Fast Tap´s School Tale

Chapters

Chapter 1: first day of school, first friends
Chapter 2: bad days
Chapter 3: Hopes?
Chapter 4: just one plan
Chapter 5: 2 friends, few hours and lots of noise
Chapter 6: the ultimate test
Epilogue: there's more...
Prologue: the legend of the transforming artifact

Chapter 1: first day of school, first friends

In a train there was a teenage earth pony with fangs, purple skin, yellow mane and eyes, called "Fast Tap", Fast was on his way to Ponyville, going to the friendship school, it was the first day of school and the opening day, he goes Very excited, he couldn’t wait to arrive, when the train stopped there, he left with emotion from the train and the first thing he saw was the headmare, twilight sparkle, who greeted her friendly, she was waiting for him at the station.

"uh, twilight, are you the headmare?" Fast asks a little shy.

"Yes, I also wait for you to show you the school, this place is very new for you..."-Twilight answers with a smile face, but Fast didnt had one, so adds-"I know it was difficult to leave your life behind, but truthfully here, you would have a better time."

After that little conversation, they both went on their way to school, and when they arrived, fast was surprised at how big, colorful, and impressive it was, and it was close to the princess's castle (it was also her house).

"Wait here, just for the bell to ring, meanwhile, other students are coming, try to make friends" said Twilight and then closed the door.

Fast as a good pony listened to her and more and more ponies and other creatures arrived, only Fast waited sitting at the door on the right side for a long time, until a while, a blue griffin also sits at the door in the left side, there, Fast remembered the words of twilight and decided to start a conversation with him.

"Hi!" -Fast said extending his hoove to the griffin, but the griffin just looks a little impressed and look to the other side- "Come on, don't leave me waiting, it's not bad to say hello to someone."

The griffin thinks for a while, sighs, turns his head and takes Fast's hoove, shakes it and then quickly releases it, and turns back to look the other side, with just that, Fast was happy, he had taken his first step in making a friendship: say hello; suddenly, the bell rang, and Fast and the griffin stand up, they are pushed back a little by the others, but they were still close to the door, well, just the griffin, but Fast was left a little behind, but he could still see the griffin and the griffin could see him, and everyone at the door placed in position looking at it, ready to go.

"By the way,"-says the griffin and looks at Fast-"my name is Gallus."

"And I am Fast tap." Says Fast to his new friend Gallus.

After introducing themselves, the door opens and they both enter without hurry, Fast, sees the school inside and gets excited, the well-detailed walls, a large floor where all the students fits, and a plenty of space, he walk a while to see the school.

"Welcome to the school of friendship!" Twilight said, welcoming everyone,"Please follow guidance counselor Starlight to get your class assignments, then we can show you your living quarters!"

He went quickly to starlight to be the first in sign in, when his turn come:

"Name: Fast Tap, and I'm very excited to assist in this school."Fast said with more energy than ever.

"Wow!, you are ready for these classes, you had to have been very excited when they announced the inauguration of it." Starlight said surprised.

"That I would like to say... I had to sacrifice my past, to live a better future." Fast said with a reflexing actitude.

After that phrase little philosophical, Fast just had to wait for classes to start, just walk a little, until suddenly not paying attention to where he was going, he crashes with a hippogriff.

"I'm sorry, I didn't notice where I was going..."Fast said.

"Nah, don't worry, I didn't either" the hippogriff repond and both giggles.

"my name is Fast Tap" said Fast ready with his hoove extended.

"Silverstream, nice to meet you." said the hippogriff while giving to Fast a hug.

"Wow! What was the hug for?" Fast said.

"I only like to give hugs." said Silverstream smiling.

Our pony had already made 2 friends and is already chatting with one and he is liking the hippogriff the more they talk, after a talk about hippogriffs and friendship, they say goodbye and promise to see each other again, after a while, Fast saw that Silverstream was meeting more ponies and other creatures, and Fast decided to do the same, walking around the place until he found someone nice who Fast would like to meet at first sight, but doesn’t achieve so much, only managed to help a yak get up 3 times in a row, say hello to a dragon, identify a changeling in the crowd and find a place where it's not easy to identify it; and nothing else and, yep actually took a long time, it had been a while and he just waited for classes to come into session, until the time came, before it started...

"Thank you so much for supporting the grand opening of our school! I hope you’ll all join us for friends and family day to see the amazing progress your students are making." Twilight announced

That day of friends and family was in 4 days, Fast, prepared for everything and very excited, he set out to make the best possible friends.

