I yawned and stretched in bed, the summer was approaching and the days were becoming warmer and longer, did the princess raise the sun every day like in the show? I didn't know for sure, but I wondered how the entire thing worked.

I was honestly pretty lucky that Equestria used English as their written language, despite calling it Equestrian it was clearly English, i could read books and understand everything there just fine, without having to learn from scratch, of course some differences like somepony and everypony were evident.

Mother had already woken up earlier, I walked to the bathroom, did my business and washed my face, good thing there was a chair I could climb to reach the faucet, I honestly couldn't wait to get tall enough to do everyday things like a normal pony, I didn't have telekinesis, if I had that I would have much easier time doing anything and everything, if there was a way to gain telekinesis I would obtain it in the future for sure.

I walked down the stairs and headed to the kitchen, where mom was making an omelette with cheese and broccoli for us, she had improved a lot since moving here, at first she could only make steamed veggies by just putting everything in a pan and letting it cook but she learned to use her maw as a hand, and can now use it to handle a spatula, and even can grab pans and pots with her teeth, they are so strong they can hold a heavy pot by just her front teeth and they hold on just fine, the small downside is that lots of things have bite marks on them, and may or may not be covered in wolf saliva, but honestly it doesn't bother me, we kiss eachother like how canines do.

My mind doesn't work the same was as my old mind did, I don't feel embarrassed or shy about sharing affection with mom, even kissing her in the maw, like a mother dog kisses their puppies, and the puppies kiss her back, there is no shame of her body either, I don't think it's weird accidentally laying on her and without realizing touching her intimate areas, of course this doesn't mean I go looking for it, my mind, at least as of now, has lost all sense of sexual desire and it makes complete sense, babies don't have a libido.

This got off the rails, I hug and nuzzle mom, wish her good morning and go sit, I have to use a booster seat, honestly this is what sucks the most about being so young, and now I remember when I was a child as human and had the same problem, not fun!

My belly grumbles in hunger, and I let out a little whine, I stayed in bed too long and now I'm very hungry, its probably around noon. I'm honestly excited about getting my grubby paws on that money, I wanna go buy magic books of spells, of theory and materials for enchantment, but I need books on that first so I can learn to enchant...

While I was thinking to myself mom came in with a plate in her maw, and gently handed it to me, I grabbed it and smiled.

"Thank you so much mom! This looks very delicious~ I was starving haha" I blow at it for a bit and grabbing with my claws I start to eat with gusto, the eggs here are delicious, but expensive, unlike large scale farms here all eggs come from free range chickens who live in the outdoors, the cheese is sold by ponies who work alongside cows, the cows are sapient and just like to stay with ponies because they get protected and given a job, even fed well, they mostly use their money to buy accessories and hats, but some do own property too, bulls work usually as farm hands, they're strong as an earth pony and hard working from what I've read, this from mom's books on pony society that the princess sent over.

I finished breakfast before mom could even start eating hers, but she being so big as she was, and eating from the plate, didn't take long either.

"Tasty huh? I've been practicing and using the correct amount of salt and pepper like you told me, and I gotta say its a big improvement!" I licked my lips and relaxed, a small belch escaped my maw as I ate so quickly.

"Manners mister, we are at the table!" She scolded me playfully, and belched herself and much louder, I laughed and she laughed too, we both knew it was basically impossible to have table manners when you were a big wolf that had no opposable thumbs and a dragon that was too short to reach the table without a booster seat, I mean I could... But why would I? Maybe when I'm older I'll use better manners.

After breakfast we headed to the living room to read some by the sofa, as always we laid cuddling together, my back against her belly and my tail between her hind legs, I had a book about magic and she had a book on law, as much as I was a fan of gaining knowledge, I wouldn't touch that book with a ten foot pole, law was suuuper boring and dense to read.

My book was very informative, explaining how cutie marks affect spells, it was fact that cutie marks made talented related spells easier to cast, requiere less mana, less focus while also being more potent by orders of magnitude, all this was because cutie marks seemed to be a sort of cheat.

