Monika and Sayori were walking towards the school, they smiled as they saw Sombra chasing after a pegasus while Radiant Hope hummed smiling. Monika smiled “So who is your friend, Sombra?”

Sombra smiled “This is Prism Hurricane, she came over to us during our first break.”

Sayori smiled “So how was your first day, anyway?”

Radiant Hope looked down “Some bullies wanted to mess with us, their words hurt me.”

Sombra growled “I was so angry, I wanted to hurt them so bad! I didn’t though, it would go against everything you and Luna are trying to teach me.”

Monika hugged them both “Radiant Hope, bullies are hard to deal with but in the end their words mean nothing. Never forget this.” She then turned to Sombra “You did a good thing today, you held your ground without causing them any real harm.”

A bipedal dark blue unicorn mare with a rainbow mane stormed over “Prism, we are going home! You have no reason to spend time with these horrid creatures! The fact that they allowed to run free is a disgrace to our nation!”

Several parents looked in disgust at the mare, Monika was glaring hatefully at the mare as was Sombra. Monika stepped forward with a calm but cold tone “You are one of those bigots who look at another species as if they are scum. You are the king of pony that will bring down an enemy that will leave pony kind as nothing but a small stain on history.”

The mare fumed “Don’t you know who I am! I am Winter Flash, the leader of the House of Guiding Light and I will not be insulted by some monster! Prism come to my side!”

Prism snarled in fury “Why should I, you treat me like dirt because I am a filthy rain maker! You have treated me like I was lesser simply because I don’ t have a horn sticking out of my head, why should I go wi…”

Winter smacked Prism with her hoof, she was about to grab her when her arm was grabbed by Monika. Monika snarled “You have no right to treat him like that, your a pony who has shown that they have no care for the Harmony that Equestria was built on! Now get out of my sight before you do something truly foolish!”

Monika let go of the mare’s arm and watched as the Winter stormed off, one of the other parents trotted over “Thank goodness somepony spoke up to her, she come along here spouting that nonsense every day.”

Sayori frowned as she looked closely at Prism's wings, she growled as she saw what appeared to be scars along the wings “Look at those, can't you see those scars along her wings!” Sayori then crouched down and looked over the wings “Did your mother cause this?”

Prism nodded solemnly then Sombra, master of tact that he was, asked “Can I see them?”

Radiant Hope smacked across the back of the head “That was highly inappropriate, don’t you understand that is now is not the time or place to ask such questions. In fact such questions are just rude in general.”

Monika frowned “Stop pressuring the filly, Sayori. We’ll take her home where she can have some fun with Sombra and Radiant Hope. Tonight I’ll take her to Princess Luna and maybe she can help us come up with a solution.”

A familiar voice filled the air “I don’t think that will be necessary, I have been watching. In truth I came to give Radiant Hope some private lessons but this will have to be addressed.” Celestia landed with a frown as she saw the scars on Prism's wings “You have my permission to take care of the filly until I can speak to her mother.”

Radiant Hope looked up at Princess Celestia “Does this mean you’ll teach me?”

Celestia nodded with a smile “Monika, as her mother are you willing to let me teach her in the castle for a couple of hours?”

Monika’s eyes narrowed “On the condition that you can keep her safe, if anyone even lays a finger on her there will be consequences. Am I making myself clear?”

Celestia nodded “Crystal.”

Celestia gulped internally as Monika nodded “Very well” she then crouched down in front of Radiant Hope “Behave for the Princess and try to stay out of trouble.”

Radiant Hope smiled “I promise mum.” Monika, Sayori, Prism and Sombra waved goodbye as Celestia and Radiant Hope left.

Prism looked up at them “Does this mean I get to stay with you tonight?”

Sayori smiled “Of course, do you think we let you back to thatsituation. You would have to be nuts.”

The family took their guest back to their home, Natsuki raised an eyebrow “Adopt another foal Monika, and where is Radiant Hope.”

Monika frowned “This is Prism Hurricane and her mother is the worst pony I’ve ever met. We are going to take care of her until Celestia can speak with her mother, as for Radiant Hope she is being taught by Celestia right now and bad things will happen if even a hair is harmed on her head.”

Yuri grimaced “You didn't just threaten Pricness Celestia in public did you?” The look on Monika’s face gave her the answer. Yuri sighed “You can’t just do that because you want to, she commands a lot of respect. The nobles are gong to be complaining about our attitude towards her you know.”

Sombra meanwhile shouted as he chased around Prism “I’ll catch you this time!”

Prism shouted back “Yeah, that’s never going to happen! I’m just faster than you!”

Monika simply grabbed a book while carefully watching the two and took a seat, Sayori soon did the same. Later once the sun had fallen below the horizon, they heard a knock on the door and opened it to see Celestia standing there with Radiant Hope. Radiant Hope cheered excitedly as reentered her home “It was great, Celestia taught me so many things.” She then pulled out a book of magic form the saddlebags the school provided “She even gave me a book on magic so that I could practice at home.”

Monika hugged the filly with a warm smile “That’s great, I expect you too keep up with your studies.”

Radiant Hope smiled and nodded “I will.”

Just as she was about to join her brother, Monika lowered her head “Thank you Celestia for taking care of my daughter. Still I have to meet up with Luna for Sombra's’ magic practice tonight.”

Sombra trotted over to Monika and she clicked her fingers teleporting the two of them into Luna’s study. Luna blinked as they arrived “Well that was unexpected.” She then shook her head before turning to Sombra with a smile “I’m going to teach you some basic dark magic spells such as the dark shadow and dark teleportation spells.”

Luna turned into a puff of dark blue shadows and Sombra copied the technique turning into a puff of black shadows. Luna smiled “Impressive but let’s see if you can copy this.” Luna dissapeared in a puff of dark blue and returned in a similar puff.

Sombra focused funnelling the negative emotions from earlier that day into the spell. He dissapeared in a puff of black smoke only to reappear on Luna’s back with same smoke surrounded him. Sombra then decided to show off as he created as shield of dark crystals. Luna laughed “Mighty impressive young Sombra, creating a dark crystal shield is very difficult for most dark mages to do. You have more potential than I thought.”

Monika smiled “I have an idea to stop ponies from fearing your nights or rather use that fear to your advantage. One night a year we hold a holiday called Nightmare Night where ponies of all ages dress up as horrifying monsters of the night and parents take their kids around to other ponies houses to ask for candy. Thus bringing joy using that fear to your advantage.”

Luna frowned “I haven’t had much chance to improve my image, are you sure this will work?”

Monika nodded with a smile, Sombra bounced around excitedly “That like so much fun and we get free candy!” Monika giggled as she knew this event would be a lot of fun for everypony.

Author's Note

Chapter 10 is going be quite dark when you think about it, so be warned.