And so the classes are already in session, the bell rang of his first class, Fast came to it at the speed of light, every time the classes passed, he keep noticing something in the teachers, they teach in a slightly boring way, they learned things yes, but they don't give it enough care, in fact, at the end of the class, the teachers were a bit bored, the only one who gave their class dedication was Twilight and yep, she was also a teacher, that day was class by class , a little difficult to find a time where you could rest, but that was understood, it was to meet the teachers and what will learn with them, already ringing the bell that indicates that the classes of the day ended, it was time to see the living quarters.

When Fast opened the door of his living quarter he was excited, it was in summary a 2-floor bed, a bedside table and a window with a beautiful view, the 2-floor bed was the signal that he will have a roommate, Fast flips towards the door and he wait for his companion who he was, an earth pony, called Sandbar, Sandbar was a calm and determined pony, Fast like his roommate, both of them already knew the students who were other creatures, in fact Sandbar was lucky that they were his companions, Fast was proud of him, and he went to sleep with the hope of another day.

Chapter 2: bad days

It was the dawn of another day and Fast went quickly to his class, and that the classes of the first day were nothing compared to the second, the teachers gave their best to learn and have fun with the students, it was awesome and they were essential, the best thing was that there was a break and there Fast take to see his bird friend Silverstream, he find her talking with her friends, which were 5, some of them already knew him, like, for example: Gallus, and Sandbar, and remember what he did Fast on the first day after talking to Silverstream? Well, apparently they were the other friends of Silverstream who recently met Fast really and they learned their names, the dragon is called Smolder, the Yak is called Yona and the changeling, Ocellus.

With "fairy" classes, and having Fast tap in total 6 friends, it seemed that things couldn’t go wrong… until the third day of school arrived, Fast hoped that it was almost as if it was taken out of a fairy tale, pitifully, that was not the case, Fast was enjoying pinkie pie's class, just to throw himself into the party cannon when the headmare twilight entered class and with her magic everything returned to normal as if it were the first day ,that made him want to break the table with his head, and it was to say, “what just happened?” Fast saw that the headmare was saying something to the pink teacher and it seems as they were talking something about a book that must be followed, from that everything got awful, the classes became SUPER boring, and the worst thing is that in the recess, Fast didn't get to meet his friends.

The bell rang finally and Fast, went to his living quarter to do the homework, which was already much left by Twilight, he spent 3 hours doing homework, and from there, he hears that the door opens, it was Sandbar, he told him that he was in the library doing homework with his friends, which was much bigger, he also told him that Silverstream sends to Fast greetings and she and Fast meet after tomorrow's classes, in the schoolyard, as soon as he said that, he went to sleep, hence Fast knew that he had to do things tomorrow, he had to find out which book the director was following, and go to the schoolyard after school.

On the fourth day, nothing to highlight in the classes, Fast didn't get to discover anything about the book, and when the classes ended, Fast went to the schoolyard to talk with Silverstream trying have a relaxed face.

"and how was the classes?" Fast ask to Silverstream trying have a relaxing actitude.

"Awful."Silverstream answered sad.

"Me too." Fast said with head down.

"Trust me it was worse for me, Fast, yesterday at the time of the break, we talked about these classes as they have been and they were all complaints about the teachers, and from one side to the other, they began to fight and put worse each second, so much that even the teachers had to intervene,"-Silverstream said while grabbing Fast by the arms and waving quick side by side with fear-"Fast, we are on the verge of losing friends! I can’t stand it for a second."

"I know, I saw everything on the second floor, it is as if the school doesn't play the role, you know, is the 'school of friendship', if it continues like this, easy few will have one friend or no one." Fast added.

"Someone should stop this madness?" Silverstream said worried.

"I got it!" Fast said suddenly having an idea.

"you got what?" Silverstream asked.

"I know how I can solve the problem with our friends! but I will do it later, better take advantage of the time we have, it is difficult to find such a moment." Fast answered and relaxed.

From there, our 2 friends talked and got to know each other better, in a moment, Fast looks at Silverstream's neck and sees a necklace that had a few light blue pearls on the sides and a pink one in the center, of a strange appearance.

"Silverstream, cute necklace." Fast says and starts a new conversation.

"Thanks, it's very special for me, and all the hippogriffs have one!" Silverstream said happily.

"Will it be for something symbolic?" Fast asked.

"No, it's something very special, I will show you this weekend, I promise." Silverstream answered.

After the talk, and already going to the living quarters, Fast knew what to do, he went to the living quarter of Gallus, knocked on the door and talked with him, then Gallus open the door.

"Oh, it's you" says Gallus anoyed and starts closing the door slowly.

