//------------------------------// // Chapter Eight // Story: Starswirl Academy // by FlashWantingToBreakFree //------------------------------// Rainbow was the first one to return from lessons, and she was still beaming. "Hey, Pinkie, guess what?" Rainbow Dash giggled. "What?" Pinkie asked bluntly. Dashie ignored this, she probably still had a headache. "I held hands with Sorain! He asked me to go on a date!" Dashie squealed. "Good for you." Pinkie sat up, slowly and wobbly, as if she'd never controlled her body before. Her head hit her leg, and she swerved to the ladder. She climbed down, her head hung, and she walked out if the room. Dashie looked confused but shrugged it off. Pinkie made her way over to the doctor ward, and Doctor Red Heart smiled. "Hello Pinkie! Here to see Rarity?" She asked. "Yes." Pinkie replied. The Doctor let her in, and Pinkie looked at Rarity. "Hello Pinkie Pie." Smiled Rarity. "Heart pure gold, skin soft snow, eyes pure sparkle...." Pinkie mumered, and Rarity was confused. Pinkie's eyes turned white, and she grabbed Rarity. Rarity screamed as loud as possible, making the nurse race in. The nurse watched Pinkie try to eat Rarity's arm, so she whacked Pinkie with the brush, knocking her to the floor. Pinkie lay there, limp and almost lifeless. A white spirit floated out of the body, and shaped into a figure. Starswirl. Pinkie groaned and sat up, rubbing her head. Starswirl looked at Rarity and grinned. "Why me?" Exclaimed Rarity. "You have the purest heart, softest skin and sparkiliest eyes." Starswirl begun. "A spirit like yours, could replace mine. I would be alive once more!" He laughed evily. "No! I won't let you kill me!" Rarity yelled. "I won't let him." The Doctor stood her ground, and Starswirl lept at her, as he had done to Rarity. He took a bite, and Pinkie and Rarity watched as he devoured Doctor Red Heart. Nothing was left of her after that. Only a dribble of her blood, dripping from his mouth. "You monster!" Rarity yelled. Twilight opened the door, letting herself in. She saw Starswirl, and pulled out her ghost machine, almost capturing him. But he lept away, disappearing. "Rarity! Pinkie! Are you okay?!" Asked Twilight frantically. "He possessed Pinkie and tried to eat me, he said he wanted to eat my soul, so he'd be alive!" Rarity's eyes grew wide in fear. "I still have a hangover." Pinkie complained. "Where's Doctor Red Heart?" Asked Twilight. "He ate her!" Rarity squealed. Twilight and Pinkie helped Rarity into her wheelchair, and they took her back to their dorm. When they got there, everyone was in the dorm. "Hey, Rarity is back!" Rainbow smiled. Twilight explained what had happened, and the girls listened. "Let's put that all behind us." Applejack smiled. "Applejack, sweetie, a ghost is after my soul, and you're telling me to calm down?!" Rarity growled. "For now. Rainbow got herself a date!" Applejack announced. "Woohoo..." Cheered Fluttershy in a quiet voice. "Wonderful darling. Who with?" Asked Rarity. "Sorain." Rainbow smiled. "How... Wonderful." Rarity raised an eyebrow. Rainbow ignored this. "Fluttershy has a crush too!" Rainbow announced. Fluttershy blushed. "Wha- No I don't!" "I saw you with him!" Rainbow grinned. "So?" Fluttershy was a deep red. "Don't tease, Dashie." Applejack scolded. "Who was she with?" Asked Rarity. "Discord!" Laughed Dashie. "Discord?!" Snorted Rarity. Fluttershy blushed scarlet. "It's okay, Fluttershy! I think you'd make a lovely couple." Pinkie smiled, making Fluttershy smile too. "I'm hungry." Applejack complained. Applejack dressed in a red plaid top and jeans with cowboy boots. Rainbow dressed in a red T-shirt and denim jeans with red sneakers. Rarity got into her white dress and white pumps. Pinkie got into her pink dress and blue pumps. Fluttershy dressed into her yellow top and pink pumps and skirt. Twilight dressed into her purple dress and pumps. And so, the girls set off to tea. "Hello Fluttershy." Said a voice. Fluttershy spun round to see Discord. Fluttershy blushed and Discord took Fluttershy's hand, making her blush more. Rarity and Rainbow snorted, and Applejack shot a nasty look at the two girls. Discord and Fluttershy walked off. "Twit twooo!" Giggled Rarity. "Yo, Rainbow." Sorain walked up to the girls. "Yo. Sup?" Rainbow smiled. "Wanna play soccer with us?" Asked Sorain. "I need to eat." Rainbow replied. Sorain grabbed a box of chicjen from his bag and shoved it under Dashie's nose. "Thought you might say that." Sorain grinned. Rainbow Dash took the box and ran off with Sorain. "You didn't laugh at Dashie." Applejack looked at Rarity. "They're cute together." Rarity replied. The girls got tea and hung around in the relax room after. Rarity was sewing, and Applejack and Twilight were reading. Pinkie just did something. Nobody knew what she was doing. She was singing whilst speaking to everyone. However that worked. The girls met up again and went to the form garden party, which was full due to it being Friday. "I won the match! Me and Sorain against Caramel and Braeburn." Rainbow smiled. "Great!" Rarity smiled. Pinkie bounced over from the dance floor and smiled at the girls. "They're playing a slow song next." Pinkie told them. She took a sip from her lemonade (staying away from alcohol) and grinned as Discord approached behind Fluttershy. He grabbed her waist and pulled her into a hug when she squealed. The slow song came on, and he took her hand, pulling her to the dance floor. "Uh... Dashie?" Sorain also came to the girls. "Yeah?" Rainbow stopped drinking her coke and looked up. "You... you wanna dance?" Sorain asked. Rainbow shrugged and stood up, and they walked to the dance floor hand in hand. "They are so cute!" Rarity squealed. "So, Fluttershy..." Discord looked at Fluttershy straight in the eye. "Yes?" Fluttershy looked up. "I kinda... um... Pff." Discord rolled his eyes. "Wanna be my girlfriend?" Fluttershy blushed and stuttered. "I guess that's a yes." Discord pulled her in and kissed her. Just as Sorain did to Dashie. When the girls went to bed, they told the others what happened, and they were beaming. They slept with a smile.