Cheat because it allowed a pony with low affinity with spells to cast spells far beyond their level, like for example a pony with a fire for a cutie mark could cast large area spell fire attacks like fireball, without even being able to cast a weak spell like acid arrow, which was a second tier spell, so they could just cast way beyond their ability, and if they trained enough as mages, they could reach incredible heights, some talents were easier to train than others.

Talents were not applicable to me or Sylf, but in exchange we had better natural abilities, like resistance to magic, natural toughness, sharp claws and fangs, in my case a breath weapon, etc. But learning about ponies talents was useful if i ever had to face against them in battle.

A sudden knocking pulled me out of my inner machinations, I got up and moved aside so mom could head and open the door, outside was a group of unicorns wearing fancy clothing, carrying a large chest in their magic.

"Good morning miss, I'm Bright Step from Gold and Wealth to deliver a package, where do you want it placed?" The mare at the door asked politely.

"Good morning miss Bright, please follow me, we would like to have it in our room." The mare nodded and stepped inside, with two other ponies who were carrying the chest in their combined auras. They were struggling a bit so we didn't bother them and we headed up the stairs, and into the bedroom were we slept, mom opened the closet and they placed it there, the chest was locked, and mom got the key, she thanked the ponies and then accompanied them outside, we waved goodbye as they left.

"Wonderful son now we actually have money, I hope it will last us a while! Do you think we should buy something with it today? What do you think?". I thought for a minute about it, there were many things I wanted, I just wasn't sure, but I thought books were a safe idea, and I could sell them back once I red them, for close to the original sale price, if they were pristine upon returning.

Then there was the possibility of buying weapons, but after reading on the topic, I was disappointed to find out only someone who has a permit could buy actual swords and armor, they also required to pass a certification, all of this costs a lot, so only usually guardponies had easy access to weapons and didn't need a permit more than their guard badge. Making your own weapon was legal, and even encouraged as some ponies had blacksmithing cutie marks and not allowing them to do their destiny was considered highly cruel for pony society, same as for ponies practicing sports like dueling, a pony with a dueling or sword used cutie mark had the right to practice and participate in simulated battles and tournament, so those were a thing.

But to go and buy a weapon as a random pony, it wasn't as easy, the system wasn't bad it just had some red tape for the common non specialized pony, or creature.

Mom rolled her eyes as she looked at me for a while while I had my inner dialogue, she was probably used to it at this point. "You think too much colt, you want books on magic, don't you? Let's go get them"

Mom knew me too well, I sighed and followed back to the room, where I helped fill up bags with bits, then put them inside the saddlebags neatly organized, and removed the gems from the saddlebags and put them in the chest, then closing everything carefully, I got on my steed, and we walked out, I loved having this height at top of her, I could see so much more, but on the other hand if I didn't walk more I would start to become fat...

Ten minutes later, we got to a library, the librarian didn't get as scared as some other ponies but he did had his eyes widen a bit when he saw us, ponies it seems weren't used to other creatures, after some seconds he waved us in and politely asked what we were looking for.

"I want books on enchanting, rune magic, and... What spell books do you have?"

"We have what you need on enchanting and rune magic, when it comes to spells we have the most sought after, of course only those that are allowed, no combat spells are sold here, neither those you can cast on others without their permission, we are one of the few libraries outside the palace that has the teleport spell book, but its extremely hard to learn, we also have a lesser version that works only with visual range, we have the Enlarge/reduce spell, dimension door, waterbreathing, prestidigitation and minor illusion, among others." I almost cheered in excitement but I had to contain myself, and instead I did it mentally.

'Yeesss mom you have to get them for me, they are all very useful! Pleaseeee?' I hugged her tighter hoping she would accept.

'hmm okay okay but you should not practice then without my supervision, understood?' I accepted mentally, she smiled and then looked at the librarian.

"We will be taking one book on enchanting you recommend, another recommendation on rune magic, the teleport spell book, the lesser version, and the other spells you mentioned, all of them please." The pony nodded and headed to collect the books, we sat at the waiting area and stayed there for a while, just me sitting against Sylf.