"Gallus, I know you had a bad day at School and I want to propose something,"-says Fast and Gallus stops and opens completely the door-"I have to admit, the school is making us suffer, why not pause all of that and... skip class tomorrow?" Fast says whispering the last part.

"It seems very risky, but very logical." Gallus said.

"Come on, I think Smolder would love the idea too, in fact, you come back to friends and family time, and it will be as nothing happened." Fast said conviced on what was talking.

"You convinced me, it's a good idea, thanks Fast!" Gallus said with a serious face.

"You're welcome!" Fast said cheerfully.

Chapter 3: Hopes?

Fast tap walking quietly to his living quarter finds with twilight who quickly reaches the hallways.

"Fast tap! I just wanted to talk to you!" Twilight said exited.

"What do you need princess and headmare?" Fast asked.

"I wanted to give you this,"-Twilight said and shows to Fast a book, it's the copy of the book she had when the third day happened-"I used this book to rule the school, I decided to give it to you, because I am very impressed with your progress, well done homework and several friends made, you deserve it."

"Thank you Twilight!" Fast said receiving the book and goes quickly to his living quarter

When he reached it, he lit a candle that was on the nightstand, and he began to read, the book, the first thing he noticed was has letters in one order “EEA”, this book had boring and quite discriminating laws to other creatures by the way mentions “ponies” every 5 lines, in the end it had a message from twilight about tomorrow:

“Fast tap, if you read this, I got you news that may interest you, do you still remember that tomorrow is the day of friends and family? well, tomorrow is also the day where the school inspection will be, so it can be accredited Well, if everything goes well tomorrow, doesn't that excite you!?”

Twilight sparkle

Fast tap got scared when finished to read, If Gallus skip classes with the others, the school could close! but there was no turning back, in fact, he does it for the friendship of his friends.

It was the fifth day, although it hurts, he had to continue with the plan, there was no going back, all he had to do was see how everything happened, he went to the second floor and looked at everything that happened when the bell rang.

Gallus and Smolder were going in the opposite direction to the class, their friends asked if they were going to skip classes, to which they answered yes, and convinced them to skip classes too, the rest is unknown.

Fast after seeing that, galloping towards his class exited, Fast didn't see where he was going, and accidentally collided with applejack, teacher at that time had, they both went to class, but there was a problem at Arrive, Applejack didn’t know what to teach to them and the students were falling asleep, if the inspector saw this there would be worse problems than there are, Fast Tap thought how to solve this, and was given the idea of teach about photosynthesis, something that he had taught, what managed to keep the students' attention until the inspector passed with the headmare and counselor, after they passed the class come to 'normal'.

"How did you know about it?" Applejack asked to Fast a little confused.

"I just wanted a class where everyone attended." Fast answered smiling, knowing that it was actually for less trouble.

After a few minutes, the bell rang and it was time for friends and family, and everything went well, more or less, but it could be worse what he could see on his position were students, teachers and creatures likely as his friends but look like were authority, Fast went outside where everyone was, just waiting for his friends, it take a while , but his friends finally arrived, but they got a unexpecting surprise, he had calculated everything Fast, but he never calculated something that turned upside down the cake, Fast didn’t understand why but Ocellus didn’t arrive as his normal form, but as a flying giant creature , and from there everything went headlong into a catastrophic madness, until finished with a part of the school, falling debris, Fast had seen everything in the same position, losing happiness more and more, just seeing what happened and when all that was over, what a mess!, the students were not happy and the inspector was already complaining aggressively to Twilight about what happened and much more, Fast said goodbye to his friends from afar.

Heading to the entrance door to the school, remembering all those moments he had:
When he made his first friends, when classes became fun and when their quality fell, when he met his roommate, when he hangs out with their friends, when he got to know the school more deeply thanks to a book, when he helps other creatures and meet him, when the princess welcomed him to school, when he made the plan to link his friendships again, but he just separated it ... forever ...

Remembering those things, he only saw in the background all his friends were leaving, he cried like never before and the school closed with a big and magical seal on the door….

Only a few hours passed and everything looked lost, Twilight accepted Fast in her castle, but the face of both didn't change, they lost something very valuable, they knew it was more than a school, Twilight cried nonstop in her room, while Fast's face was stick to the table in the center of the place, suddenly, someone knocked on the door, Fast opened the door and was Sandbar, who accompanied him in sadness, returning to the table...

"what a bad day I just did!" Fast said to himself

"Huh?" Sandbar asked

"Sandbar," Fast said, "I was the one who convinced Gallus to skip classes and talk calmly, but only..."

