The school day had gotten off to a rather…there was no sugar coating it, many students agreed this was starting to become an insane day.

A fight almost broke out on the quad, some weird disturbance near the nurses office and now, a fire had been set in the library. However only a small few realized there was a connection to it all, and only two people realized who the direct culprit was.

One of these two people where currently running for his life after transforming himself into a Rabbit through use of a supernatural ability he seemingly just randomly awakened.

This school year was starting off weird.

“Keep running! Don’t stop till you figure out a plan!” Scamp mentally told himself as he jumped past and between several Students, many seemed surprised that a Rabbit was running loose on campus, none of them seemed to be able to see the floating form of Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing following him.

This was insane! One minute he was a normal person and the next, he was a random animal! Scamp was doing his best to stay focused but given the sheer absurdity of this whole situation it was proving difficult.

“GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE RAT!”

Oh right, the deranged crazy Woman who was chasing him, he had almost forgotten about that.

The Diamond Dog turned a rabbit briefly glanced back at the sight of Skulk giving chase, she didn’t seem to mind that she was getting odd looks from some of the few students around that were not distracted by the Library fire, the Mare was giving the Rabbit a look that basically conveyed exactly what she wanted to do if she got her hands on him.

“Shit! Shit! Shit! I gotta loose her!” Scamp thought in panic as he glanced back at Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing hoping the thing would do something to help him out of this situation.

And he seemed to be in luck, the Stand seemed to pick up on what Scamp was thinking as they passed a nearby trash receptacle Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing knocked it over and proceeded to kick it at Skulk.

“Fuck-“ Skulk managed to cry out before the metal bin hit her and knocked her to the ground, letting Scamp put more distance between them as the Mare angrily got back to her feet, only to see much to her dismay the Rabbit had managed to slip into a large crowd cutting off her line of sight of him.

“DAMMIT!” She cursed before taking off, not intending to let her target get away, she angrily shoved people aside in a desperate attempt to find him or any sign of his Stand.

However as she made her way through the crowd, many of whom getting annoyed and angry at the woman who rudely shoved past them, Skulk didn’t seem to notice a pair of eyes peaking out of the book bag of one student who was walking away from the scuffle.

“That was close little fella, I don’t know why that woman is chasing you, but I’ll keep you safe.” The owner of the bag said in a soft tone, she was a familiar pink maned Pegasus, she had a rather kind smile on her face as she glanced down at the surprised Rabbit that had been placed in her bag.

Scamp really wished he could verbally express his thanks, but part of him felt that might startle the Mare, he’d have to figure this out later and just hope nothing drew attention to his savior.

“FLUTTERSHY!”

“GOD DAMMIT!” Scamp mentally roared as the Pegasus girl came to a stop at her name being called.

“H-huh?” The shy Mare turned and to her surprise she saw Spike and Rarity rushing towards her “Spike…Rarity what’s wrong?” She asked while keeping her hands firmly on her bag.

“What’s wrong? Darling you know there was a fire started at the library right?” Rarity asked with a slight distressed tone which got Fluttershy to wince.

“Y-yeah I heard…” Fluttershy answered as she glanced at Spike and winced seeing the expression he had “A-are you ok?” She asked gently.

“No…I wanna find who started this stupid fire and kick their asses.” Spike growled while Scamp’s eyes widened at his words.

“I’m sure Twilight will be ok Spike.” Fluttershy gently said before placing a hand on his shoulder.

“I know I just…we had that stupid fight and if things had turned out just a little different then those could have been-“ Spike began only for Fluttershy to firmly squeeze his shoulder getting his attention.

“No.” Fluttershy frowned “We are not gonna dwell on what could have happened, she’s gonna be ok, this thing with that Stand arrow is causing allot of problems I admit…but you aren’t dealing with it alone.” She assured him “I might not be a Stand user but I can help out if you need me.”

“And you know I’m by your side Spikey-Wikey.” Rarity smiled patting the taller Dragon on the back.

As Spike expressed his gratitude at those words, Scamp meanwhile was processing the information he had overheard.

