*Phwwwwwhht*

Astra whistled to Shure, who was sitting against the school building. He turned to see his two friends coming up the road towards him, waving his hoof once.

Antithesis brohoofed Shure as he got closer, "What's up" he nodded, "Sorry we're late somepony forgot school was today".

"Hey listen I forgot, ok" he walked past them, "The bell hasn't rung yet so we're good."

"Whatever," Shure said, stretching before running to catch up with them.

As they approached a bell rang and with it the main doors opened allowing all the ponies waiting inside. Entering the lobby they saw four tables with stacks of papers and two ponies at each. Above each table there was a sign with a number 9-12 and the word 'Schedules'.

Antithesis stopped to look around causing Astra to bump into him, "Oof, what are you stopping for?"

He apologized as he moved towards the tables with a '9' above it. "Name?" the mare at the table asked,

"Uhh, A-Antithesis" he stammered.

"Hmmmmmmmm A, A, Antithesis, here you go" she said, passing him a paper.

"Thanks" he said, turning away from the schedule on the hoof.

After the three of them got their schedules they were ushered into the gymnasium. They compared schedules while they waited on whatever opening ceremony the school had had planned. "Mrs. Udon is my home room." Shure said, pointing to Astra.

"I have Mr. Topo," Astra answered, turning to Antithesis, "What about you? Thees?"

Antithesis read over his homeroom teacher about five times before speaking, "Hey wasn't Mr. Dew one of the flight instructors?"

"Yeah, his class is on the roof." Astra answered. "Why?"

"I, guess I'm getting my steps in every day." Antithesis said, throwing his head back.

"Don't tell me your homeroom is on the roof" Astra cracked up. Wiping a tear from his eye he handed Shure his schedule.

Shure reached for Antithesis' schedule as well, holding all three in the air with magic. "Hmm, we have Equish together, and some others we're split."

"Anything else?" Antithesis said, peaking over Shure's shoulder. "We have lunch together".

"Course we do," Astra mocked. "They wouldn't put us with seniors."

"Shut up smart ass" Antithesis replied, lightly punching his shoulder.

Shure was about to say something but was cut off by an echoing in the gym.

"Hello everypony!" a voice rang from somewhere inside the gym. Principle Clip walked out into the center room, "For those of you who remember me. Welcome!" he began reading from the clipboard he had in hoof. "And, for those of you who don't know me I am Princable Clip."

Some more students shuffled into the gym before he continued, "I hope you all had a good summer, but now the time for fun and game is over." he said with a straight face. "But before we get into all that nitty gritty I have some announcements, First some of you may have noticed that you have a strange homeroom placement. This is due to many students not having a good grasp on the school's.... layout."

Everypony that hadn't looked before was now checking their schedules for where they were placed. Shure chuckled and nudged Antithesis since he was one of those students.

The rest of the announcements were for upperclassmen so the freshmen were let out to report to their homerooms. Walking to the main stair Astra parted ways on the first floor and Shure on the second, leaving Antithesis to go to the roof by himself. Getting to the top he pushed through the double doors.

As the sun hit his eyes he raised a hoof to block the rays. Walking further out he saw a group of pegasi sitting in rows out at the runway. Figuring that was his class he approached them, as he got closer he saw Morning Dew at the head of the group of pegasi.

"Psss, Antithesis" he looked to his left where the voice came from. A Skyblue mare was motioning him to her.

"uhhh... Saaaaafiiii?" Antithesis guessed, since her appearance was a little different. Her mane had a silver streak and she was a little more filled out.

"Yeup," she smiled as Antithesis sat next to her. "How have you been?"

"I've been good," he responded. "You?"

"I'm alright," She answered "Kinda unlucky that we got stuck up here. Dontcha think?"

"Yeah it kinda sucks but I'm not complaining, I kinda like the feel of the wind." he answered "And to think Astra made fun of me."

"Oh uh, Astra how is he?" she looked down rubbing her one foreleg.

"He's alright, a pain in my ass sometimes though" Antithesis said, rolling his eyes, he began to smile as he spoke next, "Why you miss him."

She scoffed "No, I just... nevermind" she punched him in the arm, getting a laugh from Antithesis.

"I wonder what's so funny," Breezy said, standing over them with her hair falling.

"Nothing ma'am, just telling jokes." Antithesis sitting up.

She squinted her eyes and blew her mane out of the way, "Pay attention," she turned away but stopped and looked behind her saying "And don't call me ma'am".