"Don't worry Fast, I know it wasn't your intention to end in disaster."Sandbar said trying to calm Fast

"But tell me, what I can do, I can't even say sorry, I can't do something, it's over..." Fast said very sad

When Spike suddenly enters the scene, Spike was Twilight's dragon assistant, he was coming with a wooden box.

"Fast, Twilight told me to give you this box, maybe it might interest you." Spike said giving to Fast that box

There was a big cry of Twilight, and Spike left the room where he entered, Fast inspecting the box keeping his face sad, he discovers that there is something written underneath, a legend that told about a pony who lost everything and his artifact is in that box, which had unique powers, and only someone who was a true best friend could open it, Sandbar convinced him to make an attempt, Fast made a miserable one and managed to open it, by opening it several particles of magic came out being in groups giving forms of essence odor, both saw at the same time that it was that artifact, it was a necklace very similar to Silverstream’s, the only difference that was that it only had a pearl in the center on a yellow color.

"What is this?" Fast said and takes it by the gem or pearl

When he touched the gem, he began to become a hippogriff, the transformation felt in every part of his body, his ears changed, his hooves felt more comfortable, and lighter and he was given wings and beaks equal to a hippogriff, after the transformation, Fast and Sandbar were amazed.

"It seems the artifact can transform you into other creatures!" exclaims Sandbar

"I think I know how to get our friends back." Fast said with a little smile

Fast put the artifact on his neck, he looked for a map of every equestria and a compass.

there is hope…

Chapter 4: just one plan

After a good planning time, they started it, Fast have to escape with each of their friends and take them with Sandbar to take care of them while bringing others more, Fast can't do it without the artifact because as they remember the last Once those met, each leader of each race of creatures had end up hating the ponies, reasons that he didn't specifically known.

Fast began with Ocellus, as he remembered, was the brain of the group, and she could find a secret place where all can be together, Fast use the artifact and use it to become a changeling and the journey began.

After a while, Fast noticed that suddenly when he continued, the forest he was flying through, suddenly stopped later, that means that, that the changeling kingdom was near, Fast landed calmly, walked a few meters until arriving at a kind of fortress, it was where the changelings lived, he hid in a bush, and saw from afar that the changelings were calm and friendly, but Fast did not want to take risks, knowing that he was changeling, he take advantage to only become a butterfly, nobody could suspect a purple butterfly around, flew around the place looking for Ocellus, and found her in a corner, a little sad, Fast approached her and spoke calmly:

"You feel good?" asked Fast.

Ocellus turns her head towards Fast and is surprised and then questions"Does a butterfly talk to me? Won't you be a changeling?"

"More or less..." Fast said and transforms back to changeling "Now imagine i was a pony."

Ocellus thinks and acknowledges and hugs Fast "Fast tap! I'm glad to see you! But how ...?"

"Long story, "Fast answers quick her question and looks at his artifact "this necklace allows me to be any creature."

"Incredible! But what did you come for?" Ocellus said surprised.

"I know we miss our friends and I thought about the craziest, riskiest idea, but it is worth it to see them again and nothing separates us ever again, and we must admit, when we met, it hurt us so much that we have to separate, and I need your help." Fast explains.

Ocellus thought about it and transforms into a butterfly "Well, there is no time to lose!"

Fast transforms a butterfly too "that’s the spirit!"

Both flew away without anyone noticing them or that’s what they thought… after returning to ponyville, both returned to their original form, Sandbar was already waiting them in a tent near the forest, before Fast has to go to Yona, leave Ocellus in the tent.

"the plan is for the seven of us to live together in a secret place, but the problem is that there is no place like that we know, do you know where it could be?" Fast says

"I would have to do some research." Ocellus responds

"I know there are several books in the Twilight library! maybe some help you and by the way, in one minute I will back with cupcakes and some blankets!" Sandbar exclaims

"Thanks sandbar, Fast, be careful, if my calculations are correct, you only have until night to bring others here, security and protection will increase over time with all the hate they have accumulated from towards each other." Ocellus advices to Fast

"I swear and, Sandbar, I need you to wait at the train station, the next one is from far away." Fast says

From there, Fast turned into a griffin and went to Yakyakistan quickly.

Fast was getting closer and colder, when he was able to see the yak village, he landed and became a yak, he saw that there were walls protecting and surrounding the village and guards protecting the door, so he thought of a way to get there, and he came up with an idea, he circled the village, he transforms into a squirrel and dug under the wall, managing to pass it without anyone seeing it, he became a yak again, and look for Yona, as he looks at the village, the yaks were more serious and that they spoke in 3rd person, but the only one who was sad was Yona:

"Yak feeling good?" Fast said like a Yak

"Yona miss friends" Yona responds

-"Yak confess being one them, "-Fast see if there is no one to watch and transforms into a pony for some seconds- "this yak, Fast Tap.

