Twilight Queen of Curses!
First Day
Previous ChapterNext ChapterTwo years of accumulating experiences, studying, sweat, and tears finally paid off! Twilight happily shoved three notebooks and a pencil case inside her saddle bag, she gladly looked at her translucent reflection from her window smiling back at her, Celestia, the Celestia took her as a student! She was already destined for greatness! Heck, even on jujutsu she had attained a perfect body relatively soon. "I'm a genius." Twilight said, skidding out her door and then out of the house, her parents barely had any time to say goodbye.
Of course, Celestia didn't always have free time, she had a kingdom to rule and all. But she couldn't wait for her first personal class with the princess! And for that, she needed to do good in school. Not that she has anything to worry about that. Twilight galloped through the sidewalk, pushing as gently as possible the ponies that were in her way, and even as she began sweating and her back began aching she didn't stop, as her body needed to be brought back to tip-top shape. Along the way, she noted various flower shops and made a mental list of ingredients for a tonic of good strength growth, and further planned how to convince her mother to buy those flowers, and possibly a few mushrooms for her. Twilight might even be able to convince her mother to buy her a cauldron for 'school' reasons. "Phew," Twilight huffed, finally at the front of the school. Twilight squinted her eyes towards the sun, "An hour early."
"Enough time to explore the library!" Twilight said while wiping the sweat out of her brows. Trotting through the front gate Twilight came to face an ornamented ebony door, A faceless unicorn stood on each side thrice bigger than Twilight herself, she could certainly distinguish that one of these unicorns was Star Swirl but the other was a mysterious figure. Twilight threw her questions aside and knocked two times and as no pony opened the door, she opened it herself.
Inside, the halls were immense with a great stairwell to the second floor being held by pillars imitating cloud-crafted ones from the old pegasi empire, the school had statues of famous mages in between the small gaps of the windows, and the room she was tested was on the far right! Twilight hadn't seen any library anywhere there on her first visit at the right side, therefore she will go to the left, then up if the library wasn't there! Passing by the statues of Isaac Neighton and Pea Lagolas came one she didn't recognize quite well, Twilight narrowed her eyes and searched for a name but there wasn't any. "A problem for another day then."
Twilight trot lowered to a halt as the door at the end of the corridor drew closer, it was either this door or one of the many more at the opposite side of the windows. Twilight lorn lit in a soft magenta as she cast telekinesis, the door knob glued in equal color and pulled- then pushed, as she tried to open in the wrong way, and inside. "Holy mother of all books..." Was the biggest library Twilight had seen, she still desperately wanted to get a library card for the Library of Magic, "But this will do for now." Shelves as high as a house, wider than any bridge inside a Canterlot, and filled with thick, crispy, juicy pages filled to the brim with mysterious, exciting, delicious knowledge. Twilight wiped the borders of her mouth as she picked a book about... Endothurgy. "If I can master some spells to read faster then... Oh colts," Twilight shook away her blush and began to dig into the precious knowledge the book held.
The librarian, Stale Archivist had just taken a potty break and when he came back a filly was on the table filled to the brim with books, the once silent library was filled with the noise of scribbles and jitterings of a studious pony. Stale sighed, it wasn't even a minute when he took a bathroom break. "Miss, how did you get in?" He spoke, but the purple unicorn seemingly not hearing made him trot forward and for the pony to hear better, "Miss?" Then a few hooves forward, "Miss?" Stale Archivist was practically on her ear but Twilight didn't budge. Stale sighed in defeat and decided to sit next to the filly to get a read on what she was- "Holy heck!" Her notebook was filled to the brim with so many applicable forms of mana that he once thought were impossible. The little filly looked no less older than six, yet her focus couldn't be shaken... "But it's about endothurgy." Stale quickly lost interest, most mages nowadays gain money through exothurgy, after all, endothurgy only works on oneself. Whatever, he would keep an eye until it was time for the opening ceremony. Stale got up to pick his hourglass that he'd left on his table and returned, then waited.