She walked up next to Morning Dew shouting, "Alright listen up." she looked around. "We're gonna be your homeroom teachers for the year,so here's the ground rules."

Morning Dew began to speak as Breezy finished, "One, don't be late for your classes, I don't mind if you fly around but it's no excuse for tardiness."

Breezy started to hover as she spoke next, "Two, what we say goes, no ifs, ands, or buts. And three, this is for our non pegasus classmates, DO NOT MESS AROUND NEAR THE EDGE OF THE ROOF!"

"Is that understood?" Morning Dew asked.

The class responded with a "Yes"

"Is that Understood?!" Breesy said floating over to Antithesis.

"Yes, uhh Breezy" he answered with a nervous smile.

"I don't think she likes you," Saphi whispered as Breezy floated away.

"Maybe but, I think she just wants to make sure we know the rules." Antithesis replied putting his schedule in his bag.

"I guess" Saphi responded, getting cut off by the bell. "I guess that's our que."

Antithesis and her walked together two the second floor where she had class, Antithesis continued to classroom A19, Equish. Walking in he saw Shure and Astra in the back, he entered nodding his head upwards as they noticed him. Antithesis took the very corner seat sitting next to Shure and behind Astra.

A beige pony sat at the teacher's desk looking at the class of only 12 students. The next bell rang signaling the beginning of class, standing up the teacher picked up a stack of papers passing them throughout the classroom.

"Ahem" the Teacher cleared his throat and put on his glasses. "Hello there, I'm Mr. Write, I'll be your Equish teacher for this year. Now I'm not too bad of a teacher but let's not make this year any worse than it has to be. Alright" he lowered his glasses and looked around. "So today we're not gonna do much but, we will go over the syllabus for this class."

Antithesis didn't really listen to what was being read, he kinda just stared at the paper until he noticed Astra turn around on his chair.

"Hey this blows" Astra whispered.

"Yeah, can't wait for lunch." Antithesis said putting his chin on the desk.

"You said it." Astra agreed, "I didn't get to eat breakfast, to--day" Astra looked up to see a pony hovering over him.

"I don't mind if you work in pairs, but at least wait until I finish speaking." Mr. Write said arms folded. "Anyways, that's all make sure you have everything you need for class tomorrow.

As the bell rang everypony exited the classroom flooding the hallway. Looking down at his sheet Antithesis saw his next class, 'Culinary Basics'. "Back to the stairs I guess" he whispered to himself. "Hey where are you guys heading too?"

"I got flight 101," Astra replied.

"Magic Circuitry 1" Shure answered.

Antithesis sighed, "See ya later then,"

"See ya" they answered back.

Getting up the stairs to the second floor he looked down the hall for room B02. Entering he found a stallion sitting down at the front covered in spots of flower. Antithesis didn't say anything he just walked by taking a seat at one of the counters.

After a few the teacher sgot up to take roll. “Alright everypony lets see who’s here.” he grabbed a pen and began saying and crossing off names. “Antithesis,”

“Here” he answered.

“Good good, Trella”the teacher called. No answer was given “Ok not here.”

Just then somepony busted through the doors, “Sorry teach , I misread the room number.” Trella said walking in.

“It's fine just take a seat.” he answered. Placing the pen back down he walked to the center of the room. “Alright guys and gals, here's the deal you wont need a thing for this class alright. I know Mrs. Udon requires some things but I don’t.” he watched as Trella took a seat next to Antithesis.

He leaned his forelegs up on a cart “I’m gonna say it now, there will be no homework, no test, no finals. You’re here to learn to cook, not take a million notes.” he rested his head on his hooves. “Now if you want to you can write things down but I trust you’re all smart enough.”

There were cheerful whispers filling the classroom as they heard the news. “Thank Celestia, I hate taking notes” Trella said leaning over to Antithesis”.

Antithesis gave a laugh through his nose in response before the instructor continued, “One last thing if you look at your classes you’ll notice I am listed twice.” He began walking down the center of the class. “That’s cause my class is a lab which means we are in here for two periods in a row.”

He gave a stack of papers to the front row asking them to take one and pass it. “Alright I don’t really care what you do for the rest of class, just take that paper home and get it signed.” he sat in his desk chair shifting it to the center of the room. “Any questions?”

Some colt raised his hand asking “What's your name?”

The teacher gave a heavy sigh before looking at the pony, “You’re telling me you read your schedule, saw what time to be here, saw the room number, read the class name but missed my name at the very end?” he said passive aggressively.