"Yona glad see you again! Yona would like see other friends." Yona said while Fast was transforming back to yak

Fast looks around and sees that there is a snow mountain right next to the village side "I have an idea, do yaks like to destroy things?"

"Yaks love to destroy things!" Yona says exited

Both went for wooden logs, the plan was to use them to destroy them, also hitting the ground enough for the snow to fall into the village making easier the exit without being seen by anyone.

And they started with the plan, the stomps didn't move the ground a bit, when suddenly other yaks joined the destruction of logs, and almost everyone was breaking logs, Fast didn’t know why they did this.

"If yak destroys, Yaks destroy!" Yona explains

The stomps were enough to make the floor tremble enough, so that the snow falls from the mountain, when that happened Fast and Yona went quickly to the village door so that the snow would push the door with them and they achieve it, leaving to the other yaks without being able to move or see for a while, which was enough for them to escape and reach the civilization closest to it, the crystal empire, a place where Fast could without complications could return to being a pony and where there is a train station that leads to Ponyville, already at the Fast train station he told Yona:

"The train will take you to Ponyville, where Sandbar will be waiting to take you where we will all live, don't worry about me, I will go for the others… I'm sorry for all this problem that I caused." Fast said trying not be sad

"Yona thanks you for having a pony friend, pony friend doesn't give up to unite friendship." Yona says, motivating Fast

After that Fast transforms into a griffin, next stop: Griffinstone.

Fast was expecting a beautiful and well-protected faucet village, unfortunately that was not the case, griffinstone was a place where nobody even wanted to know the life of another, and they hated each other, Fast took a while to find Gallus, but he got it, Gallus recognized him at first sight, but Gallus didn't want to hear from him, because of the disaster that had happened.

"Are you ok Gallus?" Fast says a little scared

"Don’t talk to me!" Gallus yells

Fast sighs deep "look, I'm sorry, I didn't want all this ended with the school closed, we separated, or now I have to fix my mistake fo..."

"...don’t worry,"Gallus said, " I just wanted to hear that, I know better than anyone who just wanted to join us as before, in fact, I even remember how it was when we skipped classes: we headed to the lake and talked for a while, having a good time and note that we became 6 best friends, we had fun and played even we bet ocellus to be something awesome, I just wish to relive those moments when I was with my friends."

"Well, I'm gathering everyone in Ponyville to live together, fixing my mistake, if you want to go look for the tent near the forest." Fast says

"I'll do it" Gallus says and goes directly to Ponyville

"Well, 2 lefts and the sun goes down." Fast says to himself

Fast went as fast as possible to dragon land while on the road he became a dragon.

Chapter 5: 2 friends, few hours and lots of noise

Already in the dragon land Fast already saw the difficulty, to start, walk on 2 legs, that was quick to solve, and the second is that all the dragons watched that there is no intruder, Ocellus was right, now things got complicated, no It mattered if he was a dragon or not, they were going to suspect him, Fast had to sneak through without anyone seeing him by land or by air, he hides in a cave and sees Smolder, she was also located in another cave, Fast do a step quickly to that cave.

"Hey, what's going on out there that everyone is watching?" Fast asks

"I don't know, they just got that way after I came back here, Princess Ember sent me to stay here for an indefinite time, it seems that they are protecting me from those ponies." Smolder responds

"I think she don't take it well what happened." Fast says

"if you knew, suddenly a pony came as if he was from a sorcery novel, which suddenly began to discriminate the other 'no ponies',"-Smolder Growls-", nor I could say goodbye to my friends!"

Fast supposes that this pony had to be the inspector and confess, "I know well that it happened, well truthful ..., it's me, Fast Tap."

Smolder looks at him and starts to doubt "you look a bit like him."

"Come on, we both went to the school of friendship that was fun, then boring, we had in that school 5 friends, a griffin, a pony, a yak, a hippogriff and a changeling." Fast says

"ok, with that you convinced me Fast, and what brings you here?" Smolder asks

"I come to gather everyone to live together without problems like we were, but first we have to escape from here." Fast responds

"And how do you think we will do it?" Smolder says

"I only see a way out of here, the way I get here, we must be undetected, just follow me…" Fast tells and there go

Both were discreetly, letting no one know about it, using methods such as throwing a rock to the side to ward off nearby dragons, when they reached the edge of the land, when they suddenly turn around and see that all the dragons were behind, they were discovered trying to escape and Princess Ember was just in front, and they were fried, when an idea came to Smolder.

Smolder whispers to Fast "I know how we can get out of this."