The librarian stallion came back and had a pile of books on his back balanced neatly, it was incredible they didn't fall down.

He placed the books on the desk and looked at a notebook he had, before writing something on it.

"The total will be 24 thousand bits, the main reason is the price of the Teleport book, it's a very high tier spell, the rest all cost much less, we offer a three month payment plan, with no extra charge, if you return the book in pristine condition you can get back 90% of your bits, but only if you return it within a year of having bought it. What do you say miss?"

"Yes I accept, I'll pay all in one payment, how does that sound?"

"Its perfect, now we just need your address and your ID, that way we file our taxes, thank you for your purchase, come this way and we will do the paperwork and payment" we followed him to a separate room where I helped mom get the bag of money, I don't know how many bits we had here, but it was a heavy amount of coin, thankfully there were coins of 1 bit, 5 bit, 10, 50, 100 bits and we had the 100 bits coins, so we handed the bag and ask for then when it wasn't enough we brought another similar bag, then it was plenty, in total we paid with 240 coins of 100 bit each. Mom filled her paperwork and handed it to the library's clerk, he signed everything and it was all ready to take home withing a few minutes, the books were carried in mom's saddlebags, and the ones she couldn't fit there were carried in a canvas bag held by me on her back, now i had plenty of learning material to occupy me for months and months!.

After that we went into the market district and got a paper bag of produce, cheeses, fresh pasta, bottles of milk, cream and some chicken at the butcher, who was a lovely old lady griffin that was often visited by non pony residents for the meat they needed, of course cow meat wasn't sold, it was mostly chicken and other non sapient animals like fish, boar and some other bird creatures like dove and even some monster meat, usually when a monster approached or attacked a village or city, it was death with quickly by the guard or specialized units, then it's meat was sold to butchers right away, and while Canterlot doesn't get many monsters showing up, rarely something comes up from the forests below, mainly small ones like cockatrices.

Mother made chicken Alfredo today, for the first time, I helped her by grating the cheese and chopping the chicken, but she did most of everything else, in the end we both enjoyed it a ton, and she was excited to make more delicious recipes, we may have to get a cookbook next because she is very very happy with her progress and wants more.

'Next time son we should do something with this... Seafood you mentioned, I bet it will taste very delicious of this recipe of yours is so good~'

'I have a bunch more recipes right here, but we may need to get you a cookbook to refresh my memory, I can't remember all the steps or ingredients of everything you know?' she nodded and after washing the dishes, we went to shower and then loaf around.

I started to read the book she got me, excited on the prospect of learning new spells, this books unlike the ones from the dungeon weren't instant touch and learn, while removing the book, this were actual real books and I had to read and comprehend everything, including the spell matrixes and the components to form the spell.

With the spellbooks from the dungeons, just by touching it, the matrixes and components were in my mind like if I had read and practiced them for months, but I would say... That wasn't as fun as learning normally, and practicing on my own, and while the shortcut was useful in the heat of the moment, learning the old fashioned way had its benefits, I gained affinity and even bonus stats by learning and practicing.

Our peaceful and relaxing life went on for another year and a half, my second birthday was pretty fun, we invited Stone and Gold, and they actually showed up!

We had a three layer cake that mom baked and I helped with, and I got a few toys as gifts, some wooden toy shield and a sword fit for my size from the old stallion, and a blue dragon plushie from Gold Leaf, along with a wolf/dog plush, that was gray, mom got me a couple of small gems for me and told me I should try eating them, she told me to not worry because small gems were cheap, only larger more clear gems were considered jewelry level and therefore they were much more expensive, and rare gems like amber also were expensive.

I tried the gems, curious at first but once my tongue came into contact with them, I started salivating, they tasted like the most delicious fruits! Somehow tangy, sweet, and savory or spicy depending on the color, and all had a satisfying crunch, and a very pleasant aftertaste that made me feel like it was condensed exotic fruit into crystals, I wanted more, but I kept my desire under control, maybe I could get mom to buy me more once in a while!