By the time the hourglass was almost empty, Stale eyes were wider than a hoofball ball, if he had doubts before now there was none. That foal is a genius, but a very perturbed one - who would even think of how fast they could possibly go before their very limbs broke down?! Either way- "Well that was a good- Yaah!" Twilight jumped and fell backward from her chair, her hooves waved in the air to try to catch something but- "Ouchie!" Twilight hit her head straight on the ground, Stale took no time to check if she was okay but with no sign of an injury, he sighed in relief.
"The welcoming ceremony is happening in a few minutes," Stale said, and in no less than a second Twilight got up and began galloping toward the exit, but didn't exit before waving her hoof and giving Stale one silly foal smile, then gently closing the door.
"Oh, gone are the quiet years, aren't they?" Stale sighed and began organizing the library.
Twilight rushed through the halls and right ahead there was a makeshift stand surrounded by a crowd of ponies, and at the very top of said stone there was one old fart, a somewhat younger stallion, and Celes- CELESTIA!? "Oh no, I can't be tardy right in front of my mentor!" She galloped a tad bit faster and took a breath of relief as she got a good enough place to hear and see her mentor.
Celestia's perpetual smile shined brighter today, she lifted a microphone with her magic and gave it a slight tap with her wings before speaking, "I am glad to announce the arrival of our newest fresh ponies!" A small cheer came from the teenagers of the group, "Each one of you gave the best effort at the exam and thus has guaranteed a spot where your future will be filled with radiance!" Some ponies began smiling thinking of how much prestige and glory they'll have once they become true to Celestia magicians, "And thus, both I and the teachers welcome new faces!" With that done, she passed the microphone to the oldest stallion.
"Thank you. Yes, we welcome aaaall new faceees. Your class is the last on the left." The oldest stallion said.
"His left or my left when I entered the school?" Twilight muttered but was quickly answered as the stallion himself pointed to where the new ponies needed to go. His left. Twilight quickly galloped, being careful to not trip into his peers and seniors as those she would have to put up with, and once she was ahead of everypony she slowed down to a trot. At the furthest door, Twilight reached for the knob with her telekinesis and pushed, inside there was a sleeping brown unicorn that had a green nest of a mane, a badly shaven beard, and a lollipop on his mouth, the blackboard behind him was full of equations. Twilight shrugged and picked the first seat closest to the door.
The teacher stirred awake at the sound of chatting foals coming through the door. He yawned and patiently waited for everypony to get in, and once so the door closed without a sign of telekinesis. "Welcome. Take whatever sit. Names don't matter so just call me Teach. Or Master." Teach said, briefly looking at all the new faces, "Seats are comfortable? Good, because you will stick with it till the end of the year, also I don't bother with names." He raised a hoof and pointed to Twilight, "You're one." Then pointed to the furthest pony at the fifth line and last sit, "You're Thirty. Figure out your numbers or whatever. Today's subject is trigonometry." Teach then glared at every student, "Also remember your cathetus, sine, and tangent of thirty, forty-five, and sixty degrees as I won't put any on the board when test time comes."
Twilight groaned, she had already done this in her first six months of study! She wanted to do lab stuff and- Suddenly a ball of paper hit Twilight behind the head, she glared back, and a minty unicorn smiled back. Twilight nearly neighed in frustration but opened the paper... "Do you have a spare pencil- Why did I expect this to be different!?" Twilight picked up her pencil case and a spare pencil to give it to... Heartstrings. "Celestia forbid, I even remember her name now!"
"What was that?" Teach said, Twilight immediately shut her trap. It seems this year will be no less annoying.
Author's Note
I am editing like six chapter in quick succession so uh.
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Anyhoo, yada yada, point out mistakes with good criticism and if you have any idea of how the story could do better, do tell! I'm no two-headed man-eating beast(yet)
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