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The sun had just risen up the mountains to shine over Canterlot, the birds were singing while pony's started to wake up from their slumber. Twilights eyes fluttered awake as she hear her mother calling, "Twilight! You'll be late if you don't wake up darling!"
Twilight jumped out of her bed with excitement she stomped her feet on her capet with joy, her tail wagged very fast, she couldn't help but be excited, she walked down the stairs for breakfast.
As she reached the kitchen she had spotted her brother Shining Armour eating in his training uniform, he had looked up from his textbook to see his sister jumping for joy,
"Looks like someone is happy to go to school" he smirked
"Well Duh!, mom what did you make?" She asked to her mother in the kitchen cooking, eggs and mashed potatoes, "Just look we your eyes silly, it your favourite", Twlight looked at the pan and licked her lips, her mother stared at her looking up and down, "Honey why are you still in your pajamas?", Twlight looked down and realized she was so excited she forgot to change, her brother laughed so did her mom, her father had just walked in, he let out his arms and gave her a big hug.
Twlight giggled as he tickled her, her family laughed with her, Nightlight put her down, she looked at him with her biggest smile, "How is my Twi bug?" She gave him 2 thumbs up, "Haha, I'll be walking with you to the gate, will you like me to go with you inside?"
"No, dad I'll be fine" her dad just smiled and went over to kiss his wife on the cheek,
"Go get ready Twily we'll be leaving in 20 minutes" she nodded at her dad, and ran up the stairs.
She stood in front of her opened closet, rummaging through her clothes to find her uniform, there it was the uniform with the Celestia cutiemark on her collar and her cutie mark on her pocket on her blazer and tie, it was specialized for her since Celestia decided to make her an apprentice.
As she put on her uniform she looked at her self in the mirror, this was the day she has been practicing for. Her hair was let out with a star clip on the side to stop it from falling in her face. Her horn was in the glowing again with light pink glow, she was using it to have her things backed in her bag before she goes back down.
She dashed back to the kitchen where her family was almost done, she sat in the seat across from Shining, her heart was beating really fast, in 5 minutes she be going to her dream school, her dad tapped her on the shoulder, "You ready?", she nodded at him and stuffed her last egg bite. She grabbed her bag and ran to the door waving goodbye to her brother and mother standing in the doorway.
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She held her father's hand all the way to the school gate, that was dark violet and had Celestias cutiemark on the arch, standing outside was Princess Celestia in her principal outfit that had pink pants and a golden blazer with her mark on her pocket, next to her was another girl with red and yellow hair in streaks, she had a red blazer on with the Celestia symbol on her collar and a similar cutie mark on her pocket, her hair was in high ponytail, while her arms were crossed.
Twlight and Dad walked up to them and greeted them with delight, "Princess Celestia, so nice to see you again" her father gave a gentle smile,
"Morning Nightlight, Twilight you look very adorable in the uniform" her smiled shined like the sun, Twlight smiled back and looked over to the girl next to her, "Who is she?"
"Oh that's right, Twilight meet Sunset Shimmer she is my other prize pupil and she is here to meet you, say hi Sunset" she gestured her hand to Twilight, she looked up and looked at her direction, she had faked a smile and didn't speak, Celestia frowned at her.
"Nightlight, Twilight's first day will be with me today, so no need to worry if she doesn't know where to go" her father gave her a sincere smile and kissed Twilight's forehead, and waved goodbye.
Twlight and Celestia along with Sunset walked around the halls where the other fillies were gathering with other, Twilight looked at them, and watched how everypony were knowing one another, Celestia looked at her, "Don't worry Twlight, you'll get to meet everypony in class", she followed her to the science room, it was filled with ponies, Sunset walked over to her seat at the back of the room where no one sat.
Celestia stood in the middle on the class, and clapped their attention, Twilight stood next to her, "Everyone this is Twilight Sparkle, she is a new student at the school so I hope you all treat her with a welcoming smile" Every filly waved at her, while Twilight hid behind Celestia, her anxiety was filling up, everyone was looking at her, until a filly with blue hair and a silver streak on the side, walked up to her, she had a hourglass cutiemark, but not a Celestia cutiemark on her collar.
She reached her arm out to get a hand shake, "I'm Minuette, it's nice to meet you Twilight", she smile was genuine and she seemed very perky, Celestia looked at Twilight and watched her shake Minuettes hand, "Thanks Minuette, Twilight why don't you sit with her and the girls" she gestured to the table on the left, it had a girl with blue hair that was curly but yellow skin, and next to her was girl with pink hair and it was curly and white skin, across from her was another girl that looked like Twilight, but with red hair, and next to her a teal filly that had her hair the same way as Minuette.
Minuette reached for her hand and dragged her to the table, she saved a seat next to her, she sat next to Minutte with the teal filly was infront of her. Minuette stood up and introduced them to her, "This girl is Lyra" the teal girl, "Next to her is Moondancer, across from her is Twinkleshine and next to me is Lemonhearts" they all said hi to her, while Twilight was bit shy and just waved.
"So Twilight I see your Celestia's new pupil" she looked at the sun symbol on her collar,
"Ooo, that means competition with Sunset" said Twinkleshine, Twilight looks behind her at Sunset who sat alone in the back, she wanted to talk to her but their first meeting wasn't very happy.
"Don't mind her tho, she doesn't really talk alot since she arrived a few months ago" Minuette assured, Lemonhearts took out her text book , so did the other girls, Twilight took out hers, "Let me show where we left off" Minuette used her magic to frantically flip the pages, it landed on page 103, "We left off here" and pointed to the 4th assessment on the page.
Twilight spoke up, "So what does Sunset do when she doesn't have a partner?" Moondancer looked down at the book, and the other girls noticed,
"She isn't a very cooperative pony to be around" Twinkleshine spoke, "We've tried to assist her a few times but she turned us down, we even tried to befriend her when she first came but was very rude",
"You said it, me and Moondancer wanted to get to know her but she was very cocky and called us unintelligent" Lyra chimed in
"So basically she isn't a very great filly to meet" Minuette finished the conversation, Twilight looked relieved because she thought Sunset acted like that only to her.
The lesson had begun, Twilight paired with Minuette while the girls paired with each other, Minuette followed Twilights lead since she had more experience with it, it was a very simple potion, a growing potion for a cactus. Minuette watched as Twilight added an extra ingredient,
"Wait Twilight, that isn't in the recipe" Minuette hoped she wasn't doing something stupid. Twilight said it wasn't to harm it just to give it an extra kick, as she poured it into the pot the cactus grew very tall not just tall but it grew flowers.
It was beautiful, Sunset stared at it from afar as Celestia walked up to her and Minuette, she had given a gold star on their report Minuette jumped with joy and hugged her, it was the first star she had earned from the class, every filly gathered around her, amazed.
Sunset on the other hand watched as they all crowd her, asking her questions like "How did you do that?", "Wow that is beautiful you have got to teach me", Celestia giggled under her breathe and looked over to Sunset who seemed a bit lonely but was more determined than ever to rise to the top.
Celestia's face filled with worry, she knows one day her life won't last forever if she doesn't let others in, and looks over to Twilight smiling and laughing with the others,
'One day, one day' she thought