The months went by and I learned the spells, one by one, some were very easy to learn and master, just requiring barely any focus like Prestidigitation, minor illusion, and water breathing, but others required my full concentration, and I couldn't even speak or think at all while casting them I needed to fully focus or the spell would wear off, enlarge and reduce fell into that category, they were hard to pull of and hard to keep up, but with practice and discipline, it was not a big issue.

Now when it came to the teleportation spells, two of them were specially difficult, the theory was much more complex, the spell matrix was also longer, it took a few months to even understand fully, the first one, short, single target line of sight teleport was easier, I had it learned within a month.

The problems started from there, the matrix of the other two spells were much more complicated, the safety components were very extensive, many safeguards, redundancies and precautions were clearing built into it, and learning all of them was the only way to make sure this spell would work, the spells would fail if anything was too close to the destination, or in the same space, it would also fail if the area was under an anti teleportation field like dimensional lock.

If the area couldn't be located exactly but an approximation was close, the user would be teleported there, but the complicated part was the runes built into it to dampen the backlash of a failed or miscast spell, this was because this were spells available to civilians, so they were made to be as safe as possible, with no risk to the user other than a strong headache and passing out from magical exhaustion after wasting all your mana on a failed teleport.

There was a little shortcut to this spell, if you got your hands on an item from a certain place, like a jar of sand from a specific beach or a chunk of some building, you could use far less mana to get the same result, in an order of magnitude lower, for example traveling one 1000 kilometers normally would cost 1000 mp, but with an item from the location you wanted to teleport, you could reduce that number to the base number of a 6th level spell, 60 mp per every 1000km

I managed to learn dimension door, where I could transport myself and another being towards a point I could see clearly, within 200m it was pretty good still, but Teleport, I still couldn't get it right, the spell matrix and theory was too much for me at this stage to understand, I needed to learn advanced magic theory in general, I theorized my affinity with magic, my level of power was not high enough yet for a tier 6 spell.

We also were invited sometimes over to our friend's houses, where we met their full family, the sweet old mare who was Sharp Stone's wife, Mrs. Butter Scotch was the headmare of his herd, as ponies tend to usually pair in herds of many mares and one stallion, due to the large number of mares per stallion.

She had a baking cutie mark, and my mom and her got along like bread and butter, talking about baking and food recipes and all the good things in life.
Mrs. Butter had much more skill and knowledge to share about baking than I did, I used to love baking as a human but I was... Well, dead before I could get very good at it, our friend group expanded.

Miss Gold Leaf was not part of a herd.

But she had friends and sisters who came to the birthday party, and we all got along well.

Some even brought their foals and we played on the backyard, we played tag, hide and seek, and passed a ball to eachother and whoever dropped it, was disqualified.

I was pretty good at this, thanks to my hand like paws, but i let the other foals win most of the time, they were all older than me but I was much stronger physically, I just lost on purpose and was careful to keep my claws retracted, they were starting to get longer and sharper, despite me trying to dull them on my a big sone mom had gotten me for that.

The third birthday was much more lively, with the foals bringing their friends, and more ponies showing up, we had made two cakes this time, one strawberry whipped cream and the other banana and vanilla pastry buttercream.

We had party games this time, a little idea that I came up with, and mostly copied from the show, pin the tail on the pony, and other silly things like throwing a small ball from a distance to land on paper cups, with only some cups giving prizes, and hide and seek competitions, the prizes were plush creatures, toys like soccer balls and other fun things foals and even adults liked like puzzles and card packs, for the adults we had card games with bets, supposedly it wasn't illegal unless large sums were used, above 10 thousand bits, and the games here had sums of at most 2 or 3 hundred, mostly for fun and bragging rights.

Everyone was having fun, I had participated but not won any game, on purpose, I wanted the other foals and fillies to get the prizes and I had more than enough gifts as it was, even got a box of small gems from mister Stone, which I thanked him profusely for, to his delight.

Mom was told by other ponies I should be starting preschool, some foals started at the age I was but usually at 3 or even 4, but maybe they assumed me being a dragon made me grow at a different rate so they recommend it.

