With Shadow knocked out, Sunset was dragged to the nurse's office by the school's resident sports star. Rainbow Dash took Sunset to the nurse's office to check on her new guardian. The rainbow-haired girl stopped at the door with Sunset, who was still confused about why she was doing this and stopped silently behind her. Sunset sighed as she stopped Rainbow from reaching the door, "Why did you try to stop them from expelling me?" Sunset asked as she stood behind the rainbow-haired sports star.

"I guess we should talk about that," Rainbow sighed, "look, the main reason I stepped in is because Twilight asked us to look after you, and we can't do that if you are no longer a student here." She pinched the bridge of her nose in irritation. "I get that you never knew how to make friends, but after all the things you did, I don't think it will be that easy to trust or be friends with you." Sunset looked down in shame, seeing Rainbow's point realistically. Rainbow saw the sad look on Sunset's face and immediately felt a little sorry for the girl. "Sunset, we can figure something out to start you off on the right track." She said, slapping Sunset on the back. Sunset winced, feeling the wounds on her back open up again.

Blood trickled down her back as it dripped from her signature leather jacket. Sunset hoped Rainbow wouldn't notice as she bit her lip to stop the scream of pain. Unfortunately, Rainbow felt her jacket sticking to her back and looked down to see the small pool of blood collecting on the floor. Rainbow's eyes widened, "Sunset, I need you to take your jacket off." Not waiting for a response or compliance, Rainbow yanked Sunset's jacket and shirt over her head, seeing the two wounds from their battle. Rainbow gasped, opening the door and leading the wounded girl inside the nurse's office. She sat Sunset down on an empty bed that was regularly used by the rainbow-haired girl whenever she got banged up during practice.

Rainbow helped get Sunset's shirt and jacket the rest of the way off as she looked down at the painful marks on her back. They were crescent-shaped on both sides of her spine, facing opposite sides, stopping at the bottom of her shoulder blades. The skin around the wounds peeled as blood wept from where they had reopened. Before she could ask where they came from, Rainbow heard someone moving from the sleeping area next to them. The curtain separating the two moved, revealing a boy, younger than the man, that Rainbow accidentally knocked out in Principal Celestia's office.

He looked down at Sunset and sighed, pulling up a chair next to the bed he recovered in. "Sunset," he sighed, sitting down on the chair. "I thought I told you to be careful with those things." He looked down at the offending area of Sunset's back.

"It wasn't my fault this time." She muttered indignantly.

"Wait, this has happened before?" Rainbow yelled in alarm. Shadow looked at the girl standing in annoyance, then looked down at the blood on her hand.

"Oh, I see what happened," He muttered. "my apologies. I didn't mean to jump to conclusions like a rainbow-haired girl who doesn't know the meaning of knocking before entering." He scowled at the offending girl as he stretched his fingers out over Sunset's wounds. "Sunset, please explain things while I heal your back again," Shadow asked as a soothing green light began to glow from his hands.

Sunset, beginning to feel her wounds heal, sighed as she explained the events leading up to how she got back hurt after the battle last Friday night and how she met Shadow. As Sunset neared the end of her tale, she hesitantly added their conversation about magic and the possibility of the others still having their magic.

"So you're telling me we still have the magic Twilight gave us, and you do as well, right?" Rainbow asked, trying to wrap her head around the idea of being able to do what they did at the Fall Formal again.

"That's your reaction to the fact that I have magic?" Sunset in surprise.

"Oh, don't get me wrong, I am freaking out about you still having magic." The athlete assured her. "But on the other hand, if you tried something like last Friday again, we would stop you." Rainbow looked at Sunset's back, seeing her injuries as the blood stopped and the skin began to close. "All throughout today, you haven't even been able to look anyone in the eye and just did as instructed. I would say you really don't want to do that again."

Rainbow looked at Shadow curiously as he finished up on Sunset's back. "Who and what are you anyways?" She asked as the green glow around Shadow's hands began to fade.

Shadow stood from his seat and stretched, letting multiple joints pop with each movement, as he turned to face the teen athlete. "My name is Moon Shadow," he said, crossing his arms. "as for what I am, I am annoyed at the rudeness of that last part of the question."

Rainbow put her hands up in defense as she took a step back. "Sorry, I was just wondering if you were in the same boat as Sunset."

Shadow sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. "Obviously, I'm not from the same dimension as Sunset, and I can use magic because it always had it, just not as much as it did a long time ago."

With Sunset's back healed up and Shadow recovered from the blow to the head, the trio left the nurse's office, heading out to the front of the school. Once they reached the piles of brick, Shadow disappeared into the darkness again, leaving a small silver whistle attached to a folded piece of paper. The whistle looked like a dog whistle as Sunset picked up both, seeing a note that read: "If you need me for anything else or if you feel in danger, blow this whistle. My Shadow Wolfs will be there in an instant. Take care, Shadow."

With Shadow gone, Rainbow felt it was safe to ask a question that had been bugging her since meeting him. "Hey, Sunset, when I saw him in Principle Celestia's office, I thought he looked older, but when we were in the nurse's office, he looked about your age. How is that possible?"