Fast whispers to Smolder "You command."

Smolder says "At the count of 3, fire at them: 1…"

"wait what?" Fast with no idea asks

Smolder stills counting "2…"

"Ahh, I got it,"-Fast figures it out and in his mind says-"a giant fire."

"3!" Smolder yells

And they fired a fire in combination got to push the dragons and leave them unconscious for a while and took the opportunity to leave quickly.

"Wooo! we did it Fast!"-Smolder celebrates, but was just looking how the sun was hiding-"Fast?"

"The sun is going down and there is no time to go for Silverstream." Fast says worried

Smolder grabs Fast shoulder and says "go for her."

Fast says so quick "But I can't leave you like this, nor don’t you know where we will be…."

A burp interrupted Fast and from that burp a text came out of that Fast read aloud:

“Fast good news, I found the perfect and close hiding place, the castle of the 2 sisters is in the middle of the forest, the castle seems in ruins, but it is habitable, oh, and I also discovered how to send messages; It is already getting dark, Yona and Gallus arrived so far, I hope you come with the others”

Ocellus

After seeing this, Fast says "Go to the ruined castle that is located in the forest near Ponyville, tell them that I will not return until I bring Silverstream."

Fast became a hippogriff and both went to their destinations, Fast knew that it was more satisfying to go for a sheep that escaped than stay with the others, he flew nonstop towards the land of the hippogriffs, or as is known, Mount Aris.

After arriving at Mount Aris, Fast had to make a plan to escape with her, and he remembered everything he did previously, and took out the master plan.

He enters the city located at the top of the hill on ladybug form, flew around the place, visiting each window searching her, without success, when suddenly hears a conversation coming from a street, while following the voice, he listens a conversation and looks like is with Silverstream and his dad:

"Come on dad, a little more outside, I promise not leave." Says Silverstream

"Okay daughter, but I don't want to see you near the exit." Says her dad

"All right dad." responds happily Silverstream

When Fast arrived, he look for the moment she will be alone to approach her and talk.

"Hiya Silverstream." Fast says in a tiny voice

"Huh? a ladybug that has the voice of my friend Fast?" Silverstream ask herself

"not exactly..." Fast says and transforms into a pony

Silverstream yells in exitement "Fast Tap! I'm gla……!"

Fast cover her mouth quickly and says quietly "I know, but we don't have to make noise, I hear you want to go out, I've come to help you, but if we want to escape, we have to work together, do you know a place that takes us to the sea from here? it is the most convenient way out."

"I know where there are, but we have to pass the guards." Silverstreams says

"We will do it together-" Fast says

But both says at the same time "-as friends."

They both sneaked off to where Silverstream mentioned, mocking the guards, until they reached a door that led to a forest in which was guarded by hippogriff guards, Fast threw a rock that fell away from the entrance, which made the guards go to investigate there, which left the entrance enough time to enter.

From there, Silverstream looked for a river where it led to a fall towards the sea, they followed it and just when they found the exit they heard a voice coming from afar and it seemed that it was from Silverstream's familiar.

"Halt!" Yells that familiar

Both had to jump and fall into the water, but Silverstream was afraid.

"Scared too?" Fast asks with a little fear

"Yes, we can get hurt or worse, we could…." Silverstream says in fear

Fast with his hoove holds her claw "We both will."

Silverstream got forces to jump and both at the same time they did, when the familiar arrived, he saw that there was no trace of them, and returned to their position, thinking that it was only an imagination, while, in reality, both became seaponies thanks to Fast's artifact and were in the same waterfall, taking them safely to the sea, they reached the shore, and transformed into hippogriffs with their own necklaces.

Fast surprised about that says "wow! I didn't know your necklace could do that!"

"Oh, this I wanted to have shown you tomorrow, how did you get your necklace?" Silverstream says happy

"Well, I found it in a box, better leave before the guards arrive." Fast says before flew away with Silverstream

Already in half flight Fast told Silverstream that the others were waiting for them in a ruined castle near Ponyville, but there was something that left Silverstream in doubt.

