It's been over a decade since Princess Twilight Sparkle and all her friends have passed. Since then, alicorns have become more common over time. So common in fact, that there's a school for all the young princes and princesses called Royal Academy. Inside a specific dorm, however, was a young cyan alicorn with pink and yellow hair named...

"SPARK! WAKE UP! YOU'RE LATE FOR SCHOOL!"

"H-Huh? What?"

My best friend, Everest, was standing at the doorway looking very annoyed. Everest has a white coat with a very light blue mane and tail. I looked at her drowsily before looking at the time, which read 8:30 AM.

"Shoot! I'm late for school!" I yell as I jump out of bed and run into the bathroom.

I brush my teeth and take a quick shower, before drying my hair and styling it into the usual pigtails I wear. I then grab my pink and purple bracelets and put them on my legs. Putting on my tiara, I look over at Everest with a smirk on my face.

"10 minutes! That's a new record!" I say.

"Spark, you really have to stop waking up late!" Everest starts.

I groan. It's time for Everest's daily lecture on how waking up late affects my schedule. I tune her out as I think about what we're gonna be doing today. Was it proper posture or how to pour tea? It doesn't matter cuz I know I'll fail anyway.

"Now that we got that out of the way," Everest finishes. "Last one, there is a rotten egg!"

She starts to run off, leaving me in the dust. "Oh no you don't!" I giggle, chasing after her.

As I catch up with Everest, I bump into a certain someone. He has grey fur with dark blue hair and a streak of light blue in his mane and tail.

"My aplogi- oh it's you," Crescent says. "You really couldn't watch where you're going?!"

I roll my eyes. "Well, I'm sorry! But I was in the middle of a race which I'm going to lose now! So much for that winning streak..."

"Ugh, was it your daily racing between you and Everest?" he asks.

"As a matter of fact, it was! Now my 5-day winning streak is gone!" I grumble.

"Why do keep mentioning your winning streak?"

"Because! It's very important to me!"

Crescent groans. "Whatever! I'll see you in class."

And with that, Crescent walks off, leaving me annoyed. I run to my first class and see Everest waiting in her seat with a smug look on her face.

"What took you so long, Sparkles?" Everest says.

"I ran into you-know-who..." I grumble.

"Crescent?"

"Yep. Thanks to him, I lost my winning streak!"

"Aww, c'mon Spark! He's not that bad..."

"NOT THAT BAD?! HE'S THE ABSOLUTE WORST!" I shriek.

The room goes silent as I feel everypony's eyes look at me. Since I'm already used to it, I sigh and continue talking to Everest.

"Spark, you literally have every single class with him. Excluding this one." Everest says.

I groan as I slump in my seat. It's true. I have every single class with Crescent except 1st period. The bell rings as class begins.

"Good morning class!" Ms. B says.

"Good morning Ms. B!" our class choruses.

"Let's get on with today's lesson, shall we?"

The class starts writing notes in their notebook as Ms. B begins lecturing us or something like that. I, on the other hoof, snuck my diary into class, like I always do. Usually at this point in the morning, I would write about how I feel about class but on days like these when I see Crescent in the hallways, I obviously have to write about that encounter.

'Hey Diary! Writing in class again today! Guess who I saw in the hallways today. You guessed it. Crescent. You'll never believe what he did today. He ruined my 5-day winning streak! It's like he wanted to piss me off today! I hate him so much! He'll never leave me alone! I-'

"Spark."

"Huh? What?"

I look up and see Ms. B looking at me with a stern look on her face.

'Uh oh...'

"What is the first step on how to greet somepony properly?" she asks.

"Uhh. You greet them?" I answer, acting like that's a stupid question.

"Well yes. But how?"

I shrug my shoulders and go back to writing in my diary. Ms. B gives an exasperated sigh and snatches my dairy using her magic. I groan and look at Ms. B again.

"You'll get this back after class. Now, can somepony tell me the answer?"

I slump in my seat feeling even more annoyed as ever. Why can't the world just leave me alone?

At last, class finally ends and I walk up to Ms. B's desk to grab my diary.

"Ahh Spark. I assume you want your diary back?" Ms. B asks.

I nod my head, not being in the mood to talk. Ms. B hands me back my diary but not after telling me off about not focusing and stuff. I walk out of the classroom with Everest waiting for me.

"I hate everypony..." I mumble.

"Aww Sparkles! You don't mean that! Now let's go! It's time for our next class anyway." Everest says, trying to get my mind off of it.

"You mean 'time to be miserable for the rest of the day while Crescent teases me'?"

As if on cue, we hear a certain somepony's voice.

"Hey 'Sparkles'!"

I groan in annoyance while Everest tenses up, feeling all her efforts of cheering me up go to waste.

"Hi Crescent." I mumble.

"Did you get in trouble for bringing your diary again? Ha! Never gets old!" Crescent laughs.

"Knock it off Crescent. Cut her some slack, will ya?" Everest says, defending me.

"Let it go, Ev." I sigh.

"What's wrong Sparky Warky?" Crescent continues.

"Nothing. Just annoyed." I say, walking toward my next class.

"You do know we have to walk in the same direction? Right?" Crescent asks, following me.

I ignore him and continue to walk to my destination. Crescent continues to blab on and on about how bad I'm gonna do today and everyday while Everest is trying hard not to snap at him.