Sunset sighed in irritation. "I have been trying to figure that out myself," she said tiredly. "When we first met, he seemed capable of almost anything, but when we talked the next day when he took care of me, he had a look that made me think that he was much older than his looks let on." Sunset looked at the spot where Shadow disappeared, deep in thought. "When he said he would take care of me, I didn't realize Shadow meant he would adopt me like that."

Rainbow was taken aback. She knew there was more to Shadow's actions towards Sunset, but Rainbow didn't think it was like being adopted by him. "I may not be an egghead like you, but I noticed when he talked about the past? It sounded like he was there to see it, and from how you described his eyes, I think he might have seen it."

Sunset nodded, thinking the same thing when she saw his eyes the morning of their conversation. "I sometimes get the same feeling from him, especially when he starts grumbling about the foolishness of youth these days." She sighed, shaking her head. "After what I saw the night he saved me, I don't think he's from my direction, but not human either."

Rainbow nodded, not sure what Sunset saw that night, but guessed it was something that scared Gilda and Lightning straight. If Shadow had been the one who caused that, then there had to be more to him than he let on. The bell signaling lunch rang as the two started getting comfortable. "I don't know about you, but after everything that happened, I'm kind of hungry," Rainbow said as she walked to the school, paused, and looked back at her companion. "Do you mind if we had lunch out here with you?"

Sunset's eyes widened, "But didn't you just say that I couldn't be trusted yet?"

"I know what I said," Rainbow sighed, "but that was before I realized that you have paid the price and didn't say anything about what happened Friday between you, Gilda, and Lightning."

Sunset raised an eyebrow at Rainbow. "Which reminds me," she said, "how did you find out about that anyways?"

"It's been all over the school," Rainbow smiled, "Gilda and Lightning have been spreading the word that the 'She-Devil of Canterlot High' has a pack of vicious attack dogs." Rainbow laughed at the idea. "Shadow may be a little creepy, but he isn't a dog."

Sunset began to laugh as well. "Yeah, and what else is funny is people calling him that are only half right," she said, holding her sides in laughter. "Shadow is a wolf, not a dog, and if they made that mistake around him or his pack, they wouldn't be alive enough to call them that again."

Rainbow looked at Sunset in confusion. "Wait, you mean that whole alpha to a pack of monsters thing is real?" Rainbow asked, fear creeping into her voice. "I thought that was just a rumor that they started to cover up the fact that two of the most violent students in Canterlot High had their asses beaten."

"Well yeah, he doesn't actually look like that," Sunset said, realizing that Rainbow never saw what he looked like, not what Sunset saw when they first met him. "I suppose I have a few things that need to be explained," She sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose, "I will explain everything, but it's too long to go over multiple times. So grab the others with your lunch and meet me here if you please."

Rainbow wasn't sure what surprised her more: Sunset was being upfront with her, or she actually said "please" Rainbow did what she was asked, ran into the cafeteria, grabbed her lunch, and after thinking about it, grabbed a little extra for Sunset.

The school saviors gathered outside where their rainbow-haired friend told them to meet. Rainbow, for her part, separated from the group before they had met up. Rainbow had decided to give Sunset some lunch after her friends had assembled. Sunset had just finished her part of the work she had been assigned for the day. She decided to wait for the others next to the school statue. She put her hand up to the statue's base where the portal would be in thirty moons, hoping to feel at least a trace of the magic from home. Sunset sighed as she sat down and turned her back to face the statue.

She sighed, looking up at the clear sky overhead. With the way things are going, it is going to be a long two-and-a-half years. Sunset thought to herself. Sunset continued her thoughts until she saw a shadow move over her. She saw Rainbow Dash standing over her, holding out some lunch Rainbow had snagged from the cafeteria. Sunset smiled in thanks, taking the offered lunch. Somehow, Rainbow had remembered that she was a vegetarian, seeing a delicious salad fruit bowl and an apple on her tray.

After Sunset had taken the offered tray, Rainbow left to get the others. When Rainbow returned, she had the others in tow. "All right, girls. Sunset and I have been talking," she said as she sat down next to the mentioned girl, "and Sunset has decided to tell us everything about herself."

The girls all gathered around Sunset as she began to eat her lunch. With the girls gathered around. Sunset sighed, knowing her story was very long. "Look, I know that none of you trust me or want to hear your enemy's sob story, but if you knew the reasons behind what I did, you would understand me." She said, looking up at the sky again as she took a bite of her apple. "As you might have guessed, I'm not from this dimension."

Author's Note

And here it is, another chapter. It has come to my attention that I disabled the like and comment section on this book which was not intentional sorry. I'm still new to writing stories here and not using my Wattpad account. That's why the like and comment section is now open for business. Feel free to comment, like, and share with others.

Oh, and I get bored a lot, so I write a lot, and a lot of my thoughts don't like to stay put in my head, so I might post new chapters earlier than intended.

That's all I got to say for now, till next time.

This is Pride Morningstar signing off 😈