"And why did you decide that we are all be together in a hiding place as if we were family?" Silverstream asks

Fast get sad "You really want to know?... Well... you guys are my only family ..., you see, I lived in an orphanage my entire life, I never met my parents, the ones who took care of me I considered her as my “mother” and my imaginary friend help me too, I couldn't socialize with the others in the orphanage, just I focused on studying and on the weekends playing videogames of 1 player, while the others played in the courtyard, because of my concentration in studying, nobody adopted me, I was a shadow, everyone loved the most cutest and friendly, when I was the Last to be in the orphanage and my "mother" didn't have the money to pay the rent anymore, she had no choice but my "mother" no matter how much it hurts, leaving me on the street, she couldn't adopt me, when suddenly Twilight knocked the door, she was looking for a pony who would be willing to study, at that moment, I approached her and introduced myself, I showed her my intellect and she was fascinated, and in the end, Twilight… “adopted” me, she asked me to go to Ponyville, where I would go to the friendship school, before that train travel my imaginary friend helped me to get my cutie mark, is one of the ways I can remember him, later, I said goodbye with tears in my face to both of them one by one, my “mother” on the morning and the friend in the night, I swear from that moment to be the friendliest of all and be a great friend, I knew I had to sacrifice my past, to live a better future… well, now you know it…"

Silverstream is surprised and sad about all that "wow, that was very sad, but it was worth it , because this is the best future of all."

Suddenly Silverstream hugs Fast in middle flight and continue ,when they arrived at the castle of the 2 sisters, they quietly walked without waking their friends, took a blanket and slept together.

Chapter 6: the ultimate test

It dawned and the others woke up early and couldn’t believe that they had arrived at night when they saw them sleeping, they had a great time in the morning, in the afternoon, Sandbar and Fast went to Ponyville for some apples, cupcakes and pillows, everything necessary for that day, when it was time to return, both watched first if nobody saw them, Sandbar was first to go because he was carrying all the things, when Fast was going to enter.

Twilight shouts from afar and came with her 7 friends "Fast! I need your help and it is urgent! I know that you are very close to your friends, especially the creatures, do you know where they are? I will re-open the school"

Fast was beginning to be afraid, and he wondered why not look for other students? He knew that he already had friends, and he never wanted to put them at risk again.

Twilight seeing the silence that Fast had, explained more fully "I need to know if you know where they are, if I can't find them, there could be war between creatures... I must apologize to you, to everyone, I let a book guide the school, when I should have done it myself…"

Fast speak with a little sadness "Do you promise that it will be so?"

Twilight says "I promise, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

Fast sigh and says "Are in the castle of the two sisters, that one in ruins."

Twilight hugs Fast "thank you, thank you very much."

"heh, before you leave, could I sometimes call you mom?" Fast ask shy

Twilight giggles "As I’ve seen, you don't need a mother Fast Tap, you can continue on your own path, a box give me to conclude what you managed to do, well, there is no time to lose, come on girls!"

And Twilight left, Fast stayed and began to cry of happiness, Twilight knew Fast's potential, not only was for study, but also for friendship, that open box told Twilight a lot, well, that and the testimony of several citizens who were other creatures.

After a while, Twilight, her friends and Fast's friends, go out the forest, the first thing Fast's friends did when they saw him was to give him a big group hug.

Sandbar says "Thanks Fast."

Ocellus adds "I don't know what we would do without you."

Yona continues "Yona and friends appreciated having you as friend."

Smolder ends "You saved us, dude."

Fast wonders "I don't understand, what happened?"

Gallus responds "Some animals almost attacked us, and the teachers arrived and saved us."

Silverstream adds "And they told us they wouldn't have arrived if you hadn't told them where we were."

Fast felt happy about everything that happened, yup, he was the true best friend after all.

Fast then said "Thanks, but I owe you guys my life, you have made me what I am, and Twilight also goes for you too, I am a cheerful, intelligent, social, friendly pony, prepared for everything, a great friend, but most importantly, someone who trusts others."

After saying those words, a voice was suddenly heard from somewhere "I knew you had it inside, Pony."

"Who said that?"-Fast looked at his artifact and the jewel began to shine-"Are you the jewel?"

"More than that, I am Heart Friend, the previous pony that carried the artifact, before the box where it was sealed with magic, I cast another spell that, when I died, my soul joins the artifact as much as I want, I waited thousands of years to see to the chosen one and witness with my eyes how you managed to recover all your friends, but most importantly, you have done more, if you hadn’t trusted your friends, you would have lost everything, just as it happened to me, the artifact is magical and unique and you… You deserve it, now I can leave in peace" Heart after says that comes out of the jewel like a white light and slowly goes to heaven

The 15 say goodbye to the soul while leaving, and what happened later? welp we know what follows next, re-open the school, twilight give Fast the honor to be who re-opens the school giving to his artifact a little more of magic, just to enough to break that seal, we were just Fast, his friends and the teachers.

Fast exited says "Its ti…!"

