Sombra entered the classroom, he yawned as he looked around the plain walks and singular chalkboard “This place looks boring, why do we have to come here again?”

Radiant Hope smacked him on the back of the head “Sombra, we are here to learn how to be functional members of pony society! Is that so hard to understand!”

Sombra groaned as he rubbed his head “Will you please stop doing that, it’s not nice to keep hitting me on the back of the head.”

Radiant Hope rolled her eyes “Well maybe if you actually took some of this stuff more seriously, I wouldn’t have to smack you so often. Study is very important and you will have to do a lot of under Luna as well.”

Sombra groaned “Really but that sounds like a lot of work.”

Radiant Hope smacked him harder “Sombra, remember what you did to Monika because you could control your powers! What if you do to somepony else! Can you live with killing another because you can’t control yourself!”

Sombra’s eyes widened “I could kill somepony” he then nodded with determination in his eyes “I will take my studies under Luna very seriously. I can’t let that happen.”

Radiant Hope nodded, only to see the other students file in alongside their teacher who both gave them notebooks, textbooks and pens as well as pair of school saddlebags. The Teacher smiled “I’m Frost Signal and it looks why we have two students from the Crystal Empire, come forward and introduce yourselves.”

Radiant Hope and Sombra trotted forward, Sombra bounced excitedly “Hi everypony, I’m Sombra.”

Radiant Hope smacked him again and the bowed “Forgive my brother, my name is Radiant Hope. It’s pleasure to meet all of you.”

The other foals began whispering to one another, one foals asked “Are you Crystal Ponies actually made of crystals?”

Radiant Hope frowned “No, Crystal Ponies are technically made of gemstones. We are not sure why that isbut evidence point to it being something that Discord did during the Chaos Years for his own amusement.”

Sombra frowned “I am not a Crystal Pony, I am something called an Umbrum. A creature of dark magic and it’s why I came down here, the Crystal Heart hurt me because of what I am. Light magic and dark magic don’t really mix.”

The foals looked at him with awe, dark magic was rare requiring quite a lot of skill to master. Signal coughed “Well you two should take your seats and we’ll begin the lesson proper.”

As Signal began the lesson as he wrote on the board, he then turned to the class “I understand that many of you consider that Algebra is incredibly complicated but at the end of the days the letters are place holders for numbers. For example if Bananas cost two dollars then B equals two.”

Sombra tried to listen only for some foals to throw wads of paper at the back of his head, he took a deep breath as he felt rage well up in him. He needed to control that rage, to not harm those around him. He forced himself to listen as the teacher explained the mathematical theories behind magic and various other topics, he took a few notes on what was being said.

The class was soon over much to his joy, he was the first out of the room. Radiant Hope trotted over to him “Did something happen in class?”

One of the older Earth Pony colts pushed her over with a snide grin “So your those weird ponies form the Crystal Empire huh. Your really should return there you know, this is a place for normal ponies. Crystal head should take the shadow freak back home.”

Radiant Hope began to sob, Sombra’s eyes glowed green as purple trails flowed from his eyes. He held his rage inside himself, quiet and cold as his voice spoke with menace “Be silent fools and cowards.” He formed black crystals in the air around him “You insult somepony for no other reason then you own prejudice, you are not worth the air you breath. I could silence you without a word but I will not waste energy on you.”

Sombra helped Radiant Hope close and the two trotted away from the angry colt. One colt and one filly blocked Sombra's’ path, he drew himself and Radiant Hope into the shadows. He then stepped out from behind the two colts, his desire to protect his sister combined with his cold fury materialised a dome shield of dark crystals that protected the pair from other’s eyes.

Radiant Hope looked up as her tears began to fade at Sombra in confusion “What is this?”

Sombra calmly smiled at her, hiding his rage behind a carefully crafted mask “This is a shield made to protect us from prying eyes.” He then grimaced as he facade began to crack “I am furious at those colts, beyond words. This is there for their safety as much as mine, to keep my fury contained until I can release it somewhere else.”

Radiant Hope rubbed up against him “Thank you brother for protecting me.”

Sombra nodded “I may be foolish and silly sometimes but we are family. No matter how many times you smack me on the head, that will never change.”

The two foals entered the Cafeteria as Sombra shut down his shield and took seats at a simple white table, a bipedal pegasus filly with a golden coat and a rainbow mane took a seat near them “Sup, my name is Prism Hurricane.”

Sombra turned to the filly with his green eyes “Who are you and why did you care about us anyway?”

Prism grinned “Are you kidding me, those things you did in the hallways were awesome! You showed those bullies the what for!”

Radiant Hope was quietly eating, Sombra frowned “Bullies like them are weaklings pretending to be strong. When you show them real power they fold like a deck of cards. I am not weak anymore and I will not allow anypony to hurt my sister without getting payback.”

Prism smiled “That just makes it even more awesome.”

Sombra smiled slightly “I suppose, are you doing anything after this?”

Prism sighed “I have to go home, my mother has me under a very strict schedule and if she found out that I was anywhere else I would be in big trouble.”

Sombra smiled “How about I ask my mum and our parents can talk about it? I would like to have a few friends and you seem cool.” Sombra laughed as the filly’s excitement, Radiant Hope smiled as she was glad that their first day at the new school was going well.

Author's Note

Now from now on until I get to the point where the old speech is no longer needed, I will post two version of each chapter. One with the old speech and one with the normal.