said Soarin.

They walked towards the math hallway, Soarin sort of shrugged, "Well uh, this is the math hallway. I mean it's kinda just normal classrooms but you know uh.... if you like math than this is probably your place."

The walked out of the math hallway. Starting for the staircase again and heading for the Science department of the school.

"So, what about you?" Flash asked, "What sports and hobbies do you have?"

Soarin shrugged, "Well I try to play most sports." He said, "But my main sport is Soccer!"

"Soccer?"

"Yeah Soccer!" Soarin pushed the door opened. Him and Flash began walking up the stairs, "It's just UGH! It's just so climactic!" He exclaimed, "You never know what's gonna happen, either team could score. It's like the action movies of sports!"

"What about hockey?" asked Flash.

"HOCKEY! OH MAN HOCKEY'S JUST AS GOOD!" Soarin realized he was getting a bit too excited, "But you know, Soccer I really, really like Soccer.

Walking into the third floor they walked to the Science hall, "So this is basically where the science classes are!" said Soarin, "We have like four classes for the ninth and tenth graders and the other four are just for the sperate strands like Chemistry and Physics and all that."

They walked out the hallway and went to their right, walking down the hall.

"So uh.... that's kinda it." Soarin Shrugged, "The School is in the process of building an auditorium but other than that the only other places I can think of are the cafeteria, the music room, the library and well the best room in this whole school."

Flash arched an eyebrow feeling like he knew where that place could be, "Where would that be--"

"THE GYMNASSSIUUUM!" Soarin exclaimed.

Flash's eyes widened, blinking twice he just shook his head, "Okay.."

They started for the staircase, heading back to the first floor. Walking down step by step until they reached the front foyer again.

Walking past towards the gym, they past a picture of a girl wearing a crown and looking quite sinister and sadistic look on her face. She had red and yellow hair, yellow skin and she wore what appeared to be a prom gown. Flash arched an eyebrow, "Man that really screams overlord wannabe. Who is that?"

Soarin glanced back at Flash, looking to the wall his eyes widened at the picture Flash was looking at. "Oh her!?" All the memories from last year came back to him, The Fall Formal, The Battle of the Bands, The Friendship Games they were all coming back to him.

He trembled for a moment, but then shook it off, "That's Sunset Shimmer."

Flash glanced back at Soarin, "So uh.... what's with the evil look?" He smirked.

"Oh that." He waived that comment off, "pshh, That was back when she used to be a bit....mean and kinda….. really, really like the whole title of 'Queen' thing."

"Oh!" Flash nodded, "That's... neat I guess? Is she someone I should be worried about if we cross paths?"

Soarin shook his head, "Nah you're safe, she's actually pretty chill now. Well.... I mean I wouldn't push her buttons though."

Flash looked back at the picture for a moment. He eventually shrugged, "Alright."

The two headed for the gym. Continuing to walk down the hallway and all the way until they reached a blue door with a push bar on it.

The doors were opened so the two walked inside. It wasn't far off from your average gymnasium. The logo of the school is deadest in the middle, there are place mats on one far end and the other, there were six basketball hoops. Two on the far end with 3-point keys and free throw lines while the other four were just on the side without any lines at all.

They headed for the supply room, where most of the supplies were located. Walking inside there was a lot of supplies, to the far end was a bucket full of Hockey sticks, a box full of Dodgeballs and frisbees another box full of Soccer balls and Hockey balls, some Badminton rackets along with some Birdies in the corner and finally a box full of Basketballs.

Soarin took out two, 29.5 inch Under Armour Basketballs. Passing one to Flash, "Hey? Have you ever played Basketball before?"

Flash's eyes widened as he was given the ball. "Uhh, no not really, It's not really my thing."

The two walked out of the supply room, heading for one of the hoops with a 3 point and free throw line. "Hey I hear ya man! I never really cared all that much about the sport either." He began dribbling the ball through his legs, using his finger tips as he dribbles. "But I kinda have a soft spot for it."

Flash meanwhile watched as Soarin displayed dribble moves while he on the other hand was just holding the ball. "Well I mean, I never just really understood the buzz around it." said Flash, "I mean soccer I guess I can understand. It's like you said, 'you never know what's going to happen' I mean I guess it's just a ball people bounce and shoot into a net. I mean I wouldn't sit around watching that for an hour straight."