I agreed, and while mom prepared for her royal guard exams, I prepared for preschool, I honestly didn't remember what I had learned during that age but it seems I didn't need to, most foals could barely speak and there were no tests or real expectations until the age of around 6.

Canterlot had a few different preschools and kindergartens, but since we were somewhat wealthy now, we decided to go to the most prestigious one, and lucky for us, it wasn't as expensive, it was compared to others, but 2000 thousand a month was hardly much.

Mom was more and more busy studying lately so she made meal prep for the week and left it in the fridge in plates inside paper bags for me.

Today was my first day of preschool, I was excited, and a bit nervous, I wanted to make a good first impression, so I brought some toys and coloring pencils and paper to hopefully play and draw with others, I was with my mom as the first day at least I was supposed to be accompanied by her, at least to the door, so I rode atop her and we entered the main door of the moderately large building, it was nowhere as large as the university campus we stayed at a few years ago, but it was about the size of a large house, and very fancy inside and out!

The pony at the door looked a bit shocked but then shook her head and greeted us, asking my mom for our ID and, after a quickly look at her own documents she nodded and I jumped down from mom's back, hugged and nuzzled her snout as she lowered it for me to reach, and then we parted ways, she waved as I went inside, the mare at the door seemed surprised but smiled warmly, maybe most foals are too scared to go in on their own, so they ask the first days to go with their parents.

I vaguely remember doing the same when I was a child, around 18 or so years ago when I started kindergarten, it was like an intense sense of deja-vu, I remember mom had come with me and even walked me to the classroom, I was getting emotional now, before I could break down crying from the intense nostalgia I shook my head clear of those thoughts, blinked my eyes fast and wiped the couple of tears that were starting to form in their corners, then steeled my mind with a deep breath and walked further down the corridor, I thought myself strong and mature but even as an adult human male in my old life, I was not immune to emotions, I did cry, just kept it mostly to when I was alone in my room.

Now once I went inside I was a bit lost, there were many rooms and corridors and even a large open space in the middle, I looked around for a bit until I found a pony in the corner, I walked over to her and she blinked in confusion for a second, probably not expecting a dragon, but smiled nonetheless, I put on a pitiful look of a lost foal.

"M-miss? I'm lost... Where I go now?" I asked with a shy voice, I was channeling my inner introvert, it worked, of course.

"Oh you little colt, how old are you? You seem like a preschooler, but I'm not sure" I made it seem I was giving the question some thought and then I used my fingers to count and lifted up 3 of my 4 fingers on one paw to her, it had the desired reaction and she smiled warmly.

"You're a very smart little one, three huh? come follow me, I know where it is". I nodded and she turned and headed to the right, we walked for about 30 meters and turned left, reaching a sunlit corridor that was open to one sides allowing natural light to come in from between the space from the wall and the roof, to the right of the corridor were 3 classrooms that were separate from the rest of the large building, and surrounded by garden of flowers and trees and open space, then another wall closed off the space from outside, making it into a walled park.

"Here we are little dragon, you can go and choose whichever room you want, the teacher pony inside will ask for your name and you can meet and play with the ponies, just be polite okay?" She asked nicely and I nodded with a smile, then she waved and left me there.

I walked in the further one from me, by just random choice, inside there were about 20 foals and fillies of all colors, all adorable and tiny, some were playing alone, others were sleeping, other playing in groups or just looking bored, and a few were drawing or reading.

I walked in and all the ponies who were awake and happens to see me sort of froze in place, the teacher was surprised but she didn't show it for long, I walked in and the ponies were very confused, a few scared and some curious, I didn't look at all of them, very well, I headed towards the teacher and she smiled warmly at me, she was an earth pony mare with a green coat and white mane, likely in her twenties.

"Hi there little one, my name is Ms. Green Apple, what is your name?" I raised a brow, Apple? Was she related to the Apple family from the show? Well who knows, from the show it's clear there are a LOT of Apple members, no surprise one would live here.