“Wait…he knows about Stands…and something about an arrow? The hell…is…is Dragon boy why I’m in this situation?!” The Diamond Dog turned Rabbit thought whole he felt his anger beginning to bubble.

“I think maybe you should go visit Twilight, I know it’s still the first day but I’m sure the staff would understand.” Fluttershy spoke her words momentarily stopping the anger building up within Scamp as he went back to eavesdropping from within the bag,

“Yeah…you’re right…but before I go I need you and the girls to look after something for me.” Spike sighed as he reached into his pocket “My Stand couldn’t hold onto it any longer so it kinda spit the Arrow back out.” He said as he retrieved the arrowhead from his pocket and held it up to the shock of the two girls.

“I-it spit it back out?” Rarity asked with a look of revulsion as she eyed the object “I am going to need you to clarify, surely you don’t mean-“

“He threw it back up.” Spike confirmed which got Rarity to instantly take three steps back “Oh don’t give me that, it’s just an arrow head.”

“That your Stand spit out of its gullet, I’ve seen what you’ve put inside that thing!” Rarity wrinkled her nose in disgust “At least put it in a plastic baggy or something.” She gagged while Spike rolled his eyes.

“Don’t get your panties in a bunch Rarity.” Spike rolled his eyes.

“Spit back out or not…wouldn’t the arrow be safer in your hands?” Fluttershy questioned gaining the duo’s attention.

Spike seemed to look unsure for a moment “I…don’t think I’m the best choice to keep looking after this thing.” Spike sighed “Let’s face it I’m pretty damn reckless, I picked a fight with our last enemy after jumping to conclusions, it should be held onto by someone with a level head and even temper.” He admitted before pulling out a rag from his pocket and wrapped the arrowhead up in it.

Fluttershy frowned at this “Spike, it be better if it was in the hands of someone who has one of those…Stands” she gently argued while Spike still had a look of doubt.

“I don’t know, what if something happens while I have it on me? I have a roommate, what if he stabs himself with it by accident and gets a Stand or worse?” Spike argued back.

“…Son of a bitch!” Scamp thought with an angered look from within the Mare’s bag, his anger returning as it fully dawned on him, the injury he had sustained on his hand from earlier was because of that arrow head “It’s his fault I’m like this!” He realized, not noticing a familiar glow surround him just as he moved to jump out of the bag.

“Eep!” Fluttershy yelped as the Rabbit she had been hiding in her bag made himself known, jumping out of the bag and launching himself at Spike who reacted in surprise.

“What the-“ Spike blinked in shock before the Rabbit transformed before their eyes, and in an instance a grey furred fist slammed into Spike’s face, said fist belonging to an angry yet familiar Diamond Dog.

“YOU JACKASS!” Scamp shouted gaining the attention of various students around “YOU GAVE THIS SHIT TO ME! THANKS TO THAT STUPID ARROW IN YOUR PANTS MY LIFE HAS GONE INSANE!” He blurted out without thinking.

“…Oh my~” A random mare in the crowed gasped, a few more students raised an eyebrow at the wording.

“I-WHAT?!” Spike asked in shock, a dark blush forming on his face as he processed what the Diamond Dog had just shouted “Dude what the fuck?!” He asked in shock, and Scamp answered him by smacking him.

“Don’t what the fuck me! You know what you did to me!” Scamp glared from behind his bangs, Fluttershy and Rarity stood by looking shocked at the current turn of events, along with the steadily growing crowd, which included one individual in particular.

“Found him…” Skulk growled as she could just barely make out the site of Scamp between the gaps in the crowd, she was dead set on making her way over before the sound of her phone ringing again stoped her “God dammit!” She hissed before pulling out her phone “Hello?” She growled in anger.

“Skulk, it’s me.” A male voice said on the other end while Skulk continued to watch the argument break out between the Diamond Dog and Dragon “I managed to get my hands on a potential recruit to replace Blue Blood, boss said he was gonna pay him a visit in jail so chances are, he’s as good as dead.” The voice explained making Skulk pause.

“Alright and?” She frowned, making sure to hold the phone close and slightly cover the side of her mouth to prevent anyone from listening in.

