Spike and his friends returned to Madam Malkin’s shop to pick up their robes. Madam Malkin showed them their clothes “You should try them on before you go.” She then nodded to Spike “I have put every protective enchantment I can think of on yours. I’d rather not have them break.”

Spike nodded “I agree.”

Vinyl frowned as she put on hers “It feels so restrictive. Why do they wear these anyway?”

Octavia frowned “Well from what I can gather humans don’t have tails or fur so their private parts would hang out for everyone to see.”

Twilight frowned “More importantly when it gets cold, your body would be exposed to the cold with no protection. That would explain why they started wearing clothes, to keep warm in colder climates. Although couldn’t they just do something about the climate to make it warmer?”

Spike shook his head “Unlike in our world, weather here happens by itself. Humans in the past had to survive in a world where the weather is just as much the enemy as other animals were.”

McGonagall frowned “Well we should be getting back, thank you Madam Malkin for your help.”

Madam Malkin smiled “Thank you for coming early, it makes things easier on me.” With that they left, returning back to Equestria.

At the portal, Spike bowed “Thank you Professor for helping us.”

McGonagall nodded “It was my duty as deputy headmistress, I will see you when you arrive at Hogwarts.”

Twilight smiled, eyes glowing with excitement “I can’t wait for our first day!” Spike and the others followed her through the portal. Once they made their way into the castle.

Spike frowned as they entered “I need to speak with the Princess, can you give me some time.”

Sally nodded “I have some diagnostics to run. Something was slowing down my system for no reason before we left and I didn’t have time to do anything.”

Twilight smiled, “I have some experiments to run once I put my stuff back in our room.”

Spike nodded “We should drop off our school equipment first.”

As they headed for their shared room, Vinyl frowned “We need to get some more food for Octavia. Once we have done that we can return to the castle.”

After dropping off everything, Spike went looking for Celestia. Spike found Celestia enjoying a cup of tea at the meeting table alone, Celestia smiled “Hello Spike, it’s good to see you. Do you need something?”

Spike frowned “Do you know anything about a being that goes by the name of Discord?”

Celestia lowered her cup to the table “Where did you hear that name?”

Spike frowned “I first found it in a book but then the wand-maker on the other side of the portal mentioned a man by that name wearing mismatched clothing providing a wand for one of us to one of his ancestors eight hundred years ago.”

Celestia frowned “That is highly concerning, he was sealed away by that time. I’ll keep a closer eye on his seal so he doesn’t cause any problems. In the meantime you should prepare for going to Hogwarts.”

Spike nodded “I will get some rest, while we have some time off.”

A few days later, Spike,Twilight, Octavia, Vinyl and Sally were met by Cornelius Fudge. Fudge frowned, providing them with enchanted cloaks “These will make you appear human while you are in the muggle world. Those who don’t have magic don’t know of the magical world and we intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.”

Sally nodded “We understand, that conclusion is logical.” The five of them put on their cloaks.

Fudge frowned “We will have to travel the muggle way. Carrying luggage through the floo is a bad idea unless the floo is specially made for that.”

Twilight frowned “Then how are we supposed to get to the station?”

Fudge crossed his arms as a large station wagon pulled up in front of them “Took them long enough to arrive.”

Octavia frowned “What is that? I haven’t seen anything like that back home.”

Spike grinned “It’s a car, a motorised carriage that is powered by engine and doesn’t require it to be pulled by ponies. They are able to move much faster and go on for far longer than a carriage.”

Octavia growled “Enough discussion, we will be late if we don’t get going!” After getting their luggage in the car they hopped inside.

Vinyl looked at the huge buildings towering in the distance “They are bigger than anything back home!”

Fudge frowned “Muggle are quite capable, I feel we have neglected a lot when looking at structures such as that. Hmm.” Once they arrived at the King Cross Station, they looked around confused. There was no sign of the platform.

Twilight asked as Spike loaded their carts “Where’s the platform?”

Fudge pointed to the centre pillar between platform nine and ten “Platform nine and three quarters is between those two. You can see the Weasleys there now, they should be able to help you.”

Spike nodded “Well let’s go.”