"I'm... Onyx, my mom is Sylf, I'm a dragon and I'm three!" I said softly and somewhat shyly, but smiled when she gave me headpats.

Legally I was 3 years old, in reality I was 2 and a half, but Celestia had decreed me being 3 years old so I didn't even wanna question it, better for me to be able to do more.

"Stay here, I'll introduce yourself to the class, at least the ones who are awake, I'm sure they'll be excited and fascinated to meet you!" She said cheerfully which in turn made me excited.

"Everypony! Please listen to me, we have a new friend that will be learning with us!" Everypony who wasn't asleep, and a few of those that were asleep raised their heads and looked at us attentively, it seems pony students even as small foals, were better behaved than human toddlers.

"This here is Onyx, he is a dragon, do any of you know what dragons are?" For a second none lifted their hoof, until a pony, which I took a little while to recognize, lifted their hoof.

"Yes, little Shining?" I felt my maw hang open in realization, I struggled to keep a neutral expression, Shining Armor? He was here??! And yes, it was indeed him, the three toned blue mane and white coat unicorn, he of course looked much smaller and was clearly around 3 years old.

"I've read on my comic books, they are super cool! They breathe fire and are stronger than earth ponies!" He said while making exaggerated gestures and whooshing noises, the teacher looked worried.

"They also fly and can resist almost any attack from unicorns, in my comic book they are considered a city level threat, because a single dragon can win against a whole city of ponies, Even guards have trouble with them!" He showed how two little action figures fought, and one who represented the pony guard fell and the dragon one stood victorious and he even made a roar of victory, for the dragon, I couldn't help but laugh at that, I could tell he loved his comics and his toys, maybe we would get along very well.

However Ms. Green Apple was not very happy with the explanation, while the other foals looked at me with a mixture of awe, fear and excitement, seems that Shining had contagious attitude to the other foals, now the class was divided between dragons are really cool, and dragons are scary.

"Shining, that is... A bit rude, but what my point was, is that Onyx is a baby dragon, he is a well behaved and friendly dragon, who just wants to be friends with all of you and play together, have fun and learn, is that right little Onyx?" She asked hopefully to me, I nodded and answered with a smile.

"Yes Ms. Green Apple, Im... Also a big fan of comics too!" This got the desired result, making Shining smile, he seemed like the nerdy type, just like me.

"Now since Shining Armor has an empty spot next to him, go sit there, and make friends with him, maybe he will think better of dragons then, sorry Onyx if that made you feel sad, he is just excited of seeing a dragon I think." She hugged me and nuzzled me softly as she tried to confort me, thinking the colt's words and the reaction of the other foals made me sad, but I was smiling, and I nuzzled back.

"Don't worry Ms. Green, I'm not sad, I think being a dragon is very cool too." She smiled at this, and nodded, gesturing me to go sit.

"Have fun little Onyx!" I nodded and went and sat next to the unicorn colt, he looked me over for a bit, then offered me his hoof, I bumped it and he smiled.

"Your really a dragon! I felt that hoof bump, most ponies our age barely touched it, but you are something else... Is it true that dragons have super thought scales? Yours look like they are made from metal, like armor!" He was definitively a future guard, I could tell by how he sees me, most ponies see an adorable little creature yet very exotic, but he thinks in terms of strengths and weaknesses.

"Yeah, I'm a dragon, but I'm a super special dragon, not a regular dragon, I'm gonna show you sometime how I am different than regular dragons, and yes my scales are very very hard to go through, you want to prove it? Here..."

I grab my canvas bag and open it, taking out a selection of coloring pencils, along with two regular pencils, and hand him one, he grabs it in his aura and lifts it with only a slight effort, usually ponies struggle to use even telekinesis until they get their cutie mark, but this pony seems to come from a strong bloodline of mages.

"Okay now... Stab me on the side of the body as hard as you can, make sure the teacher doesn't see you!" I whispered in his ear, he looked doubtful at me, but I nodded and when the teacher was distracted, I turned slightly so the pencil and magic were covered behind my body, he stabbed me against the side and broke the pencil top completely, but my scales didn't even bend, the pencil was extremely pointy before and now it would need to be sharpened again to use.

