Morning came with a angry pounding on the door "Saint, wake up, your going to be late!" Slowly he stirred from his slumber, he then blew a stream of fire at the surrounding gold. The gold quickly softened letting him get out of bed as Twilight started to open the door. "What are you doing! I packed your bag, so get going!" Soon after she magically strapped his bag on his back.
'Wow' Saint thought 'Twilight is truly a spaz over this time thing' as Twilight pushed him out the door. He turned around to ask where this school is but she slammed the door in his face. Saint walked around for an hour or so before an orange mare with a blond main and a hat came over to him.
"Hay their litta fella, where are you off to shouldn't you be in school?" she asked in a strange accent. Saint simply nodded his head. "Well why are you not there?" Saint shrugged. The mare obviously did not like his answer as she took out a rope and hog tied him. Saint was about to fight back then he heard her say "Ya'll coming with me then, I'll bring you there myself."
After being dragged for five minutes the mare stopped and untied him. "Whatcha waiting for, get going."
Saint put two and two together and walked to the building and entered. He walked in on a pink mare talking to a group of foals. Every one of them had a desk in front of them. behind the Mare was a black board 'I wonder what that is?' There is a large empty desk next to the pink one.
Saint was taken out of his thought when one of the children yelled "Saint! What are you doing here?" Saint looked at the one that spoke it was Sweetie. By this time the class stopped and everypony was staring at the new pony.
The pink mare came over to Saint and spoke happily "You must be Saint Beast" then her face turned a bit upset "You realize you are an hour and a half late? What do you have to say about that?"
Saint rubbed his head thinking 'does everyone fixate on time?' so he answered "I got lost, Is an hour and a half bad?"
The class laughed as The pink one introduced herself "I am Miss Cheerilee, and how did you get lost this school building is the only one in Ponyville?"
Shrugging Saint replies "I've never been to a school before."
"How is that possible?" asked one of the students. She had a tiara on her head.
"I have only had instruction from highly skilled teachers, and only in an one on one basis."
"Umm, Well...introduce yourself to the class and tell them about yourself. Then you can take a seat next to Sweetie since you know her." instructed Cheerilee.
Saint walked to the middle of the class and said "I am Saint Beast, and who is the alpha-male here?" The students looked around the room before asking what an alpha-male is. So Saint rephrased the question "Who is the strongest...colt?"
They looked around until one rose his hoof and said "I think that's me. What can I do for you?"
Saint looked at him, he was a pegasus with a gray-blue coat with a black main. "I challenge you for your title." Saint moved into a fighting stance awaiting his response until Cheerilee stepped in front of him. She did not look pleased.
"What do you think your doing?" she asked with more than a bit of venom in her voice. Saint looked puzzled and explained that he was challenging the existing alpha for the position. She grabbed his ear and pulled him out of the room. When they were outside she let him go asking "This is your first day: you come late, you try to start a fight, and it seems like you have no idea how to be civilized. So I have to ask you, where did you grow up?"
"I come from the spine of the world, the frozen death, the lava fields of Blood Gorge, the swamps of the fallen, and the waters of Intellect and knowledge."
"I have never heard of those places, are you lying to me?"
Offended Saint told her "If you have a map ill point them out to you, how don't you know them?" he finished with a whisper.
Cheerilee opened the door and Saint walked in and took his seat next to Sweetie. She leaned over with a smile on her face and said "Glad you joined use." Saint nodded as Cheerilee started up class again.
Alright class please take out your history book. The class started to reach into their bags and grabbed the yellow book. Saint looked in his bag and saw parchment, ink, a bag, and about ten quills, but no book. So he simply listened to her stories until he fell asleep.
Cheerilee kept talking for an hour until she saw that her new student was asleep. She tossed a piece of chalk at him to wake him up. When his head was up she asked "Here is an easy question for you. What did Princess Celestia do to Princess Luna a thousand years ago?"
Knowing nothing about pony history, or most anything about the princesses he guest "She tried to overthrow her." The class laughed at his comment, and Cheerilee facehoofed.
"Wrong" She started "Luna tried to overthrow her sister. This made Celestia banished her to the moon. Well class, it's lunch time so eat the go for recess. Remember you are not allowed in Everfree." The class happily started to move around as friends went to sit and eat with friends.
"Saint you can eat with us." Sweetie said. Saint looked at her and moved over to where she sat with two other fillies. One yellow with a red main and bow, the other was a pegasus orange with a purple main. They were taking out their food from their bags. "This is Scootaloo" the pegasus waved and said hi. "And this is Apple Bloom." the other waved and introduced herself. They started to eat until they saw that Saint had not even taken out his lunch yet. "So what do you have for lunch Saint?"
Saint shrugged and took out the paper bag unfolded it and took out its contents. A Sandwich, an apple, and a few hay-fries. Never having eaten any of these except for the fries (He remembered that the fries almost killed him in the past when his blue drake instructor gave him some as a treat) so he got up and started for the door. "Saint" the three shouted. he turned his head as Sweetie asked "You haven't even started your lunch were you going?"
"Not hungry" he replied "I'm going for a fast flight." as he took off.