"I take back what I said about Crescent not being as bad as you think..." Everest whispers.

I snort. "Huh. Took ya long enough."

As we all approach our next class, I see balance beams and instantly know what we're doing today.

"Oh no..." I say.

"Oh yes." Crescent says, smirking at me. "The Perfect Posture Test."

"Oh you've got to be kidding me." I mutter. "A test?!"

Everest nods hesitantly. "Yeah. Test..."

I sigh as we enter the studio. There we see Mrs. Rose setting the students up. She smiles at Crescent and Everest but it falters a little when she looks at me.

"Hello students! I do hope you prepared for the test today." Mrs. Rose says.

"How do you prepare for the PPT anyway? Just find something to balance on and walk on it?" I ask.

"Well you-" Crescent starts.

"That was a rhetorical question, Crescent." I cut off.

"That's not how rhetorical questions work." Crescent corrects.

"Whatever." I say, rolling my eyes.

Mrs. Rose claps her hooves to get our attention. "Alright class. Get on your balance beams! We're about to begin."

I get on a balance beam with Everest to my right and unfortunately, Crescent to my left. 'Oh for Celestia's sake...'

"Alright class. You may begin." Mrs. Rose announces.

The class starts walking on their balance beams, trying to make it to the end without falling. For the first time, I actually feel like I'm going to pass. I'm almost at the end. I can taste it. Then all of a sudden, I hear an air horn followed by Mrs. Rose yelling 30 seconds left. I yelp and jump causing myself to shoot a beam of magic and lose balance.

"That can't be good..."

The beam of magic hits the fire sprinkler on the ceiling and triggers it, causing water to spew all over the room. Mrs. Rose manages to turn the fire sprinkler off and everyone in the room glares at me, except for Everest, who looks rather concerned and worried. Okay I'll admit. I've done some pretty embarrassing things in the past but this has got to be the worst out of all of them. I end up running out of the studio, still soaking wet, with Everest calling out after me. I run all the way to my dorm and flop down on my bed. I hear somepony else enter my dorm and I can only assume that it's Everest.

"Spark..." Everest starts.

"You know I usually don't care about the stares in the room or if I mess up on something. But this... This hits rock bottom for most embarrassing things I've ever done." I say, my voice muffled due to my face being in a pillow.

"Sparkles, it could've happened to anypony." Everest says, trying to be optimistic.

"But that one pony had to be me..." I sigh. "I mean, how could anypony forget the airhorn?!"

"Spark, come on. I'm supposed to take you to the office..."

"I'll just go myself. You can go back to class."

"But-"

"I said I'll be fine, Ev. You just go." I say.

"O-Okay..." she says hesitantly.

Everest leaves the room while I haul myself out of bed. I dry my mane and tail after combing it out a little and head to the office. More specifically, the dean's office.

"We meet again, Spark." Mr. Windsor says as I enter his office.

"Thought you would've warmed up to me by now." I mutter.

"Oh I have. I have a special seat reserved just for you." he says.

I look around and see a chair embroidered with my name on it. I sit on it and look down. Suddenly, the floor seems very interesting.

"Spark. This is the 7th time this month that you've had to come into my office." Mr. Windsor starts.

I sigh and roll my eyes. He's makes this speech every time I get in trouble.

"You know what? Save the speech. I've heard it a bunch of times already." I say, standing up and walking toward the door. "Oh and one thing. Try and be more original."

With that, I walk out of the office, leaving Mr. Windsor in shock. I go back to my dorm room, flop on my bed, and fall asleep, not caring about the rest of my classes.

I wake up in the middle of the night and fail miserably to go back to sleep.

'I'm tired of being a princess! Everypony thinks it's amazing to be royalty! In reality, everypony expects so much from you and you let them down. Sometimes I wish I could just explore without a care in the world. That's it! I could just run away! Why didn't I think of that before?'

I hop out of bed and quietly start packing a bindle, which ends up being way more than I thought it would. The last thing I decide to take with me is a picture of me and Everest. I'm gonna miss her. Who knows? Maybe we'll meet up someday. I quickly write a note and place it on my bed.

"Now to sneak past the guards..."

I quietly fly over all the guards, who are all doing an awful job. Most of them are either talking or asleep. I tiptoe over to the door and look around before quietly slipping out of the school. I exhale the breath I've been holding in and inhale that fresh air.

"Smells like freedom." I whisper to myself.

I fly outside the perimeter of the school to try and find a place to hide out.

Crescent's POV

I head into the kitchen to grab a glass of water when I see Spark in the hallway. I dive behind the kitchen counter and peek out from behind it. I see her looking around and exiting the school.

"Where is she going?" I whisper to nopony in particular.

I decide to quietly follow her and find out what she's doing. "This is gonna be fun..." I mumble unhappily.

And with that, I head out into the cool night sky to fly after Spark.

Author's Note

Finally! After 2 months! The first chapter of The Royal Runway, done! I put this off for too long. Anywayyy, what do you guys think? Did you enjoy it? What are somethings you're hoping to see? You can DM me or put it in the comments! Also, school been started like 2 months ago. TnT Probably why I put it off for a long time. Anyways, see y'all in the next chapter!

Signing off,
SpikeisCute