Dawn's new day.

It had been tough to pick just one spot for the first class but I eventually settled on the center front of the tiered lecture hall. I wasn't going to deny my excitement. Only one other colt named Wild Spark from the dorms had the same schedule I did, he chose the back. As the rest of the class was filled with dorm fillies or foals that lived in the city I noticed disappointedly, No starlight yet, too bad we can't visit each others dorms.

Looking around, It was easy to tell who was local once the chatting began. Most of the out of town foals were quiet yet a few groups who were already acquainted chatted away without a care, at least until the teacher stepped in.

"Good morning my little students," Celestia herself had just walked in with Twilight following behind her looking frazzled. This alone caused all conversation to stop as eyes went wide and focus shifted to the Solar Princess. Twilight used the distraction and quickly took a spot just behind me as Celestia took hers front and center.

She smiled brightly like the sun and faced the class from the podium, "I hope you all are ready for an exciting couple of years here at my school. Now before I begin teaching..."

Hooves had gone up before she could even finish and one brave filly spoke out, "Princess, YOUR'E going to be teaching us?" The rest of the class chattered excitedly.

Her smile turned mischievous for a split second then she said, "Yes, My little filly, I often teach a few classes personally each year, when I can. In the future do please wait to be called on Ms. Heartstrings." Lyra shrunk in her seat a bit, sitting in her unique fashion. Maybe I should join her human club. I quietly laughed to myself.

"As I was saying. Before I begin teaching, you will all be having a short test for this first day," Groaning ensued which caused the Princess to politely giggle. "Now, Now it is not anything that bad. It will just be a magical scan to check your ley-lines and magic or in technical terms thalamic capacity."

As If on que a Unicorn guard rolled a machine into the room next to her, "All each of you have to do is channel as much of your magic into the machine you comfortably can. We do this three times each school year to check for improvement and overall magical health. Some of you may have done this before at the doctors but its not common practice until you are older." Wonder if she's doing this for other reasons.

Many of the students perked up at the mention of it being easy, "now then lets get started." I watched as the first foal was called up though she became extremely shy next to the princess. "Alright, go ahead and channel as much magic as you can into the machine." The filly nodded and slowly lit her horn, pushing magic until she could no longer keep going.

"Very good," The princess smiled. "you can go sit down now." The filly pranced back to her seat, beaming as the next was called up.

When My turn came around I casually made my way up and sat right next to the princess. "Ok, whenever you are ready." I nodded then closed my eyes, quickly and easily flowing my light blue magic through my horn. As I began pushing magic into the machine through the air I noticed, This is kind of difficult, it's resisting, and began to push harder.

"Dawn," I thought I heard a voice but didn't stop. It had become easier to push out magic once I used my hooves along with my horn, creating a secondary magic channel through the floor into the machine's base.

"Dawn." I definitely heard someone next to me say my name as I felt a static charge around my flank and cutie mark.

"Dawn!" A hoof touched my side causing me to jump and open my eyes as a spark passed between us. The machine slowly stopped glowing light blue once my concentration was broken. "That's enough magic, are you ok?" I blinked a few times confused, apparently not the only one as all eyes were on Celestia and I.

I rubbed the back of my neck with a forehoof and said just loud enough for her, "Sorry Sunny, I'm fine, did I mess up?"

She looked at me with a mixture of surprise and confusion for a moment but apparently just glad I was ok, "no, not at all. You can take your seat Dawn." The rest of the class watched closely as I sat down. Wonder If I messed up somehow.

As the rest of the class took their turn, only Twilight had a similar incident to mine where she had to be told to stop and pulled back causing similar sparks. Celestia was less concerned this time and kept her mask better.

Once everyone had finally had a turn at the machine, "Well class you all did wonderfully, you will get the results tomorrow and we will finally be starting lessons after that. I have to get back to the castle now so have fun with your studies." Excited chatter resumed, as soon as she left, till the end of class.

Just before we all left, Twilight and I shared a look, hers of clinical curiosity and mine friendly.

I watched as another of my classmates, a cream coated unicorn filly this time, gave up running as we finished the third lap around the track. At least she wasn't the first.

"Oh come on Moon Dancer you could have kept going," Gale the Pegasus PE teacher, and only non unicorn staff member, commented from her place at the track's lap marker. "I hope the rest of you have a few more in ya," She ruffled her wings.

I was currently keeping a steady pace with the rest of the foals, some of which I hadn't shared a class with first period, and just starting my fourth lap. I guess we don't all share the exact same schedules to mix us up.

"Just a few more laps Everypony then onto the other tests," There was a collective groan from the non athletic of the bunch. I Have never been more happy with mom for bringing me and my friends 'Ground Training' with her. Starlight will probably thank her later too. I thought while pacing myself and finishing the fourth lap easily.