The colt sunk back embarrassed as the teacher roasted him “Easy bake oh”.

“Anypony else? No. Good.” Easy Bake said before returning to his desk.

Trella looked around for anypony he knew, not finding any she turned to Antithesis, “Yo…” she said, as Antithesis began cracking his neck.

“What's up?” he said, straightening himself on the stool.

“Nothing just didn’t want to sit in silence.” she admitted, “So it's just you in this class?”

“Yeup, Astra is out on the roof and Shure is being a nerd.” he said with a smile. Trella’s ears perked at the mention of Shure, noticing it Antithesis rolled his eyes then said “He’s down in Magic Circuitry”

“Do you know what his next class is?” she asked, sliding Antithesis’ schedule over.

“No, I didn’t ask him.” he responded, laying his head on the counter.

“That's a shame” she pouted then passed his schedule back.

“Why don’t you walk home with us, ask him then.” Antithesis offered.

“Really!” she said louder than she expected. Everypony looked at her causing her to clear her throat and speak quieter “Are you sure.”

“It’s just a walk home, besides Shure is your coltfriend.” Antithesis answered.

Her face became red at the mention of coltfriend. “W-well I’ve never called him my colt friend.” she said with a nervous smile.

“That's odd he calls you his marefriend all the time.” Antithesis lied.

“Really” she said sitting up.

“Of course, 'My marefriend this my marefriend that' ” Antithesis picked up his head “All the time”.

In the midst of their conversation, Easy Bake went to the back and came out with a round tray in hoof “Just wondering has anypony ever cooked before. “

About ten ponies raised their hooves including Antithesis.

“Cooked successfully.” Easy Bake corrected watching as the number fell to three. He walked up to Antithesis who was two rows from the front “What can you cook?”

“Breakfast mostly, Pancakes, eggs, bread.” Antithesis answered looking up at the teacher.

“Ok, that's pretty good, I like that answer” Easy Bake said looking away “And you two” he pointed at the other two ponies with their hives up.

“Some veggies” both answered.

“Hmmmm, I don’t know… Alright, hear you go” he removed the cover from the tray to reveal a cake he cut out four pieces and gave the two students one and one to Antithesis. “Eat up”

“Thank you,” Antithesis said, accepting the plate and fork. He cut into the slice putting it into his mouth “That's really good” he said, pushing the cake to his cheek as he spoke.

“Can you guess what kind it is?” Easy bake said looking up.

Antithesis took another bite letting the flavor lace his tongue. He chewed thinking of what it could be until a small piece of something tart hit his tongue. “Raspberry” he called out.

“Alright! A sharp sense of taste you got.” Easy Bake said, he passed Antithesis another slice “First pony to get it right in four years.”

“Thanks,” Antithesis said, taking another bite. As he finished his first slice he noticed Trella who was adamantly staring at the other slice. He slid the slice of cake over to her with a smile.

She gave a happy squeal before digging in. Stuffing her face she thanked him.

“Shure’s gonna need a good job to keep you fed” Antithesis joked.

Eventually the bell rang signaling the end of the third period, Antithesis and Trella parted in the hall as she went to the third floor. Antithesis took out his schedule once again double checking the room number ‘204’.

Entering he saw Astra inside already, joining him he said “What's up”

“Nothing, just flew around for two periods, you?” Astra replied, turning to him.

“I ate some cake with Trella” Antithesis answered.

“You got cake” Astra crossed his arms, “Lucky”

“Sorta he only gave it to students that cooked before. “ Antithesis replied wiggling into the one piece desk and chair.

“Then how did Trella get it?” Astra questioned “She nearly burned the house down making toast”

“I shared it with her--- Wait! Toast?” Antithesis tilted his head.

“Yeah she is horrible” Astra said with a laugh

“Whatcha laughing at?” somepony asked

“My cousin is so bad at cooking she almost burned down the housAhh” he jumped at the sight of Saphi leaning over his shoulder.

“That excited to see us?” Fahrenheit said, popping out behind Saphi.

Regaining his composure Astra said “I didn’t know you were that close”

“Sorry” Saphi replied as her ears dropped.

Astra was silent until Antithesis nudged him aggressively. “Uh, it's fine, just let me know if you're getting that close again.” he blushed at the odd sentence he just said.

Saphi laughed then took a seat behind him. “Is this okay?” she said smiling.

“Yyeah” he replied nervously.