The colt that claimed to be the alpha, watched him go right for Everfree. "Miss. Cheerilee! He's going in Everfree!"
Cheerilee ran to one of the windows that looked out on Everfree and saw Saint dive down into the woods. "Everypony stay here" she screamed as she ran out the door. She quickly got to the edge of the forest and slowly entered.
Saint Beast
Saint stopped at a river and soon he had three fish. He blew fire on them to flash cook them. As he was about to eat, a scream broke the silence. He grabbed the fish with his tail, tossing one in his mouth and devouring it as he ran towards the screaming mare. As he went through some thick brush he collided this something. He looked up and saw Cheerilee in front of him, 'She looked pale.'
She saw him and grabbed him and tossed him on her back as she ran. "What did I tell you about coming in here?" She asked in a panic.
Saint looked at her and asked "What's wrong? you seem spooked."
She did not want to scare the colt so she did not tell him about the Timberwolf that's chasing them. "Nothing...I, I just want to get back to the class." They were almost out when a Timberwolf jumped out in front of them. Saint, having never seen one, jumped off her back and stared to move closer. Only for Cheerilee to jump in his way, she was shaking like a leaf, "Stay behind me, you'll be ok." The wolf moved closer and she took a step back for everyone it took. The wolf charged at Cheerilee.
Saint came out from behind her and hit the wolf in mid charge. The wolf quickly recovered and pounced on the colt knocking him to his back. 'Wow, without my scales this hurts.' It tried to bite his throat on its second try it succeeded blood started to leak out between its teeth. slowly it closed its mouth, suffocating him. Saint started to rip his clause into to wolf, sap splattered out of its injuries. As Saint was starting to black out, so he swung his tail around gaining momentum until he smashed his tail in the side of the wolf, sending it flying (and so did his fish) for a few feat. They both got up and looked at the other, Saint charged at the wolf and spun at the last second and smashed the wolfs head with his tail again. As it hit the ground Saint jumped on top of it and bit its neck. It thrashed around for a short time, until a swift jerk of Saint's head, he ripped it's throat out. Sap spurted out of its neck covering the colt. This time the wolf did not get up.
Saint looked at Cheerilee and asked "Should we go?"
She looked at the colt, he had blood running down his neck. "Y...Ya we should" this time she kept a small gap between them. "When we get back ill patch up your neck." Saint nodded as they walked back. When then exited the forest, half of the class was waiting for them. They rushed to see Cheerilee when she stepped out, then they stepped back at the sight of Saint. His fur was clumped together by the dried sap. Saint just walked past them and headed to the school building, leaving a small blood trail in his wake.
"What happened in there" asked one of them, fear in her voice.
Cheerilee put on a smile and said "It's recess kids, please go and have fun." not in her normal happy voice. The kids soon went back to their fun. Three, however, ran to the building to see Saint.
Inside the school, Saint was wrapping his neck with parchment when he was hug-tackled to the floor. Without even to look at the one that was attached to him he asked happily "What wrong Sweetie?" He turned to see the two Sweetie introduced to him at lunch, they both seemed worried.
She hugged him tighter as she cried "Your hurt!"
He laughed as he said "What this? I've had worse, besides you should see the other one."
Cheerilee came in at that moment "Girls, go outside and close the door behind you please." The three left reluctantly and closed the door. She looked straight at Saint and questioned coldly "How could you do that?" Saint looked at her with a lost expression on his face. "How do you know how to fight like that? Also how could you so easily kill it?"
He looked up at her and said coldly "Where I come is NOT like here. We do not have the luxury of living like this. You need to learn how to fight, and kill to live." he continued with a hint of wonder in his voice "If I had done nothing what would have happened to you?"
Cheerilee was shocked by that statement, after a minuet of thought she replied "I mean you acted without regret when you killed it."
Saint looked at her eye to eye and stated "It was going to kill us. Are you saying that killing a killer is wrong?"
Cheerilee did not respond to that, instead she said "Lets look at that neck of yours." She moved next to him and he looked up giving her a clear look. "Well it's not that bad." She then walked to a her desk and pulled out a first aid pack and cleaned his injury. A few seconds later she told him to go outside, and play with the others.
As soon as Saint opened the door in fell the three fillies. They quickly got up and to the amusement of Cheerilee, and pulled Saint outside. "So" asked the one called Scootaloo. Saint tilted his head. "What happened in the woods" she asked.
"Nothing much in all honesty" he started to say "there was only a wooden wolf." remembering how the teacher reacted, he decided to tell them about it attacking cheerilee and how he saved her by fighting it back until it ran. By the time he finished his story, most of the class was next to him hanging on every work he spoke. When Saint stopped talking the group of school ponies started to cheer, and congratulate him. They started to head back inside, so Saint took their lead and went in as well. The rest of class went by without incident.
"All right class schools done for today" Cheerilee announced gleefully, as she headed out the door (on her way to the nearest bar, to try to forget what happened in the Everfree)
The three fillies: Sweetie, Apple, and Scoots ran over to Saint and told him "Your coming with us!" Before he could say anything the three ran away, dragging him behind them as they ran.