“And he may need some convincing, guy hates ponies with a passion from what I saw, I tried to ask Sunny for help, but she said to ask you in case you managed to make it back alive…speaking of, the hell is going on?” The voice asked on the other end.

“Long story short, I dealt with those records in the library boss wanted gone, caused abit more of a ruckus than anticipated, got found out by some chump who turned out to be a newbie Stand user.” Skulk muttered while slightly backing away.

“Shit, how bad?” The voice asked with a sigh “Do I need to come find you?” They added.

“No. I’ve got this handled, I’ll come back for the guy later right now he seems to be caught up with arguing with some Dragon kid.” Skulk frowned as she fully weighed her options “they’re catching to much attention so I can’t charge in, to many people could get caught in the crossfire.”

“…Did you say a dragon kid? By chance is he mostly purple and has green scales?” The voice asked in a serious tone, which got a surprised look from Skulk.

“Uuuh…yeah? How’d you know?” She asked with a frown while focusing her attention on the two again, but to her chagrin that was becoming exceedingly difficult since the crowd was becoming denser, some wanted to watch the argument while others seemed to be watching the site of rising smoke from the library in the distance.

“Get back to the hide out now, I’ll fill you in, even though your identity is compromised, we can still fix it with Sunny’s ability just get out of there.” The voice said before abruptly hanging up.

Skulk clicked her tongue in annoyance as she tried to look past the crowd, but it was no use, it was to dense and the only way to get past would be to start attacking civilians, to risky so against her own judgment, Skulk turned and began to walk away.

“You’re safe for now Dog, but I’ll come back for you later.” She hissed under her breath and spared one last look over her shoulder before she left.

-

“Dude! Will you calm down?!” Spike yelped as he narrowly avoided a swipe from the angry Diamond Dog.

“Calm down?! How the fuck can I calm down when you cursed me?!” Scamp growled, his Stand aura flaring up out of reflex, which was something that instantly caught Rarity and Spike’s attention.

“He has a Stand!” They both thought in unison, before Spike tried to approach him,

“Ok dude, you’re upset I get that, but please just calm down and let’s go somewhere more private so I can explain? I’m having a really shitty day and I don’t wanna have things escalate.” Spike told him while outstretching his hand, extending an olive branch to his roommate to avoid anymore craziness today.

Cause honestly, in Spike’s opinion today had been going on for WAY to long, if he didn’t know any better he could have sworn it felt like today had lasted months or-

“Fine.” Scamp cut his mental ramblings off “But I expect answers, otherwise….” Scamp leaned in close to Spike, he could feel his breath on his face “If you lie to me or give me an unsatisfactory answer…I am going to shove my fist…RIGHT UP YOUR ASS!” He snarled.

“…O-oh my…” One of the bystanders blushed at the comment, which seemed to finally clue the Diamond Dog in on the fact they were being watched.

“…The fuck ya’ll looking at?! This ain’t a free show fuck off!” Scamp snapped glaring at the gathered crowd “There was a fire at the library and you all are just staring at two people arguing?! The hell is wrong with this school?!” He growled.

This seemed to snap the gathered crowd out of their daze, many gaining a sheepish look and quickly moved to disperse, soon leaving the four to themselves as Scamp sighed in annoyance.

“…I made this situation worse, I just know it.” Scamp said turning to Spike with a frown “But that doesn’t mean I’m not holding you accountable for the weird shit I had to deal with, you’ve got answers for my situation…and I have information too, like who started the fire.” He narrowed his eyes.

“What? Tell me!” Spike instantly stepped forward with a determined look “I need to know who did this!” He glared before Rarity quickly grabbed his shoulder.

“One thing at a time, it might not be a good idea but right now, we should inform him of his situation then…you NEED to go see Twilight ok?”

Spike seemed to flinch at that, but Scamp was more focused on the Unicorn’s words.

“Twilight?” Scamp asked with a frown, not taking his eyes off the Dragon who seemed to be lost in his own thoughts at the moment.