After almost 10 minutes the teacher was nowhere to be found, students decided maybe it was a free period so they decided to talk. Another 5 minutes went by until a pale pink mare walked in.

“Sorry class, I was in the restroom” she said, positioning herself oddly on the chair to accommodate her larger underside. “These things happen sometimes when you're pregnant.”

The class murmured to themselves in response. “Alright, let's take roll.” the mare said. She went through everypony’s name checking them off her list. “Okie dokie class, I’m your Equestrian history teacher Mrs. Turner. I did have a little activity planned but seeing as there‘s much less time, how about we go around the room and share what we did this summer.”

Going around the room ponies listed what they did during there summer breaks until it got to Antithesis to which he answered “I hung out with my friends most of the summer”

“Good, and you?” Mrs. Turner pointed to Astra.

“I was with him most of the time.” he answered.

“Oh you two are friends, ok, and you” she pointed to Saphi.

“I helped my dad at work.” Saphi answered

“Ok and yo--” Mrs Turner held her hoof over her mouth before teleporting out of the class

“Sooo does this mean free period?” Astra said getting off his seat and fluffing his wings.

“I guess” Antithesis answered “Though if it were me I’d go back to sleep”

“What I thought you were a morning pony” Astra said beginning to hover.

“Yeah but whenever I know I have something important the next day I always try to sleep early and end up awake for hours.” he said stretching his forelegs, “And it doesn’t help I have to get up hella early.”

“I get that” Saphi said “My dad make a lot of noise in his workshop so it's impossible to get any sleep in the morning”

“What does your dad do that's so loud?” Astra asked, turning to Saphi with a nervous smile.

“He’s a blacksmith though he prefers the term Metalworker.” Saphi answered, “I can take you there one of these days”

Both Antithesis and Fahrenheit looked at eachother with open mouths, at her words. “Yeah we could go check it out together” Astra replied “What do your think, thees”

Both Antithesis and Fahrenheit face hoofed at the answer. “I don’t know, maybe another time” they responded.

“It’s fine I don’t mind showing every pony” Saphi replied “Dad likes to show off anyways”

Their conversation was interrupted by Mrs. Turner entering the classroom “Sorry about that I wasn’t -- “ she was cut off by the sound of the bell.

Astra literally flew out of his seat at the sound saying “Lunch time!”

The four of them walked together down to the first floor, getting directions from the older students and made their way to the cafeteria behind the stairwell.

The caf was filled with murals and banners from previous classes and covered different colors from each floor. The tables were round fitting at most ten ponies Antithesis spotted an empty table towards the right of the entrance.

Most ponies moved out of the way for Antithesis as he walked through the lunch room. The others followed him to the empty table, as they sat an unwanted pony spoke.

“Hey this is my table go find another” Shnoby said putting a hoof on the table.

“What it's the first day? How could this be your table?” Saphi spoke up.

“It's mine because I said it was, now get up” Shnoby demanded.

Antithesis gave a small smile before standing up walking towards Shnoby. “Thees are you really gonna listen to him?” Astra said getting off his chair.

Antithesis held a hoof up towards Astra then turned to Shnoby face to face. “I heard Shure kicked your ass.” he smiled menacingly, showing off his sharpened teeth, “Imagine if you went up against me”.

Shnoby began to sweat, staring at the razor sharp canines. “Actually, I think my table is over there” he said shakily before backing away slowly.

“And don’t come back,” Astra said, floating above his friend. Leaning down he asked “Hey what did you do? Like I know your big but I didn’t know you were that scary.” he landed back onto his seat.

Antithesis also went back to where he was sitting “Haven’t you seen them yet?” he asked.

“Seen what?” Shure asked, approaching the table.

“My teeth,” Antithesis answered, giving a wide smile. A gasp came from Saphi at the sight of his jaws, while Astra got closer to see.

“What did you do to get them like that?” Fahrenheit asked, tilting her head.

Smile fading he replied, “Don’t know they kinda just grew like this”. He watched as a lunch mare called their table from by the door “Lets go” he said standing again.

Going into line there was a white board with what was being served today.

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Today’s menu:

Rhubarb pie & Green beans

with a choice of fruit and either milk or water.

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Antithesis was the second one to get in line, behind Astra who was always in the mood to eat. As the line moved along he could hear one of the older lunch mares repeating “Green beans, let me know” as students moved up the line.

Finally getting to the front he was served a slice of the Rhubarb and a side of green beans, grabbing a cup of pineapples and a water on the way out.