Once I had finished my sixth the teacher allowed me to stop though encouraged a few of the stragglers to finish the lap they were on while making notes of how we each performed.

After the laps we were all told to stretch again then perform various exercises after being taught how to properly perform them. During the pushups, a bit unique using all legs, Lyra was reprimanded for doing them 'Human style' while a few others snickered behind her.

At the end of class we were all led to a large open style rain shower room, Just remember it's normal for an always naked pony, to wash off the sweat and dust and then head out to our other classes.

By the time lunch finally rolled around after Math class I was starving. Originally I was going to look for my friends but could only focus on the smells coming from the lunch line. FOOD.

Once I finally got my vegetable lasagna and sat down, I ignored my fork and just grabbed it directly with my magic to eat it like a sandwich. "Someone's hungry," I looked towards the familiar voice with bulging squirrel cheeks and a smile.

"Starlight," I replied after swallowing my food then gave her a friendly nuzzle, "I was worried I wouldn't be able to see you so soon."

"Same here," She sat down with me as another filly sat on her other side, "This is Trixie by the way. I kind of tackled her by mistake when thinking she was you during my first class. You know, because of the coat color and we somehow became friends." She finished with an apologetic smile towards Trixie. More butterflies, but good ones.

"Trixie has already forgiven you for the mistake Glimmer, and Trixie thanks you for inviting her to your lunch group with you and your colt friend." She said in third person, "Would you like to see Trixie perform a magic trick?" She asked towards me.

"Why do you have to keep talking like that, also He's not my..." Starlight's sentence, but not her eye roll, was cut off by Trixie pulling cards out a pack and holding them towards me with her hooves.

"Pick a card, a card, any card." She made of show of it so I shrugged and picked out a card with my magic then put it back at random after looking at it.

"Watch as the Great and powerful Trixie finds your card," a few other foals were watching as she threw them all up then separated just one with her magic as the rest floated majestically back into the pack.

"Is this your card?" It was and I was honestly impressed, but another older filly answered.

"Lame, All you did was keep the card in your magic while letting the rest fall. Anyone can do that." Trixie's ears fell flat and her eyes got watery as a few foals gasped at the insult or agreed with the bully. Lame? That's a serious insult for an Equine.

"Hey!" I yelled and slammed a hoof on the table, "it was still a really good trick, don't ruin it." Trixie, Starlight, and even the random older filly were all surprised by my outburst, fillies normally protect colts, not the other way around. "I would like to see you do better. If not why dont you apologize," I practically growled at the older filly while my horn sparked.

With ears pinned back she gave a meek, "sorry," and almost ran back to her own table.

Once she was gone and I took a calming breath, I then gave Trixie a comforting nuzzle without thinking about it and sat back down with a huff to finish my lunch. The other two shared a look then both flanked me at the table, instinctively only starting to eat as soon as I did. Sweet Harmony I hate bullies. As the three of us ate no one noticed my cutie mark glow a bit.

"So have you seen Sunburst?" Starlight asked as we grabbed a few seats in the back of Equish class.

"Who's Sunburst?" Trixie asked us both curiously.

"A friend from our home village who started a year before us, and no I haven't seen him at all yet." I answered dully, "I tried to find him at the dorms but without knowing which room is his or spotting him in the common areas it isn't easy."

"Well that's Disappointing, could you ask the dorm mother?" I tapped my chin in thought.

"That's, actually a good idea, I'll ask her tonight." We both smiled.

"While Trixie Is happy for you both we should probably pay attention," She hissed between her teeth, a bit scared while pointing her ears towards the front of the class and a glaring teacher. We all gave a sheepish look and ended our conversation.

History quickly became my second favorite class even if it lacked any current friends. Rose Gold was the teacher for this one and she had jumped right into it, starting with unification and the birth of Equestria. While the history itself was interesting the inconsistences made it enthralling. I had noticed almost right away that Luna's name was left out of the entire lecture and only mentioned as 'Celestia's Co-ruler' of the time which surprisingly no one questioned. How can no one be curious about an entire missing princess?

While taking notes I made sure to add any missing information or add questions about what might have really happened based off my newer memories. Wow this is even more confusing than I thought since Not even those memories are one hundred percent accurate. I Tapped my chin while thinking.

Rose gold must have noticed the confused look on my face because she asked, "Dawn?" I looked towards her at the front, "are you not understanding something within the lecture?"

"No... Just..." I wiggled nervously in my chair then after a calming breath, "Why isn't the name of the other princess given in the textbook?" Rose looked a bit relived.

"Oh, is that all? Sadly that information was lost to time and even the princesses memory isn't perfect so she can't tell us either. I asked that same question when I was your age so good catch." She continued on with her lecture but with a bit more enthusiasm after the good question. If only she knew.