"Twilight! I was so relieved to get your letter!" Celestia shouts coming towards them

It looks like celestia and the leaders from the creatures showed up (was seaspray, the representative of queen novo, leader of the hippogriffs; grandpa gruff what I can consider the “leader” of the griffins; Prince Rutherford, leader of the Yaks; Ember, leader of the dragons; and Thorax, leader of the changelings), did they will recognize Fast Tap and the little thing he do?

Seaspray says "As was… Wait a minute I think I see you before…"

Yes looks like Fast is in trouble

Ember agrees "Hey, you were who escaped with Smolder!"

Rutherford adds "And Yona too!"

Thorax asks "Why you made that? you scared everyone."

"Well yeah, I do…"-Fast transforms into all creature he do before one by one and later goes back to pony-"but I do it with good reason, these young ones you sent to this school are the only thing I had to make me see a light, a light were I can be happy, getting rid of my loneliness once it for all, when I see you I got scared, because I know you will take that only thing, if I’m honest with all of you… these ones are the best true friends I could ever choose…"

Gruff on a reflexive way says "Wow, I guess that explains what just happened…"

"And well, there is one small thing to do now to finally get it back my life, open my house again…"-Fast's necklace shines and a laser shoots to the seal of the school destroying it-"School is back in session guys!"

Cheers are heard from Fast’s friends, and honestly, he was with a true smile on his face.

Twilight talks to Fast "I know, you will be something awesome in the future Fast."

Fast says "nah, mayb…"

Suddenly a portal opens right on front of the entrance of the school and from there, appears the inspector of that day of friends and family, Mr.Neighsay, he was pissed off by obvious reasons, it was about time the 2 seeds of the cause meet one each other.

Neighsay yells "Who dared remove my seal?"

Fast says to Neighsay "Me, and what? I know I’m not the one to tell this but as a student of this school, I can say the one who was responsible of what happened yesterday was by you and your rules who were very awful to this school, twilight believed following that rules will make this school something special, and she followed it to the letter even though what the friends/professors told her about it, and I was just doing my best to help my friends on everything, but the thing what caused all of them were just the rules we were."

Neighsay says to Fast "I made that rules to keep safe equestria from that monsters you consider friends!"

Fast contradicts him "They aren’t monsters, that creatures didn’t even had an idea what was friendship time ago, but just years before today, they known a bit of it and how powerful was to face the problems, and twilight wanted to show to them what is friendship, that is the reason for this school was made at the start, a school where everyone and anyone is welcome, where the friendship can be spread to every part of the world, and I know what you are thinking, so this is not YOUR school anymore Mr.Strange, is the school of friendship and has his own rules"

Twilight puts close to both the book rule of the school of friendship and its way to bigger than the previous one.

"What you playing Young one? If they know about the friendship they will use it against us to destroy equestria!" Negihsay stomps the floor and fells like a sonic boom.

Fast just says "And how exactly they will do it…?"

After a silence, Neighsay goes back to the portal and says "You don’t know what are doing and what you will cause…" And he enters and the portals closes

Fast just says "Yeah I doubt it!"

Twilight comes closer and says "Wow, you faced him on a way I couldn’t."

Fast just says to Twilight "I learned that by your school, and something tells me it will not be the last time I will see him."

Grandpa gruff ask to Twilight and Fast "Hmph. How is this school going to be any different from last time?"

Fast just answers "As how it had to be on first place… a place where we belong, care, trust and with happiness thanks to have one each other…"

Epilogue: there's more...

Well, this story is over, but there are more stories that I want to tell you, like the time Fast went on an expedition, or when it was a vacation and Fast spent it worried, but who I want to fool, I'm really that pony, who has lived all that

THE END

Prologue: the legend of the transforming artifact

Stories tell that thousands of years ago, before Celestia, the creatures lived in separate villages and towns, nobody wanted to know about the other civilizations.

Among all that hatred, there was a light of friendship, a little pony who had discovered a unique artifact, one who turned him into any creature, the pony used it for good and to explore the other villages and cities, he managed to make several friends of all kinds.

But something happened, of which leave him with no one, he never told them that he was a pony after all, every creature around the world discovered it by little more and little more, until everyone already knew his secret, and lost everyone because he had distrust in them.

Returning to his pony city, he didn't know what to do with the artifact until that he chose the best, he asked the king to take care of the artifact.

He asked that only a pony, who is a true best friend for everyone, only do things to keep his friendships always together and in peace would have it

The king accepted, put the artifact in a wooden box, and he seal it with a spell that would break if the one who tried to open it, was that same pony which has the characteristics that the pony had described.

Many ponies of all kinds of friendship tried to open it unsuccessfully, the box passed from generation to generation, from the king to the queen, from the queen to princess Celestia and princess Luna, and from them to the princess of friendship…