"He gaped at me and left the pencil on the table, then his open mouth turned into an excited expression, he had tested first hand the resilience of a dragon, and was understandably happy, I giggled and bopped him, which made his eyes cross to look at my paw, I showed off by extending and retracing my claws, which made him clap his hooves.

"Hahaha that was cool! And a bit scary haha to be honest, I'm glad you're so friendly, do you wanna read the comic I brought? It's about a series called From the Deep where giant monsters emerge from the ocean, and a group of brave ponies fight them back to where they came from to save Manehattan."

"Sounds awesome! Yeah let's also pretend we are the characters!".
I had honestly never read a physical real comic book in real life, even as a human, so I gladly accepted, and we spent a good chunk of hours reading and playing out the scenes on the comic, voice acting our favorite characters, I usually voiced the monsters, using the plushies as the sea creatures, and he used his action figures of ponies in armor as the brave defenders.

Other ponies sometime joined us and watched or even played with us by the end, then we went outside with the teacher and played in the garden.

We had games of hide and seek, where I always ended up losing usually first because my tail was spotted as it was too long to hide easily, we also played to being knights and and I, naturally, offered to be the evil monster they had to fight, to the joy of the other foals who stopped being afraid of me when i did that, it was ironic, playing as the monster made me seem more approachable.

Not all foals were friendly, some were neutral or just didn't seem to wanna get near, which was fine and understandable, maybe their parents taught them to be wary of anyone who was not a pony.

The teacher was always looking at us and making sure we didn't get hurt, of course, I also showed off by climbing a tree with my claws, but only about head height of an adult pony, I didn't wanna give Green Apple a heart attack.

She told me to be careful, and stayed near but didn't force me off, and told other foals to not try this as they had no claws to climb, it was sort of unnecessary as ponies were terrible climbers either way, it wasn't in their instincts to climb anything other than stairs, so no one tried to imitate me.

Even still they all had fun watching and some even clapped and cheered as I stood on only 3 paws, waving at them with one.

This was my first day of preschool, and all in all I will say it has been a success! I met one of the ponies of the show, which honestly had my inner fanboy wanting to do cartwheels and sing in the streets, I had not even bothered to remember the name of the other foals because without cutie marks, I probably wouldn't remember anyways.

When I came out, mom was waiting for me, and so we're Shining's parents.

I waved at him goodbye and he seemed somewhat confused by mom, but waved goodbye either way, and we left, they apparently lived closer to the castle, probably near the school, I didn't see any real sign of Twilight or anything but maybe she just wasn't conceived yet? No idea, but it was clear she was younger than Shining Armor.

Once at home I told mom about how preschool went, and how happy I was, she hugged me tight, making me squeak as the air was expelled from my lungs forcefully.

"Ack, a-aiir!" I gasped, mom let go and looked apologetic to me.

"Oh sorry dear, I just got so happy and excited! You are making friends and they seem like such good ponies~ I'm really glad for you, we made a good choice of school!" I nodded, catching my breath, then pressing my head against her chest like a cat.

"Oh believe me momma, I'm as happy as a... Well a happy person can be!" I think I was tired, all that playing and interacting with others made me a bit sleepy.

"Anyways I'm gonna shower and sleep, see ya later!" Waving goodbye and leaving her to her studies I headed to my room, leaving the canvas school bag next to the bed and hopped in the bathroom, relieved myself and then started the shower.

I didn't bother with shampoo because I had no hair follicles, and just used neutral soap to wash my scales and rubbed myself thoroughly with a vegetable sponge, I remember as a human this kind of sponges were a bit painful to use, but now I could even use sandpaper to clean myself if I wanted to.

After the shower I dried myself with my large black towel, and slid into bed, my scaly body feeling nice and relaxed now, as I close my eyes and drift into unconsciousness.

Author's Note

The timeline has been revealed! And Shining armor is one of my favorite characters, in a totally platonic and not at all homosexual way of course!