The five of them approached a plump woman talking to four boys, all with fiery red hair. Octavia asked “Could you show us how to get onto the platform?”

The plump woman raised an eyebrow “Why are you three wearing cloaks?”

Vinyl frowned “We have some secrets that it is best that the muggles as you call them don’t know about?”

The plump woman smiled pointing “Don’t worry, just walk towards the barrier between platforms nine and ten. If you are feeling nervous, you might want to do a bit of run.” Spike ran into the barrier, Twilight followed by Octavia and Vinyl then Sally bringing up the rear.

A scarlet steam train was in front of them, a wrought iron archway with the words platform Nine and Three Quarters was behind them. All five of them took off their cloaks only to scrunch their faces at the smell of smoke. Everyone was staring at them. Vinyl waved her hooves “What, you haven’t seen a unicorn before! Stop fucking staring at us!”

Octavia smacked her “Vinyl, that was very rude!”

Spike frowned at them “You can give her a pounding on the train, now let’s get on.”

Spike increased to twice his current height to carry their luggage inside. Hedwig and Owliscious were sleeping in their cages as they made their way through the train and found an empty cabin. Sally frowned, “Everyone was staring at us.”

Twilight blinked “I thought that might be a normal thing around here.”

Spike finished putting the luggage where it needed to be before shrinking down to his regular size. He shook his head “That is not the case or else they would have been staring like that at each other.”

Sally was about to speak when two of the red haired boys burst in, then ten plasma cannons extended out of her body “Explain why you two are here!”

They shouted in unison “That’s awesome!”

Octavia groaned “Sally, put the weapons away. They aren’t a threat.” Her eyes then narrowed “I would like an introduction before we talk.”

One of the two pointed at the other one “He’s Fred, I’m George.”

“Fred” turned to George “I thought I was George.”

Spike sighed “You two are trouble, I can tell.”

Fred nodded “Oh I forgot.” He then turned to them “Don’t worry about the people at the station, seeing Hogwarts first Dragon and Unicorn students gave them a real wobbly.” Twilight levitated a book out from her luggage and began reading much to the shock of the two boys.

Vinyl frowned, closing the door “It’s like they have never seen a unicorn before.”

Spike frowned “Equine species here are not capable of speaking any language and I think magical beings are the same given their reaction to me when I first arrived.”

They felt the train starting to move only to have their door opened again, a pale boy with blond hair was standing there with a disapproving look on his face. Two thickset extremely mean looking boys flanked him. The pale boy sneered, “Since when did we allow animals to attend school.”

Spike smirked standing up “When those ‘animals’ were powerful enough to wipe the Wizarding World off the face of the planet. So tell me, what is the point of this little meeting?”

The pale boy glared at Spike “To show you that I, Draco Malfoy, am superior to you lesser creatures.” He then turned to the two boys beside him “Crabbe, Goyle. You know what to do.”

Crabbe and Goyle clenched their fists as they approached, Spike sighed as Crabbe swung his fist. Crabbe’s fist slammed into his forehead, Crabbe howled in pain. Sally raised an eyebrow “Do they not know that dragon scales are much stronger than steel?”

Spike roared at them and the three bullies scurried from their cabin. A moment later they heard footsteps followed by a girl in her Hogwarts robes entering their cabin. She nodded to them “I’m Hermione Granger, I haven’t read anything that said they allowed magical creatures in as students?”

Twilight rubbed her head “I don’t know the exact details but from what I read it is a political thing. I haven’t been able to get my hooves on those books yet.”

Hermione smiled “You like books?”

Twilight grinned “I love books, I have brought some from home in my luggage. How about we swap some books.”

Hermione's smile widened, Spike, Vinyl and Octavia pulled Sally out of the room. Sally frowned “Why did we leave them?”

Octavia frowned “Twilight loves books, she is a little book crazy and pulling her away from them takes a combined effort of all three of us. There is Twilight and someone who seems exactly like her. We are going to let them book each other to exhaustion.” A few hours later they saw the school in the distance as the sun vanished from the sky.

Author's Note

This chapter is a bit rushed but I wanted to get to some of the more interesting bits.