“…My Sister… she got hauled off in an ambulance, I found out about the situation cause Rarity came and got me…” Spike balled his fists “Today…today so much bad stuff has been happening, it’s only the first day of College and…I have run into so many Stand users, most of them probably just want the damn fucking arrow….” He growled to himself as he shut his eyes “God dammit I’m so fucking stupid.” He glared at the ground “This whole fire is probably linked to it too…” he trailed off before Fluttershy spoke up.

“Spike, that is enough, you can’t keep putting yourself down like this.” Fluttershy said firmly, surprising the Dragon as she took a deep breath “You blaming yourself for this isn’t helping, now we need to get things done, we can feel sad when there isn’t a potential threat to our lives.” She firmly stated as Spike slowly nodded.

“R-right…so then I’ll explain what happened-“ Spike began only for Rarity to speak up.

“Not here.” She firmly said looking from Spike to Scamp “Like Spike said, it be better if we explained this all somewhere more private and away from prying eyes.” She reminded as she briefly glanced back at the few lingering remains of the crowed who hadn’t seem to take the hint yet.

“Fucking vultures…” Scamp muttered darkly before moving to speak to get them to leave only for Spike to gently grab his shoulder catching his attention.

“Let’s go, I have a lot to answer for.” The drake said in a rather somber tone, it seemed despite his friends words he still seemed to hold some self-loathing over the current situation.

“…Not as much as you think.” Scamp said offering the man who he had previously been made at a small smile to ease his tension, he calmly reached around and gently pulled the Dragon into a small side hug and began to lead him away with the two Mares following after.

“….I ship it.” One student muttered to themself while another gave them a flat look.

“You ship everything.” The scoffed at their friend who in turn gave them an icy glare.

-

“This is completely unacceptable.”

The words that came from the man’s mouth where all silently agreed with amongst the faculty, various adults from different backgrounds and while they where composed mostly of Ponies there where a few others in the mix as well.

“First a fight breaks out in the quad and then a random fungus based illness that almost kills some of our students only to clear up moments later…and now some…vandal! Has destroyed the schools library! And one of our brightest students has been possibly hospitalized!” The man spoke with a growl, he was a white Unicorn with a dark mane and beard, dressed in a rather professional looking red suit.

“What’s worse Vice chancellor Neighsay, is it is highly possible the first and last events are most likely racially motivated.” One of the other faculty members noted, she was an elder looking purple Pegasus woman with a pink mane that was slightly graying, her outfit consisted off a simple blouse and black skirt.

Neighsay grimaced at this as he took a moment to look out the faculty lounge window, he could still see the smoldering remains of the library much to his dismay, it would take months to rebuild the structure alone, but there would be no recovering the books that where in the blaze, many of them where either one of a kind or first additions, some knowledge was sadly lost forever.

“Do you really believe that is the case?” Neighsay asked as he turned to glance at the woman.

“I wish it was not true, but it is the only reason I can think for someone doing this, Many of Canterlots elite were heavily against Celestia opening C.U up to other species besides Ponies.” The woman sighed “But why they would choose to act now when it’s been a few years since the change is what stands out as odd…”

“Think it could have been one of your old…‘colleagues’ behind this Vice Chancellor?” A male Minotaur spoke up while silently eyeing the Unicorn with a level of wariness “Maybe a few weren’t to happy when they found out you’d be working here or…maybe…” he narrowed his eyes.

“I have said before, I have moved on from my past, I admit I was not the most open minded in my youth, but I put those thoughts and ideas behind me long ago.” Neighsay said as he turned back around, his brow creased as he let out a sigh “But you are correct in assuming my former…associates where anything but pleased when they found out I was supporting this school, it’s one of the main reason I cut ties with them.”

“If we are really talking about this shouldn’t the headmaster be involved?” A Zebra male spoke up “To many incidents have happened all at once today, we may need to shut the school down and send everyone home.”

“The Headmaster has not been returning any of my attempts to contact them.” Neighsay sighed as he stepped forward and his eyes swept across the room to give his fellow educators a once over “Our best bet is to get the royal guard involved to investigate these matters, but shutting down the school is not an option, that would only give the potential protesters of Canterlot’s Elite reason to justify their claims against the school, they would be quick to blame todays events on the non-pony students presence here.”

