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// Another Regular Ordinary Day 
// Story: The Lost Legends of Equestria: Star Swirl the Bearded 
// by Silver Inkwell 
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-Before the Age and Time of Equestria…

Star Swirl sat up in his bed as a young colt, and he had no beard, it wasn’t until much later that he would earn the nickname and title of ‘the bearded’.

He yawned and got up and got ready for magic school, but he didn’t know why he even bothered, he was terrible at it, just horrible, all the others teased him at school, they were all just mean bullies who picked on him just because he couldn’t perform simple spells that all the others could do, but he had to, because if he didn’t then his parents would know, and all the others would know too, and so he got up and slowly and reluctantly he went to school.

So, he went to school and sat down and listened to his teacher Mrs. Cake.

“Students, can you please tell me what is the fastest way to travel somewhere?”

The whole class put their hooves up at once and Mrs. Cake looked around for some pony to call on, “Mr. Swirl, would you care to answer my question?”

Of all the ponies in the classroom to pick and call upon, she had to call him, the only one who did not have their hoof up, why did she have to pick him?

“Well Mrs. Cake, the fastest way to travel is with a teleportation spell” he said.

“A teleportation spell?” she said as the rest of the class laughed, “I am sorry Mr. Swirl, but there’s no such thing, we can only walk, but as for the pegasi, they can fly, and so the correct answer I that for us the fastest way is walking, and for the pegasi it is flying, but may I ask why it is you responded this way?”

“Well if you think about logically there is no other way that is faster, and just because something hasn’t been invented yet doesn’t mean that it won’t in the future, because we all have to move forward in life to advance with magic and technology, if we stay in the same place we’ll never learn, don’t you agree?”

“Quite,” she said knowing that despite his failure, he was rather a creative genius who worked in strange and mysterious ways that were chaotic and unknown to the others, and he often found questions to ask like this that made them question what they knew of the world around them, and their reality.

And quite often he always found some way in which the question could be a moral or lesson, and you had to treat everything he said with double meaning that was secret and hidden and could only be found by those wise enough to look for them, and for those smart enough to figure out what the words really meant, and it would be a rare day indeed if he did not plan what he would speak or have meaning and idea and a strange hidden power behind his words.

“Well then, thank you Mr. Swirl for sharing your thoughts and ideas, but perhaps it would be best if you kept them to yourself, now then class, who would like to answer me this next question that I have for all of you?”

Once more again all the hooves except his went up, and Star Swirl remained quiet and silent and was not called on again to answer another question, and he just sat there at his desk and chair writing down his thoughts, ideas, and his notes, and he was only paying the minimum amount of attention that he needed to towards the teacher and the lesson and the class, he was focused on something completely different instead that had more importance than this class, if he was right about this then it could change the world as they knew it.

If not, at least he tried to do something great and good for the world, and it was far better to fail at something good and great then to succeed at something that will eventually fail and fall in the future, or something that would be forgotten.

When class eventually finished up he went out of the class and left school, his classes were finished for the day, and he was glad, he couldn’t wait to get home to try out his new spell, and he could only hope and pray that it would work.