Soarin hopped and set his feet as he pulled up to the three point line. He stopping his dribble, he palmed the ball in his hand before placing his left hand on the side of the ball, spreading out all his fingers. He bent his knees and raised his arm up making sure his elbow was in and that it was aligned with his knee. His legs straightened as his feet moved up before they were off the ground and at that moment he released the ball with his right hand. Doing all of that in one quick sequence.

The ball went on arc, reaching it's highest point . It then began falling again and eventually it fell right into the basketball hoop.

*SWISH*

Flash had watched as Soarin had done all of that in one sequence. It may've looked simple to the naked eye but in reality Flash knew that probably took a lot of practice.

Soarin glanced back at Flash, "Well, I mean I'm not sure saying bouncing ball and shooting it into a hoop would be the only thing about Basketball but hey I get where you're coming from. But... at least give the sport a shot?" He didn't intend for a pun by Flash knew what he meant.

Flash walked up to the three-point. He looked up at the ten-foot rim. Looking back at the basketball, he smacked the side of it, getting the noise out of it. "I've never really shot one of these before."

Soarin shrugged, "Well hey trying is what counts right? Remember, right hand on the top and left on the side oh make sure to spread your fingers when you shoot."

Flash nodded, "I...guess." He looked up to the hoop. Thinking back to what Soarin had just done. Trying to emulate exactly what he did. He bent his knees and spread his fingers out on each hand. Raising his arms up and putting his elbow in he also began to unbend his knees and go up for a jumpshot.

Releasing the ball with his right he watched as it went into the air and on an arc.

But then it fell down, not even hitting the rim and for that fact the backboard. In other words, COMPLETE AIRBALL.

Flash's shoulders dropped, the ball didn't even go that far compared to Soarin's Shot. "Wow that was really bad." Flash chuckled.

"Pshh don't worry about that." Soarin reassured, "You're off-hand might've gotten in the way when you released, it happened to me all the time."

Flash chuckled a bit more. Looking at the clock he noticed it was almost 12:00, "I think we should probably head back right about now."

Soarin glanced at the clock as well, "Yeah you're probably right."

The two went over to take their Basketball's and to go put them back in the supply room.

Entry #147

Okay where do I begin.....

My day starts off with waking up in eight in the morning, EIGHT! I never wake up that early on a summer morning. The earliest I wake up is probably Eleven.

But I have an excuse, My dad signed me up for some school tour at the generic named school, A.K.A Canterlot High.

Honestly, it kinda went great, really great. I met some chill guy named Soarin today, he's one of those school athletes but honestly we both kinda got along pretty quickly.

It was kinda your basic school tour, walk around be showed some rooms and stuff, the usual.

I mean that's kinda it. The only other thing I did was shoot a Basketball but I missed wasn't interested in it so I just didn't shoot it.

I mean the school looks promising, I just hope I can make it through the year without combusting down in June.

Author's Note

Okay so uh, new chapter.

I wanted to get this out on Tuesday but I was way too focused on FSTSS Issue #5 and well now Issue #3's redo. But other than that I also had school to deal with so tests and exams were kinda flooding my schedule.

I mean I'm good now so I'm gonna try and get as much done during the two week break but I'm making no promises.

So this chapter was hard to conceptualize as I had no idea on how I was carry the story on from Chapter two. Anyway I decided to start it off with an NBA reference because somebody asked and I was kinda like "Ehh…. I guess", I just want the whole basketball thing for Flash to be a gradual process instead of a right away thing.

So the reference itself was this quote,

"Malone, double team and scores over Kareem none the less!"

That did happen in a real game between the Rockets and The Lakers way back in the seventies or sixties where Moses Malone gets a shot over Kareem Abdul Jabaar (In my opinion the best Center ever!) I'm more of a Raptors Fan but I like almost every NBA team and also Moses Malone is one of my favorite legends.

Speaking of Basketball, Flash finally balls out! XD

Well he took a shot in which he air balled (That fool let his off-hand interfere with his shooting hand) but that's not what I hate about the chapter. What I really hate was this quote,

"it's just a ball people bounce and shoot into a net. I mean I wouldn't sit around watching that for an hour straight."

That made me cringe at myself. But I'm a BBall fan, if you truly don't like the game I'm not opposed to you're opinion.