“Then…what do we do?” The Minotaur asked his expression softening from a stern glare to one of uncertainty “My son attends this very school I don’t think I can handle the idea of him being here if it risks his safety, the whole reason we left our homeland was to get away from that.”

“And get away from that you will, our best course of action is to monitor any and all Student activity between classes, if there is a threat here we will find it and present them to the guard to face the consequences of their actions.” The Pegasus woman said firmly stepping forward “These Students are all our responsibility the moment they set foot on campus.”

“And if one of them has gone bad and stepped out of line it is our sworn duty as educators to set them back on the right path and to answer for what they have done.” Neighsay added calmly.

The other members of the faculty murmured in agreement, many of them shared a look of concern, this day had been going on for to long and so much had happened.

“What do we tell the students?” A Stallion asked stepping forward getting Neighsay’s attention.

“Nothing, no not nothing, we need a cover story, if we tell them the truth the party responsible may react poorly, I will handle that so until then go, you have students to teach and protect.” He said calmly but the look in his eyes suggested that he was not as calm as he tried to portray himself as.

With nothing else to be said, the teachers and other members of faculty began to file out of the room, soon leaving Neighsay to himself.

Neighsay kept himself composed as he watched each of his colleagues leave the room, once the door had shut behind him he let out a deep sigh, his serious expression becoming more tired and strained as he calmly looked back out the window, feelings of guilt weighed heavily on his heart.

He took a moment to look around his office, the faculty had come to his office to speak of this since the faculty lounge was to much of a risk to hold a meeting, and he agreed.

Neighsay took a moment to trace his hand over the frame of the window, a brief flicker of a magic barrier could be seen from the contact to the window, he was a cautious man, always having his office guarded with any protection spell he could manage to place on it.

Neighsay was a man who had gained many enemies over the years since he took this job, Celestia had assured him he would remain protected while working here one may call him paranoid, but he just couldn’t take the Princess’s word alone on it.

Neighsay was taken out of his train of thought as he glanced down, watching students walk across the quad trying to go back to their daily lives while clearly ignoring the burnt remains of the campus library, Equestrians constantly dealt with bizarre events, magical creatures and predators that would wander in from Everfree or the occasional escaped prisoner from Tartarus, they where always felt with soon, but the effects on the populace was clear as day, gawk for a while at the spectacle but after a while…it be best if you just went about your own business.

“Equestria is far from perfect…no place in the world is perfect, but Celestia seems so damned set on making this place appear like paradise, any problems that arise she deals with or try’s to sweep under the rug to solve later…” Neighsay muttered as his eyes focused on a group of four walking by, and it brought a small smile to his face.

A pair of Ponies walking alongside a Dragon and Diamond Dog, such an oddity many would say, a younger Neighsay would have found such a friend group unnatural, but now he knew better, change was coming, slowly but surely.

“Whatever threat is currently lurking in the halls of my school…I WILL weed it out.” Neighsay said firmly as he balled his fist before he turned back around and walked over to the door of his office, and proceeded to calmly lock it before going over to the portrait depicting both Celestia and Luna.

Neighsay calmly lifted the painting off the wall revealing a wall safe behind it “Faust forgive me for the sins I may commit.” He told himself as he opened the safe and pulled out a singular object wrapped in cloth.

Neighsay began to calmly unwrap the object, a wooden shaft came into view with slightly tattered feathers at one end, with a quick tug the cloth fell to the ground, revealing a gold and silver arrowhead underneath.

ゴゴゴゴ

The arrow seemed to react to being free, the shaft slightly bending towards Neighsay himself who had a somber expression.

“This artifact…she gifted it to me, telling me to only use it in case the school was in danger…now seems like as good a time as any.” Neighsay said as he held out his arm and began to calmly raise up the arrow, expression darkening as the blade of the arrowhead gleamed as it caught the light.

“Everything I do…I do for my students benefit!” He declared before swinging the arrow down.

…To Be Continued

Author's Note

Ok I’m not gonna lie I hit a hard writers block and that’s why this took so long to post, I’m not gonna promise future updates will come any sooner but I’ll try not to make them take that long if I can help it, hope you all enjoyed this chapter.