The table watched as Antithesis began to eat, everypony fixed on his teeth. Well everyone except Astra who started eating before he sat down. “What?" Antithesis said noticing them.

“It’s just so weird I’ve never seen a pony with teeth like that” Saphi said, missing her mouth with her fork.

“I’ll be sure to chew with my mouth shut then” he sipped at his water “It’s not all that strange, you all got something that makes you special”

“Well not all of us” Saphi interrupted, showing her flank “I haven;t gotten my mark yet either”

“Put your butt down we’re trying to eat” Fahrenheit joked.

Eventually lunch time came to an end and with it the last two periods of the day. For Antithesis he went to math with Shure, Saphi went to her Gym class with Fahrenheit.

Astra went to his second lab class for the day, high speed. Flying through the halls and up to the roof through the stairs. He made it with more than enough time for his class. He took a seat along some of the other pegasi awiting for their instructor.

After a few minutes Morning Dew showed up with a box in hoof. He placed it down in front of them and said, “First attendance, as I call your name reply then come up and take a pair of goggles. First up Astra”.

“Here” he called out then proceeded to get a pair from the box. After everypony’s name was called.

“Alright, class those goggles are for those of you who can't take a little wind to the eye. Now we’re not gonna do much today though I’d recommend you go and learn the cours--” he was cut off by C Breezy.

“Dew! Dew!” she shouted flying up to him.

“What” he answered.

“A student, you're not gonna believe this. A student formed a trail!” she said pulling him away from his class. Everypony followed her as she led Morning Dew to the student.

Astra flew above the group of ponies to see the student, “Where are they at?” somepony asked.

“She’s over there finishing the course” Breezy said pointing. A Starry blue pattern could be seen behind a figure moving too fast for most students to comprehend. Bursting through a group of clouds Trella emerged with star dust in tow.

“What!” Astra called out, flying towards his cousin “You’re kidding me!”

“Astra!” she called flying towards him, “Look isn’t it cool?” she spun creating a fading ribbon behind her.

“I guess,” he said with a hint of jealousy in his voice. “I still can’t believe you formed a trail. What are you gonna join the wonderbolts or something now.”

“She can if she practices hard enough” Morning Dew said flying up behind them, “Besides her only the current Captain of the Wonderbolts and two fillies out of Cloudsdale have formed trails, younger than her”.

The rest of the class was spent either running the beginners course or gawking over Trella. When the time came for the first day to end Trella grabbed Astra dragging him to the front of the school, to escape the crowd of ponies.

“Hold on T, you’re gonna pull my hoof off.” He said trying to keep up with her. She stopped dead in her tracks causing Astra to slam into her back.

“Ow.” she cried “Watch where you’re flying “ she said walking off towards Shure who was waiting in the main lobby. She flew at him picking him up and hugging him “Shure guess what”

“What?” he responded, looking at the six foot distance between him and the ground.

“I formed a trail” she shouted , placing him on the ground where he could hug back.

"Awsome" he said pulling away, “But uhh. What’s a trail?”

“It's something Pegasi get once they reach a certain point in their use of Welkin” Antithesis answered entering the lobby.

“Yeah yeah, let's get going.“ he complained.

On their way back they all agreed to go to Maple’s house but first a stop at Savory Square for Trella. Reaching Maples house Trella flew directly into the opened window surprising her mom.

“Trella I just cleaned up in here” Maple said before Trella hugged her. “Oh what brought this on?”

“I did it mom I formed a trail at school” Trella bragged.

“That's great. Acrux come here!” Maple called out to her husband. “Trella said she formed a trail.”

A series of baninging and crashes could be heard from upstairs before Acrux raced down the stairs. Out of breath but full of curiosity he asked “Did you say trail?!” He went to his daughter and examined her wings. “Show me”

Just as the other got into the door Trella rushed passed them. Acrux followed suit, speeding passed them into the front yard.

Astra walked into the living room taking a seat and looking out the window at Trella and her dad. “Hey Thees”.

“Whats up?” he answered, taking his bag off.

“Do you want to start exercising again?” Astra asked, turning to his friend.

Antithesis smirked “Start, who said I stopped”.

Author's Note

Antithesis, and his friends are now in highschool, a rare thing for most non unicorns. Creston high is a place where ponies learned to build on their talents.

I'm open to any suggestions for classes or events that you may want to see at the school.

And here is what I imagine Trella's flight trail to look like.

Thx again for reading